Neil Roach

Películas

Guerra de hermandades
Director of Photography
Katie (Lucy Hale) y Sara (Phoebe Strole) han sido amigas desde la infancia. Cuando ambas van a la universidad juntas, Katie parece ser la candidata ideal para entrar en la hermandad Delta, pues dicha fraternidad fue fundada décadas atrás por su madre Lutie (Courtney Thorne-Smith) y por Summer (Faith Ford), cuya hija ahora, llamada Gwen (Amanda Schull), es la líder de la hermandad Delta en el campus. (FILMAFFINITY)
Velocidad al límite
Director of Photography
Un padre y su hija se encuentran sobre las pistas de carreras, donde la ambición de ganar se lleva en la sangre. Una película donde la acción anda sobre ruedas.
Queen Sized, una reina de talla grande
Director of Photography
Maggie Baker es una adolescente que se siente ridiculizada en la escuela por su sobrepeso. Su mejor amiga Casey, que sale con uno de los chicos más populares del instituto, acepta la invitación de éste para asistir a una fiesta con la condición de que Maggie también sea invitada. (FILMAFFINITY)
Girl, Positive
Director of Photography
Rachel, una popular chica de 17 del instituto, descubre que Jason, el chico con el que se ha acostado, es positivo en la prueba del VIH. (FILMAFFINITY)
Categoría 7: El fin del mundo
Director of Photography
Continuando la serie de huracanes que ha asolado Norteamérica, una nueva ola de catástrofes llega a Europa, destruyendo la ciudad de París. Un ministro evangelista, aprovechando esta racha de desastres naturales, anunciará en su programa de televisión la proximidad del fin del mundo, comenzando por las plagas bíblicas que sufrió Egipto en el Antiguo Testamento. Sus predicciones se convierten en realidad cuando la ciudad de Washington sufre la culminación de las tormentas al coincidir tres ciclones que acaban con la capital estadounidense...
Adolescencia perdida
Director of Photography
Jacey (Panabaker), una brillante estudiante de secundaria queda embarazada a los 16 años. Su madre (Ruehl), sorprendida y agobiada por la situación, no sabe cómo reaccionar. Después de tantear varias posibilidades, JAcey decide tener el bebé, aunque su madre le impone como condición mantener el embarazo y el nacimiento en secreto a fin de preservar su futuro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Huracán Categoría 6
Director of Photography
Andy Goodman, un meteorólogo a punto de retirarse, es testigo de cómo tres catástrofes naturales toman forma en diferentes partes de Estados Unidos para coincidir todas ellas en Chicago. Comenzando por una terrible ola de calor, la ciudad se verá afectada por un corte de energía eléctrica, para luego ser amenazada por una serie de huracanes provenientes del oeste, que a su vez han causado tremendos daños en la ciudad de Las Vegas. A su vez, Mitch Benson, jefe de operaciones de la compañía eléctrica que suministra la zona, tendrá que enfrentarse a una situación insostenible cuando una reacción en cadena de centrales eléctricas causa un colapso nacional.
Más falsas apariencias
Director of Photography
Cuando la mujer de Oz es secuestrada, a éste no le queda otro remedio que recurrir a su viejo conocido Jimmy "el Tulipán", un antiguo asesino a sueldo, que ahora lleva una vida tranquila y anónima.
La decisión de Gracie
Director of Photography
Una madre irresponsable y de dudosa reputación es detenida en presencia de sus cinco hijos. Cuando la hermana mayor, Gracie, de 17 años, se da cuenta de que los servicios sociales tienen intención de separarles, decide que ha llegado el momento de hacerse cargo del cuidado de sus hermanos. La jueza, conmovida por su actitud ejemplar, le otorga la custodia temporal de los pequeños.
Instinto asesino
Director of Photography
La agente especial De Long está tras la pista de un peligroso criminal que ha secuestrado a un adolescente, pero una vez detenido la víctima de este psicópata se suicida lo que provoca en De Long un gran sentimiento de frustación. Es entonces cuando se plantea abandonar la policía y así dedicarle más tiempo a su hijo.
Gleason
Director of Photography
The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood. Gleason spends his formative years entering amateur contests, performing in sleazy night spots. Along the way, he steals gags from the best comics in town and finds love with Genevieve, a dancer whom he marries. But Gleason isn't the ideal husband or even a responsible father as he abandons his family to answer the call of Hollywood. Brash, arrogant, and egotistical, he alienates his directors and the man who discovers him. When he ends up back in New York, Gleason gets one of those rare second chances in the new medium of television, creating some of its most unforgettable characters. But even as Gleason becomes the talk of the tube, his life - ruled by demons of rage, booze, and insecurity - unravels.
