Richard Alan Shapiro

Películas

The Motel
Executive Producer
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.
The Colony
Executive Producer
An arrogant Malibu tycoon frantically tries to locate the files of a murdered psychotherapist before his enemies get their hands on them and destroy him in this failed pilot from the creators of "Dynasty."
The Colony
Writer
An arrogant Malibu tycoon frantically tries to locate the files of a murdered psychotherapist before his enemies get their hands on them and destroy him in this failed pilot from the creators of "Dynasty."
When We Were Young
Executive Producer
Prospective series pilot about eight 1959 high school graduates in a Northern California town preparing to go off into the world.
When We Were Young
Writer
Prospective series pilot about eight 1959 high school graduates in a Northern California town preparing to go off into the world.
The Cracker Factory
Producer
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.
The Cracker Factory
Writer
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.
Intimate Strangers
Producer
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
Intimate Strangers
Teleplay
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
Minstrel Man
Writer
Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white performers in blackface, and the other is a composer fighting to break away from the stereotypes associated with black minstrel performers.
Botas duras, medias de seda
Writer
Sam Longwood y el indio Knox, dos granujas que viven en Colorado, se encuentran un día con Jack Colby, un antiguo amigo que les timó sesenta mil dólares y que está promocionando un campeonato de de boxeo. Para cobrarle la deuda, secuestran a su esposa, pero Jack parece encantado de haberla perdido de vista.
Sara T. - Retrato de una joven alcohólica
Writer
Sara, una adolescente de quince años, es alcohólica. Aparte del divorcio de sus padres, no parece que haya motivos que justifiquen su problema. Es una chica atractiva, vive en una casa confortable y está enamorada. Empezó a beber en una fiesta para vencer la timidez, pero después se hizo adicta al alcohol.