Frank Adamson

Acting

Frank Adamson

Acting credits

Night Hunter poster
6.6

A Minnesota police officer crosses paths with a committed and tireless vigilante as he follows the trail of a ruthless predator responsible for several abductions and murders.

Night Hunter

2019

Dolores Claiborne poster
7.3

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

Dolores Claiborne

1995

The Lazarus Project poster
6.0

After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.

The Lazarus Project

2008

Short Circuit 2 poster
6.2

Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.

Short Circuit 2

1988

Mrs. Soffel poster
6.0

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

Mrs. Soffel

1984

The Big White poster
6.2

To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.

The Big White

2005

Fear X poster
5.8

When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident, Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.

Fear X

2003

Population 436 poster
5.8

A census-taker is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.

Population 436

2006

Perfect Sisters poster
5.8

Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.

Perfect Sisters

2014

The Stone Angel poster
5.4

The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. Faced with her own mortality, and desperate to find solace, she goes on the run. In both the past and the present, she is forced to come to terms with the pain and pleasure, the disappointments and the exhilarations of her life.

The Stone Angel

2007

The Arrow poster
7.0

The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the project was dropped due to political pressure from the United States.

The Arrow

1997

The Terry Fox Story poster
6.2

The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero, who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.

The Terry Fox Story

1983

Heads poster
3.0

A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.

Heads

1994

Perry Mason Returns poster
7.2

When his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.

Perry Mason Returns

1985

Something Beneath poster
3.5

When a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. Environmentalist priest Father Douglas Middleton must team up with conference coordinator Khali Spence to stop the slime -- or die trying.

Something Beneath

2007

On Thin Ice poster
4.9

Patsy McCartle is a widow with two sons trying to gather all the money she has to pay for her car, bills, and her son's medication, all of which she can barely afford. She turns to dealing drugs and becomes addicted to crystal meth.

On Thin Ice

2003

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6.5

A runaway boy goes to live with his uncle, in a small village, trying to escape his parents' religious fanaticism. There, he finds love, but with the wrong girl. And his parents come after him.

Gentle Sinners

1985

A Marriage of Convenience poster
5.8

Succesful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son, Kevin. Eight years later, she must contend with the boy's father who was unaware of his son's existence. Prompted by a wise judge, they decide to enter into a marriage of convenience in order to not upset the child, though they soon find that they may just be in love after all.

A Marriage of Convenience

1998

Draw! poster
6.5

In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.

Draw!

1984

Wait Till Helen Comes poster
5.4

After a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. Based on the best selling novel by Mary Downing Hahn.

Wait Till Helen Comes

2016

A Season on the Brink poster
5.0

ESPN original movie, based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein, which chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when controversial basketball coach Bobby Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to his team and its practices, meetings, and huddles. We see dramatizations of some of Knight's infamous tantrums and the team's inter-personal struggles.

A Season on the Brink

2002

Martin's Day poster
6.2

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire "Stech" for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin's childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.

Martin's Day

1985

The Return of Eliot Ness poster
8.0

Detective Eliot Ness comes back to town to fight corruption and avenge a former partner's murder with the help of the son.

The Return of Eliot Ness

1991

In Defense of a Married Man poster
4.7

When a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him. Can she overcome his betrayal while searching for the truth?

In Defense of a Married Man

1990