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Paul Shapiro is a Director and Scriptwriter Canadien born on 1 january 1955

Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro
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Nationality Canada
Birth 1 january 1955 (69 years)

Paul Shapiro (born 1955) is an American television director, producer and writer.

Usually with

Kathy Baker
Kathy Baker
(2 films)
Frank Tidy
Frank Tidy
(1 films)
Robert Joy
Robert Joy
(1 films)
Loretta Swit
Loretta Swit
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Paul Shapiro (15 films)

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Director

Dying to Be Loved, 1h30
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller
Actors Lindsay Hartley, Dan Payne, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Jedidiah Goodacre, Martin Cummins, Chilton Crane
Rating51% 2.5656452.5656452.5656452.5656452.565645
Jill Yates est une avocate brillante et passionnée par son métier. Elle mène une vie heureuse avec son petit ami, Connor, un homme d'affaires et est sur le point de se marier. Cependant, elle a quelques difficultés de communication avec sa fille, Emily, 18 ans, qui est soignée pour dépression, et commence sa première année à l'université. Tout va pour le mieux pour Emily qui vient de rencontrer Gary, un jeune homme de 25 ans. Jill est ravie pour elle jusqu'à ce qu'elle le rencontre en découvrant qu'il est coléreux et manipulateur. Lors d'une altercation avec un chauffard, Gary sort une arme et le tue sous les yeux d'Emily, qui est accusée de complicité. Ils sont tous les deux libérés sous caution mais le soir, ils s'enfuient. Une caméra les filme sur le point de sauter du haut d'un barrage. Jill, qui n'a pas vu de ses propres yeux sa fille sauter, refuse de croire au suicide et enquête avec l'aide d'un détective pour tenter de retrouver sa fille.
Ring of Fire, 2h50
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Actors Terry O'Quinn, Michael Vartan, Lauren Lee Smith, Agam Darshi, Ian Tracey, Brendan Fletcher
Rating46% 2.3136152.3136152.3136152.3136152.313615
Lorsqu'une plate-forme pétrolière provoque une éruption volcanique dans une petite ville, des événements dramatiques s'enchaînent dans le monde entier. Si cette éruption ne peut être arrêtée, l'espèce humaine est en grand danger...
Deadly Honeymoon, 1h29
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Politic
Actors Summer Glau, Chris Carmack, Zoe McLellan, Erik Palladino, Mark Harelik
Rating47% 2.3641052.3641052.3641052.3641052.364105
Venant de Boston, la jeune et jolie Lindsey Ross se marie au riche playboy Trevor Forrest à Hawaï, devant leurs familles et invités. Durant le week-end, la meilleure amie de Lindsey, Chloe, et une demoiselle d'honneur filment la cérémonie afin d'offrir la vidéo en cadeau aux jeunes mariés.
Spring Break Shark Attack, 1h28
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about sharks
Actors Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Justin Baldoni, Kathy Baker, Bryan Brown
Rating35% 1.772731.772731.772731.772731.77273
During spring break, when a pack of hungry sharks begins a feeding frenzy on partying teen-aged bathers the only safe place is up on the beach far from the water. Fighting for survival, a group of coeds must attempt to outsmart nature's perfect predator.
Spring Break Shark Attack, 1h55
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson
Actors Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Justin Baldoni, Kathy Baker, Bryan Brown
Rating35% 1.772731.772731.772731.772731.77273
Danielle, une adolescente rebelle, rejoint ses amis sur une plage de Floride. Elle y rencontre Shane qui travaille dans une entreprise de bateaux et qui lui fait part des dangers de Seagull Beach, une plage dans laquelle il y aurait des requins tigres. Aventurière comme elle l'est, Danielle décide d'y aller et d'emmener avec elle ses amis pour faire un tour en bateau...
Plain Truth, 1h35
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Mariska Hargitay, Alison Pill, Jan Niklas, Kate Trotter, Jonathan LaPaglia, Colin Fox
Rating61% 3.0973453.0973453.0973453.0973453.097345
Katie (Alison Pill) is an 18-year-old girl who lives in a small Amish community in the Pennsylvania farm country. When a newborn baby is found dead, police suspect foul play, and Katie is accused of having given birth to the child, then taking its life. Katie protests her innocence on both charges, and Ellie Harrison (Mariska Hargitay), a tough and well-respected attorney, is brought in to defend her in court.
Jewel
Jewel (2001)
, 2h
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Bergin, Cicely Tyson, Rachel Skarsten, Natalie Radford, Peter Donaldson
Rating63% 3.191633.191633.191633.191633.19163
In 1945, Jewel Hilburn (Farrah Fawcett), 39, and her husband Leston (Patrick Bergin), 41, are scratching out a living in rural Mississippi, and caring for their four children: Raylene (Rachel Skarsten), 14; Burton (Kyle Fairlie), 11; Wilman (Max Morrow), 10; and Annie (Alexis Vandermaelen), 3. All Jewel's kids have been mid-wived by her friend and housekeeper, Cathedral (Cicely Tyson). Leston has been making a living pulling out pine stumps, selling them to be made into turpentine as part of the war effort. Cathedral's husband, Nelson (Ardon Bess), and their two sons, Sepulchur and Temple, all work for Leston.
Black and Blue
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about domestic violence
Actors Mary Stuart Masterson, Anthony LaPaglia, Will Rothhaar, Sam Robards, Sabrina Grdevich, Beau Starr
Rating61% 3.0532853.0532853.0532853.0532853.053285
The story centers around Frances Benedetto (Mary Stuart Masterson), a victim of domestic violence. The movie follows Frances's relationship to her increasingly abusive NYCPD officer husband (played by Anthony LaPaglia), who has the police force on his side, and her eventual escape to Florida with her son (played by Will Rothaar). Eventually her husband finds them and attacks her. Her son's sports coach comes to the house when she does not pick her son up from practice on time and finds her beaten and bruised in the hallway. Meanwhile, her husband kidnaps their son. Five years later, she has married the coach and has a daughter, although she has never found her son. Her son meets up with his aunt by chance on the street, and Frances (her name now changed to Beth) receives a phone call from him.
Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story, 1h32
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Dana Delany, Henry Czerny, Rod Steiger, Tom McCamus, Julie Khaner, Wayne Robson
Rating66% 3.329753.329753.329753.329753.32975
The New York Times wrote this summary overview: "Dana Delany stars in this made-for-TV movie as Margaret Sanger, a nurse who, in 1914, became a pioneering crusader for women's birth control (she opposed abortion) after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock (Rod Steiger) forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood."
The Lotus Eaters, 1h41
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors R.H. Thomson, Sheila McCarthy, Andrea Libman, Frances Hyland, Tony Dakota, Michèle-Barbara Pelletier
Rating65% 3.286583.286583.286583.286583.28658
The story is told mostly through the eyes of Zoe, the younger Kingswood daughter. The Kingswoods seem to live a happy life, though teenage Cloe is frustrated with an inability to do things, like travel to Vancouver to see the Beatles. A catalyst for change for their somewhat stagnant lives arrives in the form of Anne-Marie (Michèle-Barbara Pelletier), Zoe's new teacher at the school where Hal Kingswood is principal.
Miracle at Moreaux, 58minutes
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Loretta Swit, Milan Cheylov, Ken Pogue, Robert Joy, Bonfield Marcoux
Rating66% 3.324683.324683.324683.324683.32468
In the film, three Jewish children fleeing the Nazis take refuge in a French convent. The children attend a boarding school run by a Catholic nun, Sister Gabrielle (Loretta Swit). The children arrive while the school is putting on a Nativity pageant, and in a quick act of thinking, Sister Gabrielle pretends the three children are her students. The Jewish children remain in the school for some time while the Nazis that are patrolling the area, led by an SS Major (Robert Joy), hunt for them in the forests surrounding the convent. Sister Gabrielle takes great lengths to keep the children's identities a secret, but the major is suspicious and continues to believe that they are likely hiding in the school.

