Michael Switzer

Directing

Michael Switzer

Born

1948-05-27 (78)

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Known for

I Can Make You Love Me poster
6.7

A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a twisted obsession.

I Can Make You Love Me

1993

Ordinary Miracles poster
6.5

A tough judge takes in a foster child with nowhere to go. Attempts to reunite child with long lost father end badly with the rebellious child running away.

Ordinary Miracles

2005

Forever Love poster
6.8

Lizzie and Alex Brooks are a young couple in love and parents of a little girl, Emma. A stroke puts Lizzie into a coma. Alex takes her home, providing love, care and devotion through the years. Gail, Lizzie's best friend, offers a loving friendship to Alex, and she fills in for Lizzie with young Emma. 20 years after her stroke, Lizzie emerges from the coma and begins to try to assimilate back into a world that has radically changed. Emma, who is about to be married, is thrilled to have her mother back, as are Alex and Gail...

Forever Love

1998

Unlikely Angel poster
6.1

A country singer dies prematurely, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on earth.

Unlikely Angel

1996

Three Days poster
6.1

Ten years ago, Andrew married his childhood sweetheart, Beth. Now Andrew's a high-powered literary agent, but his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. When Beth is tragically killed just days before Christmas, an angel gives Andrew the chance to relive the last three days his wife was alive. But he can't change fate and Beth will still lose her life. However, Andrew can still discover the gift Beth needs most from him.

Three Days

2001

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler poster
8.0

After months of a search for a serial killer, the police are able to catch the killer of some of the women. But the search is not over when the assistant of the attorney discovers some details in the last case that differ from the assassinations before...

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

1990

Behind the camera

I Can Make You Love Me poster
6.7

A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a twisted obsession.

I Can Make You Love Me

1993

Ordinary Miracles poster
6.5

A tough judge takes in a foster child with nowhere to go. Attempts to reunite child with long lost father end badly with the rebellious child running away.

Ordinary Miracles

2005

Forever Love poster
6.8

Lizzie and Alex Brooks are a young couple in love and parents of a little girl, Emma. A stroke puts Lizzie into a coma. Alex takes her home, providing love, care and devotion through the years. Gail, Lizzie's best friend, offers a loving friendship to Alex, and she fills in for Lizzie with young Emma. 20 years after her stroke, Lizzie emerges from the coma and begins to try to assimilate back into a world that has radically changed. Emma, who is about to be married, is thrilled to have her mother back, as are Alex and Gail...

Forever Love

1998

Unlikely Angel poster
6.1

A country singer dies prematurely, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on earth.

Unlikely Angel

1996

Three Days poster
6.1

Ten years ago, Andrew married his childhood sweetheart, Beth. Now Andrew's a high-powered literary agent, but his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. When Beth is tragically killed just days before Christmas, an angel gives Andrew the chance to relive the last three days his wife was alive. But he can't change fate and Beth will still lose her life. However, Andrew can still discover the gift Beth needs most from him.

Three Days

2001

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler poster
8.0

After months of a search for a serial killer, the police are able to catch the killer of some of the women. But the search is not over when the assistant of the attorney discovers some details in the last case that differ from the assassinations before...

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

1990

The Woman Who Sinned poster
5.1

A woman contemplates having an affair, which leads her into a web of deceit, suspense, and murder.

The Woman Who Sinned

1991

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

Summer Dreams: The Story of The Beach Boys poster
5.6

Dramatization looks at the tumultuous relationship that existed between rock group The Beach Boy's Brian and Dennis Wilson and their father, Murry. It also examines their struggles with drugs and alcohol.

Summer Dreams: The Story of The Beach Boys

1990

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence poster
3.3

Still in mourning over the loss of his wife, former cop Jonathan stone moves to Washington. However, he is soon falsely accused of murder, and with the help of socialite Annie Hayes, he sets out to prove his innocence.

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence

1994

Frank Nitti: The Enforcer poster
5.8

Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti (Anthony LaPaglia), was just as ruthless. This biopic goes to great lengths to accurately trace Nitti's rise to the top of the Windy City's underworld, amid corruption, betrayal and violence. The result is an engrossing glimpse into mob life in the early 20th century.

