Wesley Strick Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Former rock critic Wesley Strick has been a screenwriter since Warner Bros. accepted his screenplay for Final Analysis in 1984. In addition to penning or co-penning scripts to such subsequent films as True Believer (1989), Arachnophobia (1990), and Return to Paradise (1998), Strick has also...Read More

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Platinum Dunes revives the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with this reworking of slasher film legend Freddy Krueger, a deceased child-killer who torments the dreams of the teenagers of Springwood, Ohio. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Love is the Drug

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Patrick Amedori, Lizzy Caplan, D.J. Cotrona, Jonathan Trent, Jennifer Wade

Synopsis: A teenage outcast finds an effective but dangerous way to impress his hipper classmates in this independent drama. Jonah Brand (John Patrick Amedori) is a new student at an exclusive private school, and unlike most of his classmates, Jonah is neither wealthy nor especially self-assured. Jonah's Read More

2006
Doom

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Razaaq Adoti, The Rock, Deobia Oparei

Synopsis: One of the most popular and influential video games ever makes its way to the big screen in this sci-fi thriller. A coalition of Earth's scientific and military interests have established a research colony called Olduvai on the planet Mars, but one day all communication from the outpost stops and Read More

10/21/05
The Glass House

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård, Bruce Dern, Kathy Baker, Trevor Morgan

Synopsis: This teen psychological thriller marks the feature film debut of respected television producer and director Daniel Sackheim. Leelee Sobieski stars as Ruby Baker, a high school student who is devastated when her parents Grace and Dave (Rita Wilson and Michael O'Keefe) are killed in a tragic car Read More

9/14/01
Hitched

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Sheryl Lee, Alex Carter, Brenda Devine, Matt Crooke

Synopsis: Noted screenwriter Wesley Strick made his directorial debut with this offbeat suspense story. Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) and Eve (Sheryl Lee Diamond) are a couple who've just moved into a beautiful old house, which has an unusual feature in the basement -- a hidden bar room which was used as a Read More

2001
Return to Paradise

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad, Vera Farmiga

Synopsis: This remake of Force Majeure (aka Uncontrollable Circumstances), a 1989 film with Alan Bates and Kristin Scott Thomas, recalls the prison plight depicted in Midnight Express (1978). Rambling around Asia, getting high and just having a good time, are three young men -- Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), Lewis Read More

1998
The Saint

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valery Nikolaev, Henry Goodman

Synopsis: Based on the popular novels about that other suave, globe-trotting man of action, this genre picture from director Phillip Noyce mixed romance and character development with dangerous stunts, geopolitical intrigue, and a variety of elaborate disguises, resulting in an uneven stew of a spy Read More

4/4/97
The Tie That Binds

Crew: Director

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Moira Kelly, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Produced by the same team that bankrolled the hit The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this violent domestic thriller is often compared to that mega-hit. Screenwriter Wesley Strick made his directorial debut with this script by Michael Auerbach. Vincent Spano and Moira Kelly are Russell and Dana Read More

1995
Wolf

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson becomes a werewolf in this bizarre comedy-horror film directed by Mike Nichols. Nicholson plays Will Randall, a book editor with a testosterone deficit who has just been sacked at his publishing firm by a new boss, Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer). A colleague, Stewart Swinton (James Spader Read More

1994
The Real McCoy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp, Gailard Sartain, Zach English

Synopsis: Kim Basinger plays a burglar ex-con who's just been released from a 10-year stint and intends to go straight, when a big-time Atlanta crime boss kidnaps her six-year-old son and forces her to pull one last heist. She concocts an elaborate bank job but goes one step further and outwits both the Read More

1993
Batman Returns

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

6/19/92
Final Analysis

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: In Final Analysis, Richard Gere stars as Isaac Barr, a San Francisco psychiatrist whose alluring patient Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman) is being treated for traumatic memories. In order to find out more about her trauma, Diana suggests that Isaac speak to her sister and question her about what went on Read More

2/7/92
Cape Fear

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's Goodfellas. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) comes calling on the man who served as his public Read More

11/13/91
Arachnophobia

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman, Julian Sands, Stuart Pankin

Synopsis: Referring to the fear of spiders, Arachnophobia features a particularly deadly species of spider that manages to make its way from the Venezuelan rain forest to a small California town, thanks to the many oversights of entomologist Julian Sands. Yuppie doctor Jeff Daniels, fed up with the dangers Read More

8/10/90
True Believer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Woods, Robert Downey, Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, Kurtwood Smith, Tom Bower

Synopsis: The only True Believer at the beginning of this drama is idealistic young attorney Robert Downey Jr., who apprentices under the guidance of celebrated civil-rights activist James Woods. Alas, in the years since the sixties, Woods has become a disillusioned, dope-smoking ambulance chaser. Goaded by Read More

2/17/89