Tony RosatoFilmography

Kissinger and Nixon

Actors: Ron Silver, Beau Bridges, Matt Frewer, Ron White, George Takei

Synopsis: Walter Isaacson's book Kissinger: A Biography served as the basis for this made-for-television movie about the famed political leader. Beau Bridges stars as President Richard Nixon and Ron Silver portrays Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security advisor. The adaptation shows how Kissinger worked Read More

Rent-A-Kid

Synopsis: In this light-hearted comedy, an ingenious salesman devises a clever scheme for finding homes for orphans. A pair of yuppies, trying to decide whether or not to become parents, use the plan to test out three rambunctious children in their home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Due South: Flashback

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Gordon Pinsent

Synopsis: While pursuing a gang of diamond thieves and kidnappers, Fraser (Paul Gross) is thrown from a van and rendered unconscious. When he awakens, he realizes that his memory has been erased. As Fraser laboriously picks through his past (courtesy of filmclips from previous Due South episodes), hopes to Read More

The Diamond Fleece

Synopsis: In this lively caper film, an ex-con with uncommon expertise in understanding the workings of high-tech security systems begins preparing to steal a rare diamond that is worth over $5 million. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Good Fight

Actors: Christine Lahti, Terry O'Quinn, Kenneth Welsh, Lawrence Z. Dane, Adam Trese

Synopsis: Good Fight is a made-for-cable film about a small-town lawyer (Christine Lahti) who fights a tobacco company when her son's best friend is stricken with mouth cancer, due to his frequent use of chewing tobacco. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Mystery Date

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, B.D. Wong, Tony Rosato

Synopsis: In this black teen comedy, a young man is thrilled that his kindly older brother has arranged for him to date the bombshell next door. To further impress her, little brother takes his sibling's shiny sports car. If he had known that there were a pair of corpses in the trunk though, the youth may Read More

In Defense of a Married Man

Actors: Judith Light, Michael Ontkean

Synopsis: This TV movie is not necessarily in defense of married man Michael Ontkean. That responsibility is taken by Judith Light, Ontkean's wife. When Ontkean is accused of murdering his mistress (Cynthia Sikes), his wife Light, a defense attorney, handles the case. Beyond the unavoidable emotional Read More

Friends, Lovers & Lunatics

Actors: Daniel Stern, Sheila McCarthy, Elias Koteas, Page Fletcher

Synopsis: A free-spirited commercial artist loses his girl to a stodgy professor and decides to everything in his power to get her back in this Canadian romantic comedy. When he learns that she and her new love are heading off to the mountains for a cozy weekend, he decides to follow them. En route, the Read More

Switching Channels

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson

Synopsis: The 1920s-era play The Front Page was about a Chicago reporter who wants to retire and get married but is tricked by his editor into doing one last story -- which proves to be complicated. It was made into a classic film in 1931 and inspired the 1940 hit movie His Girl Friday, in which the Read More

The Underachievers

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Edward Albert, Barbara Carrera, Michael Pataki, Susan Tyrrell, Mark Blankfield

Synopsis: Danny Warren (Edward Albert) is a former minor-league shortstop who becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this situation comedy. Investigating at a high-school adult-education class, he falls for the tempting teacher Katherine, played by the exotic Barbara Carrera. Danny forgets the reward of Read More

Hands of a Stranger

Actors: Armand Assante, Blair Brown, Beverly D'Angelo, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Hands of a Stranger was adapted by playwright Arthur Kopit from the best-selling novel by Robert Daley. Armand Assante plays a New York City narcotics officer who aids DA Blair Brown in her investigation of a rape case in which drugs were involved. In the subsequent days, Assante becomes something Read More

Sadie and Son

Synopsis: Sadie (Debbie Reynolds) is a salty, streetwise New York cop, forced into early retirement. Her son (Brian McNamara) is a rookie police officer. Carl Kleinschmidt's script contrives to have Sadie and Son become partners: she performs a heroic deed while in "civvies," and is restored to the force. Read More

