Frank Whaley

The Shed (2019)

As: Bane

The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Frank Sabatella

Stars: Timothy Bottoms | Frank Whaley | Jay Jay Warren | Cody Kostro | Sofia Happonen

Hustlers (2019)

As: Reese

A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Lorene Scafaria

Stars: Jennifer Lopez | Keke Palmer | Julia Stiles | Constance Wu | Lili Reinhart

Into the Dark: All That We Destroy (2019)

As: Parker

A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies by allowing him to relive the murder of his first victim.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Chelsea Stardust

Stars: Samantha Mathis | Shi Ne Nielson | Israel Broussard | Dora Madison | Aurora Perrineau

Warning Shot (2018)

As: David

A single mother and her young daughter struggle to make ends meet until they inherit their family's farmhouse. When a business rival covets their water rights, the situation spirals out of control.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Dustin Fairbanks

Stars: Guillermo Díaz | James Earl Jones | Tammy Blanchard | David Spade | Niki Koss

Against the Night (2017)

As: Detective Ramsey

A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Brian Cavallaro

Stars: Erik Kochenberger | Josh Cahn | Leah Holleran | Hannah Kleeman | Yesenia Linares

Monster Trucks (2016)

As: Wade Coley

Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp, a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Chris Wedge

Stars: Danny Glover | Lucas Till | Amy Ryan | Rob Lowe | Jane Levy

Cold Moon (2016)

As: Sheriff Ted Hale

Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a decade earlier. Suspicion falls on a duplicitous banker and his wealthy father, played by Stewart and Lloyd.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Griff Furst

Stars: Robbie Kay | Christopher Lloyd | Frank Whaley | Candy Clark | Josh Stewart

The Outskirts (2015)

As: Herb Watson

After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Peter Hutchings

Stars: Peyton List | Avan Jogia | Ashley Rickards | Victoria Justice | Eden Sher

Rob the Mob (2014)

As: Agent Frank Hurd

The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Raymond De Felitta

Stars: Nina Arianda | Griffin Dunne | Ray Romano | Michael Pitt | Andy García

Aftermath (2013)

As: Eric

Tom Fiorini (Anthony Michael Hall, The Dead Zone) owns a successful construction company. After his long time foreman goes missing, events take a drastic turn for the worse. During the search for his foreman, Tom plummets down a slippery slope of violence and hired hit men, only to find the fire with which he plays is much hotter than he could have ever expected. Director Thomas ...

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Thomas Farone

Stars: Anthony Michael Hall | Tony Danza | Jamie Harrold | Frank Whaley | Federico Castelluccio

Janie Jones (2011)

As: Chuck

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: David M. Rosenthal

Stars: Peter Stormare | Elisabeth Shue | Abigail Breslin | Alessandro Nivola | Brittany Snow

As Good As Dead (2010)

As: Aaron

Seeking revenge for the murder of their religious leader, fundamental loyalists kidnap and torture the man they believe responsible, but the ensuing clash of right vs. left ideologies quickly reveals that they may have the wrong man, which puts them on a path toward a shocking twist

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Mossek

Stars: Brian Cox | Cary Elwes | Andie MacDowell | Frank Whaley | Matt Dallas

The Cell 2 (2009)

As: Duncan

The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim! Now the Cusp Killer is back and Maya has little time to do what she has never done before: go into the mind of a killer unprotected and save his latest victim.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Tim Iacofano

Stars: Frank Whaley | Michael Flynn | Bart Johnson | Chris Bruno | Tessie Santiago

Drillbit Taylor (2008)

As: Jittery Bodyguard

Three kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully, not realising he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Steven Brill

Stars: Owen Wilson | Nate Hartley | Leslie Mann | Josh Peck | David Dorfman

Vacancy (2007)

As: Mason

A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Nimród Antal

Stars: Ethan Embry | Frank Whaley | Kate Beckinsale | Luke Wilson | Scott G. Anderson

Cherry Crush (2007)

As: Wade Chandling

A High school Photographer breaks his own rules and falls in love with his teenage model

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Nicholas DiBella

Stars: Jonathan Tucker | Dennis Boutsikaris | Nikki Reed | Haviland Morris | Julie Gonzalo

Crazy Eights (2006)

As: Brent Sykes

Six people are brought together at the funeral of a childhood friend. While settling the estate, they discover a map, which leads them on a search for a time capsule. What they discover reawakens childhood traumas and leads them on a journey through their abandoned childhood home: a home with a terrible secret and a mysterious dead girl who will lead them to their strange fates.

