Mark Rolston Filmography

Asylum

Actors: Sarah Roemer, Mark Rolston, Jake Muxworthy, Cody Kasch, Ellen Hoffman

Synopsis: Snakes on a Plane director David R. Ellis follows up his high-flying tale of reptilian terror with this horrific frightener concerning a group of college students who discover that their dormitory was once a mental hospital presided over by a sadistic doctor. As the semester gets under way, it Read More

The Hard Ride

Actors: Michael Rooker

Synopsis: Michael Rooker and Rance Howard star in co-directors Terry Leonard and Thadd Turner's take on the adventures of a legendary old-west gunfighter and his quick-draw compatriots. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Protecting the King

Actors: Matt Barr, Peter Dobson, Tom Sizemore, John Bennett Perry

Synopsis: Producer/writer/director and stepbrother to Elvis Presley, D. Edward Stanley relays just what it was like to protect the King of Rock and Roll in an intensely personal biography that offers rare personal insight into one of the music world's most revered figures. Stanley was only sixteen at the Read More

The Departed

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly Read More

Miracle at Sage Creek

Actors: David Carradine, Wes Studi, Michael Parkes, Tim Abell, Sarah Aldrich

Synopsis: When disaster strikes and necessity dictates that the festering rivalry between the Franklin and Red Eagle families be set aside in the name of survival, the resulting tale of brotherhood gives testament to mankind's remarkable power for forgiveness in this family-oriented Western starring David Carradine Read More

NYPD Blue: Oh, Mama

Actors: Henry Simmons

Synopsis: A high schooler with a huge collection of video games is murdered and a three-year-old girl is shot and killed in her crib. Investigating the high-school case, the detectives are stymied by contradictory evidence, and by the presence of a weird suspect named Swirly (Josh Zuckerman), who lives with Read More

Dark Angel: Haven

Synopsis: A recent spate of murders, in which all the victims were political activists, sends Logan (Michael Weatherly) on a journey to the deceptively peaceful community of Cape Haven, there to seek out an "Eyes Only" informant. Upon arrival, Logan finds a strange boy named Clyde (Kurt Max Runte) -- who Read More

Angel: Blood Money

Actors: Stephanie Romanov

Synopsis: Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter), Wesley (Alexis Denisof), and Gunn (J. August Richards) get on with the business of running Angel Investigations without its founder, taking time out only to squabble about what they should now call the agency. Meanwhile, Angel (David Boreanaz) himself investigates a Read More

Touched by an Angel: Famous Last Words

Synopsis: Posing as an author, Monica (Roma Downey) is granted an interview with Daniel Lee Corbitt (Sean Patrick Flanery), an unrepentant, publicity-hungry Death Row inmate. In the course of events, Monica and her fellow angels unearth some long-buried truths about Daniel's victim (his abusive stepfather) Read More

Alias: Parity

Synopsis: Escaping the clutches of an illicit arms dealer, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) takes on her next counterespionage assignment. Her mission transports her to Madrid, where she is to purchase a 500-year-old drawing by the remarkably prophetic Renaissance artist Milo Rambaldi -- a sketch containing a Read More

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sharon Lawrence, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Nicole Carson, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: A major earthquake brings the City That Never Sleeps to a screeching halt in this made-for-TV suspense drama. New York City Mayor Lincoln (Charles S. Dutton) and Fire Chief Ahearn (Tom Skerritt) are contentious political rivals forced to set aside their differences and work together when a Read More

Rush Hour

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Peña, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: Brett Ratner directed this action-comedy that found box-office success by teaming Chris Tucker with Jackie Chan -- performing his own stunts as per his earlier films. As the story begins, Hong-Kong supercop Lee's (Chan), detective savvy leads to the confiscation of $500 million in weapons, drugs Read More

Hard Rain

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner

Synopsis: A natural disaster breeds man-made treachery in this suspense thriller. Severe flooding threatens an Indiana town after a massive rainstorm taxes dams to the breaking point. As part of an emergency evacuation effort, armored car driver Tom (Christian Slater) and his uncle Charlie (Edward Asner) Read More

From the Earth to the Moon

Actors: David Andrews, Bryan Cranston, Tim Daly, Al Franken, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Originally aired on HBO and directed by Apollo 13 star and space enthusiast Tom Hanks, among others, From the Earth to the Moon explores the ups and downs of space travel, beginning with President Kennedy's famous speech before Congress on May 25, 1961, and chronicling the journey to putting the Read More

