Directing

David Sosna

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Known For

Child's Play 3 · 1991

★ 5.91991

Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance after being recreated from a mass of melted plastic.

Coming to America · 1988

Coming to America

★ 6.91988

MovieComedyRomance

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

Michael Jackson's Thriller · 1983

Michael Jackson's Thriller

★ 8.31983

MovieHorrorMusic

A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies.

A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.

¡Three Amigos! · 1986

¡Three Amigos!

★ 6.31986

MovieComedyWestern

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

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Child's Play 3 · 1991

Child's Play 3

★ 5.91991

MovieHorror

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Coming to America · 1988

Associate Producer

Assistant Director

First Assistant Director

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

First Assistant Director

Michael Jackson's Thriller · 1983

Michael Jackson's Thriller

★ 8.31983

MovieHorrorMusic

A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies.

First Assistant Director

Second Assistant Director

¡Three Amigos! · 1986

¡Three Amigos!

★ 6.31986

MovieComedyWestern

A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

First Assistant Director

Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.

First Assistant Director

Into the Night · 1985

Into the Night

★ 6.51985

MovieThrillerComedy

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

Associate Producer

Career Opportunities · 1991

Career Opportunities

★ 6.91991

MovieRomanceComedy

After falling asleep in a Target dressing room, an unhappy heiress wakes up locked inside the store overnight with a local slacker and notorious liar, leading the two unlikely companions to bond over their shared desire to escape their lives.

First Assistant Director

Another Stakeout · 1993

Another Stakeout

★ 5.41993

MovieComedyCrime

A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where an important Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading.

First Assistant Director

Murder by Death · 1976

Murder by Death

★ 7.11976

MovieComedyCrime

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

Second Assistant Director

Point of No Return · 1993

Point of No Return

★ 6.21993

MovieActionCrime

Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom killer and subdued into obedience.

Associate Producer

When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.

First Assistant Director

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her

First Assistant Director

Amazon Women on the Moon · 1987

Amazon Women on the Moon

★ 5.91987

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.

First Assistant Director

Junior · 1994

Junior

★ 5.21994

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.

First Assistant Director

LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.

First Assistant Director

Farewell, My Lovely · 1975

Farewell, My Lovely

★ 6.71975

MovieCrimeMystery

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.

Assistant Director

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom · 1993

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

★ 6.41993

MovieComedyDrama

A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.

First Assistant Director

When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big audition for a Hollywood studio. The trouble is, Maxie, or rather her ghost, hasn't left the house. Worse, she can take over Jan's body. And the only way she's going to leave is if she gets that audition.

Assistant Director

The Stand · 1994

The Stand

★ 6.81994

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.

Man

The Shining · 1997

The Shining

★ 6.31997

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

A new caretaker moves with his family into the mysterious Overlook Hotel for the winter.

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