Rae Dawn ChongFilmography

Max Havoc: Ring of Fire

Actors: Mickey Hardt, Dean Cain, Christina Cox, Rae Dawn Chong, Samuel Patrick Chu

Synopsis: Max Havoc: Ring of Fire stars Mickey Hardt as the title character, a former professional kickboxer now working as a photographer. While at a stylish resort in order to snap pictures of a sporting event, Max discovers that the owner of the resort has connections to some very bad men. Soon he must Read More

Greasy Rider

Deadly Skies

Actors: Antonio Sabato, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Moriarty

Synopsis: When a keen-eyed scientist discovers that a large asteroid is currently on a deadly collision course with the planet Earth, she must seek the help of a military outcast to jump into action and save humanity from annihilation in a tense, end-of-the-world thriller starring Rae Dawn Chong, Antonio Read More

Wild Card [TV Series]

Actors: Joely Fisher, Rae Dawn Chong, Chris Potter, Bronson Picket, Vikki Krinsky

Synopsis: Joely Fisher starred in this weekly, hour-long drama series as Zoe Busiek, a professional blackjack dealer. After her sister Sue was killed in a car chase, Zoe left Vegas, returning to her hometown to care for Sue's three children. Here she came face-to-face with a disreputable insurance company Read More

The Visit

Actors: Hill Harper, Obba Babatunde, Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams, Marla Gibbs

Synopsis: A cast of distinguished veterans and promising newcomers headline this stark prison drama from first-time writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman. Hill Harper stars as embittered inmate Alex, sentenced to serve time for a rape he claims that he didn't commit. His link to the outside world is his Read More

Highball

Actors: Justine Bateman, Rae Dawn Chong, Chris Reed, Eric Stoltz, Peter Bogdanovich

Synopsis: Over the course of one year, a group of friends gathers for three parties (a birthday dinner party, a Halloween costume party, and a New Year's celebration) at the Brooklyn apartment of a young married couple (Chris Reed, Lauren Katz). Friendships and relationships are formed, dissolved, and Read More

Dangerous Attraction

Actors: Linden Ashby, Rae Dawn Chong, Andrea Roth

Synopsis: A successful ad agent (Rae Dawn Chong) begins to question the identity of the men she's been dating after a woman is found murdered and a heady power struggle ensues. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

Small Time

Synopsis: Three small-time hoods are sent off into the desert to deliver a supply of drugs to a distributor and get the distributor's cash. Only the place of the transaction and the amounts involved are set. They do not know exactly when their counterparts will be sent by the distributor. In the meantime Read More

Protector

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Ben Gazzara, Mario Van Peebles, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: A police detective gets in over his head after he falls in love with the moll of a recently murdered gangster. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Goodbye America

Actors: Alexis Arquette, Wolfgang Bodison, James Brolin, Rae Dawn Chong, Maureen Flannigan, John Haymes Newton, Corin Nemec, Michael York, Alma Concepcion

Synopsis: This United States/Philippine co-production examines how the real-life closing of the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay profoundly effected both the local Filipino community and the Americans who had served there. As the base's operations slowly wind down and naval manpower begins to dwindle, Commander Read More

The Alibi

Synopsis: While at home recovering from an accident, Olympic downhill skier Marti Gerrard (Tori Spelling) receives an unexpected phone call. It turns out to be a wrong number dialed by wealthy computer tycoon Connor Hill (Jason Brooks)--but Marti doesn't mind a bit, and for the next several minutes she and Read More

Starlight

Synopsis: Arianna (Rae Dawn Chong), a beautiful, decidedly "New Agey" alien in a stylish spacecraft comes in search of the half-human half-alien being her people created as an experiment to see if her kind could live successfully on the Earth. She and her people feel no qualms about taking over the blue Read More

Crying Freeman

Actors: Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Tchéky Karyo, Masaya Kato

