Tom WrightFilmography

Live!

Actors: Eva Mendes, David Krumholtz, Rob Brown, Katie Cassidy, Jay Hernandez

Synopsis: Eva Mendes, Jay Hernandez, and Eric Lively star in a scathing mockumentary/media satire concerning a network executive (Mendes) who pitches a controversial show in which willing contestants participate in a real-life game of Russian Roulette. As the show goes into production, a documentary crew Read More

King Leopold's Ghost

Actors: Annick DeVille, Jean-Pierre Bemba, James Newman, Mbaya Mpoyi, Jacques Depelchin

Synopsis: Filmmakers Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees explore the reprehensible legacy of Belgium's King Leopold II in this documentary adaptation of Adam Hochschild's best-selling book. His envy growing as powerful neighbors France, England, and the Netherlands began claiming valuable African coastal land in Read More

Striking Range

Synopsis: The next generation of weaponry is here, and when Ted Billings (Glenn Morshower) goes toe-to-toe with a murderous group of terrorists who are willing to do anything and everything to possess such power, it's going to take a small army to ensure the safety of the entire planet. Billings has turned Read More

Bloodlines

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Yancy Butler, Jeff Speakman

Sinner

Actors: Nick Chinlund, Georgina Cates, Brad Dourif, Michael E. Rodgers, Tom Wright

Synopsis: A clergyman facing a mid-career crisis offers protection to a roaming con-woman who preys on celibates, only to have his life turned suddenly upside down when the woman discovers a damning secret that the holy man had been struggling to keep from his congregation. In an era where church closures Read More

American Fusion

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Esai Morales, Collin Chou, James Hong, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Synopsis: A woman stuck in middle age may yet find love if her mother can stay out of the way in this comedy from first-time director Frank Lin. Yvonne (Sylvia Chang) is a divorcee who is about to turn fifty and feels as if life is passing her by. Yvonne works for a throw-away newspaper where ad sales is Read More

Hamlet X

Actors: Tom Wright, Helen Hopkins, Faruk Avdi, Ian Scott, Shelley Lasica

Hillside Strangler

Synopsis: Following in the footsteps of Ed Gein, Speck, Dahmer and Gacy, travel back to Los Angeles, California, between 1977 and 1979, and reexperience the stomach-turning crimes of one of modern history's most notorious serial killers: Kenneth Bianchi, better known as The Hillside Strangler. This gripping Read More

P.S. Your Cat is Dead!

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Lombardo Boyar, Cynthia M. Watros, Shirley Knight, A.J. Benza

Synopsis: Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg, also making his directing debut) has been having bad, bad day. Not only has his one-man version of Hamlet (performed with hand puppets) just tanked, his girlfriend has left him, his cat is gravely ill, and his unfinished novel has been stolen. Plus, it's New Year's Read More

Hangman's Curse

Actors: David Keith, Mel Harris, Leighton Meester, Douglas Smith

Synopsis: A family of paranormalists investigates the strange goings-on at a high school still reeling over a student's very public suicide in this teen thriller. Hangman's Curse concerns the further exploits of the Veritas Group, a loose collective of people committed to researching supernatural mysteries. Read More

Barbershop

Actors: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Troy Garity

Synopsis: Calvin (Ice Cube) never wanted to take over the family business, a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Disgusted with the shop's crime-ridden neighborhood, and caught up in his moneymaking schemes, one morning Calvin decides to sell the shop to the shady Lester (Keith David). Chastised by his Read More

Sunshine State

Actors: Edie Falco, Angela Bassett, Jane Alexander, Ralph Waite, James McDaniel, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen, Gordon Clapp, Miguel Ferrer

Synopsis: Writer and director John Sayles returns with another multi-layered look at an American community, subtly exploring how race, class, economics, and both national and regional history come together to shape people's lives. Plantation Island is a community on the coast of Florida; the island was once Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Overload

Synopsis: At first, all evidence points to suicide when a construction worker plummets 12 stories to his death. Grissom (William L. Petersen), however, flies in the face of conventional wisdom when he surmises that the victim was murdered -- a verdict staunchly opposed by Sheriff Mobley (Glenn Morshower). Read More

Alex in Wonder

Actors: Angela Gots, Robert Hays, Ellen Greene, Sean Flynn, Danny Masterson

Synopsis: A gifted teenager is thrown for a loop when her parents' marriage falls apart in this coming-of-age drama set in the early '70s. Alex Markov (Angela Gots) is a 16-year-old who dreams of a career as a professional dancer; unlike many girls with similar goals, Alex is blessed with supportive Read More

ER: Quo Vadis?

