Leo RossiFilmography

Wisegal

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alyssa Milano, James Caan, Jason Gedrick, Janet Wright

Synopsis: The undercover agent whose compelling life story inspired the film Donnie Brasco serves as executive producer of this fact-based crime drama starring Alyssa Milano, James Caan, and Jason Gedrick. Patty Montanari (Milano) is a widowed mother of three who turned to selling contraband cigarettes as a Read More

The Unknown Trilogy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sal Mazzotta, Robert Costanzo, Johnny Williams, Ed O'Ross, Abe Vigoda, Justin Guarini, David Proval, Angie Everhart

Synopsis: Angie Everhart, David Proval, Sal Mazzotta and Abe Vigoda star in co-directors Mazzotta and Brian Cavallaro's horror omnibus exploring the shadowy areas between life and death, and the unexplored darkness that lurks just beneath our collective consciousness. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

10th & Wolf

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi, Brad Renfro, Piper Perabo, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: A man is forced to go against his family and his principles in the name of serving his country in this drama inspired by actual events. Tommy Santoro (James Marsden) was just a boy when his father was murdered, and young Tommy quickly discovered his dad was a high-ranking member of the Read More

All In

Actors: Dominique Swain, Michael Madsen, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Russo

Synopsis: A medical student with mounting debts draws on her formidable poker skills in order to stay afloat in this gambling drama starring Dominique Swain and Michael Madsen. As a young girl, Alicia "Ace" Anderson (Swain) frequently accompanied her card shark father (Madsen) to clandestine gambling rooms Read More

Mafioso: The Father, The Son

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The sophomore effort from director Anthony Caldarella, this Mafia drama centers on the deceit and betrayal within a powerful Philadelphia organized crime family. Sal Mazzotta stars as Frank, the son of the city's mob boss. When someone tries to take down Frank's old man, he sets out to find out Read More

Swingin For Fences

Crew: Executive Producer

The Last Letter

Actors: William Forsythe, Yancy Butler, Grace Zabriskie, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: As a jury convenes to determine the fate of a man accused of being a notorious serial killer, they quickly discover that the so-called facts in the case aren't quite what they seem in director Russell Gannon's twisting courtroom-thriller. Jack Hamilton is on trial for the murder of fourteen Read More

Shut Up and Kiss Me!

Actors: Christopher Daniel Barnes, Brad Rowe, Krista Allen, Kristin Richardson

Synopsis: The romantic comedy Shut Up and Kiss Me concerns two best friends, one a stockbroker and the other a slacker surfer, who each fall in love with the perfect girl the same day. The situation gets complicated when the uncle of one of the girls turns out to be a mob boss who is troubled by the thought Read More

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin, Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, Joan Cusack

Synopsis: In a land where cartoon characters and flesh-and-blood people work side by side, one little black duck lands in a big pot of trouble in this comedy, which brings the beloved Looney Tunes characters into the real world. Daffy Duck (voice of Joe Alaskey) has grown tired of his status as Warner Read More

Icemaker

Actors: Bronson Pinchot

Synopsis: In a world driven by celebrity obsession, what better way to express your admiration of the Hollywood star of yesteryear than by having them glimmering from around your neck or shimmering on your finger wherever you go? At least that's the attitude taken by Dr. Lockbuster (Tim McNeil) as he enters Read More

The Business of Fancydancing

Actors: Evan Adams, Michelle St. John, Gene Tagaban, Swil Kanim, Rebecca Carroll

Synopsis: Shot on digital video and taking its title from his 1992 book of poetry, Sherman Alexie's The Business of Fancydancing is a portrait of the conflicted relationship between two Native American men. Aristotle Joseph (Gene Tagaban) and Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams) had long been best friends by the Read More

One Eyed King

Actors: William Baldwin, Armand Assante, Chazz Palminteri

Synopsis: The debut feature from television producer Robert Moresco, One Eyed King is an ensemble crime drama detailing the trials and tribulations of several characters living together in the same Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Starring Armand Assante, William Baldwin, Jim Breuer, Bruno Kirby, Chazz Palminteri Read More

One Night at McCool's

Actors: Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman, Paul Reiser, Michael Douglas

