Stephen TobolowskyFilmography

The Face Is Familiar

Beethoven's Big Break

Actors: Jonathan Silverman, Jennifer Finnigan, Rhea Perlman, Stephen Tobolowsky, Oscar Nuñez

Synopsis: Jonathan Silverman, Oscar Nunez, Cesar Millan, Rhea Perlman, and Eddie Griffin headline this installment of the popular film series featuring everyone's favorite fun-loving St. Bernard. Animal handler Eddie (Silverman) may deal with some of the best beasts in the business by day, but when it comes Read More

The Sasquatch Gang

Actors: Justin Long, Jeremy Sumpter, Addie Land, Joey Kern, Rob Pinkston, Hubbel Palmer

Synopsis: As a trio of fantasy-obsessed, sword fighting geeks attempt to prove that the giant tracks discovered deep in the forest offer undisputed proof that Bigfoot truly exists, a stoned out bully and his best friend scheme to profit from their elaborate prank before an overzealous Sasquatch hunter Read More

Blind Dating

Actors: Chris Pine, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Anjali Jay, Jane Seymour, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: James Keach's romantic comedy Blind Dating concerns a 22-year old blind man named Danny (Chris Pine}. Though Danny refuses to let his visual deficiency keep him from enjoying every aspect of life, he does shy away from women. When his brother Larry (Eddie Kaye Thomas) discovers Danny is a virgin Read More

Wild Hogs

Actors: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Ray Liotta

Synopsis: A mismatched group of bored suburbanites longing to escape the stress of their daily lives and embrace the freedom of the open road finds that it takes more than polished chrome and leather jackets to truly experience the biker lifestyle in this revved-up road comedy starring John Travolta, Tim Allen Read More

The Valley of Light

Actors: Chris Klein, Gretchen Mol, Zach Mills, Jay O. Sanders, Jeff Perry

Synopsis: Though filmed in Oregon, this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation is set in the American South, several months after the end of WW2. Decorated war hero Noah (Chris Klein) returns home to find his parents dead, his brother Travis (Jackson Rathbone) in prison, and his family farm in the hands of Read More

Totally Baked: A Pot-u-mentary

Synopsis: Director Lee Abbot takes a satirical look at the stereotypes and mythologies of marijuana in this satirical mockumentary following a father who is forced to speak honestly with his daughter about pot, and a pro-pot advocate who hatches an ingenious plan to change the way America views weed. Read More

Love Hollywood Style

Actors: Michael Stein, Andy Dick, Faye Dunaway, Bodhi Elfman, Kadeem Hardison

Synopsis: Actor-filmmaker Michael Stein writes, directs, and stars in this over-the-top satire of the Hollywood film industry. Set in Los Angeles on the eve of St. Valentine's Day, the indie comedy presents four different vignettes featuring a cast of characters ranging from a frustrated film projectionist Read More

Debating Robert Lee

Actors: Daniel Letterle, Beau Bridges, Kaley Cuoco, Dale Midkiff

Synopsis: A group of typical high-school students finds their foundations shaken and their beliefs challenged by a newly arrived debate teacher who makes it his mission to explore their innermost feelings on the subject of life and death. The setting is Palos Verdes, CA, and the teacher is Robert Lee (Dale Midkiff Read More

Loveless in Los Angeles

Actors: Dash Mihok, Brittany Daniel, James Lesure, Navi Rawat, Geoffrey Arend

Synopsis: A reality television producer whose handsome exterior is only exceeded by his cruel cynicism reconnects with the one woman who may have the power to cure him of his womanizing ways in director Archie Gips' blistering romantic comedy. Dave Randall (Dash Mihok) used to be a great guy, but then he Read More

Boxboarders!

