Wil WheatonFilmography

Neverland

Actors: Rick Sparks, Melany Bell, Gary Kelley, Kari Wahlgren, Ray Garcia

Synopsis: Despite its target audience, the tale of Peter Pan offers a plethora of darker implications ranging from the natural fear of aging and responsibility to discovering sexuality despite the strong inclination to resist all that clashes with youth. A far cry from Steven Spielberg's Hook, director Damion Dietz Read More

Book of Days

Actors: Wil Wheaton, Maureen Flannigan, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: When lovelorn groom Danny's (Wil Wheaton) wife suffers a tragic death on the couple's wedding day, the arrival of a mysterious book places his entire future in jeopardy in this supernatural drama from filmmaker Harry Ambrose. Shortly after Danny's wife's untimely death, a mysterious courier named Read More

The Girls' Room

Actors: Michelle Brookhurst, Soleil Moon Frye

Synopsis: Irene Turner makes her directorial debut with this comedy-drama about goth chicks and Southern belles. College roommates Casey (none other than Soleil Moon Frye of Punky Brewster fame) and Grace (Cat Taber) are a chalk-and-cheese couple if there ever was one: the former favors sex, drugs, and all Read More

Deep Core

Actors: Craig Sheffer, James Russo

Synopsis: Ego-driven industrialist Alan Morrisey (Harry VanGorkum) has paid to develop the ultimate mining machine -- a nearly invincible vehicle that uses laser energy to burrow through anything. But the machine's creator, Brian Goodman (Craig Sheffer), knows that it is too good at what it does and Read More

Fag Hag

Actors: Stephanie Orff, Damion Dietz, Sasha Cardona, Darryl Theirse, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: Damion Dietz directed this low-budget indie comedy set in the Los Angeles suburb of Hope Springs, where Destiny Rutt (Stephanie Orff) enters a local beauty contest -- revealing her true feelings about this in voice-over. Unemployed gay slacker Scott (director Dietz) arrives in town and lands a job Read More

Flubber

Actors: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Raymond J. Barry, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: Although "flub" is defined as "to make a mess of," the word "flubber" is a contraction from "flying rubber." In this remake of the 1961 comedy-fantasy The Absent Minded Professor, Robin Williams takes on the role created by Fred MacMurray and later executed by Harry Anderson on television, while Read More

Pie in the Sky

Actors: Josh Charles, Anne Heche, John Goodman, Peter Riegert, Christine Ebersole

Synopsis: This comedy chronicles the romantic exploits of a rather stodgy young man with a traffic fetish. Even as a child Charlie Dunlap was totally fixated by freeway traffic. Charlie's biggest idol is Alan Davenport, a radio traffic reporter. As a young man, Charlie falls in love with the lively Read More

Mr. Stitch

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Nia Peeples, Ron Perlman, Wil Wheaton, Taylor Negron

Synopsis: This sci-fi thriller takes the Frankenstein story a few steps further and sets it in the near future. Using a variety of human body parts, a scientist (Rutger Hauer) creates Lazarus, a young man (Will Wheaton) with superior mental and physical capabilities. Poor Lazarus would be perfect but for Read More

Just Say kNOw to Drugs

It Was Him or Us

Actors: Richard Grieco, Ann Jillian, Monique Lanier, Richard Masur, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: When her daughter's lover begins exhibiting signs of becoming a dangerous abuser, a mother attempts to intervene. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Journey's End

Synopsis: Wil Wheaton makes an encore appearance as Starfleet Academy cadet Wesley Crusher. While on leave, Wesley becomes involved in a dispute over the relocation of an American Indian colony, whose planet has been annexed by the Cardassians. Sympathetic to the plight of the displaced Indians, Wesley Read More

The Liars' Club

Actors: Soleil Moon Frye, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: The Liars Club is a group of football buddies, so named because of their tendency to exaggerate their accomplishments. This sort of harmless fun comes to an end when one of the "club" members brutally assaults a young girl. Now the friends close ranks and become liars for real. The outlook Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Parallels

