Direction: Sam Pillsbury

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Sam Pillsbury. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

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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