Synopsis: The debut project from co-star Michael Douglas' production company Further Films, this comic crime caper uses the narrative devices of multiple points of view and flashbacks, à la Rashomon (1951) and that classic film's many imitators. A late-night slaying at a bar called McCool's is the point of Read More

Road to Redemption

Actors: Julie Condra, Pat Hingle, Leo Rossi, Jay Underwood, Tony Longo

Synopsis: A woman in need of a miracle finds one in an unexpected manner in this inspirational comedy-drama. Amanda (Julie Condra) works as a secretary for Sully (Leo Rossi), a mid-level mobster working out of Las Vegas. Amanda, who seems to be perpetually at the end of her rope, and her spineless live-in Read More

Fatal Conflict

Actors: Kari Wuhrer, Jennifer Rubin, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: Direct-to-video auteur Lloyd A. Simandl directs Kari Wuhrer in this silly sci-fi exercise. Wuhrer portrays Sasha Burns, who must use all of her powers to help Governer Crombie (Daniel Fleischer-Brown) stop a spaceship from crashing into (and therefore destroying} Los Angeles. In an attempt to keep Read More

ER: Family Matters

Synopsis: Former recurring actress Ming-Na returns to the series as a regular in the role of Dr. Deb Chen, who had given Carter (Noah Wyle) quite a run for his money during their intern days. Elsewhere, Kovac (Goran Visnjic) treats two brothers (Brian Hooks, Andre Fogenay Wilson), both of whom have Read More

The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human

Actors: MacKenzie Astin, Carmen Electra, Markus Redmond, Lucy Liu, Lisa Rotondi, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: If aliens from another galaxy were to observe ordinary people as they look for love in contemporary America, what would they make of it? That is the premise of The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, which takes the form of a documentary in which a camera crew from an alien civilization spies Read More

Analyze This

Actors: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Chazz Palminteri

Synopsis: In the same year that a hit cable television series, The Sopranos, successfully mined the same premise, this comedy about a mobster seeking advice from a psychiatrist was a box office winner for director Harold Ramis. Billy Crystal stars as Dr. Ben Sobel, a New York shrink who's becoming a little Read More

Unconditional Love

Actors: John Kennedy Horne, Tracey Ross, Henry Silva, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: Unconditional Love stars stand-up comic John Kennedy Horne as Joe Kirkman, an investigative reporter for an L.A. newspaper. When his best friend is murdered by underlings of Ted Markham (Henry Silva), a business executive with criminal ties, Kirkman decides to get revenge the best way he knows how Read More

The Misery Brothers Y2K

Actors: Leo Rossi, Lorenzo Doumani

ER: Humpty Dumpty

Synopsis: With this episode, recurring character "Dr. Dave" Malucci (Erik Palladino) becomes a regular. Elsewhere, John Cullum returns as Greene's (Anthony Edwards) cantankerous father, who arrives in Chicago from San Diego -- and promptly gets lost. As Kovac (Goran Visnjic) and Weaver (Laura Innes) try to Read More

Crackerjack 3

Actors: Leo Rossi, Bo Svenson, Amy Weber, Olivier Gruner

True Friends

Actors: James Quattrochi, Loreto Mauro, Rodrigo Botero, Kyle Gibson, Mario Renden

Synopsis: In NYC's Spanish Harlem, Puerto Rican emigrant Juan Jose (Bryan Burke) enters a new school where he becomes friendly with Joey (Kyle Gibson) and Louie (Mario Renden), who call their new pal J.J. The three unite as a tight trio of close friends, hoping to someday open a bar together. The story Read More

Wedding Bell Blues

Actors: Illeana Douglas, Paulina Porizkova, Julie Warner, Debbie Reynolds, John Corbett, Jonathan Penner

Synopsis: Three women who share a house are all about to turn 30. Tentative, mousy Micki (Julie Warner) has just had her fiancée, Jeff (Joseph Urla), break off their wedding plans because she's not passionate enough for him. Beautiful Tanya (Paulina Porizkova) is pregnant and has lost her job as a sales Read More

The Assault

Actors: Stacie Randall, Matt McCoy, Melissa Brasselle, Leo Rossi, Sandahl Bergman

