Robert Pastorelli Filmography

Women vs. Men

Actors: Christine Lahti, Joe Mantegna, Paul Reiser

Synopsis: After his wife Dana (Christine Lahti) walks out on him, Michael (Joe Mantegna) is visited by his friend, Bruce (Paul Reiser). The two discuss the logistics of the fight, and the state of things between men and women in general. Michael had just given Dana a new Cadillac, and Bruce tells him that Read More

Touched by an Angel: A Rock and a Hard Place

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of Touched by an Angel finds all four of our favorite Heavenly operatives--Monica (Roma Downey), Tess (Della Reese), Andrew (John Dye, and Gloria (Valerie Bertinelli)--way out West, where amateur astronomer Joe Collette (Robert Pastorelli) is hoping for a reconciliation Read More

South Pacific

Actors: Glenn Close, Robert Pastorelli, Harry Connick, Jr.

Synopsis: Rodgers and Hammerstein's award-winning musical South Pacific, based on stories by James A. Michener, successfully debuted in 1949, and has since been performed scores of times on-stage and onscreen. Its revered musical score is infused with many singable favorites. This made-for-TV movie Read More

Bait

Actors: Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Doug Hutchison, Robert Pastorelli, Kimberly Elise

Synopsis: In this action comedy, a crook trying to go straight finds himself lured back to crime by the police, without his even knowing it. When master criminals Jasper (Robert Pastorelli) and Bristol (Doug Hutchison) pull a heist that nets $40 million in gold but leaves behind several dead policemen Read More

Modern Vampires

Actors: Rod Steiger, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Casper Van Dien

Synopsis: A vampire hunter in southern California discovers that his son has been murdered by a gang of the undead and thus goes on a quest for revenge. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murphy Brown: Never Can Say Goodbye, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second part of Murphy Brown's series finale (originally telecast as the conclusion of a single 60-minute episode), Murphy undergoes surgery for a possible malignancy. While under the ether, Murphy conducts an interview with God (played by Alan King), which quickly (and typically) Read More

Scotch and Milk

Actors: Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Clea Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Cole Hauser

Synopsis: Taking a stylistic cue from the French New Wave and Cassavetes, Adam Goldberg wrote and directed and stars in this black-and-white neo-noir -- with "additional dialogue by the cast." Writer wannabe Jim (Goldberg) lives in a seedy L.A. apartment building where he tries to write and broods over his Read More

A Simple Wish

Actors: Martin Short, Mara Wilson, Robert Pastorelli, Amanda Plummer, Francis Capra

Synopsis: This comic children's fantasy from director Michael Ritchie stars Mara Wilson as eight-year-old New Yorker Anabel, who wishes that her father Oliver (Robert Pastorelli), a hansom cab driver in Central Park, would see his dream come true. In a thinly veiled jab at the overblown stage productions of Read More

Cracker [TV Series]

Actors: Robert Pastorelli

Eraser

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: Top-notch action sequences and exciting stunt work highlight this fast-moving thriller. John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a top agent in the U.S. Marshalls' Witness Protection Program; it's his job to "erase" the pasts of Federal witnesses under his watch and deal with anyone who tries to Read More

Michael

Actors: John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: There are angels among us...and they like lots of sugar in their coffee. Vartan Malt (Bob Hoskins) is the editor of a tabloid called the National Mirror that specializes in unlikely stories about celebrities and frankly unbelievable tales about ordinary folks. When Malt gets word that a Read More

The West Side Waltz

Actors: Jennifer Grey, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Ernest Thompson

Synopsis: Shirley Maclaine stars as a reclusive piano player in this made-for-television movie based on the play by Ernest Thompson. Maclaine plays Margaret Mary Elderdice, a loner-type who befriends her next-door neighbor and violinist Cara Varnum (Liza Minnelli) only so the two can play music together. Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 07

