Paul Sorvino Filmography

Carnera: The Walking Mountain

Actors: Andrea Iaia, Paul Sorvino, Burt Young, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: Standing six and a half feet tall and weighing 265 pounds, Primo Carnera was one of the most formidable opponents in the history of heavyweight boxing, and in 1933, after becoming heavyweight champion of his native Italy, we went on to defeat Jack Sharkey in New York to become heavyweight champ of Read More

Mr. Fix It

Actors: David Boreanaz, Alana de la Garza, Scoot McNairy, Paul Sorvino, Pat Healy

Synopsis: Mr. Fix It stars David Boreanaz as Lance, a man who makes a living by being a terrible boyfriend. He takes money from ex-boyfriends to date the women who dumped them. He treats the women even worse that the exes, prompting the girls to go back to the guys that dumped them. His career threatens to Read More

The Last Hour

Actors: DMX, Michael Madsen, Kobé, Paul Sorvino, David Carradine

Synopsis: DMX, Michael Madsen, Paul Sorvino, and David Carradine star in first-time feature filmmaker Kobé's thriller concerning a man who is summoned to a remote house in China by his deceased father, only to discover upon arriving that he isn't the only person on the guest list. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

Greetings from the Shore

Actors: Kim Shaw, Paul Sorvino, David Fumero, Jay O. Sanders, Andrew Shaifer

Synopsis: Greg Chwerchak's Greetings from the Shore stars Kim Shaw as a young women spending one last summer on the Jersey shore before heading off to college in the fall. While she mourns the death of her father, her plans change due to circumstances beyond her control. She soon finds herself in love, and Read More

Gangland: Bullets Over Hollywood

Synopsis: From the dawn of cinema moviegoers have been strangely seduced by stories about the criminal underworld, and from Scarface (1932) to The Sopranos the sordid stories of the mafia in all their lawless glory continue to thrive on screens large and small. In this documentary, Goodfellas star Paul Read More

Mr. 3000

Actors: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Brian J. White, Michael Rispoli, Ian Anthony Dale

Synopsis: Directed by Charles Stone III, Mr. 3000 revolves around over-the-hill baseball star Stan Ross (Bernie Mac), who retired after making what he thought was his 3,000th base hit for the Milwaukee Brewers (i.e. the exact amount of hits it takes to qualify for the Hall of Fame). Though he shocked his Read More

Goodnight, Joseph Parker

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Nick Chinlund, Paul Sorvino, Steven Tyler, Debi Mazar, Kim Dickens

Synopsis: The dejected habitués of a run-down New Jersey bar currently teetering on the brink of bankruptcy receive an encouraging boost of morale when a one-time drinking buddy about to get his big break in show-business returns to find the girl he once left behind as the popular stage drama comes to the Read More

The Best of Safari in Africa, Vol. 1

Synopsis: The Best of Safari Africa Volume 1 contains footage of a variety of African animals in their natural habitat. Lions, elephants, and cheetahs, are among the many animals on display. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cooler

Actors: William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin, Shawn Hatosy, Ron Livingston

Synopsis: Writer/director Wayne Kramer offers a glimpse into the aging Las Vegas casino world with the romantic drama The Cooler. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is extremely unlucky at gambling, and he owes the Shangri-La casino over 100,000 dollars. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler," someone Read More

Mambo Italiano

Actors: Sophie Lorain, Pierrette Robitaille, Lou Vani, Luke Kirby, Ginette Reno, Paul Sorvino, Mary Walsh, Claudia Ferri, Peter Miller, Tim Post

Synopsis: Old World values collide with modern-day questions of sexual orientation in this ethnic comedy. Mambo Italiano tells the story of Angelo, a neurotic twentysomething preoccupied with the usual post-adolescent concerns: his job, his creative aspirations as a writer, and his longing to get out of his Read More

Mafia Doctor

Actors: Danny Nucci, Paul Sorvino, Jonathan Scarfe, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: As repayment for services rendered by his father, young New Jerseyite Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) is put through medical school in the U.S. and Italy by powerful mafia don Nicola Dellarusso (Paul Sorvino). Upon becoming a doctor, Siena dutifully returns the favor by giving body and soul to the Read More

Hey Arnold! The Movie

Actors: Spencer Klein, Francesca Marie Smith, Jamil Walker Smith, Dan Castellaneta, Tress MacNeille

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite football-headed city kid graduates from television to the big screen in this animated comedy-adventure based on the Nickelodeon TV series. Arnold (voice of Spencer Klein) and his good friend, Gerald (voice of Jamil Walker Smith), live in a tight-knit neighborhood in the middle Read More

