Saul RubinekFilmography

Warehouse 13 [TV Series]

Actors: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Genelle Williams, CCH Pounder

Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!

Actors: Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek, John Lloyd Young

The Trotsky

Actors: Jay Baruchel, Colm Feore, Saul Rubinek, Michael Murphy

Synopsis: An unusually intense teenager gets the idea that his name defines his destiny in this offbeat comedy. Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) is a young man who has made the discovery that his birth name is the same as that of Leon Trotsky, the celebrated Russian revolutionary and socialist theorist. This Read More

War

Actors: Jet Li, Jason Statham, John Lone, Devon Aoki, Luis Guzman

Synopsis: An FBI agent whose partner and family were killed by a notorious assassin sets out for revenge as the elusive triggerman sparks a sprawling gang war between the triads and the yakuza in the feature debut from prolific music video director Phillip Atwell. FBI sgent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) is Read More

Masters of Horror: The Washingtonians

Actors: Johnathon Schaech, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: A man who makes a horrifying discovery about the founding fathers of America must protect his family from the murderous loyalist determined to safeguard the volatile secret at all costs in director Peter Medak's adaptation of a short story by author Bentley Little. Soon after his grandfather's Read More

Blackout

Actors: Melvin Van Peebles, Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis: In the summer of 2003, the East Coast of America was literally consumed by darkness. Though in the midst of the largest blackout in U.S. history most news reports spoke of the relative calm in a potentially chaotic situation, the situation in Brooklyn's East Flatbush neighborhood would soon become Read More

A Broken Life

Actors: Tom Sizemore, Corey Sevier, Grace Kosaka, Ving Rhames, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: Overwhelmed by the soul crushing mediocrity of his life and hopelessly embittered by his overbearing boss and cruel ex-wife, a suicidal man recruits a struggling filmmaker to document his last day on earth. Max Walker (Tom Sizemore) is a man consumed by the emptiness inside. He's tired of this Read More

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Actors: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, Vito Rezza

Synopsis: The fourth installment of the Jesse Stone series finds restless New England police chief Stone (Tom Selleck) fighting boredom by attempting to solve a twelve year-old cold case involving a murdered bank teller. Jesse Stone is a transplanted L.A. cop who thrived on big city adrenaline, but Read More

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

Actors: Tom Selleck

Synopsis: Tom Selleck returns to the role of small-town police chief Jesse Stone in this prequel to the CBS TV movie Stone Cold. Having been booted from the LAPD for drunkenness (brought on by his divorce), Stone heads to tiny Paradise, Massachussetts, where through the auspices of local banker Hastings Read More

Cruel But Necessary

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Wendel Meldrum, Luke Humphrey, Mark Humphrey, Julie Payne

Synopsis: When a vacation video reveals that her husband is having a secret affair, the family camcorder becomes a weapon of truth for a married suburban housewife. Betty (Wendel Meldrum) was pouring over her family vacation video when she realized that a telephone conversation captured on the tape revealed Read More

BAADASSSSS!

Actors: T.K. Carter, David Alan Grier, Nia Long, Paul Rodriguez, Ossie Davis, Rainn Wilson, Joy Bryant, Khleo Thomas, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: In 1971, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles released his third film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which he wrote, directed, and scored. Despite boasting an all-black cast, an X rating, a low budget, and a decidedly non-Hollywood approach to moviemaking, the ground-breaking independent film went on Read More

Santa's Slay

Actors: Bill Goldberg, Douglas Smith, Emilie de Ravin, Robert Culp, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: Jolly old Saint Nick goes from the nice list to the naughty list when an old wager runs up and his promise to be nice takes a backseat to his murderous impulses in this comic tale of terror from first-time director David Steiman. It turns out that the story of Santa Claus as we know it isn't quite Read More

