Ronald Bass was born on March 26, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Ronald Jay Bass. He is a writer and producer, known for Rain Man (1988), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and Entrapment (1999). He has been married to Christine Ann Thomas since June 3, 1978. They have two children. He was previously married to Gail V. Weinstein.
Based on the true story of Joseph and Rebecca Bau whose wedding took place in the Plaszow concentration camp during WW2. Using his artistic skills in the camps, Joseph stays alive and helps hundreds to escape. Miraculously, he finds love in the midst of despair. Years later, when called to be a key witness in the trial of the brutal Nazi officer who tortured him and killed his father, Joseph is thrust back into vivid memories of the Holocaust. Now, he calls upon this love and resilience of spirit to face the ultimate demon of his past.
Release Date: 2024-11-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.
Release Date: 2022-07-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 602
A woman is determined to stop the wedding of her best friend, since she has been secretly in love with him.
Release Date: 2019-02-14
Department: Writing
Job: Original Film Writer
Vote Count: 90
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
Release Date: 2016-11-16
Department: Crew
Job: Creator
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 22
Growing up together, Lin Ran is not only Gu Jia's best friend but whom taken as a backup boyfriend unconsciously, until one day Lin Ran announces his engagement with the naive and rich Meng Yi-Xuan, and Gu Jia determines to win him back.
Release Date: 2016-08-05
Department: Writing
Job: Original Film Writer
Vote Count: 8
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Release Date: 2014-09-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1825
The son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.
Release Date: 2013-04-26
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 40
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
Release Date: 2011-07-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 92
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Release Date: 2009-10-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 240
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Release Date: 2005-09-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 134
A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.
Release Date: 2004-05-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 30
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Release Date: 2000-01-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 41
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.
Release Date: 1999-12-22
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 138
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
Release Date: 1999-04-29
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2064
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious implications on his own family's harmony.
Release Date: 1999-04-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 9
A nanny is hired by a troubled mother and finds herself fighting to hold together the entire family when she realizes the woman has an imaginary daughter.
Release Date: 1999-03-08
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 5
Allison Westlin, a Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer and single mother, investigates a murder with the help of private detective Mario Sparks and INS officer Dan McIvers. As the investigation continues and Westlin uncovers a human-smuggling ring, Westlin's nanny Maria jeopardizes her life to protect Westlin and her daughter.
Release Date: 1999-02-22
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 1
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.
Release Date: 1998-12-25
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 1455
Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in Hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
Release Date: 1998-10-02
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2350
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, ends as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love – even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.
Release Date: 1998-08-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 118
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Release Date: 1997-06-19
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2717
Dangerous Minds is an American drama television series that aired on ABC network between September 1996 and March 1997. The series is based on the motion picture film, Dangerous Minds. Annie Potts stars in the lead role originated by Michelle Pfeiffer.
Release Date: 1996-09-30
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
Nick Moloney is a divorced psychiatrist working for the LAPD, sometimes torn between doctor-patient confidentiality and his duty to uphold the law.
Release Date: 1996-09-19
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
Release Date: 1995-12-22
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 173
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
Release Date: 1995-08-11
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1180
A pilot for a television adaptation of The Conversation (1974), intended to be broadcast on NBC, which was not picked up or aired.
Release Date: 1995-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.
Release Date: 1994-12-10
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 2
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
Release Date: 1994-08-24
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 37
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Release Date: 1994-04-29
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Character: AA Man #1
Vote Count: 358
Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Release Date: 1993-09-08
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 150
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Release Date: 1991-01-13
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1120
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Release Date: 1988-12-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 6555
A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
Release Date: 1987-05-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 111
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
Release Date: 1987-02-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 201
In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the details of the operation. When one them is captured by the Germans, a double agent must infiltrate occupied Paris, with the help of a high level German officer and the French Resistance.
Release Date: 1985-09-07
Department: Writing
Job: Novel
Vote Count: 15
In the sequel, the mothers become grandmothers and the daughters become mothers in their own right, introducing a new generation exploring their own relationships with culture, heritage, love, womanhood and identity.
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
An FBI agent uses the secrets from a female serial killer's past to try and find her.
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer