Stephen Tolkin
Stephen Tolkin is a writer and producer.
Works
Husband, Father, Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story
Alyssa has a relationship with abusive Steven as a teen, has his child but gives it up for adoption. Years later, their daughter seeks them out, and Steven manipulates her into an affair, neglecting his family.
Release Date: 2024-10-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
Author Nancy Crampton-Brophy often writes stories about female protagonists who fantasize about killing their own husbands. In a shocking and ironic turn of events, Brophy faces accusations of doing the same thing in real life.
Release Date: 2023-01-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 22
House of Chains
It follows a troubled married couple as they imprison their six children due to their intense religious ideology.
Release Date: 2022-09-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 20
Doomsday Mom
Lori Vallow gained national attention when her children, JJ and Tylee, were reported missing from their Idaho home.
Release Date: 2021-06-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
See
A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
Release Date: 2019-11-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2613
The College Admissions Scandal
Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
Release Date: 2019-10-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 9
Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill
Two suicidal teenagers, Conrad and Michelle, turn to each other for support, communicating via text messages. But when Conrad expresses his desire to end his life, instead of trying to stop him as she had previously, Michelle encourages Conrad to take his life, even providing him suggestions on how to do it.
Release Date: 2018-09-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 20
Somewhere Between
Laura Price, a local news producer in San Francisco, is helping the police to hunt down a serial killer. After the killer strikes close to home, a twist of fate allows a “Groundhog Day”-type reset, and Laura relives the week prior to the string of murders. Can she change fate and stop the killer?
Release Date: 2017-07-24
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 82
NY Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell
Convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt seduce bored, restless, small town mom Joyce Mitchell who aids and abets their audacious jailbreak.
Release Date: 2017-03-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Cleveland Abduction
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Release Date: 2015-05-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 397
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
Release Date: 2014-10-06
Character: Self - Writer
Vote Count: 163
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Release Date: 2014-04-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 24
Taxi Brooklyn
Caitlin "Cat" Sullivan is an NYPD detective working in Brooklyn. After her driving privileges are suspended, she relies on Leo Romba, a highly skilled Brooklyn cab driver from France. Leo becomes Cat's driver and a consultant on her cases. While solving crimes with Leo, Cat is also running her own unauthorized investigation into the death of her father, an NYPD detective thought to have been executed by the Capella crime family. In doing so, she clashes with her boss, Captain Baker, and her ex-husband Gregg, who has picked up the case for the FBI.
Release Date: 2014-04-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 33
Perception
Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, but his eccentric view of the world and less-than-stellar social skills can often interfere with his work.
Release Date: 2012-07-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 249
The Craigslist Killer
Based on a true story. Philip Markoff, a charismatic and popular med student at Boston University, leads a double life as a brutal and cruel sexual deviant who abuses prostitutes he finds via Craigslist.
Release Date: 2011-01-03
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 99
Nora Roberts' Midnight Bayou
The new owner of a supposedly haunted New Orleans plantation manor uncovers a shocking secret that has been hidden for over 100 years.
Release Date: 2009-03-28
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 31
Legend of the Seeker
The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With the help of a mysterious woman named Kahlan and a wise old wizard named Zedd, he must stop a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.
Release Date: 2008-11-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 303
Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon
A woman who has psychic visions returns to her hometown to exorcise her demons. Once there she finds both danger and love.
Release Date: 2007-08-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 37
What If God Were the Sun?
A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.
Release Date: 2007-05-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
Brothers and Sisters
The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.
Release Date: 2006-09-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 186
Summerland
Bradin, Nikki and Derrick are 3 kids from an average normal Kansas household. Their whole life is thrown upside-down when their parents are tragically killed in a car accident. Ava Gregory (their aunt) gets custody of her niece and nephews and they move into her Californian home (in Summerland). Ava, a struggling clothes designer, lives with her best friend and business partner, Susannah Rexford, her friend, an ex- pro.surfer, Jay Robertson and her ex-boyfriend, real estate agent, Johnny Durrant. All four of them are highly unequipped to handle children and are not use to including them in their everyday lives.
Release Date: 2004-06-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 28
Fidel
Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba.
