Terry Lewis Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Editor, Composer (Music Score), Songwriter, Set Designer

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The Fighting Temptations

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Beyoncé Knowles, Melba Moore, Mike Epps, Shirley Caesar

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Lynn followed up the surprise hit The Whole Nine Yards with this musical comedy starring Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Gooding plays Darrin, a shallow New York advertising executive, who travels to a small town in the deep south upon receiving word that his aunt has Read More

9/19/03
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever

Actors: Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Branford Marsalis, George Clinton, Kenneth Edmonds

Synopsis: Diana Ross hosts this four-hour TV special tracing the rise of Berry Gordy's Detroit-based Motown record label during the '60s. Clips were compiled from a variety of sources, including such TV shows as Teen Town, Where the Action Is and It's What's Happening Baby. The history covers the label's Read More

1998
Poetic Justice

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Billy Zane, Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King, Joe Torry, Tyra Ferrell

Synopsis: R&B star Janet Jackson made an impressive film debut in Poetic Justice as Justice, a hairdresser at a small salon in South Central Los Angeles. Justice uses her poetry to deal with her grief after her boyfriend is killed in a shooting incident at a drive-in. Hired to work at a hair stylists' event Read More

1993
Harmony Cats

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Kim Coates, Jim Byrnes, Hoyt Axton, Charlene Fernetz

Synopsis: In this finely crafted Canadian character study, filled with light comic touches, Graham (Kim Coates) is an out of work symphony violinist. About the only job he can find is playing the bass fiddle with the Harmony Cats, a just-barely making it country band, led by Frank Hay (Jim Byrnes). Graham Read More

1993
Stay Tuned

Actors: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, David Tom, Heather McComb

Synopsis: John Ritter and Pam Dawber star as Roy and Helen Knable, a suburban American couple having marital problems. Roy has become a couch potato, and a resentful Helen wants him to ditch the remote. When the demonic Spike (Jeffrey Jones) offers Roy a deal on the ultimate satellite TV system, Roy doesn't Read More

8/14/92
Mo' Money

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Stacey Dash, Joe Santos, John Diehl

Synopsis: Small-time crook Johnny Stewart (Damon Wayans) decides to go straight to win a beautiful girl (Stacey Dash), and to prove it, he joins the mailroom of the credit-card firm for which she works. Needing money to impress her, Johnny steals a credit card, goes on a shopping spree and wins the girl. Read More

7/24/92
Graffiti Bridge

Actors: Prince, Ingrid Chavez, Morris Day, Jerome Benton, Mavis Staples

Synopsis: Prince wrote, directed, and stars in this disastrous sequel to Purple Rain that equates differing musical styles with God, angels, faith, and the struggle between the spiritual and the earthy. Once again Prince is The Kid, still working his emotional damnedest to one-up Morris Day and his band Read More

11/2/90
Ghost Dad

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas, Ian Bannen, Christine Ebersole, Salim Grant

Synopsis: Bill Cosby mugs so uncontrollably that it looks as if he may be the victim of a muscular disorder in the inane and unfunny Ghost Dad. Cosby plays Elliot, a workaholic widower with three children -- Danny (Salim Grant), Amanda (Brooke Fontainbe), and the teenage Diane (Kimberly Russell). Elliot is Read More

6/29/90
The Plot Against Harry

Crew: Editor

Actors: Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Henry Nemo

Synopsis: Filmed independently by Michael Roemer in 1969, The Plot Against Harry didn't earn a mainstream release until 1989. What was contemporary in 1969 became a period piece by the time it saw the light of day, but this anachronistic quality lent a great deal of charm to the proceedings. Harry Plotnick (Martin Priest Read More

1/12/90
Gorilla Farming

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Come on now. Do you really expect to see anyone planting and harvesting gorillas in this one? Fact of the matter is, Gorilla Farming is a "mockumentary" on the rise and fall of the marijuana-cultivating "industry" in the US. There are plenty of wink-wink-nod-nod jokes concerning the inhalation of Read More

1990
Casual Sex?

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen, Jerry Levine, Andrew Dice Clay

Synopsis: In the late '80s, good-time girl Stacy (Lea Thompson) and her timid friend, Melissa (Victoria Jackson), decide to hit a health spa for singles in hopes of spicing up their unfulfilled sex lives. Afraid of AIDS, Stacy has gone celibate, while Melissa has only ever managed to get it on with two lame Read More

4/22/88
Pilgrim, Farewell

Crew: Editor

Actors: Elizabeth Huddle, Christopher Lloyd, Laurie Prange, Lesley Paxton, Shelley Wyant

Synopsis: Elizabeth Huddle plays a Vermont widow suffering from terminal cancer. As hard as it is for Huddle to condition herself to her fate, it is twice as difficult for her brooding lover (Christopher Lloyd), her sister (Leslie Paxton) and her daughter (Laurie Prange). The film studies not only the Read More

1980
Family Life

Actors: Sandy Ratcliffe, Bill Dean, Grace Cave, Malcolm Tierney, Alan MacNaughton

Synopsis: Released in England as Wednesday's Child, this earnest socially conscious drama explores the generation-gap between a pair of overbearing, strict parents and their rebellious, pregnant daughter Sandy Ratcliff. First they force her to get an abortion. Then mom and dad further exert their power over Read More

1971