Anthony LaPaglia
Actor | Producer | Writer
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Anthony M. LaPaglia (born 31 January 1959) is an Australian actor. He is known for his role as FBI agent Jack Malone on the American TV series Without a Trace, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series; and for his portrayal of Simon Moon on the TV show Frasier.
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Annabelle: Creation (2017)
As: Samuel Mullins
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: David F. Sandberg
Stars: Miranda Otto | Anthony LaPaglia | Stephanie Sigman | Talitha Bateman | Lulu Wilson
The Assignment (2016)
As: Honest John Hartunian
Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Walter Hill
Stars: Michelle Rodriguez | Sigourney Weaver | Anthony LaPaglia | Tony Shalhoub | Caitlin Gerard
A Month of Sundays (2016)
As: Frank Mollard
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Matthew Saville
Stars: Julia Blake | Anthony LaPaglia | Justine Clarke | Henry Nixon | Mikaela Davies
This Isn't Funny (2015)
As: Mike
Meeting the right person at the wrong time can be the best thing that ever happened to you.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Paul Ashton
Stars: Edi Gathegi | Gia Carides | Paul Ashton | Ahmed Bharoocha | Katie Page
Big Stone Gap (2015)
As: Spec Broadwater
A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Adriana Trigiani
Stars: Patrick Wilson | Whoopi Goldberg | Ashley Judd | Jane Krakowski | Jenna Elfman
Holding the Man (2015)
As: Bob Caleo
In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge burden which will affect every aspect of their lives.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Neil Armfield
Stars: Guy Pearce | Anthony LaPaglia | Ryan Corr | Craig Stott | Sarah Snook
The Eichmann Show (2015)
As: Leo Hurwitz
The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war's most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann, who is accused of executing the 'final solution' and organising the murder of 6 million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how the trial came to ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Paul Andrew Williams
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia | Martin Freeman | Rebecca Front | Nicholas Woodeson | Andy Nyman
Showrunners (2014)
As: Himself
“Showrunners” is the first ever feature length documentary film to explore the fascinating world of US television showrunners and the creative forces aligned around them. These are the people responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on one of the United State’s biggest exports – television drama and comedy series. Often described as the most complex job in the ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Des Doyle
Stars: J.J. Abrams | Steven S. DeKnight | Ronald D. Moore | Jane Espenson | Joss Whedon
A Good Marriage (2014)
As: Bob
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Peter Askin
Stars: Stephen Lang | Anthony LaPaglia | Kristen Connolly | Cara Buono | Joan Allen
Crazy Kind of Love (2013)
As: Gordie
A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Sarah Siegel-Magness
Stars: Amanda Crew | Zach Gilford | Virginia Madsen | Sam Trammell | Graham Rogers
Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012)
As: Detective Ken Roberts
Julian Assange is one of the most significant figures of the twenty first century. But before he was famous, before WikiLeaks, before the internet even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. This is his story. In 1989, known as ‘Mendax’, Assange and two friends formed a group called the ‘International Subversives’. Using early home computers and defining themselves as ‘white hat ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Robert Connolly
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia | Rachel Griffiths | Callan McAuliffe | Alex Williams | Laura Wheelwright
Mental (2012)
As: Barry Moochmore
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: P.J. Hogan
Stars: Liev Schreiber | Anthony LaPaglia | Kerry Fox | Caroline Goodall | Toni Collette
Overnight (2012)
As: Tully
After breaking up with her boyfriend on Valentine's Day, Jenny (Rachel Blanchard) shares a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York with a love-damaged group of passengers-- a pilot with anger management issues (Anthony LaPaglia), some oversexed flight attendants, a hip-hop superstar trying to keep it real in coach and a handsome young professor who's been unlucky in romance (James D'Arcy). Along with a ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Valerie Breiman
Stars: Gbenga Akinnagbe | Rachel Blanchard | Anthony LaPaglia | James D'Arcy | Jared Gilmore
Happy Feet Two (2011)
