Michael Townsend Wright Movies

After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's main narrative begins during high points in the solo careers of the Rat Pack: Dean Martin has become a big success despite the breakup of his partnership with Jerry Lewis; Sinatra's career is at its...

A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

A sickly Mob Don's obsession that a pizza parlor owner is his missing long lost son.

In this offbeat and surreal comedy, frustrated playwright Mark becomes addicted to huffing perfume to conjure memories from a previous Italian summer vacation. As he grows increasingly obsessed with chasing the high of the past, his present life unravels.

Talk show legend Joe Franklin discovers an abandoned baby on his doorstep.

A simmering 40-year showbiz rivalry boils over in an Italian restaurant in New Jersey.

Faux-vaudeville comedy

One example of many magnificent Rothbard & Wright collaborations of the eighties and nineties, this offbeat 16mm short birthed the character of Charlie Putz and was soon followed by Rothbard’s surreal independent 16mm feature, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLIE PUTZ, starring Townsend Wright as an...