Matthew Robbins Filmography

Born:: New York
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

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Epic Movie

Crew: Greensman

Actors: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune Chambers

Synopsis: Scary Movie screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer join forces to parody the "biggest" movies ever to hit the silver screen in this comedy that gives such popular box-office hits as Pirates of the Caribbean and Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe the same treatment Read More

1/26/07
Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco

Actors: Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Saul Zaentz

Synopsis: While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists who treasure their independence and carefully guard their creative Read More

2007
Mimic

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: While one would imagine that the average New Yorker would be used to dealing with bugs after years of apartment dwelling, a scientific experiment gone wrong results in an insect that even Raid can't handle in this sci-fi/horror thriller. In Manhattan, cockroaches are spreading a deadly disease Read More

1997
Bingo

Crew: Director

Actors: Cindy Williams, David Rasche, Robert J. Steinmiller, David French, Kurt Fuller

Synopsis: A boy saves and befriends a mangy ex-circus dog and adopts him as a pet--without his father's knowledge. As the family moves across the country, the dog attempts to follow, getting into close calls and lots of adventures along the way. Will Bingo end up in the arms of his favorite boy? This Read More

8/9/91
Mothers, Daughters and Lovers

Crew: Director

Actors: Perrey Reeves, Helen Shaver, Marcianne Warman

Synopsis: Evil land developers, those most ubiquitous of 1980s movie villains, are the chief antagonists in the made-for-TV Mothers, Daughters and Lovers. Helen Shaver plays a truckstop/motel owner in the rural Northwest. She manages her business with the help of her two budding teenaged daughters--one Read More

1989
*batteries not included

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Carmine

Synopsis: Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are among the impoverished residents of a slum tenement threatened with demolition by evil land developers. Only a miracle can save Cronyn, Tandy, and their friends -- and that miracle manifests itself in the form of a "family" of extraterrestrial flying saucers, who Read More

12/18/87
Warning Sign

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: In yet another ostensible thriller about deadly germs wreaking havoc on human life and psyches, this is a frenetic, uneven story about germs going berserk in a sealed-off lab, giving rise to infected humans more berserk than the germs. The lab is secretly developing weapons of biological warfare Read More

1985
The Legend of Billie Jean

Crew: Director

Actors: Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Christian Slater, Richard Bradford, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: With their father dead and their mother busy trying to land a steady beau, pretty teen Billy Jean Davy (Helen Slater) and her younger brother, Binx (Christian Slater), spend their time riding Binx's moped and dreaming of life in Vermont -- several climate zones away from the humid, omnipresent Read More

1985
Dragonslayer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, Peter Eyre

Synopsis: A special-effects laden medieval fantasy adventure, Dragonslayer centers on the attempts of a young sorcerer's apprentice to defeat a vicious dragon and save a lovely young maiden. Peter MacNicol stars as the young Galen, an aspiring magician under the tutelage of the aging Ulrich (Ralph Richardson Read More

1981
Corvette Summer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, Kim Milford, Richard McKenzie

Synopsis: The Corvette Ken Dantley's (Mark Hamill) class has been restoring in their high-school shop class is nearly completely fixed up. One day, the students walk in and it is gone - apparently stolen. Ken is larking about in Las Vegas when he spies a car that looks suspiciously like the Corvette he Read More

1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witnesses Read More

1977
MacArthur

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gregory Peck, Ed Flanders, Dan O'Herlihy, Marj Dusay, Sandy Kenyon

Synopsis: Star Gregory Peck went into MacArthur disliking the title character that he was slated to play, but emerged from the experience with a deeper understanding and respect for this complex historical figure. The film is framed in flashback, with an octogenarian General
Douglas MacArthur (Peck) Read More

1977
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Rico Dawson, Sam "Birmingham" Briston

Synopsis: Based on the novel by William Brasher, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is set in the segregated south of 1939. African-American baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams), tired of being jerked around by the less-than-ethical managers of the Negro League teams, forms his Read More

1976
The Sugarland Express

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: Based on an actual incident, Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature follows the adventures of a Texas outlaw couple striving to keep their family together by any means necessary. Determined not to lose her child to the authorities, Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) gets her obedient convict Read More

1974