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: James K. Jones

Stars: Dina Meyer | Frank Whaley | Traci Lords | George Newbern | Dan DeLuca

World Trade Center (2006)

As: Chuck Sereika

On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the wreckage while the rescue teams fight to save them.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Nicolas Cage | Danny Nucci | Stephen Dorff | Maria Bello

Where There's a Will (2006)

As: Richie Greene

A hapless grifter stands to inherit a small fortune from his estranged grandmother if he travels to Harmony, Texas to live with her. Instead of a short road to easy money, he finds a soft spot in his heart for the little town and unconditional love from his only living relative.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: John Putch

Stars: Keith Carradine | Frank Whaley | Christine Elise | Marion Ross

Detective (2005)

As: Brewmaster

Detective Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a Catholic priest turned distinguished investigator for the police, has agreed to hear the confession of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death in a just a matter of hours. What he promises to reveal to Ainslie is the truth behind the crimes and the reason he confessed to the one crime Ainslie doesn't even believe he committed. What unfolds between the two men is a ...

Runtime: 143 min.

Directed by: David S. Cass Sr.

Stars: Tom Berenger | Rick Gomez | Bruce Boxleitner | Frank Whaley | Annabeth Gish

Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime (2004)

As: Himself

Features Major League players and managers and cast and crew discussing the themes of the film, the performances, baseball, family, the film's lasting impact, and more.

Runtime: 38 min.

Directed by: Jim Bacon

Stars: Amy Madigan | Kevin Costner | Phil Alden Robinson | Lawrence Gordon | Charles Gordon

School of Rock (2003)

As: Battle of the Bands Director

Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Richard Linklater

Stars: Sarah Silverman | Joan Cusack | Jack Black | Mike White | Miranda Cosgrove

A Good Night to Die (2003)

As: Chad

One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will soon find out just what his Frankenstein's monster will cost him.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Craig Singer

Stars: Seymour Cassel | Gary Stretch | Michael Rapaport | Robin Givens | Debbie Harry

Red Dragon (2002)

As: Ralph Mandy (uncredited)

Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Brett Ratner

Stars: Edward Norton | Ralph Fiennes | Emily Watson | Harvey Keitel | Anthony Hopkins

Chelsea Walls (2002)

As: Lynny Barnum

This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Ethan Hawke

Stars: Rosario Dawson | Uma Thurman | Kris Kristofferson | Steve Zahn | Vincent D'Onofrio

The Jimmy Show (2002)

As: Jimmy O'Brien

A failed New Jersey inventor embarks on a career as a standup comic, turns to drink, and labors to keep his family together.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Frank Whaley

Stars: Lynn Cohen | Ethan Hawke | Frank Whaley | Carla Gugino | Jillian Stacom

Pursuit of Happiness (2001)

As: Alan

An advertising executive fails to realize that the woman of his dreams is his best friend since first grade, now married to his cheating co-worker.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: John Putch

Stars: Frank Whaley | Annabeth Gish | Jean Stapleton | Patrick Van Horn | Amy Jo Johnson

Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999)

As: Allen Kogan

A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.

Runtime: 240 min.

Directed by: Mike Robe

Stars: Kathy Baker | Gerald McRaney | Bonnie Somerville | Frank Whaley | Brad Hawkins

Curtain Call (1998)

As: Brett Conway

A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment. The film was later re-released under the title "It All Came True". It was to be Peter Yates' last film made for cinema, although in most markets it went directly to TV or home ...

