Tommy Swerdlow

Tommy Swerdlow

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Tommy Swerdlow

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The Grinch
Screenplay
The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration.
A Thousand Junkies
Producer
Things grow more and more desperate, and ridiculous, as three heroin addicts drive all over Los Angeles in search of what they need.
A Thousand Junkies
Writer
Things grow more and more desperate, and ridiculous, as three heroin addicts drive all over Los Angeles in search of what they need.
A Thousand Junkies
Tommy
Things grow more and more desperate, and ridiculous, as three heroin addicts drive all over Los Angeles in search of what they need.
A Thousand Junkies
Director
Things grow more and more desperate, and ridiculous, as three heroin addicts drive all over Los Angeles in search of what they need.
Snow Dogs
Screenplay
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
Bushwhacked
Screenplay
A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and leads a scout group on a hike through the mountains.
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
King
Shakespeare films Hamlet on a single reel then, after an initial screening, edits it down to the bare bones.
Little Giants
Screenplay
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached by his brother, a former pro player?
Cool Runnings
Screenplay
When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican bobsled team.
Blueberry Hill
Ray Porter
In a small town in the 1950s, Ellie Dane loses her musician father, and her mother suddenly turns away from her. She finds solace in wise jazz singer Hattie Cale and learns that she's inherited her dad's skill at the piano. But she also begins to uncover dark truths about her family's past and the reason for her mother's emotional distance. A rich jazz score accompanies this moving drama.
Child's Play
Jack Santos
A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Hamburger Hill
Pvt. Martin Bienstock
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
Howard the Duck
Ginger Moss
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Real Genius
Bodie
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
The Wild Life
Dork
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.