Cinematography: Ian Baker

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Tommy Lewis · Freddy Reynolds · Ray Barrett · Jack Thompson

Synopsis The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Ed Harris · Paul Newman · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Helen Hunt

Synopsis Running the Empire Grill while attempting to deal with myriad life crises proves to be a tough job for Miles Roby (Ed Harris) in EMPIRE FALLS. Miles picked up the managerial reigns some 20 years ago, but has subsequently struggled...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Will Smith · Stockard Channing · Donald Sutherland · Ian McKellen

Synopsis Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Manhattan's upper crust. The Kittredges are entertaining friends one evening when a young black man named...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Arthur Dignam · Nick Tate · Simon Burke · Charles McCallum

Synopsis The Devil's Playground deals with the repressive attitudes of a Catholic boarding school as a group of young boys struggle to come to terms with their own emotional and sexual identity.

Direction Sue Brooks

Cast Toni Collette · Gotaro Tsunashima · Matthew Dyktynsh · Lynette Curran

Synopsis Sandy Edwards (Toni Collette), an ambitious geologist, suddenly finds herself having to baby-sit Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima), a taciturn Japanese businessman. Hoping to strike up a business deal, she agrees to take on a field trip around Western Australia's remote Pilbara...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Meryl Streep · Sam Neill · Charles Tingwell · Kevin Miles

Synopsis Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who was convicted and then completely exonerated in the death of her infant daughter. While holidaying at Ayer's Rock with her husband Michael and their three children, Lindy said she saw a...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Sean Connery · James Fox · John Mahoney

Synopsis "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac...

Direction Fred Schepisi · Robert Young

Cast John Cleese · Jamie Lee Curtis · Kevin Kline · Michael Palin

Synopsis In Fierce Creatures (1997), a quirky comedy, the new corporate owner of a struggling zoo demands that only fierce animals be exhibited to boost profits. The eccentric staff, including the zoo's director and a savvy publicist, hilariously navigate this absurd...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Steve Martin · Daryl Hannah · Shelley Duvall · Rick Rossovich

Synopsis Roxanne (Darryl Hannah) a beautiful astronomer in search of a comet, and Chris a hunky but inarticulate fire expert who has been hired to train C.D.'s team of well-meaning firemen. C.D. immediately falls in love with Roxanne but he is...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Clive Owen · Juliette Binoche · Keegan Connor Tracy · Bruce Davison

Synopsis A flamboyant English teacher (Clive Owen) and a new, stoic art teacher (Juliette Binoche) collide at an upscale prep school. A high-spirited courtship begins and she finds herself enjoying the battle. Another battle they begin has the students trying to...

Direction James Foley

Cast Chris O'Donnell · Gene Hackman · Faye Dunaway · Robert Prosky

Synopsis In 28 days, convicted killer and white supremacist Sam Cayhall, the oldest inmate on death, row in America, will die in the Mississippi gas chamber for the 1967 bombing murders of two small children. While counting down his final days,...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Timothy Hutton · Lindsay Crouse · John Lone · Josef Sommer

Synopsis An anthropologist who is part of an arctic exploration team discovers the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive. He must then decide what to do with the prehistoric man and he finds himself defending the creature from...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Meryl Streep · Sam Neill · Ian McKellen · Charles Dance

Synopsis Susan Traherne has been irreparably changed by her wartime experiences as a Resistance fighter. She sets out in the post-war world to make her way to what she wants, no matter who is hurt, or how.

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Charlotte Rampling · Geoffrey Rush · Judy Davis · Dustin Clare

Synopsis Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Nick Nolte · Debra Winger · Will Patton · Judith Ivey

Synopsis Debra Winger plays Angela Crispini, a dim woman who believes that corrupt court officials convicted an innocent boy of murder. The story comes from Miller's one act play, SOME KIND OF LOVE STORY, which generated speculation about whether the mercurial,...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Meg Ryan · Tim Robbins · Walter Matthau · Lou Jacobi

Synopsis Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they...

Direction Mark Goldblatt

Cast Dolph Lundgren · Louis Gossett Jr. · Jeroen Krabbé · Kim Miyori

Synopsis Based on the Marvel Comic, Dolph Lundgren is Frank Castle an ex-cop who lives in the sewers and acts as judge, jury, and executioner to the city's criminals in retaliation for the unpunished murders of his wife and kids. Frank's...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Michael Douglas · Cameron Douglas · Diana Douglas · Bernadette Peters

Synopsis The Grombergs are highly successful New York family -- except when it comes to communicating with each other. Three generations of a family, each in their own dysfunctional way, live their own separate lives but find a couple of moments...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Willie Nelson · Gary Busey · Isela Vega · Gilbert Roland

Synopsis Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Tom Selleck · Ken Takakura · Aya Takanashi · Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis Although a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees, Jack Elliott is now on the down side of his baseball career. His batting average is low and one of his few claims to fame is that during the previous year,...