Actors: James Immekus, Austin Basis

Synopsis: A lazy day lounging under the California sun turns into a cash windfall for two high school surfers who create a new sport that starts to spread like wildfire. Bored teens Ty Neptune and James James were just attempting to have a bit of fun when they spotted a refrigerator box in a dumpster Read More

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano Jr., William Shatner, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: FBI agent-turned-reluctant beauty queen Gracie Hart (played by Sandra Bullock) is taking on both bad guys and high glamour again in this sequel to the comedy smash Miss Congeniality. After her undercover mission at the Miss United States pageant becomes public knowledge, Gracie becomes something Read More

Robots

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks

Synopsis: For this follow-up to their mega-hit Ice Age, directors Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge team with the screenwriting duo behind Parenthood and City Slickers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Robots stars Ewan McGregor as the voice of Rodney Copperbottom, an idealistic robot who wants to convince his Read More

Pope Dreams

Actors: Phillip Vaden, Julie Hagerty, Stephen Tobolowsky, Marnette Patterson, Noel Fisher

Synopsis: A young dreamer and directionless drummer attempts to get his terminally-ill mother an audience with the Pope while doing his best to impress his dream girl, earn a decent living by working in his father's warehouse, and navigating the unpredictable road to happiness. In a number of ways, Andy Read More

Living 'til the End

Actors: Sean Maher, Jaime Ray Newman, Stephen Tobolowsky, Janet Carroll

Synopsis: Amanda Goodwin's Living 'Til the End concerns a man who, after being told by a psychic that he will die on his next birthday, decides to set up his life so that he never has to leave his apartment. His phobia about the prediction coming true manifests itself as a form of severe agoraphobia. The Read More

McBride: The Doctor Is out... Really Out

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of a series starring John Larroquette as McBride (no first name), a hard-nosed cop turned compassionate defense lawyer, specializing in "lost causes." This time, McBride's client is Leo Eckert (David Bowe), who is convinced that he accidentally shot and killed Read More

Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party

Actors: Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: The documentary Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party stars the well-respected character actor as a camera crew follow him around on his birthday, He shares numerous stories about his adventures in Hollywood, and relates a number of strange anecdotes from his remarkable life. ~ Perry Seibert, All Read More

Little Black Book

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates, Ron Livingston, Julianne Nicholson

Synopsis: Directed by Nick Hurran, Little Black Book follows Stacy (Brittany Murphy), an associate producer of a popular daytime talk show starring Kippie Kann (Kathy Bates), as she tries to figure out the root of her boyfriend's (Ron Livingston) commitment-phobic nature. Rather than continue to fruitlessly Read More

Garfield: The Movie

Actors: Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Debra Messing, Stephen Tobolowsky, Evan Arnold

Synopsis: Jim Davis' famous cartoon cat finally makes his way to the big screen in this adaptation of the popular comic strip Garfield, which combines live action with CGI animation. Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) is a sweet, if somewhat clueless, man who shares his home with his pet cat, Garfield (voice of Bill Murray Read More

Frankie and Johnny Are Married

Actors: Lisa Chess, Michael Pressman, Alan Rosenberg, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jillian Armenante

Synopsis: Successful television director and film producer Michael Pressman sets off with high hopes when he decides to helm a film production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. He believes the experience of directing a film starring his struggling actress of a wife (Lisa Chess) will be a fun and Read More

Freaky Friday

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray

Synopsis: A high-strung mom and her punky daughter learn what it's like to walk in each other's shoes -- literally -- in Disney's second update of their 1977 teen fantasy comedy. The new-millennium Freaky Friday has disgruntled teen Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) living, sans father, with her uptight Read More

View from the Top

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Candice Bergen, Christina Applegate, Mike Myers

Synopsis: Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto directs this comic look at the world of flight attendants starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a small town Nevada woman who dreams of seeing the world by becoming a first class international stewardess. Lacking the requisite poise and class, Donna finds a mentor in Read More

National Security

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Robinne Lee, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling action comedy. Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence), escalating Read More

Kingpin

Actors: Yancey Arias, Sheryl Lee, Bobby Cannavale, Brian Benben, Ruben Carbajal

Synopsis: Widely touted as NBC's answer to The Sopranos, the six-episode series Kingpin also drew heavily from the British mini-series Traffik. The nominal protagonist in this seamy, violent tale of a Mexican drug-trading family was Yancey Arias as Miguel Cadena, the Stanford-educated heir apparent to the Read More

The Dead Zone: Plague

Synopsis: A SARS-like virus, initially spread at a high school science fair, threatens to claim Johnny's son, J.J. (Spencer Achtymichuk), as a victim. In order to save the boy's life, Johnny (Anthony Michael Hall) must deploy his psychic powers to solve a medical mystery. Alas, this also requires Johnny to Read More

