Susan Anspach Filmography

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Actors: Luke Askew, Todd Field, Ben Johnson, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: High in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, a cache of stolen bank money was hidden back in the 1960s. LA based lawyer Bill Paxton, whose security-guard father (David Michael-Standing) has long been held responsible for the heist-he was the only survivor when his armored car was Read More

The Rutanga Tapes

Synopsis: The tapes referred to in the movie title contain evidence revealing a chemical-weapons industry sanctioned by a Soviet-block country; they are filled with computer statistics of the African natives who have succumbed to the illegally dispensed chemicals. The evidence fall into the unwitting hands Read More

Blood Red

Actors: Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn

Synopsis: Siblings Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts appear in this old-fashioned saga about oppressed Sicilian wine-growers in 19th-century California. Giancarlo Giannini stars as Sebastian Collogero, the robust Italian patriarch who is battling with railroad mogul William Bradford Berrigan (Dennis Hopper) to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dead Letter

Synopsis: Purchasing an antique bureau at a furniture store rummage sale, Jessica finds an old, undelivered letter in one of the drawers. For reasons made clear in the episode, she turns the letter over to a local volunteer fireman (Jonathan Goldsmith)--who later perishes in a blaze that was deliberately Read More

Into the Fire

Actors: Susan Anspach, Art Hindle, Olivia D'Abo, Lee Montgomery, Maureen McRae

Synopsis: A young drifter is caught in the clutches of a pair of femme fatales (Susan Anspach and Olivia D'Abo) in this thriller also known as Legend of Wolf Lodge. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Blue Monkey

Actors: Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Susan Anspach, John Vernon, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: This slick throwback to the giant-mutant-insect movies of the 1950's has built a small reputation solely on its irrelevant title -- the film contains no monkeys, blue or otherwise -- which confused both reviewers and viewers alike. (This dilemma was solved in its second video incarnation, under Read More

Heaven and Earth

Hitchhiker, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Page Fletcher stars as the title character in this 1983-1988 made-for-cable suspense anthology. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Misunderstood

Actors: Gene Hackman, Henry Thomas, Rip Torn, Huckleberry Fox, Maureen Kerwin

Synopsis: In Misunderstood, Henry Thomas ("Elliot" in E.T.) co-stars with Gene Hackman as a son-and-father duo who through no fault of their own fail to communicate their mutual affection. Ned (Hackman) is a shipping magnate living with his family in a villa in Tunisia when he suffers through the death of Read More

Gone Are the Dayes

Synopsis: The wacky comedy-melodrama Gone are the Dayes was assembled in 1984 as an "original production" for the Disney cable channel. While dining out at a Japanese restaurant, the Day family witnesses a gangland slaying. Federal agent Mitchell (Harvey Korman) persuades the Daye parents (Susan Anspach, Robert Hogan Read More

The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

American Eagle

The First Time

Synopsis: After running away with her boyfriend, a teenager is searched for by her mother and an old friend in San Diego. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Encounter

Synopsis: In this exciting aerial actioner, a young woman convinces her ex-boy friend, who used to fly a chopper in Vietnam, to help her out. The airborne special effects are particularly effective. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The First Time

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Susan Anspach, John Anderson, Peter Barton, Alex Rocco

Gas

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Susan Anspach, Howie Mandel, Sterling Hayden, Sandee Currie

Synopsis: When the money-hungry Duke Stuyvesant (Sterling Hayden) orchestrates a phony gas shortage, chaos ensues in a small Midwestern town. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Devil and Max Devlin

Actors: Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach, Adam Rich, Julie Budd

Synopsis: The title character, a nasty landlord (Elliott Gould), is killed in a car accident and descends into hell. There he meets the Devil (Bill Cosby), who promises him his life back if he can find three people willing to sell their souls in three months. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Montenegro

Actors: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson, John Zacharias, Svetozar Cvetkovic

Synopsis: Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach), an American-born housewife, mother, and socialite living in Sweden, is crumbling under the weight of her own existence. She deeply resents her husband Martin's (Erland Josephson) frequent holiday absences and his indifferent attitude toward their two children ("If Read More

Portrait of an Escort

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Portrait of an Escort stars Susan Anspach as a divorcee in financial straits, has a daughter to support. She takes a job with a professional dating service, charging fifty dollars per customer. Anspach last client of the evening turns out to be a man whose intentions are apparently Read More

The Last Giraffe

Synopsis: The Last Giraffe was adapted by Sherman Yellin from the book Raising Daisy Rothschild by Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville. Put two and two together, and you'll figure out from the above information that the giraffe of the title and Daisy Rothschild are one in the same. Filmed in Kenya, the Read More

Running

Actors: Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Larry Dane, Chuck Shamata, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: Despite the promise of his early career, the life of former world-class runner Michael Andropolis has been a crashing failure. The icing on his life's bitter cake was his divorce from the woman he still loves. Wanting to win back both his wife and his self-respect, Andropolis decides to start Read More

The Big Fix

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, Ofelia Medina

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss plays Moses Wine, an ex-Sixties radical who pays the bills as a private eye. Wine is hired to stem a smear campaign against a popular political candidate. Gradually the plot thickens into a murder case, involving a hippie leader whose values, like Wine's, have been severely Read More

Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women

Synopsis: When an heiress is falsely accused of the murder of her husband, she is assisted by 2 crafty criminal lawyers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mad Bull

Synopsis: A burly professional wrestler falls in love with a caring woman who helps convince him to abandon his vengeful search for the one who murdered his brother in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Secret Life of John Chapman

Synopsis: In this drama, a college president takes a sabbatical so he can work as a ditch-digger and a cafe cook. The story is based on John Chapman's autobiographical book, Blue Collar Journal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Want to Keep My Baby

Actors: Mariel Hemingway

Synopsis: I Want to Keep My Baby is a cautionary TV movie starring Mariel Hemingway as a pregnant 15-year-old girl. She is pressured by her mother (Susan Anspach) to keep her baby, despite the warnings of a social worker (Rhea Perlman) that the girl is emotionally and financially unable to care for the Read More

Nashville

Actors: Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious Read More

Blume in Love

Actors: George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: In the Los Angeles of yoga, therapy, and well-off liberals, a divorcé decides that his ex-wife is the love of his life in Paul Mazursky's romantic comedy. Beverly Hills divorce lawyer Stephen Blume (George Segal) becomes his own client when his social worker wife Nina (Susan Anspach) throws him Read More

For the Use of the Hall

Actors: Susan Anspach, Barbara Barrie, George Furth, David Hedison, Aline MacMahon

Play It Again, Sam

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy, Susan Anspach

Synopsis: Herbert Ross directed this adaptation of Woody Allen's hit Broadway play concerning a shy film critic who has trouble with women. Woody Allen plays Allan Felix, a writer for Film Quarterly consumed by movies, particularly his favorite film of all time, Casablanca. At the start of the film, Allan's Read More

The Landlord

Actors: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Marki Bey, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis: Wealthy, insensitive young Beau Bridges buys an inner-city tenement, planning to evict the present occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. But once he ventures into the tenement, he grows quite fond of the low-income ethnic types who dwell within. He even kicks over the traces of his Read More

Five Easy Pieces

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Susan Anspach, Billy Green Bush, Helena Kallianiotes, Sally Struthers, Richard Stahl

Synopsis: A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy Read More

The Journey of the Fifth Horse

Synopsis: In 1966, a year before he rose to overnight fame in The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman won an Obie Award for his performance in Journey of the Fifth Horse, a stage adaptation by Ronald Ribman of the story Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev. The play was videotaped for public television that Read More