Paul Shapiro

Paul Shapiro
Total Credits at Criticker: 23 (Director), 2 (Writer)
Titles you haven't rated - Director (23) | Writer (2)
What We Did That Night
An ex-con (Rick Schroder) returns to town after being released from prison and begins threatening his former college buddies about a frat party hazing incident that they all have tried to hide in their past. (imdb)
Spring Break Shark Attack
Killer sharks invade the waters off the Florida coast as co-eds celebrate spring break. (imdb)
Hockey Night
A female goalie player faces prejudiced opposition when she joins a boys team. (imdb)
Heads
Heads (1993) - TV Movie
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. (imdb)
Avalanche
Avalanche (1994) - TV Movie
Duncan is a murderous thief. When he jumps out of his plane, it crashes into the Rockies and produces an avalanche. A quiet family trapped inside their house will rescue him. They will have to survive the disaster and the madman. (imdb)
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Dead Husbands
John Ritter stars as Dr. Carter Elson, who finds a list of men's names among his wife Alex's (Nicollette Sheridan) possessions. When Carter discovers his own name at the bottom of the list, and that some of the other names are those of dead men, he confides in his friend/agent Betty (Amy Yasbeck). Time is ticking as they try and figure out what the list means before his name reaches the top. (imdb)
The Price of a Broken Heart
Fact-based story about a landmark legal battle. A woman learns that her husband has been having a very open affair with his secretary and has promised marriage. The wife sues for divorce and also sues the secretary based on an obscure law on alienation of affection, which was created to protect married couples from homewreckers. This sets a new court room consideration, as the culpability of the other woman must be defended and removes from consideration the fault of the married partners. (imdb)
Black and Blue
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly. (imdb)
Jewel
Jewel (2001) - TV Movie
In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome. (imdb)
The Stranger Beside Me
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, Ann Rule becomes friends with Ted Bundy. Based on a book by Ann Rule. (imdb)
Plain Truth
An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child. (imdb)
Deadly Honeymoon
A couple marries in Hawaii, and embarks on a honeymoon cruise where things go terribly wrong.
The Truth About Alex
The Truth About Alex tells the story of Alex Prager, a high school student who is inadvertently outed as gay and the difficulty his best friend Brad has in coming to terms with it. (Wikipedia)
Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire (2012) - TV Mini-Series
When an oil rig causes a volcanic eruption in a small town, it's just the first in a trigger effect called the Ring of Fire that stretches across the globe. If these cataclysmic series of eruptions cannot be stopped, the earth will be swallowed whole, leading to an extinction level event.
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Choices of the Heart: the Margaret Sanger Story
An American nurse fights to reform the law after witnessing many back-street abortions caused by ignorance about contraception.
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Dying to Be Loved
Jill Yates' daughter Emily takes up with bad boy Gary, whose violent behavior lands him and Emily in trouble. To avoid prison, Gary and Emily appear to commit a double suicide
Secrets in the Attic
Angst-ridden over her new mundane small town life, a teenage girl discovers a mysterious boy living in her attic and befriends him. Unknown to her, he is harboring a dark secret. (imdb)
A Heavenly Christmas
Upon her untimely death, a workaholic who never put much value into the joys of Christmas finds herself recruited to be a Christmas Angel -- and is assigned a hard luck case that she accidentally falls in love with.
Tiny House of Terror
Following the mysterious disappearance of her husband, a woman gives up her large high-tech house along with the trappings of her wealthy lifestyle to move into an isolated tiny house, which turns out to be more of a nightmare than a dream when her new lifestyle puts her very life at risk. (imdb)
Dark Angel
Based on the second book in the Casteel Series, Heaven has finally found the new life she always dreamed of with her newly discovered grandparents. Upon closer inspection, beauty and riches hide sinister secrets Heaven has tried desperately to rid herself of. (imdb)
death of a cheerleader
A shy outsider tries to make friends with the popular high school cheerleader and seeks revenge after she's rejected.
Miracle at Moreaux
A French Catholic boarding school allows three Jewish children to take refuge at Christmas during the Nazi occupation. (imdb)
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Beach Girls
Beach Girls (2005) - TV Mini-Series
Three teenage girls take a vow of eternal friendship during the summer of 1985 in the beachside community of Hubbard's Point. Years later, after one of the women has passed away, her widower (Lowe) returns to the beach town with his teenage daughter (Hobbs), both seeking a connection to her life. (imdb)