Synopsis: Unable to get away from his workload, Benton (Eriq La Salle) may lose Reese (Matthew Watkins) in a court custody battle with Roger (Vondie Curtis-Hall). Carter (Noah Wyle) makes a play for Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), who is not resistant to his charms. While treating a married couple who may Read More

ER: I'll Be Home for Christmas

Synopsis: This episode marks the final regular ER appearances of Eriq La Salle and Michael Michele. After resorting to desperate measures to retain custody of his son, Reese (Matthew Watkins), Peter Benton (La Salle) realizes that he must make a choice between the boy and his overloaded ER schedule. He opts Read More

Layover

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Gregg Henry, Yvonne Scio, Tom Wright

Synopsis: What would you do if an attractive stranger asked you do go to bed with them? In this steamy thriller, David Hasselhoff plays a business executive who is killing time at an airport cocktail lounge waiting for a flight when he's approached by a beautiful woman (Yvonne Scio) who wants him to go away Read More

Dumbarton Bridge

Actors: Tom Wright, Esperanza Catubig, Daphne Ashbrook, Leo Burmeister, Art Desuyo

Synopsis: A father and daughter confront their problems with both family and race issues in the independent drama Dumbarton Bridge. John Shed (Tom Wright) is a Vietnam veteran who scrapes together a living working at the salt ponds in a small town south of San Francisco. Though John is black, he has few Read More

The Pentagon Wars

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, Olympia Dukakis, John C. McGinley, Tom Wright

Synopsis: Excessive military spending provides the impetus behind this sharp, satirical account of an honest Air Force colonel who is so shocked at government spending in its development of a troop transport vehicle that he decides to launch a personal investigation as to why it has taken the military 17 Read More

Martial Law [TV Series]

Actors: Sammo Hung, Tammy Lauren, Louis Mandylor, Tom Wright, Kelly Hu

Synopsis: Hong Kong action-movie superstar Sammo Hung keeps the kicks flying in this TV action farce about a Chinese lawman (Hung) brought to Los Angeles to join forces with detective Louis McGray (Louis Mandylor) and detective Dana Doyle (Tammy Lauren). It's not long before this trio has the bad guys on Read More

Palmetto

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: When new evidence confirms that he was framed, reporter Harry Barber (Woody Harrelson) is released from prison after serving two years. He then goes on to demonstrate repeatedly that he is the dumbest, most masochistic noir hero since Adam ate the apple. His original plan, to leave Palmetto, is Read More

Gridlock'd

Actors: Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur, Thandie Newton, Charles Fleischer, Howard Hesseman

Synopsis: In this hard-edged drama with a strong undercurrent of dark comedy, Stretch (Tim Roth) and Spoon (Tupac Shakur) are two friends who share both a passion for music and a dependence on heroin. Stretch and Spoon play in a jazz combo with Cookie (Thandie Newton), and after a New Year's Eve gig, they Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Tuvix

Star Trek: Voyager: The Thaw

Synopsis: In this episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the crew of the Enterprise happen upon a planet that's drifted into a new Ice Age. Hoping to avoid the disaster, several of the planet's residents were cybernetically linked to a virtual reality environment, but have now fallen victim to a terrifying Read More

Playing Dangerous 2

Actors: Richard Gilliland, David Kriegel, Tom Wright, Kathe E. Mazur, Adam Hendershott

Synopsis: A pre-pubescent hacker gets in over his head when he accidentally discovers a conspiracy to steal classified information. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Invasion of Privacy

Actors: Mili Avital, Johnathon Schaech, Naomi Campbell, David Keith, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: Cult hero Larry Cohen wrote this suspense thriller about a woman whose relationship with a sociopathic killer unwittingly makes her a political hot potato in the abortion rights movement. Theresa Barnes (Mili Avital) is a young woman working at a flower show who meets a handsome and charming young Read More

NYPD Blue: The Backboard Jungle

Synopsis: An inner-city basketball game, held in memory of a slain teenager, ends in a gang-related bloodbath. As members of the media look on, the organizer of the event, activist Brother Kwasi (Tom Wright), exchanges heated words with Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). A bad situation is made worse Read More

NYPD Blue: Where's 'Swaldo?