Synopsis: In this police drama, a policewoman risks her life to protect a key witness in a gangland killing. The cop and her charge hide out in a woman's shelter and this leads to a brutal attack. Despite the violence and fear, nothing will prevent the witness from her day in court. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Mutant Species

Actors: Leo Rossi, Powers Boothe, Wilford Brimley, Denise Crosby, Ted Prior

Synopsis: In this sci-fi actioner, a crew of clean-up specialists dispatched to the site of a misfired rocket have no idea that they have been set up to be unwilling participants in an evil bio-geneticist's mad scheme to turn one of them into a mutant killing machine, a human prototype for a new kind of Read More

Felony

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Leo Rossi, Joe Don Baker, Jeffrey Combs, David Warner

Synopsis: An eccentric police detective takes the case after a group of CIA agents go nuts and slaughter a dozen New Orleans cops during a drug bust. Somehow, a television cameraman managed to film the melee. Since then, the poor photo-journalist has been on the run with his damning tape. By the time the Read More

Kingdom of the Blind

Actors: Michael Biehn, William L. Petersen, Nick Vallelonga

Synopsis: A veteran New York City detective's world is turned upside down when his estranged brother is suspected of murdering a powerful mob boss in this thriller starring Michael Biehn, William Petersen, and Leo Rossi. Al Scarano (Nick Vallelonga) is a Big Apple detective living the good life, but when a Read More

Rave Review

Actors: Jeff Seymour, Carmen Argenziano, Ed Begley, Jr., Robert Costanzo, James Handy

Synopsis: This black comedy centers upon the L.A. theater scene. Steve Maletti owns a small struggling theater. He also directs the plays there. He has just secured two popular TV stars to appear in his newest production. Unfortunately, the actors get a movie deal and fly away to Africa leaving the hapless Read More

Relentless 4

Synopsis: Leo Rossi is at it again as maverick Sam Dietz, a detective on the trail of a serial killer. He is aided in his quest by his partner and a psychiatrist, both of whom, naturally, are women of the nubile variety. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

Fast Getaway 2

Actors: Corey Haim, Cynthia Rothrock, Sarah Buxton, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: A bank robber tries to go straight but finds himself framed in this crime drama. Former criminal Nelson Potter is trying to stay clean and open up a bank insurance company with Patrice his girlfriend. His father, a Nelson's former crime partner, wants out. Then Lily robs a bank that Nelson said Read More

Beyond Desire

Actors: William Forsythe, Kari Wuhrer, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, Ray (William Forsythe) has just been released from prison after serving 14 years for a murder he insists he didn't commit. Ray meets Rita (Kari Wuhrer), an attractive prostitute, and while she seems more than fond of Ray, Ray has good reason not to trust her. Ray has Read More

Runaway Daughters

Actors: Paul Rudd, Julie Bowen, Dee Wallace, Jenny Lewis, Holly Fields

Synopsis: Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he goes off into the Navy. The film is part of Showtime's "Rebel Highways" series of Read More

Relentless 3

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Leo Rossi

Synopsis: William Forsythe plays a serial killer who mails assorted body parts (from his unlucky female victims) to the police. As if this isn't enough, he then goes after Detective Dietz's (Leo Rossi) lady friend. This killer really is, relentless. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Raw Justice

Actors: Pamela Anderson, Stacy Keach, Charles Napier, David Keith

Synopsis: Action genre veteran David A. Prior wrote and directed this thriller that unfolds like a B-movie version of Midnight Run (1988). David Keith stars as Mace, a former cop now working as a bounty hunter or "skip tracer." When his daughter is murdered, the mayor (Charles Napier) of a small Southern Read More

Casualties of Love: The "Long Island Lolita" Story

Actors: Alyssa Milano, Jack Scalia, Phyllis Lyons, Lawrence Tierney, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: Based on a true event, this is the account of the Buttafuoco couple, whose names were splattered all over the media in the early '90s after the alleged teen-aged playmate of Mr. B., Amy Fischer (who claimed it was Mr. B's will), shot Mrs. B in the head (though the latter miraculously lived). This Read More

