Paul RodriguezFilmography

Lonely Street

Actors: Jay Mohr, Robert Patrick, Joe Mantegna, Mike Starr

Synopsis: A notoriously gullible detective becomes the number one suspect in the murder of a tabloid reporter after accepting the task of protecting a once-famous celebrity who faked his death to escape the public eye in director Peter Ettinger's quirky adaptation of Steve Brewer's popular series of novels. Read More

One Long Night

Synopsis: Jon Seda, Alison Eastwood, Paul Rodriguez, Ed Begley, Jr., and Karen Black star in writer/producer/director David Siquerios' fish out of water comedy following a conservative half-Mexican, half-Caucasian businessman as he attempts to navigate a foreign land that he could have called home. The year Read More

Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen

Actors: Fred Savage, Fred Willard, Edie McClurg, John O'Hurley

Synopsis: Santa finds himself in serious trouble when Rusty Reindeer leaves the North Pole in order to do some soul searching in the big city, and a malfunctioning "Nice 'N Naughty O'Matic" leaves him unable to distinguish the good kids from the bad in this animated adventure for the entire family. Rusty Read More

Remember the Alamo Concert

Synopsis: Produced, staged and directed as a tribute to The Alamo - the famous mission of San Antonio, Texas where a group of militant rebels wrought Texas's independence from Mexico - the music release Remember the Alamo Concert finds such performers as The Gipsy Kings, Lyle Lovett and Los Lobos delivering Read More

Cloud Nine

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, Angie Everhart, D.L. Hughley, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: A middle-aged loser with a taste for strip club buffet food finds his unusual dining habits leading to an unlikely shot at success in this sexy sports comedy that shows you can never have too much fun in the sun. It's not the beautiful dancers that draw Billy Cole (Burt Reynolds) to the Cloud Nine Read More

The World's Fastest Indian

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Paul Rodriguez, Aaron Murphy, Annie Whittle

Synopsis: The true story of a man who never gave up on his dreams of doing something big -- and doing it very, very fast -- provides the basis for this engaging comedy drama. Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) was born in 1899 in Invercargill, New Zealand. From childhood, Munro had a passion for machines that Read More

El Vacilón: The Movie

Actors: Luis Jimenez, Moonshadow Broussard, Ruben Ithier, Ruperto Vanderpool

Synopsis: New York City's wildest radio show comes to the big screen in this crazy comedy. Luis Jimenez and Moonshadow Broussard are two disc jockeys who host a morning talk show in which they devote much of their air time to outrageous stories from their listeners. Ambitious Luis and laid-back Moon spend Read More

A Cinderella Story

Actors: Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge, Chad Michael Murray, Dan Byrd, Regina King

Synopsis: Cute but geeky high-school student Samantha Martin (Hilary Duff) is knocked off her feet by her father's untimely death, which leaves his diner and Samantha's well-being in the care of Fiona (Jennifer Coolidge), Sam's thoroughly wicked stepmother. Not one to take on such menial tasks as Read More

BAADASSSSS!

Actors: T.K. Carter, David Alan Grier, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez, Ossie Davis, Rainn Wilson, Joy Bryant, Khleo Thomas, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: In 1971, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles released his third film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which he wrote, directed, and scored. Despite boasting an all-black cast, an X rating, a low budget, and a decidedly non-Hollywood approach to moviemaking, the ground-breaking independent film went on Read More

Platinum Comedy Series: Paul Rodriguez - Behind Bars Live in San Francisco

Synopsis: Funnyman Paul Rodriguez goes where most comedians would fear to tread in this standup performance, originally produced for HBO. Platinum Comedy Series: Paul Rodriguez -- Behind Bars Live in San Francisco (also released as Paul Rodriguez: Live in San Quentin) finds the comic doing his act for an Read More

Chasing Papi

Actors: Roselyn Sanchez, Sofía Vergara, Jaci Velasquez, Eduardo Verástegui, Lisa Vidal

