Seymour Cassel Filmography

Cosmic Radio

Actors: Jonathan Sachar, Irene Bedard, Michael Madsen, Wes Studi, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: The owner of a Idyllwild counter-culture radio station finds his modest business unexpectedly threatened when the daughter of a conservative senator comes to town and sparks a heated political tempest by attempting to undermine a push to clear cut a nearby forest. Now, as the unassuming citizens Read More

Reach for Me

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: LeVar Burton writes, directs, and stars in this drama set in a hospice, and following two patients who realize how to live and love as they begin the dying process. Alfre Woodard and Seymour Cassel star. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sea of Dreams

Actors: Johnathon Schaech, Sendi Bar, Angélica María, Nicholas Gonzalez, Seymour Cassel, Sonia Braga

Synopsis: Mexican screen legend Angelica Maria returns to the silver screen for the first time in twenty years to star alongside Brazilian star Sonia Braga in this magic realism style film that eschews the cynicism and violence so common in 21st Century cinema to explore the mysteries and wonders of human Read More

The Wendell Baker Story

Actors: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Kris Kristofferson, Eva Mendes, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Owen, Luke, and Andrew Wilson combine their fraternal filmmaking talents to tell the character-driven tale of a small-time con man who gets a fortuitous shot at redemption while working in a run down retirement community. Wendell Baker (Luke Wilson) is a con man whose large heart betrays his Read More

Hollywood Dreams

Actors: Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, Zack Norman, David Proval, Karen Black

Synopsis: When an aspiring young starlet from Iowa falls in love with a handsome and promising young actor, she finds her dreams of fame slowly fading in a poignant tale of show-business aspirations from director Henry Jaglom. Upon arriving in Los Angeles to seek her fortune on film and stage, an innocent Read More

Circadian Rhythm

Actors: Rachel Miner, Seymour Cassel, David Anders, Sarah Wynter, Jonathan Banks

Big Heart City

Actors: Shawn Andrews, Seymour Cassel, Desi Lydic, Jake Alston

Synopsis: A recently paroled prisoner attempts to pick up where he last left off by landing a job at a Los Angeles warehouse and taking care of the pregnant girlfriend he once left behind in director Ben Rodkin's melancholy character study. But while the ageing warehouse foreman (Seymour Cassel) is Read More

Ray of Sunshine

Actors: Ashlea Wiest, Cheyenne Rushing, Curt Lowens, James Victor, James Wellington

Johnny 316

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Nina Brosh, Seymour Cassel, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Oscar Wilde's Salome is given a new contemporary interpretation in this independent drama from director Erick Ifergan. Sally (Nina Brosh) is a young woman who lonely and emotionally isolated, despite her beauty. When she isn't busy looking after her ailing mother (Louise Fletcher), Sally works as Read More

Artie Lange's Beer League

Actors: Artie Lange, Ralph Macchio, Anthony de Sando, Cara Buono, Jimmy Palumbo

Synopsis: An unemployed, alcoholic thirtysomething who still lives with his mother and can't seem to muster the motivation to turn his life around finds that all's fair in love and softball when his team is threatened with ejection from the league in a raunchy sports comedy starring Howard Stern Show Read More

Lonesome Jim

Actors: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: A less than auspicious homecoming for an introspective artist sets the stage for this low-key comedy drama directed by Steve Buscemi. Jim (Casey Affleck) is a chronically glum aspiring novelist who, after a failed two-year sojourn in New York City, has returned home to his parents' home in Goshen Read More

The Tenants

Actors: Dylan McDermott, Snoop Dogg, Rose Byrne, Seymour Cassel, Niki J. Crawford

Synopsis: A pair of writers inhabiting an abandoned New York tenement building become locked in an antagonistic battle of wills in director Danny Green's adaptation of novelist Bernard Malamud's studied exploration of faltering race relations. The time is the early '70s, and Jewish writer Harry Lesser (Dylan McDermott Read More

Heist [TV Series]

Actors: Dougray Scott, Michele Hicks, Steve Harris, Seymour Cassel, Reno Wilson

Synopsis: Apparently inspired by the success of the 2001 remake of Ocean's 11 and its sequels, the NBC series Heist spent its entire first season following a gang of clever and charismatic criminals as they prepared to rob three Rodeo Drive jewelers simultaneously on the eve of the annual Academy Awards Read More

The Black Widow

Actors: Giada Colagrande, Seymour Cassel, Willem Dafoe, Emily McDonnell, Isaach de Bankolé, Claudio Botosso

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1987 Bob Rafelson/Debra Winger thriller of the same title, the 2005 Black Widow stars Giada Colagrande as Eleanora, a woman amorously involved with the shady and eccentric Karl. When Karl dies, Eleanora embarks on a trip to his bizarre home -- known as 'The Rubber Read More