Where the Day Takes You

Actors: Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Balthazar Getty, Ricki Lake, James LeGros, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collection of young runaways. Among the people in his sphere are the young self-destructive drug addict Greg (Sean Astin), self-hating gay prostitute Read More

We're Talkin' Serious Money

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Farina, Leo Rossi, Fran Drescher, Denis Arndt, Robert Costanzo

Synopsis: When Sal (Dennis Farina) and his friend Charlie (Leo Rossi) are cheated out of $10,000 of borrowed money in an implausible money-making scheme, the two must flee to Los Angeles to avoid the wrath of the gangster debt collectors. Once there, they become embroiled in an underhanded scheme that Read More

Serious Money

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The official title of this ragged comedy-melodrama is We're Talkin' Serious Money. Dennis Farina and Leo Rossi play a couple of Manhattan con men who make the mistake of shaking down a powerful mobster. Once they've realized their error, the unheroic heroes skeedaddle to California. The mob boss Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder on Madison Avenue

Synopsis: The final episode of Murder, She Wrote's eighth season finds Jessica (Angela Lansbury) at the headquarters of a profitable toy company, there to supervise the design of a new board game based on her own mystery novels. Within what seems like minutes, the company's ruthless vice-president Meredith Read More

Fast Getaway

Actors: Corey Haim, Cynthia Rothrock, Leo Rossi, Ken Lerner, Marcia Strassman

Synopsis: This fast-paced caper/chase comedy, shot on location in Utah and Colorado, chronicles the daring exploits of a bank robber and his teenage-criminal-mastermind son. Exciting stunts and special effects help make up for the rather lame story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Too Much Sun

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Eric Idle, Andrea Martin, Jim Haynie, Laura Ernst

Synopsis: In this riotous British satire, a conniving Catholic priest convinces a dying tycoon into writing the church into his will by having him add the following proviso: the tycoon's children will only inherit the fortune if one of them can produce an heir within one year after his death. If they fail Read More

Dead On: Relentless 2

Actors: Meg Foster, Miles O'Keeffe, Leo Rossi, Ray Sharkey

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1994 exchange-of-murders melodrama Dead On, this 1991 film was originally shipped out under the title Relentless 2: Dead On. You may recall that in the first Relentless in 1989, Judd Nelson starred as a serial killer. Nelson isn't around for the sequel, though two of Read More

Maniac Cop 2

Actors: Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon

Synopsis: "You have the right to remain silent . . . Forever!" This sequel to Maniac Cop pits Matt Cordell (Robert Z'dar), the crazed, murderous "Maniac Cop" of the first film (now horribly disfigured after a particularly brutal stay in prison), and Turkel (Leo Rossi), a serial killer who likes to murder Read More

Relentless

Actors: Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster, Patrick O'Bryan

Synopsis: A man who fails to make the grade as a Los Angeles cop goes on a killing spree as the dangerous "Sunset Killer," to show the dupes who wouldn't hire him. He uses all his cop smarts to try to elude all who dare try capture him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hit List

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Lance Henriksen stars as hit man Chris Caleek, hired by the mob to off the prosecution's key witness. However, Caleek is given the wrong address, and instead kidnaps the child of innocent Jack Collins (Jan-Michael Vincent). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Peter Gunn

Actors: Peter Jurasik, Peter Strauss, Pearl Bailey, Barbara Williams, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Peter Gunn was a one-shot TV movie revival of the classic detective series (1958-61) created by Blake Edwards. Edwards wrote and directed this pilot for a potential Gunn revival, with Peter Strauss stepping into Craig Stevens' gumshoes as private eye Peter Gunn. Peter Jurasik assumes Herschel Bernardi's Read More

The Accused

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi, Ann Hearn

Synopsis: Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), a working-class party girl who likes to live it up with her friends and flirt hard with the guys. After a fight with her boyfriend, she heads to a local bar to cool down -- and after a few drinks, plus Read More

Out of Time

Actors: Bruce Abbott, Adam Ant

Synopsis: Out of Time is a patchwork of notions lifted from such earlier sources as Time After Time, Back to the Future, The Terminator, and the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "Back There." Bruce Abbott plays a dedicated law enforcement officer from the year 2088 who is in pursuit of time-travelling lawbreaker Adam Ant Read More