Synopsis: A man learns the hard way that, when it comes to women, three is more than a crowd in this frantic comedy. Tomas Fuentes (Eduardo Verástegui) is a successful advertising man living in Los Angeles who has a way with the ladies. Almost too much of a way, in fact, since he's currently dating three Read More

Original Latin Kings of Comedy

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Joey Medina, Alex Reymundo, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Jeb Brien directs Original Latin Kings of Comedy, which features material from five of the most famous Hispanic standup comics of their era. Paul Rodriguez (A.K.A. Pablo), George Lopez (The George Lopez Show), Cheech Marin (of Cheech and Chong fame), Alex Reymundo, and Joey Medina deliver material Read More

Time Changer

Actors: D David Morin, Gavin MacLeod, Hal Linden, Jennifer O'Neill, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: A man is sent into the future to see the possible results of his actions in this mixture of sci-fi adventure and Christian drama. In 1890, Russell Carlisle (D. David Morin) is a philosopher and college professor who has completed a manuscript he calls "The Changing Times." The university where Read More

Blood Work

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus

Synopsis: A retired detective must battle former colleagues and his own failing health in order to bring a murderer to justice in this action drama produced and directed by its star, Clint Eastwood. Terry McCaleb (Eastwood) was one of the best and most thorough detectives at the FBI's Southern California Read More

Ali

Actors: Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver

Synopsis: Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from the coffers of Columbia Pictures and other financiers to creating this biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time Read More

Tortilla Soup

Actors: Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Elizabeth Peña, Tamara Mello, Nikolai Kinski, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: A remake of Ang Lee's family comedy Eat Drink Man Woman, Maria Ripoli's Hispanic-American ensemble feature set in Southern California about a veteran chef named Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo), who is slowly losing his sense of taste. He has three daughters, all of whom have chosen different Read More

Rat Race

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Breckin Meyer, Kathy Najimy

Synopsis: A very loose remake of the classic multi-star comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), this madcap comedy is directed by Jerry Zucker, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy team and director of Ghost (1990). John Cleese stars as an eccentric casino owner who devises a contest pitting Read More

Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles

Actors: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Jere Burns, Jonathan Banks, Serge Cockburn

Synopsis: Director Simon Wincer teams up with his fellow Australian and star Paul Hogan for this second follow-up to the 1986 sleeper hit. Mick Dundee (Hogan) is still making his home in the tiny outback town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other Sue (Linda Kozlowski), and now joined by their young Read More

Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Like its predecessor, this installment to the popular Laughing Out Loud series offers viewers the experience of a standup comedy club from the comfort of home. This production features a variety of comedians performing some of their funniest bits; among those included are D.L. Hughley, Jason Read More

G-Men From Hell

Actors: William Forsythe, Tate Donovan, Bobcat Goldthwait, Barry Newman, Zach Galligan

Synopsis: Two bad cops rise from the grave in an attempt to go straight in this offbeat comedy. Mike Mattress (Tate Donovan) and Dean Crept (William Forsythe) are a pair of stone-faced FBI agents who are not above stretching the law to their advantage; their double dealings lead to their fiery death in a Read More

Price of Glory

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Jon Seda, Clifton Collins, Jr., Maria Del Mar, Sal Lopez

Synopsis: Jimmy Smits returned to the big screen after a career-reviving stint on the TV series NYPD Blue with this emotional drama about the difficult relationship between a father and his sons. Smits plays Arturo Ortega, a man with lifelong dreams of being a contender in professional boxing. While Arturo Read More

Mambo Café

Actors: Danny Aiello, Paul Rodriguez, Rosanna de Soto, Thalia

Synopsis: In this comedy, Nydia (Thalia) was born in New York City to a family of Puerto Rican immigrants who run a restaurant. Nydia is on summer vacation after her freshman year at Boston University, and comes home to discover things are not well with the family business; customers have not been coming Read More

Race

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, CCH Pounder, Cliff Robertson, Una Damon, Efren Ramirez

Synopsis: Tom Musca directed this social satire on the United States electoral system. The comedy-drama explores how class and race divisions impact on the process when a Chicano housepainter in East Los Angeles decides to run for the city council. Pressured by his wife (Annette Murphy), Gustavo Alvarez (Paul Rodriguez Read More

King of the Hill: Three Days of the Khando

Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood

Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Chris Sarandon, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: In this satirical horror-comedy, a gumshoe investigates a combination TV ministry/whorehouse/vampire infestation. After bounty hunter Vincent (Phil Fondacaro) unearths the remains of Lilith, queen of the vampires, he restores the alluring creature to life and lords over her using a magical Read More

2 Days in the Valley

Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to Read More

Touched By an Angel: Trust

Synopsis: Rookie cop Monica (Roma Downey) is partnered with veteran officer Zack Bennett (Joe Penny) on his first day back after recovering from a shooting. Zack's former partner Ben (Paul Rodriguez) is angry over the fact that Zack has demanded to be paired up with something else. What Ben doesn't know is Read More

Rough Magic

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Russell Crowe, Jim Broadbent, D.W. Moffett, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Director Clare Peploe (wife of Bernardo Bertolucci) adapted this blend of noir mystery and magical realism from the story Miss Shumway Waves a Wand by James Hadley Chase. Bridget Fonda stars as Myra Shumway, an apprentice to a magician (Kenneth Mars) in 1952 Los Angeles. Myra is unhappily engaged Read More

A Million to Juan

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, Polly Draper, Pepe Serna, Bert Rosario, Jonathan Hernandez

Synopsis: This comedy, set in the barrios East L.A. is loosely based upon Mark Twain's parable The Million Pound Bank Note. The new version tells the tale of Juan Lopez a nice, but uneducated hombre trying to earn enough money to support his little boy. Though Juan was born in the States, he lacks proper Read More

Rhythm Thief

Actors: Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Kimberly Flynn, Kevin Corrigan, Sean Haggerty

Synopsis: This drama, set in the gritty areas of New York's Lower Eastside and filmed in black and white, focuses upon the lonely and often pathetic lives of the down and out. Simon is a hustler who makes a minimal living by selling boot-leg homemade recording of underground metal-leather bands. He lives a Read More

Made in America

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Will Smith, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: Richard Benjamin directed this farce that plays like "Guess Who's Coming for Insemination?" Whoopi Goldberg stars as Sarah Matthews, who runs an African-American oriented bookstore in Oakland. She is raising her daughter, a beautiful high school student named Zora (Nia Long), on her own after her Read More

Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS and You

Synopsis: Aimed at young adults in order to increase their awareness of AIDS and HIV, this video combines informational and educational messages with entertainment. Each segment teaches teenagers something different about the HIV virus or AIDS, such as how anyone can contract AIDS, how and why AIDS is Read More

La Pastorela

Synopsis: In this modern version of a traditional holiday pageant, a young Mexican girl has a dream about the shepherd's who went to Bethlehem to see the young king. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hi Honey, I'm Dead

Synopsis: A rude entrepreneur is transformed into an average Joe by his guardian angel in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

NBA: Comic Relief - The Great Blooper Caper

Synopsis: An unusual sports event takes place when a new commissioner decrees that basketball will no longer be a serious sport -- and some of the greatest players in the NBA compete against an All-Star team of comedians. Actors and athletes include Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, George Wendt, Isiah Read More

Grand Slam

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, John Schneider

Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Ponce de Leon

Synopsis: This film, hosted by Shelley Duvall, is a spoof, loosely based on the exploits of Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon. The Spaniard laid claim to Florida in 1513, landing near St. Augustine. History has it that he was seeking the Fountain of Youth, a legend that he had learned from native peoples in Read More

Paul Rodriguez Live! I Need the Couch

An All-Star Salute to the Improv

An All-Star Toast to the Improv

Synopsis: Fans of the syndicated 1980s TV series An Evening at the Improv will get a kick out of this commemorative TV special. Budd Friedman, overseer of the Improv comedy club in Los Angeles, takes a back seat to host Robert Klein this time out. Offering their considerable talents to the occasion are such Read More

Born in East L.A.

