Frank Birney

Películas

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
Edmund
Basada en una colección de relatos cortos de Robert Boswell, presenta siete viñetas que exploran la diferencia entre la fantasía y la realidad, la memoria y la historia, y la alegría y la agonía del ser humano.
This Is How You Die
What if a machine could tell you cryptically, but with 100% accuracy, how you are going to die?
Wicked Lake
Sir Jim
Two clans of deranged males make the mistake of stalking four young women they assume to be easy prey, only to find out that at the stroke of midnight the tables will be turned and all hell will break loose.
Juego de Poder
DC
Los Estados Unidos viven una grave crisis energética y una serie de terremotos afectan al sur de California. En este contexto, tres ecologistas que investigan los delitos ecológicos de una compañía eléctrica, desaparecen. El reportero Matt Nash prepara un trabajo sobre la crisis y su instinto le dice que la desaparición de los ecologistas puede ser el hilo conductor.
Un regalo de Navidad
Ray Spellman
De regreso a su ciudad natal después de la muerte de su abuelo, que lo crió, el profesional de Wall Street Will Martin (Neil Patrick Harris) se siente decididamente fuera de lugar con el espíritu festivo y los preparativos de Navidad que realizan los lugareños. En realidad, para Will éste no es un viaje sentimental en absoluto: ha venido a modernizar y reestructurar la empresa familiar. Mientras revisan los efectos personales de su abuelo, Will y su abuela (Debbie Reynolds) encuentran un diario del anciano que revela una larga relación con una mujer llamada Lillian. Decidido a encontrar a esta misteriosa señora, Will aprenderá algunas lecciones vitales sobre el amor, el perdón y a recuperar el espíritu navideño que había perdido.
Inferno
Dr. Heller
When a huge fireball hurtles towards the Earth the authorities have only hours to react before temperatures soar beyond human tolerance.
Mafia. ¡Estafa como puedas!
Wedding Priest
El joven Vincenzo Cortino, hijo de un cartero siciliano, lleva un paquete para su padre y accidentalmente ve algo que no debería. Se ve obligado a huir del pueblo y a coger un barco rumbo a América. Allí Vincenzo comienza su escalada hasta la cima de los clanes mafiosos. Pero un día su hijo más joven comete un error y tiene que abandonar la ciudad. Más tarde termina como jefe de un casino de Las Vegas. Una disparatada comedia, parodia de las películas de mafiosos.
Norma Jean y Marilyn
Preacher
Biopic de la famosa actriz Marilyn Monroe, realizado para la televisión de pago HBO, en el que no se omiten detalles de la vida de la estrella tan escabrosos como las drogas, el sexo o el alcohol.
Yesterday's Target
Motel Manager
Memory loss, separation and assassins threaten three time-travelers with special powers who are stuck in the past.
Reflections on a Crime
Doctor
Seven years ago, Regina (Mimi Rogers) was tried for the death. On the night before she becomes the first woman in over 40 years to be executed in a federal penitentiary, she befriends the lone, curious prison guard Colin Reeves (Billy Zane), who has been assigned to watch over her. By telling Regina's story through flashbacks interwoven with her present situation, the film helps us understand this woman in a unique, disturbing and sympathetic way
Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
Scholar
A rescue team is looking for survivors in a sinking building after a devastating earthquake.
Dave, presidente por un día
Director of OMB
Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) es un sencillo ciudadano que guarda un extraordinario parecido con el presidente de los Estados Unidos Bill Mitchell. Cuando un repentino ataque incapacita al presidente, sus asesores políticos deciden que Dave lo suplante, dando por supuesto que será un hombre fácil de manipular. Por otra parte, la esposa del presidente (Sigourney Weaver), que ignora la situación, encuentra tan anómala la conducta de su supuesto marido que empieza a sospechar.