Release Date: 2002-01-27
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 12
Kate Brasher
Kate Brasher is an American dramatic television series that was broadcast by CBS. It premiered at 9:00pm ET/PT on Saturday, February 24, 2001 and was cancelled after six episodes. The title character was the single mother of teenaged sons Daniel and Elvis. Facing a financial crisis, she seeks legal advice at Brothers Keepers, an inner city community advocacy center, and is offered a job as a social worker. Her co-workers include attorney Abbie Schaeffer and Joe Almeida, the organization's street-smart director, who founded it after his daughter was killed in gang crossfire. Series creator Stephen Tolkin based the character of Almeida on Rabbi Mark Borovitz, an ex-convict and alcoholic who became the spiritual leader of Gateways Beit T'Shuvah, a residential treatment center for Jews in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. The two men met when Tolkin contacted the rabbi for help with a friend who was dealing with substance abuse. Although set in Santa Monica, the series was shot on location in San Diego, California. Among those actors making guest appearances during the series' short run were K Callan, Dennis Christopher, Paul Dooley, Mariette Hartley, Josh Hopkins, Carl Lumbly, David Naughton, and Mackenzie Phillips.
Release Date: 2001-02-24
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story
Fact-based story about a Bible-quoting woman who in 1990 murdered a camp counselor, whom she learned molested her 7 year old son. Seeking revenge, she turns to murder when she learns the man had previously been convicted of the same crime in 1983 and got off with probation.
Release Date: 1999-06-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Mr. Murder
A group of scientists are trying to produce the perfect soldier by cloning. The day the clone is born, Marty Stillwater, a mystery novel writer, feels that something strange is going on inside his body and mind. Seven years later, Marty discovers that his double has his same physical appearance but has the personality of a murderer.
Release Date: 1998-09-21
Department: Writing
Job: Teleplay
Vote Count: 13
Intensity
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley.
Release Date: 1997-08-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 34
Intensity
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley, a serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, taking Laura and killing her parents. Chyna survives and manages to follow him. In doing so, she learns of Vess's captive: a young, innocent girl, Ariel, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley. Chyna feels a great sense of responsibility for this girl, and she travels deeper into her nightmare. Intensity is a 1997 American television psychological thriller film originally released as a two-part miniseries on Fox on August 5, 1997, with part two airing the following day.
Release Date: 1997-08-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3
Daybreak
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death. But a gutsy rebel named Torch sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary.
Release Date: 1993-05-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 36
The Player
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Release Date: 1992-05-08
Character: Carl Schecter
Vote Count: 858
Golden Years
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.
Release Date: 1991-07-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 49
Captain America
During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States.
Release Date: 1990-12-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 433
12:01 PM
12:01 PM is a 1990 short film directed by Jonathan Heap and starring Kurtwood Smith. It follows Myron Castleman, an everyman who keeps repeating the same hour of his life, from 12:01 PM to 1:00 PM. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Release Date: 1990-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 39
Monsters
Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011, Monsters airs on NBC Universal's horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller in sporadic weekday marathons. In a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, Monsters shared the same producer, and in some ways succeeded the show. It differed in some respects nonetheless. While Tales sometimes dabbled in stories of science fiction and fantasy, this series was more strictly horror. As the name implies, each episode of Monsters featured a different monster which the story concerned, from the animatronic puppet of a fictional children's television program to mutated, weapon-wielding lab rats. Similar to Tales, however, the stories in Monsters were rarely very straightforward action plots and often contained some ironic twist in which a character's conceit or greed would do him in, often with gruesome results. Adding to this was a sense of comedy often lost on horror productions which might in some instances lighten the audience's mood but in many cases added to the overall eeriness of the production.
Release Date: 1988-10-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 23
The Price of Life
The hours of your life as a currency you can buy or sell, trade or squander...
Release Date: 1987-08-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 8
Daniel and the Towers
The story of Simon Rodia, the real-life artist who spent 30 years constructing Los Angeles' Watts Towers, a monument to Christopher Columbus, and his fictional relationship with Daniel, a young boy.
Release Date: 1987-04-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Knots Landing
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Release Date: 1979-12-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 37
Delta House
Delta House is an American sitcom that was adapted from the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House. The series aired from January to April 1979 on ABC.
Release Date: 1979-01-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 3