Synopsis: Based on a popular Japanese comic, this stylish, romantic French-Canadian actioner features many exciting pyrotechnic effects, elegantly executed murders, and some nifty-doodle gadgets, but very little on-screen bloodshed as it follows the adventures of Yo, one of the world's greatest hit men. Yo Read More

Hideaway

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Alicia Silverstone, Jeremy Sisto, Alfred Molina, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: A man has a near-death experience and awakens to find himself spiritually attached to another who went through a similar experience in this horror movie. The story is based on a Dean Koontz novel. Hatch Harrison, an antique dealer, finds himself in an extraordinary position following the car wreck Read More

Power of Attorney

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: Howard Himelstein's crime thriller Power of Attorney stars Danny Aiello as mob kingpin Joseph Scassi. In order to escape from a variety of serious charges, Scassi hires Paul Dell (Elias Koteas), seducing him into a life full of quick riches. Scassi turns the tables on Dell, but Dell has a plan to Read More

Mask of Death

Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams, Conrad Dunn, Jerry Wasserman

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, a detective's face is destroyed when he is shot by a hit man. With nothing left to lose, the gumshoe agrees to undergo radical reconstructive surgery so that he can resemble an FBI fugitive who has connections to the Russian mob. The ensuing plan of action involves a Read More

The Break

Actors: Vincent Van Patten, Rae Dawn Chong, Martin Sheen, Betsy Russell, Ben Jorgensen

Synopsis: In this youthful sports drama, a former professional tennis player begins acting as a mentor for a troubled teen whose life is being destroyed by an overbearing father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Boca

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Martin Kemp, Tarcisio Meira, Martin Sheen, Denise Milfont

Synopsis: This Brazilian film, which presents the dilemma of impoverished Brazilian street kids, is a strange mixture of social commentary and soft-core eroticism. It is particularly interesting in that it has no named director and is actually compiled from several other sources. They include a Brazilian Read More

Boulevard

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Kari Wuhrer, Joel Bissonnette, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: This suspenseful thriller follows the exploits of a young wife as she tries to escape from an abusive mate and ends up on the gritty city streets. Jenefer manages to get away from her husband but must give her baby up for adoption before she can do so. Alone on the scary streets she encounters Read More

When the Party's Over

Actors: Elizabeth Berridge, Rae Dawn Chong, Sandra Bullock, Fisher Stevens, Brian McNamara, Kris Kamm

Synopsis: When the Party's Over is a surprisingly down-spirited drama about a group of twenty-something yuppies trying to survive in Los Angeles. All four main characters -- three women (Sandra Bullock, Rae Dawn Chong, Elizabeth Berridge) and one gay man (Kris Kamm) -- live in the same house, where they Read More

Dangerous Relations

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this prison drama centers on a hard-core convict who for the past decade has been the king of the other prisoners. Just before he is to be paroled, a young inmate challenges him. This creates considerable tension until he learns that he and the youth are related by Read More

Time Runner

Actors: Mark Hamill, Rae Dawn Chong, Brion James

Synopsis: It is October 6, 2022 and humankind is nearly extinct thanks to a massive alien attack. Astronaut Michael Raynor is fleeing the planet in his spacecraft when suddenly a "wormhole" opens up and sucks him into a time warp. He finally makes it back to the ground and finds himself in Washington state Read More

The Borrower

Actors: Tony Amendola, Rae Dawn Chong, Don Gordon, Antonio Fargas, Tom Towles

Synopsis: John McNaughton's flawed but interesting follow-up to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer languished in distribution limbo for years before its brief theatrical run and subsequent video release. It presents a completely different breed of killer: an alien criminal who is exiled to life on Earth in Read More

Father and Son

Synopsis: Just released from a long prison stay, a man is thrown into fatherhood when he regains custody of the son he's never met. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Lolita Davidovich, Talisa Soto

Synopsis: This made-for-cable women-in-prison film is an anthology collecting three short subjects. In the first, a pregnant inmate (Rae Dawn Chong) must seek protection from a gang; in the middle film, a prisoner tries to keep her family from following her lead into a life of crime; and in the closer, a Read More

