Rick Raphael

Movies

Brown Sugar
Steadicam Operator
Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Steadicam Operator
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
8MM
Steadicam Operator
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
Mr. Jealousy
Steadicam Operator
After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia gets the best of him when he discovers that her most recent ex is successful novelist Dashiell Frank. Lester begins attending the same group therapy sessions as Dashiell to learn about Ramona's past with him.
Cop Land
Steadicam Operator
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Night Falls on Manhattan
"B" Camera Operator
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Independence Day
Steadicam Operator
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
Empire Records
Steadicam Operator
The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.
Crooklyn
Steadicam Operator
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
The Hudsucker Proxy
Steadicam Operator
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Bob Roberts
Steadicam Operator
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.
Puppet Master
Steadicam Operator
A Jewish puppet maker who's discovered the secret to creating living puppets commits suicide to avoid capture by the Nazis and hides his beloved and harmless puppet children in a California hotel. Years later, a cult of magicians arrive at the hotel under the invitation of an ex-member who betrayed them all, only to find that he's dead - and that the living puppets, under the influence of a new Puppet Master, have turned murderous!