Intern Academy

Actors: Peter Oldring, Pat Kelly, Viv Leacock, Ingrid Kavelaars, Jane McLean

Synopsis: When the best doctors at St. Albert's Hospital suddenly abandon their posts, it's up to the six inexperienced interns to keep the hospital running and the patients breathing in an all-star comedy featuring Dave Thomas, Dan Aykroyd, Maury Chaykin, Dave Foley, Matt Frewer, and Saul Rubinek. Things Read More

Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss

Actors: Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Robert Davi, Brenda Fricker, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ian Tracey

Synopsis: Sopranos ingenue Jamie-Lynn DiScala stars as the infamous Hollywood madam in this made-for-cable bio-flick. Produced without the participation of Heidi Fleiss herself, Call Me traces the Pandering author's progression from pampered daughter of a liberal doctor (Saul Rubinek) to headline-grabbing Read More

The Singing Detective

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Robin Wright Penn, Mel Gibson

Synopsis: From director Keith Gordon (Mother Night, A Midnight Clear) comes this American feature adaptation of the 1986 BBC miniseries, The Singing Detective. Robert Downey Jr. returns to the big-screen for the first time since 2000's Wonder Boys as Dan Dark, a novelist who is hospitalized with a severe Read More

Coast to Coast

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis

Synopsis: Paul Mazursky's Coast to Coast features a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. Barnaby (Richard Dreyfuss) and Maxine (Judy Davis) are attempting to salvage what might be left of their broken marriage by taking a road trip together. As they stop at various places and interact with a variety of Read More

Hollywood North

Actors: Matthew Modine, Alan Bates, Deborah Kara Unger, John Neville, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: Candian filmmaker Peter O'Brian directs the comedy Hollywood North, set in Toronto during the late '70s. Matthew Modine stars as Bobby Mayers, a stressed-out Canadian producer trying to make an action film called "Flight to Bogota." The production is inevitably troubled by numerous problems with Read More

Law & Order: Genius

Actors: Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: A cab driver is murdered, sending Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) on another clue-gathering expedition. The trail leads to a lost book, a brace of authors, and a onetime child prodigy. The story takes a bizarre twist when the suspect demands to be sentenced to death. And, oh Read More

The Boys of Buchenwald

Actors: Saul Rubinek

Frasier: The Ring Cycle

Actors: Millicent Martin, Saul Rubinek, Ashley Thomas, Ron Canada, Samuel Johnson

Synopsis: Season ten of Frasier gets under way not long after Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and Daphne (Jane Leeves) have eloped to Reno. Feeling guilty over leaving Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Martin (John Mahoney) out of their wedding plans, the couple pretends to still be unhitched so that a more formal Read More

Gleason

Synopsis: Everybody Loves Raymond co-star Brad Garrett brings "The Great One" to life in this made-for-TV biography of video icon Jackie Gleason. The product of a fractious Brooklyn childhood, capped by the abrupt desertion of his ne'er-do-well father, Gleason launches his show business career with the Read More

Bleacher Bums

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Riegert, Brad Garrett, Wayne Knight

Synopsis: There are people who like to watch a ball game every once in a while, and then there are baseball fans, individuals of rare dedication whose passion for their favorite team defies conventional logic, and this comedy-drama follows a group of fans whose devotion to their hometown heroes is rarely Read More

Lakeboat

Actors: Charles Durning, Robert Forster, J.J. Johnston, Denis Leary

Synopsis: Renowned character actor Joe Mantegna makes his directorial debut with this film adaptation of one of David Mamet's first plays, boasting such onscreen talent as Peter Falk, Charles Durning, and Robert Forster. Based on Mamet's experiences of working on Great Lake freighters while a grad student Read More

Club Land

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Alda, Steven Weber, Brad Garrett

Synopsis: Alan Alda stars in this period drama as Willie Walters, a talent agent booking acts into nightclubs in the 1940s. Willie would like his son Stuey (Steven Webber) to join him in his business, but Stuey isn't so sure that's the path he wants to take in life, and his uncertainty starts to drive Read More

