Acting

Doug MacHugh

Acting credits

Weird Science poster
6.5

Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.

Weird Science

1985

Candyman poster
6.7

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Candyman

1992

Wedlock poster
5.8

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.

Wedlock

1991

An Innocent Man poster
6.2

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

An Innocent Man

1989

Whore poster
5.3

This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

Whore

1991

Black Moon Rising poster
5.5

An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

Black Moon Rising

1986

Come See the Paradise poster
6.3

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

Come See the Paradise

1990

Poor White Trash poster
4.6

Mike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation they resort to burglary as a means of financing Mike's college education. Their dream is jeopardized one summer day when their ploy to shoplift Near Beer begins a crime spree and a series of mishaps during which they are threatened with jail.

Poor White Trash

2000

The Karen Carpenter Story poster
7.2

Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia. This made-for-TV movie is the authorized version of the life of Karen Carpenter and was made with the approval of Richard Carpenter and the Carpenter family.

The Karen Carpenter Story

1989

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd poster
7.5

When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luciano is investigated.

White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd

1991

Whipped poster
3.9

Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, the first rule is to never underestimate the power of a woman.

Whipped

2000

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance poster
7.0

A San Antonio, Texas policeman must stop his best friend, a fellow officer turned vigilante.

Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance

1991

A Night at the Magic Castle poster
5.0

Boy turns seven, and is flown to Magic Castle by Harry Houdini to battle an evil magician and his young protégé.

A Night at the Magic Castle

1988

Behind the camera