Peter MacNeill Filmography

The Marsh

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar

Synopsis: Haunted by gruesome visions of violence and death that would be far out of place in her successful series of children's books, a sophisticated author embarks on a brief sabbatical into the countryside that turns out to be far from the convalescent getaway her doctor had prescribed. Claire Holloway Read More

A History of Violence

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ashton Holmes, William Hurt, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: David Cronenberg directed this screen adaptation of a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke which explores how an act of heroism unexpectedly changes a man's life. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) lives a quiet life in a small Indiana town, running the local diner with his wife, Edie (Maria Bello Read More

Kojak [TV Series]

Actors: Ving Rhames, Chazz Palminteri, Roselyn Sanchez, Emily Patterson, Michael Kelly, Chuck Shamata

Some Things That Stay

Actors: Katie Boland, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Zegers, Alberta Watson

Synopsis: Gail Harvey's Some Things That Stay stars Katie Boland as a teenager whose adolescence is complicated by her bohemian family and their resistance to the cultural mores of Eisenhower-era America. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candace Long

Actors: Jean Smart, A. Martinez, Robert Joy, Peter MacNeill, Robin Brûlé

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-cable crime drama stars Jean Smart as veteran FBI agent and divorced mother Candace Long. Burned out by years of tracking down this most vicious criminals in America, Long is about to take a well-deserved retirement and devote her energies to her family and her Read More

Who Is Cletis Tout?

Actors: Christian Slater, Tim Allen, Portia de Rossi, Richard Dreyfuss, Billy Connolly

Synopsis: Standup comedian turned director Chris Ver Weil makes his debut with this wild and woolly romantic comedy cum noir crime thriller. The film centers on Trevor Finch (Christian Slater), a master counterfeiter and career con who learns that he has a price on his head from mob hitman Critical Jim (Tim Allen Read More

Violet

Actors: Mary Walsh, Peter MacNeill, Susan Kent

Synopsis: Violet (Mary Walsh) is approaching her 55th birthday with a particularly pronounced sense of dread. As her parents, grandparents, and husband all died when they reached the magic number, Violet takes to her bed for weeks on end. However, everyone else around her continues to live their life: her Read More

Sex & Mrs. X

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Linda Hamilton, Paolo Seganti

Synopsis: A reporter learns some lessons about love from a woman who has made it her business in this made-for-TV comedy-drama. Joanna Scott (Linda Hamilton) is a woman who thought she had the perfect life -- a successful career as a journalist and a strong marriage with her husband, Dale (Stewart Bick) Read More

Touch of Hope

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Abraham Benrubi, CCH Pounder, Fay Masterson, Sean O'Bryan

Synopsis: This made-for-TV feature is based on the true story of Dean Kraft, who worked within the traditional medical community as a hands-on healer. Discovering his unique gift at an early age, Kraft (played as an adult by Anthony Michael Hall) is reluctant to utilize his healing talents, agreeing to do Read More

Blue Moon

Synopsis: Set in a Nova Scotian fishing community, the made-for-TV Blue Moon focuses on a group of local citizens who are under the financial pressure of a land-grabbing tycoon. Particularly hard hit is restaurant manager Cass Medieros (Sharon Lawrence), who not only may have her property sold out from Read More

The Long Island Incident

Actors: Laurie Metcalf, MacKenzie Astin, Tyrone Benskin, Cedric Smith, Elisa Moolecherry

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand and Cis Corman are the executive producers of this TV movie, filmed in Toronto by director Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three). The fact-based film recounts the aftermath of the night of December 7, 1993 when gunman Colin Ferguson (Tyrone Benskin) opened fire on a Read More

Dog Park

Actors: Natasha Henstridge, Luke Wilson, Kathleen Robertson, Janeane Garofalo, Bruce McCulloch

Synopsis: Former Kids In The Hall member Bruce McCulloch wrote and directed this comedy about the romantic tribulations of a group of Toronto twenty-somethings whose relationships with their dogs are more stable and long-lasting than their romances with people. Nice guy Andy (Luke Wilson) gets dumped by his Read More