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Actors: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: The first effort from director Wes Anderson since his critically beloved The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou finds the filmmaker re-teaming with a number of familiar faces, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Seymour Cassel. Murray plays Steve Zissou, an Read More

The Sky is Green

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Steve Buscemi, Saffron Burrows, Michael Rapaport

Bittersweet Place

Actors: Seymour Cassel, Elisabeth Moss, Jennifer Albano, Michael Esper

Stuck on You

Actors: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Eva Mendes, Wen Yann Shih, Pat Crawford Brown

Synopsis: After tackling schizophrenia, obesity, and the inner workings of the vascular system (as represented by an animated Chris Rock), Peter and Bobby Farrelly set their comedic sights on a set of conjoined twins in this broad comedy. Written and directed by the non-twin Farrellys, Stuck on You stars Greg Kinnear Read More

Passionada

Actors: Jason Isaacs, Sofia Milos, Emmy Rossum, Theresa Russell, Lupe Ontiveros, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: A woman learning to trust men again finds herself falling for a man who may not be trustworthy in this romantic comedy. Celia Amonte (Sofia Milos) is a beautiful woman of Portuguese-American heritage who lost her husband, a fisherman, to an accident at sea. Eight years after his death, Celia Read More

Manna From Heaven

Actors: Maria Burton, Ursula Burton, Seymour Cassel, Shelley Duvall, Jill Eikenberry, Louise Fletcher, Frank Gorshin, Faye Grant, Harry Groener, Shirley Jones, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Sisters Gabrielle C. and Maria Burton direct the independent comedy Manna From Heaven, written by their mother, Gabrielle B. Burton, and produced by their siblings at Five Sisters Productions. In Buffalo, NY, during the '50s, the wind blows in cash money to the tune of 20 thousand dollars. Read More

A Good Night to Die

Actors: Michael Rapaport, Gary Stretch, Robin Givens, Ally Sheedy, Ralph Macchio

Synopsis: This crime comedy from director Craig Singer is the filmmaker's third independent feature and his second outing with screenwriter Robert Dean Klein and star Gary Stretch, who had contributed to 2001's Dead Dogs Lie, Singer's sophomore effort. Stretch plays Ronnie, a hitman who, three years prior Read More

Lucky [TV Series]

Actors: John Corbett

Synopsis: Lucky was the weekly comedy drama series for which star John Corbett turned down the opportunity to recreate his role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding for the CBS spin-off sitcom My Big Fat Greek Life. The title was a bit ironic; to be sure, high-stakes gambler Michael Linkletter fully deserved his Read More

Sonny

Actors: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari, Harry Dean Stanton, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Film superstar Nicolas Cage's directing debut, Sonny follows a very unconventional family as they struggle to overcome personal and financial adversity. Young Sonny (James Franco) returns home to New Orleans from Army service to find his mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn), a prostitute, in dire Read More

Stealing Harvard

Actors: Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Megan Mullally, Chris Penn, Jason Lee, Leslie Mann, Tom Green

Synopsis: Two buddies find themselves doing some very wrong things for perfectly right reasons in this broad comedy. John (Jason Lee) is a nice guy who is responsible and hardworking; his best friend Duff (Tom Green), however, is his polar opposite, a layabout who is constantly getting in some sort of Read More

The Sleepy Time Gal

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Martha Plimpton, Nick Stahl, Amy Madigan, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: Two women connected by family are drawn closer by fate in this low-key drama. Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman in her early fifties who had already begun to sense time was running out for her when she learned that she has cancer. While Frances is fighting the disease through medical Read More

Arli$$: Moments to Remember

The Royal Tenenbaums

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional family reunion. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Read More

61*

Actors: Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Noted baseball fan Billy Crystal directed this made-for-cable drama set in the summer of 1961, as two of the strongest hitters in the major leagues, Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) and Roger Maris (Barry Pepper), find themselves neck and neck in a battle to break Babe Ruth's long-standing record for Read More

Bartleby

Actors: David Paymer, Crispin Glover, Glenne Headly, Joe Piscopo, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: Herman Melville's short story Bartleby the Scrivener gets a slightly surreal update in this offbeat comedy drama. The manager (David Paymer) of the city records department in a mid-sized California community decides that his staff of three -- flirty chatterbox Vivian (Glenne Headly), sloppy Read More

Animal Factory

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Seymour Cassel, Mickey Rourke, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Steve Buscemi follows up on his restrained 1996 directorial debut Trees Lounge (1996) with this gritty, understated prison drama. Twenty-one-year-old suburban kid Ron (Edward Furlong) got busted for dealing drugs and slapped with an especially severe jail sentence. Though he Read More