Jennifer 8
Expert
John Berlin, un policía de homicidios de Los Ángeles, se traslada a San Diego para investigar un caso de asesinato múltiple. El único testigo es una chica ciega por la cual se siente inmediatamente atraído. El poco crédito que sus colegas dan al testimonio de una invidente complicarán la investigación. Y, mientras tanto, el asesino sigue suelto.
Don't Touch My Daughter
Judge Landis
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her body will never be found. She goes to the authorities for help, but there's nothing they can do until he actually tries something. Afraid for her daughter's life, the mother decides to take matters into her own hands.
Angel of Death
Warden
Escaped convict Gary Nicholson falls in love becomes obsessed with artist Laura Hendricks. He vows to protect her and her six-year-old son from any and all antagonists.
C.H.U.D. 2 - Reacción viva
Barber
Unos adolescentes roban un cadáver, desconociendo que perteneció a un zombie caníbal que puede transmitir su patología a cualquiera a quien muerda.
Lucky Stiff
Priest
Ron Douglas has no luck in women, and when his bride runs away on their wedding day, he goes on holiday up in the mountains, only to be reminded more of his misery when placed in the honey-moon wing of the hotel. However he finds love with Cynthia, a beautiful blonde, and his self esteem improves. Cynthia invites him for Christmas dinner, and he accepts, only to meet Cynthia's eccentric cannibal family, and finds out HE is the main course.
Critters 2
Reverend Fisher
En un planeta primitivo, unos cazadores suben a bordo de su vieja nave espacial. Uno de ellos es UG, que mantiene la apariencia de una estrella de rock & roll que adquirió durante su último viaje a la Tierra. Su torpe acompañante es Cahrli McFadden, un borracho de Groves Bend, Kansas. Mientras la nave se adentra en el espacio, los cazadores reciben un mensaje que les dice que los Critters no han sido aniquilados. Mientras tanto, un hombre en la Tierra tiene un valioso tesoro: miles de huevos con manchas de extraños colores...
The Betty Ford Story
Benji
This biographical film was based on the book The Times of My Life written by Chris Chase and Betty Ford.
Bad Guys
Comedian
Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.
The Jerk, Too
Priest
Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.
The Discipline of D.E.
"The Discipline of D.E." is a short 16mm film directed by Gus Van Sant. It’s based on a story in “Exterminator!” by William Burroughs that at times reads like Buddhist noir: "DE is a way of doing. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Don't fumble, jerk, grab an object. Drop cool possessive fingers onto it like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest.”
Pray TV
Johnson
A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity.
Return of the Rebels
Patrick
An aging motorcycle gang assembles for a 25-year reunion to help out former member Mary Beth, a widowed operator of a popular campground which is being threatened by a band of arrogant groupies.
Miracle on Ice
Mr. Sears
The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.
Lucifer
Father Daly
Lucifer acepta el reto mortal de los tres arcángeles sabiendo que su nuevo nacimiento iniciará un reino de terror. Renace en la forma de Andrew Williams quien, en su 18 cumpleaños, es consciente de que el diablo está dentro de él.
The Babysitter
Mr. Farragut
Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter Tara. Liz's husband Jeff isn't too thrilled with the arrangement, and his fears soon prove justified when Joanna begins to manipulate everyone and to slowly destroy the family. Meanwhile, next-door neighbor Dr. Linquist investigates and discovers Joanna has a disturbing past.
Portrait of an Escort
Professor Lewis
Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where she works in the daytime, while her teenage daughter is the only one who remains oblivious to her mother's night job. When Jordan tries to quit her escort profession, she finds herself harassed by her boss/madam, Mrs. Kennedy, and then stalked by an unknown former client.
Child's Play
Butler
A neighborhood boy (Bill Barrett) might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian pharaohs, Borneo pirates and even Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Eventually the trade is made, Conrad gets the creature.
Portrait of a Stripper
Director
A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother.
Parts: The Clonus Horror
Reporter Birney
An escaped clone tries to expose a government plot to clone everyone and make a perfect society.