Love Liza

Actors: Jim Wise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Jack Kehler, Sarah Koskoff, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Love Liza is a psychological drama about a man trying to come to terms with his wife's suicide. Wilson Joel (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) is searching for answers as to why his wife, Liza, killed herself. He is unable to bring himself to read the suicide note Liza left behind. Instead of facing his Read More

The Country Bears

Actors: Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Diedrich Bader

Synopsis: This family musical enjoys the dubious distinction of being the first film ever based on a theme park attraction, the "Country Bears Jamboree" at Disneyworld. Beary Barrington (voice of Haley Joel Osment) is an adolescent bruin raised by a human family after he was found by a park ranger Read More

Adaptation

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: The creative team behind Being John Malkovich -- director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the Read More

The Operator

Actors: Frances Bay, Brion James, Jacqueline Kim, Michael Laurence, Christa Miller

Synopsis: Jon Dichter directs this taut psychological thriller about a narcissistic man getting his overdue comeuppance from a vengeful telephone operator. Lawyer Gary Wheelan (Michael Laurence) lives the good life -- he has a beautiful wife, a huge bank account, and an excess of young female associates. He Read More

Memento

Actors: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: A man is determined to find justice after the loss of a loved one, even though he is incapable of fully remembering the crime, in this offbeat thriller. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a man who is struggling to put his life back together after the brutal rape and murder of his wife. But Leonard's Read More

On the Edge

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Paul Rudd, Anthony LaPaglia, John Goodman, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: First seen over the Showtime cable network on June 29, 2001, On the Edge is a compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant. The first segment, directed by Helen Mirren, is "Happy Birthday," in which a straight-A student (Sidney Tamilia Poitier) seeks Read More

Black River

Actors: Jay Mohr, Diana Stevan, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ann Cusack, Lisa Edelstein

Synopsis: Sci-fi novelist Bo Aikens (Jay Mohr) is fed up with life in Los Angeles. He heads out of the hustle and bustle of the big city to the small, idyllic town of Black River, where everyone is happy, contented and welcoming of strangers -- except for a burly redneck, but he'll be put straight soon Read More

The Day the World Ended

Actors: Randy Quaid, Bobby Edner, Nastassja Kinski

Synopsis: A woman trying to help a disturbed child discovers his nightmarish fears are all too real in this sci-fi horror opus. Dr. Jennifer Stillman (Nastassja Kinski) is a child psychologist from New York City who takes a job working at an elementary school in a small Nevada community. Jennifer is seen as Read More

Emilio Santiago: Bossa Nova

Actors: Amy Irving, Antonio Fagundes, Alexandre Borges, Debora Bloch, Drica Moraes, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Recalling late period films from Francois Truffaut and American 1930s screwball comedies, Bruno Barreto directs this elegant romantic comedy set in Brazil. Mary Ann Simpson (Amy Irving) is a middle-aged American widow teaching English in Rio de Janeiro. Since her pilot husband died two years Read More

Stanley's Gig

Actors: William Sanderson, Marla Gibbs, Faye Dunaway, Stephen Tobolowsky, Paul Benjamin

Synopsis: A tribute to the fabled jazz scene of L.A.'s Central Avenue during the 1930s and '40s, Stanley's Gig opens on a Hawaiian cruise ship where charismatic waster Stanley Myer (William Sanderson) has gotten a gig playing his ukulele for a group of filthy rich businessmen. The gig, arranged by his Read More

Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes

Actors: Steven Weber, Swoosie Kurtz, Gail O'Grady, Nina Siemaszko, Gabriel Mann

Synopsis: Michael O'Connell ran several video stores in Denver, CO, before taking up screenwriting, and the endless stream of direct-to-video thrillers that littered his shelves inspired his script for this satiric black comedy. Hutch Rimes (Steven Weber) runs an insurance company, and even though he's Read More

The Prime Gig

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Julia Ormond, Ed Harris, Rory Cochrane, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Vince Vaughn stars in this drama as Pendleton "Penny" Wise, a gifted telemarketer who can sell almost anything over the phone. He's making a good living doing phone sales for Mick (Stephen Tobolowsky), until Mick's operation goes bust without enough funds to pay Penny or his co-workers Archie Read More