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Peter Yates

Stars: Michael Caine | Maggie Smith | Sam Shepard | Marcia Gay Harden | James Spader

When Trumpets Fade (1998)

As: Medic Chamberlain

In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: John Irvin

Stars: Dylan Bruno | Zak Orth | Frank Whaley | Devon Gummersall | Ron Eldard

Glam (1998)

As: Franky Syde

Traveling from the backwoods to Los Angeles to visit his cousin, a writer discovers a world of sex, drugs, crime and violence revolving around a beautiful young woman and her mobster boyfriend.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Josh Evans

Stars: William McNamara | Natasha Gregson Wagner | Tony Danza | Frank Whaley | Valérie Kaprisky

Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five (1998)

As: Skee-Ball Weasel

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Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Richard Schenkman

Stars: Ione Skye | Frank Whaley | Jon Cryer | Rafael Báez | Rick Stear

Bombshell (1997)

As: Malcolm

Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Paul Wynne

Stars: Pamela Gidley | Henry Thomas | Frank Whaley | Mädchen Amick | Shawnee Smith

Cafe Society (1997)

As: Mickey Jelke

New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Raymond De Felitta

Stars: John Spencer | Peter Gallagher | Lara Flynn Boyle | Frank Whaley | Anna Levine

Retroactive (1997)

As: Brian

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Louis Morneau

Stars: James Belushi | Jesse Borrego | Frank Whaley | Shannon Whirry | Kylie Travis

The Winner (1996)

As: Joey

A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys from New Jersey.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Alex Cox

Stars: Rebecca De Mornay | Michael Madsen | Richard Edson | Vincent D'Onofrio | Delroy Lindo

Broken Arrow (1996)

As: Giles Prentice

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: John Woo

Stars: Bob Gunton | Samantha Mathis | Delroy Lindo | Christian Slater | John Travolta

Cannes Man (1996)

As: Self

Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Richard Martini

Stars: Lloyd Kaufman | Seymour Cassel | Luana Anders | Francesco Quinn | Rebecca Broussard

The Desperate Trail (1995)

As: Walter Cooper

Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke rides the same coach, handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes and headed for the hangman. In a few hours, all should reach their destinations. But the trail they travel takes an unexpected turn: Cooper and O'Rourke are ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: P.J. Pesce

Stars: Sam Elliott | Frank Whaley | Craig Sheffer | Linda Fiorentino | John Furlong

Homage (1995)

As: Archie Landrum

The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Ross Kagan Marks

Stars: Danny Nucci | Blythe Danner | Sheryl Lee | Bruce Davison | Frank Whaley

I.Q. (1994)

As: Frank

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Fred Schepisi

Stars: Tim Robbins | Meg Ryan | Walter Matthau | Lou Jacobi | Stephen Fry

Pulp Fiction (1994)

As: Brett

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Runtime: 154 min.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Stars: Ving Rhames | Uma Thurman | Samuel L. Jackson | Bruce Willis | John Travolta

Swimming with Sharks (1994)

As: Guy

A young, naive Hollywood studio assistant finally turns the tables on his incredibly abusive producer boss.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: George Huang

Stars: Kevin Spacey | Frank Whaley | Michelle Forbes | T.E. Russell | Benicio del Toro

To Dance with the White Dog (1993)

As: James

This is the touching story of an elderly widower trying to work through his grief. When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant. Sam takes the dog on a nostalgic journey which dramatizes the fulfillment he shared with his departed wife. Though overwhelmed with grief, Sam stubbornly insists that he continue to tend to his orchards, refusing ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan

Stars: Christine Baranski | Jessica Tandy | Hume Cronyn | Harley Cross | Terry Beaver

Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)

As: Lee Harvey Oswald

The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flashbacks, the story traces the woman's life from her days in Russia, the turmoil following the assassination, raising her family, and coming to grips with the fact that she too may have been a pawn in a grand conspiracy.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Robert Dornhelm

Stars: Bill Bolender | Helena Bonham Carter | Robert Picardo | Brandon Smith | Frank Whaley

Swing Kids (1993)

As: Arvid

The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Thomas Carter

Stars: Christian Bale | Barbara Hershey | Tushka Bergen | Frank Whaley | Robert Sean Leonard

Hoffa (1992)

As: Young Trucker in Diner

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.

