Richard Alan Shapiro

Filmes

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.
No Oeste Muito Louco
Writer
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.
A Garota Viciada
Writer
Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.