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Actors: Nathan Lane, Mark Linn-Baker, Victor Garber, Saul Rubinek, Peri Gilpin

Synopsis: Playwright Neil Simon got his first big break in the early '50s as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's fabled television series Your Show of Shows, and this comedy (adapted by Simon from his play) takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went into producing one of the landmarks of Read More

The Family Man

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: In this whimsical romantic comedy that recalls It's a Wonderful Life, Nicolas Cage plays Jack Campbell, a workaholic bachelor who gets to see what his life might have been like had he stayed with his old sweetheart, Kate (Tea Leoni). Thirteen years before, Jack accepted a brokerage internship that Read More

The Contender

Actors: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott, Christian Slater

Synopsis: The hard-ball gamesmanship and casual character assassination of American politics sets the stage for this thriller from writer and director Rod Lurie. When the Vice President of the United States unexpectedly dies, all eyes in Washington D.C. are on President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) as he Read More

Frasier: Hot Pursuit

Synopsis: "Togetherness" is the theme of the evening, as Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Roz (Peri Gilpin) attend an out-of-town conference, while Niles (David Hyde Pierce) joins his former-cop father Martin (John Mahoney) on a private-eye surveillance session arranged by Donny (Saul Rubinek). Not Read More

Nero Wolfe: The Golden Spiders

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Bill Smitrovich, Saul Rubinek, Mimi Kuzyk

Synopsis: Nero Wolfe (Maury Chaykin) is the world's greatest detective, and like any genius, he has his share of idiosyncrasies -- he loves orchids with an unnatural passion, he weighs a seventh of a ton, and--oh yeah--he never leaves his New York brownstone. Instead, he is aided by an army of foot soldiers Read More

Frasier: And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, Part 2

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Frasier's eighth-season opener, outraged lawyer Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek) and infuriated plastic surgeon Mel Karnofsky (Jane Adams) draws up plans to get even with their respective mates Daphne (Jane Leeves) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) for running out on them (Niles Read More

Frasier: And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, Part 1

Synopsis: In part one of Frasier?s eighth-season opener, the wedding of Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves) and attorney Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek) has come to end before the knot has even been tied as Daphne runs off with her true love, Niles Crane (David Pierce). Left standing in the exhaust fumes of the fugitive Read More

Frasier: Something Borrowed, Someone Blue, Part 2

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Frasier's Emmy-winning season-seven finale, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) tries to bring Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and Daphne (Jane Leeves) together for one last fond farewell before Daphne marries Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek). Meanwhile, Daphne's boorish brother Simon (Anthony LaPaglia Read More

Frasier: To Thine Old Self Be True

Synopsis: Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is tired of being considered a stuffed shirt. Offering to throw a bachelor party for Daphne's fiancé Donny (Saul Rubinek), Frasier intends to prove that he's as much a swinger as the next man by booking a stripper -- the sort who brings her own handcuffs and other such Read More

Frasier: Dark Side of the Moon

Synopsis: With her wedding day rapidly approaching, Daphne (Jane Leeves) finds herself in a court-ordered anger-management therapy program. As her counselor (S. Epatha Merkerson of Law & Order fame) listens with professional detachment, Daphne recounts the events leading up to the outburst that led to her Read More

Frasier: Legal Tender Love and Care

Synopsis: Relentless attorney Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek) continues to press his lawsuit against Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Daphne (Jane Leeves), accusing Frasier of encouraging Daphne to run out on her wedding to Donny. Hoping to fight fire with fire, Frasier hires an attorney named Abby (Teri Polo) Read More

Dick

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Jim Breuer, Will Ferrell, Dave Foley, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: The mystery of the 18-minute-gap in Richard Nixon's White House tapes -- and how it connects to the previously undocumented involvement of two teenage girls in the Watergate scandal -- is the subject of this political comedy. Betsy Jobs (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene Lorenzo (Michelle Williams) are Read More