Common Bonds

Actors: Michael Ironside, Brad Dourif, Bruce Glover, Ken Pogue

Synopsis: In this off-beat drama set in Canada, a prison decides that the best way to rehabilitate a particularly troublesome prisoner is to chain him to the wheelchair of a rebellious, bad-tempered young man with cerebral palsy. The government rationale behind this is three fold. First it will help a Read More

Denial

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Jason Patric, Robin Wright Penn

Synopsis: A married woman (Robin Wright) thinks she has repressed her past affair with an artist (Jason Patric), but an accidental meeting with an old friend (Rae Dawn Chong) brings the memories flooding back. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales From the Darkside: The Movie

Actors: Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, Rae Dawn Chong, William Hickey, James Remar, David Johansen

Synopsis: This feature-length spin-off of the popular television horror anthology is directed by John Harrison, who directed many episodes of the television series. The film consists of four grisly and gruesome horror teasers. "The Wraparound Story" stars Deborah Harry as Betty, a chef with a kitchen Read More

Far Out Man

Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Shelby Chong, Paris Chong, C. Thomas Howell, Martin Mull, Judd Nelson

Synopsis: Starring many of his family members, this is Tommy Chong's (of the well-known duo, Cheech and Chong) first solo production. As an outdated hippie, Far Out Man (Tommy Chong) searches to relive his lost youth by traveling across the country. C. Thomas Howell, Judd Nelson, and Cheech Marin all make Read More

Curiosity Kills

Synopsis: In this graphically violent and taut made-for-cable actioner an aspiring photographer teams up with a sexy sculptress to take down the hit man who lives in the loft next door. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Amazon

Actors: Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Minna Sovio, Rui Polanah, Ailo Sovio

Synopsis: Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki (who also co-wrote the screenplay) made his English-language feature debut with this tale of foreigners adrift in the treacherous labyrinth of the Brazilian jungle. Kari (Kari Vaananen) is driving down the Trans-Amazonica Highway -- actually a two-lane dirt road Read More

Rude Awakening

Actors: Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts play two draft-dodging hippies who flee to a commune in Central America where they stay for 20 years. When they return in 1989 and seek out some of their old NYC buddies, they find they've turned yuppie and things just aren't what they'd expected. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Loon

Walking After Midnight

Actors: Helen Shaver, Rae Dawn Chong, Catherine Oxenberg, Martin Sheen, James Coburn

Synopsis: Several music and film celebrities recall their former lives in this reincarnation-oriented feature with musical accompaniment. K.D. Lang considers herself the reincarnation of the late country singer Patsy Cline, Martin Sheen gives a rambling monologue about his near-death experience while Read More

The Principal

Actors: James Belushi, Louis Gossett, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, J.J. Cohen, Esai Morales

Synopsis: An impulsive but determined white principal brings order and respect to a predominantly African-American and Latino high school in this comedy-drama from the director of Young Guns and That Was Then, This Is Now. Rick Latimer (James Belushi), a high-school teacher, is in the process of a divorce Read More

The Squeeze

Actors: Michael Keaton, Rae Dawn Chong, Liane Langland, Leslie Bevis, John Davidson

Synopsis: In this comedy, artistic con man Harry (Michael Keaton) teams up with lady detective Rachel Dobs (Rae Dawn Chong) to trick a corrupt TV lottery-show host into revealing how he has been rigging the contest to benefit the Mob. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Soul Man

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Arye Gross, Rae Dawn Chong, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: An ambitious-but -spoiled rich white kid wins a scholarship to Harvard Law School by pretending to be African-American in this broadly-played comedy. After his father cuts him off financially, Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell) wins a full tuition scholarship to Harvard by claiming to be Read More

Mick Jagger: Running Out of Luck

Actors: Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, Dennis Hopper, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: In a story powered by the songs on an LP by Mick Jagger, this film is really one long video clip advertising Jagger's album. The plot takes the music from one number to the next, and begins with the rock star and his wife having an argument in Rio which leads to his being mugged and taken to the Read More

