Susan Isaacs Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Producer, Screenwriter, Book Author

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Mr. Big

Actors: Terry Allington, Tiffany Burns, Kevin Dorencott, Brett Hyde, Susan Isaacs

Synopsis: The questionable interrogation tactics of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are illuminated in this documentary from broadcast news reporter turned filmmaker Tiffany Burns. An interrogation tactic that first became known to the Canadian public following the 1998 case in which a Manitoba man was Read More

2007
Married... With Children: Birthday Boy Toy

Synopsis: Marcy (Amanda Bearse) lives to regret giving her husband Jefferson (Ted McGinley) a free membership in her health club. Before long, Jefferson has become the club's star attraction--and also a chick magnate. Meanwhile, Bud (David Faustino) directs Kelly (Christina Applegate) and Al (Ed O'Neill) in Read More

1997
The Drew Carey Show: What the Zoning Inspector Saw

Synopsis: Attracted to a girl named Bonnie (played by Caroline Rhea of Sabrina the Teenage Witch fame), Drew (Drew Carey) invites her to see the microbrewery in his home--only to discover that Bonnie is a zoning inspector, and that he's in a heap of trouble for not having a home-business permit. When in Read More

1996
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Ain't No Business Like Show Business

Synopsis: D.L. Hughley makes one of his first TV appearances as Keith, a comedian friend of Will Smith (played by--who else?). Accompanying his pal to an audition, Will ends up with a comedy-showcase standup gig himself--leading to a tense showdown with Keith, who really, REALLY needs the job! Meanwhile, in Read More

1993
Delirious

Actors: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Robert Wagner, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy. Jack finds himself embroiled in protecting his beloved Laura (Emma Samms), an actress who plays Rachel Hedison in Jack's show -- "Beyond Read More

8/9/91
The War of the Roses

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin

Synopsis: Divorce lawyer Danny De Vito warns his prospective client that the story he's about to tell isn't a pretty one, but the client listens with eager intensity -- as do the folks out there in the movie in the audience. The War of the Roses can best be described as a slapstick tragedy concerning the Read More

12/8/89
From Hollywood to Deadwood

Actors: Scott Paulin, Jim Haynie, Barbara Schock, Jurgen Doeres, Chris Mulkey

Synopsis: From Hollywood to Deadwood is an agreeable private-eye yarn, at once a spoof and a tribute to the film noir output of the 1940s. Detectives Savage and Haines (Scott Paulin, Jim Haynes) are hired to locate Lana Dark (Barbara Schock), a movie actress whose absence is costing her studio tons of Read More

10/13/89
She's Out of Control

Actors: Tony Danza, Catherine Hicks, Ami Dolenz, Wallace Shawn, Dick O'Neill

Synopsis: Director Stan Dragoti, whose forte is plumbing the depths of the male psyche, plumbs those depths once again in She's Out of Control. Tony Danza stars as Doug Simpson, a broadcasting executive who has trouble adjusting to the fact that his fifteen-year-old daughter Katie (Ami Dolenz) is blossoming Read More

4/14/89
Scrooged

Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard Read More

11/23/88
The Wrong Guys

Actors: Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Franklyn Ajaye, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of former Cub Scouts (Louie Anderson, Richard Belzer, and Richard Lewis) get together for a reunion over twenty years later and land themselves in a mess of trouble when a deranged convict (John Goodman) takes them for FBI agents. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

5/13/88
Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Actors: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, William Windom, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon

Synopsis: Were it not for its profanity-laden opening scenes, John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles might have been suitable family entertainment: certainly it's heaps less violent and mean-spirited than Hughes' Home Alone. En route to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family, easily annoyed Read More

11/25/87
Hello Again

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry of Compromising Positions re-team for this unsuccessful resurrection fantasy comedy. Shelley Long plays Lucy Chadman, the accident-prone wife of plastic surgeon Jason Chadman (Corbin Bernsen). When she chokes to death after eating a South Korean chicken Read More

11/6/87
Prince of Bel Air

Actors: Mark Harmon

Synopsis: In this racy made-for-TV comedy, a handsome hunk (Mark Harmon) does more than merely plumb the pools of beauteous Bel Air housewives and lonely women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Compromising Positions

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Director Frank Perry brings Susan Issacs' comedic whodunit novel to the screen with Susan Sarandon as a Long Island housewife who tries to escape her deadening suburban life by trying to solve the murder of a philandering local dentist. The dentist, Bruce Fleckstein (Joe Mantegna), is the kind of Read More

1985
Deadly Passion

Actors: Brent Huff, Ingrid Boulting, Harrison Coburn, Lynn Maree, Eric Flynn

Synopsis: When it first came out, this erotic thriller was billed as the first adult film in South Africa. Set in Los Angeles, the story centers upon Brent Huff, a hard-boiled detective takes a case that takes him to the Bahamas where he gets involved with a seductive Beverly Hills vamp and unsuccessfully Read More

1985