Writing

Matt Dorff

Known for

Writing

Credits

24 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Category 6: Day of Destruction poster
6.3

Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.

Category 6: Day of Destruction

2004

Nowhere to Land poster
5.9

A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.

Nowhere to Land

2000

Lies My Mother Told Me poster
5.3

Inspired by actual events, about a young girl and her mother, Laren Sims, a con-artist and master of disguises who steals the identities of other women and then turns to murder to protect her secrets.

Lies My Mother Told Me

2005

The Stepsister poster
6.7

A young psych major uses her wits to expose the deadly intentions of her father's new bride and the woman's conniving daughter.

The Stepsister

1997

The Stepsister poster
6.7

A young psych major uses her wits to expose the deadly intentions of her father's new bride and the woman's conniving daughter.

The Stepsister

1997

A Christmas Wedding poster
5.5

Emily (Sarah Paulson) and Ben (Eric Mabius) find their plans to marry on Christmas day coming apart at the seams when Ben is left to plan the wedding details after Emily is forced to go on a business trip. Though Emily, a perfectionist, is determined to have a fairytale wedding, she realizes that love is all that really matters when a freak storm threatens to keep her from making it home in time for the big day.

A Christmas Wedding

2006

See Arnold Run poster
5.1

This biographical docu-drama alternates between two parallel threads in the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger: his formative early years as the repeat winner of the Mr. Olympia body-building championship; and his modern foray into the world of politics, hitting the campaign trail and competing in the frenzied atmosphere that accompanied California's chaotic recall election.

See Arnold Run

2005

The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker poster
5.1

A promising track star, 18 year old Jesse Brenner struggles with binge drinking during her freshman year of college.

The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker

2007

Too Close to Home poster
5.6

A mother is so consumed with a possessive love for her son that she may have committed murder in order to keep him by her side. When the son's new wife is found murdered, the mother is arrested for the crime. In denial about his mother's guilt, the son, a successful lawyer, agrees to defend her. Based on a true story.

Too Close to Home

1997

Campus Man poster
4.4

Todd Barret is an aspiring businessman. He's got what it takes, but what he doesn't have is enough money to stay in college. So he cooks up a plan to make the first ever all male sports calendar. He eventually convinces Cactus Jack, a very shadowy and tough loan shark, to give him enough money to make the deal. Todd makes enough to pay for his education, but what about the money he owes Cactus Jack?

Campus Man

1987

Vanished poster
1.5

During a visit to a tropical island, a man mysteriously disappears and his wife must lead her own investigation in order to find him.

Vanished

2006

Complex of Fear poster
6.8

Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their midst. A police manhunt ensues. One officer, who actually lives in the complex, is particularly troubled, for not only do the incidents cause his wife to admit that she was a victim of date rape, he is also the one who had a chance to kill the rapist and didn't.

Complex of Fear

1993

Random Encounter poster
6.0

Alicia, a promising young PR executive, goes home with a handsome stranger, only for the pair to be attacked by a woman with a knife. Alicia kills the woman in self-defense, but then finds herself framed for murder. Unraveling the mystery, Alicia finds herself plunged into a web of deceit from which there seems to be no escape.

Random Encounter

1998

Requiem for Murder poster
8.0

Anne Winslow hosts a popular classical music radio show. Detective Lou Heinz discovers Anne is connected to a series of murders in which the victim is killed via poisoned wine while a radio is tuned into her show. It seems that each victim had wronged Anne in some way and whoever is sending her roses may be the killer.

Requiem for Murder

1999

Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story poster
6.0

Nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.

Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story

1995

Nothing But the Truth poster
10.0

A polygraph examiner has an affair with a murder suspect after her test clears him, but new evidence then suggests that he's guilty after all.

Nothing But the Truth

1995

Closer and Closer poster
5.7

Three years after author Kate Sanders penned a best selling novel about a serial killer, she has become the victim of a twisted tale of art imitating life -- left crippled after fleeing a deadly and psychotic reader, she lives in isolation, connected to the world only through the Internet. But with the release of her sequel, the nightmare begins again...

Closer and Closer

1996

Christmas in Paradise poster
5.5

While vacationing in the Caribbean for Christmas, bonds form among a man and his two children, and a woman and her two children.

Christmas in Paradise

2007

No artwork available
4.0

Newlyweds travel to a Caribbean island to spend their honeymoon at an isolated mansion, but three men take the couple hostage during a robbery.

Break-In

2006

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8.0

The story of the personal lives and professional careers of the show-business family The Osmonds, and how the stresses and strains of their careers and the turbulent '70s and '80s affected their relationships with each other and their families.

Inside The Osmonds

2001

Assignment Berlin poster
6.1

Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they were out having dinner, her father's shot. She is then informed by the German inspector assigned to her father's case that her father's a CIA operative. She then decides to investigate the case...

Assignment Berlin

1998

Captive poster
5.0

Joe Goodies has just entered an advertising agency after recovering from the death of his girlfriend in a car accident. Ruined by the compensation he has to pay for the accident, he decides, with his new girlfriend, to kidnap the son of the president of the agency and ask for a bailout.

Captive

1998

The Unquiet poster
3.0

Do you believe in ghosts? Well, whether you do or not, you'll want to tune in for this superspooky flick that takes you inside an abandoned -- and possibly haunted! -- women's prison. A skeptic and her ex-husband, a documentary filmmaker, both with differing opinions about the supernatural, stumble across some scary revelations about the facility's violent and abusive history.

The Unquiet

2008

Reaper poster
5.4

Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure from a suspicious local sheriff, as well as the advances of a female FBI investigator, he must uncover the killer before he or she strikes again, further implicating him in the crime.

Reaper

2000