Too Close to Home

Synopsis: 29-year-old defense lawyer Nick Donahue (Rick Schroder) is still tied to the apron strings of his possessive mother Diana (Judith Light)--so much so that, when he tries to move out of the family home, Diana is able to bind him even tighter by attempting suicide. While visiting Diana in the Read More

The Hanging Garden

Actors: Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox, Seanna McKenna, Peter MacNeill, Christine Dunsworth

Synopsis: Ten years after he disappeared from his family's life, Sweet William (Chris Leavins) returns home to Nova Scotia for his sister's wedding. Despite the fact that he's gone from a morbidly obese adolescent to a thin, handsome, self-assured young man, the reunion proves bittersweet. Although he Read More

Closer and Closer

Actors: Kim Delaney, John J. York, Scott Kraft

Synopsis: In this thriller, an author who was paralyzed after she was attacked by a serial killer who had been inspired to violence by her first book decides to publish a sequel. It proves to be a bad idea, for no sooner is it published than she finds herself victimized again, first through ominous e-mail Read More

Double Jeopardy

Actors: Joe Penny, Teri Garr, Brittany Murphy, Rutanya Alda, Shawn Hatosy

Synopsis: This fact-based TV movie melodrama stars Joe Penny as John Dubroski, a veteran cop with a history of erratic behavior and casual philandering. Dubroski's passive wife, Cindy (Teri Garr), is aware of her husband's peccadilloes, but she has always forgiven him and steadfastly remained at his side. Read More

Crash

Actors: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis: After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of Read More

No One Could Protect Her

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Anthony John Denison, Dan Lauria, Peter MacNeill

Synopsis: This made-for-TV shocker was inspired by a true story which occurred in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Housewife Jessica Rayner (Joanne Kerns) becomes the latest in a long line of victims when she is attacked in her own home by a vicious serial rapist and murderer who preys on blondes. The difference is Read More

Conundrum

Actors: Marg Helgenberger, Michael Biehn, Harvey Chao, Von Flores, Ron White

Synopsis: In this tense police thriller, a routine investigation into a gambling operation becomes personal for a policewoman and her partner when the latter's pregnant wife is brutally murdered and he is accused of the crime. His partner's further investigation leads her to the dangerous conclusion that Read More

Butterbox Babies

Actors: Susan Clark, Peter MacNeill, Michael Riley, Cedric Smith

Synopsis: In this fact-based drama, a midwife and her spouse are accused of illegally smuggling babies to Canada for adoption. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lives of Girls and Women

Actors: Wendy Crewson, Tanya Allen, Dean McDermott, Peter MacNeill, Amos Crawley

Events Leading Up to my Death

Actors: Peter MacNeill, Rosemary Radcliffe, Linda Kash

Deadly Matrimony

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Lisa Eilbacher, Treat Williams, Embeth Davidtz, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy makes one of his many TV-movie appearances as Chicago homicide cop John Reed in the two-part Deadly Matrimony. Reed's quarry this time is mob lawyer Treat Williams, who murders his wife and then effectively covers his tracks. The closer Reed comes to the truth, the more he's in Read More

Gross Misconduct

Actors: Daniel Kash, Peter MacNeill

Survive the Night

Synopsis: This realistic made-for-TV drama chronicles the courage of three women who must leave a New York freeway to get gas in a part of town so bad that even the police avoid it. Once there, they end up fighting for their lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Stella

Actors: Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason

Synopsis: Bette Midler stars as Stella Claire, a working class, fun-loving barmaid in northern New York State. A brief affair with handsome Stephen Dallas (Stephen Collins) produces a daughter, Jenny (Trini Alvarado), who Stella insists upon raising alone, despite Dallas' marriage offer. As the years pass Read More

Renegades

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz, Robert Knepper, Bill Smitrovich

Synopsis: Director Jack Sholder followed his surprise sleeper hit The Hidden (1987) with this action drama that re-teamed Young Guns (1988) co-stars Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips. Sutherland stars as Buster McHenry, a Philadelphia cop working undercover as a thief in the gang of wealthy Read More