Scriptwriter

Calendar Girl, 1h30
Directed by John Whitesell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds, Jerry O'Connell, Steve Railsback, Joe Pantoliano, Kurt Fuller
Rating51% 2.554042.554042.554042.554042.55404
While Marilyn Monroe is enjoying her rise to stardom and iconic pop culture status, three childhood friends are happy enough to sneakily obtain racy pictures of her for their pubescent enjoyment. Once they mature (at least by age), Roy has his eyes set on joining the Military despite his strained relationship with his father. His buddy, Scott, has a prosthetic leg and is to be married soon to his darling significant other Becky, and his other pal, Ned, known affectionately as "Bleuer", works at a small town store and isn't initially as anxious to partake on this crazed notion as his friends.
Miracle at Moreaux, 58minutes
Directed by Paul Shapiro
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Loretta Swit, Milan Cheylov, Ken Pogue, Robert Joy, Bonfield Marcoux
Roles Writer
Rating66% 3.324683.324683.324683.324683.32468
In the film, three Jewish children fleeing the Nazis take refuge in a French convent. The children attend a boarding school run by a Catholic nun, Sister Gabrielle (Loretta Swit). The children arrive while the school is putting on a Nativity pageant, and in a quick act of thinking, Sister Gabrielle pretends the three children are her students. The Jewish children remain in the school for some time while the Nazis that are patrolling the area, led by an SS Major (Robert Joy), hunt for them in the forests surrounding the convent. Sister Gabrielle takes great lengths to keep the children's identities a secret, but the major is suspicious and continues to believe that they are likely hiding in the school.