Humanoids From the Deep

Actors: Emma Samms, Robert Carradine, Mark Rolston, Justin Walker

Daylight

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: Sylvestor Stallone comes to the rescue in this disaster/adventure picture. A truck containing dangerous chemicals explodes in the Holland Tunnel, trapping those New Yorkers not killed in the explosion. Authorities know there are survivors, but cannot figure out what to do to save them. Ruptured Read More

NYPD Blue: Auntie Maimed

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) is more edgy than usual as the pregnant Sylvia's (Sharon Lawrence) due date approaches. Donna (Gail O'Grady) considers leaving the precinct for a better job opportunity on the West Coast. The nephew of a robbery-homicide victim is suspiciously in possession of the stolen Read More

Eraser

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: Top-notch action sequences and exciting stunt work highlight this fast-moving thriller. John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a top agent in the U.S. Marshalls' Witness Protection Program; it's his job to "erase" the pasts of Federal witnesses under his watch and deal with anyone who tries to Read More

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back

Actors: Phillip Rhee, Gina Gershon, Christopher McDonald, Dee Wallace, Cristina Anzu Lawson

Synopsis: In this martial arts actioner, a straight-arrow, Midwestern small-town sheriff teams up with a martial arts master and kicks the stuffing out of a band of white supremacists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Another Killing in Cork

Synopsis: During her annual visit to Ireland, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) enjoys the hospitality of a fishing lodge near Kilcleer. Coinciding with Jessica's stay is the arrival of a consortium which wants to buy the lodge in order to begin strip-mining the property. Before long, the lodge's owner, Tom Dempsey Read More

ER: The Birthday Party

Synopsis: Hicks (CCH Pounder) warns Benton (Eriq La Salle) that he's spending too much time worrying over his ailing mother and not enough time concentrating on his job. Ross (George Clooney) has a violent showdown with an abusive father. The rivalry between Carter (Noah Wyle) and Deb (Ming-Na) intensifies. Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Eye of The Beholder

Synopsis: This episode's chain of events is galvanized by the mysterious suicide of an Enterprise crew member. While investigating the death, Troi and Worf uncover evidence pertaining to an old murder. As they delve deeper and deeper into the mystery (with Troi experiencing empathic visions of both Read More

Babylon 5: The Quality of Mercy

Actors: Michael O'Hare, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: June Lockhart, who previously appeared with Babylon 5 regular Bill Mumy on Lost in Space, guest-stars as Laura Rosen, an unlicensed doctor. Though Dr. Franklin welcomes the "miracle" cure for all diseases developed by Rosen, he cannot shake the feeling that something is seriously amiss. Meanwhile Read More

Scanner Cop

Actors: Daniel Quinn, Darlanne Fluegel, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: In this horror thriller, a psychically super-charged cop uses his unusual gifts to put a permanent end to a cop killer. Highlights include a few hallucination sequences, bad dreams and the trademark of Scanners-related films, an exploding head. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Shawshank Redemption

Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Bill Sadler, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most Read More

Black Widow Murders: the Blanche Taylor Moore Story

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, David Clennon, John M. Jackson, Grace Zabriskie, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Former Bewitched TV-star Elizabeth Montgomery plays against type and stars as a murderess in this made-for-television movie. Based on the book Preacher's Girl by Jim Schutze, Montgomery stars as the real-life killer Blanche Taylor Moore who was caught by authorities in 1989. The movie chronicles Read More

The Conviction of Kitty Dodds

Synopsis: It is Veronica Hamel's show all the way in the fact-based CBS TV movie The Conviction of Kitty Dodds. Driven to desperation by her abusive policeman husband Charlie (Mark Rolston), Kitty Dodds (Hamel) ends up killing him and is sent to prison for life. Managing to escape from behind bars, Kitty Read More

Body of Evidence

Actors: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joe Mantegna, Julianne Moore

Synopsis: Madonna plays Rebecca Carlson, a sex bomb who parades naked in front of the open windows of her houseboat at all hours while the lobstermen catch crabs. This entry in the Basic Instinct sweepstakes poses the question: If love hurts, does sex kill? The judge and jury certainly want to find out when Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Cork

Synopsis: Making her annual pilgrimage to Ireland, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is determined to catch up with the sightseeing that has so often been interrupted in the past by murder. Alas, it isn't long before our heroine is involved in another homicide case. This time around, the eldest son (Gordon Currie) Read More

