Samuel BottomsFilmography

SherryBaby

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad William Henke, Danny Trejo, Giancarlo Esposito, Ryan Simpkins

Synopsis: An emotionally stunted ex-convict whose recent release from prison finds her attempting to form a relationship with her young daughter finds that redemption doesn't come easy in this emotional family drama, the feature debut of award-winning documentary filmmaker Laurie Collyer. When Sherry Read More

Winter Passing

Actors: Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Amelia Warner

Synopsis: Money and emotions lead to a difficult reunion between a father and daughter in this drama. Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) is a struggling stage actress in New York City whose life has become an uphill struggle -- her career isn't giving her satisfaction, her relationship with would-be rock star Read More

Shopgirl

Actors: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Samuel Bottoms

Synopsis: Steve Martin wrote the screenplay and served as co-producer for this screen adaptation of his short novel, which takes a witty but bittersweet look at a young woman and the two men involved with her. Mirabelle Buttersfield (Claire Danes) is an aspiring artist in her mid-twenties who, after Read More

Havoc

Actors: Bijou Phillips, Anne Hathaway

Synopsis: A pair of naïve young girls learn that even the most insignificant actions can have lasting consequences in this music-driven take on teen culture starring Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips and directed by two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Influenced by the hip-hop thug lifestyle and Read More

Shall Not Want

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad Henke

Seabiscuit

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens

Synopsis: For his sophomore effort, director Gary Ross re-teams with Tobey Maguire and William H. Macy, stars of his directorial debut Pleasantville, for this depression-era sports drama about the legendary racehorse, Seabiscuit. Unlike 1949's fictionalized The Story of Seabiscuit starring Shirley Temple Read More

Looking Through Lillian

Synopsis: In this independent psychological drama, Lillian (Jade Henham) is a woman who is depressed and dissatisfied with her lot in life; she's the kept woman of a successful businessman, Gene (Samuel Bottoms), who has sexual identity issues and likes to dress up as Marilyn Monroe during his encounters Read More

Apocalypse Now Redux

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including disastrous weather conditions, problems with his leading men (Harvey Keitel was fired after less than two weeks on the project and was replaced by Martin Read More

The Unsaid

Actors: Andy Garcia, Vincent Kartheiser, Linda Cardellini, Trevor Blumas, Teri Polo

Synopsis: Tom McLoughlin directs the downbeat psychological thriller The Unsaid, released straight-to-video in the U.S. Andy Garcia stars as Kansas psychologist Dr. Michael Hunter who quits his practice following the suicide of his teenage son Kyle (Trevor Blumas). Disturbed by the death, separated from his Read More

Snide & Prejudice

Synopsis: This unusual comedy-drama, set in an experimental psychiatric institute, is a departure for genre director Philippe Mora, whose usual oeuvre is science fiction, horror, and low-budget action films. Rene Auberjonois stars as Dr. Sam Cohen, director of the Temporal Displacement Foundation. Cohen's Read More

My Neighbor's Daughter

Actors: Samuel Bottoms, Lisa Eichhorn, Yennifer Behrens, Marco Rodriguez

Synopsis: In this drama, a much-older banker embarks upon a forbidden love affair with an adolescent girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Project: Shadowchaser III

Actors: Samuel Bottoms, Christopher Atkins, Christopher Neame, Frank Zagarino, Musetta Vander

Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller, a collision between a space station and a derelict ore freighter leads to a terrifying discovery. Listed as lost in space 25 years before, the ore freighter Siberia appears out of nowhere and despite the efforts of the communications station that is trapped in orbit around Read More

Sugar Hill

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Clarence Williams III, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright play druglord brothers who have a mob-like crime empire in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem. Through flashbacks, we see how Roemello Skuggs (Snipes) and Raynathan Skuggs (Wright) entered the drug culture, with Raynathan helping his mother inject heroin. She died Read More

Trust

Actors: Samuel Bottoms, Karen Black, Michael Petty

Synopsis: Back when he died in 1900, William Marsh Rice was a Texas gazillionaire, having donated the funds to start the Rice Instittute (later known as Rice University) in Houston. In this movie, based on the director's stage play, when a suspicious will turns up on the occasion of Rice's death, the Texas Read More

Dolly Dearest

Actors: Denise Crosby, Samuel Bottoms, Chris Demetral, Candy Hutson, Lupe Ontiveros, Rip Torn

Synopsis: An ancient evil escapes its captivity in a Mayan temple in Mexico, kills the archaeologists who unearth it, and heads straight for a toy factory, which is eventually taken over by a new American owner (Sam Bottoms) and refurbished. When the owner's daughter (Candy Houston) discovers one of the Read More

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas

Synopsis: This video offers a profile of filmmaker Bogdanovich's first great movie, The Last Picture Show, as Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Sam Bottoms, Polly Platt, Randy Quaid and others reveal the impacts that the film had on their lives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Actors: Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: An intimate look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic Apocalypse Now, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse combines the usual documentary interviews with outtakes from the film and rare documentary footage, some shot on the set by Eleanor Coppola. Not long after the arrival Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Suspicion of Murder

Synopsis: This is one of several seventh-season Murder She Wrote episodes introduced by Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) but starring Dennis Stanton (Keith Michell), a jewel thief turned insurance investigator. On this occasion, Stanton himself is the primary suspect in a murder case. The victim is the Read More

Ragin' Cajun

Synopsis: When his girl's life's in danger, this kickboxer, who'd sworn off the sport, must fight one last contest to save her. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