The Insider

Actors: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: The Insider tells the true story of a man who decided to tell the world what the seven major tobacco companies knew (and concealed) about the dangers of their product. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he Read More

One Man's Hero

Actors: Tom Berenger, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniela Romo, Mark Moses, Stuart Graham

Synopsis: A little known chapter from the Mexican-American War is brought to the screen in this historical drama based on fact. In 1846, shortly before the United States turned its aggressions against Mexico into armed conflict, John Riley (Tom Berenger) and a group of U.S. soldiers crossed the border into Read More

Mad About You: Uncle Phil Goes Back to High School

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Mel Brooks is back as Paul's redoubtable Uncle Phil. As Paul (Paul Reiser) stands on the sidelines with mouth agape, Uncle Phil elects to go for his high school diploma -- some 63 years after dropping out. This plot development is almost as fascinating as the breast-transplant treatment undergone Read More

Black Dog

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Vincent

Synopsis: Kevin Hooks (Passenger 57) directed this action drama about an ex-convict tricked into trucking illegal weapons across state lines. Truckdriver Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze) fell asleep at the wheel, resulting in an accident that brought him a conviction of vehicular manslaughter and a two-year Read More

Burn Hollywood Burn

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Richard Jeni, Eric Idle

Synopsis: First, a little background: in 1955, the Director's Guild of America created the pseudonym Alan Smithee, which film directors are allowed to use if they feel their work has been tampered with to such a degree that they no longer want the credit. (For example, if you look at the credits of the Read More

Boys Life 2

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mary Beth Hurt, Miles Perlich, Brett Barsky, J.D. Cerna, Jonah Rooney

Synopsis: The second outing in the Boys Life series collects another set of gay-themed shorts. Must Be the Music follows a group of Los Angeles teens, three gay and one straight, through a night of romantic misadventures at a hip dance club. In Nunzio's Second Cousin, police Sgt. Tony Randozzy (Vincent Read More

The Drew Carey Show: The Dog and Pony Show

Synopsis: Assigned to take care of Mrs. Louder's prize purebred dog during her absence, Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson) shifts the responsibility to Drew (Drew Carey)--without Drew's knowledge. Finding what he thinks is a stray mutt on his premises, Drew unwittingly has the prize pooch shaved and neutered. The Read More

Mr. Magoo

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Action-adventure director Stanley Tong (Supercop, Rumble in the Bronx) did a change of pace by directing this live-action adaptation of UPA's bumbling, near-sighted Mr. Magoo the animated-series character created during the '40s by John Hubley and others for the cartoon short Ragtime Bear (1949). Read More

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

Actors: Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Veronica Lauren, Kevin Timothy Chevalia, Michael J. Fox, Sally Field, Benji Thall

Synopsis: Two dogs and a cat, separated from their human family, must find their way home and face the dangers of a big city for the first time in this adventure story for the whole family. Bob Seaver (Robert Hays) and his wife Laura (Kim Greist), who live in Northern California, are taking their kids on a Read More

Night Visitors

Actors: Faith Ford, Thomas Gibson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Charles S. Dutton, Christopher Gray

Synopsis: Following her brother's death, a graduate student looks into his demise and finds that he had stolen a box filled with alien remains. Now she too is in terrible danger as the government is determined to keep the secret. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Power 98

Actors: Eric Roberts, Jason Gedrick, Jennie Garth, Larry Drake, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: An LA radio talk show host with a night call-in program finds his rating soar after a psychopathic killer becomes a regular caller in this low-budget thriller. Dee jay Karlin Pickett is known for being a wild and crazy guy. He is first seen working in Phoenix. He picks up a girl in a bar and Read More

The Glimmer Man

Actors: Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton, Brian Cox, Michelle Johnson

Synopsis: Two cops with almost nothing in common find themselves brought together to capture a psychotic murderer in this action thriller. Jack Cole (Steven Seagal) was once a government intelligence operative known as "The Glimmer Man," because he could move so quickly and quietly that his victims would Read More

