David Chase Movies
Best known for his blockbuster HBO crime drama series The Sopranos, television multihyphenate David Chase (born David DeCesare) grew up, like his lead characters, in an Italian-American family in New Jersey. An only child, Chase discovered an inveterate propensity for storytelling and an immense love of cinema -- particularly gangster films -- at an early age, and reportedly... (read more) spent countless hours in matinees. A taste of film production at the esteemed School for Visual Arts in New York introduced Chase to his life's calling; wanting more, he promptly abandoned his planned career as a rock drummer, headed to California, and enrolled in Stanford University's graduate-level film program, where he gravitated more to screenwriting than to hands-on production. After graduation, Chase established himself as a much sought-after scenarist with a marked gift for psychologically multilayered scripts that evinced unusual intensity -- evident via his work on such series programs as Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Rockford Files, I'll Fly Away, and Northern Exposure (the latter two done for Joshua Brand and John Falsey) and on the multi-award-winning telemovie Off the Minnesota Strip (1980), directed by Lamont Johnson. The Sopranos, however, truly marked Chase's breakthrough. An ensemble psychodrama about a family of Jersey mobsters, the program springboarded to a large degree from the sociopathic psyche of the main character, mafia don Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), revealed during the mobster's numerous therapy sessions on the "couch." Nevertheless, in true ensemble fashion, Chase also crafted an idiosyncratic and immensely colorful group of supporting characters and arced them deliberately and calculatedly as the seasons rolled on. When the program finally wrapped, in mid-2007, audiences delivered a somewhat mixed response to its finale (which denied viewers any concrete resolution to the storyline, and abruptly ended with a cut to black in what seemed like the middle of a scene), but it had many staunch defenders. The Sopranos, of course, turned Chase into one of the hottest writers in Hollywood; meanwhile, speculation flourished about the series creator's next endeavor, with scattered suggestions and rumors of his possible involvement in big-screen projects. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Not Fade Away
R 2012
Sopranos mastermind David Chase's autobiopgraphically-tinged drama Not Fade Away stars John Magaro as Douglas, a music-obsessed New Jersey high-school senior who...
Untitled David Chase Drama
2009
Sopranos creator David Chase writes, directs, and produces this untitled drama for Paramount Pictures, details of which are being kept under wraps. ~ Jeremy Wheeler,...
Sopranos: Season Six - Part 2 [4 Discs]
2007
HBO split the sixth and final season of its serial mafia drama The Sopranos into two halves, spaced 10 months apart: the first half (episodes 1-12) aired from mid-March...
The Sopranos: Soprano Home Movies
2007
With the sixth season split into two distinct halves, this episode of HBO's The Sopranos is for all intents and purposes a season-premier. The action primarily takes place...
The Sopranos: The Blue Comet
2007
The feud between the Lupertazzis and the Sopranos reaches a boiling point as Phil Leotardo orders hits on Tony, Bobby and Silvio. Meanwhile Dr. Melfi grows disillusioned with her...
The Sopranos: Made in America
2007
In the much-discussed series finale, the feud between Tony and Phil Leotardo reaches a conclusion, Junior's senility is shown to have progressed gravely, and AJ's apathy is...
The Sopranos: Kennedy and Heidi
2007
In the wake of an untimely demise, Tony seeks solace in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Paulie grieves the death of his mother and AJ grows apprehensive about the criminal activities of his...
The Sopranos: Season 06
2006
HBO split the sixth and final season of its serial mafia drama The Sopranos into two halves, spaced 10 months apart: the first half (episodes 1-12) aired from mid-March...
The Sopranos: Kaisha
2006
Christopher begins using heroin again, after he begins a secret affair with one of Tony's old flames. Meanwhile, much to her husband's chagrin, Carmela's suspicions about the...
The Sopranos: Live Free or Die
2006
After Vito's secret life as a homosexual becomes public knowledge, he takes off to hide out in New Hampshire. Back in Jersey, Tony grapples with how to handle the situation. ~...
The Sopranos: Join the Club
2006
Following his shooting at the hands of Uncle Junior, Tony finds himself in a comatose dream state. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi...
The Sopranos: Season 04
2002
Sixteen months after the end of The Sopranos' third season, Season Four gets under way. And if you think THIS is a long hiatus, "Fuggeddabouddit"--wait until we get to Season...
The Sopranos: Season 03
2001
Being head of the Northern New Jersey branch of the DiMeo crime family is no bed of roses for Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) in Season Three of HBO's The Sopranos....
The Sopranos: Season 02
2000
New Jersey Mafia boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) continues maintaining the facade of being a respectable suburban husband and father while operating a vast criminal...
The Sopranos: Pilot
1999
In the pilot episode of this HBO television series from executive producer David Chase, a New Jersey mob boss named Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) suffers a series of...
The Sopranos: 46 Long
1999
In the sophomore episode of the HBO series, mob boss Jackie Aprile (Michael Rispoli) is dying of cancer, which can only lead to a power struggle between his two top...
The Sopranos: Season 01
1999
The first season of The Sopranos finds lifelong "organization man" Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) taking over from Jackie Aprile Sr., terminally ill boss of the northern...
The Sopranos [TV Series]
1999
If it is truly possible to make a bunch of criminals, thieves, and cold-blooded murderers amusing and appealing, then the much-praised HBO serio-comedy The Sopranos did...
Moonlight
1982
Robert Desiderio stars in this TV movie as a Chinese food delivery man (the food is Chinese, not Desiderio). While on the job, he witnesses a murder. Since the killer was an...
Off the Minnesota Strip
1980
The Rockford Files' Meta Rosenberg and David Chase respectively produced and wrote this intensely adult made-for-TV movie. Mare Winningham stars as 15-year-old Micki,...