Paul Ben-Victor Filmography

In Plain Sight [TV Series]

Actors: Mary McCormack, Frederick Weller, Nichole M. Hiltz, Todd Williams, Cristián de la Fuente, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: This crime drama stars Mary McCormack as Mary Shannon, a U.S. Marshal with the Federal Witness Protection Agency. Protecting and assisting people who have assumed a new identity in order to escape the criminals who would have them dead, Mary's job entails helping everyone from the most innocent Read More

Randy and the Mob

Actors: Ray McKinnon, Walt Goggins, Lisa Blount, Tim DeKay, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: A good ol' boy from the middle-class suburbs of Atlanta becomes indebted to the mob in actor-turned-director/screenwriter Ray McKinnon's quirky crime comedy. Randy (McKinnon) is about as American as baseball and apple pie. Randy's wife (Lisa Blount) is a clinically depressed baton teacher who also Read More

The Wire: Season 04

Actors: Dominic West, Clarke Peters, Sonja Sohn

Push

Actors: Chad Lindberg, Charlotte Ayanna, Pierce Forsythe, Otto Sanchez, William DePaolo

Synopsis: Three friends become involved in the drug trade after coming into possession of a package of ecstasy, only to discover a bit too late just how dangerous things can get when you dabble in the dark side in a simmering crime drama featuring Michael Rapaport and Chazz Palminteri. No matter how hard Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk Gets Drunk

Synopsis: Accompanied by Natalie (Traylor Howard), Monk (Tony Shalhoub) goes on his annual pilgrimage to wine country, there to check in at the same bed and breakfast where he and his late wife Trudy spent their honeymoon. But this sentimental journey is interrupted by an obnoxious guest named Larry Zwibell Read More

Daredevil

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau

Synopsis: One of Marvel Comics' most popular characters comes to the screen for the first time in this sci-fi action-thriller. Matthew Murdock (Ben Affleck) is a lawyer whose father, a prizefighter, was killed by gangsters when Murdock was just a boy. Since then, Murdock has devoted his life to bringing Read More

The Invisible Man: Season 02

Actors: Vincent Ventresca, Shannon Kenny, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Michael McCafferty

Synopsis: Reluctant secret agent Darien Fawkes (Vincent Ventresca continues to use his ability to render himself invisible on behalf of the government agency known as--er--The Agency, in Season Two of The Invisible Man. Of course, Darien is doing this only in the hopes that some day, some how, sexy 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

Gun Shy

Actors: Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock, José Zuñiga, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: In this action-laced comedy, a cop on the verge of a nervous breakdown finds love at the least convenient time. Charlie Mayo (Liam Neeson) is an undercover agent with the DEA who was nearly killed when a sting set up to nail a gang of drug dealers went horribly wrong. The accident left Charlie Read More

The Three Stooges

Actors: Paul Ben-Victor, Rachael Blake, Brandon Burke, Peter Callan, Michael Chiklis

Synopsis: The comedy team that made the phrase "nyuk nyuk nyuk" part of the American vocabulary gets the full biographical treatment in this made-for-TV feature. The Three Stooges opens in 1959, as a TV executive tries to persuade Moe Howard (Paul Ben-Victor) to reunite with his former onscreen partners to Read More

Sex and Bullets

Synopsis: Sex and Bullets stars Judd Nelson and Seymour Cassel as a pair of hitmen who are on the run from a powerful mobster after they whack one of the mobster's sons. The two go their separate ways in order to hide more effectively, but each ends up being involved in a bizarre adventure. Max (Nelson) Read More

The Invisible Man: Season 01

Actors: Vincent Ventresca, Shannon Kenny, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Michael McCafferty

Synopsis: The first season of The Invisible Man begins as lifelong criminal and chiseler Darien Fawkes (Vincent Ventresca), facing life imprisonment courtesy of the "three strikes you're out" law, agrees to be paroled in the custody of his scientist brother Kevin (David Burke), who is conducting secret Read More

