Direction: Sam Pillsbury
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sam Pillsbury. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 22
Eerie, Indiana (TV Series)
1991 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction José Rivera · Karl Schaefer · Joe Dante · Bob Balaban
Cast Omri Katz · Justin Shenkarow · Francis Guinan · Julie Condra
Synopsis TV Series (1991-1992). 1 Season. 19 episodes. Marshall Teller (Omri Katz) is a young boy whose family moves to the desolate town of Eerie, Indiana, population of 16,661. While moving into his new home, he meets Simon Holmes, one of...
7.1
119 votes
7.1
119 votes
Starlight Hotel
1987 · Movie · 91 min. · New Zealand
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Peter Phelps · Greer Robson · Marshall Napier · Alice Fraser
5.8
33 votes
5.8
33 votes
The Scarecrow
1982 · Movie · 88 min. · New Zealand
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Jono Smith · Daniel McLaren · Mark Hadlow · John Carradine
Synopsis A murderer disguised as a magician seeks a teenage girl as his next victim. Can her brother save her? One Summer's morning, 14-year-old Ned Poindexter and his friend Les discover that their chickens have been stolen. At the same time,...
4.9
27 votes
4.9
27 votes
Fifteen and Pregnant (TV)
1998 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Kirsten Dunst · Park Overall · Julia Whelan · Margot Demeter
Synopsis Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although...
4.7
52 votes
4.7
52 votes
Into the Badlands (TV)
1991 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Bruce Dern · Mariel Hemingway · Helen Hunt · Dylan McDermott
Synopsis A bounty hunter searches the west for a wanted outlaw named Red Roundtree.
4.1
28 votes
4.1
28 votes
Free Willy 3: The Rescue
1997 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Jason James Richter · Patrick Kilpatrick · Vincent Berry · August Schellenberg
Synopsis Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship...
3.4
3K votes
3.4
3K votes
Zandalee
1990 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Nicolas Cage · Judge Reinhold · Erika Anderson · Joe Pantoliano
Synopsis Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair. But it isn't...
3.3
593 votes
3.3
593 votes
The Wedding Dress (TV)
2001 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Lauren Lee Smith · Neil Patrick Harris · Tyne Daly · Margaret Colin
Synopsis When Hannah Pinkham's fiancé writes he's finally shipping home, her mother makes a fairy tale wedding dress, but while she's fitting it the knock on the door is not him, but the dreaded officer-messenger. Years later she sends it to...
3.2
73 votes
3.2
73 votes
Audrey's Rain (TV)
2003 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Jean Smart · RIchard Gilliland · Samantha Bennett · Carol Kane
Synopsis A bitter, middle-aged spinster (Jean Smart) is grudgingly forced to care for her young niece and nephew after her sister's suicide.
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Shadows of Desire (TV)
1994 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Nicollette Sheridan · Joe Lando · Adrian Pasdar · Richard Roundtree
Synopsis A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother.
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Search for Grace (TV)
1994 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Lisa Hartman · Ken Wahl · Richard Masur · Suzzanne Douglas
Synopsis A woman haunted by disturbing flashbacks discovers through hypnotherapy that she and her boyfriend led parallel lives with a doomed couple from 1927.
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Crooked Earth
2001 · Movie · 100 min. · New Zealand
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Temuera Morrison · Lawrence Makoare · Jaime Passier-Armstrong · Quinton Hita
Synopsis Forces of tradition and tribal pride collide with government authority.
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TV 101 (TV Series)
1988 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Bethany Rooney · Eric Laneuville · Ben Bolt · Win Phelps
Cast Sam Robards · Brynn Thayer · Leon Russom · Andrew Cassese
Synopsis TV Series (1988-1989). 13 Episodes. Kevin Keegan is a recently divorced TV news photographer who quits his job and returns to Roosevelt High School to teach the kids how to make a weekly cable TV show. Principal Steadman remembers Kevin...
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Sins of Silence
1996 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Lindsay Wagner · Holly Marie Combs · Cynthia Sikes · Sean McCann
Synopsis A former nun who has become a rape counselor defies a court order to release her file on a rape victim.
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Where the Red Fern Grows
2003 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Lyman Dayton · Sam Pillsbury
Cast Joseph Ashton · Dave Matthews · Renee Faia · Mac Davis
Synopsis Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
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Endless Bummer
2009 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Khan Chittenden · Colton James · Ray Santiago · Allison Scagliotti
Synopsis A group of teens and a veteran surfer take a road trip from Ventura, California to the San Fernando Valley in order to track down a prized stolen surfboard.
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Surf Party
2013 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Vanessa Angel · Richmond Arquette · Jules Bruff · Andrew Caldwell
Synopsis From National Lampoon, the masters of raunchy comedy, comes a summer tale of beers, babes, and bros! In the surf town of Ventura, California, JD's surf board is stolen by a surfer from Los Angeles...a crime that cannot go unpunished....
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A Mother's Instinct (TV)
1996 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Lindsay Wagner · Debrah Farentino · John Terry · Lynne Thigpen
Synopsis Divorcee, Holly Mitchell, remarries widower, Carl Gibbons, the father of two small boys. When she begins to question his past, he disappears with the boys. She then learns that the boys' mother is still alive, having been deserted five years...
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Eyes of Terror (TV)
1994 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Sam Pillsbury
Cast Barbara Eden · Ted Marcoux · Missy Crider · Joan Pringle
Synopsis Dr. Jesse Newman (Barbara Eden) is assigned to treating David (Michael Nouri) a grieving policeman who lost his partner in a shootout. It seems the case is solved, until a lucky coin belonging to David's partner triggers a revealing series...
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Against the Law (TV Series)
1990 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Manson · Jan Egleson · Peter Ellis · Sam Pillsbury
Cast Michael O'Keefe · Suzzanne Douglas · Elizabeth Ruscio · M.C. Gainey
Synopsis Simon MacHeath, a brash and firey lawyer, has left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own practice. His reputation for exploding into emotional outbursts during trials has gotten him in to repeated confrontations with judges, but...
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