Actors: Cheech Marin, Paul Rodriguez, Daniel Stern, Kamala Lopez, Jan-Michael Vincent

Synopsis: Richard "Cheech" Marin, of Cheech & Chong fame, directed and starred in Born in East L.A.. Inspired by Marin's music-video parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA", the film casts Cheech as an East Los Angeles repairman. While paying a visit to a sweatshop toy factory, Cheech is caught in Read More

5 Nacos Asaltan a Las Vegas

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sergio "El Comanche" Ramos, Luis de Alba, Sergio Corona, Guillermo Rivas

Synopsis: The five nacos (or nerds) in this picture are inept to the point of being freaks of nature. When they agree that they are tired of their wives and of their life of poverty, they decide they will attempt to rob the Dunes, a Norteamericano casino in Las Vegas. Despite their bumbling ways, they Read More

The Whoopee Boys

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, Denholm Elliott, Carole Shelley, Marsha Warfield, Andy Bumatai

Synopsis: In this comedy, a relocation to Florida throws lowlife New Yorkers Barney (Paul Rodriguez) and Jake (Michael O'Keefe) into a dilemma when Jake falls for a beautiful schoolteacher, Olivia Farragut (Lucinda Jenney), who is struggling to find enough money to keep her school open. However, when they Read More

Miracles

Actors: Tom Conti, Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, Christopher Lloyd, A. Martinez

Synopsis: A doctor (Tom Conti) and his wife (Teri Garr), recently divorced, are kidnapped and brought to South America by an inept jewel thief (Paul Rodriguez), just in time to help cure a tribal chief's daughter of appendicitis. Then, a series of circumstances brings the entire family together. ~ John Read More

Quicksilver

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Andrew Smith

Synopsis: In this underscripted and not wholly convincing drama, Kevin Bacon plays Jack Casey, an up-and-coming broker who crashes on the stock market one day and cashes in whatever he has left to become a bicycle messenger in San Francisco. Although not exactly a logical alternative, bicycling the hilly Read More

An Evening at the Improv

Synopsis: This hilarious comedy video contains performances from some of the funniest stand-up comedians of the 1980s as they do their schtick at the Improv comedy clubs. Performers include funnyman/magician Harry Anderson, Billy Crystal, and Michael Keaton. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth

Synopsis: Using a combination of historical fact, deliberately anachronistic one-liners, and beautifully designed forced perpective sets, Shelley Duvall herein serves up another sparkling 50 minutes in her Tall Tales cable series. Michael York plays an arrogant, publicity-seeking Ponce de Leon, who journeys Read More

The Comedy Jam

The Californians

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, John Trudell

Synopsis: In this documentary on California, director Alexander von Wetter does not take his view of the history and inhabitants of the state into unexplored territory but stays within the bounds of a conventional and quite elementary coverage of the early Spaniards, the Gold Rush, and other commonly-known Read More

The Best of the Big Laff-Off

Synopsis: This collection of comedy routines features some of the best--and in some cases, earliest--performances of stand-up comics as they compete in the annual Laff-Off contests. Performers include Eddie Murphy, Sandra Bernhard, Harry Anderson, and more while David Steinberg introduces the segments. Read More

D.C. Cab

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Charlie Barnett, Irene Cara, Anne de Salvo, Max Gail

Synopsis: In this casual, uninvolved comedy running on a low-octane script, a scruffy taxi company is about to be wiped out when its owner Harold (Max Gail) exhorts his cabbies to do what they can to help save the company -- and what they can do turns out to be a surprise to everyone concerned. Saving the Read More

Comedy Goes to Prison

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