Adrienne BarbeauFilmography

Fly Me to the Moon 3-D

Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Kelly Ripa, Nicollette Sheridan, Tim Curry, Trevor Gagnon

Synopsis: Christopher Lloyd, Kelly Ripa, Nicollette Sheridan, and Tim Curry lend their voices to director Ben Stassen's (Haunted Castle and Encounter in the Third Dimension) animatedchildren's fantasy about three preteen flies who hitch a ride into space on the Apollo 11 moon mission. The year is Read More

Halloween

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: The Devil's Rejects director Rob Zombie resurrects one of the most notorious slashers in screen history with this re-imagining of the 1978 John Carpenter classic that spawned numerous sequels and countless imitators. As a child, young Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) committed one of the most Read More

Unholy

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Nicholas Brendon, Richard Ziman, Merwin Goldsmith, Siri Baruc

Synopsis: Daryl Goldberg's Unholy stars Adrienne Barbeau and Nicholas Brendon as a mother and son who must save their family from a complicated conspiracy involving elements as disparate as a witch, the United States government, and Nazi occultists. The script, by Samuel Stephen Freeman, is based loosely on Read More

Christmas Do-Over

Actors: Jay Mohr, Daphne Zuniga, Ruta Lee, Adrienne Barbeau, Tim Thomerson, David Millbern

Synopsis: A ne'er do well father and ex-husband who always raced his way through the holidays is forced to relive Christmas Day time and again until he gets it right in this family oriented fantasy comedy starring Jay Mohr. It's Christmas time once again, and as usual Kevin (Moore) is scrambling to get his Read More

A Wake In Providence

Actors: Vincent Pagano, Victoria Rowell, Mike Pagano, Adrienne Barbeau, Micole Mercurio

Synopsis: Anthony (Vincent Pagano) is a white fledging actor who is in a happy relationship with Alissa (Victoria Rowell), who is beautiful, gainfully employed, and black. In spite of being sharply reminded that it has been 30 years since Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Anthony is reluctant to introduce her Read More

Carnivàle: Season 02

Actors: Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown

Ring of Darkness

Synopsis: When the singer of a popular rock band disappears under mysterious circumstances, a contest to find a replacement soon turns from dream-come-true to waking nightmare for the young singer who hopes to take the job. For years young musician Shawn (Stephen Martimes) has awaited his big break in the Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Finale

Synopsis: Originally telecast in tandem with "The Passion of the Wick", this aptly titled episode marks the series finale of The Drew Carey Show. At virtually the same moment that she agrees to marry Drew (Drew Carey), Kellie (Cynthia Watros) goes into labor. Racing against time so that Kellie's son won't Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Drew Hunts Silver Fox

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of The Drew Carey Show was what is known in showbiz as a "burnoff", with ABC running the last 28 episodes as quickly as possible to compensate for higher costs and lower ratings. Thus, the season opener, "Drew Hunts Silver Fox", was shown in tandem with the second Read More

Ghost Rock

Actors: Gary Busey, Michael Worth, Jeff Fahey, Adrienne Barbeau

Synopsis: A boy grows to manhood with revenge on his mind in this martial arts-influenced Western. When John Slaughter (Michael Worth) was a boy, his family was killed by a gang of bloodthirsty outlaws. Twenty years on, Slaughter has become a sure hand with a gun and has learned the mysteries of Asian Read More

Television: The First 50 Years

Carnivàle: Season 01

Actors: Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown, Michael J. Anderson, Clea Duvall, Patrick Bauchau, Tim DeKay

The Drew Carey Show: Look Mom, One Hand!

Synopsis: It's Mother's Day in Cleveland, and all of the gang's moms have arrived to celebrate--including Kate's new stepmom, who looks just like her. The ladies' arrival coincides with the launching of an anti-pornography website which publishes a list of Ohio's biggest porn users--and among those listed Read More

John Carpenter: Fear is Just the Beginning... The Man and His Movies

Actors: John Carpenter

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Carpenter helped redefine the American horror film in 1978 with Halloween, a low-budget thriller which became a major box office success. Since then, Carpenter has devoted his career to bringing a fresh perspective to genre filmmaking, striving to maintain the freedom of an Read More

Spring Break Lawyer

Actors: Brad Raider, Sean Murray

Synopsis: After getting kicked out of law school, fast-talking Jay Garvey (Brad Raider) and his failed medical school pal, Nick (Sean Murray), discover that the wild beach partiers during college spring break need legal assistance to stay out of jail. Their business takes off, with Jay double-talking the Read More