After School

Actors: Samuel Bottoms, Renee Coleman, Edward Binns, James Farkas, Page Hannah

Synopsis: "Hip" Catholic priest Sam Bottoms is asked by his monsignor to defend their faith on The Dick Cavett Show. While preparing for his appearance, however, Bottoms begins having doubts about his religious committment. Especially troublesome is his relationship with Renee Coleman, a brilliant student Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Search for Peter Kerry

Synopsis: Just before attending the funeral of an old friend, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) makes the acquaintance of young Rick Banner (Marc Singer), former college roommate of the dead woman's long-lost son Peter. When Rick hears a song written by Peter, the ball starts rolling for a onslaught of intrigue Read More

Gardens of Stone

Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Set in Washington D.C. during the Vietnam War era, Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard. James Caan plays career soldier Sgt. Clell Hazard, who has come to the sad conclusion that Vietnam is unwinnable and that America should Read More

Hunter's Blood

Actors: Samuel Bottoms, Kim Delaney, Clu Gulager, Ken Swofford, Joey Travolta

Synopsis: Hunter's Blood is a bloody action thriller reminiscent of Deliverance or The Hills Have Eyes in which an innocent, peaceful group of people is pitted against a clan of bloodthirsty savages. Five men set out to do some deer hunting in a remote area of Arkansas. David (Sam Bottoms) and his father Read More

Island Sons

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Island Sons stars real-life brothers Timothy, Joseph, Samuel and Benjamin Bottoms as fictional brothers named Tim, Joe, Sam and Ben (too bad there wasn't any Zeppo Bottoms). When their mogul father disappears in Hawaii in the aftermath of a scandal, the four brothers bury their own Read More

In 'n Out

Actors: Samuel Bottoms, Rafael Inclán, Rebecca Jones, Isela Vega

Synopsis: Cultural differences serve as a point of humor in this comedy about an American (Sam Bottoms) who is called down to Mexico for an inexplicable reason -- he is invited to attend the funeral of his father who actually died some 30 years earlier. He takes off from his home in California and after Read More

Desperate Lives

Actors: Helen Hunt

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a high-school counselor (Joyce Brothers) faces ineffectual help from administration in combating drugs, so she recruits several students to help in the battle. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

East of Eden

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Lloyd Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Samuel Bottoms, Karen Allen, Anne Baxter

Synopsis: The 1955 film version of John Steinbeck's East of Eden will always be popular because of the presence in the cast of James Dean. Even so, the film covered only a small portion of the original novel. For those Steinbeck completists who prefer a more thorough treatment, we submit for your approval Read More

Bronco Billy

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Bronco Billy stars Clint Eastwood (who also directed) as the impresario of a seedy wild west show. Going along for the ride is spoiled socialite Sondra Locke, who is "initiated" by being pressed into service as the wrong end of a knife-throwing act. The rest of the troupe, like Eastwood himself Read More

Apocalypse Now

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Read More

Joseph and His Brothers

Synopsis: This episode of the series Greatest Heroes of the Bible recounts the Old Testament story of Joseph, who ascended from slavery to become the pharaoh's minister. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Up from the Depths

Actors: Samuel Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Virgil Frye, Kedric Wolfe, Charles Howerton

Synopsis: A group of fishermen and seamen band together to fight a monstrous finny fiend that is terrorizing a resort. They are in humorous competition with hotel guests, who hope to win a prize by killing the beast. In one particularly grisly bit of humor, a dead fisherman's body is put to really good use. Read More

Greatest Heroes of the Bible [TV Series]

Synopsis: Originally titled Stories from the Bible, Greatest Heroes of the Bible was designed as a seven-part TV miniseries; evidently the specter of low ratings forced the network execs to telescope the presentation into four installments. The series began with the story of David (Roger Kern) and Read More

Greatest Heroes of the Bible: Joseph in Egypt

Synopsis: The Old Testament comes alive in this dramatic retelling of Biblical history. The story of Joseph begins with the young man being sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. But Joseph's wisdom soon wins him a place of honor within the Pharaoh's palace. When he meets his family again, Joseph must Read More

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's fifth film as a director and eighth Western as a star (ninth if you count Paint Your Wagon), The Outlaw Josey Wales chronicles the hero's violent journey westward after the Civil War. With fresh memoris of his family's slaughter by Red Leg soldier Terrill (Bill McKinney) Read More

Savages

Synopsis: Andy Griffith goes from good guy to bad, in this thriller. He plays a murdering lawyer who chases his hunting guide across the desert because the guide witnessed him murder an old miner. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cage Without a Key

Synopsis: Susan Dey inaugurated her long and successful campaign to shuck her Partridge Family image in the made-for-TV Cage Without a Key. Dey plays a teenager mistakenly convicted for murder (some mistake!) She is sentenced to a grim woman's penal institution straight out of a Linda Blair movie. As she Read More

Zandy's Bride

Actors: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell, Samuel Bottoms

Synopsis: Based on Lillian Bos Ross' novel The Stranger and adapted by screenwriter Marc Norman 25 years before he would win the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for 1999's Shakespeare in Love (along with Tom Stoppard), Zandy's Bride is a romantic Western starring (Gene Hackman) as gruff rural rancher Read More

Class of '44

Actors: Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, William Atherton, Samuel Bottoms

Synopsis: Paul Bogart directed this ho-hum follow-up to Robert Mulligan's Summer of '42 in which the three adolescents begin their college years during the waning years of World War II. Hermie (Gary Grimes), Oscy (Jerry Houser), and Benjie (Oliver Conant) graduate from high school and head off in different Read More

The Last Picture Show

Actors: Randy Quaid, John Hillerman, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites of passage in Anarene, a fictional one-horse Texas town. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Read More

Gringo Mojado