Frank Nitti: The Enforcer

1988

Fallen Angel poster
6.3

When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever.

Fallen Angel

2003

Children of the Dark poster
6.5

The true story of parents who discover that their two young daughters have a genetic disease that makes it fatal for them to be exposed to ordinary light.

Children of the Dark

1994

Unwed Father poster
7.1

9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.

Unwed Father

1997

Best Friends for Life poster
7.0

Sarah and Harriet have been best friends since childhood. They married at the same time, had children within the same year and now find themselves facing uncertain futures after the sudden deaths of their husbands. Though they have much in common, Sarah is a relaxed nature lover, while Harriet is intense and set in her ways. Sarah has been able to move on with her life with the help of her mother, her maid Katie and Will, the new man in her life. Harriet is unable to cope with her loss and her relationship with her daughter Pammy is strained. When Harriet is diagnosed with a serious illness, she and Sarah learn a lesson about love and friendship.

Best Friends for Life

1998

With a Vengeance poster
7.2

A woman frightened by her nightmares hires a private investigator to look into her past, only to find her fears are becoming reality.

With a Vengeance

1992

The Moving of Sophia Myles poster
8.0

A pastor's cherished wife is thrown into despair and experiences a crisis of faith after his mysterious death.

The Moving of Sophia Myles

2000

The Making of a Hollywood Madam poster
5.5

The real-life California family doctor -- facing a jail sentence for money laundering and tax evasion -- recalls the events leading to the arrest of his notorious daughter, Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.

The Making of a Hollywood Madam

1996

Remember Me poster
5.3

Set in a Victorian haunted mansion, Kelly McGillis as a grieving Mom is being driven mad by a vocal but unseen entity. She believes it to be her son.

Remember Me

1995

Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors poster
9.0

Biopic purporting to tell the real story behind the marriage of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson from their initial courtship through their eventual separation.

Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors

1992

Cries from the Heart poster
6.0

Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at his school.

Cries from the Heart

1994

Miracle on the 17th Green poster
6.5

A 50 year old adman (Robert Urich) loses his job. Rather than facing trying to find a new job, he decides to try to make it on the senior golf tour. This causes him to neglect his wife (Meredith Baxter) and family.

Miracle on the 17th Green

1999

Police Story: Burnout poster
7.0

A veteran vice cop has a hard time dealing with her partner's suicide.

Police Story: Burnout

1988

Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story poster
4.5

A staunch professional executive and his wife coerce their rebellious teens and their older sister to take a plane trip for a weekend in the mountains. The older sister does not make it to the plane in time and the family leaves without her. Their small private plane then develops trouble and crashes away from any people. This forces the group to band together to survive the wilderness conditions, including an avalanche.

Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story

2001

What Love Sees poster
7.8

Jean Treadway, a beautiful young girl in her twenties, comes from a world of wealth and privilege. Gordon Holly is a handsome but humble rancher, the pride of his small town and honest to a fault. But they share something which makes the love that blossoms between them all the more pure and intense, they are both totally blind.

What Love Sees

1996

The Lightning Incident poster
5.5

McKeon's baby is kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult and she uses her new-found psychic abilities to track them down.

The Lightning Incident

1991

Holiday in Your Heart poster
8.0

LeAnn Rimes plays herself from her childhood in Nashville to her performing around the country as a country-western singer, until she has to make a choice: Does she perform at the Grand Ole Opry, following her dreams? Or does she not go to the concert, and stay at her dying grandmother's bedside? The made-for-tv film is based in part on LeAnn's autobiographical novel.

Holiday in Your Heart

1997

Past the Bleachers poster
5.3

Bill and his wife have recently had to live through a tragedy. When Bill decides to coach a little league baseball team, he meets a young mute boy named Lucky, who may be just what the team needs in order to win. A very mysterious child, Lucky helps heal the wounds from Bill's past.

Past the Bleachers

1995

Annie's Point poster
5.6

A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. The charm of this tale lies in her journey.

Annie's Point

2005

God's New Plan poster
6.5

Fact-based story about a woman facing her impending death and forced to let her baby's nurse become an integral part of her family's life to aid the future care of the child and her husband.

God's New Plan

1999

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