Very Mean Men

Actors: Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, Ben Gazzara, Scott Baio, Burt Young

Synopsis: A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving drinks to a tough-looking guy (Martin Landau) he Read More

Crazy in Alabama

Actors: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Sandra Seacat

Synopsis: Comedy and drama take turns in this period piece based on a novel by Mark Childress. Peejoe (Lucas Black), short for Peter Joseph, lives in a small Alabama town in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights movement. He becomes involved with a group of black students protesting the town's racially Read More

The Corruptor

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Mark Wahlberg, Ric Young, Paul Ben-Victor, Jon Kit Lee

Synopsis: Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) was the first Chinese-born immigrant in the NYPD, and is now one of the force's most decorated officers. As such, he's been named leader of the city's Asian Gang Unit, who are the primary peacekeepers in Chinatown. Trouble has just arrived for the Triads, the Read More

Kiss Toledo Goodbye

Actors: Nancy Allen, Christine Taylor, Jamie Anderson, Michael Rapaport, Christopher Walken, Robert Forster

Synopsis: A man makes some unexpected (and potentially dangerous) discoveries about his family in this comedy. Kevin Gower (Michael Rapaport) is an investment advisor who is engaged to marry the woman he loves, Deeann (Christine Taylor). One day, Kevin is approached by a gruff stranger named Max (Christopher Walken Read More

Rude Awakening

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner, Rain Pryor, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: This TV comedy series, an attempt to find humor in 1990s self-help, rehab and recovery programs, focuses on hard-drinking, former actress Billie Frank (Sherilyn Fenn), once the teen queen of primetime soaps, who now works for lowlife "B"-movie producer Harve Schwartz (Richard Lewis). Johnny (Michael Rapaport Read More

Tempting Fate

Actors: Tate Donovan, Ming-Na Wen, Grace Phillips, Matt Craven, Abraham Benrubi

Synopsis: Seduced by the pastoral existence of a vacation, a doctor decides to remain and savor the slow pace of life in another dimension. Unfortunately, he soon discovers that even his newfound paradise is not totally devoid of chaos. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Point Blank

Actors: Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: Mickey Rourke, Frederick Forrest and Danny Trejo star in this action-packed drama about a gang of psychotic criminals who have taken control of a Texas shopping mall. Only one misfit cop is brave enough to go in and face the maniacs -- because he's looking for his brother, who lives on the other Read More

Standoff

Actors: Robert Sean Leonard, Dennis Haysbert, Paul Ben-Victor

NYPD Blue: The Truth is Out There

Synopsis: The squad must deal with a murder witness (Kathleen Doyle) who obviously is not playing with a full deck -- and who is subsequently kidnapped on orders from the suspect's lawyer. Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) and Martinez' (Nicholas Turturro) investigation of the latest in a series of cab robberies Read More

Metro

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, Michael Wincott, Carmen Ejogo, Denis Arndt

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy once again finds himself exchanging both wisecracks and gunfire in this comic action-thriller. Scott Roper (Murphy) is a hostage negotiator with the San Francisco Police Department; Roper has his own way of doing things, which doesn't always mean following department proceedure, but Read More

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave

Actors: Michael Gross, Dale Midkiff, Erika Eleniak, Paul Johansson, Paul Ben-Victor

Synopsis: Not only is the teeming metropolis of Isola in the grips of its worst heat wave in history, but the city is also in the thrall of a serial rapist who is targeting his previous victims. Hoping to stop the predator in his tracks, police detective Eileen Burke (Erika Eleniak) goes undercover, posing Read More

Maximum Risk

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Zach Grenier, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Stéphane Audran, Paul Ben-Victor, Frank Senger

Synopsis: Alain Moreau (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French cop whose colleagues make a startling discovery -- a man named Mikhail, who was killed in a high-speed chase with police, looks exactly like him. Curious about the stranger with his face, Alain is told by his mother Chantal (Stephane Audran) that Read More

