Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard

Nascimento : 1954-10-18, Independence, Missouri, USA

História

Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard; October 18, 1954) is an American actor, writer and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arliss Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Arliss Howard

Filmes

O Assassino
The Client - Claybourne
Depois de um erro desastroso, um assassino enfrenta quem o contratou e a si mesmo em uma caçada internacional por vingança. Mas ele jura que nada disso é pessoal.
With/In
Director
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist finds companionship in an unwanted pet, two sisters find courage to say things they never had the words to say, and an unexpected packet of sourdough starter has horrifying and hilarious consequences. These are some of the stories captured in WITH/IN, a collection of thirteen films created by actors and their families during the time that changed our lives forever.
#Comvocê: Volume 2
(segment "Still Life")
O conceito é bastante simples: usando um aparelho smartphone ou qualquer outro recurso disponível, várias histórias foram registradas ao longo dos dias de isolamento provocado pela pandemia da COVID-19. Cada segmento traz um ponto de vista único, mostrando como as vidas das pessoas passaram por mudanças e o público pode acompanhar eventos reais sob a ótica de pessoas de diferentes origens e classes durante tempos complexos sem contato social.
#Comvocê: Volume 2
Screenplay
O conceito é bastante simples: usando um aparelho smartphone ou qualquer outro recurso disponível, várias histórias foram registradas ao longo dos dias de isolamento provocado pela pandemia da COVID-19. Cada segmento traz um ponto de vista único, mostrando como as vidas das pessoas passaram por mudanças e o público pode acompanhar eventos reais sob a ótica de pessoas de diferentes origens e classes durante tempos complexos sem contato social.
#Comvocê: Volume 2
Director
O conceito é bastante simples: usando um aparelho smartphone ou qualquer outro recurso disponível, várias histórias foram registradas ao longo dos dias de isolamento provocado pela pandemia da COVID-19. Cada segmento traz um ponto de vista único, mostrando como as vidas das pessoas passaram por mudanças e o público pode acompanhar eventos reais sob a ótica de pessoas de diferentes origens e classes durante tempos complexos sem contato social.
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Join acclaimed director David Fincher, actors Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, and the cast and crew of MANK, for a peek behind the curtain of Netflix's black-and-white ode to Hollywood's Golden Age.
Lapsis
Dr. Mangold
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
Mank
Louis B. Mayer
A Hollywood da década de 1930 é vista pelo olhar crítico do roteirista Herman J. Mankiewicz, em meio aos seus esforços para terminar o roteiro de Cidadão Kane.
The Boy Downstairs
Diana's Father
A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.
Mosaic
A dissection of hybrid identity in ten chapters through the life of a chimeric evolving creature 'Mosaic' and confessions by the most influentials scientists of our time.
Um Homem Entre Gigantes
Dr. Joseph Maroon
Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), neuropatologista forense, diagnostica um severo trauma cerebral em um jogador de futebol americano, e investigando o assunto ele descobre se tratar de um mal comum entre os profissionais do esporte. Determinado a reverter o quadro e expor para o mundo a grave situação, ele trava uma guerra contra a poderosa NFL.
Moneyball - Jogada de Risco
John Henry
A história de Billy Beane, Director-Geral da equipa norte-americana de basebol Oakland Athletics, e da sua bem sucedida tentativa de reunir uma equipa de basebol com um orçamento diminuto, através da utilização da análise computorizada para contratar os jogadores.
Te Amarei Para Sempre
Richard DeTamble
Henry DeTamble viaja pelo tempo involuntariamente. Numa de suas viagens, ele conhece a pequena Clare, que se apaixona por ele imediatamente. Ano após ano, ela espera sempre no mesmo lugar que este estranho viajante retorne. Até que os dois, finalmente, se encontram e a paixão começa. Porém, o curso da vida de Clare é normal e, quando ela menos espera, seu grande amor desaparece, sem data para retornar. Como poderia um romance suportar a estas indas e vindas?
Awake: A Vida Por um Fio
Dr. Jonathan Neyer
Enquanto é operado, um jovem desperta, porém, totalmente paralisado. Consequentemente, não consegue se comunicar com os médicos para alertá-los sobre sua condição. Enquanto isso, sua esposa luta contra seus próprios problemas.
Weapons
Mikey's Uncle
Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
Dawn Anna
Writer
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Dawn Anna
Director
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Reencarnação
Bob
Dez anos após a morte de seu marido, Anna (Nicole Kidman) finalmente conseguiu reconstruir sua vida, estando prestes a se casar novamente. Repentinamente surge em sua vida um garoto de 10 anos, que se apaixona por Anna e diz ser a reencarnação de seu marido. Anna inicialmente considera a história totalmente absurda, mas alguns detalhes de situações ocorridas entre ela e seu falecido marido, contados pelo garoto, fazem com que ela fique intrigada. Aos poucos Anna começa a relembrar fatos de seu passado e começa a questionar as escolhas que fez na vida, o que faz com seu noivo, a família dele e sua melhor amiga fiquem preocupados.
Dandelion
Luke Mullich
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn't do.
