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Robert Iscove
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Robert Iscove

Canadian television director
July 4, 1947 (76 years old)
Can. 2015. Sentimental comedy by Robert Iscove with Hilarie Burton, Paul Campbell, Wanda Cannon. While introducing her new boyfriend to her parents, a young business person reconnects with her old high school sweetheart.
U.S. 2012. Comedy by Robert Iscove with Pauly Shore, Cynthia Preston, John Schneider. Accused of a murder he did not commit, the son of a New Jersey kingpin runs away and finds refuge in a rural Tennessee town.
Can. 2012. Adventures by Robert Iscove with Jessalyn Gilsig, Bailee Madison, Ty Olsson. A real estate agent must take charge of a troop of misfit Girl Scouts engaged in the annual cookie drive.
U.S. 2011. Sentimental comedy by Robert Iscove with Rick Schroder, Crystal Lowe, Laura Bell Bundy. A Wall Street consultant is sent to Georgia with a mandate to save a financially troubled wrestling school.
Can. 2009. Musical by Robert Iscove with Nolan Gerard Funk, Tammin Sursok, Victoria Justice. A teenage choir leader recruits an aspiring rocker who has just been dumped by his bandmates.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 2009. Sentimental comedy by Robert Iscove with Tom Malloy, Amy Smart, Billy Zane. A deaf dance teacher is training for an important competition with his partner, a schoolteacher engaged to an uncaring salesman.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 2006. Drama by Robert Iscove with Shedrack Anderson III, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Britt Irvin. A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the TV comedy ""Diff'rent Strokes"" which ran from 1978 to 1986, and the setbacks of the young performers in the years that followed.
U.S. 2003. Musical by Robert Iscove with Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Katherine Bailess. During a mid-term break in Miami, a Texas student falls in love with a young man from Pennsylvania.
Runtime: 81 min.

Firestarter 2: Rekindled

V.O.: Firestarter: Rekindled
U.S. 2002. Science-fiction by Robert Iscove with Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, Danny Nucci. A young woman capable of setting objects on fire with the power of her thoughts alone is hunted by government agents.
U.S. 2000. Sentimental comedy by Robert Iscove with Freddie Prinze Jr., Claire Forlani, Jason Biggs. A boy and a girl who go to the same college have a beautiful friendship before falling in love with each other.
U.S. 1999. Sentimental comedy by Robert Iscove with Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe. Dumped by his girlfriend, a popular student bets he can turn an unsociable female student into a prom queen.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1997. Musical by Robert Iscove with Brandy, Whitney Houston, Jason Alexander. With the help of a fairy, a despised young girl goes to a ball where she meets a charming prince.
U.S. 1996. Crime drama by Robert Iscove with Nicolette Sheridan, Peter Coyote, Stacy Keach.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1996. Crime drama by Robert Iscove with Eric Roberts, Ashley Crow, Linden Ashby.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1995. Psychological drama by Robert Iscove with Ann Jillian, Richard Grieco, Monique Lanier.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1994. Psychological drama by Robert Iscove with Jennie Garth, Jill Eikenberry, Tom Irwin. A teenager is placed in an abusive psychiatric facility by incompetent parents.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1994. Science-fiction by Robert Iscove with Sander Vanocur, Jane Kaczmarek, Bree Walker-Lampley.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 1994. Crime drama by Robert Iscove with Richard Crenna, William Shatner, Helen Shaver.
U.S. 1994. Crime drama by Robert Iscove with Richard Crenna, Tyne Daly, Cliff Gorman.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1993. Psychological drama by Robert Iscove with Tim Matheson, Tracey Pollan, Christine Ebersole. A bachelor is harassed by a psychopath he met after placing a classified ad.
Runtime: 90 min.

Murder on the Rio Grande

V.O.: River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keene
U.S. 1993. Crime drama by Robert Iscove with Victoria Principal, Peter Onorati, Sean Murray. During a vacation along the Rio Grande, a divorced mother falls prey to a homicidal maniac who deals drugs.
U.S. 1992. Crime drama by Robert Iscove with Richard Crenna, Joan Van Ark, Swoosie Kurtz. A police officer and a colleague try to solve a series of murders in a major New York City train station.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1992. Drama by Robert Iscove with Reuben Blades, Len Cariou, David Morse. Ordinary citizens perform heroic acts during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1991. War drama by Robert Iscove with Stacy Keach, Richard Thomas, Don Harvey. In 1945, the captain of a cruiser that was torpedoed by the Japanese is taken to court for negligence.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1991. Court drama by Robert Iscove with Gregory Harrison, Stephanie Zimbalist, Chris Young. While defending a teenager accused of killing his father, a lawyer is reminded of the traumas he experienced during his own childhood.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1990. Science-fiction by Robert Iscove with John Wesley Shipp, Amanda Pays, Alex Desert. A lab technician finds himself endowed with superpowers after being subjected to a high dose of toxic radiation.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1990. Psychological drama by Robert Iscove with Lindsay Wagner, Michael Nouri, Patricia Heaton. After being abused for years by her husband, a woman finally gets a divorce.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1989. Crime drama by Robert Iscove with Richard Crenna, Diahann Carroll, Cliff Gorman. During an investigation into the death of a newly promoted Black police officer, a detective uncovers a racist criminal network.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1988. Comedy by Allan A. Goldstein, Robert Iscove with Zach Galligan, Nicholas Rowe, Tony Van Bridge. In 1906, two young pranksters in a college compete with each other and pull some nasty tricks.
Runtime: 60 min.
Can. 1987. Dramatic comedy by Robert Iscove, Allan A. Goldstein with Zach Galligan, Edward Herrmann, Stephen Baldwin. The tribulations of a student attending a strict private school during the 1905-1906 school year.
Can. 1985. Police comedy by Robert Iscove with Jennifer Dale, Douglas Rain, Kenneth Welsh. The criminal exploits and romances of a Canadian adventurer in the early twentieth century.
Can. 1983. Dramatic comedy by Robert Iscove with Janet-Laine Green, Terence Kelly, Jackie Burroughs. In the 1920s, a young woman is put in charge of preparing the arrival of a travelling show in a western village.

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