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Few other TV sitcoms could boast Murphy Brown's distinction of opening its seventh season with an episode guest-starring both Senator Barbara Boxer and TV's "Captain Kangaroo." This initial episode also introduces Dyllan Christopher in the role of Avery, the son of TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen Read More

Yarn Princess

Actors: Jean Smart, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: In this moving drama, a mentally retarded woman is aided by a diligent attorney in her battle to keep her children from being placed in foster care. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 06

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season six of Murphy Brown gets under way with the first appearance of Scott Bakula as Peter Hunt, a dashing and rather arrogant international reporter who is hired to pep up the ratings of the TV newsmagazine "FYI." Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen), heretofore the series' star reporter, resents Read More

Harmful Intent

Actors: Tim Matheson, Emma Samms, Robert Pastorelli, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Following the death of a pregnant woman undergoing routine surgery, an anesthesiologist is falsely accused of drug abuse and charged with murder. Desperate to prove his innocence, the doctor escapes and quietly launches his own investigation into the tragedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Striking Distance

Actors: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Robert Pastorelli, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: A maverick Pittsburgh policeman loses his job after he shares his suspicion that one of his colleagues is a serial killer. This thriller centers on his hunt to prove his point, a search that becomes more desperate when the killer begins killing the cop's female associates. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Paint Job

Actors: Will Patton, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Pastorelli, Casey Siemaszko, Mark Boone, Jr.

Synopsis: In this thriller, a young woman finds herself torn between two lovers, her husband and his employee. When she learns that one of the two is a serial killer, she finds herself forced to make a difficult decision. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Barnard Hughes, Mary Wickes, James Coburn, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: In the sequel to the hit comedy Sister Act, Whoopie Goldberg reprises her role of Deloris Van Cartier, a Las Vegas entertainer who hid out with in a convent of nuns to avoid a nasty bunch of gangsters. In Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Deloris is persuaded to return to the convent by the Mother Read More

Folks!

Actors: Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole, Wendy Crewson

Synopsis: In this comedy, stockbroker Jon Aldrich (Tom Selleck) is the man who has it all, until his ill, aging parents (Don Ameche and Anne Jackson) move in with him. As his perfect life begins to disintegrate bit by bit, Jon becomes more and more depressed and disillusioned. Finally, broke and friendless Read More

Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

Actors: Tim Curry, Robin Williams, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Jonathan Ward

Synopsis: A man finds himself living among the animals and enchanted spirits of the rainforest, and learns of the true consequences of human destruction in this animated adventure. Crysta (voice of Samantha Mathis) is a young fairy who is being tutored in the powers of magic by the older and wiser Magi Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 05

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: In the weeks just prior to the opening episode of Murphy Brown's fifth season, the series, and its star Candice Bergen, were at the center of a controversy largely stirred up by then Vice President Dan Quayle. Commenting on the fact that season four had ended with an unmarried Murphy giving birth Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 04

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: What TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) suspected at the end of season three of her eponymously titled sitcom has turned out to be true: Murphy is pregnant. Thus, season four of Murphy Brown begins with our heroine figuring out that her ex-husband, Jake (Robin Thomas), with whom she had a Read More

Dances with Wolves

Actors: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney Grant, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman

Synopsis: A historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians, Kevin Costner's directorial debut was also a surprisingly popular hit, considering its length, period setting, and often somber tone. The film opens on a particularly dark note, as melancholy Union Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 03

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season three of Murphy Brown opens with star TV reporter Murphy (Candice Bergen) and her co-workers balking at the "improvements" that executive producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) has made in the weekly newsmagazine "FYI." In subsequent episodes, a pre-Shield Michael Chiklis is cast as a Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 02

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season two of Murphy Brown begins as the titular TV-reporter heroine (Candice Bergen) gets on the bad side of her neurotic producer, Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud), by dating his brother Josh (Jon Tenney) in an episode which also introduces Christopher Rich in the role of vacuous pretty-boy Read More

