Michael RauchFilmography

Occupation:: Co-producer, First Assistant Director, Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

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Royal Pains [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Reshma Shetty, Jill Flint, Campbell Scott

2009
Life is Wild [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Leah Pipes, D.W. Moffett, Stephanie Niznik, Mary Matilyn Mouser, Andrew St. John

Synopsis: Another Americanization of a popular British TV series, Life is Wild was inspired by the BBC comedy-drama Wild at Heart. D.W. Moffett headed the cast as New York-based veterinarian Danny Clarke, who on little more than a whim relocated himself, his second wife Jo (Stephanie Niznik) and their four Read More

2007
Love Monkey [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Jason Priestley, Larenz Tate, Christopher Wiehl, Judy Greer

Synopsis: Created by Michael Rauch, the hour-long dramedy series Love Monkey was based on a novel by Kyle Smith, though it also owed quite a lot to the Tom Cruise film Jerry Maguire. Tom Cavanagh headed the cast as music agent Tom Farrell, an A&R rep for big-time Goliath Records. After experiencing a sudden Read More

2006
Dingle, Barry

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Barry Shurchin, Veronica Cartwright, Nicole Sullivan, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: A conniving mother seeks to enter the world of politics by encouraging her boorish son to marry a senator's daughter. Eleanor Dingle (Veronica Cartwright) knows that politicians wield power, and she's desperate to break into the game. If she could just convince her son Barry (Barry Shurchin) to Read More

2005
Beautiful People [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

2005
Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Synopsis: The writer and performer of such stinging monologues as Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Eric Bogosian returns to the stage to skewer everything from pop culture to religion in this striking return to the stage. Portraying a series of characters that include a salesman who may just be Satan and a Read More

2001
In The Weeds

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joshua Leonard, Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: At a restaurant located somewhere in midtown New York, waiters, waitresses, cooks, a struggling playwright, and one exceptionally nasty restaurant owner serve up lavish helpings of food and mordant comedy. Among the players is a narcissistic would-be screen idol (Michael Buchman Silver), a naive Read More

2000
Point Break

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Kathryn Bigelow's fourth action film follows FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers suspected of robbing banks. Utah, a former football player, is assigned to Los Angeles. There, four bank robbers, who wear rubber masks and Read More

7/12/91
Reversal of Fortune

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: This film is a darkly humorous, determinedly ambiguous adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's book about his successful legal appeal of Claus von Bulow's conviction for the attempted murder of his wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. Sunny (Glenn Close) -- who remains in a "persistent vegetative state" Read More

10/17/90
Blue Steel

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding Read More

3/16/90
A Killing Affair

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Peter Weller, Kathy Baker, John Glover, Bill Smitrovich

Synopsis: When reviled labor boss Pink Gresham (Bill Smitrovich) is found murdered, his wife Maggie (Kathy Baker) is visited by Baston Morris (Peter Weller). Morris claims to have killed Pink before leaving his lifeless corpse symbolically in an outhouse. Instead of leaving, Morris moves in on the backwoods Read More

7/15/88
Apprentice to Murder

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara, Knut Husebö, Rutanya Alda

Synopsis: We're told that Apprentice to Murder is a true story. If so, we'll steer clear of the film's Pennsylvania Dutch locale in the future. A series of murders occur in a sleepy community, and suspicion immediately falls on the local "character": a self-styled faithhealer and mystic. Donald Sutherland Read More

2/5/88
Hot Paint

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The inadvertent theft of a valuable Renoir force an actor and an unemployed salesman into the limelight in this crime comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Band of the Hand

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly, John Cameron Mitchell, Daniele Quinn, James Remar

Synopsis: Former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser warmed the director's chair for Band of the Hand. The film zeroes in on five juvenile delinquents who are plucked from their various detention facilities and unceremoniously dumped in the wilds of the Everglades. The boys begin to panic until Read More

4/11/86
Dressed to Kill

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz

Synopsis: One of Brian De Palma's most divisive films, Dressed to Kill is a spine-chilling Alfred Hitchcock update for the late 1970s. Sexually frustrated wife and mother Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) visits her New York psychiatrist, Dr. Elliott (Michael Caine), to complain about her unfulfilling erotic Read More

1980
Simon

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Alan Arkin, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart, William Finley, Jayant

Synopsis: In this far-out comedy that slams it to academia, television, and the military, Simon (Alan Arkin) is a puffed-up professor who is boondoggled by a group of geniuses in a think tank. Becker (Austin Pendleton) leads the wacked-out thinkers as they invent off-the-wall games to keep themselves amused Read More

1980
The Last Embrace

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken, Sam Levene, John Glover

Synopsis: In 1979, Jonathan Demme was still a cutting-edge director and The Last Embrace was his first effort at a completely commercial assignment. Very much in the Hitchcock vein, The Last Embrace is an intense suspense film concerning Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider), a government agent recovering from a Read More

1979
Voices

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Amy Irving, Alex Rocco, Viveca Lindfors, Barry Miller

Synopsis: Amy Irving plays a deaf woman whose ambition is to become a professional dancer in this drama. Rosemarie Lemon is unhappy with the support she is getting from her family for her dreams. She meets a sensitive truck driver, Drew Rothman (Michael Ontkean), and they become lovers. Rothman's family is Read More

1979