James Sloyan

James Sloyan

Nacimiento : 1940-02-24, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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James Sloyan

Películas

My Son Is Innocent
Niles Brokaw
After a brutal nighttime attack on a woman alone in her suburban home, police investigators zero in on teenager Eric Sutter. When the victim identifies Sutter as her attacker, the legal system closes in on the boy as friends, neighbors and the media turn against him. Only through the dogged determination of his mother, and her loyal boyfriend does Eric and the victim have a chance for justice to be served.
Woman With a Past
Dunne
A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in flashbacks her stations of life until the day the police found her in her new life: First marriage, alcohol addiction, robberies, prison, escape from prison, search for work, second marriage, fight for the children,... In the end she has not only to fight for her freedom but also for the respect and love of her betrayed children and husband.
Danielle Steel: Cambios
Paul Stevenson
Una vibrante historia de amor entre una reportera de televisión y un cirujano. Melanie parece tenerlo todo: éxito profesional, dos hijas gemelas y un estilo de vida rutilante, pero su corazón está vacío. Peter es una eminencia mundial, pero acaba de enviudar y sus hijos sufren la pérdida de su madre. Ambos afrontan un terrible reto: ser capaces de amarse sin eclipsar sus personalidades ni enturbiar las difíciles relaciones con sus hijos. Basada en la novela de Danielle Steel.
Who Gets the Friends?
Neat and interesting story about a couple being divorced. It is easy to split all the things they've bought, but the real question is: Who gets the friends?
Her Secret Life
Wardell
Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is swept back into the spy business, leaving her nonplussed hubby in the dust.
Bigfoot
Dr. Zach Emerson
Muchas leyendas han surgido entorno a los "bigfoot", unas criaturas de más de dos metros, de altura semejante a los simios, que viven en regiones salvajes. Pero estas leyendas se vuelven sorprendentemente reales cuando dos jóvenes se encuentran cara a cara con un grupo de estos misteriosos animales. Una vez recuperados del susto, los jóvenes descubrirán a un despiadado cazador decidido a capturar y explotar a los bigfoot a toda costa. Dispuestos a salvar a las legendarias criaturas, los chicos recurrirán a una solitaria antropóloga en un arriesgado intento por proteger a los bigfoot de su violento destino.
Vital Signs
Two doctors, a father and son, conceal their alcohol and drug problems in this potent look at the abuse of those substances that exist in the medical profession.
Amos
Sheriff John Thomas
Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here he finds the head nurse, Daisy Daws, ruling the cowed patients with an iron hand, but as his determination to get out of Sunset grows, the more sinister his situation becomes.
Prime Suspect
John Malloy
A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his friends and neighbours.
Callie & Son
Bubba Wrench
Callie es una madre soltera que vive en condiciones precarias, lo que le empuja a entregar a su hijo en adopción. Años más tarde conoce a un magnate de la prensa, y se casa con él, circunstancia que aprovecha para recuperar a su hijo. La relación con él no será fácil, y seremos testigos de la evolución del hijo, que se casa con una mujer vulgar, a la que da vida Michelle Pfeiffer en uno de sus primeros papeles.
The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Eddie
Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
Xanadu
Simpson
Kira es una de las hijas de Zeus y musa de las artes. Cumpliendo ese trabajo, visita al pintor Sonny Malone, a quien inspira con un beso. Sin embargo, la bella diosa y el mortal se enamoran, lo que será un problema en el orden cósmico. Al mismo tiempo, un viejo músico sueña con abrir un club nocturno al viejo estilo, un proyecto en el que Kira y Sonny se involucrarán... Los años 40 se encuentran con los 80 en "Xanadú", una mirada hacia el futuro a la vez que un recuerdo romántico de cómo eran las cosas durante la época dorada de Hollywood.
Trouble in High Timber Country
John David Yeager
A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his three sons, his daughter and his nephew in this pilot film to "The Yeagers" TV series that actually ended months before it aired.
Act of Violence
Tony Bonelli
A liberal-minded, divorced newswriter is the victim of a brutal mugging. Robbed of her confidence, she finds her life cloaked in fear and paranoia, causing her to reevaluate her lifelong beliefs.
La desaparición de Aimée
Dist. Atty. Asa Keyes
In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities. Not everyone believed her, however, and she was accused of having gone away to have an affair with a married man. A court hearing took place to reveal the truth.
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
Lubeck
An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal millions of dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority. A detective, who had been keeping tabs on him since he got out of prison, suspects that he is up to something and tries to catch him at it.
Panic on the 5:22
Frankie Scamantino
Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.
The Family Kovack
Vinnie Kovack
A tightly-knit family headed by a beleaguered Chicago widow rallies behind the eldest son when he is charged with bribing a city health department inspector in this pilot for a possible series.
El golpe
Mottola
En Illinois, en 1936, dos ladrones dan un golpe a un hombre de confianza de un gángster y se embolsan un montón de dinero. El gángster decide vengarse y mata a uno de los que dieron el golpe, mientras que el otro logra escapar y entra en contacto con un ex compinche. Los dos deciden intentar un gran timo que hará temblar las finanzas del jefe de la mafia.
Honor Thy Father
Pete Notario
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelled to take over the "empire," other mafiosi attempt to take what's theirs. Brenda Vaccaro and Richard S. Castellano fill out the impressive cast of this gripping crime tale.
Between Time and Timbuktu
Dr. Paul Proteus
A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of 'Kurt Vonnegut Jr.', including Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, 'Harrison Bergeron', and 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June'
Casi, casi una mafia
Joey
Un ciclista de un equipo italiano se pierde por las calles de Nueva York. Tiene la mala suerte de enzarzarse en una discusión con algunos individuos de la mafia, por lo que se verá obligado a disfrazarse de cura para eludir el peligro
El viajero de la muerte
Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)
Comedia negra ambientada en los Estados Unidos en 1918. Jonas Candide, estafador y verdugo ambulante, recorre en su furgoneta todas las cárceles, llevando consigo su "silla eléctrica portátil". Llega a la penitenciaría de Fairweather para ejecutar a dos hermanos alemanes (un hombre y una mujer) que han sido condenados a muerte por asesinato. La situación se complica porque Jonas se enamora locamente de la bella alemana (Mariana Hill) y se propone liberarla cueste lo que cueste.