See Spot Run

Actors: David Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Joe Viterelli

Synopsis: A police dog finds himself pitted in a battle of wits against an accident-prone mailman and a gang of crooks (and it looks like the dog has the edge in the brains department) in this broad comedy. Agent 11 (Bob) is a bulldog trained by the FBI agent Murdoch (Michael Clarke Duncan) to sniff out Read More

The Amati Girls

Actors: Mercedes Ruehl, Paul Sorvino, Cloris Leachman, Sean Young, Dinah Manoff

Synopsis: This family drama by actress and first-time director Anne DeSalvo centers around four adult sisters who are forced to re-evaluate their situations after tragedy strikes. The oldest of the clan, Grace (Mercedes Ruehl), is called upon to be the tower of strength, even though she is widely perceived Read More

Perfume

Actors: Joanne Baron, Angela Bettis, Sonia Braga, D.W. Brown, Coolio

Synopsis: As a number of luminaries on the international fashion scene converge for a major show, their personal and professional crises come to a head in this comedy-drama. Lorenzo Mancini (Paul Sorvino) is an internationally famous designer who has learned he has only a short time to live. As Mancini Read More

Streghe Verso Nord

Actors: Teo Mammucari, Paul Sorvino, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gérard Depardieu, Daniele Liotti

Ciao America

Actors: Anthony DiNanno, Antonio Navarro, Eddie Malavarca, Vittorio Amandola, Maurizio Nichetti

Synopsis: Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland in Italy -- as was requested by his late grandfather. Upon arriving, Lorenzo is offered a short-term position as coach for an American-style Read More

Plan B

Actors: Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Maury Chaykin, Bob Balaban, Burt Young, Natasha Lyonne

Synopsis: When a gentle bookkeeper is forced to act as an assassin in order to pay off her husband's debt to the mob, the bloodless scheme she concocts to keep a clear conscience could cost her more than she bargained for in a blistering crime comedy starring Diane Keaton, Burt Young, Bob Balaban, Paul Sorvino Read More

Cheaters

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, Paul Sorvino, Luke Edwards

Synopsis: Moral hypocrisy and the woes of America's public schools and educational system are the focus of Cheaters, which is based on a real-life 1995 cheating scandal at a Chicago high school. In a working class area of the city, teacher Dr. Gerald Plecki (Jeff Daniels) is desperate for his students to Read More

The Thin Blue Lie

Actors: Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Paul Sorvino, Cynthia Preston, G.W. Bailey

Synopsis: Rob Morrow stars as investigating journalist Jonathan Neumann in this drama about police corruption in 1970s Philadelphia. When Neumann takes over the court beat for the Philadelphia Examiner, he quickly discovers wrongdoing at every turn, with cops beating suspects into often blatantly false Read More

That's Life [TV Series]

Actors: Heather Paige Kent, Debi Mazar, Kristin Bauer, Ellen Burstyn, Kevin Dillon

The Magic of Thailand

Into Africa

That Championship Season

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A group of four friends reunite on the 20th anniversary of their high school basketball championship season. The reunion turns dark, however, when long hidden secrets are revealed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Knock Off

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, Carmen Lee

Synopsis: Hong Kong action genre craftsman Tsui Hark directed this martial arts tale, his second collaboration with actor Jean-Claude Van Damme after Double Team (1997). Van Damme stars as Marcus Ray, a Hong Kong fashion designer who specializes in "knock-offs," cheaply produced jeans and sneakers meant to Read More

Men With Guns

Actors: Donal Logue, Gregory Sporleder, Callum Keith Rennie, Max Perlich, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: For her second feature, Canadian director Kari Skogland (The Size of Watermelons) treads Tarantino turf with the violent visuals of this crime drama. Small-time hoods Eddie (Donal Logue) and Lucas (Gregory Sporleder) go to a rural area to collect a debt but instead get a dose of sexual humiliation Read More

Bulworth

Actors: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), and stars in this political satire, a comedy-drama about a U.S. senator who decides to start speaking the truth. Despondent California Sen. Jay Bulworth (Beatty), up for re-election, is disillusioned by Read More

Houdini

Actors: Stacy Edwards, Paul Sorvino, Johnathon Schaech

Synopsis: This biography of the famed magician, produced for the TNT cable outlet, examines both Harry Houdini's public career (and reveals how he performed a few of his better known escapes) and his private life, in particular his sometimes-stormy relationship with his wife Bess and his interest in Read More

Dead Broke

Actors: Paul Sorvino, John Glover, Tony Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Justin Theroux

Synopsis: The potential witnesses to a mysterious murder all become suspects when a determined detective fails to crack the case in a hard-boiled mystery directed by Edward Vilga and starring Jill Hennessy, Paul Sorvino, and John Glover. When gunshots pierce the black stillness of the night and a body Read More