Physical Evidence

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty, Kay Lenz, Ted McGinley

Synopsis: Though this police and courtroom drama did not do well at the box-office, some reviewers thought that the lead performances by Burt Reynolds and Theresa Russell were first-rate. Joe Paris (Reynolds) is a policeman suspended from active duty. He awakens from an alcoholic binge to discover that he Read More

Whispers

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Victoria Tennant

Synopsis: This bizarre adaptation of the superb horror novel by Dean Koontz details the mental collapse of writer Hillary Thomas (Victoria Tennant), who is relentlessly stalked by sadistic psycho Bruno Clavell (Jean Leclerc), whom she had once interviewed for her latest book. After he breaks into her Read More

Justice Denied

Actors: Billy Merasty, Thomas Peacocke, Wayne Robson, Peter MacNeill, J. Winston Carroll

Synopsis: Based on a true story, in 1971 a 17-year-old Canadian Indian, Donald Marshall, was imprisoned. He remained in prison for eleven years for a murder he did not commit. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Love and Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Kenneth Welsh, John Colicos, R.H. Thomson, Brent Carver

Synopsis: While Love and Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell had its American network debut in July of 1990, it was not precisely a world premiere. The film had already been shown in 1989 on Canadian TV, where it was the highest-rated TV movie of that year. Small wonder: It was based on a true story that had Read More

Rookies

Synopsis: A plucky seventeen-year old hockey player proves that he is good enough to play on the Canadian national team in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Housekeeper

Actors: Rita Tushingham, Ross Petty, Shelley Peterson, Jonathan Crombie, Jessica Steen

Synopsis: In this mystery-thriller based on a novel by Ruth Rendell, Eunice (Rita Tushingham, wife of director Ousama Rawi) is a housekeeper who gets a job working for an older doctor and his wife in the U.S. Eunice is super-sensitive, rather homely, and illiterate. But she makes friends with a religious Read More

One Police Plaza

Actors: Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Robert Conrad stars in One Police Plaza as a New York homicide detective. A case on which he's working, involving the murder of a beautiful woman, is ordered closed by Conrad's superiors. Refusing to give up, the detective probes deeper, and unearths a hotbed of crooked cops, dirty "brass" and Read More

Balconville

Kings and Desperate Men - A Hostage Incident

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Alexis Kanner, Andrea Marcovicci, Margaret Trudeau, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: Patrick McGoohan stars in this thriller as a loutish talk-show host who is held hostage by a band of terrorists who plan to use his program to broadcast their demands. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Blackout

Actors: James Mitchum, Robert Carradine, Belinda Montgomery, June Allyson, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: In this above-average, exciting Canadian-made action thriller, four psychopaths, led by Christie (Robert Carradine) take over and vandalize a ritzy Manhattan apartment building during the New York power blackout. They move from apartment to apartment, victimizing the occupants until stopped by the Read More

Rabid

Actors: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage

Synopsis: For his second commercial feature, following a pair of experimental films and 1977's Shivers, Canadian horror auteur David Cronenberg continued to mine the themes of disease and mutation that were already becoming his perennial concerns. Marilyn Chambers stars as Rose, an attractive young woman Read More

One Man

Actors: Len Cariou, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live in the town's poorest, most polluted section. Because of his investigation, he and his family are threatened by company thugs. He gets no help from Read More

Blazing Magnum

Actors: Stuart Whitman, John Saxon, Martin Landau, Tisa Farrow, Carole Laure

Synopsis: In this violent actioner, a misanthropic Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his little sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for vengeance that he casts protocol to the winds and begins using his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon Read More

Why Rock the Boat?

Actors: Patricia Gage, Tiiu Leek

Synopsis: The scene is Canada in the 1940s. Fledgling reporter Harry Barnes (Stuart Gillard) finds his dreams of journalistic fame dampened by the disillusioned older journalists surrounding him. Harry never does get that "big scoop," but he does excel in the romance department. After a brief assignation Read More