Terrified

Actors: Heather Graham, Lisa Zane

Synopsis: Heather Graham stars as Olive, a woman whose husband discovers one day that she has taken a lover; the husband kills him, then himself. While still reeling from this trauma, Olive becomes the object of a crazed stalker, who invades her home, attacks her and then disappears. Olive's terror is only Read More

NYPD Blue: Aging Bull

Synopsis: No sooner has Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) launched his investigation of a millionaire's kidnapping than the Feds take the case out of his hands. A two-bit criminal (Paul Ben-Victor) who is no stranger to the precinct may hold a vital clue to the abduction. And, on his own, Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) Read More

Houseguest

Actors: Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Jeffrey Jones, Kim Greist, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Sinbad offers some unusual advice on how to make friends in this wacky comedy. Kevin Frankin (Sinbad) is a guy who dreams of starting his own business. However, getting it off the ground is another matter altogether, and soon Kevin discovers that the two loan sharks who fronted him money want to Read More

Red Scorpion 2

Actors: Matt McColm, John Savage, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Ironside, Michael Covert

Synopsis: In this Canadian thriller, uneducated, disaffected white youths known as skinheads are attacking racial minorities. A government agent (Michael Ironside) investigating the incidents traces them to a wealthy, extreme right-wing, neo-Nazi businessman who is secretly bankrolling the skinheads, using Read More

Web of Deception

Synopsis: A mentally unstable woman's obsession has potentially devastating consequences for the forensic psychiatrist who spurns her. The innocent doctor's ordeal begins when the girl is found murdered and he is left to stand accused of the crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

NYPD Blue: You Bet Your Life

Synopsis: Dan Breen (Peter Boyle), Sipowicz's AA sponsor, is beaten up by his own son (Enrico Colantoni). Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone (Jimmy Smits) follow the slimmest of clues when the charred body of a pregnant prostitute is found. And Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) and Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) aren't Read More

The Last Outlaw

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine, John C. McGinley, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Mickey Rourke stars as a Western outlaw bent on revenge in this made-for-cable movie. Rourke is convincing as the evil Colonel Graff, the leader of a criminal gang of Wild West thugs. After a robbery gone wrong, the gang members start getting killed one by one, and the survivors don't know who to Read More

Dream Lover

Actors: James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Bess Armstrong, Fredric Lehne, Larry Miller

Synopsis: A man discovers that what he doesn't know can hurt him, especially when it comes to his wife, in this suspense drama. Ray Reardon (James Spader) is an architect who has just gone through a messy divorce; while his friends sing the praises of the single life, Ray would prefer to settle into a life Read More

State of Emergency

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Lynn Whitfield, Melinda Dillon

Synopsis: Set in a busy inner-city emergency room, this made-for-cable television drama follows the struggles of a world-weary surgeon who takes on the hospital administrators whose budget-cutting is affecting his ability to adequately care for his patients. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tombstone

Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert John Burke, Dana Delany

Synopsis: A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that Read More

Extreme Justice

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Filmed just before the Rodney King incident, Extreme Justice is a violent tale of "police procedure" gone bonkers. Troublesome LAPD cop Jeff Powers (Lou Diamond Phillips) is assigned to an elite squad headed by his old friend Dan Vaughn (Scott Glenn). Ostensibly organized to collar violent repeat Read More

True Romance

Actors: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba Read More

Cool World

Actors: Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt, Michele Abrams, Deirdre O'Connell

Synopsis: Sex is cool, but sex with a hot animated tootsie is way cool. Such is the undercurrent running through Ralph Bakshi's confused and chaotic response to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The story begins with a prologue in postwar Las Vegas, where Vegas cop Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) is catapulted into the Read More