City Limits

Actors: Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, Kim Cattrall, Rae Dawn Chong, Robby Benson

Synopsis: This bleak post-apocalyptic science fiction actioner substitutes a plague instead of a bomb as the reason for civilization's demise but the result is the same -- grizzly motorcycle gangs with a ton of gasoline to burn. In City Limits the older generation has been wiped out by the plague, and the Read More

The Color Purple

Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her Read More

Commando

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, David Patrick Kelly

Synopsis: Shortly after The Terminator wrote his name in bold neon lights across box-office grosses, this action thriller took advantage of the hitherto (almost) unexploited comic side of star Arnold Schwarzenegger and paired him with Rae Dawn Chong. Colonel Matrix (Schwarzenegger) is retired and living Read More

Badge of the Assassin

Actors: James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Alex Rocco, David Harris

Synopsis: Based on the true story that took place in Harlem during 1971, this made-for-TV crime drama centers on assistant district attorney Robert Tanenbaum's desperate search for a trio of cop killers. Tanenbaum (James Woods) is assisted by an equally determined detective (Yaphet Lau Kotto). ~ Sandra Read More

American Flyers

Actors: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul, Janice Rule

Synopsis: It takes a fierce three-day bicycle race up in the mountains to reunite two formerly feuding brothers in this film written by Steve Tesich, the creator of another cycle movie, 1979's Breaking Away. This film will please the cycling lovers out there, as it includes actual footage taken from the Read More

Beat Street

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, John Chardiet, Leon Grant, Robert Taylor

Synopsis: Jon Chardiet plays a Puerto Rican youth who targets subway walls for his graffiti renderings. For a while, it looks as though Chardiet's problems will carry the plotline, but before long the film's true raison d'etre comes to the surface. Rap-music deejay Guy Davis, in tandem with such like-minded Read More

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers

Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Roy Dotrice, Shelby Fiddis, Rikki Marin

Synopsis: Filmed on location "Somewhere in France", this umpteenth version of Dumas' The Corsican Brothers stars the zoned-out comedy team of Cheech and Chong. Perhaps inspired by the Ritz Bros.' spin on The Three Musketeers, the duo retains enough of the original story (about twin brothers who feel one Read More

Choose Me

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: The lives of five L.A. natives intertwine in this romantic comedy from independent filmmaker and former Robert Altman protégé Alan Rudolph. Eve (Lesley Ann Warren) is a bar owner who has sworn off permanent commitments, seeking only the temporary sexual satisfaction of men. Her roommate Ann (Genevieve Bujold Read More

Fear City

Actors: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: To paraphrase 1930s wit Wilson Mizner, Fear City is like a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat. In exploitation-flick fashion, the film exposes the seedy "nether world" of contemporary Manhattan. Unsavory Matt (Tom Berenger) and Nick (Jack Scalia) run a topless bar/booking agency, in Read More

Quest for Fire

Actors: Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nameer El-Kadi, Gary Schwartz

Synopsis: Quest for Fire takes place some 80,000 years in the past. A primitive homo sapiens tribe huddles around a natural fire source for comfort and survival. When that source is extinguished, tribesmen Naoh (Everett McGill), Amoukar (Ron Perlman), and Gaw (Nameer El-Kadi) are sent out on a "quest Read More

The Top of the Hill

Synopsis: The 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid provides the setting for this drama that centers on a man's mid-life crisis. While there, he gets involved with love, sex and other diversions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stony Island

Actors: Richard Davis, Edward "Stony" Robinson, George Englund, Gene Barge, Ronnie Barron

Synopsis: This independent project was originally released as My Main Man From Stony Island. Filmed in Chicago, the story involves a group of multiracial rhythm-and-blues performers, and how they're affected by the death of veteran blues musician (Gene Barge). As a bonus, the films takes excellent Read More