Movies by Paul Dooley
As part of the cast:
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When the World Breaks (2010)
Cast: Buzz Aldrin, Mickey Rooney, Joseph Bologna …
Directed by: Hans Fjellestad
Exploring the idea that times of extreme difficulty facilitate increased resourcefulness and creativity, this compelling documentary takes a look at the art, music, literature, business,…
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Chronic Town (2008)
Cast: JR Bourne, Emily Wagner, Christine Lakin …
Directed by: Tom Hines
In 1980s Fairbanks, Alaska, Truman (JR Bourne) drives a cab when he isn't numbing his pain with drugs and booze. When he connects with Eleanor (Emily Wagner), an independent-minded…
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Come Away Home (2005)
Cast: Paul Dooley, Jordan-Claire Green, Martin Mull …
Directed by: Doug McKeon
Trendsetting 12-year-old Annie Lamm (Jordan-Claire Green) must adapt to a completely different scene when she's coerced to leave New York City and spend the summer in Hilton Head, South…
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Employee of the Month (2004)
Cast: Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn, Christina Applegate …
Directed by: Mitch Rouse
After David Walsh is fired from his high-paying bank job and his fiancée calls off their wedding the same miserable day, his luck goes from bad to worse when he inadvertently becomes involved…
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Comfort and Joy (2004)
Cast: Nancy McKeon, Dixie Carter, Paul Dooley …
Directed by: Maggie Greenwald
Single woman Jane Berry is focused on advancing her career and spending a fortune on shoes. But after a car accident, Jane awakens to discover that she's a married, stay-at-home mom with…
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A Mighty Wind (2003)
Cast: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara …
Directed by: Christopher Guest
Satirist in extremis Christopher Guest aims his mockumentary lens at 1960s folk musicians -- specifically, the earnest Folksmen (portrayed by erstwhile Spinal Tappers Guest, Michael McKean…
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Insomnia (2002)
Cast: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank …
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Sent to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a small Alaska town, police detective Will Dormer (Al Pacino) accidentally shoots his partner, Hap (Martin Donovan), while trying to…
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Crazy Little Thing (2002)
Cast: Jenny McCarthy, Chris Eigeman, Paul Dooley …
Directed by: Matthew Miller
Whitney (Jenny McCarthy) is a TV reporter who moves to New York hoping to land a spot on a big network. While career-minded, she also dreams of finding romance with a well-heeled gentleman.…
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A Woman's a Helluva Thing (2001)
Cast: Angus Macfadyen, Penelope Ann Miller, Ann-Margret …
Directed by: Karen Leigh Hopkins
When his estranged mother dies, womanizing magazine publisher Houston Blackett (Angus MacFayden) makes a surprise appearance at her funeral. There, he runs into his ex, Zane Douglas (Penelope…
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Madison (2001)
Cast: Jim Caviezel, Roger Wolski, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: William Bindley
Based on a true story, this action-packed drama follows hydroplane boat racer Jim McCormick (Jim Caviezel) as he prepares for the 1971 Gold Cup championship, which is to be hosted in his…
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Guinevere (1999)
Cast: Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Jean Smart …
Directed by: Paul Dooley, Audrey Wells
On the verge of a breakdown at her sister's wedding, Harvard-bound Harper Sloane (Sarah Polley) finds the love she's been looking for in a bohemian photographer named "Connie"…
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Runaway Bride (1999)
Cast: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack …
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Commitment-phobic bride-to-be Maggie Carpenter has already left three men at the altar when sexist newspaper columnist Ike Graham writes an offensive, inaccurate story about her -- and will…
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Happy, Texas (1999)
Cast: Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam, William H. Macy …
Directed by: Mark Illsley
Mistaken as consultants to a beauty pageant in the town of Happy, Texas, two escaped convicts go along with the ruse, masquerading as gay lovers Harry and Wayne. In trying to teach…
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I'll Remember April (1999)
Cast: Mark Harmon, Trevor Morgan, Pat Morita …
Directed by: Bob Clark
In spring 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, four boys (including future Sixth Sense stars Haley Joel Osment and Trevor Morgan) find a Japanese sailor who's been left…
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Error in Judgment (1998)
Cast: Joanna Pacula, Joe Mantegna, Sung Hi Lee …
Directed by: Scott P. Levy
Eric's (Joe Mantegna) art gallery is losing money, and even though his psychiatrist wife wants to help, she can't do much to cheer him up. When a young, sexy woman named Toni (Sung…
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Clockwatchers (1997)
Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette, Parker Posey …
Directed by: Jill Sprecher
Four women -- Iris (Toni Collette), Paula (Lisa Kudrow), Margaret (Parker Posey) and Jane (Alanna Ubach) -- work as temps at Global Credit, a stoic, faceless megacorporation where their…
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Telling Lies in America (1997)
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Maximilian Schell …
Directed by: Guy Ferland
Shy immigrant Karchy is a social disaster at his 1960s American high school, but things pick up when he pursues Diney and hooks up with a slick deejay who shows Karchy life's wild -- and…
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Angels in the Endzone (1997)
Cast: Paul Dooley, Matthew Lawrence, David Gallagher …
Directed by: Gary Nadeau
In this touching drama, high school football star Jesse Harper (Matthew Lawrence) is the only capable player on his otherwise awful team. When his father dies, Jesse quits the team, turning…
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God's Lonely Man (1996)
Cast: Michael Wyle, Heather McComb, Justine Bateman …
Directed by: Frank von Zerneck Jr.
