MT.WAS
the Michael T. Weiss
Appreciation Society

Angel 4: Undercover: Gad, what can we can about this film and still be nice? It's pretty bad. It's about an ex-hooker turned police photographer who investigates the death of her hooker girlfriend after she's found dead in a dumpster. Michael T. Weiss is in the film only very briefly, as a radio DJ named Ryan Gersch, in the last few minutes just before the credits start to roll. The movie is available on video, but in our opinion, it's not worth buying.

The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake: This was originally a television mini-series, but it's now available on video cassette (under the truncated title: "The Great Los Angeles Earthquake") at a reasonable price in a slightly edited version. It's about the earthquake unpreparedness of Los Angeles, one of the most earthquake prone cities in California. When a series of huge shakers hit, the city falls apart, and the mayor and his emergency teams are trapped underground in a stone bunker. Michael T. Weiss appears most prominently in the last half of the film, as Larry, an assistant to the mayor. You get to see him in a suit and tie and wire-framed glasses.

Freeway: No Exit: This quirky film is available on video cassette (under the simplified title "Freeway") and is weird, but worth the money if you like movies that provide you with the "eerie fascination" factor and lots of it. It's sort of like watching a car accident: parts of it are gruesome, but you can't seem to take your eyes off of it. Michael T. Weiss appears only in the first fifteen minutes of the film, as (another) Larry, the evil step-father to a modern-day Little Red Riding Hood. He is disheveled, out of control, and covered with tattooes... but we like him anyway.

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare: [Have you noticed, he's in a lot of movies with a "colon" in the title.] One of his earliest films, it's usually not even listed in many of his other filmographies. He plays an architect named Richard whose wife is a gothic fiction writer. After she has a nervous breakdown, he takes her away to a forest cottage... only to find out that it's haunted and regularly besieged by werewolves. When Richard is seduced and attacked by a she-werewolf, his wife tries to burn him alive in a bell tower. (Uh...You had to be there, okay.) It's a low-budget thriller that's more humorous than frightening. We do get to see Michael T. Weiss throughout the film, though, with longish hair and a thin beard... and sometimes in various degrees of undress. This one's available on video, too.

Jeffrey: Certainly, Michael T. Weiss's breakthrough film. He plays Steve Howard, an HIV-positive gay man who's looking for love and companionship from Jeffrey, another gay man who's so frightened by the AIDS epidemic that he's decided to run away from Steve... and from life. Michael T. Weiss is buff and beautiful in this film, and gives fans one his best performances. He'll make you chuckle, he'll make you ache for his predicament, and he might even make you cry. An excellent film: it's out of print at the moment, so if you find a copy, buy it, because when the current supply is gone, there won't be any more.

Mary Higgins Clark's Remember Me: This is a murder mystery set in a New England mansion called Remember House. A writer, Menley (Kelly McGillis) arrives there to vacation with her lawyer-husband and baby daughter, but doesn't have much time to relax. Her husband's ex-girlfriend is trying to get him back... and Remember House might be haunted. Menley befriends a "handsome stranger", Scott Covey (Michael T. Weiss), and convinces her husband to defend Scott in court, as Scott has just been accused of murdering his own wife Vivian for her millions. Menley's stay at Remember House becomes more confusing and frightening when she realizes that someone has been sneaking into the secret room behind the staircase and terrorizing her at night...and she discovers that that someone is Scott Covey himself. This film is not available on video cassette (although we don't know why; with McGillis and Weiss as the stars, it would certainly sell.) [We thank Mare of Mare's Equally Unofficial Michael T. Weiss Site for letting us view her copy of the film, and providing the image above for this page.]

Take My Daughters Please: An earlier made-for-TV film, this one featured Rue McClanahan (Lilah) as a mother who was desperate to marry off her daughters before they got "too old". Michael T. Weiss is featured sporadically throughout the film as Joe, a law student, who's living with Lilah's youngest daughter, Evan. Joe and Evan are blissfully happy, but Lilah is worried that while Evan works to support Joe while he studies to be a lawyer, Evan isn't being "fulfilled". Lilah hopes her complaints will encourage Joe to marry Evan; instead, he leaves her to prove that he's not living off of her or stifling her career. By the end of the film, they get back together again... no thanks to Lilah. Michael T. Weiss was "cuddly" and funny in this film. He plays nice guys as easily as he plays bad guys. He's wonderfully versatile (but if you're a fan, you know that already). As far as we know, this film is not yet available on video cassette.

Notations

1) A lot of movie sites list the film "Amongst Friends" under Michael T. Weiss's name, but we've viewed the film and he's NOT in it anywhere. There is another actor named Michael Weiss who plays a drug dealer in the film, but it's NOT Michael T. Weiss. Furthermore, in our opinion, the movie is crap, so don't waste your time and video money renting it or buying it.

2) Although there were rumors that Michael T. Weiss appeared in the made-for-TV, two-parter movie "In a Child's Name" he does NOT appear in the video release of the film. He may have been in the original televised version, but we can't vouch for that because we didn't see it when it aired on TV. We've only seen the video release.

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