Frasier: Father of the Bride

Synopsis: Anxiously preparing for her marriage to lawyer Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek), Daphne (Jane Leeves) welcomes the assistance, financial and otherwise, of Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Martin (John Mahoney). In the absence of Daphne's real dad, Frasier revels in his role as "surrogate father" -- and Read More

Frasier: The Fight Before Christmas

Synopsis: The Christmas Season is also a time of contemplation for Daphne (Jane Leeves). As she prepares for her marriage to Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek), Daphne wonders if the time has come to clear the air concerning Niles' pent-up feelings for her. As for Niles (David Hyde Pierce), it may be a bleak Read More

Frasier: To Tell the Truth

Synopsis: Saul Rubinek makes his first series appearance as hotshot attorney Donny Douglas. Facing a messy and very expensive divorce from wife Maris, Niles (David Hyde Pierce) hires Douglas, the former boyfriend of Frasier's producer, Roz (Peri Gilpin), to give him the best possible break in the courtroom. Read More

Frasier: Shutout in Seattle, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of Frasier's two-part season-six finale, Niles (David Hyde Pierce) remains depressed over the impending marriage of Daphne (Jane Leeves) and Donny (Saul Rubinek) -- at least until he meets an attractive stranger at Café Nervosa. Meanwhile, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) thinks he has Read More

Frasier: Shutout in Seattle, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Frasier's season-six finale, all three of the Crane men continue to encounter big problems in their respective love lives. Niles (David Hyde Pierce) decides his new girlfriend is too "hip" for his room; Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is caught between two lovers, whose names he Read More

Frasier: Decoys

Synopsis: Niles (David Hyde Pierce) is experiencing mixed emotions regarded hotshot lawyer Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek). On one hand, Niles is grateful that Douglas has managed to free him from his contentious wife Maris at the least possible cost. But on the other hand, Douglas has become much too friendly Read More

Frasier: Visions of Daphne

Synopsis: Niles (David Hyde Pierce) has all the more reason to rue the day that he introduced his "secret love" Daphne (Jane Leeves) to charming attorney Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek) when Donny asks Daphne to marry him. It is especially hurtful to Niles that he has received this news not from Daphne but Read More

Bad Manners

Actors: Caroleen Feeney, David Strathairn, Bonnie Bedelia, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: Two couples share an evening of bad karma in this domestic drama. Matt (Saul Rubinek) is a musicologist who has devised a computer program that can spontaneously compose music; however, one of the first pieces it comes up with features a prominent quote from "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." His Read More

Blackjack

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon, Phillip MacKenzie, Kam Heskin, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: Made especially for the USA Network, this action adventure centers on freelance bodyguard and former U.S. Marshal Jack Devlin (Dolph Lundgren and his attempts to protect a young woman from vicious gangsters. Unfortunately, Devlin's ability to do his job is severely restricted after an explosion Read More

Jerry and Tom

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chaykin, Ted Danson, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Actor Saul Rubinek made his directorial debut with this crime comedy adapted by Rick Cleveland and from his own 1994 one-act play. Hit man Tom (Joe Mantegna) and his apprentice Jerry (Sam Rockwell), wait in a deserted Chicago bar for the phone-call command to execute the hooded Stanley (Peter Riegert Read More

Pale Saints

Synopsis: Featuring a real granny knot of a complex plot, this violently hip, hyper-stylish crime thriller follows the exploits of Louis and Dody, two petty unemployed gangsters who get into deep trouble after they steal a job from a crime lord's cousin, whom they have already killed and stashed in the Read More

Past Perfect

Actors: Eric Roberts, Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Laurie Holden, Mark Hildreth

Synopsis: In this Seattle-set police thriller, a police detective tries to bring a band of adolescent arms dealers to justice. He manages to capture one, but he is under-age and cannot be prosecuted as an adult. Meanwhile someone is quietly slaughtering the youth's gang mates, leaving the police detective Read More