Murder in the First

Actors: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, William H. Macy

Synopsis: This shocking prison drama was inspired by a true story. In 1938, Henri Young (Kevin Bacon), sentenced to Alcatraz for stealing $5, attempted to escape from prison with three other prisoners. One of the escapees was captured, and to curry favor with Warden Glenn (Gary Oldman), he informed on the Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

Actors: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a man whose scientific meddling has unexpected results gets a cross-gender update in this comedy. Richard Jacks (Tim Daly) is a research scientist trying to work his way up the ladder at a major perfume company when he inherits the notebooks of his Read More

My Father The Hero

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James, Lauren Hutton, Faith Prince

Synopsis: Disney not only recycled the French farce Mon Pere, Ce Heros but brought back the lead actor of the original, Gerard Depardieu, for the Americanized remake My Father, the Hero. Depardieu plays Andre, the loving but neglectful French father of fourteen-year old Nicole (Katherine Heigl), who now Read More

Radioland Murders

Actors: Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty, George Burns, Scott Michael Campbell

Synopsis: A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer George Lucas. In 1939, Penny Henderson (Mary Stuart Masterson) is the harried general secretary and de facto manager of a new fourth radio network, WBN. On the night that the Read More

Trevor

Synopsis: In this sensitively-wrought Canadian short, a 13-year-old boy who loves Diana Ross songs comes to terms with his sexuality. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The Pickle

Actors: Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon, Clotilde Courau, Shelley Winters, Barry Miller, Jerry Stiller, Chris Penn, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged man looking back on his life's failures. Harry Stone (Danny Aiello) is a film director who desperately needs a hit -- so desperately that he gets talked into directing an Read More

Calendar Girl

Actors: Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds, Jerry O'Connell, Joe Pantoliano, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: Lots of guys used to dream about having a date with Marilyn Monroe, but three friends who are about to graduate from high school to go their separate ways try to make that fantasy a reality in this comedy, set in 1962. Roy (Jason Priestley), Ned (Gabriel Olds), and Scott (Jerry O'Connell) have Read More

Josh and S.A.M.

Actors: Jacob Tierney, Noah Fleiss, Martha Plimpton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joan Allen

Synopsis: In this road movie, the motorists are a pair of preteens--brothers Josh (Jacob Tierney) and Sam (Noah Fleiss)--who hit the highway after their parents announce their pending divorce. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Groundhog Day

Actors: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty

Synopsis: Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp. Phil displays a charm and wit on camera that evaporates the moment the red light goes off; he is bitter, appallingly self-centered, and treats his Read More

Hero

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Stephen Frears' Hero is a contemporary re-working of a Frank Capra-styled fable about a two-bit criminal named Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) who saves several passengers from a plane crash and leaves the scene without being identified, leaving only a lost shoe for identification. One of the passengers Read More

Where the Day Takes You

Actors: Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Dobson, Balthazar Getty, Ricki Lake, James LeGros, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collection of young runaways. Among the people in his sphere are the young self-destructive drug addict Greg (Sean Astin), self-hating gay prostitute Read More

Sneakers

Actors: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, David Strathairn

Synopsis: In this tech-thriller from director Phil Alden Robinson, a group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop (Robert Redford), are hired by the government to steal a black box, containing a code-breaking machine, from the mathematician who invented the device. The government is able to Read More

Single White Female

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber, Peter Friedman, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: In this psychological thriller, a needy young woman finds fulfillment by trying to literally become her successful roommate. Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Read More

Roadside Prophets

Actors: John Doe, Adam Horowitz, David Carradine, Dr. Timothy Leary, Arlo Guthrie

Synopsis: Screenwriter/electrician Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with the offbeat road movie Roadside Prophets. Brooding factory worker Joe (X front man John Doe) takes a road trip in order to scatter the ashes of his co-worker Dave Coleman (David Anthony Marshall). Riding his vintage Harley Read More

Basic Instinct

Actors: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt

Synopsis: This cold, stylish erotic-thriller grossed over $100 million at the box-office despite vigorous protests at its depiction of gays and women. The shocking opening sequence features a graphic sexual encounter involving a rock-star bound with a white Hermes scarf by an unidentified blond woman. Read More

