Phil Alden Robinson

​Phil Alden Robinson is an American director and screenwriter for film and television, best known for "Field of Dreams", "Sneakers", and "The Sum of All Fears".

Works

FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue

Pips wants to see more of the outside world. Batty arrives in a panic, announcing that two human poachers are right behind him. Poachers show up with their dogs and promptly capture the three baby animals. Pips and the Beetle Boys volunteer to follow the humans to town and rescue the babies, convincing Batty to be their guide.

Release Date1998-03-17

Charactersd Father

Vote Count65

TINSEL: The Lost Movie About Hollywood

A melancholy and affectionate look at the global obsession with movies, "TINSEL - The Lost Movie About Hollywood" was lost for 30 years and never shown publicly. An outside-in, inside-out view of the Motion Picture Industry circa 1990, it is a film about fame in general and the love of movies in particular. The film includes new footage offering perspective from the 21st century. The film examines the uncertain future the industry faces in its second century, as technology and new platforms change the movie-watching experience forever.

Release Date2020-11-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

And the Oscar Goes To...

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

Release Date2014-02-01

Charactersd Self - Interviewee

Vote Count54

The Making of 'Band of Brothers'

Interviews made of the various actors and cast members that provide the knowledge and production skills and sets required to make the film a success.

Release Date2001-09-09

Charactersd Self

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992).

Release Date2003-06-03

Charactersd Self

Field of Dreams: Passing Along the Pastime

Features Major League players and managers and cast and crew discussing the themes of the film, the performances, baseball, family, the film's lasting impact, and more.

Release Date2004-06-06

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

The Good Fight

Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.

Release Date2017-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count305

Band of Brothers

Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

Release Date2001-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count3791

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

Release Date1953-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count21

Vote Count72

George Burns Comedy Week

George Burns Comedy Week

George Burns Comedy Week is a comedy anthology television series broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1985 fall lineup, hosted by George Burns.

Release Date1985-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Sneakers

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.

Release Date1992-09-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count959

The Sum of All Fears

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

Release Date2002-05-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1792

Field of Dreams

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.

Release Date1989-04-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1556

The Chamber

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

Release Date1996-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count258

Ghost Dad

Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial straits when he is suddenly killed in a taxi accident. With the aid of a paranormal researcher, Elliott attempts to complete the deal from the beyond, ensuring his family will be taken care of.

Release Date1990-06-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count213

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

Release Date2014-05-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count509

Rhinestone

After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.

Release Date1984-06-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count115

All of Me

Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.

Release Date1984-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count349

Relentless

Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.

Release Date1989-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count32

All the Queen's Men

A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.

Release Date2001-10-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count25

In the Mood

When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off to marry her, a stern judge has the union annulled. Then, when Sonny finds himself before the same judge after getting involved with another woman in her 20s, the publicity from this case makes him the object of affection for millions of young women

Release Date1987-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Dead On: Relentless II

Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.

Release Date1992-02-26

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count6

Freedom Song

Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community. The young activists meet resistance not only from white southerners, but from their parents, who have experienced firsthand the violence that can result from speaking out. As high school students band together with the support of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, they make strides in registering African-American voters and gaining awareness for their cause.

Release Date2000-02-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count8

Relentless 3

Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killings committed by another crafty serial killer whom targets Dietz's latest love interest.

Release Date1993-08-18

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count9

Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes

Sam Dietz is back and must find and stop another serial killer before he kills again. Detective work for Dietz is tough having to juggle two gorgeous women - one his partner, and the other his shrink, who holds the key to the case.

Release Date1994-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count12

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