American Perfekt

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Amanda Plummer, David Thewlis, Robert Forster

Synopsis: In this noir-influenced road movie, Jake (Robert Forster) is a criminal psychiatrist who has come to the conclusion that our lives are dictated primarily by chance, and has given himself over to this notion by making most of his decision by the flip of a coin. Sandra (Amanda Plummer) is a neurotic Read More

Money Talks

Actors: Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Gerard Ismael, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: A low-level criminal and a struggling newsman become unlikely partners in this comedy. Franklin Hatchett (Chris Tucker) is a fast-talking hustler who runs a small time ticket-scalping business. A TV news story by reporter James Russell (Charlie Sheen) brings Franklin's business to the attention of Read More

Most Wanted

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jon Voight, Jill Hennessy, Paul Sorvino, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Actor-comedian-talk show host Keenen Ivory Wayans stars in his own action thriller screenplay about a war hero who becomes the fall guy in a frame-up. During the Persian Gulf War, U.S. Marine Sgt. James Dunn (Wayans) refuses to shoot a young shepherd, struggles with a superior officer, and winds Read More

Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Former New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre was one of the team's more colorful figures. This made-for-cable drama chronicles events from his extraordinary life. The tale culminates with the 1996 season during which Torre Paul Sorvino) not only had to get the Yanks through the play-offs but also Read More

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Longtime rivals in religion and business, the Montagues and the Capulets share a page from the Read More

Love Is All There Is

Actors: Lainie Kazan, Joseph Bologna, Barbara Carrera, Paul Sorvino, Renée Taylor, Angelina Jolie, Nathaniel Marston

Synopsis: Romeo and Juliet gets updated -- and played for laughs -- in this romantic comedy set in the City Island section of the Bronx. Mike and Sadie Cappamezza (Joseph Bologna and Lainie Kazan) are a hard-working couple who have run a family-style Italian restaurant for years. The Cappamezzas' fiercest Read More

Escape Clause

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Kate McNeil, Paul Sorvino, Connie Britton, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: This suspenseful thriller originally aired on the Showtime cable network. Successful insurance executive Richard Ramsay has had a pretty good life until the day he is called by a paid assassin and informed that his wife is planning to have him killed. The hitman then makes Richard a most unusual Read More

Dogwatch

Actors: Sam Elliott, Esai Morales, Paul Sorvino, Dan Lauria, Richard Gilliland, Jessica Steen, Mimi Craven

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a tough San Francisco policeman is shocked to discover that his recently murdered partner was actively involved in departmental corruption. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

Without Consent

Actors: Jennie Garth, Jill Eikenberry, Paul Sorvino, Tom Irwin, Helen Shaver

Synopsis: Creative casting sets this made-for-television movie slightly ahead of the pack, despite the somewhat familiar story found often in 1980s tough love movies. Jennie Garth stars as Laura Mills, an apathetic teen who's more of an aggravation to her parents than genuine threat. After some stern Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Homeward

Synopsis: Though by now accustomed to interference from the various members of his family tree, Worf is nonetheless unprepared for the problems wrought by his foster brother Nikolai (Paul Sorvino). In order to save the doomed Boralaan race, Nikolai defiantly violates the Prime Directive. Will Worf join Read More

Parallel Lives

Synopsis: Directed by Linda Yellen, this made-for-cable movie originally aired on the Showtime network and featured a star-studded cast including Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, and James Belushi. The plot centers around several fraternity and sorority graduates who have decided to regroup at their alma mater. Read More

Backstreet Justice

Actors: Linda Kozlowski, Paul Sorvino, John Shea, Hector Elizondo, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: In this complexly-plotted action-packed police drama, Pittsburgh policewoman Keri Finnegan (Linda Kozlowski) returns to her home turf to clean up crime and clear the ruined name of her father, a cop who was wrongfully disgraced and fired from the force. McKees Rocks is one Steeltown's roughest Read More

The Firm

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Ed Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, Mitch McDeer (Tom Cruise) is a young man from a poor Southern family who has struggled through Harvard Law School to graduate fifth in his class. Mitch is entertaining offers from major firms in New York and Chicago, but when Read More

Law & Order: Season 03

Actors: Richard Brooks, Dann Florek, Steven Hill, Michael Moriarty, Chris Noth, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Another major casting change occurred during the third season of Law & Order, although not until the series had offered eight episodes. In "Prince of Darkness," an undercover police operation goes tragically awry, and Detective Phil Ceretta (Paul Sorvino) ends up seriously wounded. Though Ceretta Read More

The Rocketeer

Actors: Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protege Joe Johnston found success as a director with his debut film, the blockbuster family adventure Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. For his sophomore outing, Johnston helmed this action-adventurer, set in Read More