No Place Like Home

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Joanna Pacula, Bruce Weitz, Adrienne Barbeau, Richard Moll

Synopsis: After discovering an alien that just crash landed on Earth, two teenage siblings due the best to keep their extraterrestrial secret under wraps as they help the desperate star man find his way back home. Mel and his brother Mac were simply going about their business when the sky was suddenly set Read More

The Convent

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau

Synopsis: Adrienne Barbeau stars in this campy horror flick about dead nuns and the undead. The film opens with the legendary massacre at the St. Francis Boarding School for Girls. One night in 1960, a disgruntled former student saunters into the school chapel and kills a bunch of nuns and a priest with a Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Up on the Roof

Synopsis: Quitting her job (again!), Kate (Christa Miller) goes to work at the new beauty salon owned by Oswald's mother Kim (Adrienne Barbeau). Figuring that everyone should get into the act, Drew (Drew Carey) talks Sharon (Jenica Bergere) into doing some repairs on the salon's roof, resulting in trouble Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Sliders: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Synopsis: With this episode, Charlie O'Connell) becomes a regular in the role of Colin Mallory, long-lost brother of seasoned "slider" Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell). Having arrived on an agrarian alternate Earth which is bereft of modern technology, Quinn is finally reunited with Colin--who, as the only Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Cain and Mabel

Synopsis: Oswald (Diedrich Bader) gets some disturbing news about his mom (Adrienne Barbeau), even as she's trying to digest the equally disturbing news about his "man-boob" transplants. Elsewhere, Steve (John Carroll Lynch) and his fellow transvestites (isn't that a contradiction in terms) take over the Read More

A Champion's Fight: A Moment of Truth Movie

Actors: Beth Broderick, Katie Harrod, Adrienne Barbeau, Scott Vickaryous, Emmanuelle Chriqui

Synopsis: One of several made-for-TV movies originally seen as part of NBC's off-and-on "Moment of Truth" series, this film is adapted from Lurlene McDaniel's novel Don't Die My Love. Katie Harrod and Scott Vickaryous head the cast as Julie and Luke, brilliant students and high-school sweethearts (Luke is Read More

The Drew Carey Show: My Best Friend's Wedding

Synopsis: After an animated opening sequence wherein Drew (Drew Carey) does battle with Daffy Duck, this final episode of The Drew Carey Show hunkers down to the business at hand: namely, the wedding of Kate (Christa Miller) and Oswald (Diedrich Bader). Trouble is, Kate doesn't want to go through with the Read More

Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Kevin Alber

Synopsis: This softcore exploitation effort from the Roger Corman stable is a peculiar attempt to reinvent Bram Stoker's story as a T&A film featuring marauding babes in rat-pelt bikinis. The story posits an Amazonian group of Victorian-era lesbians who have formed a colony under Queen Adrienne Barbeau. Barbeau Read More

The Art of Illusion: 100 Years of Hollywood Special Effects

Synopsis: Adrienne Barbeau narrates this inside look at the art and craft of motion-picture special effects. Find out how effects technicians make rockets travel through space, dinosaurs return to life, and high-rise buildings burst into flames through the magic of stop-motion animation, digital image Read More

Babylon 5: Spider in the Web

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Business executive Taro Isogi (James Shigeta) meets with Mars Conglomerate representative Amanda Carter (Adrienne Barbeau), in hopes establishing the Mars colony as an independent entity. But before negotiations can begin, Isogi is murdered. Witnessing the tragedy, Talia suddenly experiences a Read More

Jailbreakers

Synopsis: A 15-year-old cheerleader named Angel (Shannon Doherty) falls for Tony, a dope-smoking, leather-clad punk (Antonio Sabato Jr.). He robs two stores, making her a local pariah. Her family moves to Bakersfield to make a new beginning, and she falls in love with a local jock. But Tony breaks out of Read More

The Wild West [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: A ten-part series of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil War to 1900. Includes first-person narratives, anecdotes, newspaper accounts, journals, and letters covering Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson Read More

Father Hood

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Halle Berry, Sabrina Lloyd, Brian Bonsall, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Deadbeat dads be damned. Patrick Swayze plays a con man who tries to live up to the ideals of "family values" by kidnapping his son and daughter from the evil clutches of a corrupt orphanage and taking them on a cross-country trip in his vintage convertible. To complicate matters, his daughter has Read More