Runtime: 140 min.

Directed by: Danny DeVito

Stars: Armand Assante | John C. Reilly | Danny DeVito | Jack Nicholson | J.T. Walsh

A Midnight Clear (1992)

As: Paul 'Father' Mundy

Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight the other.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Keith Gordon

Stars: Gary Sinise | Ethan Hawke | Peter Berg | Kevin Dillon | Arye Gross

Back in the USSR (1992)

As: Archer

During Gorbachev's perestroika, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society. Purely by bad luck, he becomes a pawn in a dangerous cat and mouse game for a precious icon.

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Deran Sarafian

Stars: Andrew Divoff | Roman Polański | Frank Whaley | Dey Young | Natalya Negoda

JFK (1991)

As: Oswald Imposter (credited on Director's Cut)

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Runtime: 189 min.

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Stars: Gary Oldman | Michael Rooker | Kevin Bacon | Tommy Lee Jones | Kevin Costner

Career Opportunities (1991)

As: Jim Dodge

Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.

Runtime: 83 min.

Directed by: Bryan Gordon

Stars: Jennifer Connelly | Dermot Mulroney | Frank Whaley | Kieran Mulroney | John M. Jackson

The Doors (1991)

As: Robby Krieger

The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

Runtime: 140 min.

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Stars: Val Kilmer | Meg Ryan | Frank Whaley | Kevin Dillon | Kyle MacLachlan

Cold Dog Soup (1990)

As: Michael Latchmer

Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his date's dead dog Jasper and get back to the babe who's so hot she mutters darkly about being a Pressure Cooker: his conventional efforts are continually thwarted. Quaid is ...

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Alan Metter

Stars: Randy Quaid | Frank Whaley | Christine Harnos | Nancy Kwan | Sheree North

Flying Blind (1990)

Melodrama set in Philadelphia, PA in 1965. Eddie Panvini (Panebianco), a teenage photographer from South Philadelphia facing the Vietnam draft joins the coffeehouse fringe in 1965 Philadelphia and struggles with several moral choices before deciding to go to Vietnam as a war photographer.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Vince DiPersio

Stars: Frank Whaley | Maura Tierney | Richard Panebianco | Emily Longstreth | Leon

The Freshman (1990)

As: Steve Bushak

Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Andrew Bergman

Stars: Bruno Kirby | Marlon Brando | Frank Whaley | Matthew Broderick | Penelope Ann Miller

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

As: Timmy

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Runtime: 145 min.

Directed by: Oliver Stone

Stars: Raymond J. Barry | Tom Cruise | Kyra Sedgwick | Holly Marie Combs | Caroline Kava

Little Monsters (1989)

As: Boy

A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Richard Greenberg

Stars: Daniel Stern | Rick Ducommun | Howie Mandel | Margaret Whitton | Fred Savage

Field of Dreams (1989)

As: Archie Graham

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson

Stars: Amy Madigan | Ray Liotta | Kevin Costner | Timothy Busfield | Gaby Hoffmann

Unconquered (1989)

As: Arnie

In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Dick Lowry

Stars: Dermot Mulroney | Frank Whaley | Peter Coyote | Tess Harper | Jenny Robertson

Ironweed (1987)

As: Young Francis

Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery and visits the grave of his infant son whom he dropped; visions of his past haunt him, including ghosts of two men he killed. That night, out drinking, Helen tries ...

Runtime: 143 min.

Directed by: Hector Babenco

Stars: Tom Waits | Nathan Lane | Meryl Streep | Jack Nicholson | Carroll Baker