The Crew

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, a group of retirees wants to save their homes -- but they're not typical senior citizens trying to make the most of their Social Security checks. Four aging former mobsters -- Joey "Bats" Pistella (Burt Reynolds), Bobby Bartellemeo (Richard Dreyfuss), Mike the Brick (Dan Hedaya Read More

Just One Night

Actors: Seymour Cassel, Timothy Hutton, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Udo Kier

Synopsis: A groom-to-be wanting to put his best foot forward finds that's not so simple in this updated screwball comedy. Isaac Adler (Timothy Hutton) is a straight-laced college professor who is invited to give a lecture in San Francisco on the day before his wedding. Adler accepts the invitation, certain Read More

Sex and Bullets

Synopsis: Sex and Bullets stars Judd Nelson and Seymour Cassel as a pair of hitmen who are on the run from a powerful mobster after they whack one of the mobster's sons. The two go their separate ways in order to hide more effectively, but each ends up being involved in a bizarre adventure. Max (Nelson) Read More

Stingers

Synopsis: A pair of low-rent hoods botch their shot at the big time in this stylish crime-drama. Ross (Andrew Roperto) and Martin (Richmond Arquette) are a pair of close friends and small-time hustlers looking for a bigger score. Ross and Martin are regulars at a downtown saloon, where they make the Read More

Relax ... It's Just Sex

Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Mitchell Anderson, Cynda Williams, Lori Petty, Serena Scott Thomas

Synopsis: Tara (Jennifer Tilly) hosts a dinner party. When she discusses the HIV-positive results of her lover's brother, others join in with their opinions on AIDS. Black artist Buzz (T.C. Carson), brought to the party as the date of Vincey (Mitchell Anderson), quickly becomes a twosome with Javi (Eddie Garcia Read More

Sweet Underground

Actors: Matthew Flint, Kevin Walls, Cindy Adkins, Alex Demir, Tracy Grant

Synopsis: Sweet Underground focuses on a group of self-styled bohemians in Los Angeles who, either through choice or happenstance, live along life's margins. Jack (Matthew Flint) was once a "respectable" citizen with a job, wife and children, but he's abandoned all that to pursue his dream of becoming a Read More

Snapped

Actors: Gaby Hoffmann, Johnny Zander, David Wheir, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: A framework of a standard crime drama gets turned on its head in the independent comedy/drama Snapped. Billy (Johnny Zander) swipes a bag of money from a diner in New York City and heads to East Hampton with the loot. Bob (Seymour Cassel), the owner of the cash in question, follows close behind Read More

Kubanisch Rauchen

Actors: Simon Licht, Thomas Morris, Seymour Cassel, Tatjana Alexander, Eva-Maria Straka

Synopsis: Austrian director Stephan Wagner makes his feature debut with this edgy deadpan film noir about two friends who -- upon opening an antique shop -- learn more about the themselves and the world around them than they cared to know. Former thug Bernd (Thomas Morris) grows weary of the crime racket Read More

Temps

Actors: Gabrielle C. Burton, Robert Pemberton, Ursula Burton, Tim Bohn, Katrina Stevens

Synopsis: An indie Gen-X film recalling the The Big Chill (1983), this movie concerns a group of friends in their late 20s who are still working out what they want to be when they grow up. Ally, a fledging filmmaker, jumps from one temp job to another; her boyfriend Ben works as a consultant, though he Read More

Rushmore

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox

Synopsis: After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with a quirky Touchstone Studios film entitled Rushmore. Written by Anderson and friend Owen Wilson (an actor in Armageddon and Anaconda), they created the story of Max Fischer, a highly eccentric Read More

Dream for an Insomniac

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, MacKenzie Astin, Michael Landes, Ione Skye

Synopsis: Set in San Francisco, this romantic comedy centers on the relationships between an aspiring actress and a blue-eyed handsome fellow who meets all her stringent requirements for being the "Perfect Boyfriend." Actress Frankie has spent much of her young-adult life living in an apartment of Uncle Read More

Me and Will

Actors: Melissa Behr, Sherrie Rose, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Melissa Behr and Sherrie Rose wrote, directed, and star in this offbeat road comedy about two women with a passion for motorcycles who meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, and blue chopper from Easy Rider, they escape the Read More

The Last Don

Actors: Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna, Daryl Hannah, Jason Gedrick, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: This crime drama, based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo, follows 20 years in the long reign of powerful Mafia kingpin Don Domenico Clericuzio (Danny Aiello). For years, the Clericuzios have been warring with a rival crime family, the Santadios, which is not helped when Domenico's daughter Read More

This World, Then the Fireworks

Actors: Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Sheryl Lee, Rue McClanahan, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Pulp fiction writer Jim Thompson's novels have been adapted into noirish movies such as The Grifters and this one, directed by Michael Oblowitz. This unusual dark tragedy is narrated by Marty (Billy Zane), a successful investigative reporter who is unhappy with his shy and sick wife. As children Read More

