Movies by Timothy Busfield
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Save the Date (2012)
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr …
Directed by: Michael Mohan
Sisters Beth and Sarah are a study in contrasts, but both are also involved with men who are best friends and members of the same rock band. When Sarah leaves her lover, Kevin, and starts…
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The Naked Brothers Band (2005)
Cast: Nat Wolff, Alex Wolff, Joshua Kaye …
Directed by: Polly Draper
Real-life siblings Nat and Alex Wolff and the rest of their bandmates wrestle with the pitfalls of success in this rockumentary for kids. As the band wins fans, the guys struggle with an…
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National Security (2003)
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore …
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
After an altercation with police academy washout Earl Montgomery costs cop Hank Rafferty his job, he becomes a security guard -- and is stunned to find himself paired with Earl. Can the duo…
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Dead in a Heartbeat (2002)
Cast: Judge Reinhold, Penelope Ann Miller, Timothy Busfield …
Directed by: Paul Antier
A madman has begun to terrorize the city of Seattle, and police officer Tom Royko (Judge Reinhold) is saddled with the task of bringing him down. As Tom pairs up with Dr. Gillian Hayes…
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Terminal Error (2002)
Cast: Robert Casey, Marina Sirtis, Matthew Ewald …
Directed by: John Murlowski
Michael Nouri stars in this high-tech thriller as Brad Weston, a digital tycoon who must fend off attacks from his former partner, who's unleashed a computer virus onto the entire system…
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Wanted (1998)
Cast: Timothy Busfield, Robert Culp, Tracey Gold …
Directed by: Terence M. O'Keefe
Things turn sour for Jimmy Scrico (Michael Sutton) when he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and accidentally kills a mob boss. Hiding out at a school for troubled boys,…
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Souler Opposite (1998)
Cast: Timothy Busfield, Christopher Meloni, Janel Moloney …
Directed by: Bill Kalmenson
Barry (Christopher Meloni) is a bitter, sexist thirtysomething stand-up comic with a penchant for aggravating the wrong people. When his act provokes a knuckle sandwich one night, the…
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Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Cast: Danny Glover, Lamont Bentley, Tom Bower …
Directed by: Charles Haid
In this gritty, made-for-cable Western directed by Charles Haid, an all-black cavalry regiment led by Sgt. Washington Wyatt (Danny Glover) must track down an Apache warrior (Harrison Lowe)…
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First Kid (1996)
Cast: Sinbad, Brock Pierce, Blake Boyd …
Directed by: David M. Evans
Sinbad stars as wild and amusing Secret Service agent Sam Simms, who is assigned to guard Luke (Brock Pierce), the bratty 13-year-old son of the president of the United States (James…
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Little Big League (1994)
Cast: Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, John Ashton …
Directed by: Andrew Scheinman
When the owner of the flailing Minnesota Twins dies, the team is handed to his grandson Billy (Luke Edwards), a 12-year-old with a love of baseball and an uncanny sense of the team's…
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Striking Distance (1993)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina …
Directed by: Rowdy Herrington
The new generation in a family of cops, homicide detective Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is demoted when he makes public his suspicions that a serial killer is a fellow officer. But the murders…
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The Skateboard Kid (1993)
Cast: Timothy Busfield, Bess Armstrong, Cliff De Young …
Directed by: Larry Swerdlove
Queue up this gem for a healthy dose of family values. Zack Tyler (Trevor Lissauer) is the new kid on the block with no friends and no joy in his life. The local kids are skateboarding…
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Sneakers (1992)
Cast: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his offbeat team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking "black box" from a Soviet-funded genius, they…
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Field of Dreams (1989)
Cast: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Kevin Costner stars as 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…
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Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
Cast: Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott …
Directed by: Joe Roth
The sequel to the 1980s hit continues the tradition of nerdy hilarity, as the members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity (Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong and others) travel to Fort…
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Thirtysomething (1987)
Cast: Timothy Busfield, Polly Draper, Mel Harris …
Groundbreaking and insightful, this Emmy-winning series examines the lives of several suburban friends as they grapple with love, marriage, parenthood, work and the ever-present fear that…
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Revenge of the Nerds / Revenge of the Nerds 2 (1984)
Cast: Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Timothy Busfield …
Directed by: Jeff Kanew
Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Timothy Busfield, Donald Gibb and Andrew Cassese star in this pair of classic 1980s comedies that pit the nerds against…
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Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Cast: Ted McGiney, Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards …
Directed by: Jeff Canew
After enduring abuse from cocky frat boys and their snotty girlfriends, freshmen nerds Lewis and Gilbert start a fraternity of brainy and socially inept cohorts in order to wreak revenge. The…
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Maneater (2009)
Cast: Sarah Chalke, Philip Winchester, Gregory Harrison …
Directed by: Timothy Busfield
Sarah Chalke of "Scrubs" stars in this wickedly funny miniseries as Clarissa, a wealthy daddy's girl who has everything she needs and wants -- except a man. Still single at 32, Clarissa…
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The Ex List: Season 1 (2008)
Cast: Elizabeth Reaser, Alexandra Breckenridge, Rachel Boston …
Directed by: Timothy Busfield
A psychic has good and bad news for 30-something single Bella Bloom (Elizabeth Reaser). The good news: Bella has already dated her future hubby; the bad news: she has only a year to find the…