Palavra de Honra
J.D. Runnells
Ben Tyson liderou um pelotão durante a guerra do Vietnam numa missão assassina. Agora, na reserva, Tyson tem que voltar para o exército e enfrentar a corte marcial, acusado de assassinato. Desesperado, Tyson tenta provar sua inocência, slavar sua reputação e seu casamento. Seu maior inimigo nesta batalha é uma promotora militar que só via sossegar depois de colocá-lo atrás das grades. Mas Tyson guarda um segredo de guerra, que seus companheiros de pelotão não querem que seja revelado.
Big Bad Love
Barlow
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.
Big Bad Love
Screenplay
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.
Big Bad Love
Director
Vietnam veteran Leon Barlow is struggling as a writer, and his personal life isn't much better. His unsympathetic ex-wife Marilyn doesn't approve of his visits with his two children, and he has problems with alcohol. Yet even when Leon manages to catch up on alimony and child support payments, things in his life seem to decline further, until a sudden tragedy catches him off guard.
O Mapa do Mundo
Paul Reverdy
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.
You Know My Name
Wiley
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of criminal. You Know My Name is the fact-based story of Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of Wyatt Earp confronted by an emerging era when outlaws run whiskey instead of cattle and are likely to tote a tommy gun as carry a six-gun. An ideally cast Sam Elliott plays Tilghman, whose life takes on a newfangled wrinkle of its own. Tilghman makes a moving picture of his Old West exploits; and the success of that silent film, The Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws, spreads his reputation like a brushfire. But that reputation may mean nothing to a thug (Arliss Howard) who hides behind a badge.
The Lesser Evil
Ivan
Twenty-two years ago four friends went to the quarry on the edge of town with a case of beer and a loaded handgun. At the end of the day the beer was gone, the gun was empty and a stranger lay dead at the bottom of the quarry. Now, the four are together again, trying to deal with their actions in the face of guilt and a new police investigation.
Amistad
John C. Calhoun
Costa de Cuba, 1839. Dezenas de escravos negros se libertam das correntes e assumem o comando do navio negreiro La Amistad. Eles sonham retornar para a África, mas desconhecem navegação e se vêem obrigados a confiar em dois tripulantes sobreviventes, que os enganam e fazem com que, após dois meses, sejam capturados por um navio americano, quando desordenadamente navegaram até a costa de Connecticut.
O Mundo Perdido: Jurassic Park
Peter Ludlow
Passaram quatro anos desde o desastre no Parque Jurássico, e dois grupos estão numa corrida contra o tempo que irá determinar o destino dos habitantes pré-históricos da ilha remota.
Old Man
J.J. Taylor
One of the most frequently dramatized of all William Faulkner stories, Old Man is based on a section of Faulkner's 1939 novel The Wild Palms. Set during the cataclysmic 1927 Mississippi river flood, the story revolves around the curious relationship between prison convict J.J. Taylor (Arliss Howard) and a young, pregnant woman named Addie (Jeanne Tripplehorn). Pressed into service to rescue victims of the flood, Taylor finds Addie stuck in a tree, her husband nowhere in sight. Managing to get Addie down, Taylor finds himself cut off from the other rescuers, and thus is solely responsible for the future wellbeing of the stranded woman and her unborn child.
Johns
John Cardoza
“Johns” é um termo americano que designa homens mais velhos que pagam para fazer sexo com garotos. Na véspera do natal, dois garotos de programa, John e Donner pensam em sonhos, esperanças e lutam pela sobrevivência. Na dura realidade das ruas, eles se conhecem e desenvolvem uma curiosa amizade, já que John é hetero e Donner é gay, e para completar se apaixona pelo amigo.
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Peter Malkin
Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.
Beyond the Call
Keith O'Brien
Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison take a toll on both her marriage and her family.
Tales of Erotica
A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
Para Wong Foo, Obrigado por Tudo! Julie Newmar
Virgil
Três drag queens viajam pelo interior dos Estados Unidos, quando o carro em que estão quebra e elas ficam encalhadas numa cidadezinha onde nada acontece. Ou acontecia... As três tiram proveito da situação e usam o glamour para chacoalhar os moradores com um palco montado para um fim de semana de alegria e simplicidade.
Infiltrator - Em Busca da Verdade
Eaton
Depois de ser confundido com um neonazista pela polícia alemã, o jornalista americano Yaron Svoray tem acesso ao mundo sombrio de pessoas que juraram lealdade ao nazismo. Sua investigação revela uma rede de intolerância com raízes em muitos países.
Assassinos por Natureza
Owen Traft
Eles não ganharam um Prêmio Nobel, nem bateram algum recorde esportivo ou sequer trilharam algum caminho aceitável a fama. O que o casal fugitivo Mickey e Mallory fizeram foi matar pessoas. Muitas pessoas. A mídia se encarregou do resto.
Wet
Bruce Lomann
The attractive Davida enters a shop shortly before off-time and wants to buy a bathtub. Just the manager is still there. As business is not well, he is willing to stay longer. Davida wants to try the bathtubs. Although this is not allowed in the shop the manager agrees. As if that is not enough, Davida says she wants the bathtub for two and needs to be sure it fits her needs. She wants the manager to take place in the bathtub too.