Obsession

Actors: Heike Makatsch, Charles Berling, Daniel Craig, Seymour Cassel, Allen Garfield

Synopsis: In order to solve a family mystery, John, a stonemason from Zimbabwe, travels to Berlin to search for 1928 footage of a tightrope walker at Niagara Falls. While there, he becomes romantically obsessed with Miriam, a French rock musician in an all-girl band. Unfortunately, Miriam is totally in love Read More

The Treat

Synopsis: Tony (Daniel Baldwin) runs a rather intriguing Hollywood brothel. His primary hookers -- Francesca (Julie Delpy), Mimi (Georgina Cates), and Dolly (Pamela Gidley) -- are given to elaborate, costumed, role-playing fantasies to please Tony's peculiar, highly emotional clientèle. The Read More

Trees Lounge

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Mark Boone, Jr., Chloë Sevigny, Michael Buscemi, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Character actor Steve Buscemi made his debut as a writer and director with this seriocomic tale of a guy who is going through something but doesn't know just what it is. Tommy is a 31-year-old auto mechanic who lost his last job after "borrowing" 1,500 dollars from the cash register and heading to Read More

Cosas Que Nunca Te Dije

Actors: Lili Taylor, Andrew McCarthy, Debi Mazar, Alexis Arquette, Leslie Mann

Synopsis: Filmed in St. Helens, Oregon, this comedy-drama centers on highly educated Anne, a young woman forced by circumstance to work in a photographic equipment store. Poor Anne goes into a terrible funk after her lover, a foreign correspondent assigned to Eastern Europe, dumps her via telephone. This Read More

I Sfagi Tou Kokora

Actors: Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Set upon the island of Cyprus, a pair of good friends who run a prominent nightclub/prostitution ring find their good life about to come unraveled when they receive a damning film that reveals them having disturbingly kinky sex. These acts happened years ago when both friends were migrant workers Read More

Dead Girl

Actors: Adam Coleman Howard, Anne Parillaud

Synopsis: Adam Coleman Howard wrote, directed, and stars in this gallows-comedy misfire as Ari Rose, an unsuccessful would-be actor whose treatment by Hollywood has driven him quite mad. He falls for a beautiful woman named Helen-Catherine (Anne Parillaud from La Femme Nikita and Innocent Blood) but Read More

Cannes Man

Actors: Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn, Rebecca Broussard

Synopsis: While at the Cannes Film Festival, producer Sy Learner (Seymour Cassel) makes a bet that he can turn any nobody into a star. A cabbie from New York named Frank (Francesco Quinn) becomes his test case as Sy tries to get Frank noticed amidst the stars and glitter of Cannes. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More

Cameleone

Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Seymour Cassel, Jackie Berroyer, Antoine Chappey

Synopsis: After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she Read More

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Actors: Don Cheadle, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Jenny McCarthy, Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams

Synopsis: In the mode of Quentin Tarantino, this film, directed by Gary Fleder from a script by Scott Rosenberg, concerns itself with hip, smart gangsters. The film is set in Denver, and the title comes from a Warren Zevon song. A retired, good-hearted gangster named Jimmy the Saint (Andy Garcia) runs a Read More

Dead Presidents

Actors: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez

Synopsis: Albert Hughes and his brother Allen Hughes followed their striking debut Menace II Society with this ambitious look at the social and political lives of the African-American community in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is a young man coming of age in the Bronx in 1968. Read More

Dark Side of Genius

Actors: Brent Fraser, Finola Hughes, Glenn Shadix, Moon Zappa, Patrick Richwood

Synopsis: In this thriller, a young art critic falls for a psychotic artist. Jennifer Cole can't help it. She is in love with artist Julian Jons. It doesn't matter that he was just released after spending 7 years in prison for killing his model/girlfriend in the heat of obsessive passion. It doesn't matter Read More

Imaginary Crimes

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Fairuza Balk, Kelly Lynch, Vincent D'Onofrio, Diane Baker

Synopsis: Usually cast in showy or unsympathetic supporting roles, Harvey Keitel here gets the rare chance to play a leading role as a "nice guy" -- albeit a nice guy with some serious problems -- in this family drama. Ray Weiler (Keitel) is the widowed father of two girls, high school senior Sonya (Fairuza Balk Read More

Hand Gun

Actors: Treat Williams, Seymour Cassel, Paul Schulze, Toby Huss, Angel Caban

Synopsis: Two estranged brothers discover that family secrets can have a high value on the wrong side of the law in this crime drama. Jack McCallister (Seymour Cassel) is an aging career criminal whose luck is about to give out; Jack and his henchmen are ambushed by police in the midst of a major robbery Read More

Tollbooth

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Lenny Von Dohlen, Will Patton,