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Actors: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Chevy Chase stars, though not always visibly, as Nick Halloway, a low-level businessman with an acerbic approach to life and work, whose humdrum existence utterly bores him. Nick gets an unexpected jolt of excitement when, nursing a hangover, he's the only one not to evacuate an office building Read More

Thelma & Louise

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon play Thelma and Louise, two working-class friends who together have planned a weekend getaway from the men in their lives. Thelma's husband, Darryl (Chris McDonald), is an overbearing oaf, and Louise's boyfriend, Jimmy (Michael Madsen), simply will not commit. Though Read More

Wedlock

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, James Remar, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: In this futuristic action drama directed by Lewis Teague, Frank Warren (Rutger Hauer) is a man accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of gems. In prison, all the inmates wear collars which are electronically joined to those of an unknown partner. The collars will explode if either partner Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster

Actors: Raymond Burr, Paul Anka, Mike Nader, Mason Adams, Barbara Hale

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must reevaluate his legal principles when an old buddy asks him to represent the gangster suspected of murdering his wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Megaville

Actors: Billy Zane, J.C. Quinn, Grace Zabriskie, Kristen Cloke, Daniel J. Travanti

Synopsis: In a futuristic world, the U.S. is ruled by a repressive government that bans most forms of media. As part of the enforcement, a cop (Billy Zane) is sent to the rebel state of Megaville on an undercover mission to infiltrate an unlawful media organization. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Face Value

Actors: Cheryl Pollak, Dale Midkiff, Kirk Baltz

Synopsis: This suspenseful drama tells the chilling true story of up-and-coming model Marla Hanson who was viciously attacked by a make-up man after she rejected his advances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Medicine

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Susan Ruttan

Synopsis: Actress Susan Ruttan, who played the quietly efficient legal secretary on LA Law, does an artistic about-face in the TV movie Deadly Medicine. She plays a Texas pediatrics nurse who may have committed several "mercy killings" of her charges. 43 babies die under mysterious circumstances, with Ms. Read More

The Grifters

Actors: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John Cusack Read More

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Actors: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins, Thomas Wilson Brown, Joan McMurtrey

Synopsis: In this film, the small town of Clyde, Ohio is buzzing with excitement when it is said that the famous Roxy Carmichael is leaving her luxurious Hollywood life to return to her old hometown. Her return causes upheaval in the lives of family-man Denton Webb (Jeff Daniels), her old boyfriend, and an Read More

Funny About Love

Actors: Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky, Stephen Tobolowsky, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: The once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between star Gene Wilder and director Leonard Nimoy resulted in the charmingly haphazard and anachronistic Funny About Love. Wilder plays political cartoonist Duffy Bergman, who falls in love with much-younger Meg (Christine Lahti) during a book-signing Read More

Bird on a Wire

Actors: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, Jeff Corey, Bill Duke, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: The can't-miss teaming of Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn is squandered on a clumsy, illogical romantic melodrama. Running across her old boyfriend Gibson at a Wisconsin gas station, Hawn is astounded that he seems not to recognize her. How could she have known that Gibson was put into the Witness Read More

Last Flight Out

Synopsis: This tension-filled made-for-television drama is set a few hours before the Viet Cong took over Saigon in 1975 and chronicles the struggle of Americans and Vietnamese to be on board the last commercial flight out of the city. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tagget

Synopsis: A disabled ex-Green Beret who served in Vietnam begins getting clues of his forgotten past via flashbacks and attempts to make sense of it. Apparently, he makes somebody uncomfortable in doing so, and soon is a target for a more complete cover-up. This story of intrigue and dangerous political Read More

Mirror, Mirror

Actors: Karen Black, Rainbow Harvest, Kristin Dattilo-Hayward, Ricky Paull Goldin, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: In this straightforward horror film, a new widow (Karen Black) and her daughter (Rainbow Harvest) have just moved into a new home. They don't discover until much later that the previous owner was mad, mad, mad. By then, the mirror that the woman left behind in the house has served its purpose as a Read More

Breaking In

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Lorraine Toussaint, Albert Salmi

Synopsis: In this comedy (which claims a strong pedigree -- it was written by John Sayles and directed by Bill Forsyth), Burt Reynolds plays Ernie, an aging career burglar who knows just about everything there is to know about breaking and entering. One night, Ernie has stealthily slipped into a home only Read More

In Country

Actors: Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, John Terry

Synopsis: Norman Jewison directed this subdued character study of the effect of the Vietnam War on a small-town Kentucky family -- based on the novel by Bobbi Ann Mason. The film centers upon 17-year-old Samantha (Emily Lloyd) who lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her Uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a quiet Read More

Great Balls of Fire!

