Amazing Stories: Book 4 1991  PG, 80 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Sam Waterston, Helen Shaver, Dick Cavett, Tim Robbins, Max Gail, Kate McNeil, Chris Nash, Sid Caesar, Leo Rossi
Three episodes from the popular TV series are compiled in this video: "Mirror, Mirror" directed by Martin Scorsese–monsters that a director creates on the screen haunt him in real life. "Blue Man Down" directed by Paul Michael Glaser–a policeman blames himself for the death of his partner. "Mr. Magic" directed by Donald Petrie–an old man talented in slipping away finds one last act with the help of a deck of cards.
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Capricorn One 1978 PG, 124 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson, Hal Holbrook, Karen Black, Telly Savalas, David Huddleston, James Sikking, David Doyle, Lee Bryant, Denise Nicholas, Alan Fudge, Robert Walden
There is a flaw in the design of the spaceship, and as a means of protecting the reputation of NASA, mission controller Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) stages a Mars landing that is never meant to take place. The astronauts–(James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston)–are removed from the spaceship before it is launched and taken to a studio where they must pretend to be on the journey to Mars. But, journalist Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould) becomes suspicious and investigates the conspiracy, which will go so far as to end the astronauts' lives as the means of keeping the hoax a secret.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Jerry Orbach, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Dolores Sutton, Sam Waterston, Joanna Gleason, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Gregg Edelman, Daryl Hannah, Kenny Vance, Joel Fogel
A New York City doctor, Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), tries to end an affair, but his mistress Dolores Paley (Anjelica Huston) has other ideas. When Dolores threatens to expose his infidelity to his wife (Claire Bloom), Judah confides in his brother Jack (Jerry Orbach) who has ties to organized crime. Jack suggests that Judah have Dolores murdered. Meanwhile, documentary filmmaker Clifford Stern (Woody Allen) is commissioned to make a film about his brother-in-law Lester (Alan Alda) who is a successful TV producer, and both Clifford and Lester fall for TV producer Halley Reed (Mia Farrow). All of the characters represent different sides of human frailities that result in everything from murder to comedy. Another of Woody's hits for which he received Oscar nominations for Director and Writing. Landau was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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David's Mother 1994  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Cast: Kirstie Alley, Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing, Michael A. Goorjian, Chris Sarandon, Phylicia Rashad, Jack(2) Duffy, Amanda Blitz, Steve Ivany, Caroline Yeager
Sally (Kirstie Alley) has been raising her autistic child, David (Michael A. Goorjian), alone since her husband left years before. But when a social worker finds out that Sally is bringing up the boy outside the "System," a battle begins as to what is in the boy's best interest. Kirstie Alley won a Golden Globe for her performance.
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Dempsey 1983  TV, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gus Trikonis
Cast: Treat Williams, Sam Waterston, Victoria Tennant, Sally Kellerman, Peter Mark Richman, Jesse Vint, Robert Harper, John McLiam, Bonnie Bartlett, John Lehne, Michael McManus, Mark L. Taylor
This made-for-TV biography of boxing great Jack Dempsey–the "Manassa Mauler"–stars Treat Williams as Dempsey. The story covers his life from the early teens, through his reign as heavyweight champion, and the trials of his private life as he went through five wives.
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The Enemy Within 1994 TV, 86 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Jonathan Darby
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards, Josef Sommer, Lisa Summerour, Ray J, George Dzundza, Isabel Glasser, Dakin Matthews, William O'Leary, Rory J. Aylward, Lawrence Pressman
While serving with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colonel MacKenzie "Mac" Casey (Forest Whitaker) suspects that his senior officer, General R. Pendleton Lloyd (Jason Robards), is backed by millionaire businessmen in a plot to use the military to remove President William Foster (Sam Waterston) from office. There is not much time, but Casey uses all of his resources to stop the coup.
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Gore Vidal's Lincoln 1988 TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lamont Johnson
Cast: Sam Waterston, Mary Tyler Moore, John Houseman, Richard Mulligan, John McMartin, Ruby Dee, Cleavon Little, James Gammon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Robin Gammell
Good performances by Sam Waterston (Abe) and Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Todd) help this otherwise slow account of Lincoln's time in Washington, D.C. The film is a credit to Vidal's bestseller, and Lamont Johnson won an Emmy for his direction. The musical score is similarly excellent.
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 The Great Gatsby 1974 PG, 146 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Clayton
Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Sam Waterston, Howard Da Silva, Edward Herrmann, Patsy Kensit, Scott Wilson, Lois Chiles
In this version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Robert Redford takes on the role of Jay Gatsby who loves Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) and believes that, if he is successful enough in business, Daisy will reciprocate his love.