Murder, She Wrote: To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee

Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of Sean Culhane (George Hearn) a retired Irish detective now serving on the same Manhattan University faculty as Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). After being heard threatening the life of an old enemy from the Auld Sod--a contractor who had recently Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Wind Around the Tower

Synopsis: This episode is set in Ireland, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) has arrived to research a new book in the company of her college colleague, retired Irish detective Sean Culhane (George Hearn). Invited to stay at the home of wealthy developer Neal Gillen (Dakin Matthews), Jessica and Sean are among Read More

The Comrades of Summer

Synopsis: After getting booted out of his latest managerial position, a has-been major league baseball player/coach goes to Russia and becomes the coach for their Olympic baseball team. This good-natured made-for-cable television comedy chronicles his endeavors to turn the bumbling, inexperienced team into Read More

Robocop 2

Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: The serialized story structure and barbed social commentary from comic book creator and co-writer Frank Miller earned critical respect in this satirical science fiction sequel directed by Irvin Kershner. Peter Weller returns as RoboCop, a futuristic cyborg fashioned from cutting-edge technology Read More

Impulse

Actors: Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alan Rosenberg, Shawn Elliott, Nicholas Mele

Synopsis: Actress Sondra Locke directed this visceral film noir about undercover cop Lottie Mason (Theresa Russell). A narcotics cop with the LAPD, she works a second shift at night as an undercover vice cop. Lottie works the bars and lures johns into the arms of the law. But her life is in a rut, and she Read More

Heat Wave

Actors: Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Margaret Avery

Synopsis: Set during the Watts riots of the mid-'60s, the made-for-cable Heat Wave follows the story of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Richardson (Blair Underwood), who was the only journalist on staff able to cover the story, since White reporters were unable to gain access to the area and the rioters. Read More

Prancer

Actors: Sam Elliott, Rebecca Harrell, Cloris Leachman, Rutanya Alda, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: If you know the Clement Clark Moore poem, you'll know that Prancer is one of Santa Claus' "eight tiny reindeer." When 9-year-old Rebecca Harrell, who still believes in Santa despite the remonstrations of her parents and the taunts of her peers, stumbles across the selfsame Prancer in a remote part Read More

Survival Quest

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Mark Rolston, Steve Antin, Michael Ryder, Paul Provenza

Synopsis: In this taut outdoor actioner, a pair of teens head into the Rockies as part of a course in survival and end up having to use all of their skills to survive when they find themselves hunted by a pack of crazed mercenaries. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lethal Weapon 2

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O'Connor

Synopsis: Lethal Weapon 2 reteams Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as, respectively, "loose cannon" LA detective Martin Riggs and Riggs' partner, the cautious family man Roger Murtaugh. The villain this time is a South African diplomat (Joss Ackland) who doubles as a drug dealer. Though Riggs knows what's going Read More

A Sinful Life

Actors: Anita Morris, Rick Overton, Dennis Christopher, Blair Tefkin, Mark Rolston

Synopsis: When former dancer and single mother Claire Vin Blanc (Anita Morris) is in danger of losing her daughter, Baby, to the welfare authorities, she attempts to pull herself together and create a model home life, complete with a husband. This film was based on the play Just Like the Pom Pom Girls. Read More

The Lady Forgets

Synopsis: As the last two years come into focus for an amnesia victim, she finds her life endangered because of the truths. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason has a conflict with an old friend after he begins representing the law student who is the prime suspect in the murder of his friend's son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Steal the Sky

Synopsis: This made-for-cable espionage melodrama centers on a beautiful Israeli spy who is assigned to use her wiles to convince an Iraqui flyer to defect and bring with him a valuable Soviet fighter plane. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Weeds

Actors: Nick Nolte, Lane Smith, William Forsythe, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: In this film, based on a true story, convicted criminal Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte) is sentenced to life in San Quentin prison, with no possibility of parole. Despairing at his interminable sentence, Lee spends his time reading and educating himself. When he writes and performs a play that attracts Read More

The Fourth Protocol

Actors: Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Betsy Brantley, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: Scripted by Frederick Forsyth from his own novel, The Fourth Protocol is a fact-based spy thriller. The titular protocol is a secret agreement between America, Britain and Russia to cease smuggling nuclear weapons into their respective countries. This figures into the schemes of several rogue Read More

Aliens

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser

Synopsis: Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/director James Cameron turned what should have been a by-the-numbers sci-fi sequel into both a blockbuster and a seven-time Oscar nominee. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew Read More