Synopsis: After returning to the Enterprise from a Klingon convention, Worf can't help but notice that the reality around him is changing. Trouble is, he's the only one who notices this phenomenon. Everyone else seems to be taking things in stride, especially Troi, who is now married to Worf. Wil Wheaton Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The First Duty

Synopsis: On the eve of his graduation from Starfleet Academy, Wesley Crusher is involved in a fatal in-flight accident. Though he knows the truth behind the tragedy, Wesley is reluctant to tell all for fear of hurting his friends in the Academy. As his fate is determined during a hearing, the crew of the Read More

December

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Jason London, Brian Krause, Wil Wheaton, Chris Young

Synopsis: Set the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, December focuses on five prep-school students (Wil Wheaton, Balthazar Getty, Brian Krause, Jason London and Chris Young) who are of enlistment age. Though encouraged by their headmaster to enter the army, the boys are wary of battle, and discuss Read More

Toy Soldiers

Actors: Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis: Dead Poets Society and Die Hard bash heads in this action drama set in a Northeastern prep school. The film opens as a crazed Central American terrorist, Luis Cali (Andrew Divoff), goes on a shooting spree, attempting to gain his drug baron father's release from extradition to the United States. Read More

The Last Prostitute

Actors: Sonia Braga

Synopsis: When a pair of teen-aged boys break away from their summer camp to lose their virginity to an infamous hooker (Sonia Braga), they discover that she's since gone straight to become a rancher. After hiring on as stable boys, they learn about the real meaning of love and sex. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Game

Synopsis: Riker's new electronic mind game proves addictive to everyone on the Enterprise. The only person resistant to the game's seductive appeal is Wesley Crusher, on vacation from Starship academy. Wesley suspects that the game is not as harmless as it appears to be, and his instincts are right Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Legacy

Synopsis: The away team embarks upon a rescue mission to Turkana Four, home of the long-deceased Tasha Yar. While trying to aid a marooned Federation crew, the team is hampered by the ongoing hostilities between two feuding factions. The resolution to this crisis may or may not rest in the hands of Tasha Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Remember Me

Synopsis: Appropriately telecast just before Halloween (on October 27, 1990, to be exact), this eerie Next Generation episode was equally appropriately titled. One by one, the crew members of the Enterprise are disappearing without a trace, and no one except Dr. Crusher has any memory of their Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Reunion

Synopsis: Having previously met the brother he never knew he had in the second-season episode "Sins of the Father," Lt. Worf is further astonished to discover that he has a son named Alexander (Jon Steuer). This is brought to his attention by the boy's mother K'Ehleyr (Suzie Plakson), who Worf feels has Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Final Mission

Synopsis: Having at last been accepted into the Starfleet Academy, Wesley Crusher is invited on the eve of his departure to accompany Captain Picard on an important mission to Pentaurus Five. Alas, they are forced to make an emergency landing, in the course of which Picard is seriously injured. It is up to Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 04

Actors: Colm Meaney, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Suddenly Human

Synopsis: Responding to a distress call on a Talarian training ship, Picard finds himself in the middle of a bitter custody battle. The catalyst for this crisis is human teenager Jono (Chad Allen), who shows signs of severe abuse at the hands of his alien guardian. The problem is exacerbated when Jono Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds, Part II

Synopsis: On the June 23, 1990, the Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds" ended as Borg leader Locutus took over Picard's mind and body and declared to the nonplussed Enterprise crew "Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over." This cliffhanger would not be resolved Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Family

Synopsis: Safely returned to his own self after briefly being possessed by the Borg, Captain Picard must face a another, more personal crisis. Returning to his home village during a repair stopover on Earth, Picard has an uncomfortable reunion with his envious older brother Robert (Jeremy Kemp). Meanwhile Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Brothers

Actors: Brent Spiner

Synopsis: While tending to the needs of an ailing young boy, Data suddenly begins acting strangely and takes over the Enterprise. Riker and O'Brien's efforts to regain control of the ship are thwarted by a force-field activited by the inexplicably hostile Data. The outcome of this crisis rests in the Read More

My Dad Can't Be Crazy, Can He?