La tragedia de los Mulvaney
Director of Photography
Michael y Corinne Mulvaney son los padres de cuatro buenos chicos. Sin embargo la tragedia familiar se desatará con la violación de su hija Marianne a manos de un compañero de colegio. Intentando desesperadamente evitar un escándalo público, Michael y Corinne obligan a Marianne a guardar en secreto su violación, enviándola a un lugar "discreto" en el que pueda recuperarse. (FILMAFFINITY)
Llámame Santa Claus
Director of Photography
Cuando sólo tenía siete años, la pequeña Lucy se sentó en los brazos de Papá Noel y, en ese mismo momento, él supo que ella era especial. Sin embargo, ese mismo día recibirá la terrible noticia de que su padre ha muerto en Vietnam, con lo que su ilusión por la Navidad y por Papá Noel desaparecerán.
No Ordinary Baby
Director of Photography
A reporter (Bridget Fonda) gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the doctor (Mary Beth Hurt) responsible for creating the clone.
Midwives
Director of Photography
Una matrona es injustamente acusada de asesinato por el viudo de una mujer que murió en la sala de parto. (FILMAFFINITY)
La balada de Lucy Whipple
Director of Photography
Arvella Whipple acaba de enviudar y se marcha con sus tres hijos hacia California durante la fiebre del oro. Al llegar al pequeño pueblo de Lucky Diggins, luchará por sacar adelante a la familia pese a que su hija de trece años no ve con buenos ojos ese lugar salvaje. Pero en la muchacha se comienza a producir un cambio de carácter que le hará cambiar de nombre e interesarse en hacer felices a los habitantes de su nuevo hogar.
A Family in Crisis: The Elian Gonzales Story
Director of Photography
Based on the true headline-generating story of the five-year-old Cuban boy who is the sole survivor of a refugee boat that sunk in a storm on its way to the U.S.
Hefner: Unauthorized
Director of Photography
The unauthorized biography of Hugh Hefner and the birth of the Playboy empire.
Night Ride Home
Director of Photography
When a devastating accident tears apart the already frayed marriage of Neal and Nora Mahler, each family member must learn that their own emotions are best dealt with by relying on each other and their bonds as a family.
Tempting Fate
Cinematography
A man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a machine that can bring anyone to a parallel world. He goes and sees the woman he loves is still alive in that world and wants to stay. But when he discovers that this world has rules that differ from his world, he wants to leave but when he goes back to where the machine is, there's a fire and the machine is destroyed and the man who built it is killed. He later meets a woman from his world who also built a machine of her own but the officials there upon seeing her thinks she's crazy because her counterpart is alive and says she doesn't know her. So he tries to help her so that they can return home.
A Christmas Memory
Director of Photography
A new version of Truman Capote's 1956 tale based on his own bittersweet upbringing in Alabama. The story deals with a seven-year-old who forms a special friendship with his simple, older cousin whose two sisters and bachelor brother feel he needs better influences and role models and decide to send him to military school after the Christmas holidays.
Al filo de la inocencia
Director of Photography
Ella huye de los problemas; él, de la policía. Cuando Zoe y Jake acaban por encontrarse, juran que nada ni nadie será capaz de separarles. Incomprendidos por sus padres y traicionados por el sistema, los jóvenes amantes deciden seguir su propio camino, desafiando cuanto se interponga entre los dos. Pero lo que comienza como la aventura de dos adolescentes rebeldes, pronto se convierte en un increíble viaje de autodescubrimiento donde el miedo, las dudas y la vulnerabilidad chocarán con la pasión, la honestidad y la amistad. Fiinalmente, el amor pondrá las cosas en su lugar… aunque no de la forma que ellos pensaban.
The Summer of Ben Tyler
Director of Photography
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.
Shadow of a Doubt
Director of Photography
Charlie Sloan is an alcoholic defence lawyer drawn back into the courtroom by Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved who wants him to defend her stepdaughter Angel, who is accused of murder. Sloan is out of his depth as his opponents mount a bitter campaign to portray him as a drunk and the trial becomes a media circus. Can Sloan justify Robin's faith in him?
Mary & Tim
Director of Photography
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing.
Dos madres para Zachary
Director of Photography
Después de pasar por un matrimonio fallido,Jodie se muda a la casa de su mamá junto a su hijo Zachary.Con pocas expectativas de volver a enamorarse,Jodie conoce a Maggie,una lesbiana con la que entabla una fuerte amistad que con el pasar del tiempo se convierte en una relación amorosa.Al enterarse de la verdadera sexualidad de su hija,la madre de Jodie la rechaza y hace todo lo posible para terminar la relación,comenzando por golpear a su hija en donde más le duele,sacandole la tenencia de Zachary.
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Director of Photography
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
The Substitute Wife
Camera Operator
In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to make it possible for them to keep their family farm.
Baby Brokers
Director of Photography
A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn, but she discovers she is the victim of a scam.
To Dance with the White Dog
Director of Photography
When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant.
