Alan Smithee
2021Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) was an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, coined in 1968. Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when a director dissatisfied with the final product proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the move or even to acknowledge being the actual director.
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In the Wrong Hands
James A. Seale, Alan Smithee
Steve Ash, Chyna
Masoud and Sonny are two men who both want the same thing, open a restaurant. Unfortunately, they don't have much money. To earn money they both look for a job, until Masoud finds a job as a messenger for an important businessman. For this man, they have to take a vase to a mafia boss one day. In the meantime, Sonny has fallen in love with Soraya, who happens to be his employer's daughter. Inadvertently, Sonny involves Soraya in delivering the vase.
In the Wrong Hands
Virus: Extreme Contamination
Alan Smithee, Domiziano Cristopharo
Paola Barale, Irene Barruffetti
Several years after a meteorite crash lands on a farm in Kosovo, an Italian scientist leaves his home in Italy to track down the result of bizarre behavior and happenings that seem to be centered around this phenomena. His journey takes him to a recently abandoned military base where the few people that remain have morphed into otherworldly creatures with an appetite for human flesh. The scientist will soon discover that the meteorite is shrouded in a mystery that spans the existence of mankind.
Virus: Extreme Contamination
Dalton: Code of Vengeance II
Alan Smithee
Charles Taylor, Ed Bruce
Sequel to Code of Vengeance in which Vietnam vet-turned-loner David Dalton goes off this time in pursuit of his crazy former commanding officer and his trigger-happy paramilitary group, the New Patriots, who are planning a war against the U.S. Government, which they feel let them down in Vietnam.
Dalton: Code of Vengeance II
Fun and Games
Alan Smithee, Paul Bogart
Valerie Harper, Cliff DeYoung
A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after he actually attacks her that her company and her union take notice.
Fun and Games
An Enraged New World
Alan Smithee, Michael A. Martinez
George N. Thompson, Brian Klapstein
Three astronauts crash land on an Earth-like planet after returning from a 7-year long expedition to Ganymede. The planet however is populated by murderous psychopaths who kill two of the astronauts right away. The third, Roger Corman, flees to the alien countryside where he decides to begin a violent quest to find out the truth behind his mission.
An Enraged New World
Tom Toal: On the Scrapheap
Alan Smithee
Tom Toal, Tony Cook
After the dissolution of his six-year relationship, Tom is single. A show about the struggle to avoid being placed on the proverbial scrapheap. What to do when you lose 'the one'. An honest and personal tale of life, love and moving on.
Tom Toal: On the Scrapheap
Winesburg, Ohio
Alan Smithee
Thomas Britt, Ron Luce
'Winesburg, Ohio' is a film freely adapted from the classic novel by Sherwood Anderson, mentor to Faulkner and Hemingway, and inspired by 'the hunger to see below the surface of lives'. A young reporter in small town Ohio circa 1919, moves through a mysterious, labyrinthine world, glimpsing the dreams and disappointments of local inhabitants, as they relive the moments that renders them grotesque.
Winesburg, Ohio
While Justice Sleeps
Alan Smithee, Ivan Passer
Cybill Shepherd, Tim Matheson
After the death of her husband, Jody and her daughter Samantha return to her home town. Sometimes she leaves Samantha with her old friend Winn. Only after an accident a doctor discovers that she has been abused - apparently by Winn! Jody reports immediately to the police and tries everything to avoid complications. But when it turns out that Winn still might win the case by some procedural tricks, she commits an act of desperation.
While Justice Sleeps
Shrimp on the Barbie
Alan Smithee, Michael Gottlieb
Cheech Marin, Emma Samms
Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
The Shrimp on the Barbie