Hearts of Fire

Actors: Bob Dylan, Rupert Everett, Fiona, Julian Glover, Suzanne Bertish

Synopsis: This uninspiring drama was unfortunately the last feature film directed by Richard Marquard and was released posthumously. Bob Dylan plays the retired and reclusive rock star (there's a stretch) Billy Parker who falls for aspiring rocker Molly McGuire (Fiona) and takes her under his wing on his Read More

Busted Up

Actors: Paul Coufos, Irene Cara, Stan Shaw, Tony Rosato

Synopsis: Prolific actor-stuntman Conrad Palmisano directed this average action-thriller about the owner of an inner-city gym. Earl (Paul Coufos) happens to also be a skilled fighter, and when he is pressured by real-estate developers to close the gym, he fights in order to save it. Former Saturday Night Live Read More

One Police Plaza

Actors: Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Robert Conrad stars in One Police Plaza as a New York homicide detective. A case on which he's working, involving the murder of a beautiful woman, is ordered closed by Conrad's superiors. Refusing to give up, the detective probes deeper, and unearths a hotbed of crooked cops, dirty "brass" and 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

Separate Vacations

Actors: David Naughton, Jennifer Dale, Mark Keyloun, Laurie Holden, Blanca Guerra

Synopsis: An unhappily married husband takes off to Mexico in hopes of finding a fulfilling romantic interlude, and scores nothing but zeros. Meanwhile, the wife and kids, who have been left at home, decide to go on their planned ski vacation anyway. Up on the slopes, the mom tries to resist the continual Read More

City of Shadows

Synopsis: Set in the future, a policeman must stop his psychotic brother who has kidnapped and killed a child. Tangerine Dream provides the score. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Shell Game

Actors: Germain Houde, Brenda Robins

Synopsis: Made for Canadian television, Shell Game stars Brenda Robins as a high-profile defense attorney. Right now, Brenda is defending client Germain Houde, who's been charged with murder. Vital evidence is twisted and tainted by certain interested parties. It is soon obvious that at least one of our Read More

Utilities

Actors: Robert Hays, Brooke Adams, John Marley, James Blendick, Ben Gordon

Synopsis: In this weakly limned comedy, romance, and social drama, Bob Hunt (Robert Hays) is a dedicated social worker out to save an elderly woman from having her heat shut off in the dead of winter. But his noble intentions are thwarted by Marion Edwards (Brooke Adams) a plainclothes policewoman, a Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 07

Actors: Brian Doyle-Murray, Robin Duke, Christine Ebersole, Mary Gross, Tim Kazurinsky, Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo, Tony Rosato

Improper Channels

Actors: Alan Arkin, Mariette Hartley, Sarah Stevens, Monica Parker, Harry Ditson

Synopsis: Alan Arkin plays a hapless architect named Jeffrey Martley, separated from his sprightly writer wife Diana (Mariette Hartley) and his wise-beyond-her-years five-year-old daughter Nancy (Sarah Stevens). When Nancy is injured in Jeffrey's camper, she is taken to the hospital where a misunderstanding Read More

SCTV: Season 03

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Although former stalwarts John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, and Harold Ramis are no longer part of the action, the third season of SCTV still boasts some of the Canadian-based sketch comedy series' best material. For starters, the season opener offers a special presentation of My Fair Lady...that is Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 06

Actors: Brian Doyle-Murray, Denny Dillon, Robin Duke, Gilbert Gottfried, Tim Kazurinsky, Gail Matthius, Eddie Murphy, Joe Piscopo, Ann Risley, Charles Rocket, Tony Rosato

Hog Wild

Actors: Michael Biehn, Patti D'Arbanville, Tony Rosato, Angelo Rizacos, Martin Doyle

Synopsis: In this uninspired attempt at teen comedy, Tim (Michael Biehn) has returned home in disgrace as far as his dad is concerned -- he was expelled from his military academy. The next thing Tim knows he is fighting off a gang of bikers that are terrorizing the high schoolers, and worse yet, he is Read More

Nothing Personal

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Suzanne Somers, Lawrence Z. Dane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Flawed and problematic, this romantic comedy is about Abigail Adams (Suzanne Somers), a sexy, talented, and dedicated lawyer, her new client Prof. Roger Keller (Donald Sutherland), and their fight to save baby seals from slaughter. The issue was a hot one, but the film as a whole does not rise to Read More