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Heaven's Gate 1980  R, 219 min.
Genre: Drama / Western
aka: Johnson County Wars
Director: Michael Cimino
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Jeff Bridges, Joseph Cotten, Richard Masur, Terry O'Quinn
In the 1890s, immigrant farmers were moving westward into Wyoming and other territories searching for land to call their own. They were met with resistance from cattlemen who were already there letting their herds roam free on the vast land. This film is about the ensuing problems between the two groups.
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Hopscotch 1980  R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom, David Matthau, George Baker, Severn Darden, Allan Cuthbertson, Lucy Saroyan
An ex-CIA agent, Miles Kendig (Walter Matthau), writes an expose revealing espionage tactics and then tries to prevent its publication.
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Interiors 1978   PG, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Geraldine Page, Richard Jordan, E.G. Marshall, Maureen Stapleton, Sam Waterston, Henderson Forsythe
Woody Allen's attempt at drama is good film fare. The plot involves three sisters and their parents whose relationships have deteriorated. The film received five Oscar nominations, including Best Actress (Geraldine Page), Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton), and Director.
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Journey Into Fear 1975 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: Sam Waterston, Zero Mostel, Yvette Mimieux, Scott Marlowe, Ian McShane, Shelley Winters, Stanley Holloway, Donald Pleasence, Vincent Price, Joseph Wiseman
This remake of Orson Welles' film is about a geologist (Sam Waterston) and his venture into the world of espionage. Skip this one and watch the original 1942 version instead.
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The Journey of August King 1995 PG-13, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Duigan
Cast: Jason Patric, Thandie Newton, Larry Drake, Sam Waterston, Sara-Jane Wylde, Eric Mabius, Bill Whitlock, Muse Watson
Rural farmer August King (Jason Patric) helps a run-away slave, Annalees Williamsburg (Thandie Newton), escape to freedom over the mountains of North Carolina.
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Just Between Friends 1986 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allan Burns
Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Salome Jens, Susan Rinell, Julie Payne, Read Morgan, Jane Greer, Beverly Sanders, Mark Blum, Timothy Gibbs, Diane Stilwell, Castulo Guerra
Holly Davis (Mary Tyler Moore) is a happily married housewife, with no apparent problems, who runs into a big one when she discovers that her new friend Sandy Dunlap (Christine Lahti) and she are in love with the same man: Holly's husband Chip (Ted Danson). Chip dies suddenly, and, in the midst of the tragedy, Holly discovers that Sandy is pregnant and has been trying to keep it a secret. Problems rise to the fore, but Chip's friend Harry Crandall (Sam Waterston) steps in to help.
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The Killing Fields 1984 R, 142 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Spalding Gray, Bill Paterson, Ira Wheeler, Graham Kennedy, Patrick Malahide
The tragedies of Cambodia are artfully depicted in this film, which provides a look at man's inhumanity to man. This excellent presentation was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and Ngor won for Best Supporting Actor.
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 Le Divorce 2003 PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Stephen Fry, Thierry Lhermitte, Melvil Poupaud, Bebe Neuwirth, Sam Waterston, Samuel Labarthe
When Isabel (Kate Hudson) arrives in Paris to help her half-sister, Roxanne (Naomi Watts), she learns that Roxanne's husband (Melvil Poupaud) has walked out on her. So ends what should have been a peaceful visit as a complex comedy unfolds.
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The Man in the Moon 1991 PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Jason London, Emily Warfield, Gail Strickland, Bentley Mitchum, Ernie Lively, Dennis Letts, Earleen Bergeron, Anna Chappell, Sandi & Brandi Smith, Derek & Spencer Ball
It is Summer in 1957, and teenage sisters Dani (Reese Witherspoon) and Maureen (Emily Warfield) both fall in love with Court Foster (Jason London) who has just moved into their rural Louisiana neighborhood. Maureen must decide whether or not to accept Court's love and betray her sister. Meanwhile, Dani must deal with her jealousy. Then, fate steps in with a tragedy, and Dani and Maureen must use their love for each other to get through the crisis.
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Miracle at Midnight 1998 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ken Cameron
Cast: Sam Waterston, Mia Farrow, Justin Whalin, Patrick Malahide, Benedick Blythe, Barry McGovern, Daisy Beaumont, Nicola Mycroft, Alan Devine, Maria Rosenstock, Eva Birthistle, Halina Froudist
In 1945, when Nazis began arresting Danish Jews, Dr. Karl Kosler (Sam Waterston) and his wife, Doris (Mia Farrow), hid Rabbi Ben Abrams (Barry McGovern) and his family–an act that would spread, enabling 7,000 Jews to escape to neutral Sweden.
