Sam Hamm Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

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Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Priestley, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: The battle of the sexes turns to all-out war in director Joe Dante's season-two episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror series. Based on a story by author Raccoona Sheldon and adapted for the screen by Sam Hamm, The Screwfly Solution tracks the progression of a vicious virus that transforms Read More

2006
Masters of Horror: Homecoming

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jon Tenney

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante stirred up a great deal of interest in Showtime's Masters of Horror series with his bluntly anti-Operation Iraqi Freedom political satire, Homecoming, scripted by Sam Hamm. An unnamed president is running for reelection during a divisive war, and one of his speechwriters, David Read More

2005
Monkeybone

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kattan

Synopsis: This feverishly energetic comedy combines stop-motion animation and live action from director Henry Selick, creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). Brendan Fraser stars as Stu Miley, a cartoonist who created a randy monkey character called Monkeybone Read More

2/23/01
M.A.N.T.I.S.

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gina Torres

Synopsis: Carl Lumbly stars as an unlikely super-hero in this made-for-television sci-fi movie. Lumbly stars as Dr. Miles Hawkins, a wheel-chair bound scientist who concocts a device that not only liberates him from his chair, but turns him into a crime-fighting super hero. The idea was later developed into Read More

1994
Batman Returns

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

6/19/92
Batman

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who turned to crimefighting after his parents were brutally murdered before his eyes. The only person to share Wayne's secret is faithful butler Alfred (Michael Gough). The Read More

6/23/89
Never Cry Wolf

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Hugh Webster

Synopsis: The wolves of the Arctic Circle and its environs, the stunning beauty of a Northern winter, a biologist who braves it all to record the lives of the wolves, and Inuits who save the biologist's hide and share their own wisdom openly are all winners in this film that is a tribute to the skills of Read More

1983