Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steven Schachter is an American television, theatre, and film director and screenwriter. Much of Schachter's success stems from projects on which he has collaborated with William H. Macy. The two co-wrote the cable television movies The Con (1998), A Slight Case of Murder (1999), Door to Door (2002), and The Wool Cap (2004), all of which Schachter directed and in which Macy starred. He also has directed numerous other made-for-TV movies, including an adap...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Unanswered Prayers
2012
Director
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and...
The Deal
2008
Director, Screenplay
Charlie Berns is a veteran Hollywood movie producer who has given up on his career and life. That is until his idealistic screenwriter nephew comes be...
The Mermaid Chair
2006
Director
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
The Engagement Ring
2005
Director
A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and ...
The Wool Cap
2004
Director, Producer, Teleplay
This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwill...
It Must Be Love
2004
Director
A couple decides to settle their divorce in a civilized manner without lawyers, which brings complications.
Just a Walk in the Park
2002
Director, Teleplay
Adam is a dog walker. Adam agrees to watch one of his customers, A.J. Preston, penthouse apartment. Rachel mistakes Adam for Preston. He does not come...
Door to Door
2002
Writer, Director
Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give u...
For All Time
2000
Director
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
A Slight Case of Murder
1999
Teleplay, Director, Writer
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private ...
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
1999
as Piglet (singing voice)
After Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Rabbit see Christopher Robin making a valentine for -- gasp! -- a girl, they find he's been bitten by a "Smitten" and ...
To Live Again
1998
Director
A loopy mother locks her teenage daughter in her room after allegedly showing signs of being crazy. Over a decade later, somebody finally investigates...
The Con
1998
Director, Writer
A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.
To Face Her Past
1996
Director
Beth Bradfield (Patty Duke) is a housewife with what appears to be a stable life in an American village. One day, her 24-year-old daughter Lori (Trace...
Every Woman's Dream
1996
Director, Teleplay
A man suffering from borderline personality disorder is married to two women, who don’t know the other exists. As bills pile up and cracks start to sh...
Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story
1995
Director
A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.
Above Suspicion
1995
Director, Writer
Dempsey Cain is an honored cop, a loving husband and father, and mentor to his handsome younger brother. Then a drug dealer's bullet paralyzes him for...
Lady Killer
1995
Director
Married woman has brief affair with younger man who turns violent when she breaks it off.
The Water Engine
1992
Director
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously ...
Getting Up and Going Home
1992
Director
A middle-aged lawyer struggles to face his inner demons as he finds himself embroiled in affairs with three separate women.
All That Glitters
1990
Director
A group of high school students learn about ethics and the seduction of power when they start a cookie company for a class project.