Synopsis: The inner-city activist who had previously elicited a racist remark from Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), thereby triggering a media firestorm, is found murdered. Much to the dismay of the activist's constituents, Sipowicz is assigned to investigate the killing. Before this episode is over, the viewer Read More

White Man's Burden

Actors: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch, Margaret Avery, Tom Bower

Synopsis: From director-writer Desmond Nakano comes this unusual role-reversal picture examining racism from a different perspective. Louis Pinnock (John Travolta) is a semi-literate worker in a chocolate candy factory. One day he makes a delivery to the mansion of wealthy Thaddeus Thomas (Harry Belafonte). Read More

Forget Paris

Actors: Billy Crystal, Debra Winger, Joe Mantegna, Cynthia Stevenson, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Actor Billy Crystal co-wrote, directed, and starred in this romantic comedy. Forty-something couple Andy (Joe Mantegna) and Liz (Cynthia Stevenson) are about to be married, and as they gather with their friends for dinner not long before the wedding, they are told the story of their mutual friends Read More

Tales From the Hood

Actors: Clarence Williams III, Joe Torry, Corbin Bernsen, Wings Hauser, Anthony Griffith, Michael Massee

Synopsis: Boyz N the Hood meets Tales from the Crypt in this alternately horrific, funny, and socially conscious anthology film. The four grim vignettes are framed by the tale of three street hoods who break into Mr. Simm's inner-city funeral home to find a stash of drugs. The mortician puts them off, by Read More

Men of War

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Charlotte Lewis, B.D. Wong, Kevin Tighe, Anthony John Denison

Synopsis: Seemingly content living the life of a derelict, former mercenary Nick (Dolph Lundgren) agrees -- reluctantly and only after he is offered a large fortune from two mining company executives -- to gather up a unit of fellow soldiers of fortune and fly to the island of Jakarta in order to convince Read More

Amityville: A New Generation

Actors: Ross Partridge

Synopsis: This tired, pointless sequel (the sixth in the creatively bankrupt series) continues the premise explored in both Amityville: The Evil Escapes and later used in Amityville 1992: It's About Time, in which the demonic forces occupying the infamous haunted Long Island spook-house reside within Read More

Weekend at Bernie's II

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Tom Wright, Steve James, Troy Beyer, Barry Bostwick

Synopsis: When they discover that their deceased boss had stashed away two million illegally embezzled dollars in a Caribbean safe deposit box, two co-workers decide to claim the cash. To do so, however, they must convince everyone the boss is actually alive -- a situation which seems oddly familiar to them Read More

Acting on Impulse

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy Allen, Judith Hoag, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this behind-the-scenes thriller, a movie actress finds herself accused of hacking up her producer. She tries to flee with two lovers preparing to marry. The three get into all sorts of trouble that ends with the death of the fiancee. Once again, the actress finds herself accused of the crime Read More

Chaplin

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and Chaplin's real-life daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his mentally ill Read More

Passion Fish

Actors: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Nora Dunn

Synopsis: With his trademark emphasis on character development and dialogue, writer/director John Sayles tells the story of May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell), a New York soap opera actress left paralyzed by a car accident. As the film opens, she lies in a hospital bed, confused and scared, watching her own Read More

Past Midnight

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Natasha Richardson, Tom Wright, Dana Eskelson

Synopsis: In this thriller a man falsely imprisoned for murdering his wife, finishes his 15 year sentence and then falls in love with his lovely parole officer who believes in him. Things go well until someone threatens the officer and begins trying to get him back in prison. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

A Different World: Don't Count Your Chickens Before They're Axed

Synopsis: As a project for her sociology class, Charmaine (Karen Malina White) follows Whitley (Jasmine Guy) around at her place of employment. As it turns out, Charmaine couldn't have picked a worse time: Whitley is laid off after the company suffers a setback, and as Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) tries to Read More

A Different World: Bedroom at the Top

Synopsis: When she is sexually harrassed by Mr. Holtworth (Tom Wright), one of her workplace superiors, Whitley (Jasmine Guy) files a complaint against the man. Imagine her shock when Holtworth claims that Whitley actually came on to him--and Management believes his story,. Elsewhere, Col. Taylor (Glynn Read More