Eyes of the Beholder

Actors: George Lazenby, Charles Napier, Lenny Von Dohlen

Synopsis: Institutionalized serial killer Janice Bickle (Lenny Von Dohlen) volunteers to undergo a radical medical experiment. If the operation is successful, he will be cured of his homicidal tendencies. Instead, the surgery goes horribly awry, turning him into a worse basket case than before. And then he 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

Sunset Heat

Synopsis: In this exciting and violent crime drama, a drug dealer turned photojournalist returns to his old stomping grounds in L.A. and ends up entangled in a new drug scheme by his former pal. After stealing a fortune in drugs from a ruthless crime lord, the photographer must flee for his life. ~ Sandra Read More

Body Parts

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Brad Dourif, Zakes Mokae

Synopsis: When prison psychiatrist Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) loses an arm in a car accident, he receives a revolutionary new transplant from an unknown donor, who is later discovered to have been a recently-executed psycho-killer. During his recovery, Bill is tormented by violent nightmares and aggressive Read More

The Rookie

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: In return for Warner Bros. greenlighting his pet project White Hunter, Black Heart (1990), Clint Eastwood directed and starred in this more commercial film, an action caper about a mismatched pair of auto theft cops. Eastwood is grizzled veteran detective Nick Pulovski, who's determined to bring Read More

Streets

Actors: Christina Applegate, David Mendenhall, Eb Lottimer, Starr Andreeff, Patrick Richwood, Alan Stock

Synopsis: Best known as the sexy but intellectually challenged Kelly Bundy on Married with Children, Christina Applegate broadened her range a bit with this tough-minded drama in which she played a drug-addicted teenage prostitute living on the streets of Los Angeles. Sy (David Mendenhall) is a clean-cut Read More

Hunter: This Is My Gun

Synopsis: Metro officer Joanne Molenski (Darlanne Fluegel) goes undercover to investigate a series of robberies in which the victims were wealthy women who'd been followed home by the perpetrators. Unfortunately, Molenski is mugged, and her gun is stolen. Worse still, the gun is later used in a Read More

After the Shock

Actors: Yaphet Kotto, Rue McClanahan, Jack Scalia, Scott Valentine

Synopsis: A welcome exception to the slasher-stalker-kidnapper films usually seen on the USA cable network, After the Shock is a tribute to the courage and heroism of Bay Area residents following the San Francisco earthquake of October 17, 1989. Director Gary A. Sherman opts for a "cinema verite" approach Read More

Wired

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Ray Sharkey, J.T. Walsh, Patti D'Arbanville, Lucinda Jenney

Synopsis: This film, loosely-based on the book by Bob Woodward, follows the career of comedian John Belushi (Michael Chiklis) as his spirit is guided through the past by the Angel Velasquez (Ray Sharkey). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Assault of the Killer Bimbos

Actors: Christina Whitaker, Elizabeth Kaitan, Tammara Souza, Nick Cassavetes, Griffin O'Neal

Synopsis: With a title like Assault Of The Killer Bimbos, the viewer gets pretty much what he or she would expect: a dumb-but-hip instant cult favorite that knows - and revels in - its limitations. Christina Whitaker and Elizabeth Kaitan are the two lead, er, bimbos, who are working as go-go dancers in a Read More

Pass the Ammo

Actors: Bill Paxton, Linda Kozlowski, Tim Curry, Annie Potts, Dennis Burkley

Synopsis: When Claire (Linda Kozlowski) learns her grandmother has been bilked out of $50,000 by the crooked televangelists Ray (Tim Curry) and Darla Porter (Annie Potts), she recruits her redneck boyfriend Jesse (Bill Paxton) to help recover the money. They travel to the Tower of Bethlehem deep in the Read More

Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Joe Penny

Synopsis: A blushing bride (Melissa Gilbert) doesn't catch on that something's fishy when her new husband (Joe Penny), last name "Moran", introduces her to his distinctly Italian family, who kiss each other's hands a lot. In fact, she doesn't tumble to the fact that her "perfect" spouse is a Mafiosa until Read More