Ernest Rackman (Michael Wyle), a drifter who grew up in the sheltered town of Grand Rapid, Mich., gives in to drug dealing and debauchery as he makes his way to Vegas and then Los Angeles.…
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The Underneath (1995)
Cast: Peter Gallagher, William Fichtner, Adam Trese …
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
In this remake of the film-noir classic Criss Cross, scalawag Michael Chambers (Peter Gallagher) returns home for his mother's nuptials after running out on his gambling debts. Before…
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Mother of the Bride (1993)
Cast: Rue McClanahan, Kristy McNichol, Paul Dooley …
Directed by: Charles Correll
With her daughter's wedding around the corner, Margaret Becker Hix (Rue McClanahan) must endure the onslaught of family drama with fortitude in this charming comedy of closely gathered…
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State of Emergency (1993)
Cast: Melinda Dillon, Paul Dooley, Lynn Whitfield …
Directed by: Lesli Linka Glatter
Caring physician John Novelli (Joe Mantegna) is fighting a losing battle: His hospital is falling apart, the staff is overworked, and yet the sick and injured continue to need help. Fatigued…
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Shakes the Clown (1992)
Cast: Bobcat Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Adam Sandler …
Directed by: Bobcat Goldthwait
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (Scrooged) wrote, directed and stars in this minor cult favorite about the trials of an alcoholic clown trying to make it in the cruel show business world of…
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride (1992)
Cast: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William R. Moses …
Directed by: Christian I. Nyby II
Elation rapidly turns to desperation in this intriguing mystery, which finds top attorney Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) defending a bride (Heather McAdam) accused of murder. As a close friend of…
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Flashback (1990)
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane …
Directed by: Franco Amurri
In this wry action-comedy, straitlaced FBI agent John Buckner (Kiefer Sutherland) is tasked with escorting infamous 1960s radical Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper) to stand trial but finds the…
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White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1990)
Cast: Loni Anderson, Maryedith Burrell, Robert Davi …
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
Re-creating the events surrounding the mysterious death of 1930s film star Thelma Todd (Loni Anderson) -- who was found dead in her parked car, the apparent victim of carbon monoxide…
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Last Rites (1988)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Chick Vennera …
Directed by: Donald P. Bellisario
Michael Pace (Tom Berenger), a Catholic priest whose father is a Mafia don, falls in love with Angela (Daphne Zuniga), a murder witness. To complicate matters, the murder Angela witnessed was…
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Big Trouble (1986)
Cast: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo …
Directed by: John Cassavetes
An insurance salesman and father of triplets, Leonard Hoffman (Alan Arkin) devises an elaborate insurance fraud scheme in order to raise the funds necessary to send his three sons to Yale.…
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O.C. and Stiggs (1985)
Cast: Daniel H. Jenkins, Daniel Jenkins, Neill Barry …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Two teens try to destroy a suburban family in director Robert Altman's risqué comedy, which follows misfits O.C. Ogilvie (Daniel Jenkins) and Mark Stiggs (Neill Barry), who see red…
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Sixteen Candles (1984)
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall …
Directed by: John Hughes
Sam Baker's (Molly Ringwald) 16th birthday should be perfect and memorable, but her whole family is so preoccupied with her older sister's (Blanche Baker) wedding that they…
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Strange Brew (1983)
Cast: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Max von Sydow …
Directed by: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
Hoping to snag some free beer by helping a brewery owner reclaim her business, goofy brothers Bob (Rick Moranis) and Doug (Dave Thomas) end up battling criminal Brewmeister Smith (Max von…
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Going Berserk (1983)
Cast: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy …
Directed by: David Steinberg
When limo driver John Bourgignon (John Candy) gets engaged to Nancy Reese (Alley Mills) -- much to the chagrin of her congressman father (Pat Hingle) -- John becomes the target of the…
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Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Cast: Sally Field, James Caan, Jeff Bridges …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
A mischievous ghost tries to stop his widow from marrying a stuffy bore in this supernatural comedy. Widowed three years, Kay (Sally Field) still misses her Broadway choreographer husband,…
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Popeye (1980)
Cast: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Robert Altman's deft hand at the helm made this 1980 film a classic. Based on E.C. Segar's comic strip, Popeye stars Robin Williams as the super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man…
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Breaking Away (1979)
Cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern …
Directed by: Peter Yates
After graduating from high school, Dave Stohler (Dennis Christopher) dreams of becoming a champion bicyclist. Posing as an exchange student to mask his working-class roots, he frustrates his…
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A Perfect Couple (1979)
Cast: Robert Altman, Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin …
Robert Altman helms this winning romantic comedy about an uptight bachelor (Paul Dooley) who tries his luck with a computer dating service. He gets matched up with his polar opposite -- a…
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Rich Kids (1979)
Cast: Trini Alvarado, Jeremy Levy, Kathryn Walker …
Directed by: Robert M. Young
Sensitive preteen Franny (Trini Alvarado), despondent about her parents' collapsing marriage, finds a friend in Jamie (Jeremy Levy), who's been there, done that, and sets about…
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A Wedding (1978)
Cast: Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Howard Duff …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Robert Altman's satire on wedding rituals and the American family earned Best Director and Screenplay BAFTA nominations. The high-society wedding of Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and…
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Health Quiz: Vol. 2 (1977)
Cast: Paul Dooley, Rita Moreno, Larry Manetti …
Test your Stress, Heart, Health & Nurtition in this entertaining interactive medical program hosted by Dr. Frank Field, the multiple Emmy Award-winning reporter from WCBS-TV in New York.…
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The Out-of-Towners (1970)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron …
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
&NFb;&NFb_;Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are spectacular as George and Gwen Kellerman, an Ohio couple heading to New York City for George's big job interview in this Neil Simon comedic…
As a director:
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Guinevere (1999)
Cast: Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Jean Smart …
Directed by: Paul Dooley, Audrey Wells
On the verge of a breakdown at her sister's wedding, Harvard-bound Harper Sloane (Sarah Polley) finds the love she's been looking for in a bohemian photographer named "Connie"…