City of Hope

Actors: Vincent Spano, Joe Morton, Tony Lo Bianco, Anthony John Denison, Barbara Williams

Synopsis: A city pulses with racial problems, political corruption, and small-time crime in this ambitious microcosm of urban life, written and directed by John Sayles. Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a lost soul usually high on drink and drugs, has spent his life in one New Jersey city, getting free rides Read More

Dead in the Water

Actors: Bryan Brown, Teri Hatcher, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Made for cable TV, this thriller finds a lawyer (Bryan Brown) plotting the murder of his wealthy wife so he can make off with his secretary. The wrong person ends up dead, however, and he finds himself accused of the crime. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Force of Circumstance

Actors: Boris Major, Jessica Stutchbury, Tom Wright, Eric Mitchell, Glenn O'Brien

Synopsis: A young Moroccan woman leaves her ramshackle native town to embark upon a dangerous mission to help better the circumstances of her people. Unfortunately, she ends up nearly trapped in a deadly web of political intrigue. The girl, Mouallem must travel to the US and deliver documents to a Read More

Reversal of Fortune

Actors: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: This film is a darkly humorous, determinedly ambiguous adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's book about his successful legal appeal of Claus von Bulow's conviction for the attempted murder of his wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. Sunny (Glenn Close) -- who remains in a "persistent vegetative state" Read More

Marked for Death

Actors: Steven Seagal, Basil Wallace, Keith David, Tom Wright, Joanna Pacula

Synopsis: In Marked for Death, Steven Seagal is told to "try to find the gentle person inside yourself." But he doesn't spend too much time looking, preferring instead to crack the spines of his victims. Seagal plays John Hatcher, a burned-out narcotics agent who resigns from the Drug Enforcement Read More

Street Hunter

Actors: Steve James, Reb Brown, John Leguizamo, Valarie Pettiford, Frank Vincent

Synopsis: Steve James stars in this martial-arts adventure. This time he plays former maverick NYC cop and Vietnam vet Logan Blade who currently works as a bounty hunter in pursuit of the potentially dangerous Angel, who is trying to get all of the Big Apple's gangs to unite and become a vicious death Read More

The Heart of Dixie

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, Treat Williams, Don Michael Paul

Synopsis: Set at a Southern college during the 1950s, three co-eds (Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates) re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Do the Right Thing

Actors: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Richard Edson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY. Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin' deejay (Samuel L. Jackson) spins the platters Read More

Troop Beverly Hills

Actors: Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Stephanie Beacham

Synopsis: Shelly Long stars in this comedy as a spoiled Beverly Hills wife who decides--wanting to prove her husband's accusation of her selfishness wrong--to become the leader of her daughter's wilderness group. Though taking them on outings at the mall rather than in the woods, she later must prove her Read More

Roseanne: Guilt by Disassociation

Synopsis: Still looking for a job after she quit the plastics factory in season one, Roseanne manages to get both hired and fired from a new job because she lacks computer skills. She then breaks up her own surprise party by getting into a fight with Dan. This episode was the first to be written by Read More

Vietnam War Story: The Last Days

Synopsis: This "feature film" is comprised of scenes from the six-part sequel to the 1987 TV series Vietnam War Story. Each self-contained playlet involves one or more members of the American forces which occupied Southeast Asia in the 1960s. The first story involves a black GI (Tim Guinee) whose kindness Read More

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka!

Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote, directed, and starred in this hilarious parody of blaxploitation films in the comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Jack Spade (Wayans) returns home from a hitch in the army to find his brother Junebug has died from an overdose of gold chains, leaving his widow Cheryl (Dawnn Lewis Read More

Overboard

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Michael Hagerty

Synopsis: This screwball comedy casts real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in a film that finds the latter returning to her roots in a role reminiscent of Private Benjamin (1980). Hawn stars as Joanna Stayton, a snooty heiress who summons carpenter Dean Proffitt (Russell) to her lavish yacht, where Read More

Matewan

Actors: Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, Bob Gunton, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker John Sayles creates one of his more artistic works with this period feature about a volatile 1920s labor dispute in the town of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan is a coal town where the local miners' lives are controlled by the powerful Stone Mountain Coal Company. The company Read More

Creepshow 2

Actors: Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Tom Savini, Domenick John

Synopsis: This less-satisfying sequel to the 1982 George A. Romero/Stephen King anthology presents a new trio of King stories, framed in a similar EC Comics-style format -- this time featuring some rather lackluster animated segments involving horror-host "The Creep," who introduces each chapter with Read More