SCTV: Fantasy Island

Actors: Claude Tessier, Tony Rosato, Joe Seely, Mimi Kuzyk

Synopsis: "De plane, boss, de plane!" shouts Patoo (John Candy) as Ricardo Montalban (Eugene Levy) greets this week's guests on "Fantasy Island." In separate but interconnected segments, two members of the rock group Black Plasma (Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty) are transformed into Bob Hope and Bing Crosby for Read More

Running

Actors: Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Larry Dane, Chuck Shamata, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: Despite the promise of his early career, the life of former world-class runner Michael Andropolis has been a crashing failure. The icing on his life's bitter cake was his divorce from the woman he still loves. Wanting to win back both his wife and his self-respect, Andropolis decides to start Read More

SCTV: Death Takes No Holiday

Actors: Tony Rosato

Synopsis: Director William Castle (Dave Thomas) offers two alternate endings for a mystery film featuring Hercule Poirot (John Candy) -- much to the dismay of Agatha Christie (Andrea Martin). Elsewhere, Billy Sol (Candy) and Big Jim (Joe Flaherty) are impressed when The Amazing Cretin (Thomas) demonstrates Read More

SCTV: Fighting Air Dogs

Actors: Tony Rosato

Synopsis: On tonight's SCTV Movie of the Week, a fearless American pilot (played by John Candy) outwits the Japanese -- as represented by Lin Ye Tang (Dave Thomas) -- in "Fighting Air Dogs Over the Pacific." Elsewhere on the dial, anchorman Earl Camembert (Eugene Levy) is clearly higher than a kite during Read More

SCTV [TV Series]

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: An outgrowth of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe, which was created in 1959, the Toronto branch of Second City invaded Canada's CBC in the fall of 1976 with a weekly, half-hour sketch comedy series, making up in talent and energy what it lacked in budget and production polish. Taped in Read More

SCTV: Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Actors: Tony Rosato, Peter Ackroyd

Synopsis: The lugubrious Mr. Hitchcock (John Candy) hosts a presentation of "Murder Is Bad For Your Health," which even he admits is not nearly as good as Psycho (though he compensates for the film's shortcomings with a dynamic Curly Howard imitation). Also on tonight's broadcast schedule: "Only for Women" Read More

SCTV: Shock Theater

Actors: Donald Cowper, Tony Rosato, Robin Duke

Synopsis: The highlight of this episode is, of course, "Shock Theater," in which little Billy (Donald Cowper) makes a fatal mistake when he demands a really scary story from his dad (Joe Flaherty). Elsewhere on the dial, the management of SCTV condemns sex on television (though they're partial to Read More

SCTV: Madame Blitzman

Actors: Tony Rosato

Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of "Monster Chiller Horror Theater" with Floyd Robertson (Joe Flaherty) as the sinister Count Floyd ("Ooh!! Scary!!") Unfortunately, the count's movie tonight is the doggedly un-monstrous and non-chilling biopic "Madame Blitzman," an extended Madame Curie Read More

SCTV: Galaxy 66

Actors: Tony Rosato

Synopsis: After the latest episode of "Diving for Dollars," soon-to-be station manager Edith Prickley (Andrea Martin) makes her debut appearance on "Sunrise Semester," pontificating on proper elevator conversation. Later on, Bradley Omar (Harold Ramis) -- who's still waiting for those flat TV screens to Read More

SCTV: Officer Friendly

Actors: Tony Rosato, Dara Cowper, Donald Cowper

Synopsis: SCTV continues to operate this evening, even though its license has been suspended. Highlights of the broadcast day include the morning show "Little America," with Tom Brokraw (Dave Thomas) interviewing (and insulting) Wonder Woman star Lynda Karter (Catherine O'Hara). Also, Melonville's top Mafia Read More

SCTV: The $129,000 Question

Actors: Tony Rosato

Synopsis: Moe Green (Harold Ramis) emcees "The $129,000 Question," in which the contestants end up paying huge cash prizes to the host. The lucky viewer is also offered commercials for Fluffy Puff Toilet Paper (soft as a fine tablecloth), Dom Perignon ("The Beer of Champagnes"), and Dr. Benson, credit Read More