Hostile Intent

Actors: Rob Lowe, John Savage, Sofia Shinas, Saul Rubinek, Louis del Grande

Synopsis: This uninspired, dull action film promotes an anti-national government stance while it tells the tale of a group of men who have developed a foolproof, hack-proof computer system devoted to military matters, and then they go off into the wilderness to engage in war games. Right behind them is a Read More

Rainbow

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: Actor Bob Hoskins directs this children's fantasy. When Mike (Willy Lavendal) actually finds the end of a rainbow, his friends don't believe it until he shows it to them. After that, they figure out how to find the next time and place for a rainbow-landing, and together they go to it. When they Read More

Hiroshima

Synopsis: This Canadian-Japanese co-production uses both vintage historical footage (including armed forces films and period newsreels) and contemporary dramatic reenactments to tell the story of how the scientific and military minds behind the Manhattan Project, under the orders of President Harry Truman (Kenneth Welsh Read More

Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

Synapse

Actors: Karen Duffy, Matt McCoy, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: Set in a future society controlled by the nearly omnipotent Life Corporation, this action drama chronicles the fate of a renegade gun smuggler who sells weapons to a small rebel faction fighting against the huge conglomerate. The gun runner's ordeal begins after he is captured by government Read More

The Android Affair

Actors: Harley Jane Kozak, Griffin Dunne, Ossie Davis, Saul Rubinek, Peter Outerbridge

Synopsis: In this off-beat romance, a medical android used for surgical practice becomes the object of a lonely intern's affections. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Open Season

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Rod Taylor, Gailard Sartain, Helen Shaver, Maggie Han

Synopsis: Big business dealings, competition, and TV ratings wars are satirized in this biting comedy. Stuart Sain is an egotistical, over-ambitious Jewish executive. He works for Fielding, a company like Nielsen which uses small boxes to garner TV ratings statistics. Stuart is married to Cary, a Read More

Getting Even with Dad

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Ted Danson, Glenne Headly, Saul Rubinek, Gailard Sartain, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: A criminal trying to reform is forced to endure the most humiliating punishment of all -- hanging out with his son -- in this family comedy. Ray Gleason (Ted Danson) is a thief whose ambitions far outstrip both his skill and his intelligence; Ray is just bright enough to have realized this, and Read More

I Love Trouble

Actors: Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte, Saul Rubinek, James Rebhorn, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In the style of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, I Love Trouble depicts the developing romance of two rival reporters who reluctantly fall for each other while competing for a major scoop. Old hand Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and aspiring newcomer Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) 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

True Romance

Actors: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba Read More

Undercover Blues

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry Miller

Synopsis: Nick and Nora Charles are updated to a touchy-feely couple of the 1990s who take a break from the action to raise their eleven-month-old child. Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star as Jane and Jeff Blue, two CIA super-agents who have abandoned the daily grind to devote quality time to their baby Read More

The Quarrel

Actors: Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: The year is 1948 and the place is Montreal's Mont Royal Park. Chaim Kovler, a Holocaust survivor who has become a journalist for a Yiddish newspaper bumps into Hersh Rasseyner, a rival he had known in Hebrew school. The two went their separate ways when Chaim became an author while Hersh became a Read More

Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story

Actors: Tatum O'Neal, Bruce Greenwood, Peggy McCay, Alex McArthur, Victor Garber

Synopsis: Tatum O'Neal headlines this dramatic fact-based account of a former model and police officer accused of killing her husband's first wife. The sensationalistic press coverage of her trial turns the ex-cop into a celebrity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

Unforgiven

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett

Synopsis: Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face Read More

Man Trouble

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Paul Mazursky, Harry Dean Stanton, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Actor Jack Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman, and director Bob Rafelson re-team 22 years after their classic Five Easy Pieces, for this romantic comedy. Nicholson plays Harry Bliss, a small potatoes security expert unhappily married to a Japanese woman (he sarcastically calls her Iwo Jima during Read More