Streetwalkin'

Actors: Melissa Leo, Dale Midkiff, Julie Newmar, Antonio Fargas, Leon Robinson

Synopsis: In a sex-and-violence film that emphasizes the physical abuse of young women, director Joan Freeman may raise the shackles as well as the hackles of her distaff viewing audience. Cookie (Melissa Leo) is a young runaway who arrives in New York City with her brother in tow and ends up working as a Read More

Rappin'

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Edye Byrde, Rony Clanton, Charles Flohe, Eriq La Salle, Leo O'Brien

Synopsis: In Rappin', Mario Van Peebles is John Hood, a con who when released from jail goes back to his neighborhood to find his girl shacked up with a nasty gang-leader named Duane (Charles Flohe). Duane is on the take with a corrupt contractor who plans to tear down Hood's neighborhood and he and his Read More

Mugsy's Girls

Actors: Ruth Gordon, Laura Branigan, Joanna Dierek, Rebecca Forstadt

Synopsis: Six sorority sisters are desperate for rent money, so, encouraged and trained by their den mother, they enter a mud-wrestling tournament in Las Vegas. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Beat Street

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis, John Chardiet, Leon Grant, Robert Taylor

Synopsis: Jon Chardiet plays a Puerto Rican youth who targets subway walls for his graffiti renderings. For a while, it looks as though Chardiet's problems will carry the plotline, but before long the film's true raison d'etre comes to the surface. Rap-music deejay Guy Davis, in tandem with such like-minded Read More

Alphabet City

Actors: Vincent Spano, Michael Winslow, Jami Gertz, Ray Serra

Synopsis: This stylishly photographed drama is set in the Lower East Side area known as "Alphabet City." There 19-year-oldJohnny has become a drug lord in charge of the neighborhood gangs and pushers. Unfortunately, he too has a boss and when he asks Johnny to burn down the tenement building that houses his Read More

The Brother from Another Planet

Actors: Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James, Leonard Jackson, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Sayles' first bonafide box-office success, Brother from Another Planet centers on a black escaped slave from a faraway planet (Joe Morton) who finds himself on the mean streets Harlem. Though the locals are put off by the slave's inability to speak, they are won over by his Read More

The Exterminator 2

Actors: Robert Ginty, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Geffner, Frankie R. Faison, Scott Randolph

Synopsis: This violent follow-up to the sadistic actioner The Exterminator (1980) again features Johnny Eastland (Robert Ginty), a Vietnam vet who is triggered into vengeful killing when his dancer girlfriend (Deborah Geffner) is first badly beaten and permanently crippled and later murdered by a gang of Read More

I Ought to Be in Pictures

Actors: Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Dinah Manoff, Lance Guest, Lewis Smith

Synopsis: Neil Simon based his screenplay for I Ought to Be in Pictures on one of his more serious theatrical pieces. Walter Matthau is top-billed as Herbert Tucker, a struggling screenwriter who suddenly finds his 19-year-old daughter, Libby(Dinah Manoff), on his Hollywood doorstep. Having deserted his Read More

Subway Riders

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, John Lurie, Charlene Kaleina, Cookie Mueller, Amos Poe

Synopsis: This detective drama was shot on location in New York City and chronicles the bloody wake of terror left by a murderous street saxophone player who hides out on the subway. The bizarre string of murders is investigated by a hard-bitten detective. Along the way he meets assorted New Wave scumbags. Read More

Midnight Madness

Actors: David Naughton, Debra Clinger, Eddie Deezen, Brad Wilkin, Maggie Roswell

Synopsis: The crux of this limited, juvenile comedy is a complex game that begins at midnight and ends by morning. Of main interest is the fact that a young Michael J. Fox plays one of the students involved in the game. Leon (Alan Solomon) has spent a year creating the game and practically needs that long Read More

Underground USA

Actors: Patti Astor, Eric Mitchell, Rene Ricard, Tom Wright, Jackie Curtis

Synopsis: The "underground" of the title refers not to crime but to the half-hidden world of two-bit hustlers, "artistic" poseurs, aberrant lifestyles and shattered dreams. Small-time Manhattan opportunist Eric Mitchell latches onto Patti Astor, a once-popular movie star fallen into penury. He briefly lifts Read More