As: The Alpha Skua (voice)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Elijah Wood | Robin Williams | Pink | Johnny A. Sanchez | E.G. Daily
All Star Superman (2011)
As: Lex Luthor
Lex Luthor enacts his plan to rid the world of Superman, once and for all. Succeeding with solar radiation poisoning, the Man of Steel is slowly dying. With what little times remains, the Last Son of Krypton must confront the revealing of his secret identity to Lois Lane and face Luthor in a final battle.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Sam Liu
Stars: Linda Cardellini | Anthony LaPaglia | Christina Hendricks | James Denton | Ed Asner
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
As: Twilight (voice)
Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's. The film is based on the first three books in the series.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Stars: Essie Davis | Emily Barclay | Deborra-Lee Furness | Abbie Cornish | Joel Edgerton
Balibo (2009)
As: Roger East
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East's determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifie
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Robert Connolly
Stars: Nick Farnell | Oscar Isaac | Nathan Phillips | Anthony LaPaglia | Damon Gameau
$9.99 (2008)
As: Jim Peck (voice)
Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: Tatia Rosenthal
Stars: Tom Budge | Joel Edgerton | Samuel Johnson | Leon Ford | Josef Ber
Happy Feet (2006)
As: Boss Skua (voice)
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Elijah Wood | Nicole Kidman | Brittany Murphy | Robin Williams | Hugh Jackman
The Architect (2006)
As: Leo Waters
An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Matt Tauber
Stars: Isabella Rossellini | Viola Davis | Anthony LaPaglia | Hayden Panettiere | Sebastian Stan
Winter Solstice (2004)
As: Jim Winters
A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Josh Sternfeld
Stars: Mark Webber | Michelle Monaghan | Allison Janney | Anthony LaPaglia | Aaron Stanford
Spinning Boris (2003)
As: Dick Dresner
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Jeff Goldblum | Liev Schreiber | Svetlana Efremova | Anthony LaPaglia | Boris Lee Krutonog
I'm with Lucy (2003)
As: Bobby
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her experiences with each one. But which one of the five men is Lucy about to walk down the aisle with?
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jon Sherman
Stars: Julianne Nicholson | Gael García Bernal | Anthony LaPaglia | John Hannah | Monica Potter
Manhood (2003)
As: Jack's Attorney
A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Bobby Roth
Stars: Nestor Carbonell | Bonnie Bedelia | John Ritter | Janeane Garofalo | Nick Roth
Happy Hour (2003)
As: Tulley
Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to write a great novel only to learn that his life of booze will end all too soon. Levine, his best friend and Natalie, the woman who might have saved ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Mike Bencivenga
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia | Sandrine Holt | Eric Stoltz | Robert Vaughn | Caroleen Feeney
The Guys (2002)
As: Nick
The story of a fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center and the editor who helps him prepare the eulogies he must deliver.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Jim Simpson
Stars: Sigourney Weaver | Anthony LaPaglia | Jim Simpson | Irene Walsh | Charlotte Simpson
Dead Heat (2002)
As: Ray
Boston cop Pally is forced into early retirement, putting a strain on his marriage. Pally's stepbrother, Ray, attempts to lift his spirits by tipping him off to a sure-bet racehorse. But their attempts to secure the champion equine are thwarted by a local mob boss, who steals the horse as repayment for a gambling debt. With their investment on the line, Pally and Ray become entangled in a web of underworld ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Mark Malone
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland | Lothaire Bluteau | Radha Mitchell | Anthony LaPaglia | Daniel Benzali
The Salton Sea (2002)
As: Al Garcetti
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: D.J. Caruso
Stars: Adam Goldberg | Val Kilmer | Vincent D'Onofrio | Luis Guzmán | Doug Hutchison
The Bank (2001)
As: Simon O'Reily
The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O'Reilly's fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the "greed is good" ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Robert Connolly
Stars: David Wenham | Anthony LaPaglia | Steve Rodgers | Sibylla Budd | Mitchell Butel
Lantana (2001)
As: Detective Leon Zat
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Ray Lawrence
Stars: Geoffrey Rush | Barbara Hershey | Anthony LaPaglia | Rachael Blake | Kerry Armstrong
The House of Mirth (2000)
As: Sim Rosedale
