Rick Rosenthal

Rick Rosenthal

1949-06-15 New York City, New York, USA 69 Credits

Biography

Richard L. "Rick" Rosenthal, Jr. (born June 15, 1949) is an American film and television director. He is also a producer, actor, and writer.

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Move Ya Body: The Birth of House

Move Ya Body: The Birth of House

2025

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

2024

Producer

Producing

A depressed young guy is trying to kill himself but he keeps getting interrupted by his unsuspecting family and friends.

Food and Country

Food and Country

2024

Co-Executive Producer

Producing

America's policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, tra...

The Shepherd and the Bear

The Shepherd and the Bear

2024

Executive Producer

Producing

High in the French Pyrenees, the reintroduction of wild bears in a traditional shepherding community provokes deep conflict. An aging shepherd struggl...

The Grab

The Grab

2024

Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world’s most powerful countr...

Alien Contact

Alien Contact

2024

5.0
Acting

Emmy award-winning filmmaker and marine biologist Rick Rosenthal teams up with science fiction writer Chris Carter on an investigative journey to expl...

Alien Contact

Alien Contact

2024

Director

5.0
Directing

Emmy award-winning filmmaker and marine biologist Rick Rosenthal teams up with science fiction writer Chris Carter on an investigative journey to expl...

Invisible Beauty

Invisible Beauty

2023

Executive Producer

10.0
Producing

Fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent, and activist, shining a light on an unto...

Stay Awake

Stay Awake

2023

Executive Producer

5.9
Producing

Set against the backdrop of the prescription drug and opioid crisis in the USA, Jamie Sisley depicts the individual consequences of a societal tragedy...

The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

2023

Executive Producer

4.9
Producing

A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.

Art for Everybody

Art for Everybody

2023

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

Thomas Kinkade’s pastoral landscapes made him the most collected and despised painter of all time. After his shocking death, his family discovers a va...

Citizen Ashe

Citizen Ashe

2021

Executive Producer

4.8
Producing

Follows the life and career of Arthur Ashe.

Small Engine Repair

Small Engine Repair

2021

Producer

6.2
Producing

The seemingly casual reunion of three old friends at an out-of-the-way repair shop masks a hidden agenda fuelled by the arrival of a privileged young ...

Rebel Hearts

Rebel Hearts

2021

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

A group of pioneering nuns bravely stand up to the Catholic Church patriarchy, fighting for their livelihoods, convictions and equality against an all...

Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)

Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)

2021

Executive Producer

4.0
Producing

A journey across the United States to explore the story of the Civil War of Americans from President Obama's final year in office through the present.

Love & Stuff

Love & Stuff

2020

Co-Executive Producer

8.0
Producing

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single m...

The Boy Behind The Door

The Boy Behind The Door

2020

Producer

6.3
Producing

Bobby tries to save himself and his best friend when they are kidnapped on their way home from school.

Feels Good Man

Feels Good Man

2020

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darknes...

Standing Up, Falling Down

Standing Up, Falling Down

2020

Producer

6.3
Producing

An unlikely friendship kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A. — forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail betwee...

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

2018

Executive Producer

8.0
Producing

For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppet...

Dark Money

Dark Money

2018

Executive Producer

6.8
Producing

'Dark money' contributions, made possible by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, flood modern American elections — but Montana is showing...

Halfway There

Halfway There

2017

Director, Executive Producer

2.0
Directing Producing

Jimmy Bishop runs a sober living facility and is forced to take in his wealthy alcoholic mother as a client.

Saving Capitalism

Saving Capitalism

2017

Executive Producer

6.7
Producing

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich meets with Americans from all walks of life as he chronicles a seismic shift in the nation's economy.

Punching Henry

Punching Henry

2017

Producer

5.9
Producing

Comedian Henry Phillips is lured to LA by a renowned TV producer who wants to bring his story of failure to the screen. But when a major network gets ...

Bending the Arc

Bending the Arc

2017

Executive Producer

7.9
Producing

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural H...

First Girl I Loved

First Girl I Loved

2016

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clift...

Band of Robbers

Band of Robbers

2016

Producer

5.9
Producing

A comedic thriller that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" as grown men in current day.

Aram, Aram

Aram, Aram

2015

Executive Producer

6.4
Producing

The first American independent drama to take viewers inside the Armenian Community of Los Angeles: Suddenly uprooted from his home, 12 year-old Armeni...

King Jack

King Jack

2015

Executive Producer

6.5
Producing

Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no...

7 Minutes

7 Minutes

2014

Producer

5.4
Producing

When three young criminals lose a stash of drugs, they end up owing money to a ruthless drug lord. With time running out, they plan a daring robbery t...

Lost After Dark

Lost After Dark

2014

as Sheriff

4.4
Acting

A group of teens sneak out of their high school dance to cruise around and have some unsupervised fun. When their car runs out of gas on a deserted ro...

Match

Match

2014

Producer

5.8
Producing

A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and...

Big Men

Big Men

2014

Executive Producer

7.3
Producing

For her latest industrial exposé, Rachel Boynton (Our Brand Is Crisis) gained unprecedented access to Africa's oil companies. The result is a gripping...

Big in Japan

Big in Japan

2014

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

Big in Japan is a comedic rock-and-roll road movie about struggling Seattle rock band, Tennis Pro, who decide to sell their tour-van and head to Tokyo...

