Matt Williams

Matt Williams is a television writer, creator and producer. He is the producer of the TV shows Roseanne and Home Improvement and movies such as What Women Want, and has written for The Cosby Show and A Different World as well as writing the screenplay for Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Additionally he has written the play "Between Daylight and Boonville", and directed and co-produced the feature film Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman. Williams is originally from Evansville, Indiana. The TV show Roseanne uses pictures of places in Evansville. He wrote and directed Walker Payne in 2006, starring Jason Patric, Drea De Matteo, and Sam Shepard.

Works

The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

Release Date1984-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Jack Westlake

Episode Count17

Vote Count434

Home Improvement

The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.

Release Date1991-09-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count203

Vote Count652

The Conners

This iconic family—Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J.—grapples with parenthood, dating, an unexpected pregnancy, financial pressures, aging and in-laws in working-class America.

Release Date2018-10-16

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count116

A Different World

A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.

Release Date1987-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count66

Buddies

Two pals---one black, one white---go into business over the protests of their elders, who worry about their racial differences. But the friends just make light of them as they try to get their small company off the ground.

Release Date1996-03-05

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Soul Man

Soul Man is an American sitcom that aired

Release Date1997-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Roseanne

A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.

Release Date1988-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count355

Saint George

Recently divorced entrepreneur George Lopez is successful in his business ventures but caught between two cultures in his personal life. He struggles to find balance between the parenting demands of his Anglo ex-wife, Mackenzie, and the cultural expectations of his Latina mother, Alma. His freeloading Uncle Tio and Cousin Junior further complicate his life, which includes 11-year-old son Harper. Outside the home, the successful businessman gives back to the community by teaching history to a multicultural class at a Los Angeles night school; there he is supervised by tough, attractive Assistant Principal Concepcion.

Release Date2014-03-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count10

Vote Count4

Thunder Alley

Thunder Alley

Thunder Alley is an American sitcom which aired from March 9, 1994 to July 4, 1995 on ABC.

Release Date1994-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Upgraded

Ana is an ambitious intern dreaming of a career in the art world while trying to impress her demanding boss Claire. When she's upgraded to first class on a work trip, she meets handsome Will, and Ana pretends to be her boss– a white lie that sets off a glamorous chain of events, romance and opportunity, until her fib threatens to surface.

Release Date2024-02-07

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count904

What Men Want

Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.

Release Date2019-02-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1487

What Women Want

Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.

Release Date2000-12-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4072

How to Date Billy Walsh

Archie has been in love with his best friend Amelia for as long as he can remember. Just when he builds up the courage to declare his feelings, she falls head over heels for Billy Walsh, a new American transfer student.

Release Date2024-04-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count160

Where the Heart Is

Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.

Release Date2000-04-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count703

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

After Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, Shawn and Gus return to help him and find themselves embroiled in a case involving the personal, the professional – and even the supernatural.

Release Date2020-07-15

DepartmentCamera

JobBest Boy Grip

Vote Count130

Firelight

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

Release Date1998-05-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count68

Bernie

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

Release Date2012-04-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count953

Costello

Costello

Release Date1998-09-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count4

Bank of Dave

The true story of how Dave Fishwick, a working class man and self-made millionaire, fought to set up a community bank so that he could help the local businesses of Burnley not only survive, but thrive. In his bid to help his beloved community, he has to take on the elitist financial institutions of London and fight to receive the first, new banking license to be issued in over 100 years.

Release Date2023-03-10

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count101

Book of Love

Henry, an English writer who has written a new book that has become a failure in the U.K, gets notified that the dull book has been highly trending over in Mexico. Little does he know that Maria, a Spanish translator, turned the book into an erotic novel. Henry and Maria then swerve around Mexico to do a book tour and go through a wind of events.

Release Date2022-01-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count125

Killers Anonymous

A failed attempt to murder a Senator is connected to a group meeting secretly to discuss their darkest urges—to take lives.

Release Date2019-06-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count215

Max Cloud

A space cruiser crashes on a planet that is home to an intergalactic prison.

Release Date2020-12-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count69

As Cool as I Am

A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.

Release Date2013-06-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count133

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy resolve finally convinces him to give her a break. On the brink of stardom, however, a cruel twist of fate threatens to destroy her dream.

Release Date1991-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count98

Good Sam

A news reporter looks into who has been anonymously leaving large cash gifts on random doorsteps in New York.

Release Date2019-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count235

Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose

In 1935, Hungarian-American para-psychologist Nandor Fodor began his investigation of a strange occurrence on the Isle of Man. An average British family, the Irvings, claimed to have been contacted by a mysterious entity at their farm. A talking mongoose. Named Gef (Pronounced "Jeff".)

Release Date2023-09-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count40

Save the Cinema

The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre from closure. Alongside then Mayor of Carmarthen Richard Goodridge, they enlisted the help of Steven Spielberg, securing a special premiere of Jurassic Park.

Release Date2022-01-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count24

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger

Two years after founding his own bank, local hero Dave Fishwick takes on the predatory payday lenders bringing misery to his small English town.

Release Date2025-01-10

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count13

Walker Payne

A small-town father is forced to make difficult, heartbreaking decisions in order to save his two daughters.

Release Date2006-04-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Robin and the Hoods

For tenacious 11-year-old Robin and her loyal band of friends 'The Hoods', the patch of overgrown scrubland at the end of their cul-de-sac is a magical kingdom.

Release Date2024-10-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Last Train to Christmas

When successful 80s nightclub manager Tony Towers boards a magical train at Christmas, he discovers that each carriage harbours a different stage of his life and the actions he takes in one carriage directly affect his life in the next. Can Tony change his life – and the lives of the people he loves – for the better, or will he just make things worse?

Release Date2021-12-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count52

Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story

After retiring from his life as an outlaw, ranch owner Nathaniel Reed quietly leads an honest existence with his devoted wife, Laura Lee. But his gun-slinging past suddenly comes back to haunt him when he learns that the man he once maimed during a stagecoach robbery is now a U.S. Marshal who will stop at nothing to find vengeance.

Release Date2016-11-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count37

Maintenance Required

Charlie is forced to reconsider the viability of her beloved all-female mechanic shop. Seeking connection on an online car forum, little does she know her confidant, Beau, is in fact her real-life business rival.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Above the Below

A trio of astronauts survives a destructive re-entry to Earth and found that they are cut off from the world

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

White Mars

In an isolated Antarctic facility, microbiologist Sammie battles a malevolent entity intent on exterminating her crew.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical

For one emotional night, a group of slum children in Mumbai, India, get a chance to experience a different world as they perform The Sound of Music with a classical orchestra, fostering hopes that it could change their lives forever.

Release Date2010-09-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

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