Russkies

Actors: Whip Hubley, Leaf Phoenix, Peter Billingsley, Stefan DeSalle, Susan Walters

Synopsis: This children's movie is set in sunny Key West during a Fourth of July celebration. Three buddies sneak off to their secret fort and to their surprise discover a Russian sailor hiding there. He is Mischa, who with two shipmates was assigned to sneak into the town military base to steal certain Read More

River's Edge

Actors: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: The nude, strangled body of a teenaged girl lies on the edge of the river. Her murderer is her boyfriend, Daniel Roebuck. All the kids in Roebuck's dismal, dead-end town know who committed the murder. Trouble is, no one bothers to turn Roebuck in; some of the teens don't know how to react to the Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who has sworn to bring Theresa Russell to justice. Ms. Russell has married several millionaires who have all Read More

Cracked Up

Actors: James Wilder

Synopsis: The first TV movie to utilize the "new" drug of crack cocaine as a plot peg, Cracked Up stars James Wilder as a 17-year-old top student and athlete. Wilder and his best friend Rafael Sbarge make the fatal error of experimenting with Crack; while Sbarge is able to resist the drug's more Read More

Kids Don't Tell

Synopsis: Kids Don't Tell stars Michael Ontkean as a free-lance documentary filmmaker. Concerned over the increasing sexual abuse of children, Ontkean hopes to make a film on the subject, with the cooperation of the local police and social services. For reasons unknown, Ontkean's wife JoBeth Williams Read More

Hunter: Case X

Synopsis: Rock-em sock-em LAPD detective sergeant Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) continues busting heads and breaking arms in pursuit of justice as Hunter begins its second season. Someone is systematically murdering female porn stars, and Hunter and his partner DeeDee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) are ordered to Read More

One Too Many

Actors: Mare Winningham, Lance Guest, Michelle Pfeiffer, Val Kilmer, Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis: A stellar cast distinguishes this chillingly cautionary ABC Afterschool Special about the perils of drunk driving. Told in flashback, this is the tale of two couples: sensible Beth (Mare Winningham) and Tim (Lance Guest), and footloose Annie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Eric (Val Kilmer). The latter Read More

Amazing Stories: Mr. Magic

Actors: Sid Caesar

Heart Like a Wheel

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Hoyt Axton, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles, Shirley works hard to qualify for the major auto race competitions of America. Firmly in her cheering section is her dad (Hoyt Axton), and--at least at first--her husband Read More

Brainwash

Actors: Yvette Mimieux, Christopher Allport, Cindy Pickett, John Considine, Walter Olkewicz

Synopsis: Also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend, Circle of Power is not recommended viewing for any aspiring executive about to undergo leadership classes. Yvette Mimieux plays the head of an organization called Executive Development Training, or EDT for short. Her grueling Read More

Halloween II

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest

Synopsis: While John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic Halloween irrevocably changed the style of horror cinema with its simple but relentlessly tense story, it triggered more than a decade's worth of uninspired, exploitative knock-offs, and one could easily list Halloween II among these failures. As with its Read More

Harold Robbins' The Pirate

Actors: Anne Archer, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero

Synopsis: This four-hour TV movie is one more of novelist Harold Robbins' "guess who everyone is supposed to really be?" wallowfests (with nary a Jolly Roger in sight). The "pirate" is Baydr (Franco Nero), an anti-Semitic Lebanese oil sheik, who, unbeknownst to himself, is actually an Israel-born Jew Read More

Grand Theft Auto

Actors: Ron Howard, Nancy Morgan, Marion Ross, Peter Isacksen, Barry Cahill

Synopsis: In exchange for being allowed to make his directorial debut in Grand Theft Auto, Ron Howard agreed to take no salary as a director, merely as star and co-screenwriter (with his dad Rance). The plot finds Sam Freeman (Howard) eloping with his heiress girlfriend Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan). Her Read More

Mr. Billion

Actors: Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason, Slim Pickens, William Redfield

Synopsis: An Italian mechanic (Terence Hill) finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign over the will. In the meantime, he is chased by kidnappers and the affected corporation's president (Jackie Gleason). ~ John Bush, All Read More