Drones

Drones

2013

Director, Producer

4.6
Directing Producing

Drones begins in the Nevada desert, where new girl Sue Lawson joins airman Jack in a hot, windowless bunker from which they manoeuvre unmanned drones ...

Cold Comes the Night

Cold Comes the Night

2013

Executive Producer

5.5
Producing

A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash packa...

Afternoon Delight

Afternoon Delight

2013

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom, frustrated with the responsibilities of her son's preschool, a lacklustre sex life and a career...

Open Heart

Open Heart

2013

Executive Producer

5.8
Producing

Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in Sudan. Their hearts ravaged...

California Solo

California Solo

2012

Executive Producer

5.6
Producing

Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a ...

Fat Kid Rules The World

Fat Kid Rules The World

2012

Producer

6.8
Producing

A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.

The Procession

The Procession

2012

Executive Producer

6.5
Producing

A mother and son attend a funeral for someone they really don't know, and intend to leave right after, but end up leading the procession to the burial...

The Nightmare Isn't Over! The Making of Halloween II

The Nightmare Isn't Over! The Making of Halloween II

2012

as Self

7.0
Acting

Retrospective documentary about the making of "Halloween II."

Arcadia

Arcadia

2012

Executive Producer

6.0
Producing

Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is Mom.

On the Ice

On the Ice

2011

Executive Producer

6.4
Producing

In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong.

According to Greta

According to Greta

2009

Producer

6.1
Producing

Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid l...

Kabluey

Kabluey

2007

Producer

6.1
Producing

Leslie is left with few options when her husband is sent back to war in the Middle East. A modest amount of help arrives in the form of his brother, S...

Nearing Grace

Nearing Grace

2006

Director

4.8
Directing

Having recently lost his mother, teenager Henry Nearing develops a crush on seductive classmate Grace, who toys with him. Though he has been friends w...

Mean Creek

Mean Creek

2004

Producer

6.8
Producing

Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it su...

Halloween: Resurrection - WebCam Special

Halloween: Resurrection - WebCam Special

2002

Director

4.0
Directing

Alternate cut of Rick Rosenthal's "Halloween: Resurrection" that solely consists of webcam footage including alternate scenes and dialogue.

Halloween: Resurrection

Halloween: Resurrection

2002

as Professor

4.6
Acting

Reality programmers at DangerTainment select a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Mye...

Halloween: Resurrection

Halloween: Resurrection

2002

Director

4.6
Directing

Reality programmers at DangerTainment select a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Mye...

Just a Little Harmless Sex

Just a Little Harmless Sex

1999

Director, Producer

5.2
Directing Producing

A young married couple faces a serious break-up when the husband is caught committing adultery with a prostitute.

The Birds II: Land's End

The Birds II: Land's End

1994

Director

3.7
Directing

Ted and his family have just moved to the sleepy coastal town of Gull Island so that he can complete work on his thesis. Everything couldn’t seem more...

Devlin

Devlin

1992

Director

5.0
Directing

A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.

The Witches of Eastwick

The Witches of Eastwick

1992

Director

6.0
Directing

An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their idea of the "perfect man." One day, their wish comes ...

Nasty Boys

Nasty Boys

1989

Director

6.5
Directing

When a narcotics team sent to bust some drug dealers are massacred. The police department form a special unit of undercover cops whose identities are ...

Distant Thunder

Distant Thunder

1988

Director

5.6
Directing

A troubled Vietnam war vet deserts his wife and child shortly after he returns from the war. He returns after 10 years, where he's been living like an...

Russkies

Russkies

1987

Director

5.1
Directing

A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and wil...

Better Off Dead...

Better Off Dead...

1985

as Smity

6.6
Acting

High school student Lane Meyer sinks into suicidal depression when his girlfriend dumps him for jock Roy Stalin, the high school ski racing champion. ...

Code of Vengeance

Code of Vengeance

1985

Director

5.5
Directing

A Vietnam veteran who has become a drifter helps a young, single mother avenge her brother's murder and finds himself the target of a gang of dope smu...

Johnny Dangerously

Johnny Dangerously

1984

as Judge

6.3
Acting

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

American Dreamer

American Dreamer

1984

Director

6.2
Directing

American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fiction...

Best Revenge

Best Revenge

1984

Writer

Writing

When his best friend is kidnapped and held for ransom by a drug kingpin, an American hustler embarks on a suicide mission to smuggle four million doll...

Bad Boys

Bad Boys

1983

as Judge

7.0
Acting

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug deal...

Bad Boys

Bad Boys

1983

Director

7.0
Directing

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug deal...

Fire on the Mountain

Fire on the Mountain

1981

Producer

7.0
Producing

A young real estate developer returns to his hometown to make a land killing but soon takes up the cause of a crusty old-timer in his struggles with t...

Halloween II

Halloween II

1981

Director

6.6
Directing

After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie t...

Lindsay Wagner: Another Side of Me

Lindsay Wagner: Another Side of Me

1977

Assistant Camera

Television special in which Lindsay Wagner sings, re-enacts her wedding day, plays in a silent-comedy spoof, meets Paul Anka, swims a la Esther Willia...

Video Vixens!

Video Vixens!

1975

as Slate Man

4.7
Acting

Video Vixens purports to be a satire of the phony liberalism that resulted in the permissiveness of the 1980s. A libidinous TV executive decides to st...