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the "master of the universe," a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle Read More

The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick

Actors: Noam Zylberman, Fairuza Balk, Saul Rubinek, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Young Noam Zylberman, a well-known Canadian child actor (and cartoon voiceover veteran), stars in The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick. Growing up in a Jewish household during the 1960s, Zylberman would like to escape the confines of tradition and chart his own course. He finally gets the Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Most Toys

Synopsis: While on a dangerous shuttlecraft mission, Data is kidnapped by hobby-obsessed space trader Kivas Fajo (Saul Rubinek), who wants to add the android to his personal collection. To cover his tracks, Fajo destroys the shuttle, leading the Enterprise crew to sadly conclude that Data is dead. Read More

Falling Over Backwards

Actors: Saul Rubinek, Paul Soles, Helen Hughes, Carolyn Scott

Synopsis: Falling Over Backwards was filmed in Quebec through the good graces of the National Film Board of Canada. Saul Rubinek plays a high school teacher, currently in the doldrums over his divorce. Ignoring advice of Thomas Wolfe, Rubinek decides to "go home again" to forget his troubles. With his aged Read More

Liberace: Behind the Music

Actors: Victor Garber, Maureen Stapleton, Saul Rubinek, Michael Dolan, Michael Wikes

Synopsis: This was the "unofficial" Liberace biopic, as opposed to the error-ridden "official" Liberace (telecast one week earlier in October of 1988). The star of Liberace: Behind the Music is Broadway actor Victor Garber, who later scored a personal triumph as the devilish Mr. Applegate in the revival of Read More

Obsessed

Actors: Kerrie Keane, Daniel Pilon, Saul Rubinek, Lynne Griffin, Mireille Deyglun

Synopsis: A grieving mother tries to track down the hit-and-run driver who killed her 12-year-old son in this well-performed drama. Dinah Middleton (Kerrie Keane) is divorced from husband Max (Daniel Pilon). The couple's skateboarding son Alex (Leif Anderson) is hit by Owen Hughes (Saul Rubinek), a New York Read More

Wall Street

Actors: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: "Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns Read More

Taking Care

Actors: Kate Lynch, Janet Amos, Saul Rubinek, Allan Royal, Sean McCann

Synopsis: Produced in Canada, Taking Care consists of a series of short informational spots. The emphasis in on the care and treatment of pets, specifically those who have been abandoned. While the notion of tending to animal's emotional wellbeing might be the cause of derision in some circles, the series Read More

Murder Sees the Light

Synopsis: While private detective Benny Cooperman works on a surveillance of a millionaire evangelist who is hiding for tax reasons, he comes across a string of murders. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sweet Liberty

Actors: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins, Lise Hilboldt

Synopsis: Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this satirical film about the corruption of the film industry's approach to history. Alda plays Michael Burgess, a college professor who has written a historical novel about the American Revolution. The book has been turned into a script, and a Hollywood Read More

Suicide Murders

Actors: Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: Suicide Murders was filmed for Canadian television in 1985. Saul Rubinek stars as a klutzy private eye in a small, peaceful village, where clients are virtually nonexistent. When several mysterious suicides occur in the village, Rubinek senses that there's dirty work afoot. He stumbles around town Read More

Half a Lifetime

Synopsis: Produced for Canadian television, Half a Lifetime stars David Carradine, Gary Busey, Nick Mancuso and Saul Rubinek. The story is set at a table where the four leads indulge in a high-stakes poker game. We soon learn that this table is where these overgrown "boys" have frittered away most of their Read More

Martin's Day

Actors: Richard Harris, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Justin Henry, Karen Black

Synopsis: This is a tepid film aimed at youngsters and focusing on the warped Martin Steckert (Richard Harris), an escaped convict, and little Martin (Justin Henry), the boy he takes hostage. Steckert uses a ruse to escape from prison when his parole is denied, and once safely on the outside, he kidnaps Read More