Silk Degrees

Synopsis: Two federal agents are assigned to protect the beautiful star of a television series who was the witness to a terrorist murder. The agents decide to take her to a remote country lodge, but the terrorists find out where their hideout is and make plans to kill her, the agents, and any other Read More

The Burden of Proof

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was originally offered in two parts under the title Scott Turow's Burden of Proof. Adapted by John Gay from Turow's bestselling novel, the film stars Hector Elizondo as defense attorney Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the same character played by Raul Julia in the 1990 cinemazation Read More

Two Evil Eyes

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, Ramy Zada

Synopsis: Two well-known directors each adapt stories by Edgar Allen Poe in this horror drama. George Romero's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" tells how the wife of an elderly, wealthy man and her lover--who also happens to be the husband's private physician--scheme to control his assets. Dying Read More

Double-Crossed

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Based on the true-life adventures of the late Drug Enforcement Agency spy Barry Seal, this exciting espionage adventure chronicles the events that lead up to his death in 1984. Before coming to work for the DEA, smooth-talking Seal (Dennis Hopper) had been a drug smuggler for the notorious Read More

Blood River

Actors: Rick Schroder, Wilford Brimley, John Ryan

Synopsis: This made-for-TV western stars Rick Schroder as a hotheaded cowboy who guns down the man responsible for the death of his parents. On the run from his victim's powerful father, Schroder is sheltered by old codger Wilford Brimley. Brimley seems to be operating out of friendship, but his reason for Read More

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

Actors: Shannon Tweed, Adrienne Barbeau, Bill Maher, Karen Mistal, Brett Stimely

Synopsis: Buxom Playboy foldout Shannon Tweed plays a sexy college professor assigned to investigate a sudden, disastrous avocado shortage; her predecessor, a Dr. Kurtz (Adrienne Barbeau) has never returned from the dreaded California Avocado Jungle. Accompanied by air-headed assistant Karen Mistal and Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Bottom Line is Murder

Synopsis: In Denver to appear on a TV book-review show, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) witnesses a nasty confrontation on the set of a consumer-advocacy show hosted by the pompous and abrasive Steve Honig (Robert F. Lyons). Soon afterward, Honig is murdered, and the main suspect is one of the targets of the Read More

Back to School

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Downey, Jr.

Synopsis: Self-made wealthy guy Rodney Dangerfield decides he needs a better education--and also to spend some time away from his cheating new wife. Dangerfield joins his son Keith Gordon at college. Dad hopes to gain his son's respect (isn't that always Dangerfield's motivation?), while son tries to fit in Read More

Open House

Actors: Joseph Bottoms, Adrienne Barbeau, Rudy Ramos, Mary Stavin, Scott Baker

Synopsis: In this slice-n-dicer acclaimed pop psychologist Dr. David Kelley hosts a radio call-in show in LA. The current topic of discussion is a baffling series of murders that has been occurring throughout the town. All of the victims are beautiful real estate agents. One day he gets a strange call from Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Jessica Behind Bars

Synopsis: The scene is the West Barrington Institute for Women, where warden Elizabeth Gates (Vera Miles) invites Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to lecture on creative writing. Of course, wherever Jessica goes, murder follows, and this time the victim is the prison's doctor Irene Matthews (Janet McLachlan). Read More

Seduced

Synopsis: Just who is seduced in the made-for-TV Seduced? Technically, it is Vicki Orloff (Cybill Shepherd), who once had a torrid affair with attorney Mike Riordan (Gregory Harrison). But when Vicki meets Mike again after several years, it is Riordan who is seduced into a most dangerous situation. Vicki Read More

Bridge Across Time

Actors: David Hasselhoff

Synopsis: The story of Jack The Ripper may be the cause of a small town's crime spree in this strange made-for-television thriller. David Hasselhoff stars as Don Gregory, a cop in an Arizona town whose claim to fame is being the home of the newly transplanted pieces of the original London Bridge. When the Read More

Swamp Thing

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess, Nicholas Worth

Synopsis: Director Wes Craven, who went on to fame as the force behind blockbuster horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, departed from his favorite genre to film this unique cult classic -- a spoof on the mad scientist movies of the 1950s. Adrienne Barbeau stars as Alice Cable, a government agent Read More

