Sean McCann Filmography

The River King

Actors: Edward Burns, Jennifer Ehle

Synopsis: The body of a prep school student has been discovered in a nearby river, and though the death was originally listed as a suicide one detective believes that it may have actually been the result of a fraternity hazing gone awry in director Nick Willing's snowbound mystery. Detective Abel Grey Read More

The Law of Enclosures

Actors: Sarah Polley, Brendan Fletcher, Diane Ladd, Sean McCann

Synopsis: Two young people struggling to find happiness in the midst of adversity exist side by side with their alter egos, an older and very unhappy married couple, in this offbeat drama. Beatrice (Sarah Polley) is a supermarket checkout girl fascinated by Henry (Brendan Fletcher), an angry and withdrawn Read More

Possible Worlds

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann, Gabriel Gascon, Rick Miller

Synopsis: A man moves across space and time to do the right thing for the woman he loves in this sci-fi-tinged fantasy thriller. George (Tom McCamus) is a man who possesses an unusual level of awareness -- he not only understands that people exist in parallel worlds at once, but also is able to experience Read More

A House Divided

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Sam Waterston, Tim Daly, Shirley Douglas, Ron White

Synopsis: This historical drama, based on a true story, is set in Georgia in the mid-1800s. David Dickson (Sam Waterston) owns a large plantation, as well as a number of slaves who do the labor required to run it. Dickson finds himself attracted to one of his new slaves, a bright and willful teenager named Read More

Echo of Murder

Actors: James Belushi, Gregory Hines

Synopsis: Between 1979 and 1981, 29 African-American children were murdered in Atlanta, GA, leading to a statewide manhunt to find the killer and a considerable outcry from a frightened public. Authorities eventually pinned the child killings on one Wayne Williams, who had been charged with two related Read More

Affliction

Actors: Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Nick Nolte and James Coburn deliver some of the finest work of their respective careers in this powerful but troubling adaptation of Russell Banks' novel. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is the sheriff in a small New England town; it's a part-time job with few taxing responsibilities, and Wade fills Read More

Dogboys

Actors: Dean Cain, Bryan Brown, Tia Carrere, Sean McCann, Ken James

Synopsis: Ken Russell's Dogboys is set at a southern prison. The title of the film comes from the prisoners who are used to train the attack dogs employed to stop escapes. DA Jennifer Dern (Tia Carrere) is investigating the prison's warden (Bryan Brown). She puts one of her men inside the prison, but he Read More

What Happened to Bobby Earl?

Synopsis: Middle-class mom Rose Earl (Kate Jackson) has always had an excellent relationship with her son Bobby (Drew Ebersole), but ever since he entered college (the first in his family to do so) they have been drifting apart. Blame for this rift could very likely be levied upon the "bad crowd" with whom Read More

Every Nine Seconds

Actors: Gail O'Grady, Amy Pietz, Michael Riley, Emily Hampshire, Scott Speedman

Synopsis: Amy Pietz stars in this made-for-TV thriller as Carrie, a professional writer who volunteers her services at a crisis-hotline center dedicated to helping victims of domestic violence. Late one evening, Carrie receives an anguished phone call from an anonymous woman who threatens to kill her Read More

The Absolute Truth

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the events surrounding the Bill Clinton sex scandal, the made-for-TV The Absolute Truth starsJane Seymour as Alison Reid, crusading anchorwoman for the top-rated TV magazine show "Focus." Upon obtaining evidence that powerful senator and presidential candidate Jake Slaughter Read More

Swann

Synopsis: Mary Swann, an Ontario farmer's wife, lead a fairly dull existence until she demonstrated a remarkable talent for poetry and became the darling of the literati. Tragically, she was ruthlessly slain by her own husband who then committed suicide. Mary's closest friend Rose is devastated by the death Read More

Iron Eagle IV: On the Attack

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., Jason Cadieux, Al Waxman, Joanne Vannicola, Rachel Blanchard

Synopsis: The fourth entry in the Iron Eagle series follows the return of General Charles "Chappy" Sinclair (Louis Gosset Jr., who deserves better) as he trains a Dirty Dozen-style team of juvenile delinquents to improve their quality of life by flying planes and combatting evil. This time the Air Force Read More

Tommy Boy

Actors: Chris Farley, David Spade, Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Rob Lowe, Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: Saturday Night Live star Chris Farley had his first starring role in this frankly lowbrow comedy, which teamed him with fellow SNL cast member {$David Spade). Big Tom Callahan (Brian Dennehy) is the street-smart owner of a company that makes auto parts, and one day he'd like his son Tommy Callahan Read More

Desolation Angels

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Michael Rodrick, Jennifer Anne Thomas, Peter Bassett, Shannon Gold, Mike Alpert

