Frank Whaley
28 titles
Filmography
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Career Opportunities
(1991)The town con and the town beauty team up to outwit a half-wit pair of would-be burglars in this hilarious comedy from John Hughes. Frank Whaley stars as Jim Dodge, a smooth-talking small-town guy with a knack for putting up a front -but no talent for holding down a job.

The Jimmy Show
(2002)Jimmy O’Brien is a stand-up comedian – and not a very good one – which explains his day job at Tops Grocery. Like any dreamer, Jimmy yearns to escape his working class roots and make it big, if not for the nagging details of his small life. Jimmy lives with his high school sweetheart Annie, their daughter Wendy, and his wheelchair-bound grandmother Ruth in a sagging house propped among the stark suburban sprawl of blue-collar New Jersey. Jimmy finds release amid a lonely stretch of comedy clubs along the Jersey Turnpike. Like a poor man’s Lenny Bruce, Jimmy lets fly with a biting commentary on the naked details of his life. As Jimmy’s situation devolves with passing year, so too does his routine, until the line between persona and reality is blurred entirely. In the uncompromising style of his acclaimed feature debut Joe the King, Whaley’s The Jimmy Show explores an America where dreams are sometimes few and far between. With honesty, compassion, and wit, The Jimmy Show reminds us that sometimes what we’re searching for has been there all along.

Against the Night
(2017)Friends sneak into an abandoned prison to film a ghost hunting video, but when one of them disappears, they realize they may not be alone.

Swimming with Sharks
(1994)A verbally abusive producer takes advantage of his naive studio assistant’s eye for talent, until the fed-up assistant finally strikes back.

Homage
(1995)When a popular actress visits her mother in New Mexico, a social misfit becomes obsessed with her, and a crime of passion ignites a media frenzy.
Where There's a Will
(2006)On the run from a loan shark, a con man (Frank Whaley) has a change of heart while staying with his grandmother (Marion Ross) in Texas.

When Trumpets Fade
(1998)In the winter of 1944, the bloodiest battle of WWII was fought in the Hurtgen forest near the German border. Ron Eldard heads a cast of extraordinary young actors in the story of one American soldier caught in the violence whose desperate struggle to survive brings into sharp relief the meaning of bravery and morality during war.

Swing Kids
(1993)American big-band jazz beats in the hearts of young German friends confronted by the Nazis.

Vacancy
(2007)A troubled married couple is forced to stay at a roadside motel when their car breaks down. After finding a stack of snuff films, they discover that their room is rigged with cameras, and if they don't escape, they'll end up the next victims on tape. (Indie Faves)

The Cell 2
(2009)In the thrilling sequel to the 2000 film, The Cell 2 enters the world of Cusp, a demented killer who resurrects his victims in order to torture them again and again. The only hope to stop him lies with Maya, a physic investigator who recently awoke from a one-year coma. The trouble is: Maya was Cusp's first victim, who must now she must go deep inside his disturbed mind. And if she dies inside ...

The Doors
(1991)The fast life and turbulent times of rocker Jim Morrison.

The Desperate Trail
(1994)After years of suffering under her beating husband, Sarah decides to no longer take any humiliation or battery and kills him. For that, Marshal Speakes her father in law sentences her to the Gallows. During a failed hold-up on the coach she escapes, but Jack Cooper manages to snatch away the transported $2500 from her, which she would have needed to start a new life. So she follows him to get it back.

The Shed
(2019)A scary, tense and thrilling new entry in vampiric horror. When you're the outcast, the underdog; they all think they can mess with you. But what happens when you have a vampire in your shed? The game changes and everyone becomes a target. Make a choice, who lives, who dies? Who enters The Shed?

Cold Moon
(2016)A local girl has been murdered and revenge is in the air. A ghostly visage prowls the streets, graves erupt from the cemetery, and beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form to seek a terrible vengeance.

Saint Clare
(2025)In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond.

Death on the Border
(2023)As a dirty detective aims to move sex trafficked girls over the Mexican border, two determined women put their lives on the line to save them all.
Crazy Eights
(2006)
The Freshman
(1990)A college boy gets caught up in a strange caper involving endangered species after he's taken under the wing of a Godfather-lookalike mob boss.

Broken Arrow
(1996)A pilot plots to steal a nuclear warhead and hold it for ransom.

Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
(1998)Two men hope to reunite with their childhood friend who has gone missing and was last seen rambling incoherently around Coney Island.