Robert Joy Filmography

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Actors: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis, Ariel Gade

Synopsis: Visual effects specialists Greg and Colin Strause both make their feature directorial debut with this no-holds-barred monster mash that attempts to set itself apart from the 2004 Paul W.S. Anderson original by serving as a straight-up sci-fi horror scarefest. The aliens (and a predator) have Read More

Whole New Thing

Actors: Aaron Webber, Daniel MacIvor, Rebecca Jenkins, Robert Joy, Callum Keith Rennie

Synopsis: A precocious teenage genius is suddenly forced to adapt to the real world, while the real world around him is having some growing pains of its own in this independent comedy drama from Canada. Emerson Thorsen (Aaron Webber) is an exceptionally talented and intelligent 13-year-old who has been Read More

CSI: NY: Season 04

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Eddie Cahill, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap, Hill Harper, A.J. Buckley

The Hills Have Eyes

Actors: Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd

Synopsis: Alexandre Aja directs this remake of Wes Craven's film The Hills Have Eyes. In this update, a family is taking a cross-country road trip when their trailer breaks down, leaving them stranded in the desert of New Mexico. There, they find themselves under attack by the savage "hill people," who were Read More

It's a Boy Girl Thing

Actors: Kevin Zegers, Samaire Armstrong, Mpho Koaho, Sharon Osbourne, Brooke D'Orsay

Synopsis: Two kids with nothing in common are brought together in a very unexpected way in this comedy. Nell (Samaire Armstrong) is a pretty but hopelessly geeky teenage girl who loves Shakespeare and wants little more than to study literature at Yale when she graduates from high school in a few months Read More

CSI: NY: Season 03

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Eddie Cahill, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap, Hill Harper, A.J. Buckley

Pretty Persuasion

Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Ron Livingston, James Woods, Elisabeth Harnois, Jane Krakowski, Selma Blair

Synopsis: One of the "popular girls" decides to put her mean streak to work in this black comedy. Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood) is an outwardly friendly but inwardly cold and manipulative teenager who attends an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills when she's not making fun of her twentysomething Read More

Land of the Dead

Actors: Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: George A. Romero, who revolutionized the American horror film in 1968 with the instant classic Night of the Living Dead, returns to his dystopian zombie cycle with this horror thriller. In Land of the Dead, the zombies whose numbers had been slowly but steadily growing through Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead Read More

CSI: NY: Season 02

Actors: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Eddie Cahill, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap, Hill Harper, A.J. Buckley

The Lazarus Child

Actors: Andy Garcia, Frances O'Connor

Alias: Second Double

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Francie's evil double (Merrin Dungey) implants Will (Bradley Cooper) with phony retinal DNA, thereby framing him as a traitor. Worried about the fugitive Will's fate, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) blows her cover in the presence of the phony Francie -- meaning Read More

Alias: The Telling

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Sydney (Jennifer Garner) manages to clear Will (Bradley Cooper) of espionage charges, but she must still deal with the fact that her mother, Irina (Lena Olin), has betrayed her. The situation changes radically when Irina shows up, claiming that she was only Read More

Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candace Long

Actors: Jean Smart, A. Martinez, Robert Joy, Peter MacNeill, Robin Brûlé

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-cable crime drama stars Jean Smart as veteran FBI agent and divorced mother Candace Long. Burned out by years of tracking down this most vicious criminals in America, Long is about to take a well-deserved retirement and devote her energies to her family and her Read More

MDs [TV Series]

Actors: William Fichtner, John Hannah, Jacqueline McKenzie, Leslie Stefanson, Aunjanue Ellis, Jane Lynch

Synopsis: The ad copy for the ABC medical drama MDs promised "doctors who'll bend any rule and take on the system." The series looked and sounded a lot like M*A*S*H, the difference being that it took place in peacetime, and in contemporary San Francisco. William Fichter and John Hannah essayed the Hawkeye Read More

The Shipping News

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director Lasse Hallström. Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (Cate Blanchett), a promiscuous wild woman who tries Read More

Joe Somebody

Actors: Tim Allen, Julie Bowen, Kelly Lynch, Hayden Panettiere, James Belushi

Synopsis: Following their television series Home Improvement and the features The Santa Clause (1994) and Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), the actor/director team of Tim Allen and John Pasquin collaborate once again on this high-concept comedy. Allen stars as Joe Scheffer, a nice guy video specialist for a Read More

Sweet November

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Jason Isaacs, Greg Germann, Liam Aiken