Against All Odds

Actors: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark, Pat Corley

Synopsis: A remake of Jacques Tourneur's noir classic Out of the Past (1947), in this version a labyrinthine web of corruption touches on the world of pro football. When an injury-riddled body causes pro football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) to be cut by his team, Jake Wise (James Woods), a shady Read More

The Terry Fox Story

Actors: Robert Duvall, Eric Fryer, Michael Zelniker, Chris Makepeace, Rosalind Chao

Synopsis: This moving docudrama on a man whose courage raised $20,000,000 for a worthy cause is also an honest look at the nature of determination. When Canadian Terry Fox was diagnosed with cancer in 1977, his right leg was amputated and rather than simply battle depression, Fox decided to run his own Read More

Young Doctors in Love

Actors: Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Macnee, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their blunders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Soup for One

Actors: Saul Rubinek, Marcia Strassman, Gerritt Graham, Teddy Pendergrass, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: When a young, single, neurotic New Yorker finds the perfect woman, he tries desperately to get her to fall for him. Young director Jonathan Kaufer has been compared to Woody Allen with this, his first feature. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Ticket to Heaven

Actors: Nick Mancuso, R.H. Thomson, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: The "Moonie" cult of the 1970s and '80s has been cited as the principal inspiration for the 1981 Canadian production Ticket to Heaven. Nick Mancuso plays impressionable youth David Kappel, who, after breaking up with his girlfriend, tries to find an emotional balm by joining a religious sect. The Read More

By Design

Actors: Patty Duke, Sara Botsford, Saul Rubinek, Mina E. Mina, Sonia Zimmer

Synopsis: Looking for the perfect biological father, a lesbian couple attempts to have a child after they are refused adoption privileges. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Agency

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine, Saul Rubinek, Alexandra Stewart

Synopsis: Agency tackles the question of the efficiency of media manipulation. An unscrupulous advertising agency, in league with equally untrustworthy political campaign manager Robert Mitchum, plants subliminal messages in its TV commercials. Just as Vance Packard warned in the 1950s expose The Hidden Read More

Nothing Personal

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Suzanne Somers, Lawrence Z. Dane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Flawed and problematic, this romantic comedy is about Abigail Adams (Suzanne Somers), a sexy, talented, and dedicated lawyer, her new client Prof. Roger Keller (Donald Sutherland), and their fight to save baby seals from slaughter. The issue was a hot one, but the film as a whole does not rise to Read More

Death Ship

Actors: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso, Sally Ann Howes, Kate Reid

Synopsis: After a passenger liner is rammed and sunk by a derelict German freighter from World War II, the handful of survivors (which include George Kennedy and Richard Crenna) manage to board the unmanned hulk but soon discover that their perils have just begun. Apparently the freighter served as a kind Read More

Highpoint

Actors: Richard Harris, Christopher Plummer, Kate Reid, Peter Donat, Robin Gammell

Synopsis: Mixing a tongue-in-cheek approach with thriller action, this routine caper story features Christopher Plummer as James Hatcher -- a businessman who has just double-crossed both the CIA and the Mafia and has to hide out -- and Richard Harris as Louis Kinney, an unemployed accountant who takes on Read More

The Sanctuary of Fear

Synopsis: A Manhattan priest with a fondness for dabbling in detective work investigates a series of unnerving, mysterious attacks, seemingly designed to terrify a young actress. This made-for-television film, retitled for its video release, is inspired by the books of mystery author G.K. Chesterton. ~ Judd Read More

Slow Run

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Canadian character actor Saul Rubinek doubles as star and narrator of filmmaker Larry Kardish's Slow Run. On the loose in New York City, Rubinek finds himself inexorably drawn to creature comforts. On the brink of renouncing his bohemian ways, he must decide if life in the Fast Lane is truly for Read More