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Trey Wilson

Synopsis: Until its last 10 minutes or so, this filmed biography of controversial recording star Jerry Lee Lewis plays like a live-action cartoon. As played by Dennis Quaid, "the killer" is a very mixed-up individual: a saintly sinner, a world-wise naif, a skilled performer with zero sense of discipline, a Read More

Checking Out

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker, Kathleen York, Allan Havey

Synopsis: Jeff Daniels stars in this tedious situation comedy concerning the middle-aged terror of illness and mortality. Scripted by Joe Eszterhas, Daniels plays Southern Californian Ray Macklin, who thinks he will live forever but realizes the fallacy of his idea when his best friend drops dead in front Read More

Roe vs. Wade

Actors: Holly Hunter, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Based on the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a woman's right to have an abortion, the made-for-television film Roe Vs. Wade follows an unmarried Texas woman (Holly Hunter) and her lawyer (Amy Madigan), as they take her case to the Supreme Court. Abortion is always a controversial Read More

Mississippi Burning

Actors: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself Read More

2 Idiots in Hollywood

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: 2 Idiots in Hollywood is an expansion of the cult theatrical production of the same name. Jim McGrath and Jeff Doucette play a pair of star-struck guys with all sorts of million-dollar showbiz schemes. Two roadblocks stand in the way of their success: (1) They live in Dayton, Ohio; and (2) Read More

Spaceballs

Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy Read More

Nobody's Fool

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Eric Roberts, Mare Winningham, Jim Youngs, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This sharp drama is about the trials and tribulations of a young woman defeated by her past, yet tempted to overcome it through a meaningful relationship. Cassie (Rosanna Arquette) works as a waitress in a southwestern town. Not that long ago, she stabbed her lover (and the father of her baby) in Read More

True Stories

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Byrne, John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Alix Elias

Synopsis: Director David Byrne (of Talking Heads) takes an outside-looking-in glance at Texas and Texans in True Stories. Casting himself as the protagonist/narrator, Byrne adopts what he thinks is "standard" western garb and drives his red convertible into the small town of Virgil. Here he observes the Read More

Alice: Vera, the Nightbird

Synopsis: Once again short of funds, Vera (Beth Howland) takes a second job as a radio deejay. Calling herself "Nightbird", Vera adopts an uncharacteristically sexy voice for her on-mike persona. Sure enough, our heroine attracts a huge fan following consisting of lonely males--and nearly wrecks her Read More

The Philadelphia Experiment

Actors: Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby Di Cicco, Kene Holliday

Synopsis: This science fiction thriller was inspired by a mythical real-life event, the WWII era disappearance of an entire naval vessel during a radar-cloaking test. In 1943, David Herdeg Michael Pare and Jim Parker Bobby DiCicco are sailors stationed aboard a Virginia battleship. Their vessel is Read More

Swing Shift

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme made one of his more conventional movies with Swing Shift, an examination of life on the American home front during WWII. Goldie Hawn, who also served as the film's producer, stars as Kay, a woman who takes a job on the line at a plant producing war planes after her husband Read More

Cocaine and Blue Eyes

Actors: O.J. Simpson, Candy Clark, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: Cocaine and Blue Eyes was the pilot film for a TV detective series starring former footballer O.J. Simpson (who also produced the film). Playing a private eye in San Francisco, Simpson is hired by a man who ends up seriously dead. The deceased client had wanted Simpson to locate a former girl Read More

Keep My Grave Open

Actors: Camilla Carr

Synopsis: This unsettling but moody low-budget psycho-thriller -- a drive-in version of Repulsion with a Southern Gothic flavor -- stars the eerie-looking Camilla Carr as a demented young recluse who believes herself to be possessed by the spirit of her long-lost brother (who is presumed dead), and slays Read More