Randal KleiserFilmography

Red Riding Hood

Crew: Director

Actors: Lainie Kazan, Debi Mazar, Daniel Roebuck, Joey Fatone

Synopsis: A young girl entrusted with the task of delivering a special package to her grandmother finds herself faced with a most unpleasant stalker in this retelling of the classic fairy tale starring Daniel Roebuck, Debi Mazar, Sam Stone, and Joey Fatone and served up with a curious contemporary twist. Read More

Shadow of Doubt

Crew: Director

Actors: Nina Foch, John Ritter, Huey Lewis, Wade Dominguez, Melanie Griffith, Tom Berenger, Craig Sheffer

Synopsis: In this taut thriller, a determined defense attorney (Melanie Griffith) launches an investigation to prove her latest client, a popular rap singer, is innocent of killing his girlfriend. Her search leads the lawyer to another murder victim, this time a member of a politically powerful family. Her Read More

Dying to Get Rich

Actors: Michael Biehn, Lisa Edelstein, Nastassja Kinski, Adrian Paul, Rob Schneider, Billy Zane, Dan Aykroyd, Stuart Gordon, Randal Kleiser, Adam Rifkin

Synopsis: John Landis directed this comedy suspense-thriller about a woman plotting to murder her ex-husband for insurance money. When Susan (Nastassja Kinski) and insurance salesman Sam (Billy Zane) decide to kill her ex, Paul (Adrian Paul), Sam contacts Bill (Michael Biehn) and Steve (Rob Schneider) to do Read More

It's My Party

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant, Marlee Matlin, Paul Regina

Synopsis: In this bittersweet comedy drama, a man nearing the end of his life seeks closure with his family and friends, and he confronts the issues of the right to die. Nick Stark (Eric Roberts) is a successful architect who is openly gay. He was involved in a committed relationship with Brandon Theis (Gregory Harrison Read More

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, Joshua Shalikar

Synopsis: In the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a bumbling but brilliant scientist (Rick Moranis) accidentally makes his two-year-old son into a giant who becomes larger every time he comes in contact with electricity. Though he and his wife try to control their son, the child inevitably escapes and Read More

Return to the Blue Lagoon

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause, Lisa Pelikan, Courtney Phillips

Synopsis: This sequel to the surprise box office hit The Blue Lagoon (1980) mimics its predecessor's romantic adventure formula of a lush tropical locale inhabited by scantily clad, nubile teens discovering their sexuality. Spotted adrift in a boat with his deceased parents Richard and Emmeline, a baby boy Read More

White Fang

Crew: Director

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Cassel, Susan Hogan, James Remar

Synopsis: In Randal Kleiser's entertaining adaptation of Jack London's classic novel White Fang, Ethan Hawke plays Jack Conroy, a young man who travels to Alaska with the intent of finding his father's lost gold mine. During the course of his travels, he's accompanied by a big white wolf that he rescued Read More

Getting It Right

Crew: Co-producer, Director

Actors: Jesse Birdsall, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Cook, Lynn Redgrave, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Based on Elizabeth Jane Howard's novel, Getting It Right this charming comedy follows the story of Gavin Lamb (Jesse Birdsall), a 31 year-old virgin who is terrified with women and still lives with his parents. Nevertheless, he becomes the subject of desire for a variety of women, including a Read More

Big Top Pee-Wee

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Reubens, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Penelope Ann Miller, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: Paul Reubens's followup to the box-office hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is just as outrageous and cartoonish, though not as good. This time, child-man Pee-Wee runs a colorful farm, chock full of talking animals and outsized produce. On the morning after a tornado of Wizard of Oz dimensions, Pee-Wee Read More

North Shore

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Adler, Gregory Harrison, Nia Peeples, John Philbin, Gerry Lopez

Synopsis: In this youthful surfing adventure, a hot young surfer wins a wave-tank contest in his native Arizona and decides to temporarily abandon his studies to hit the fantastic waves of the Hawaiian North shore pipeline. Once there, he is derided by the other surfers because nobody believes that a boy Read More

Flight of the Navigator

Crew: Director

Actors: Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler

Synopsis: The year is 1978: 12-year-old Joey Cramer, playing in the woods near his home, is knocked unconscious. He awakens and heads home, only to find strangers living there. He also finds that the year is 1986, and that he's been officially missing for eight years. NASA officials determine that Cramer Read More

Grandview, U.S.A.

Crew: Director

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Troy Donahue, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: The Saroyanesque Grandview USA focuses on a sleepy Midwestern town and its younger denizens. Bored out of his gourd, recent high-school graduate Tim (C. Thomas Howell), befriends the much-older Michelle (Jamie Lee Curtis), who runs the local demolition derby. Michelle's top driver is "Slam" (Patrick Swayze Read More

Summer Lovers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valerie Quennessen, Barbara Rush, Carole Cook

Synopsis: Set upon a romantic Greek island, this drama chronicles the experiences of a pair of young American adults who go there for summer vacation. Their idyll is interrupted by a sexy archaeologist who has come there to work on a dig. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rich and Famous

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Meg Ryan, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success in this glossy remake of Old Acquaintance. Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s. Liz has become a highly Read More

The Blue Lagoon

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson

Synopsis: This 1980 version of the oft-filmed Henry Devere Stackpoole novel The Blue Lagoon was the first to be stamped with an "R" rating. The basic story remains unchanged. Two very small children, a boy and a girl, are shipwrecked on a lush tropical island. They are cared for by fellow castaway Leo Read More

Grease

Crew: Director

Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden

Synopsis: "Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan Carr and director Randal Kleiser turned this long-running Jim Jacobs - Warren Casey Broadway smash into Read More

The Gathering

Crew: Director

Actors: Rebecca Balding, Gregory Harrison, Maureen Stapleton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: The Gathering stars Ed Asner as an ill-tempered executive who long ago walked out on his family. Just before Christmas, Asner is told that he has only a few weeks to live. He confides this information to his estranged wife Maureen Stapleton, who suggests that he call his four adult children (Gail Strickland Read More

Gli Esecutori

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Ivo Garrani, Ettore Manni, Ennio Balbo

Synopsis: Two mobsters are given a dangerous assignment in this crime drama. The two must learn which new gang smuggled a large stash of pure heroin into San Francisco and hid it in the cross the Don had imported from Italy and gave to his church. One of the gangsters is the Don's nephew. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

Crew: Director

Actors: John Travolta, Diana Hyland, Robert Reed, Ralph Bellamy, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: Welcome Back Kotter star John Travolta headlines the made-for-TV Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Douglas Day Stewart's fact-based teleplay casts Travolta as Tod Lubitsch, a teenager who was born without disease immunities. Tod is forced to live out his life in incubator conditions; whenever he vetnures Read More

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In Randal Kleiser's telemovie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Eve Plumb stars as Dawn, who leaves home at 15 for the glamour of L.A. Friendless, she is taken in by the smooth line of Swan (Bo Hopkins), who offers to be her protector. Before long, Dawn has become a streetwalker, with Swan Read More

All Together Now

Crew: Director

Actors: Adam Arkin, Helen Hunt, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Even though he was pushing thirty, John Rubinstein was still fresh-faced enough to pass for a college student in 1975's All Together Now. Rubinstein plays the oldest of four orphans, who wishes to be named legal guardian for his younger siblings. The court gives Rubinstein thirty days to prove Read More

Freiheit

Actors: Randal Kleiser