Backfire 1987  R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: Karen Allen, Keith Carradine, Dean Paul Martin, Jeff Fahey, Bernie Casey, Dinah Manoff, Virginia Capers, Philip Sterling
A Vietnam vet, Donny (Jeff Fahey), who is suffering from shell shock, is diabolically and systematically being destroyed through psychological means that threaten his marriage to Mara (Karen Allen). The question is: Who is the culprit?
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Confessions: Two Faces of Evil 1994  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: Jason Bateman, James Wilder, James Earl Jones, William Converse-Roberts, Arye Gross, Gloria Reuben, Melinda Dillon, Rex Linn, Ari Meyers, Basil Wallace
It is Christmas Eve and a policeman is murdered. In this made-for-TV film based on a real-life incident, two men come forward to confess to the slaying. One has a criminal background and the other is a college student with no criminal record; both confessions hang together well. So-so fare despite the good work of James Earl Jones as a defense attorney.
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A Death in the Family 2002 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: Annabeth Gish, Austin Wolff, David Alford, John Slattery, Bill Raymond, James Cromwell, Dan Beene, Christopher Strand, Matthew Carlton, Mari Askew
This made-for-TV film is adapted from James Agee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel and is set in Knoxville, Tennessee, during 1915. Mary Follet (Annabeth Gish) and her seven-year-old son, Rufus (Austin Wolff), have problems coping when they hear the news that their husband/father Jay (John Slattery) has been killed in a car crash.
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Do You Know the Muffin Man? 1989 TV, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: Pam Dawber, John Shea, Stephen Dorff, Brian Bonsall, Matthew Laurance, Anthony Geary, Georgann Johnson, Graham Jarvis, Bruce Fairbaim, William Prince, John Hammond, Janet Eilber
Police officer Roger Dollison (John Shea) and wife Kendra (Pam Dawber) are living the good life in a nice neighborhood with their two children Teddy (Brian Bonsall) and Sandy (Stephen Dorff). Their lives change when the children at Teddy's daycare center report that they have been abused at the center. Roger and Kendra hire a lawyer, which leads to courtroom conflicts in which the children must be coaxed into testifying, and the neighborhood is divided over the guilt or innocence of the center's owners.
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I Never Sang for My Father 1970  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Dorothy Stickney, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Elizabeth Hubbard, Lovelady Powell, Daniel Keyes, Conrad Bain, James Karen
Gene Garrison (Gene Hackman) must put his own life on hold while taking care of his elderly father (Melvyn Douglas). When Gene's sister Alice (Estelle Parsons) tells him he should get on with his life, he begins to realize the situation's hopelessness and finally feels free to find happiness. Both Douglas and Hackman received Oscar nominations.
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The Last Married Couple in America 1980  R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin, Valerie Harper, Bob Dishy, Dom DeLuise, Arlene Golonka, Sondra Currie, Colby Chester, Priscilla Barnes
This is an inane story about a not-so-stupid couple, Mari (Natalie Wood) and Jeff (George Segal) Thompson who fear their marriage will go the way of those of their friends: into the divorce court.
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Oh, God! Book II 1980 PG, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: George Burns, David Birney, Suzanne Pleshette, Hans Conried, Louanne, Howard Duff, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Anthony Holland, Conrad Janis
George Burns is back in his role of God. In this sequel, God talks to a little girl and tells her to help him make the world regain interest in him.
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Spent 2000  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gil Cates Jr.
Cast: Jason London, Charlie Spradling, Phill Lewis, Erin Beaux, James Parks, Richmond Arquette, Barbara Barrie, Rain Phoenix, Margaret Cho, Gilbert Cates
Max (Jason London), an out-of-work actor, is a compulsive gambler who makes a pact with his would-be-alcoholic girlfriend, Brigette (Charlie Spradling) to go one month without him gambling and her drinking. It wont be easy!
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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams 1973 PG, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: Joanne Woodward, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Sidney, Dori Brenner, Win Forman, Tresa Hughes, Ron Richards, Peter Marklin, Nancy Andrews, Minerva Pious
Rita is a depressed Manhattan housewife who cannot get over her Mother's death. She and her husband Harry (Martin Balsam) travel to Europe, where she begins to come out of her depression. Woodward and Sidney received Academy Award nominations for Actress and Supporting Actress.
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| 1. Backfire (1987)
2. Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (1994)
3. Consenting Adults (1985)
4. A Death in the Family (2002)
5. Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989)
6. Dragonfly (1976)
aka: One Summer Love
7. I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
8. The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
9. Oh, God! Book II (1980)
10. Spent (2000)
11. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
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