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Terence Davies
Stars: Eleanor Bron | Dan Aykroyd | Anthony LaPaglia | Gillian Anderson | Terry Kinney
Autumn in New York (2000)
As: John Volpe
Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is half Will's age and twice his match, a 21 year-old free spirit yearning to get out and taste the excitement of adult life.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Joan Chen
Stars: Vera Farmiga | Richard Gere | Anthony LaPaglia | Winona Ryder | Elaine Stritch
Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
As: Michael Andretti
The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly, and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie's character through her interactions with her friends and family.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Kate Woods
Stars: Greta Scacchi | Anthony LaPaglia | Pia Miranda | Kerry Walker | Elena Cotta
Company Man (2000)
As: Fidel Castro
Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Peter Askin | Douglas McGrath
Stars: John Turturro | Alan Cumming | Anthony LaPaglia | Douglas McGrath | Denis Leary
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
As: Al Torrio
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Tony Darrow | Woody Allen | Dan Moran | Daniel Okrent | Ben Duncan (DJ)
Black and Blue (1999)
As: Bobby Benedetto
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Paul Shapiro
Stars: Will Rothhaar | Sabrina Grdevich | Anthony LaPaglia | Mary Stuart Masterson | Sam Robards
Summer of Sam (1999)
As: Detective Lou Petrocelli
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Runtime: 142 min.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Stars: Mira Sorvino | Adrien Brody | John Leguizamo | Michael Rispoli | Jennifer Esposito
Lansky (1999)
As: Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano
This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. It tells of a young man growing up in the Jewish ghettos of America's big cities at the turn of the century and of his bright intelligence which ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: John McNaughton
Stars: Eric Roberts | Richard Dreyfuss | Illeana Douglas | Beverly D'Angelo | Anthony LaPaglia
Phoenix (1998)
As: Mike Henshaw
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Danny Cannon
Stars: Daniel Baldwin | Ray Liotta | Anjelica Huston | Anthony LaPaglia | Jeremy Piven
Brilliant Lies (1997)
As: Gary Fitzgerald
Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should entitle her to a compensation payment of $40,000.00.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Richard Franklin
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia | Ray Barrett | Michael Veitch | Gia Carides | Zoe Carides
Commandments (1997)
As: Harry Luce
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City. ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Daniel Taplitz
Stars: Aidan Quinn | Alice Drummond | Anthony LaPaglia | Courteney Cox | Pamela Gray
Trees Lounge (1996)
As: Rob
Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Steve Buscemi
Stars: Mark Boone Junior | Carol Kane | Chloë Sevigny | Steve Buscemi | Bronson Dudley
Chameleon (1996)
As: Willie Serling
An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Michael Pavone
Stars: Melora Hardin | Kevin Pollak | Anthony LaPaglia | Derek McGrath | Wayne Knight
Empire Records (1995)
As: Joe Reaves
The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Allan Moyle
Stars: Liv Tyler | Anthony LaPaglia | Debi Mazar | Maxwell Caulfield | Robin Tunney
Mixed Nuts (1994)
As: Felix
The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Nora Ephron
Stars: Juliette Lewis | Robert Klein | Anthony LaPaglia | Steve Martin | Madeline Kahn
Paperback Romance (1994)
As: Edward 'Eddie' Mercer
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Ben Lewin
Stars: Robyn Nevin | Marshall Napier | Anthony LaPaglia | Rebecca Gibney | Gia Carides
Killer (1994)
As: Mick
This lyrical, modern-day film noir finds cynical hit man Mick (Anthony LaPaglia) tiring of his job and asking his boss, mob kingpin George (Peter Boyle), for time off. George gives him the assignment of his life, however, prompting Mick's soul-searching to reach new heights. Mick is asked to kill the sultry Fiona (Mimi Rogers), who owes George money and claims she wants to die. But as Mick spends time with ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Mark Malone
Stars: Matt Craven | Mimi Rogers | Anthony LaPaglia | Monika Schnarre | Peter Boyle
The Client (1994)
As: Barry Muldano
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Susan Sarandon | Mary-Louise Parker | Tommy Lee Jones | Anthony LaPaglia | Bradley Whitford
Past tense (1994)
As: Larry Talbert