O Fogo da Paixão
Wilder Foudroyant
Após um trágico evento na infância, no qual mataram um homem acidentalmente, os irmãos Wilder (Arliss Howard) e Wallace (Dennis Quaid) se separaram. Cada um seguiu seu caminho, até terem a oportunidade de se encontrar novamente. Ambos são dotados de um dom paranormal de produzir fogo apenas com a força do pensamento, mas Wilder evitou usar este dom. Wilder se casou com a adorável Vida (Debra Winger) e tentou levar uma vida normal, enquanto Wallace sonha em exibir seu dom no programa do David Letterman e se tornar um astro. Mas um outro acidente envolvendo fogo, que causou um prejuízo de US$ 18 mil, fez Vida cumprir uma pena em prisão domiciliar. Justo no dia da sua "libertação", quando ela planejava se divertir com Wilder, ela fica irritada ao saber que o marido não vai poder estar com ela, pois estaria comandando um bingo. Ela sente-se fragilizada e Wallace sente que é o momento para tentar seduzir Vida.
Se Brincar o Bicho Morde
Grown-Up Scotty Smalls
Durante um verão de amizade e aventura, um garoto entra para um grupo: nove garotos formam uma equipe e seu líder vira uma estrela enfrentando um mistério assustador fora de campo.
Vidas Cruzadas
Joe
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.
Caso Kennedy - Uma Conspiração
Maxwell
Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
Those Secrets
Simon
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Till Death Us Do Part
Vincent Bugliosi
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
Para Eles, com Muito Amor
Sgt. Michael Leonard (uncredited)
A história dos comediantes e cantores Eddie Sparks e Dixie Leonard, que levaram diversão aos soldados da II Guerra Mundial, Coreia e Vietnã. Parceiros por cinco décadas, os dois tiveram fora do palco um relacionamento cheio de risos e lágrimas.
Mulher Até o Fim
Charles Simon
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive by finding a job she doesn't dislike, and keep her family together while trying to maintain her sanity and sense of self-worth
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Raymond Eames
Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed.
Conspiração Tequila
Gregg Lindroff
Dois velhos amigos cresceram em lados opostos da lei. Um é ex-traficante, enquanto o outro, um conhecido policial. Os destinos dos dois voltam a se cruzar quando ambos se apaixonam pela mesma mulher, dando início a um perigoso triângulo amoroso.
Plain Clothes
Nick Dunbar
To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.
Nascido Para Matar
Pvt. Cowboy
Um sargento treina de forma fanática e sádica os recrutas em uma base de treinamentos, na intenção de transformá-los em máquinas de guerra para combater na Guerra do Vietnã. Após serem transformados em fuzileiros navais, eles são enviados para a guerra e quando lá chegam se deparam com seus horrores.
Chantagem
Felix Lyttle
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.
The Ladies Club
Ed Bricker
A raped policewoman forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men whom have committed repeated violations of women, and got away with it through legal technicalities.
Ataque em Alto Mar
Eddie
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back.
Sylvester
Peter
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a wild horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an Olympic jumping champion.
Door to Door
Leon Spencer
A smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman takes a young man under his wing and teaches him how to swindle his way to riches. The two team up, conning everyone from car dealers to widows.
O Dia Seguinte
Tom Cooper
O filme retrata uma guerra fictícia entre as forças da OTAN e o Pacto de Varsóvia que rapidamente se transforma em uma troca em grande escala de mísseis nucleares entre os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética. A maior parte da atividade se concentra nos moradores de Lawrence - Kansas e Kansas City, Missouri, bem como vários fazendas situadas ao lado de silos de míssil nuclear.
Um Assassino na Família
John Lyons
Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.
The Prodigal
Scott Stuart
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.
The Thicket
An innocent young man, Jack, goes on an epic quest to rescue his sister Lula after she has been kidnapped by the violent killer Cut Throat Bill and her gang. To save her, Jack enlists the help of a crafty bounty hunter named Reginald Jones, a grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave, and a street-smart prostitute. The gang tracks Cut Throat Bill into the deadly no-man’s land known as The Big Thicket — a place where blood and chaos reign.
Iran: Days of Crisis
Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.
With/In Vol II
Director
An anthology film set during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shooting on iPhones during last year’s quarantine, a collective of talent chronicles 2020 pandemic life’s myriad challenges and simple pleasures through narrative shorts. Playing in With/In Vol. 2: One Night Stand, directed by Griffin Dunne. I’m Listening, directed by Mickey Sumner. Neighborhood Watch, directed and written by Sam Nivola. Still Life, directed and written by Arliss Howard. Nuts, directed by Chris Cooper. 20 Questions, directed and written by Sebastian Gutierrez. Touching, directed and written by Julianne Nicholson, Jonathan Cake. In the Air, directed and written by Bill Camp, Silas Camp and Elizabeth Marvel. Shell Game, directed and written by Gina Gershon.
Butterfly in the Typewriter
Shelby Foote
Troubled author John Kennedy Toole's struggle to bring A Confederacy of Dunces to print.