Actors: Loretta Swit, Wil Wheaton, Don Murray

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 03

Actors: Colm Meaney, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: The sci-fi series may start its third season in a standard way - the premiere, Evolution,, is a technology-run-amok episode - but the 1989-1990 year supplies some of the show's most acclaimed hours. Sarek brings Spock's father (Mark Lenard) to the new Enterprise, and A Matter of Perspective is a Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 02

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Diana Muldaur, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: The second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation brings changes in both cast and appearance. Denise Crosby's Tasha Yar had been killed in the first season episode Skin of Evil, giving Worf (Michael Dorn) a promotion to the new head of security. Meanwhile, Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) has Read More

The Curse

Actors: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcom Danare, Cooper Huckabee, John Schneider

Synopsis: This awful horror film, the directing debut of actor David Keith, is the second major adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space, first brought to the screen in Daniel Haller's Die, Monster, Die. Wil Wheaton stars as Zack, eternal whipping-boy of a rural farm family headed by his Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 01

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: Scrapping the original series' limited "five-year mission" for a more ambitious ongoing one, Star Trek: The Next Generation aims high from its first episode. The Enterprise D is captained by Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), a leader more reserved and thought-driven than the beloved Captain Kirk. Read More

Young Harry Houdini

Synopsis: This children's biopic offers a Disneyfied excerpt from the life of infamous Harry Houdini, who apparently ran away from home at age 12 to join a wandering medicine show so he could fulfill his dream of becoming a magician. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, actually a television pilot inspired by Nicolas Roeg's provocative 1976 film, chronicles the exploits of an alien marooned on Earth. All he wants is to go back to his dying planet. He is hindered by military forces determined to find him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stand by Me

Actors: John Cusack, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: Based on the Stephen King short story The Body, Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome Read More

Long Time Gone

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a down-and-out private eye's life is further complicated by the arrival of his estranged pre-teen son. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Defiant Ones

Synopsis: In this faithful remake of the Stanley Kramer classic buddy film, two members of a chain gang, one black and the other white, escape. They are chained together. At first they hate each other, but as time passes they begin to develop a grudging friendship. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Highway to Heaven: One Winged Angels

Synopsis: The "real" world clashes head-on with the Heavenly afterworld when probationary angel Jonathan (Michael Landon) is assigned to straighten out the trouble-prone son (Wil Wheaton) of an attractive divorcee named Libby (Robin Dearden). What Jonathan hadn't counted on was that he would fall in love Read More

Hambone and Hillie

Actors: Lillian Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Candy Clark, O.J. Simpson, Robert Walker, Jr.

Synopsis: It is doubtful that while acting in D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation back in 1914, Lillian Gish ever dreamed that seven decades later she'd be co-starring with a cute dog in something called Hambone and Hillie. It all begins at a busy airport, where octogenarian Hillie (Gish) is accidentally Read More

The Last Starfighter

Actors: Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Stewart, Barbara Bosson

Synopsis: Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter. His expertise at this recreational endeavor attracts the attention of affable stranger Robert Preston. Before he knows what's happening, Guest is whisked by Preston into the Read More

The Buddy System

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen, Jean Stapleton, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: A cautious single mom and a frustrated writer dance around the prospect of getting together in this romantic comedy. Caustic, difficult Emily (Susan Sarandon) lives with her potty-mouthed son, Tim (Wil Wheaton), and her obnoxiously bossy mother (Jean Stapleton). Her social life consists of Read More

The Secret of NIMH

Actors: Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Hermione Baddeley, Arthur Malet, Peter Strauss, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Frustrated with the Walt Disney studio's reluctance to produce full-length animated films, Don Bluth and a number of animators left the studio in the early '80s with the intent of creating movies in the style of Disney's classics. The Secret of NIMH is the first film Bluth produced after leaving Read More

The Shooting

Synopsis: While on a hunting trip, an accident leads three boys to believe that they killed a man. Confused and afraid, the boys run away to avoid having their misdeed discovered. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

A Long Way Home

Synopsis: A young man searches for his brother and sister many years after the three were sent to separate foster homes in this made-for-TV drama. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More