Memories of Me

Actors: Billy Crystal, Alan King, JoBeth Williams, Sean Connery, Janet Carroll

Synopsis: The bittersweet comedy Memories of Me stars Billy Crystal as Dr. Abbie Polin, a New York heart surgeon, long estranged from his father, Abe (Alan King). When the doctor suffers a mild heart attack, he tries to patch things up with his dad, hoping in this way to bring some equilibrium to his own Read More

Murphy Brown [TV Series]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Making its first appearance on November 14, 1988, the long-running, Emmy-winning CBS sitcom Murphy Brown starred Candice Bergen as the title character, the driving, driven, often overbearing but essentially likable star reporter of the Washington, D.C.-based TV magazine "FYI." A thorough Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 01

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Fresh from a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic, hard-driving (but no longer hard-drinking) TV personality Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) launches the first season of the CBS sitcom bearing her name. Returning to her job as star reporter of the Washington-based TV magazine show "FYI," Murphy is none too Read More

Beverly Hills Cop II

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox, John Ashton

Synopsis: Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has seemingly smoothed out his differences with his Beverly Hills superior Bogomil (Ronny Cox), but there's trouble ahead for both men, not to mention two other holdovers from the first Cop film, officers Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton). Read More

Outrageous Fortune

Actors: Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky, John Schuck

Synopsis: Two women with serious differences are forced to look out for each other in this anarchic comedy. Sandy (Bette Midler) and Lauren (Shelley Long) are a pair of struggling actresses who don't get along especially well -- and are even less fond of each other when they discover that they're both Read More

Night Court: Let It Snow

Synopsis: Once again, the Night Court staff and a diverse group of defendants are trapped in the courtroom by a natural disaster. This time, it's a freak snowstorm--and to make matters worse, the court's boiler is broken. The person who suffers most from this dilemma is Bull (Richard Moll), who is anxiously Read More

Hands of a Stranger

Actors: Armand Assante, Blair Brown, Beverly D'Angelo, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Hands of a Stranger was adapted by playwright Arthur Kopit from the best-selling novel by Robert Daley. Armand Assante plays a New York City narcotics officer who aids DA Blair Brown in her investigation of a rape case in which drugs were involved. In the subsequent days, Assante becomes something Read More

Braker

Synopsis: This TV pilot film stars Carl Weathers as Harry Braker, an ex-Marine who is his city's only African American police lieutenant. Tough but tender, Braker bends the rules to help the helpless. Braker's team of co-workers is the usual cop-show manifest: The gonzo (Randall "Tex" Cobb), the green Read More

Hunter: The Avenging Angel

Synopsis: A witness who has been bribed into a silence and a suspected murder find themselves in the cross-hairs of a demented surveillance expert. This self-styled "Avenging Angel" uses futuristic weaponry to wipe lawbreakers off the face of the earth. Hunter (Rick Dryer) must stop the demonic angel before Read More

The A-Team: There Goes the Neighborhood

Synopsis: To save rock singer Stevie Faith (Valerie Stevenson) from kidnappers who claim to be opposed to her politics, the A-Team hides Stevie in a quiet suburban neighborhood. This requires our heroes to curb their violent tendencies and act like gentlemen--an assignment taken to extremes by Murdock Read More

I Married a Centerfold

Actors: Teri Copley, Tim Daly, Diane Ladd, Bert Remsen, Anson Williams

Synopsis: In order to win a bet, a nebbishy engineer must meet a model; not only does he get to know her, they begin to date. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

California Girls

Actors: Al Music, Lantz Douglas, Mary McKinley, Alicia Allen, Barbara Parks

Synopsis: The thin storyline for this film is that three young women hope to gain a foothold in the acting profession, so they perform nude in front of the window of the disk jockey (Mad Man Jack played by Al Music) who is running a contest that would launch their careers. Along with many songs by a wide Read More