Law & Order: Season 02

Actors: Richard Brooks, Dann Florek, Steven Hill, Michael Moriarty, Chris Noth, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Not yet a hit, though certainly sustaining decent ratings, Law & Order entered its second season with the first of its many cast changes -- and a spectacular one it was indeed, with Detective Max Greevey being shot down and killed in front of his own house. In truth, George Dzundza, who played Read More

Nightmare

Actors: Victoria Principal, Danielle Harris, Jonathan Banks, Paul Sorvino, Gregg Henry

Synopsis: Single parent Victoria Principal is justifiably driven into a blind rage when her 11-year-old daughter (Danielle Harris) is molested. Thanks to legal loopholes, the girl's attacker is set free. Victoria swears vengeance, and intends to get it by any means possible, despite the level-headed Read More

GoodFellas

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish 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

Murder, She Wrote: Three Strikes, You're Out

Synopsis: Jessica heads to the baseball stadium to visit her nephew, up-and-coming ballplayer Johnny Eaton (Todd Bryant). Soon afterward, the team's new TV pre-game hostess is murdered, and a startled burglar is arrested for the crime. So what has this to do with Jessica? Well, it seems that the hapless Read More

Almost Partners

Synopsis: Paul Sorvino, Royana Black, and Mary Wickes star in the 60-minute comedy Almost Partners. Fourteen-year-old Molly McCue (Black) is stymied when an urn containing her father's ashes turns up missing. Who'd want to steal something of only sentimental value. To find out, Molly engages the services of Read More

A Fine Mess

Actors: Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Blake Edwards comes a cropper in this lunk-headed slapstick homage to Laurel and Hardy, Mack Sennett, and Jerry Lewis. Ted Danson and Howie Mandell play Spence Holden and Dennis Powell, a couple of idiots who find themselves involved with a pack of gangsters. Spence is a two-bit actor who is at a Read More

Jailbait

Synopsis: When a filmmaker and a young film student make love, the man is accused of statutory rape by the girl's father. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Betrayed by Innocence

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Lee Purcell, Cristen Kauffman, Paul Sorvino, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: Who's innocent in Betrayed by Innocence? Is it filmmaker Nick DeLeon (Barry Bostwick), who loves his wife but also his work? Is it Nick's working wife Sharon (Lee Purcell), who spends more time at the office than at home? Or is it nubile, underage coed Marisa Vogel (Cristen Kauffman), who has an Read More

Jailbait: Betrayed by Innocence

Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Abe Vigoda, Cassandra Edwards, Lorne Greene, Gary Raff

Synopsis: It just isn't Gino's day. First of all, bank employee Gino (Paul Sorvino) is offered a lucrative deal from his dying boss Theo Marshall (Lorne Greene), if only he can keep the man's bank in control of his irresponsible son (Gary Raff) and out of the hands of his greedy relatives. To make matters Read More

Moonlighting: The Son Also Rises

Synopsis: This opening episode of Moonlighting's third season upholds the series' unique juxtaposition of fact and fancy by carrying a "dedication" to a person who doesn't really exist! Wisecracking private eye David Addison (Bruce Willis) is uncharacteristically at a loss for words when his recently Read More

The Stuff

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Garrett Morris

Synopsis: When a group of miners discovers a mysterious but delicious white substance bubbling up from the earth, a conglomerate markets the gooey, addictive fluff as a dessert in this tongue-in-cheek horror spoof from former NBC scriptwriter Larry Cohen. When a new product called "The Stuff" begins eating Read More

Very Close Quarters

Actors: Shelley Winters, Paul Sorvino, Theodore Bikel, Farley Granger, Lee Taylor Allen

Synopsis: Never released theatrically, this sex comedy is set in an apartment in Moscow with one bathroom, one kitchen and 31 inhabitants. While this may make the rent affordable for everyone, it's no help when filming inside such a set. A few of the major characters are Vera (Lee Taylor Allen), whose Read More

Chiller

Actors: Michael Beck, Beatrice Straight

Synopsis: This made-for-TV effort from horror director Wes Craven and Salem's Lot producer Richard Kobritz involves a case of cryogenic suspension gone horribly wrong. A wealthy industrialist (Michael Beck) arranges for his body to be kept on ice in a high-tech cryonic chamber with specialized instructions Read More

Turk 182!

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: Timothy Hutton stars in this rabble-rousing movie in the tradition of Rocky, directed by Bob Clark. Hutton plays Jimmy Lynch, the younger brother of New York City firefighter Terry (Robert Urich). Terry is off-duty and has been drinking but rescues a young girl for a dangerous fire. When he Read More