George Bowers

1944-04-20 Bronx, New York, USA 31 Credits

Biography

George Bowers (born April 20, 1944) is an American film director, editor and producer. Bowers was born in the Bronx, New York. As an editor, he has an extensive list of credits dating from 1968 to his latest film in 2008. As a director, he directed films such as Private Resort with Johnny Depp and My Tutor with Crispin Glover, the latter which is being remade. He started working at ABC directly out of high school as an assistant editor and frequently edits the films of Joseph Ruben Description...

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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

2008

Editor

6.0

When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

Walking Tall

Walking Tall

2004

Editor

6.3

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

The Country Bears

The Country Bears

2002

Editor

4.7

For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Cou...

From Hell

From Hell

2001

Editor

6.7

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers...

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

1999

Editor

6.0

Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it...

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

1998

Editor

5.8

Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really li...

The Preacher's Wife

The Preacher's Wife

1996

Editor

5.8

Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived nei...

Money Train

Money Train

1995

Editor

5.8

When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.

Renaissance Man

Renaissance Man

1994

Editor

6.1

An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: te...

The Good Son

The Good Son

1993

Editor

6.8

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic be...

A League of Their Own

A League of Their Own

1992

Editor

7.2

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded ...

Sleeping with the Enemy

Sleeping with the Enemy

1991

Editor

6.5

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

Harlem Nights

Harlem Nights

1989

Editor

6.1

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of...

True Believer

True Believer

1989

Editor

6.2

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has ...

Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill

1988

Editor

6.6

When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city str...

The Stepfather

The Stepfather

1987

Editor

6.5

Seemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison — who has just murdered his entire family — quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new...

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jumpin' Jack Flash

1986

Associate Producer

6.1
Producing

Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day, she gets a strange coded message from an unknown s...

Private Resort

Private Resort

1985

Director

5.7
Directing

Chasing women for the weekend at a luxurious Miami resort, teen buddies Ben and Jack get more than they bargained for after crossing paths with a craf...

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

1984

Editor

6.0

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

My Tutor

My Tutor

1983

Director

5.0
Directing

High school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive ...

The Young Landlords

The Young Landlords

1983

Director

Directing

Four teen-age New York residents try to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they brought for a dollar.

The Beach Girls

The Beach Girls

1982

Editor

4.8

School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virgi...

Body and Soul

Body and Soul

1981

Director

3.9
Directing

A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reali...

The Hearse

The Hearse

1980

Director

5.3
Directing

A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.

Van Nuys Blvd.

Van Nuys Blvd.

1979

Editor

4.9

A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved...

The Pom Pom Girls

The Pom Pom Girls

1976

Editor

4.8

A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of t...

Countdown at Kusini

Countdown at Kusini

1976

Editor

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

The Sister in Law

The Sister in Law

1974

Editor

3.1

Robert and Edward are brothers involved in a web of adultery and deceit. They share Edward's wife and his mistress and a mission to deliver a package ...

Save the Children

Save the Children

1973

Editor

6.4

A concert film highlighted by performances from Marvin Gaye, Jerry Butler, and Roberta Flack.

Come Back, Charleston Blue

Come Back, Charleston Blue

1972

Editor

4.5

Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston ...

A Fable

A Fable

1971

Editor

1.0

A black radical's ex-wife and children establish a new family unit with a Caucasian man, but he eventually returns to violently besiege them inside th...