Marshall BellFilmography

Sex and Death 101

Actors: Simon Baker, Winona Ryder, Patton Oswalt, Leslie Bibb, Mindy Cohn

Synopsis: Upon receiving an e-mail containing the names of every woman he has ever slept with and every women he will ever sleep with, a man set to be married in just one week eschews his wedding plans in favor of seeking out the truth behind the perplexing message in a black comedy written and directed by Heathers Read More

Tattoos: A Scarred History

The Final Season

Actors: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, James Gammon, Larry Miller

Synopsis: A place where baseball is more than just a game fights to hold on to the national pastime in this drama inspired by a true story. Norway, Iowa is a little town where folks take baseball seriously -- so much so that even though Norway's high school boasts less than a hundred students, their Read More

Rescue Dawn

Actors: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies

Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to direct his first feature since 2001's Invincible with this dramatic action film inspired by his own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and detailing the escape efforts of a German-American pilot who was taken as a prisoner-of-war after being Read More

Nancy Drew

Actors: Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Max Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan

Synopsis: A resourceful teenage super-sleuth finds her investigative skills put to the ultimate test as director Andrew Fleming and screenwriter Tiffany Paulsen revive the character originally made famous by author Carolyn Keene. Upon leaving her quaint hometown of River Heights and arriving in Los Angeles Read More

The Astronaut Farmer

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot, Jasper Polish, Logan Polish

Synopsis: An aspiring astronaut who was forced to forsake his dream of exploring space in order to save the family farm begins building his own personal rocket as a means of reaching the stars in this quirky rural drama starring Billy Bob Thornton. There once was a time when Charlie Farmer (Thornton) seemed Read More

Little Chenier

Actors: Johnathon Schaech, Fred Koehler, Tamara Braun, Jeremy Davidson, Clifton Collins, Jr.

Synopsis: Two brothers are victimized by a weak and jealous man in this drama shot on location in Louisiana. Beaux Dupuis (Jonathan Schaech) lives on a houseboat with his brother Pemon (Fred Koehler) in the swamps of Cajun country. Beaux is a handsome and responsible man who supports his family by running a Read More

Art School Confidential

Actors: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar

Synopsis: Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and comic artist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes, who collaborated for the acclaimed 2001 comedy-drama Ghost World, team up once again for this offbeat satire. Jerome (Max Minghella) is an aspiring artist who arrives at a prestigious East Coast art institute to study. While Read More

Dandelion

Actors: Vincent Kartheiser, Taryn Manning, Arliss Howard, Mare Winningham, Blake Heron

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker Mark Milgard makes his feature debut with the coming-of-age drama Dandelion, filmed on-location in Idaho. TV star Vincent Kartheiser plays Mason Mullich, a quiet sensitive boy living in a small town. His mother, Layla (Mare Winningham), is already overworked when his factory 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

House: Acceptance

Synopsis: The opening episode of House's second season finds misanthropic medico Greg House (Hugh Laurie) still mulling over the possibility of rekindling his romance with lawyer Stacy Warner (Sela Ward)--and never mind that Stacy is very much a married woman. The major medical crisis of the evening Read More

The Shield: Doghouse

Synopsis: Aceveda (Benito Martinez) starts a political battle against Monica (Glenn Close) over her department's property seizures. He also turns to a call girl, Sara (Abby Brammell), to help him work through his ongoing trauma over being sexually assaulted. Danny (Catherine Dent) and Julien (Michael Jace) Read More

A Slipping-Down Life

Actors: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Making its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, this story adapted for the screen and directed by first-timer Toni Kalem is based on the Anne Tyler novel of the same name. The story deals with finding love in a dead-end life. Evie (Lili Taylor) is a loner, living with her widowed Read More

Deadwood: The Trial of Jack McCall

Synopsis: Wild Bill Hickok is dead, and the people of Deadwood prepare to try the man who murdered him, Jack McCall (Garret Dillahunt). Discussing the "hoople-heads," Al (Ian McShane) tells Cy (Powers Boothe), "Sometimes I wish we could just hit 'em over the head, rob 'em, and throw their bodies in the Read More

