Sam Weisman Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer

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Monk: Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Monk's shrink Dr. Kroger (Stanley Kamel) is having trouble with his son Tony (Cody McMains), who has been hanging out with the wrong crowd. Thus, when Tony and two of his friends approach Monk with a treasure map which they claim is part of a school project, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) agrees to help Read More

2007
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

Crew: Director

Actors: David Spade, Mary McCormack, Jon Lovitz, Craig Bierko, Jenna Boyd

Synopsis: In keeping with his background in television sitcoms, Sam Weisman directs the cameo-filled comedy Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. Dickie Roberts (David Spade) was a child actor on the hit TV show "The Glimmer Gang" and remains remembered for a particular catch phrase. Now in his thirties, he Read More

9/5/03
Summer Catch

Crew: Producer

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jessica Biel, Jason Gedrick, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis: This blend of sports and youthful romantic comedy is from director Michael Tollin, who previously produced the sports drama Varsity Blues (1999). Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as Ryan Dunne, a ballplayer who's spending the summer as a pitcher for the famed, highly prestigious Cape Cod League, a Read More

8/24/01
What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Crew: Director

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Danny DeVito, John Leguizamo, Glenne Headly, Carmen Ejogo

Synopsis: The novel of the same name by crime author Donald E. Westlake becomes this MGM comedy starring Martin Lawrence as Kevin Caffery, a thief who breaks into the supposedly unoccupied beachfront mansion of billionaire Max Fairbanks (Danny De Vito). Max unexpectedly catches the burglar red-handed and Read More

6/1/01
The Out-of-Towners

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Jbara, Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Mark McKinney, John Cleese, Oliver Hudson

Synopsis: When Frank Sinatra sang "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere, it's up to you, New York!" he probably didn't have the same odds in mind that line up against Henry and Nancy Clark in The Out-Of-Towners. Henry (Steve Martin) is an advertising man from Ohio who runs his life on an exacting Read More

4/2/99
George of the Jungle

Crew: Director

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Richard Roundtree, John Cleese

Synopsis: Jay Ward's fondly-remembered cartoon series about a klutzy king of the jungle gets the big-screen, live-action treatment in this comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. A young boy named George becomes lost in the jungles of the African nation of Bukuvu following a plane crash, where he's rescued and Read More

1997
Bye Bye, Love

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid, Paul Reiser, Janeane Garofalo, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Three divorced fathers, played by Paul Reiser, Matthew Modine, and Randy Quaid, experience the joys and hardships of their former marriages, their relationships with their kids, and getting back into the dating scene in this whimsical comedy. Dave (Modine) is diligently playing the field, while Read More

1995
D2: The Mighty Ducks

Crew: Director

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Tucker, Jan Rubes, Carsten Norgaard

Synopsis: In this sequel to the kid-friendly sports comedy The Mighty Ducks, Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) takes one more shot at a career as a professional hockey player, but a severe knee injury sidelines him for good. However, his success coaching a rag-tag pee-wee hockey team in Minneapolis (as Read More

1994
N.Y.P.D. Mounted

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The New York Mounted Police division teams up a former rodeo cowboy and a veteran police officer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Sunset Beat

Crew: Director

1990
Moonlighting: Sam & Dave

Crew: Director

Synopsis: People magazine Jeff Jarvis appears at the outset of this second episode in a four-part story arc, bringing viewers up to date with the events of the previous week. Earlier, David (Bruce Willis) had been concerned that Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) was unusually depressed. Now, it turns out that Maddie Read More

1987
Moonlighting: Take a Left at the Altar

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It's been two weeks since David (Bruce Willis) has seen Maddie (Cybill Shepherd), his partner at the Blue Moon Detective Agency--and his lover, or so he'd been led to believe. With no one else around, David teams with the obsequious Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong) for his latest case, involving Read More

1987
Moonlighting: To Heiress Human

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This final episode of Moonlighting's third season begins the morning after the BIG MOMENT, wherein David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) finally consummated their romance. Now, the time has come for the proverbial "second thoughts"--which spill over into the protagonists' latest Read More

1987
Quincy, M.E.: The Law Is a Fool

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) is an unwilling key player in an elaborate vengeance scheme concocted by arrogant paralegal Carl Norman (Jeff Pomerantz). After the 7-year-old granddaughter of law professor Henry Hillman (Lew Ayres) is kidnapped in broad daylight, Norman calmly walks into police headquarters Read More

1983
Quincy, M.E.: For Love of Joshua

Synopsis: After the death of a Down's Syndrome Child, pediatrician Barbara Lubow (Colleen Dewhurst) asks Quincy (Jack Klugman) to perform an autopsy. Much to his dismay, Quincy determines that the child had been starved to death by his parents--at the encouragement of their family doctor. Appalled by this Read More

1982
M*A*S*H: Your Retention Please

Synopsis: Can it be? Corporal Klinger (Jamie Farr), after so many herculean efforts to win a Section 8 out of the army, has re-enlisted for six more years? The answer to this phenomenon lies in a terse message from Klinger's ex-wife. Meanwhile, a highly trained male Army nurse (Sam Weisman) is fed up with Read More

1981
Loving Couples

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn, Susan Sarandon, Sally Kellerman, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: Susan Sarandon gives a sprightly performance in this sex farce involving couples swapping mates. Shirley MacLaine is Evelyn, a doctor, who is spending some quality time horseback riding when she is spotted by Greg (Stephen Collins), who is driving his sports car. Greg looks at her a bit too long Read More

1980
Wholly Moses!

Actors: Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: A broadly farcical comedy that attempts to ape the wickedly funny, Bible-spoofing humor of the previous year's Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), this all-star rib-tickler top-lines Dudley Moore as Herschel, a historical also-ran whose life so closely parallels that of Moses that Herschel begins Read More

1980
Being There

Actors: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Basehart, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: Having lived his life as the gardener on a millionaire's estate, Chance (Peter Sellers) knows of the real world only what he has seen on TV. When his benefactor dies, Chance walks aimlessly into the streets of Washington D.C., where he is struck by a car owned by wealthy Eve Rand (Shirley Read More

1979
Studs Lonigan

Synopsis: Adapted from the once-notorious trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell, the three-part miniseres Studs Lonigan isn't quite as earthy and explicit as its source, but is lot more faithful to the original than the 1960 film version. Set in Chicago and covering the years from 1916 to 1931, this is the Read More

1979
Flesh and Blood

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Pete Hamill, Flesh and Blood stars Tom Berenger as Bobby Fallon, a street punk who develops into a topnotch boxer while in prison. Upon his release, Bobby is taken under the wing of manager John Cassavetes. Outwardly tough and unmovable, Bobby is tortured with memories of Read More

1979