Patrick Whitley

Películas

Criaturas del mar
Executive Producer
At 14, Amanda is a perfect swimmer and a great student. When the factory where his father works closes and he must go to work in another city, she feels very sad. One morning she meets the McRea, a very nice elderly couple who, like her, cannot live without the sea, although in another sense.
The Sweetest Gift
Producer
Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.
In His Father's Shoes
Producer
A fortyish cancer-stricken, emaciated Frank Crosby and his fifteen-year-old son Clay, who is the healthful, youthful image of his father, are spending an afternoon enjoying the atmosphere of Venice Beach. They enter Oddities, a store where the gypsy woman owner gives them a pair of special wingtip shoes. Later that night in the hospital where Frank lay dying, he shares with Clay his memory of a postcard image: a golf course where people are playing and are leisurely sipping tea. Frank dies and leaves behind a distraught family: Clay, his little sister Maggie, and their mother Janice. Clay wistfully goes to his father's closet and finds the wingtips from earlier in the day. Putting them on, he is transported back in time and becomes his father as a child. He discovers he can travel back and forth in time just by putting on or taking off the shoes. Clay learns a great deal about his father's early years and is eager to learn more.
Hidden in America
Executive In Charge Of Production
Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will survive. After hitting brick wall after brick wall comes a glimmer of hope.
Mrs. Munck
Line Producer
A wronged woman takes revenge on her wheelchair bound father-in-law.
Atrapar a un asesino
Co-Producer
John Wayne Gacy, un perfecto vecino que ayudaba en el barrio y hacia reir a los niños tenia engañado a todo el mundo ocultando su lado macabro, el de un asesino de chicos jóvenes, el de un sádico homosexual y el de un escurridizo psicópata que burlaba una y otra vez la ley.
Rosencrantz y Guildenstern han muerto
Co-Producer
Basada en una obra teatral del propio Stoppard. Narra la historia del príncipe Hamlet a través de dos personajes secundarios que aparecen en el drama de William Shakespeare.
Una esposa para Navidad
Producer
The Christmas Wife es un drama televisivo basado en una historia de Helen Norris. Un viudo viejo y recién nacido, que no quiere pasar su primera Navidad solo, responde a un anuncio en el periódico que dice: "No estás solo. Hacemos arreglos sociales de todo tipo". Cuando visita el Arreglista Social, deja muy claro que su único interés es en la "compañía social" y posteriormente se presenta a una mujer que acepta pasar las vacaciones con él. La mujer le pide que no haga preguntas sobre su vida personal, que esconde un secreto que amenaza su amistad en desarrollo y que finalmente podría cambiar sus vidas.
Tidy Endings
Producer
Based on the play by actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein, this drama is about a man whose companion dies of AIDS. He then confronts his lover's ex-wife and the two end up building a friendship while coping with the emotional aftermath of the death.
Betrayal of Silence
Co-Producer
A new lawyer investigates the abuse case of a young orphan girl and begins to believe that the orphanage priests have something to hide.
As Is
Co-Producer
Story of a homosexual man who finds out he has AIDS and how people react. Ex-lovers are brought together when the former is stricken with AIDS. Often humorous and never morose, author William Hoffman doesn't pull his punches with either his portrayal of a gay lifestyle or of the emotional toll the disease takes.
The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
Producer
A college professor wishes he could live in Victorian England. Through a scientific experiment that goes wrong, he is able to make his dream come true. He is now able to travel back and forth in time.
PMS - Premenstrual Syndrome
Production Director
Short film for David Letterman's Holiday Film Festival in 1985 produced by Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara.