Todd Field Filmography

Born:: February 24, 1964 in Pomona, CA
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: William Todd Field
Biography:: A bona fide jack-of-all-trades, Todd Field is one of the film industry's more multifaceted members, having worked in varying capacities as an actor, director, producer, composer, and screenwriter. Probably most recognizable to art house audiences thanks to his work in such films as Nicole...Read More

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American Crude

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ron Livingston, Rob Schneider, Cynthia M. Watros, Amanda Detmer, Eric Stonestreet

Synopsis: Actor Craig Sheffer makes his feature directorial debut with this ensemble comedy featuring Ron Livingston, Rob Schneider, Jennifer Esposito, and Michael Clarke Duncan, and following a harried group of characters through twenty-four hours in a typical Los Angeles day. Quite a bit can happen over Read More

2007
Little Children

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich

Synopsis: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Field teams with novelist Tom Perrotta to adapt Perrotta's acclaimed novel concerning the suburban malaise experienced by a handful of small-town individuals whose intersecting lives converge in a variety of surprising, and sometimes ominous, ways. Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly Read More

10/6/06
Open Window

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robin Tunney, Joel Edgerton, Cybill Shepherd, Matt Keeslar, Scott Wilson, Shirley Knight, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: Mia Goldman's psychological drama Open Window stars Joel Edgerton and Robbin Tunney as a husband and wife who have intense professional lives, but are able to rely on each other during their time together at home. One night the wife is raped, sending her into a depression that threatens to crumble Read More

2005
Carnivàle: Cheyenne, WY

Crew: Director

2005
The Second Front

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Lana Litwak, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: A brilliant German Jewish scientist developing a weapon of incalculable power is courted by intelligence services from England, Germany, and Russia in this World War II-era thriller starring Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, and Ron Perlman. Nicky Raus is a scientist who may hold the key to winning a Read More

2004
Rip It Off

Actors: Jennifer Esposito, Alyson Hannigan, Steve Harris, Nastassja Kinski

Synopsis: Misha (Nastassja Kinski) and Lexi (Alyson Hannigan) have a falling out with their scummy Russian boyfriends on the eve of a big heist. With the help of Helena (Jennifer Esposito), who despises her nerdy detective husband (Todd Field), the women arrange to rob the casino themselves. Which, of Read More

2002
In the Bedroom

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Stahl, Marisa Tomei, William Mapother

Synopsis: Character actor and noted photographer Todd Field made his directorial debut with this emotionally powerful drama, which earned enthusiastic reviews at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl) is a handsome and amiable young man who has recently graduated from high school and is Read More

11/23/01
New Port South

Synopsis: Teen movie icon John Hughes returns to the genre he helped revolutionize as producer of the first screenplay written by his son James Hughes. Maddox (Blake Shields) is an intelligent but moody teenager growing up in a suburb of Chicago. High school student Maddox believes schools aren't designed Read More

9/7/01
The Haunting

Actors: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, Owen Wilson, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: In the 1860's, industrialist Hugh Crain financed the construction of Hill House, a beautiful but forbidding mansion where Crain hoped to house a wife and children. However, Crain died an unexplained death at Hill House, and ever since tales have circulated that the mansion is haunted by evil Read More

7/23/99
Eyes Wide Shut

Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija, Todd Field, Vinessa Shaw

Synopsis: The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood's most bankable celebrity couple, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London Read More

7/16/99
Broken Vessels

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Todd Field, Jason London, Roxana Zal, Susan Traylor, James Hong

Synopsis: Scott Ziehl made his directorial debut with this high-energy ambulance ride with a pair of paramedics careening through the Los Angeles night, with Antonio Calvache's camerawork capturing the social drama in a documentary-style depiction. In the vein of Leaving Las Vegas, the film was the top Read More

7/2/99
Stranger Than Fiction

Actors: MacKenzie Astin, Todd Field, Dina Meyer, Natasha Gregson Wagner

Synopsis: A group of friends discover that they don't know one of their fellows nearly as well as they imagine in this unusual horror tale. Jared (Mackenzie Astin) shows up at the home of his best friend Austin (Todd Field), wounded and bloody and telling a horrible story of a strange man killed in his Read More

1999
Net Worth

Actors: Michael T. Weiss, Todd Field, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Baldwin

Synopsis: Four pals take on their world of high finance in a new and unusual way in this comedy-drama. Woody (Craig Sheffer), Robert (Daniel Baldwin), Michael (Michael Winslow), and Thad (Todd Field) are four close friends in their early thirties who have always felt a strong sense of competition. However Read More

1999
Twister

Actors: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and Carey Elwes may be billed as the stars of Twister, but the film's real attractions are the cyclones themselves. Best experienced in a theater, the nail-biting, blow-the-audience-out-of-their-seats computer generated graphics, cutting edge sound and other special effects Read More