Creepshow

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye

Synopsis: Two of the most venerable names in the horror field, author Stephen King and director George A. Romero, present this anthology of original twisted tales inspired by the E.C. horror comics of the 50's and 60's (themselves a more direct basis for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series). The five Read More

Time Traveller

Actors: Keir Dullea, Adrienne Barbeau, Jeremy Licht, Peter Hobbs, Phaedon Georgitsis

Synopsis: In this standard sci-fi romance, the widow Andrea (Adrienne Barbeau) lives on a Greek island with her son Timmy (Jeremy Licht) and, like the other islanders, is amazed when a stranger Keir Dullea washes up on shore during a magnetic storm. She brings the apparently injured man home to help him Read More

Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase

Synopsis: In this carefree children's adventure, a grandfather and his grandson fulfill the former's life-long dream and embark upon a cross-country ballon flight. Back on the distant ground, the flyers are pursued by the boy's mother, the cops, the Feds, and others. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Escape from New York

Actors: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is Read More

The Cannonball Run

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Read More

Tourist

Synopsis: In this drama, an American tourist visits some of the world's most glamorous capitals. The tale is based on a Gerald Green novel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fog

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman

Synopsis: Following the phenomenal box-office success of his seminal horror classic Halloween, director John Carpenter teamed up with producer Debra Hill for a second independent horror project, this time in the mode of an old-fashioned ghost story. The end result was The Fog, a spooky romp about a dark Read More

Valentine Magic on Love Island

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Valentine Magic on Love Island was accurately dismissed by one reviewer as a "bubble headed brew of I Dream of Jeannie and a Club Med Vacation." Janis Paige stars as Madge, a benign sorceress who runs a lavish tropical resort with the help of her nephew Jimmy (Christopher Knight) Read More

The Top of the Hill

Synopsis: The 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid provides the setting for this drama that centers on a man's mid-life crisis. While there, he gets involved with love, sex and other diversions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Darker Side of Terror

Synopsis: Darker Side of Terror is a TV movie that wants to have its cake and eat it too: it is a science fiction drama and a romantic triangle all in one. Researcher Robert Forster submits to an experiment in cloning conducted by his former professor (Ray Milland) The operation is a success--except in Read More

Someone's Watching Me!

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of his theatrical-feature megahit Halloween, writer-producer John Carpenter concocted this nailbiting made-for-TV suspenser. Lauren Hutton stars as stylish career girl Leigh Michaels, who lives in an ultra-modern, glassed-in high rise apartment. Leigh's relatively tranquil Read More

The Crash of Flight 401

Synopsis: Originally made for television and based on true events from 1972, the story concerns an airline crash in the Everglades and the courageous adventures of the 73 survivors. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Sweepstakes

Synopsis: In this drama, a politically ambitious lawyer, a bookie, and a barmaid become finalists in a large lottery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Let Me Light the Way

Synopsis: There is a rapist on the loose in Los Angeles, and Quincy (Jack Klugman) is fairly certain of the man's identity. Unfortunately, some potentially damning evidence has been destroyed while the most recent victim was being treated at an E.R. Even so, Quincy turns up the heat on the most likely Read More

Red Alert

Actors: William Devane

Synopsis: Filmed primarily at NASA's Manned Space Center in Houston, the made-for-TV Red Alert is an apocalyptic "man vs. machine" spellbinder. A potentially dangerous explosion at a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis is fortunately kept under control. The huge plant-monitoring computer named Proteus Read More

Return to Fantasy Island

Actors: Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: A sequel to the 1977 TV movie Fantasy Island, this film was originally titled Fantasy Island II and slated to air on November, 1977, but was instead re-christened and broadcast as the initial episode of the weekly Fantasy Island series. Once again, six people spend thousands upon thousands of Read More

Having Babies

Actors: Linda Purl, Jessica Walter

Synopsis: Originally titled Giving Birth, Having Babies was the first of three pilot films for a TV series that eventually appeared under the title Julie Farr MD. In omnibus fashion, the film focuses in on four couples and their reactions to impending parenthood. Essentially, this is a feature-length Read More

The Great Houdinis

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Vivian Vance, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Made for television, The Great Houdinis tells the life story of famed American illusionist/escape-artist Harry Houdini and his wife Bess. Studiously avoiding covering the same ground as the 1953 Houdini theatrical-film biopic, director Mel Shavelson's script for Great Houdinis spends a great deal Read More