Synopsis: A young man's girl friend has an affair with his best friend and he goes off the deep end in this drama. All of the characters are in their 20s and live in New York. The angry young man is the macho Nick Adams who has spent one month out of town. Upon his return he notices that Mary, his Read More

Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story

Actors: Marilu Henner, Doug Savant, Peri Gilpin, Don Franklin, Ann Wedgeworth

Synopsis: Marilu Henner stars as a stalking victim in this made-for-TV movie based on a true story. Henner stars as Nancy Conn, a woman who becomes the obsession of stalker Richard Mark Ellard (Doug Savant). After she and her cousin are targeted by Ellard, both are savagely attacked and left for dead. Conn Read More

Sins of Silence

Synopsis: Lindsay Wagner stars in this TV movie as Molly McKinley, a former nun now employed (and grossly underfunded!) as a rape counselor. A teenager named Sophia (Holly Marie Combs) seeks out Molly's help after she is raped by the scion of a wealthy family. Refusing to release a confidential file that Read More

WildC.A.T.S.: Season 01

Actors: Sean McCann, Rod Wilson, Janet-Laine Green, Colin O'Meara, Dean McDermott

Synopsis: The first episode of the comic book-inspired animated series WildC.A.T.S is "Dark Blade Falling," in which the young, leonine WarBlade is recruited into the super-powered Covert Action Team (C.A.T.) to help them in their ages-old war against the alien Daemonites. In subsequent episodes, we learn Read More

Trapped in Paradise

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, John Ashton, Mädchen Amick

Synopsis: Three brothers who are inept criminals butcher one last attempt to pull off a big heist in this caper comedy. Bill Firpo (Nicolas Cage) is sick of thievery and has retired from crime to run an upscale restaurant in New York. But when his two brothers, Alvin (Dana Carvey) and Dave (Jon Lovitz), get Read More

Guilty As Sin

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang, Jack Warden, Dana Ivey

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet directed this Larry Cohen-scripted courtroom procedural that owes more than it should to Jagged Edge. Jennifer Haines (Rebecca De Mornay), one of the top female lawyers in the country and flush from the success of defending a gangster, has a new client to defend. A suave ladies man in Read More

The Air up There

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Winston Ntshona

Synopsis: It's off to Africa for a former B-ball player who'd like to find a top-notch basketball recruit to help him become a successful coach. Kevin Bacon has the lead in this Paul Glaser-directed film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Neighbor

Actors: Rod Steiger, Linda Kozlowski, Ron Lea, Jane Wheeler, Benjamin Shirinian

Synopsis: This low-key Canadian thriller stars Rod Steiger as Myron Hatch, a deranged gynecologist who has an unhealthy obsession with his late mother's memory. After Hatch puts his family home up for sale and moves into the adjacent house, a yuppie couple, Mary and John Westhill (Linda Kozlowski and Ron Lea Read More

Deadly Matrimony

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Lisa Eilbacher, Treat Williams, Embeth Davidtz, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy makes one of his many TV-movie appearances as Chicago homicide cop John Reed in the two-part Deadly Matrimony. Reed's quarry this time is mob lawyer Treat Williams, who murders his wife and then effectively covers his tracks. The closer Reed comes to the truth, the more he's in Read More

Trial and Error

Actors: Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Tim Matheson plays a zealous prosecutor named Peter Hudson in the made-for-cable thriller Trial and Error. After sending a petty criminal to death row, Hudson pursues a political career, eventually becoming attorney general. Just before he is to be nominated for Lieutenant Governor, the criminal Read More

Naked Lunch

Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Read More

Run

Actors: Kelly Preston, Ken Pogue, Alan C. Peterson, Christopher Lawford

Synopsis: An innocent law student gets accused of murdering a mob chief's son when a casino poker game turns into a fistfight that ends with a fatality. Soon the mob and the corrupt local police are after the kid whose only respite in this film is a short romance with a new-found sweetheart. ~ All Movie Read More

Murder Times Seven

Actors: Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Richard Crenna returns as New York police detective Frank Janek in Murder Times Seven. This time Janek tackles the case of a mass murder. One of the victims was his ex-partner (an occupational hazard for Janek, who in an earlier film had to turn in his own boss on a murder rap). One of the Read More

Common Ground, Part 1

Actors: Jane Curtin, Richard Thomas

Synopsis: J. Anthony Lukas' 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning book Common Ground served as the basis of the two-part TV movie Common Ground. Jane Curtin plays Alice McGoff, and CCH Pounder plays Rachel Twymon, two Boston housewives and mothers on opposite sides of one of the city's bitterest racial battles. In Read More

Passion and Paradise

Actors: Armand Assante, Catherine Stewart, Mariette Hartley, Kevin McCarthy, Rod Steiger, Michael Sarrazin

