Taavo Soodor Filmography

Occupation:: Production Designer

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Walk All Over Me

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Tricia Helfer, Lothaire Bluteau, Jacob Tierney, Michael Eklund, Michael D. Adamthwaite

Synopsis: A trouble-prone teen navigates a treacherous world of witless gangsters and latex fetish wear in director/screenwriter Robert Cuffley's quirky comic noir. When Alberta (Leelee Sobieski)'s boyfriend is assaulted by thugs, the frightened teen flees to Vancouver in hopes of hiding out at the house of Read More

2007
Aurora Borealis

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis, Louise Fletcher, Zack Ward

Synopsis: Duncan (Joshua Jackson), a depressed twentysomething living in a rundown section of Minneapolis, has just lost another job. He has another source of income, letting his brother use his apartment for extramarital trysts. On a rare visit to his grandparents, Ronald (Donald Sutherland) and Ruth (Louise Fletcher Read More

9/15/06
A Very Married Christmas

Crew: Production Designer

Synopsis: Having lived a respectable and rather dull existence for most of his time on earth, database designer Frank Griffin (Joe Mantegna) is rudely awakened from his ennui when his wife Ellen (Jean Smart) announces that she is having an affair and wants a divorce. Although the couple agrees to stay Read More

2004
Owning Mahowny

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin, John Hurt, Sonja Smits, Ian Tracey

Synopsis: A seemingly ordinary bank employee develops an obsession that could destroy his life and that of those around him in this drama. Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a quiet, unassuming employee of a bank in Toronto; he lives modestly, drives a used car, and is dating one of the bank's tellers Read More

5/2/03
Blessings

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Kathleen Quinlan, Liam Waite, China Chow, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Buried under several layers of old-age makeup and outfitted with thick horn-rims and a grey wig, Mary Tyler Moore stars in this TV-movie adaptation of Anna Quindlen's novel Blessings. Moore is cast as octogenarian Lydia Blessing, who lives on a huge country estate, imprisoned by her own bitter Read More

2003
Spinning Boris

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, Boris Krutonog, Svetlana Efremova

Synopsis: Roger Spottiswoode directs Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, and Liev Schreiber in the political satire Spinning Boris. The film takes place during the Russian elections of 1996 that ended with Boris Yeltsin becoming the head of the country. The trio of lead actors play political consultants who Read More

2003
The Man Who Saved Christmas

Crew: Production Designer

Synopsis: Jason Alexander stars as fabled toy manufacturer, A.C. Gilbert in this Capraesque TV movie. An overachiever since his school days, Gilbert surprises his stern father (Ed Asner) by forsaking a career in medicine to pursue an entirely different business. Creating the now legendary Erector Set, A.C. Read More

2002
The Big Heist

Crew: Production Designer

Synopsis: Based on a book by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, the made-for-cable The Big Heist endeavors to put a human face on the events surrounding a real-life robbery which occurred at JFK International Airport's Lufthansa terminal in 1978. Donald Sutherland stars as Jimmy "the Gent" Burke, a Read More

2001
Haven

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Natasha Richardson, Hal Holbrook, Martin Landau, Anne Bancroft, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: An American journalist takes on the dangerous responsibility of rescuing nearly a thousand refugees from a Nazi concentration camp in this two-part made-for-TV movie based on a true story. In the early days of America's involvement in World War II, Ruth Gruber (Natasha Richardson) is a reporter Read More

2001
The Five Senses

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Mary-Louise Parker, Philippe Volter, Gabrielle Rose, Daniel MacIvor, Nadia Litz

Synopsis: Five characters serve as metaphors for the five senses in this drama about human relationships from Canadian filmmaker Jeremy Podeswa. Ruth (Gabrielle Rose) works as a massage therapist; one day while giving a rubdown to Anna (Molly Parker), Ruth's teenage daughter Rachel (Nadia Litz) takes Anna's Read More

7/14/00
The Great Gatsby

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino, Paul Rudd, Martin Donovan, Francie Swift

Synopsis: F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, often regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century, is brought to the screen in this made-for-TV feature, produced in collaboration with the A&E Cable Network in the United States, and Granada Entertainment in Great Britain. Nick Carraway Read More

2000
Total Recall 2070

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Michael Easton, Karl Pruner, Cynthia Preston, Michael Anthony Rawlins, Judith Krant

Synopsis: This series for the Showtime premium cable network was based on the hit 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone. In the year 2070, David Hume (played by Michael Easton) is a futuristic law enforcement officer who discovers that the death of his partner was not accident -- that it Read More

1999
The Big Hit

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Avery Brooks, Bokeem Woodbine, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Lela Rochon

Synopsis: Kirk Wong directed this comedy actioner about mild-mannered, beleaguered hitman Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg), who very much wants to be liked. However, the naive Mel is being taken advantage of by both his girlfriends and associates (who cheat him out of his bonuses). Mel and his "Odd Squad" Read More

4/24/98
The Hanging Garden

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox, Seanna McKenna, Peter MacNeill, Christine Dunsworth

Synopsis: Ten years after he disappeared from his family's life, Sweet William (Chris Leavins) returns home to Nova Scotia for his sister's wedding. Despite the fact that he's gone from a morbidly obese adolescent to a thin, handsome, self-assured young man, the reunion proves bittersweet. Although he Read More

1997
Heaven Before I Die

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Joanna Pacula, Omar Sharif, Giancarlo Giannini, Andy Velasquez

Synopsis: In this eccentric comedy, Jacob (Andy Velasquez) is a young man from Israel whose father has long regarded him as a test presented to him by God. Jacob's mind runs on a path all his own, and he has a mild handicap -- his feet stick out at right angles from his legs, giving him a very curious walk. Read More

1997
2103: The Deadly Wake

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Michael Paré, Heidi von Palleske

Synopsis: In the distant future, after the Texas Confederacy has gone to war and wiped out Syria with a deadly virus because of oil prices, disgraced Captain Sean Murdoch (Malcolm McDowell) is recruited to take command of a hulking ship headed for a port in Nigeria. The ship is operated by means of forced Read More

1997
The Boys Club

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Devon Sawa, Stuart Stone, Jarred Blanchard

Synopsis: Bored small-town teens anxious for excitement get in over their heads when they believe the wild tales of a wounded stranger in this absorbing and taut Canadian drama. Kyle, Eric and Brad are fourteen years old and already feel trapped by the boring routines of their small-town lives. Their only Read More

1996
Replikator

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Michael St. Gerard, Ned Beatty, Brigitte Bako, Ilona Staller

Synopsis: In this futuristic science fiction drama, two firms are both on the working overtime to see who can be first to perfect a new and groundbreaking invention -- a technology that can perfectly recreate human tissue, allowing people to be replicated at will. One of the companies is a small Read More

1994