Mark PellegrinoFilmography

Disappearing in America

Actors: AnnaMarie Wayne, David Polcyn, Devin Digonno, Mark Pellegrino, Michael Morrison

Synopsis: The title represents much more of an unfulfilled desire than an actualization: for IRA accomplice Sean (David Polcyn) - who participated in a bombing that went grossly awry - nothing could be more perfect than "losing himself" in America. It represents a chance to bury the messiness of what Read More

Caffeine

Actors: Mena Suvari, Marsha Thomason, Katherine Heigl, Andrew Lee Potts, Mike Vogel

Synopsis: A cozy coffeehouse serves as the setting for director John Cosgrove's over-caffeinated tale of sexual peccadilloes and complicated relationships starring Mena Suvari, Katherine Heigl, and Breckin Meyer. It's a typical lunch hour in London, and The Black Cat Café is fast filling up with patrons Read More

The Number 23

Actors: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman

Synopsis: Upon acquiring a mysterious book in which the number 23 seems to take on powerful cosmic significance, a once-sane man gradually becomes obsessed with the idea that the frequently recurring number may in fact hold a deadly secret in this intense mystery-thriller starring Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen Read More

Ellie Parker

Actors: Naomi Watts, Rebecca Rigg, Scott Coffey, Mark Pellegrino, Blair Mastbaum

Synopsis: Naomi Watts produces and stars in Ellie Parker, a semi-autobiographical story of an Australian actress struggling to make it in Hollywood. Ellie is young enough to still schlep to auditions back and forth across L.A., changing wardrobes and slapping on makeup en route, but just old enough that the Read More

Capote

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s -- and the impact the writing and research would have on its author -- is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small Read More

Spartan

Actors: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Kristen Bell

Synopsis: David Mamet writes and directs the political thriller Spartan. Respected Secret Service agent Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) is assigned to the kidnapping case of Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), the missing daughter of a high-ranking political figure. Scott is teamed up with rookie Curtis (Derek Luke). Read More

Twisted

Actors: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong

Synopsis: Philip Kaufman directs the detective thriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction of the man who raised her as his daughter Read More

NYPD Blue: Better Laid Than Never, Part 1

Actors: Henry Simmons

Synopsis: In the first half of NYPD Blue's ninth-season finale, no sooner have Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Connie McDowell (Charlotte Ross) returned from Disney World than they join the rest of the 15th precinct in a case involving a missing four-year-old boy. At first, it seems as though the youngster Read More

The Killer Next Door

Actors: Adam Scott

Synopsis: Directed by Chris Haifley, The Killer Next Door centers on Ronnie (Adam Scott), who has recently made his first, fledgling attempt at adulthood and moved out of his childhood house. Unfortunately, the move wasn't exactly a long-distance endeavor -- he lives in the guest house behind his aging Read More

NYPD Blue: Better Laid Than Never, Part 2

Actors: Henry Simmons

Synopsis: In the concluding half of NYPD Blue's ninth-season finale, a baffling case involving an apparently murdered 12-year-old child takes yet another twist when a surprising new suspect looms on the horizon. Meanwhile, another homicide case is investigated, this one involving a man named Larry Tyner (Ted Marcoux Read More

Mulholland Dr.

Actors: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a Read More

Say It Isn't So

Actors: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Bobby Farrelly and brother Peter Farrelly continue exploring outrageous premises with this comedy directed by their first assistant director J.B. Rogers. In this wacky spin on the boy-meets-girl tale, Gilly Noble (Chris Klein) enters a sexually charged, passionate love affair with girl of his Read More

Drowning Mona

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell

Synopsis: Rage, jealousy, murder, and Eastern European automotive engineering combine in this offbeat black comedy. Verplanck, NY, is a small town north of Manhattan that has the dubious distinction of being the Yugo capital of America; the ill-fated import compact was first test-marketed in Verplanck, and Read More

Lost In The Pershing Point Hotel

Actors: Leslie Jordan, Erin Chandler, Mark Pellegrino, Carlos Gomez, Luke Eberl

Synopsis: Leslie Jordan writes and stars in this autobiographical account of being gay and drug-addled in 1970s Atlanta. The film opens with the protagonist known only as Storyteller (Jordan) meeting his maker after a drug overdose and trying to explain the sorry state of his former life. Rewind 20 years Read More

NYPD Blue: Brother's Keeper

Synopsis: The mutilated body of a woman is found, and the principal suspects are her two sons. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) tries to figure out if the guilty party is the son who shows no remorse or the one lost in a haze of drugs and alcohol. When one of the suspects kills himself, Andy wonders if the dead Read More

A Murder of Crows

Actors: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Berenger, Eric Stoltz, Mark Pellegrino

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a disbarred lawyer forgoes the writing of his own book in favor of taking credit for that of a writer who is murdered shortly after giving the attorney his unpublished manuscript to read. A murder-mystery, the book becomes a best-seller and once again the former lawyer Read More