Synopsis: This romantic melodrama reunites The Devil's Advocate (1997) co-stars Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron, and is directed by Irish filmmaker Pat O'Connor (Circle of Friends). Sara Deever (Theron) is a beautiful young woman who begins a new romantic relationship with a man each month, then helps him Read More

Perfume

Actors: Joanne Baron, Angela Bettis, Sonia Braga, D.W. Brown, Coolio

Synopsis: As a number of luminaries on the international fashion scene converge for a major show, their personal and professional crises come to a head in this comedy-drama. Lorenzo Mancini (Paul Sorvino) is an internationally famous designer who has learned he has only a short time to live. As Mancini Read More

Haven

Actors: Natasha Richardson, Hal Holbrook, Martin Landau, Anne Bancroft, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: An American journalist takes on the dangerous responsibility of rescuing nearly a thousand refugees from a Nazi concentration camp in this two-part made-for-TV movie based on a true story. In the early days of America's involvement in World War II, Ruth Gruber (Natasha Richardson) is a reporter Read More

61*

Actors: Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Noted baseball fan Billy Crystal directed this made-for-cable drama set in the summer of 1961, as two of the strongest hitters in the major leagues, Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) and Roger Maris (Barry Pepper), find themselves neck and neck in a battle to break Babe Ruth's long-standing record for Read More

Just Ask My Children

Actors: Virginia Madsen, Jeffrey Nordling, John Billingsley, Robert Joy, Marie Cheatham

Synopsis: A couple's worst nightmare becomes a reality as they find themselves behind bars with their children are taken away from them in this made-for-TV drama, inspired by a true story. Brenda and Scott Kniffen (Viginia Madsen and Jeffrey Nordling) are asked by friends to testify as character witnesses Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Workforce, Part II

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the two-part "Workforce," Chakotay (Robert Beltram) tries to disable the Quarran energy shield, which is holding the Voyager crew in mind-controlled subjugation. Though Chakotay manages to rescue B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson, who also directed the episode), he has trouble Read More

The '70s

Actors: Jeanetta Arnette, Robert Bailey Jr., Graham Beckel, Orlando Brown, Michael Easton

Synopsis: Four friends struggle to find themselves in the decade that brought us disco, platform shoes, and those smiley-face buttons in this miniseries, which first aired in April of 2000 on NBC. Byron Shaw (Brad Rowe), his girlfriend Eileen (Vinessa Shaw), and his sister Christie (Amy Smart) are all at Read More

Cheaters

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, Paul Sorvino, Luke Edwards

Synopsis: Moral hypocrisy and the woes of America's public schools and educational system are the focus of Cheaters, which is based on a real-life 1995 cheating scandal at a Chicago high school. In a working class area of the city, teacher Dr. Gerald Plecki (Jeff Daniels) is desperate for his students to Read More

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace

Actors: Robert Joy, R.H. Thomson

Synopsis: This video provides an in-depth look at the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian who felt compelled to take part in the little-known efforts of the German resistance movement. Bonhoeffer worked with others to try and put a stop to Hitler's cruel regime. He was a highly respected Lutheran Read More

The Divine Ryans

Actors: Jordan Harvey, Robert Joy, Pete Postlethwaite, Wendel Meldrum, Mary Walsh

Synopsis: Canadian director Stephen Reynolds spins this coming-of-age drama about being afraid and Catholic in Newfoundland. Nine-year-old Draper Doyle (Jordan Harvey) suffers from nightmares of a giant hockey puck plunging from the sky after his hockey-obsessed father commits suicide. Even worse, he Read More

Fallen

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres. Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) narrates, taking the audience back to "the time I almost died." This sets a flashback in motion, beginning at the prison cell of Read More

Moonlight Becomes You

Actors: Donna Mills, Winston Rekert, David Beecroft, Robert Joy

Synopsis: A photographer endangers her own life to unearth a plot to bilk elderly nursing-home residents out of their life savings. Based on a Mary Higgins Clark novel, this suspenseful thriller begins with the death of the photojournalist's stepmother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Law & Order: Stalker

Synopsis: A series of threatening e-mails suggests that a young nurse found unconscious after falling down a flight of stairs was the victim of a voyeuristic cyber-stalker. Further investigation reveals that the woman may have faked her own attack as means of drawing police attention to her plight. As a Read More

Harriet the Spy

Actors: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Lee Chester, Gregory Smith, J. Smith-Cameron