1996
Walking and Talking

Actors: Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Todd Field, Liev Schreiber, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: A Manhattan woman struggles with loneliness in the face of her best friend's imminent marriage in this well-received independent comedy from first-time writer-director Nicole Holofcener. Amelia (Catherine Keener) feels isolated because her friend Laura (Anne Heche) has been devoting all her time Read More

1996
Farmer & Chase

Actors: Todd Field, Ben Gazzara, Lara Flynn Boyle, Steven A. Jones, Ron Kaell

Synopsis: An aging, violent hold-up artist enlists the aid of his pacifistic son to pull off one final job in this crime melodrama. Farmer, the father, has just lost his long-time partner in a failed Chicago heist. The son, Chase, who has done nothing more criminal than shoplifting, decides to pitch in and Read More

1995
Sleep with Me

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly, Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Susan Traylor

Synopsis: Six screenwriters, all real-life friends, each wrote one of the sequences in this romantic comedy-drama that unfolds at a half-dozen parties and celebrations. During a cross-country trip, Joe (Eric Stoltz) proposes to his girlfriend Sarah (Meg Tilly) with his best friend Frank (Craig Sheffer) Read More

1994
Ruby in Paradise

Actors: Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean, Dorothy Lyman

Synopsis: Florida-based independent filmmaker Victor Nuñez gave young actress Ashley Judd her breakthrough role with his original script about a woman taking to the road to escape her past and forge a new future for herself. Feeling smothered and confused after the death of her mother, Ruby Lee Gissing Read More

1993
Queens Logic

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Linda Fiorentino, John Malkovich, Joe Mantegna, Ken Olin, Tony Spiridakis, Jamie Lee Curtis

Synopsis: Ray (Ken Olin) is a young adult and has a girlfriend whom he lives with quite happily. However, the agreed-upon date of their marriage is coming up, and he's not quite sure he wants to make that kind of commitment. His buddies Dennis, Elliot, and Vinny have their own commitment problems. Dennis (Kevin Bacon Read More

2/1/91
The End of Innocence

Actors: Dyan Cannon, John Heard, George Coe, Lola Mason, Rebecca Schaeffer

Synopsis: Actress Dyan Cannon, whose 1976 directorial debut Number One was nominated for a "best short subject" Academy Award, moves on to feature-length projects with The End of Innocence. In addition to directing, Ms. Cannon wrote the screenplay and played a leading role in this story of a young girl Read More

12/6/90
Full Fathom Five

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Maria Rangel, Michael Cavanaugh, John La Fayette, Todd Field

Synopsis: In this action film, when Panama is threatened by an invasion of U. S. Troops, a group of radical Panamanians capture a nuclear sub from the Russians and station themselves outside of Houston, threatening to blow the city up unless the Americans meet their demands. It is up to American submarine Read More

8/31/90
Back to Back

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

1/12/90
Fat Man & Little Boy

Actors: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern

Synopsis: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were the nicknames given the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning days of World War II. This elaborately assembled film is the story of the events leading up to the dawn of the atomic age. Paul Newman plays General Leslie Groves, a Read More

10/20/89
Gross Anatomy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, John Scott Clough

Synopsis: Gross Anatomy is to medical school what Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems to be well above Modine's social strata. Perhaps as a reaction to Read More

10/20/89
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy

Actors: Ken Jacobson, Ronald William Lawrence, Andy Wood

Synopsis: In this sequel, a trusting private serving with U.S. forces in Vietnam becomes friends with a Vietnamese girl. When he discovers that she is being used by someone in the military in a prostitution ring and has become addicted to drugs, he tries to find out how he can blow the whistle on this abuse Read More

1988
Roseanne: D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Synopsis: Jackie stays home with the Conner kids while Roseanne and Dan go out to dinner. At the restaurant, they run into a friend who has just went through a divorce, leading them to discuss what it would be like if they ever split up. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
The Allnighter

Actors: Susanna Hoffs, DeDee Pfeiffer, Joan Cusack, James Shanta, John Terlesky

Synopsis: In Allnighter, the viewer sees three roommates who are bound and determined to make the most out of their college graduation night. These fluffs go on a sexathon during their last big beach party, apparently trying to make their last fling a he-man thing. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

5/1/87
Radio Days

Actors: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Josh Mostel, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as Joe, a teenage Jewish boy, growing up with a house full of relatives in Brooklyn. Allen cuts Read More

1/30/87
Student Exchange

Synopsis: In this comedy, two high school seniors pretend to be foreign exchange students and suddenly find themselves among the popular kids. They soon find that such popularity is a double-edged sword. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987