A former cop who is now a novelist notices an attractive young woman move in next door to him. He strikes up a conversation, one thing leads to another and he spends the night. She asks him to come back the next evening, but when he does he discovers that she has been killed. When he reports the murder, he is told that no such woman ever lived there, and when he gets back to the house there's a ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Graeme Clifford
Stars: Scott Glenn | Anthony LaPaglia | Lara Flynn Boyle | Sheree J. Wilson | David Ogden Stiers
The Custodian (1993)
As: Det. Sgt. James Quinlan
Det. Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his 'straight' life to partner in crime with his co-worker, Det. Church, in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He sides privately with a reporter, Reynolds, and an Internal Affairs lawyer, Ferguson, ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: John Dingwall
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Barry Otto | Bill Hunter | Anthony LaPaglia | Kelly Dingwall
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
As: Tony Giardino
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Thomas Schlamme
Stars: Brenda Fricker | Mike Myers | Anthony LaPaglia | Nancy Travis | Amanda Plummer
Innocent Blood (1992)
As: Joe Gennaro
A beautiful vampire turns a crime lord into a creature of the night.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: John Landis
Stars: David Proval | Anthony LaPaglia | Chazz Palminteri | Robert Loggia | Anne Parillaud
Black Magic (1992)
As: Ross Gage
A young man is tormented by visions of his dead cousin who attempts to warn him of a Witch capable of casting deadly spells!
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Daniel Taplitz
Stars: Rachel Ward | Brion James | Wendy Makkena | Judge Reinhold | Richard Witting
Whispers in the Dark (1992)
As: Larry Morgenstern
Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Christopher Crowe
Stars: Jill Clayburgh | Deborah Kara Unger | Anthony LaPaglia | Annabella Sciorra | Jamey Sheridan
29th Street (1991)
As: Frank Pesce, Jr.
Based on the life of Frank Pesce (Danny Aiello), an actor who won $6 million in the first New York State Lottery in 1976, this comedy focuses on the tight-knit Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn where Pesce grew up. It's also the story of how those gigantic winnings ended up becoming a curse of sorts (a case of "be careful what you wish for").
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: George Gallo
Stars: Danny Aiello | Robert Forster | Anthony LaPaglia | Frank Pesce | Lainie Kazan
One Good Cop (1991)
As: Stevie Diroma
When his loyal longtime partner, a widower, is killed in the line of duty and leaves behind three young children, Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton), a dedicated New York City cop and his wife, Rita (Rene Russo), decide to take the kids in. But the lives of his new family members are quickly on the line as Artie investigates his partner's death. Can he find the killer -- and keep the girls safe?
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Heywood Gould
Stars: Michael Keaton | Anthony LaPaglia | Rachel Ticotin | Rene Russo | Kevin Conway
He Said, She Said (1991)
As: Mark
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Ken Kwapis | Marisa Silver
Stars: Kevin Bacon | Nathan Lane | Anthony LaPaglia | Sharon Stone | Elizabeth Perkins
Criminal Justice (1990)
As: David Ringel
A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused is offered a deal if he pleads guilty. Is he as innocent as the victim? Is the justice system guiltier than both?
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Andy Wolk
Stars: Tony Todd | Forest Whitaker | Rosie Perez | Anthony LaPaglia | Jennifer Grey
Betsy's Wedding (1990)
As: Stevie Dee
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Dylan Walsh, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife, Lola, into a financial panic.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Alan Alda
Stars: Joe Pesci | Samuel L. Jackson | Ally Sheedy | Molly Ringwald | Alan Alda
Mortal Sins (1989)
As: Vito
A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Yuri Sivo
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia | Peter Onorati | Brian Benben | Debrah Farentino | Maggie Wheeler
Frank Nitti: The Enforcer (1988)
As: Frank Nitti
Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti (Anthony LaPaglia), was just as ruthless. This biopic goes to great lengths to accurately trace Nitti's rise to the top of the Windy City's underworld, amid corruption, betrayal and violence. The result is an engrossing glimpse into mob life in the early 20th century.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Michael Switzer
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia | Trini Alvarado | Michael Moriarty | Vincent Guastaferro | Michael Russo