Tim HunterFilmography

The Far Side of Jericho

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Suzanne Andrews, Judith Burnett, Lissa Negrin, Patrick Bergin, Lawrence Pressman

Synopsis: Director Tim Hunter and co-screenwriter James Crumley go back to the basics for this rough and tumble western that proves the ladies can shoot just as straight as the men. The deadliest gang in the west has been captured and strung up. Now the law is desperate to find out where the recently Read More

Working It Out

Crew: Director

Kings of South Beach

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Director Tim Hunter (The River's Edge) and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi (Casino) join forces for this fact-based crime thriller detailing the downfall of Miami's hottest nightclub. Chris Troiano (Jason Gedrick) owns the trendiest nightclub in all of South Beach; a place where the line always Read More

Deadwood: A Rich Find

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Aunt Lou's son visits with news from Liberia and a business proposal for Hearst. Meanwhile, Bullock and Swearengen weigh their options regarding Hearst, and Tolliver learns of Alma's addiction. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

Carnivàle: Outskirts, Damascus, NE

Crew: Director

House: MOB Rules

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A typically truculent House (Hugh Laurie) is slapped with a court order instructing him to determine if mobster Joey Arnello (Joseph Lyle Taylor), who is slated to give testimony in Federal Court before entering the Witness Protection Program, is faking a serious illness. Joey's knuckle-busting Read More

The 4400: White Light

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tom's son Kyle is taken into custody by Lyttel (Mark Valley), and Diana offers to help bust him out. Elsewhere, Danny tries to win back Nikki. ~ Jeanette Martin, All Movie Guide Read More

Control

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: It's been a long and hard life for death-row inmate Lee Ray Oliver (Ray Liotta), and by the time he is strapped to the gurney to be executed by lethal injection, his death sentence seems more like sweet release than ultimate punishment for a lifetime of crime. Awakening stunned and confused after Read More

The Failures

Crew: Director

Actors: Ashley Johnson, Chad Lindberg, Henry Czerny, Seth Adkins, Joseph D. Reitman

Synopsis: American filmmaker Tim Hunter (River's Edge) directs the dark comedy The Failures, shot in HD video with a script from first-time screenwriter Hal Haberman. Chad Lindberg plays William, an alcoholic who works as a parking lot attendant. He makes up comic book stories about antidepressant drugs Read More

Out of Order: Losing My Religion

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mark (Eric Stoltz) remembers going to church as a kid after seeing The Godfather, the movie that made him want to be a filmmaker. He prayed to God to let him get out of New Hampshire, and promised to be a good Catholic. He and Lorna (Felicity Huffman) are visited by Steven (William H. Macy) one Read More

Carnivàle: Babylon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The show approaches Babylon, and there's a lot of tension in the air. They pass a man in the road, Stangler (John Hannah), who's leaving town. "Been waitin' for you folks a long time," he says mysteriously, before walking off. Samson (Michael J. Anderson) begs Management to tell him something to Read More

Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Jamey Sheridan, Angie Harmon

Synopsis: A wife-mother learns that her too-friendly neighbor has more than barbecues on his mind in this fact-based TV movie. When Susan Wilson (Angie Harmon) and her family move back to her Louisiana hometown and into their dream house, they're a little overwhelmed by their eager-to-please neighbor, Steve Read More

Anatomy of a Hate Crime

Crew: Director

Actors: Cy Carter, Ian Somerhalder, Brendan Fletcher, Busy Philipps, Amanda Fuller

Synopsis: Presented in three half-hour "acts" by the MTV cable network on January 10, 2001, the fact-based Anatomy of a Hate Crime was the opening volley of MTV's year-long campaign "Fight For Your Rights: Take a Stand Against Discrimination." In recalling the horrendous torture-murder of 21-year-old Read More

Mean Streak

Crew: Director

Actors: Scott Bakula, Leon

Synopsis: Scott Bakula and Leon star in this mystery thriller. An African-American baseball player is having a hot season and threatens to break Joe DiMaggio's batting record. However, one baseball fan isn't so thrilled -- a psychotic racist who has been murdering young black boys and sending their severed Read More

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Rapaport, Robin Tunney, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: This film from the "Rescuers" series, based on true stories of Christians who helped save the lives of Jews during World War II, concerns a woman (Robin Tunney) who becomes involved with a man (Michael Rappaport) who has been exiled to a Jewish ghetto by the Nazis. Meanwhile, a couple who run a Read More

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples

Crew: Director

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, Martin Donovan, Dana Delany, Sela Ward, Alfred Molina, Al Waxman, Linda Hamilton, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Two inspiring true tales comprise this feature. Both center on ordinary people who risked everything during WW II to save Jewish people from the Holocaust. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Maker

Crew: Director

Actors: Matthew Modine, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Mary-Louise Parker

Synopsis: Tim Hunter, the director of River's Edge, returned with another powerful story of troubled teenagers struggling to find their way out of moral and legal limbo. High school senior Josh Minell (Jonathan Rhys Myers) has strong academic skills, but he spends his nights hanging out with a group of Read More

