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Tom Schiller

Tom Schiller

Directing

Biography

Tom Schiller (born: April 12, 1949) is a film writer and director best known for his eleven-year stint writing and directing short films for Saturday Night Live.

Known For

Saturday Night Live
7.0

A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

Saturday Night Live

1975
Lorne
7.2

An unprecedented, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the man who built the inimitable empire of comedy, shaping television and culture for generations. The documentary features exclusive footage, archival treasures, and candid interviews with the show’s most iconic cast members and writers including Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock and many more.

Lorne

2026
Perfect
5.7

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

Perfect

1985
Belushi
7.0

Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short life of the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.

Belushi

2020
Nothing Lasts Forever
6.3

An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.

Nothing Lasts Forever

1984
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
8.0

Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman.

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

1998
Ghost Team
4.6

A paranormal-obsessed man mounts his own investigation into the beyond with his depressed best friend, misfit nephew, a cable access medium and an overeager security guard.

Ghost Team

2016
Gold and Mud
N/A

A sprawling story of love and loss, as reflected on a single face. Tiny pieces that, when cobbled together, hint at a much larger picture. The larger picture being a woman’s life. Observed through the decades. Centuries, even. You know. A comedy.

Gold and Mud

2023
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10.0

Produced in 1979, this classic short documentary explores the mass media and its impact upon society, uncovering shocking details showing how in many cases it is the media itself that drives the news cycle.

Since '45

1979
Java Junkie
8.0

Joe has lost everything and is now addicted to coffee.

Java Junkie

1979
Observatory Blues
3.5

Fernando Music, a handless writer of erotic science-fiction, inadvertently predicts, in precise detail, our discovery of extraterrestrial life. This is the story of an expanding universe, in which all things grow apart, and in which Fernando still has no hands.

Observatory Blues

2017
Flapjack Floozie
N/A

A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.

Flapjack Floozie

1988
Henry Miller: Prophet of Desire
5.0

The US writer Henry Miller (1891-1980), scandalous and nonconformist creator, hated by the most recalcitrant puritans, was a vilified genius, considered a threat, accused of being a sexist, of consciously pursuing the destruction of every civic principle; but he was also someone venerated as a saint, as a sex guru; and today as one of the most important characters of the twentieth century.

Henry Miller: Prophet of Desire

2017
From Here to Maternity
N/A

Three women are on a quest to become mothers.

From Here to Maternity

1986
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7.7

Filmed when the Henry Miller was 81, is a voyage of ideas about life, writing, sex, spirituality, nightmares, and New York that captures the warmth, vigor and high animal spirits of a singular American artist.

Henry Miller Asleep & Awake

1975
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N/A

A short film by Tom Schiller featuring Bill Murray.

Perchance to Dream

1979