A Place To Be Loved
Director of Photography
Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natural father, finds the foster family he is put into to be the type of family he needs and takes his natural mother to court to have her parental rights revoked so that he can be adopted by the Russes. The story is based on the real case of the boy who really did have to take this action to avoid being sent back into an unacceptable situation.
Marked for Murder
Director of Photography
Mace Moutron, The Sandman, is released from prison to take part in a project where convicts assist the police in their job. Mace isn't used to playing by the rules, and he's frustrated with the corruption and impotence of the police. When he takes action against a local drug lord, the conflict becomes personal.
Ned Blessing: su verdadera historia
Director of Photography
Ned Blessing es un vaquero demacrado, viejo y antiguo sheriff. Sin nada más que reflexiones sobre una vida que ha estado llena de peligro y emoción, que marca su tiempo de espera hacia la horca y la esperanza de que el hombre responsable de su encarcelamiento haga acto de presencia ante el verdugo. Con sólo unos días para vivir, Blessing relata la historia de su increíble vida.
Face of a Stranger
Director of Photography
After the death of her husband, Pat learns that he gambled away all of their savings and that she's now destitute. She may even have to leave their apartment. Much to the embarrassment of her daughter Tina, who wants to marry a rich snob, she helps the homeless Dollie, who lives in a cardboard box near her building, and they become friends
Finding the Way Home
Cinematography
Sixty year old Max is having something of a middle-age crisis. His marriage seems to go nowhere as the passion, tenderness and happiness vanished when their daughter moved out. On top of that he owns an antique hardware store which is close to bankruptcy. While driving home Max is involved in a traffic accident which gives him amnesia. Confused, lost and in a disordered state, he wanders into a camp full of Latin American farm workers. There he finds a new meaning of life, happiness and a sense of belonging. However, as his memory slowly returns it's inevitable that he must confront his past.
Fear Stalk
Director of Photography
A producer from Beverly Hills is shocked when someone steals all of her belongings out of her purse. The thief begins to make threatening phone calls and withdraws money from her accounts. The stalker becomes more and more dangerous until he finally tries to kill the producer.
My Brother's Wife
Director of Photography
Barney is a guy who comes home for his father's funeral. Eleanor, his brother's wife who is Barney first love meets him and they go to the club where they first met. And Barney recalls how things kept them apart like his need to act out at his father. And his fear of commitment.
Mi nombre es Bill W.
Director of Photography
"Mi nombre es Bill W." es la poderosa historia de Bill Wilson, acerca de su papel como fundador de uno de los más exitosos movimientos de auto ayuda en la historia, de "Alcohólicos Anónimos". James Woods estelariza al explosivo e impredecible Bill Wilson, incapaz de controlar su deseo por el alcohol. Jo Beth Williams estelariza a la sufrida esposa Louis, quién está separada de su esposo por su propia incapacidad para ayudarlo. Louis, desesperada, considera meterlo a un sanatorio, cuando Bill descubre ésto le da un ataque de alcoholismo y termina atado a una cama de hospital. Bill intenta dejar de beber pero le es imposible, así, que recurre a un amigo el Dr. Bob Smith con quien comparte la dependencia del vino. Es una historia verdadera que trata de la esperanza, coraje y amor.
Police Story: Cop Killer
Cinematography
The best friend and partner of a dedicated cop is killed by a pair of holdup men during a routine traffic check.
Red Headed Stranger
Director of Photography
Reverend Julian Shay (Willie Nelson) strode into the saloon, pulled out his six-shooter, and killed his adulterous wife (Morgan Fairchild) and the man she had left him for. It was the beginning of his violent transformation from God-Loving preacher to ruthless outlaw.
Tragedia en tres actos
Director of Photography
Trece invitados acuden a una fiesta en casa del célebre actor sir Charles Cartwright. Una noche desafortunada para el reverendo Stephen Babbington, quien, tras probar un cóctel, cae muerto. Cuando el vaso vuelve del laboratorio sin que se hayan detectado rastros de veneno, el detective Poirot tiene que enfrentarse a un gran misterio.
Furia Silenciosa
Director of Photography
En el hospital de una pequeña ciudad, tres malvados médicos experimentan con un paciente con la intención de conseguir la autoregeneración. El paciente consigue curarse las heridas automáticamente, pero también muta hacia un psicópata criminal. Siendo casi indestructible, escapa del hospital y comienza una ola de terror. El sheriff local intentará destruirlo, pero se enfrenta a un ser invencible...
Of Mice and Men
Director of Photography
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate.
La presa
Camera Operator
Estando de maniobras, un grupo de la Guardia Nacional provoca un sangriento incidente en los pantanos de Louisiana. A continuación los miembros del pelotón van siendo exterminados por los violentos cajuns de la región...
The Wild and the Free
Cinematography
A scientist learns that the chimpanzees he's studying are to be subjected to radiation experiments, so he hatches a plan to steal them away to a wildlife preserve.
Skyward
Camera Operator
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.