Northfork

Actors: James Woods, Nick Nolte, Claire Forlani, Duel Farnes, Mark Polish

Synopsis: What was once a brave frontier town has become a haven for enlightened oddballs in this unusual drama from director Michael Polish, written in collaboration with his twin brother, Mark Polish. Northfork is a small town in Montana which, in 1955, is soon to disappear in the name of progress; a Read More

Identity

Actors: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Ten strangers are brought together during a weather emergency, only to discover a far greater danger awaits them in this suspense-drama. A sudden rainstorm in a remote desert town strands a disparate variety of people at a rundown motel. A convict sentenced to death, Malcolm Rivers (Pruitt Taylor Vince Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Felonius Monk

Synopsis: The CSI team is called in after four monks are shot to death at close range while worshipping in a Buddhist temple. As Grissom (William L. Petersen) looks into this possible hate crime -- and also advises Sara (Jorja Fox) to be more respectful of the dead than usual -- Catherine (Marg Read More

Mercy

Actors: Wendy Crewson, Stephen Baldwin, Ellen Barkin, Marshall Bell, Stewart Bick, Peta Wilson

Synopsis: Damian Harris directs this sleazy erotic thriller about lipstick lesbians, naked corpses, and S&M covens, starring Julian Sands. Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is a hard-driving homicide cop who drinks like a fish and curses like a sailor, investigating a series of murders which leave the Read More

Virus

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell

Synopsis: When the salvage tug Sea Star is caught unprepared in a violent storm, it slowly sinks, and the crew, led by Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland), wander upon another ship for refuge. The ship, apparently deserted, turns out to be a Russian research vessel loaded with high-tech electronics. The Sea Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Flip

Synopsis: Desperate for an A-list guest as his final show draws ever closer, Larry (Garry Shandling) determines that he must overcome his discomfort with affectionate old friend David Duchovny in order to secure an appearance from the X-Files star. Meanwhile, Artie (Rip Torn) struggles to keep the emotional Read More

The End of Violence

Actors: Frederic Forrest, Udo Kier, Traci Lind, Samuel Fuller, Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Wim Wenders directed this allegorical drama about the emotional impact of violence in our culture, set against the backdrop of California's entertainment business. Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is a Hollywood producer who has earned a great deal of money and power in the film industry through his Read More

The Brave

Actors: Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Cody Lightning, Nicole Mancera

Synopsis: Johnny Depp made his debut as a director and screenwriter with this allegorical tale of the plight of Native Americans. Raphael (Depp) is an alcoholic American Indian who lives in a hovel near a junkyard with his wife Rita (Elpidia Carillo) and his children Frankie (Cody Lightning) and Marta (Nicole Mancera Read More

Starship Troopers

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Total Recall) reunited many from his 1987 Robocop team for this $100-million science fiction adventure, adapted from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November, 1959). After Read More

Operation Dumbo Drop

Actors: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug, Corin Nemec

Synopsis: This old fashioned service comedy is suitable for the whole family. It is set in Vietnam during the war and chronicles the efforts of a small band of Green Berets as they endeavor to help out a beleaguered village located next to a major supply route for the Viet Cong. The leader, Capt. Sam Cahill Read More

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Actors: Don Cheadle, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Jenny McCarthy, Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams

Synopsis: In the mode of Quentin Tarantino, this film, directed by Gary Fleder from a script by Scott Rosenberg, concerns itself with hip, smart gangsters. The film is set in Denver, and the title comes from a Warren Zevon song. A retired, good-hearted gangster named Jimmy the Saint (Andy Garcia) runs a Read More

Payback

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Joan Severance

Synopsis: In this unofficial remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice, an ex-con gets a job at a run-down roadside diner owned by a blind former prison guard. He commences an affair with the owner's wife, and they both plan to kill him and find a hidden treasure. Their plan starts to unravel, however, and a Read More

The Puppet Masters

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, Will Patton

Synopsis: Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters comes to the screen 43 years later. Sharp-eyed viewers will recognize similarities to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but Heinlein's book came first. Parasitic space aliens invade the Midwest, taking over the bodies of humans and manipulating Read More

Love is a Gun

Actors: Kelly Preston, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Eric Roberts stars as Jack Hart, a police photographer who finds a photo of toothsome Jean (Kelly Preston) in his locker. Though he's never met Jean, Hart has no qualms about declaring his fascination with this mystery woman. Thus, when Jean turns up murdered, guess who's the Number One suspect? Read More

Natural Born Killers

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Jr., Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: A frenetic, bloody look at mass murder and the mass media, director Oliver Stone's extremely controversial film divided critics and audiences with its mixture of over-the-top violence and bitter cultural satire. At the center of the film, written by Stone and Quentin Tarantino, among others, are Read More

The Chase

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, Wayne Grace

Synopsis: This high-speed action comedy stars Charlie Sheen as Jack Hammond, who has been given a life sentence for a bank robbery that he didn't commit. Hammond manages to escape, and while trying to avoid capture at a gas station, he ends up kidnapping Natalie Voss (Kristy Swanson); he threatens her with Read More

The Silence of the Hams

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Ezio Greggio, Billy Zane, Joanna Pacula, Charlene Tilton, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: In the tradition of Mel Brooks, this Italian comedy offers an episodic parody of classic thrillers and horror movies. Film includes cameos from several stars including Mel Brooks, John Astin, Larry Storch, Phyllis Diller, John Carpenter, and John Landis. The story begins as director Ezio Greggio Read More

Airheads

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Chris Farley

Synopsis: Airheads is a variation on Dog Day Afternoon, as well as a comic look at the trials and tribulations of both the music business and Generation X. A hapless rock trio consisting of Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler) hits a brick wall with their attempts to get their Read More

Undercover Blues

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry Miller

Synopsis: Nick and Nora Charles are updated to a touchy-feely couple of the 1990s who take a break from the action to raise their eleven-month-old child. Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star as Jane and Jeff Blue, two CIA super-agents who have abandoned the daily grind to devote quality time to their baby Read More

Heaven & Earth

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Hiep Thi Le, Debbie Reynolds

Synopsis: With Heaven and Earth -- cobbled together from two autobiographical reminiscences (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip -- Oliver Stone completes his self-declared "Vietnam Trilogy" (the other films being Platoon and Born On the Fourth of July) of Read More

Innocent Blood

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia, Anthony LaPaglia, David Proval, Don Rickles, Don Rickels

Synopsis: An uneven but entertaining blend of graphic horror and black comedy from John Landis, very much in the mode of the director's successful An American Werewolf in London. French actress Anne Parillaud -- star of Luc Besson's acclaimed thriller La Femme Nikita -- plays Marie, a lithe and lovely Read More

Diggstown

Actors: James Woods, Louis Gossett, Jr., Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham

Synopsis: In this comedy, a charming con man teams up with a boxer fallen on hard times in hopes of making some quick money. After doing time for selling art that turned out to be forged, Gabriel Caine (James Woods) and his partner Fitz (Oliver Platt) set their sights on a village called Diggstown; Fitz Read More

The Vagrant

Actors: Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Mitzi Kapture, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: When a successful businessman Graham Krakowski (Bill Paxton) buys a house, he has a hard time evicting the previous tenant--a dirty, homeless vagabond (Marshall Bell). As Graham tries stunt after stunt to rid himself of his unwanted guest, he begins to crack, while the bum figures out new and Read More

Oscar

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Tim Curry, Marisa Tomei, Don Ameche

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful head of the Chicago mob, but his ailing father (Kirk Douglas) doesn't approve of his life in crime, and on his deathbed, Dad makes Snaps promise to go Read More

The Heroes of Desert Storm

Actors: Angela Bassett, Daniel Baldwin, Michael Champion, Tim Russ, Kris Kamm

Synopsis: Complete with real ABC News footage shot in Iraq, this made-for-TV film chronicles the lives of a group of American soldiers battling in the Persian Gulf War. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie

Actors: Dylan McDermott, Tom Sizemore, Sharon Stone, Mary Woronov, David Combs

Synopsis: When unsuccessful writer Bruce Simmons (Dylan McDermott) is kicked out of his apartment, he takes up residence in an old abandoned mansion. When he discovers the gruesome history of the house, he is inspired to begin a novel based on the grisly murders that took place there. However, when a Read More

Air America

Actors: Mel Gibson, Robert Downey, Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, David Marshall Grant

