Richard Monette Filmography

Born:: June 19, 1944 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation:: Actor

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And Then There Was One

Actors: Amy Madigan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jane Daly, Steven Flynn, John Robinson

Synopsis: The tragic and true story of a family dealing with AIDS is re-told in this heart-wrenching made-for-cable drama. Amy Madigan and Dennis Boutsikaris star as Roxy and Vinnie Ventola, a successful television screenwriting couple. After struggling to become pregnant and finally conceiving a child, the Read More

1994
Romeo and Juliet

Crew: Stage Director

Synopsis: Shakespeare's immortal love story Romeo and Juliet is updated to Mussolini-era Italy in this stage production from director Richard Monette. Megan Porter Follows and Antoni Cimolino play the titular star-crossed lovers whose powerful love develops at first sight, but soon ends in tragedy. The play Read More

1993
The Good Fight

Actors: Christine Lahti, Terry O'Quinn, Kenneth Welsh, Lawrence Z. Dane, Adam Trese

Synopsis: Good Fight is a made-for-cable film about a small-town lawyer (Christine Lahti) who fights a tobacco company when her son's best friend is stricken with mouth cancer, due to his frequent use of chewing tobacco. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Murder by Night

Synopsis: The USA Network may have been a relatively new service in 1989, but it wasn't above trotting out an old reliable plot device in the made-for-cable movie Murder by Night. Robert Urich stars as a murder witness who is clunked over the head by the killer. When he comes to, he can remember none of the Read More

1989
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II

Actors: Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon, Lisa Schrage

Synopsis: Though not a true sequel to Paul Lynch's derivative slasher-dud Prom Night, this Carrie-flavored horror film begins in 1957 with the fiery death of bitchy prom queen Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) courtesy of a backfired stinkbomb stunt pulled by her jealous ex-boyfriend. Thirty years later, her Read More

10/16/87
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Actors: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald, John Evans, Brenda Kamino

Synopsis: Lensed on a smile and a shoeshine on 16 millimeter, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing effectively shifts from black and white to color and back again to make its artistic statement. Sheila McCarthy stars as a self-effacing amateur photographer who goes to work for yuppie art-curator Paule Baillargeon Read More

9/11/87
The Haunting of Hamilton High

Actors: Lisa Schrage, Wendy Lyon, Michael Ironside, Justin Louis, Richard Monette

1987
Higher Education

Actors: Kevin Hicks, Isabelle Mejias, Lori Hallier, Stephen Black, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: Andy Cooper (Kevin Hicks) enrolls in a fine arts college in this uneven attempted comedy. He soon becomes romantically involved with a beautiful teacher and an attractive female member of the student body. Brief nudity does little to enhance this uninteresting film. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Dancing in the Dark

Actors: Martha Henry, Neil Munro, Rosemary Dunsmore, Richard Monette, Elena Kudaba

Synopsis: The present unfolds along with scenes from the past in this intense psychological drama about Edna (Martha Henry), a woman in the hospital who each day writes down her memories. Edna cannot (or will not) talk to her doctor, and nurses have to take care of her ordinary needs, including making her Read More

10/17/86
The High Price of Passion

Actors: Richard Crenna, Karen Young

Synopsis: The fact-based NBC movie The High Price of Passion was adapted by Mel Frohman from the book by Russell M. Glitman. Set in and around Tufts University, this is a sad story of obsession and murder, focusing on middle-aged anatomy professor Williams Douglas (Richard Crenna) and greedy 21-year-old Read More

1986
Iceman

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn

Synopsis: We first see Asian cave dweller John Lone as he wanders around what seems to be his natural habitat of some 10,000 years ago. Soon we learn that Lone is in a controlled environment in a scientific lab--and that his frozen body was recently discovered during an expedition to the North Pole (hence Read More

1984
A Far Cry from Home

Synopsis: Mary McDonald plays the wife of an abusive husband. No matter how much punishment she endures, Mary keeps returning to the lout, believing that she has nowhere else to turn. When it becomes obvious that she's not going to come out of the relationship alive, she begins planning her escape. But Read More

1981
Nothing Personal

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Suzanne Somers, Lawrence Z. Dane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Flawed and problematic, this romantic comedy is about Abigail Adams (Suzanne Somers), a sexy, talented, and dedicated lawyer, her new client Prof. Roger Keller (Donald Sutherland), and their fight to save baby seals from slaughter. The issue was a hot one, but the film as a whole does not rise to Read More

1980
Find the Lady

Actors: John Candy

Synopsis: A pre-stardom John Candy first teamed with John Dane in the wacky Canadian comedy-melodrama It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. Playing the same characters--a pair of incompetent cops--Candy and Dane reunited for Find the Lady. Alas, even Candy's considerable comic gifts couldn't save this Read More

1975
Big Zapper

Synopsis: The Big Zapper is based on the popular British comic strip of the same name. Linda Marlowe plays a lady private eye, while Gary Hope co-stars as her long-suffering sidekick. They go from one life-threatening adventure to another, Modesty Blaise style. As in the original comic strip, the adventure Read More

1973