R. Russell Smith Filmography

Soldier's Girl

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Troy Garity, Lee Pace, Andre Braugher, Shawn Hatosy, Philip Eddolls

Synopsis: A group of soldiers in the deep South take vengeance against one of their own when word circulates that he's become involved with a transgendered nightclub performer in this drama based on a true story. Barry Winchell (Troy Garity) was a young man with an educational disability who volunteered for Read More

The Foreigner

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Sherman Augustus, Max Ryan, Steven Seagal

Synopsis: Michael Oblowitz directs Steven Seagal in this action film. Seagal portrays a secret agent named Cold who is hired to transport something from France to America. As he continues his travels, he finds he can trust no one, and that many people are out to do him harm in order to secure the contents Read More

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Helen Mirren, Olivier Martinez, Anne Bancroft, Brian Dennehy, Roger Allam

Synopsis: Tennessee Williams' 1958 novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone was first filmed in 1961, with Vivien Leigh as the middle-aged title character and Warren Beatty as the callow gigolo with whom she falls in love. Since the "shocking" aspects of a May-December romance in which the woman is December Read More

Vampires: Los Muertos

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Jon Bon Jovi, Tim Guinee, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Summoned to Mexico to slay a clan of malevolent bloodsuckers, vampire hunter Derek Bliss (Jon Bon Jovi) finds himself in need of a new team when his former group of slayers falls prey to the fanged menace. Once again desperately striving to activate the black cross that will render vampires immune Read More

Lone Star State of Mind

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Joshua Jackson, John Mellencamp, Ryan Hurst, D.J. Qualls, Jaime King

Synopsis: A Southern-flavored black comedy concerning a small-town mechanic desperate to help his girlfriend/stepsister realize her dream of becoming a soap opera actress, Lone Star State of Mind finds Dawson's Creek star Joshua Jackson in an increasingly sticky predicament. Though at first Earl (Jackson) Read More

Two Against Time

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Synopsis: Divesting herself of her useless husband, Julie Portman (Marlo Thomas) is determined to raise her two children by herself, despite the emotional roadblocks set up by her resentful and rebellious teenage daughter Emma (Ellen Muth). Things reach the crisis stage when both mother and daughter are Read More

Warning: Parental Advisory

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Synopsis: According to this irreverent made-for-cable movie, the mid-'80s movement to slap "parental advisory" labels on music videos and albums was fueled by clueless congressional wives and opportunistic hacks. Mariel Hemingway is cast as a sincere but misguided Tipper Gore, who in 1985 declares all-out Read More

Stark Raving Mad

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Timm Sharp, John Crye, Patrick Breen, Suzy Nakamura, Seann William Scott, Lou Diamond Phillips

Synopsis: The writing/directing team of Drew Daywalt and David Schneider are responsible for the straight-to-video heist comedy Stark Raving Mad. Seann William Scott plays Ben McGewen, a guy who needs to pay off some major debts. Mostly he needs to pay the crime lord Gregory (Lou Diamond Phillips), the Read More

Too Legit: The MC Hammer Story

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Romany Malco

Synopsis: The meteoric rise and precipitous fall of the rap singer known as MC Hammer is chronicled in this made-for-TV biopic. The film recounts the protagonist's early days as impoverished Oakland youngster Stanley Burrell, who earned the nickname "Hammer" while serving as a batboy for the Athletics Read More

Murder on the Orient Express

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Synopsis: Previously filmed by director Sidney Lumet in 1974, Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express was updated from the 1930s to the early 21st century in this made-for-TV remake. To be sure, the ineffable, insufferable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (here played by Alfred Molina Read More

Brian's Song

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Mekhi Phifer, Elise Neal, Sean Maher, Paula Cale, Aidan Devine, Dean McDermott

Synopsis: Based in part on the autobiography of Gale Sayers, an Football Hall of Fame inductee and one of the finest halfbacks in the history of the game, this made-for-TV drama recounts the true story of Sayers (Mekhi Phifer) and his friendship with fellow Chicago Bears player Brian Piccolo (Sean Maher). Read More

Sweetwater: A True Rock Story

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Amy Jo Johnson, Kelli Williams, Kurt Max Runte, Robert Moloney, Nancy Moonves

Synopsis: One of several top-notch musical biographies presented by the VH1 cable service, Sweetwater: A True Rock Story unfolds the poignant saga of the legendary L.A.-based band which "opened" the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. Nearly 30 years after this historic event, Cami Carlson (Kelli Read More

Atomic Dog

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Isabella Hofmann, Cindy Pickett, Daniel Hugh Kelly

Synopsis: A family has no idea that the two adorable puppies they have adopted are the mutant spawn of a vicious radioactive dog. When the irradiated mother shows up to get her babies back, the family must fight for their lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bottle Rocket

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Andrew Wilson, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Lumi Cavazos, James Caan

Synopsis: A bright, optimistic caper comedy from first-time director Wes Anderson, Bottle Rocket focuses on a group of young Texans aspiring to become master thieves. Their leader is Dignan (Owen C. Wilson, who also co-wrote the screenplay), an upbeat if naive charmer who convinces his friends Anthony (Wilson Read More

If Lucy Fell

Crew: Sound Mixer

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Schaeffer, Ben Stiller, Elle MacPherson, James Rebhorn

Synopsis: This vanity project from writer, director, and star Eric Schaeffer is a romantic comedy about a pair of New Yorkers with a suicide pact. Joe MacGonaughgill (Schaeffer) is a painter and teacher who has been spying for years on Jane (Elle Macpherson), the gorgeous woman who lives across the alley Read More

True Lies

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman Read More

Poison Ivy

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd, Alan Stock

Synopsis: The always challenging transition from adorable child performer to sexy adult star was achieved flamboyantly by actress Drew Barrymore with this erotic drama that unfolds like a paranoia-drenched Lolita (1962). Sylvie Cooper (Sara Gilbert) is a misanthropic student at a private high school for Read More

Me, Myself and I

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: JoBeth Williams, George Segal, Don Calfa, Shelley Hack, Betsy Lynn George

Synopsis: The title plays on the schizophrenia suffered by JoBeth Williams in this comedy from director Pablo Ferro. George Segal plays her neighbor, a writer with whom she falls in love. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Neon City

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Michael Ironside, Vanity, Lyle Alzado

Synopsis: Set in a poisonous, ruined and anarchic 21st-century world ruled by amoral mutants, this "Road Warrioresque" adventure centers on the attempts of a motley band of travelers to cross the desiccated badlands in hopes of finding a mythical city where civilization and order make life peaceful and Read More

Samantha

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Martha Plimpton, Dermot Mulroney, Hector Elizondo, Mary Kay Place, Ione Skye

Synopsis: When an adopted 21-year-old finds that she was adopted, she forsakes her adopted parents and goes on a crazed hunt to discover her real parents. When at last she finds them, she is disappointed to discover that they are very empty and shallow people; her adoptive parents earn a new respect in her Read More

Critters 4

Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

Actors: Don Opper, Paul Whitthorne, Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Terrence Mann

Synopsis: Sent directly to video, the fourth installment in the Critters series picks up the action with Charlie (Don Keith Opper) about to destroy the last of the critter eggs. A holographic apparition warns him, however, that every species must be preserved by galactic law; the eggs are transported into Read More

Torch Song Trilogy

Crew: Sound Effects Editor

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young

Synopsis: Harvey Fierstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit was adapted for the screen by Fierstein himself. The playwright also repeats his stage role of female impersonator Arnold Beckoff, aka nightclub entertainer "Virginia Hamm." The three-part plotline, whittled down to accommodate the film's Read More