Synopsis: The hour-hour TV movie Passion and Paradise traces the rise and fall of real-life British playboy Alfred de Marigny (Armand Assante). Little better than a gigolo, de Marigny finds himself in the Bahamas during World War II, where he romances the daughter (Catherine Mary Stewart) of fabulously Read More

Mindfield

Actors: Michael Ironside, Lisa Langlois, Christopher Plummer, Stefan Wodoslawsky

Synopsis: While on the routines of his job, a Montreal policeman (Michael Ironside) is tormented by flashbacks and hallucinations. He eventually traces the bizarre behavior to the LSD experiments of a CIA scientist (Christopher Plummer). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Small Sacrifices

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, John Shea

Synopsis: Based on the factual book by Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices was original telecast in two parts. Farrah Fawcett continues to successfully obliterate the Charlie's Angels onus in the role of real-life US postal worker Diane Downs. Part One of the film was set in Willamete Valley, Oregon, in 1983. Mrs. Read More

The Big Town

Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane Read More

Crazy Moon

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Spence, Vanessa Vaughan, Ken Pogue, Eve Napier

Synopsis: This romance concerns the courtship between Brooks (Kiefer Sutherland), an erratic, brash rich kid who dresses in 1930s garb, and Anne (Vanessa Vaughan) a shy, deaf salesgirl. Brooks first notices Anne when he steals a mannequin from the sporting goods store where she works. The two later get Read More

Ghost of a Chance

Actors: Redd Foxx, Dick Van Dyke

Synopsis: Ghost of a Chance is a failed TV pilot starring Redd Foxx and Dick Van Dyke. Foxx is a piano player accidentally killed by hard-hearted narcotics officer Dick Van Dyke. Since he's died before his scheduled time, Foxx is sent back to earth, where he helps Van Dyke track down genuine criminals. 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

Many Happy Returns

Synopsis: Every so often, the Internal Revenue Service randomly targets an "average" taxpayer for an excruciatingly meticulous audit -- usually to meet a quota, or simply (as in the case of this seriocomic TV movie) to ram the fear of God into the rest of America. One such unlucky target is Bud Robinson (George Segal Read More

The High Price of Passion

Actors: Richard Crenna, Karen Young

Synopsis: The fact-based NBC movie The High Price of Passion was adapted by Mel Frohman from the book by Russell M. Glitman. Set in and around Tufts University, this is a sad story of obsession and murder, focusing on middle-aged anatomy professor Williams Douglas (Richard Crenna) and greedy 21-year-old Read More

Dream to Believe

Actors: Olivia D'Abo, Rita Tushingham, Keanu Reeves, Jessica Steen, Renee Murphy

Synopsis: The curiously neglected A Dream to Believe (aka Flying) can be summed up as a distaff Rocky. Olivia D'Abo is starred as a teen-aged girl who dreams of becoming a top gymnast. Human, emotional and financial roadblocks do not dissuade D'Abo, nor do her own severe physical shortcomings. You can see Read More

Unnatural Causes

Synopsis: Based on several actual case histories, Unnatural Causes stars John Ritter as a Vietnam veteran dying of Agent Orange poisoning. Alfre Woodard co-stars as real-life V.A. administration benefits counselor Maude DeVictor. Battling against official denials and bureaucratic red tape, Ms. DeVictor is Read More

Alex: The Life of a Child

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Gennie James, Craig T. Nelson

Synopsis: Alex: The Life of a Child is based on the true story of Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford and his dying 8-year-old daughter Alex. Craig T. Nelson plays Deford and Gennie James is Alex, both of whom come to grips in different ways with Alex's fatal cystic fibrosis. A subplot involves the Read More

Easy Prey

Actors: Gerald McRaney, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Gerald McRaney flies in the face of his likeable Simon and Simon image in the made-for-TV Easy Prey. McRaney plays real-life serial rapist/murderer Christopher Wilder who, in early 1984, abducted a teenaged girl from a California shopping mall. Repeatedly assaulting the girl and keeping her quiet Read More

Anne of Green Gables

Actors: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Jonathan Crombie, Schuyler Grant

Synopsis: Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, previously filmed in 1934, was afforded a TV-movie treatment in 1985. Megan Follows stars as 13-year-old Anne Shirley, an orphan girl sent to live with a foster family on Canada's Prince Edward Island. Though she has great difficulty controlling Read More

Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks

Synopsis: This biographical drama profiles the true life of Hal C. Banks, the tough American stevedore who for 13 years ran the Canadian shipping industry. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hockey Night