Synopsis: Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. play a couple of what-the-hell flyboys flying contraband to Laos during the Vietnam War. Gibson doesn't seem to care about anything but the "guts and glory" aspects of the job, but Downey has serious questions about the moral implications of their mission. When a Read More

Dick Tracy

Actors: Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directed and starred in this big-budget action comedy featuring Chester Gould's square-jawed, two-dimensional comic strip detective. Ruthless gangster Big Boy Caprice (Al Pacino) touches off a gang war against underworld boss Lips Manlis (Paul Sorvino), with Big Boy and his minions Read More

Total Recall

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that his entire memory of the past derives from a memory chip implanted in his brain. Schwarzenegger learns that he's actually a secret agent who had become a Read More

Leather Jackets

Actors: Lee Drysdale, Bridget Fonda, D.B. Sweeney, Cary Elwes

Synopsis: Mickey (D.B. Sweeney) is a reformed thief who works construction. He's saved up his money to move out of his small town and get away his criminal past. Before he leaves town, he proposes to Claudi (Bridget Fonda), a friend he's secretly loved for ages. Claudi has a reputation in town and she's Read More

Tales From the Crypt: And All Through the House

Actors: Larry Drake, Mary Ellen Trainor, Marshall Bell

Synopsis: Robert Zemeckis' "And All Through the House" is about a psychotic Santa Claus (Larry Drake) who has just escaped from an insane asylum and comes knocking at the door of a woman (Mary Ellen Trainor), who's fresh from killing her husband for greedy reasons. The episode is a remake of one of the Read More

Twins

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: The central "gimmick" of the comedy-adventure Twins is established early on. Unbeknownst to one another, king-sized Arnold Schwarzenegger and gnomeish Danny De Vito are twin brothers. Even better: Schwarzenegger is a mild-mannered, bookish type, while De Vito is a vitriolic troublemaker. The film Read More

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his investors' money and played fast and loose with ethics and legalities in the pursuit of his dream. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola isn't buying this: to hear Coppola tell it, Tucker Read More

Johnny Be Good

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey, Jr., Paul Gleason, Uma Thurman, Steve James

Synopsis: Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall) is a hot-shot high-school quarterback who receives intoxicating offers from spirited college recruiters in this adolescent teen comedy. Bathroom humor and sight gags are strung together in a story involving booze, broads, and other benefits for the coveted Read More

Cherry 2000

Actors: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, Harry Carey, Jr., Brion James

Synopsis: In this arch sci-fi sex comedy-cum-action extravaganza, a hard-nosed female mercenary helps a hapless yuppie find a new body for his robot girlfriend in the post-industrial wasteland of the American Southwest. In the year 2017, what little remains of civilization feeds off the scrap heap of 20th Read More

Wildfire

Actors: Steven Bauer, Linda Fiorentino, Will Patton, Marshall Bell, Sandra Seacat

Synopsis: If it is possible for a film to be "in heat", then Zalman King's Wildfire is that film. Teenagers Steven Bauer and Linda Fiorentino have their wedding plans shelved indefinitely when Bauer is imprisoned for bank robbery. Upon his release, Bauer learns that Linda is a wife and mother, with no Read More

No Way Out

Actors: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff

Synopsis: No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel (Sean Young), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene in the back of a limo (marvelously parodied in Read More

Stand by Me

Actors: John Cusack, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: Based on the Stephen King short story The Body, Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome Read More

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Maddie Corman, Byron Thames, Alan Boyce, Polly Draper

Synopsis: This modest teen comedy has the usual themes revolving around sex: how to handle it, how to relate to it, and how to do just about everything except engage in it. The focus is on two teenagers, one is the serious Natalie (Jennifer Connelly). She has her eyes set on becoming President of the U.S. Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

Actors: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund

Synopsis: Several years after the events of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jesse Walsh and his family moved into the home of Nancy Thompson, the only survivor of supernatural killer Freddie's reign of terror. Haunted by dreams of the disfigured child-killer, the lonely Jesse has trouble sleeping, falls asleep Read More

Birdy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Delores Sage, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: Director Alan Parker tackles this adapation of William Wharton's novel, which retains much of the source material's texture and complexity. Matthew Modine is Birdy, who comes back from Vietnam mentally shattered and deludes himself into thinking that he is a bird, an animal that has obsessed him Read More