Synopsis: The first feature film from the Nickelodeon cable channel, Harriet the Spy is an updated version of Louise Fitzhugh's best-selling 1964 children's novel. Sixth grade outcast Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg) is an only child who has mostly been raised by her nanny, Golly (Rosie O'Donnell), rather Read More

Dangerous Offender

Actors: Brooke Johnson, Sara Botsford, Patricia Gage, Jayne Eastwood, Robert Joy

Synopsis: In 1988, Marlene Moore, the first woman to be designated a "dangerous offender" by Canada's legal system -- even though she had never committed a serious crime -- killed herself in a Kingston, Ontario federal woman's prison. The Canadian TV movie seeks to explain the circumstances that brought the Read More

Law & Order: Pride

Synopsis: A gay councilman is murdered, leading detectives Logan (Chris Noth) and Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) to question such "probables" as the dead man's roommate, Joe Gibb (Michael Lichtenstein), and a married man (Robert Joy) with whom the decedent might have had a brief affair. When the investigation Read More

Waterworld

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Widely considered to be an expensive failure, Waterworld was an epic vehicle for Kevin Costner, who starred in and co-produced the film, with his friend Kevin Reynolds as director. It was based on a 1986 screenplay by Peter Rader and cost an estimated $235 million, more than any film in history up Read More

A Modern Affair

Actors: Lisa Eichhorn, Stanley Tucci, Caroline Aaron, Mary Jo Salerno, Robert LuPone, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Most people fall in love and then have a baby, but one woman finds herself reversing the process in this romantic comedy. Grace Rhodes (Lisa Eichhorn) is a businesswoman inching into her 40s who has reached most of her career goals, but she is having a little trouble with her biological clock Read More

Pharaoh's Army

Synopsis: This fascinating historical drama, set in 1862 during the Civil War, chronicles the coming of age of a young Kentucky farm boy. The story begins in Meshack Creek, KY, a tense town where loyalties were sharply divided. Sarah Anders and her son were living there on an isolated farm while her husband Read More

I'll Do Anything

Actors: Nick Nolte, Whittni Wright, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: James L. Brooks' showbiz comedy I'll Do Anything is "The Musical That Almost Was" (after test screenings Brooks removed all the musical numbers in the film, turning the film into a songless romantic comedy). Matt Hobbs (Nick Nolte) is a hardly working actor who finds himself raising his 6-year-old Read More

Death Wish 5: The Face of Death

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Saul Rubinek, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: In this final film in the Death Wish series, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) returns to New York City, where he attempts to resume a normal life by proposing to his girlfriend Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down), a fashion designer. However, Olivia runs afoul of her ex-husband Tommy O'Shea (Michael Thomas Parks Read More

Henry & Verlin

Actors: Gary Farmer, Keegan Macintosh, Nancy Beatty, Robert Joy, Joan Orenstein, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: The deep bond formed between a troubled nephew and his simple uncle, whose character is reminiscent of Lenny from Of Mice and Men, is the focus of this Canadian melodrama set during the Depression in rural Ontario. Nine-year old Verlin will not talk, or cannot talk. His concerned and Read More

Dieppe

Actors: Victor Garber, Gary Reineke, Robert Joy, Kenneth Welsh, John Neville

Synopsis: Originally broadcast in Canada, this war drama tells the true story of how over 900 Canadian soldiers bravely sacrificed their lives in an attempt and take the French coastal town of Dieppe back from the Nazis. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shadows and Fog

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Madonna, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death Read More

Switching Parents

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bill Smitrovich, Kathleen York, Robert Joy, Joyce Reehling

Synopsis: In this drama, 12-year-old Gregory decides he prefers living with his foster parents and so launches his own custody battle to get away from his birth parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Grand Larceny

Actors: Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Originally produced for Canadian television by the CBC, the Stephen Surjik-directed costume thriller Grand Larceny features Jennifer Dale (Separate Vacations) as the Becky Sharp-like Betsy Bigley, a conniving young prima donna who will cross any boundaries to claw her way to the top. The story Read More

First Circle

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Victor Garber, Laurent Malet, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a technological break-through. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dark Half

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Marking the first collaboration between horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King since 1982's Creepshow, this moody, atmospheric adaptation of King's novel was actually completed in 1991, but the highly-publicized bankruptcy of its distributor Orion Pictures in that same year nearly doomed Read More

Longtime Companion

Actors: Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Stephen Caffrey, Mark Lamos, Patrick Cassidy, Mary-Louise Parker

