Tom Harvey Filmography

Open House

Actors: Christine Lahti, Daniel Baldwin, Eva Marie Saint, Rita Moreno, Colin Cowie

Synopsis: Based on a best-seller by Elizabeth Berg, this made-for-TV movie stars Christine Lahti as Samantha Morrow, a middle-class mom deserted by her shallow husband, David (Chris Potter). In order to keep a roof over her head -- not to mention the head of her son, Travis (Mark Rendall) -- Samantha Read More

Harlan County War

Actors: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson

Synopsis: The true story of one of the most contentious labor disputes of the 1970s is the basis for this made-for-cable drama. In 1973, many of the men of Harlan County, Kentucky, were employed by Brookside Mining, who operated a number of coal mines. Brookside paid its employees meager wages for Read More

I'll Be Home for Christmas

Synopsis: The recent death of his wife is just one of several blows endured by big-city surgeon Michael (Robert Hays), who has lost confidence in his skills and his been going through the motions only for the sake of his daughter Jilly (Ashley Gorrell). Summoned by his crusty dad Bob (Jack Palance) to come Read More

Scanners II: The New Order

Actors: David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin, Yvan Ponton, Isabelle Mejias, Raoul Trujillo

Synopsis: Picking up where Scanners left off, this sequel has good and evil scanners combatting when a crooked politician schemes to gain control of a major city. Scanners are people who, because their mothers had taken a certain drug during pregnancy, have acquired telepathic powers. Here, a "bad-guy" Read More

The Christmas Wife

Synopsis: Afraid to spend the Christmas holiday alone, an aging widower decides to hire himself a spouse to spend the vacation with him in his lovely mountain retreat and finds true romance in this heartwarming made-for-cable television drama that is based on a story by Helen Norris. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

And Then You Die

Actors: Kenneth Welsh, R.H. Thomson, Wayne Robson, Maggie Huculak, Pierre Chagnon

Synopsis: And Then You Die is a 115-minute Canadian melodrama starring Ken Welsh as an above-the-border drug czar. Having amassed a fortune on the miseries of others, Welsh intends to retire. But the Mafia, notorious for its poor retirement plan, wants a piece of Welsh's riches. So does a vicious motorcycle Read More

Bay Coven

Actors: Tim Matheson, Pamela Sue Martin, Woody Harrelson, Susan Ruttan, Barbara Billingsley

Synopsis: This slow-moving occult thriller has Pamela Sue Martin and hubbie Tim Matheson menaced by a coven of witches when they move to an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Director Carl Schenkel -- who went on to make the interesting Knight Moves -- does the best he can with a tedious script and a Read More

Act of Vengeance

Actors: Wilford Brimley, Charles Bronson, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: Produced for the HBO Cable service, Act of Vengeance reenacts the 1969 murder of United Mine Workers leader Jock Yablonski. Yablonski (Charles Bronson) virtually writes his own death warrant when, after a "safe" mine collapses and 80 miners are killed, he rebels against the incumbent UMW boss Tony Read More

Courage

Actors: Sophia Loren, Billy Dee Williams, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: This three-hour TV movie stars Sophia Loren as New Yorker Marianna Miraldo. Hurt and angered by her son's cocaine addiction, Marianna discovers that a close friend also has ties with the drug scene. After several of her imprisoned friend's associates try to contact him through her, the DEA Read More

Hot Money

Actors: Orson Welles, Michael Murphy, Michelle Finney, Henry Ramer

Synopsis: An ex-convict turned sheriff's deputy must face his guilty conscience, which is obsessed with his identity change following a million-dollar heist. With a notoriously troubled production history, this Canadian picture was shot in 1979 and sat on the shelf for half a decade, until Orson Welles had Read More

Terminal Choice

Actors: Joe Spano, Diane Venora, David McCallum, Robert Joy, Don Francks

Synopsis: In an uneasy blend of sci fi computer hokum and human miscreants at work, this story of suspicious deaths in a hospital is ominous on various counts but not likely to keep tension high-strung. Dr. Frank Holt (Joe Spano) has already had one malpractice suit that cost him a job, so when one of his Read More

The Park Is Mine

Synopsis: In this taut action drama, an unbalanced Vietnam vet goes off the beam and takes over Central Park in this made for cable outing that was filmed entirely in Toronto. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Matter of Sex

Actors: John W. Carroll, Peter Dvorsky

Synopsis: A Matter of Sex is the calculatedly misleading title of a based-on-fact TV movie, which originally bore the more suitable title Women of Willmar. In 1976, the women working in a bank in Willmar, Minnesota become incensed because less-qualified men are being promoted over them. Head teller Jean Stapleton Read More

Mrs. Soffel

Actors: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the inmates, despite her fragile health. While making her Read More

The Guardian

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: The Guardian is set in an upper-class New York apartment building, recently plagued by a series of break-ins and murders. The tenants eagerly enlist the services of former military officer John Mack (Louis Gossett Jr.) as the building's head of security. Slowly but surely, the tenants give up Read More

Strange Brew

Actors: Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin

Synopsis: Purporting to be loosely based on Hamlet, Strange Brew is about an evil braumeister at the Elsinore Brewery who has discovered an additive that when guzzled in beer, allows the drinkers to be easily controlled. Braumeister Smith (Max von Sydow) has a plan to take over the world with his new brew Read More

On Any Sunday II

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this documentary on motorcycle racing, the sequel to On Any Sunday, interviews with various racing masters are interspersed with races in just about every imaginable environment: dirt, sand, hills, tracks, valleys - everywhere a motorcycle can function. The racing and the interviews make up Read More

Silence of the North

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer McKinney, Donna Dobrijevic

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film follows the trials and tragedies that befall Walter Reamer (Tom Skerritt) and his wife, Olive (Ellen Burstyn), as they struggle to create a home and raise a family in the brutal Canadian frontier of 1919. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Second Wind

Actors: James Naughton, Lindsay Wagner, Ken Pogue, Tedde Moore, Tom Harvey

Synopsis: A stock broker overcomes ennui and finds new meaning in his life when he becomes a long-distance runner. His new obsession has a bad effect on his marriage, but fortunately that is only temporary. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Star Is Lost!

Actors: Jack Creley, Tom Harvey

Synopsis: This satiric comedy concerns the chaotic production of an all-singing, all-talking, all-dancing musical spectacular. While the producers dream of recreating the glorious spectacle of a Hollywood confection of the 1940's, it seems their work is cut out for them -- the director is just a little bit Read More

Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

Actors: Charles Durning, Barbara Hershey, Buzzy Linhart, John Lithgow, Robert F. Lyons, Demond Wilson

Synopsis: Years before Coma, Jurassic Park, and Twister made him a household name, Michael Crichton co-wrote this amiable drug-oriented comedy, based on a novel Crichton co-authored with his brother Douglas under the pen name Michael Douglas. Peter (Robert F. Lyons) is a shaggy but straightlaced Harvard law Read More

Fortune and Men's Eyes

Actors: Georges Allard, Michel Gilbert, Robert Saab, Cathy Wiele, A. Zeytounian

Synopsis: John Herbert's stage play Fortune and Men's Eyes first enjoyed a sensational run on Broadway with Sal Minneo in the lead and was originally a fairly tame drama which used prison homosexual activity as a framework around which to base a plea for prison reform. In this screen adaptation, Mineo's Read More

The Only Way out Is Dead

Synopsis: The man with the "life wish" is multi-billionaire Burl Ives, who maintains an isolated medical research center. Stuart Whitman is hired as the new head of this center, where he is told to ignore any unusual goings-on and to keep his mouth shut. Slowly it dawns on Whitman that there's an inordinate Read More

Homer

Actors: Don Scardino, Alex Nicol, Tisa Farrow, Lenka Peterson, Ralph Endersby

Synopsis: Set in a small Wisconsin town (even though it was actually filmed in Canada), this is the story of a young man living in the 60s. He has his own rock band, of course, and is against the war, of course. Despite some good performances, notably by Alex Nicol, the remainder of the movie is somewhat Read More

The Lawyer

Actors: Barry Newman, Harold Gould, Diana Muldaur, Robert Colbert, Kathleen Crowley

Synopsis: Barry Newman stars as Tony Petrocelli, a maverick Midwestern attorney. Petrocelli is hired to defend a wealthy doctor (Robert Colbert), accused of murdering his wife. In the tradition of Sam Sheppard, the truculent doctor insists that the killing was committed by a mystery intruder who knocked him Read More

My Side of the Mountain

Actors: Ted Eccles, Theodore Bikel, Tudi Wiggins

Synopsis: Thirteen-year old Teddy Eccles is a devotee of Thoreau, as most everybody else was in 1969. Eccles decides to spend a one-year sabbatical in the Canadian woods. His immediate companion is his pet raccoon; his spiritual companion is idealistic librarian Chris Wiggins, who supplies Eccles with books Read More

Communicate [TV Series]

The Luck of Ginger Coffey

Actors: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Liam Redmond, Tom Harvey, Libby McClintock

Synopsis: Ginger Coffey (Robert Shaw) is an out-of-work Irish immigrant who moves to Montreal with his wife, Vera (Mary Ure), and teenage daughter, Paulie (Libby McClintock), in hopes of a better life. After six months, the family fortunes have not changed, and Vera and Paulie beg Ginger to return to Read More