The Colony

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Paré, Brian Bloom, Casper Van Dien, Alison Moir

Synopsis: Set in a high-price Malibu community, this made-for-TV drama wallows in a multitude of extramarital affairs, corporate intrigue and elegant back-stabbing, with murder the logical extension to all the hanky-panky. Characters crucial to the plotline are a cop posing as an auto mechanic, and a sexy Read More

The People Next Door

Crew: Director

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Nicollette Sheridan, Michael O'Keefe, Tracey Ellis

Synopsis: A single mother moves into a new neighborhood unaware that her new neighbors, a couple unable to have their own children, have designs on hers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The City That Bleeds

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: In the first episode of a three-part story arc, Bolander (Ned Beatty), Howard (Melissa Leo), and Felton (Daniel Baldwin) are ambushed and shot down when attempting to serve a warrant. In his efforts to track down the suspect, Pembleton (Andre Braugher) is partnered with a detective who prefers to Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Thrill of the Kill

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The homicide detectives team up with the FBI to track down a serial killer who is moving progressively northward on I-95. The combined law officers manage to capture a man (Jeffrey Donovan) who fits the description of the killer perfectly -- only to find out that they might have the wrong person Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Nearer My God to Thee

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Season three of Homicide: Life on the Street finds the day and night shifts of the Baltimore homicide squad uneasily working in tandem to solve the murder of the winner of the city's Samaritan of the Year award. The case is particularly irksome for Detective Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher), whose Read More

The Saint of Fort Washington

Crew: Director

Actors: Danny Glover, Matt Dillon, Rick Aviles, Nina Siemaszko, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: Danny Glover plays Jerry, a caring street person who takes a mentally retarded Matthew Dillon under his wing, teaching him the survival smarts so necessary to society's left-overs. The two team up with three other vagrants in an attempt to build a nuclear group-support community and find little Read More

Lies of the Twins

Crew: Director

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Aidan Quinn, Iman, Claudia Christian, John Pleshette

Synopsis: The romantic rivalry between twin psychologists in love with the same beautiful model takes a deadly turn in this dark made-for-cable-TV thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 28

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The last two episodes of Twin Peaks were broadcast together as a two-hour movie on June 10, 1991. Part one, "Miss Twin Peaks," was written by Barry Pullman and directed by Tim Hunter. At the Great Northern, Ben Horne continues to try to reform himself, and he urges Audrey to make a special speech Read More

Beverly Hills 90210: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: From director Tim Hunter and writer Darren Star, this is the feature-length pilot episode of the popular Fox teen drama Beverly Hills 90210. For the first time, viewers are introduced to Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley) and Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty), 16-year-old brother and sister twins who've Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 04

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The fourth episode of Twin Peaks' first season, "The One-Armed Man," was originally broadcast on May 3, 1990, and directed by Tim Hunter (River's Edge). Deputy Andy Brennan sketches Sarah Palmer's visions of Killer Bob, resembling the Bob in Agent Cooper's dream from episode two. Another of Read More

Twin Peaks: Episode 16

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Episode 16 of Twin Peaks, "Arbitrary Law," originally aired on December 1, 1990, and was directed by Tim Hunter. This episode features the elusive elements of Cooper's dream from Episode Two finally coming together to crack the case. The evidence shows that Maddy's killer was the same as Laura's Read More

Paint It Black

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Rossovich, Sally Kirkland, Julie Carmen, Martin Landau, Doug Savant

Synopsis: In this Hitchcockian thriller, a wealthy and naive young sculptor learns that people are not always nice and helpful. His first mistake is to fall for the seductress who runs the gallery that has an exclusive on his work. He then hooks up with an insane art collector who gets jealous of the Read More

River's Edge

Crew: Director

Actors: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: The nude, strangled body of a teenaged girl lies on the edge of the river. Her murderer is her boyfriend, Daniel Roebuck. All the kids in Roebuck's dismal, dead-end town know who committed the murder. Trouble is, no one bothers to turn Roebuck in; some of the teens don't know how to react to the Read More

Sylvester

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Farnsworth, Melissa Gilbert, Yankton Hatten, Michael Schoeffling, Constance Towers, Pete Kowanko, Chris Pederson

Synopsis: Melissa Gilbert acquits herself well in this old-fashioned family drama about a gritty Texas orphan named Charlie (Gilbert), a substitute parent for her brothers, determined to succeed in life by converting an unmanageable rodeo horse into an equestrian champion. The transformation from equine Read More

Tex

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, Frances Lee McCain

Synopsis: Tex represented the first film adaption of a novel by "teen angst" specialist S. E. Hinton. Matt Dillon stars as Tex McCormick, an Oklahoma farm boy who drifts into bad company and a dangerous lifestyle after his mother dies and his father deserts him. His older brother Mason (Jim Metzler) Read More

Over the Edge

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Dillon, Michael Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano, Tom Fergus

Synopsis: The protagonists of Over the Edge are the teen-aged offspring of the residents of a planned suburban community. This bland little town has been designed with conformity in mind, and with no thought of making the kids' lives worth living. Even worse, there is very little opportunity for any of the Read More