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Rancho Deluxe 1975 R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Perry
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James, Slim Pickens, Charlene Dallas, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Bright, Patti D'Arbanville, Joe Spinell
The modern West still has rustlers. In this story they are two drifters, Cecil Colson (Sam Waterston) and Jack McKee (Jeff Bridges) whose methods of stealing cattle are as contemporary as pickup trucks and helicopters.
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The Room Upstairs 1987 TV, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Margolin
Cast: Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Linda Hunt, Joan Allen, Clancy Brown, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Handy, Jerry O'Connell, De'voreaux White, Renee Estevez
Lonely Leah (Stockard Channing) teaches special needs children and rents rooms in her family house to make ends meet. A simple story of Leah and her boarders, including Cellist Travis (Sam Waterston) who may end her loneliness. Made for TV.
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Savages 1972 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Lewis J. Stadlen, Thayer David, Susan Blakely, Russ Thacker, Salome Jens, Margaret Brewster, Neil Fitzgerald, Eva Saleh, Ultra Violet, Kathleen Widdoes, Sam Waterston, Martin Kove
As primitive mud people follow a croquet ball through the forest, the trail ends at a Long Island estate. Although no one is home, the mud people don clothes found on the estate, become civilized, and party as if they were upper-class society. But, civilization isn't far from the savage state as is shown when party-goers follow a croquet ball that is hit back into the forest and they re-enter their primitive world.
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Serial Mom 1994 R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Horror
Director: John Waters
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Scott Wesley Morgan, Walt MacPherson, Justin Whalin, Mink Stole, Traci Lords, Mary Jo Catlett, Patricia Dunnock, Lonnie Horsey, Suzanne Somers
Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is a wonderful mother to her two children Misty and Chip (Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard); perhaps she is a little bit compulsive in her child rearing. In reality, she is a serial killer determined to ensure protection for her family. Turner and Sam Waterston (as the husband) put on good performances in this "different" film.
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Shadow Conspiracy 1997  R, 103 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Linda Hamilton, Donald Sutherland, Stephen Lang, Sam Waterston, Ben Gazzara, Nicholas Turturro, Stanley Anderson, Theodore Bikel, Charles Cioffi
Conspiracy in the highest levels of government is the theme of this story featuring Charlie Sheen as the president's (Sam Waterston) special assistant and Linda Hamilton as a reporter who are the objects standing in the way of a hired killer (Stephen Lang). They must be silenced at all cost. So should this film.
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Sweet Revenge 1976 PG, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Dandy, The All-American Girl
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston, Franklyn Ajaye, Richard Daughty, Norman Matlock, Marvin Rosand, Evan A. Lottman, Terry Alboucq, Adele Burnett, Jan D'Arcy
This film makes an attempt to entertain, but it just does not succeed. The plot involves a public defender (Sam Waterston) who falls for a beautiful, but devious, car thief (Stockard Channing).
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Warning Sign 1985  R, 99 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Hal Barwood
Cast: Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Dysart, G.W. Bailey, Jerry Hardin, Rick Rossovich, Cynthia Carle, Scott Paulin
When deadly microbes are accidentally spilled at a research lab, the security system activates–locking scientists inside. Now they must fend for themselves.
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| 1. Amazing Stories: Book 4 (1991)
2. Capricorn One (1978)
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
4. David's Mother (1994)
5. Dempsey (1983)
6. Eagle's Wing (1979)
7. The Enemy Within (1994)
8. Generation (1969)
9. The Glass Menagerie (1973)
10. Gore Vidal's Lincoln (1988)
11. The Great Gatsby (1974)
12. Heaven's Gate (1980)
aka: Johnson County Wars
13. Hopscotch (1980)
14. Interiors (1978)
15. Journey Into Fear (1975)
16. The Journey of August King (1995)
17. Just Between Friends (1986)
18. The Killing Fields (1984)
19. Le Divorce (2003)
20. The Man in the Moon (1991)
21. Miracle at Midnight (1998)
22. The Proprietor (1996)
23. Rancho Deluxe (1975)
24. The Room Upstairs (1987)
25. Savages (1972)
26. September (1987)
27. Serial Mom (1994)
28. Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
29. Sweet Revenge (1976)
aka: Dandy, The All-American Girl
30. Warning Sign (1985)
31. Welcome Home (1989)
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