Actors: Megan Follows

Synopsis: A film from Canada titled Hockey Night: are we at all surprised? This amiable little teen-oriented film is set in a small town where Hockey is King--or, perhaps, God. Rick Moranis is in charge of a boys' hockey team, in dire need of playing talent. Enter Megan Follows, who turns out to be the best Read More

Reckless Disregard

Actors: Tess Harper, Leslie Nielsen, Ronny Cox, Henry Ramer

Synopsis: Made for cable, Reckless Disregard was clearly inspired by the 1983 court trial involving Dan Rather of 60 Minutes and Dr. Carl Galloway, who felt he was wrongly linked to a pill-dispensing clinic. Leslie Nielsen stars as arrogant TV reporter Bob Franklin, who as part of a lengthy investigative Read More

The Guardian

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: The Guardian is set in an upper-class New York apartment building, recently plagued by a series of break-ins and murders. The tenants eagerly enlist the services of former military officer John Mack (Louis Gossett Jr.) as the building's head of security. Slowly but surely, the tenants give up Read More

Silence of the North

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer McKinney, Donna Dobrijevic

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film follows the trials and tragedies that befall Walter Reamer (Tom Skerritt) and his wife, Olive (Ellen Burstyn), as they struggle to create a home and raise a family in the brutal Canadian frontier of 1919. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Death Hunt

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Johnson, a trapper, has extensive knowledge of wilderness living, but Millen has the resources of the Canadian police at Read More

Tulips

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Bernadette Peters, Henry Gibson, Al Waxman, David Boxer

Synopsis: After many failed attempts at suicide, a hopeless man takes a contract out on himself--except now that he has fallen in love with a likewise suicidal woman, he wants to live. Now he must figure out how to call off the hit man so they can enjoy life together. Gabe Kaplan and Bernadette Peters star Read More

Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave

Actors: "Sneezy" Waters, Dixie Seatle, Sean McCann, Sean Hewitt, Jackie Washington

Synopsis: This 1981 performance film embodies an act of speculative imagination: What thoughts ran through the mind of legendary country and western singer Hank Williams, Sr. (1923-53), as he lay dying in the backseat of his Cadillac, en route to a concert in Ohio, on December 31, 1952? Playwright Maynard 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

Atlantic City

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster stars as Lou, an aging mob flunkey, barely making a living in Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon plays Sally, a casino croupier whose husband Dave (Robert Joy) steals a large supply of drugs from the mob. When he is killed, the narcotics pass to the unwilling Sally. Lou, in the midst of Read More

Alien Encounter

Synopsis: In this sci-fi tale, an investigator searches for a mysterious man in black. He believes the man is somehow connected to a strange floating silver ball -- supposedly sent to Earth by aliens as part of a probe. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Title Shot

Actors: Tony Curtis, Richard Gabourie, Susan Hogan, Allan Royal, Robert Delbert

Synopsis: Weak dialogue and a muddy plot undermine this crime drama about the Mafia's attempt to not only fix a championship fight, but to have the defending champion killed off in the ring. Frank Renzetti (Tony Curtis) is the ring owner who contacts the Mafia with this idea and Blake (Richard Gabourie) is Read More

The Uncanny

Synopsis: In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by providing him with three different stories of kitty brutality in this anthology of horror. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Three Card Monte

Actors: Richard Gabourie, Chris Langevin, Lynne Cavanagh, John Rutter

Synopsis: Busher is a card and pool shark who is on the run from some of the many people he has cheated. An orphaned 12-year-old boy wants to join him in his journeys, and together they scam their way across the underbelly of Canada. This tragic story won 11 Canadian Film Award nominations. ~ Clarke Read More

The Far Shore

Actors: Celine Lomez, Frank Moore, Sean McCann, Charlotte Blunt

Synopsis: In this fictionalized biography, the love affair between Canadian artist Tom Thomson, one of Canada's notorious Group of Seven, and a married woman is examined. When her husband discovers her affair, he tells one of his friends who promptly murders the lovers before the husband can tell him not Read More

Sudden Fury

Actors: Dominic Hogan, Gay Rowan, Dan Hennessy, Hollis McLaren, David Yorston

Synopsis: Northern Ontario is the setting for this compact suspenser. Dominic Hogan plays Fred, a psychotic would-be entrepreneur who hopes to convince his wife Janet (Gay Rowan) to invest in a shady land deal. The wife refuses, and the couple continue their violent argument while driving through the Read More

A Quiet Day in Belfast

Actors: Joyce Campion, Sean Mulcahy, Mel Tuck

Synopsis: The title of this Canadian film drama is, need we say, ironic. Director Milad Bessada underlines the tragedy and futility of Ireland's civil war by heavily underlining the sameness between the two warring factions. This he does by casting Margot Kidder in a dual role. Ms. Kidder plays twin Read More