Born into Exile

Synopsis: 14-year-old Holly Nolan (Gina Philips) lives unhappily with her hyperjudgmental mother Donna (Talia Shire) and her brother Ted (Eddie Mills). To escape the pressures of her home life and make herself feel important, Holly begins hanging out with an older crowd, and in the course of events falls in Read More

NYPD Blue: Dead Man Talking

Synopsis: During a home invasion, a wife and baby are killed, but the husband is only wounded. Smelling a rat, Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) work hand in hand with retired cop Gotelli (Carmine Caridi), now an insurance investigator, to determine if the husband arranged the killings to Read More

ER: The Right Thing

Synopsis: Benton (Eriq La Salle) strongly suspects that Vucelich (Ron Rifkin) is manipulating the results of his study on the "clamp-and-run" procedure. Elsewhere, rumors buzz throughout the ER that Greene (Anthony Edwards) and Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) are lovers. And Carter (Noah Wyle) risks his career Read More

Aaron Gillespie Will Make You a Star

Synopsis: This black comedy/psychodrama makes grim fun of Hollywood acting schools and their clients. Set at the title coach's school, the story centers on Aaron Gillespie's latest batch of students, each of whom has a physical anomaly for him to exploit and sadistically berate while ostensibly "teaching" Read More

Little Surprises

Knight Rider 2010

Bank Robber

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Lisa Bonet, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Olivia D'Abo

Synopsis: In this awful black comedy, an aging bank robber tries to pull off one final caper. Things go awry and he ends up staying in a raunchy hotel. The crime is well-publicized, but fortunately the equally seedy residents there keep mum. Unfortunately, they are determined to literally nickel and dime Read More

Lethal Weapon 3

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: Superstars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return with director Richard Donner for Lethal Weapon 3, the third in the phenomenally successful action series. In this film, Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is only eight days away from retirement and his partner Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) once again manages Read More

Trouble Bound

Actors: Michael Madsen, Patricia Arquette, Florence Stanley, Seymour Cassel, Sal Jenco

Synopsis: In this lively crime thriller, luckless ex-con Harry Talbot wins several thousand dollars and a luxury car in a poker game. He is delighted, having no idea that the others let him win because the trunk of the Lincoln contains the remains of Gordo. No, Harry is finally feeling lucky and in his Read More

Blood and Concrete

Actors: Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, James LeGros, Darren McGavin, Nicholas Worth

Synopsis: Billy Zane stars in this direct-to-video gem as a spectacularly unsuccessful car thief. Hoping to reform by leaving LA, Zane must scare up $400 worth of exit money. He decides to pull off one last job, stealing a TV from William Bastiani. An ill-tempered criminal, Bastiani stabs Zane, who then Read More

Prayer of the Rollerboys

Actors: Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, J.C. Quinn, Julius Harris

Synopsis: Corey Haim takes on white supremacist rollerbladers in Prayer of the Rollerboys, the futuristic tale of teen angst and sweet love on skates. Haim stars as Chris Griffin, a pizza delivery boy whose younger brother Miltie (Devin Clark) gets caught up with the local drug-pusher gang, the Rollerboys. Read More

Hunter: Brotherly Love

Synopsis: After accidentally killing his supplier, teenage drug addict Gil Reynolds (Tim Griffin) absconds with $250,000 belonging to the dead man's boss. Later on, Gil is found murdered, and his brother John (Mark Pellegrino) swears vengeance. This makes the job facing Hunter (Fred Dryer) all the more Read More

Night Life

Actors: Scott Grimes, Cheryl Pollak, John Astin, Anthony Geary, Alan Blumenfeld

Synopsis: In this gory and violent black comedy, a quartet of teenage zombies begin terrifying an employee at the local morgue until he figures out that they would rather party than eat people. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

No Holds Barred

Actors: Hulk Hogan, Kurt Fuller, Joan Severance, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Mark Pellegrino

Synopsis: Hulk Hogan, in an inarguably appropriate casting choice, plays a professional wrestler in this action-packed drama. Rip (Hogan) is a grappling star who is approached by Brell (Kurt Fuller), the new head of the World Television Network. Brell wants Rip to wrestle on his network, but Rip insists on Read More

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Actors: Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, John Ryan, Perry Lopez, George Dickerson

Synopsis: Charles Bronson, weary and comatose, is trotted out again as the cocked crusader Paul Kersey in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. Director Michael Winner has jumped ship for this installment, replaced by J. Lee Thompson (who has seen better days). Kersey is back in L.A. and dating attractive reporter Read More

Fatal Beauty

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades, Harris Yulin, John Ryan

Synopsis: Rita Rizzoli (Whoopi Goldberg) is a crusading narcotics cop assigned to track down the source of some killer crack cocaine in this pretentious and preachy anti-drug crime drama. Rita poses as a prostitute and is soon hot after two small-time hoods (Brad Dourif and Mike Jolly) who murder their way Read More