Synopsis: At the time of Longtime Companion's release in 1990, the devastating disease of AIDS was seen as a mysterious and deadly scourge, replete with rumors, lies, and panic. As the first narrative film to examine the AIDS epidemic, screenwriter Craig Lucas and director Norman René place the disease in Read More

Judgment

Actors: Keith Carradine, Blythe Danner, Jack Warden, David Strathairn, Michael Faustino

Synopsis: The true-story of a small town Louisiana molestation case is re-created in this made-for-cable drama. When a couple learns that their young son has been molested by a popular parish priest, they are offered a bribe in exchange to keep the story quiet. They soon find out that their son wasn't the Read More

Desert Blades - The Escape from Iran

Millennium

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy, Al Waxman, Lloyd Bochner

Synopsis: Where has director Michael Anderson been since Logan's Run? Earning his keep on such slick TV-style time-fillers as Millennium. Kris Kristofferson plays the head of an official committee investigating the head-on collision of two commercial jets. A thorough analysis reveals the presence of a Read More

She's Back

Actors: Carrie Fisher, Robert Joy, Matthew Cowles, Joel Sweto, Sam Coppola

Synopsis: In this black comedy, henpecked electrician Paul (Robert Joy) must quietly suffer the abuses heaped on him by his loud-mouthed wife, Beatrice (Carrie Fisher). However, when Bea is murdered by a gang of marauding bikers, her ghost returns to visit Paul and browbeat him into avenging her death. Read More

The Return of Hickey

Synopsis: Made for television, Return of Hickey is the sequel to 1987's The Prodigious Mr. William Hicks. Both films were based on Owen Johnson's turn-of-the-century "Lawrenceville Stories." Zach Galligan returns as William "Hickey" Hicks, prep-school prankster supreme. Back at Lawrenceville after a period Read More

Big Shots

Actors: Ricky Busker, Darius McCrary, Robert Joy, Robert Prosky, Jerzy Skolimowski

Synopsis: Consumed by grief when his father is felled by a heart attack, 11-year-old Obie (Ricky Busker) runs away from his white, upper-class surroundings. He ends up in a particularly dismal Chicago ghetto neighborhood where, after enduring a beating administered by gang members, he is befriended by Read More

Radio Days

Actors: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Josh Mostel, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as Joe, a teenage Jewish boy, growing up with a house full of relatives in Brooklyn. Allen cuts Read More

The Suicide Club

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Robert Joy, Lenny Henry, Madeleine Potter, Michael O'Donoghue

Synopsis: In this drama, a wealthy young heiress endeavors to discover if her life does indeed have any meaning after she participates in a far-from-harmless parlor game at an exclusive costume party held in a grand old mansion. Sasha, the heiress, has fallen into a deep depression following the suicide of Read More

The Prodigious Mr. William Hicks

Synopsis: This PBS American Playhouse presentation is based on one of the many "Lawrenceville Stories" by Owen Johnson (which also served as the basis of the 1950 MGM feature The Happy Years). Zach Galligan stars as William Hicks, something of a legend at turn-of-century Lawrenceville Boy's School Read More

Miracle at Moreaux

Synopsis: Loretta Swit stars as a French nun in the made-for-television Miracle at Moreaux. The time is the early 1940s, at the height of the Nazi occupation of France. At the risk of her own life, Loretta shelters three Jewish children in her Catholic schoolroom. Things become even riskier when the three Read More

The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Andy Jones, Greg Malone, Robert Joy, Brian Downey, Maisie Rillie

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Andy Jones both directs and stars in the whimsically acid Adventures of Faustus Bidgood. Faustus (Jones) is a clerk in the St. Johns, Newfoundland department of education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and staging a secession from Canada (the film is rife with Read More

Sword of Gideon

Actors: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Peter Dvorsky, Robert Joy, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: In the made-for-cable thriller Sword of Gideon, a team of anti-terrorist commandos, led by Steven Bauer, sets out to avenge the deaths of Israeli athletes killed during the Munich Olympics of 1972. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Desperately Seeking Susan

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy

Synopsis: A petite New Jersey housewife finds self-fulfillment through amnesia in this new wave comedy of errors set in New York's hip '80s downtown scene. Rosanna Arquette stars as Roberta, who turns to the personals for vicarious thrills after her four-year marriage to staid hot tub salesman Gary (Mark Read More

Joshua Then and Now

Actors: James Woods,