Robert Allan Ackerman Filmography

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The Ramen Girl

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Toshiyuki Nishida

2008
The Reagans

Crew: Director

Actors: Judy Davis, James Brolin

Synopsis: After being pulled from CBS amid a flurry of controversy, The Reagans was finally aired on Showtime and went on to earn Golden Globe nominations for its stars, James Brolin and Judy Davis. Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman (Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows) and based on a book by Carl Read More

2003
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Crew: Director

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

2003
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

Crew: Co-Executive Producer, Director

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Garber, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: From her gradual ascent to stardom in the 1930s to her death from a drug overdose at age 47 in 1969, former vaudeville baby Frances Ethel Gumm, aka Judy Garland, endured a string of personal and career ups and downs that continues to color her reputation as an icon whose tragedies outweighed her Read More

2001
Baby

Crew: Director

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Keith Carradine, Jean Stapleton, Alison Pill, Vincent Berry

Synopsis: Written by the author of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Baby was produced for the TNT cable service. Set in New England, this is the story of the Malones, a family nearly torn apart by the death of an infant son. While trying to cope with this tragedy, Lily and John Malone are surprised by the arrival of Read More

2000
Passion's Way

Crew: Co-Executive Producer, Director

Actors: Sela Ward, Timothy Dalton, Alicia Witt, Jamie Glover, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: Robert Allan Ackerman's Passion's Way stars Sela Ward and Timothy Dalton as former lovers who are reunited under less than ideal circumstances. When they find each other again, he is deeply involved with one of her employees. The two women engage in a series of psychological battles in order to Read More

1999
Forget Me Never

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on Living in the Labyrinth, the autobiography of Diana Friel McGowin, the made-for-TV Forget Me Never stars Mia Farrow as McGowin, a successful middle-aged legal secretary. Upon her realization that she is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, Diana courageously attempts to hide her Read More

1999
Double Platinum

Crew: Director

Actors: Diana Ross, Brandy, Allen Payne, Christine Ebersole, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Roger Rees, Samantha Brown, Ed Lover

Synopsis: Two generations of R&B superstars -- legendary Motown diva Diana Ross and teen hitmaker (and star of the TV series Moesha) Brandy -- share top billing in this made-for-TV drama about the troubled relationship between a mother and daughter. Olivia King (played by Diana Ross) is an aspiring vocalist Read More

1999
Outrage

Crew: Director

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jennifer Grey, Eric Michael Cole, Shane Meier, Cyrus Thiedeke

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola is one of the executive producers of this revenge-themed telefilm. After insurance agent Tom Casey (Rob Lowe) reports on the suspicious actions of teens near his apartment building, Tom and his pregnant wife Sally (Jennifer Grey) are threatened by the teens in a series of Read More

1998
Night Sins

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Reminiscent of the "best" of David Lynch, the two-part TV movie Night Sins uses a mysterious abduction as catalyst for a progressively bizarre and disturbing expose of small-town corruption, hypocrisy and perversion. When the 8-year-old son of a doctor is kidnapped from his home in the rural Read More

1997
Radiant City

Crew: Director

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Laraine Newman, Adam Lamberg

Synopsis: The title of this made-for-TV period drama refers to a low-income suburban New Jersey housing project, which in the year 1958 represents the life's dream of vivacious Brooklyn housewife Gloria Goodman (Kirstie Alley. Weighed down with a well-meaning but boorish husband (Clancy Brown) and a pair of Read More

1996
Suddenly

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Jason Beghe, Colleen Camp, Jason Bernard, Nancy Cartwright

Synopsis: Barely recognizable under a blonde wig and several layers of garish makeup, Kirstie Alley stars in this made-for-TV drama as Marty, a freewheeling waitress who compensates for the emptiness in her life with jokes and wisecracks. On the verge of finding emotional fulfillment with a new romance Read More

1996
Safe Passage

Crew: Director

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Sam Shepard, Robert Sean Leonard, Sean Astin, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: A large, dysfunctional family awaits word on a loved one's fate in this domestic drama starring Susan Sarandon as Mag Singer, mother of seven sons. One, Percival (Matt Keeslar) is serving in the Marine Corps, and when news comes that his barracks in the Middle East has been bombed by terrorists Read More

1994
David's Mother

Crew: Director

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing, Phylicia Rashad, Chris Sarandon

Synopsis: Kirstie Alley earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in this moving made-for-TV drama. She plays Sally Goodson, the devoted mother of autistic child David. Abandoned by her husband years before, Sally has sacrificed much for her son but has felt it in his best interest. One of the Read More

1994
Mrs. Cage

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When a seemingly well-adjusted homemaker murders a fellow supermarket shopper, a police lieutenant decides to find out what caused her to snap. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992