Alexis ArquetteFilmography

Lords of Dogtown

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano, Nikki Reed

Synopsis: The true story of the kids who created modern skateboard culture is recreated in this drama. In the early '70s, skateboards were seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, but in a rough-and-tumble Venice, CA, community known as "Dogtown," that was about to change. Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk Read More

Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Hubert Selby, Jr., Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto

Synopsis: Hubert Selby Jr. was a powerful and influential literary figure whose best-known novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, dealt with the dark underside of life in a way that was bleak and often shocking, but also laced with compassion and understanding for the tortured lives of his Read More

Wasabi Tuna

Actors: Antonio Sabato, Jr., Jason London, Barney Cheng, Guillermo Diaz, Alanna Ubach

Synopsis: A couple risks their lives in the name of all things fabulous in this comedy of errors, set against the backdrop of West Hollywood's annual Halloween Parade. Wasabi Tuna's title refers to the ho-hum sushi costumes that boyfriends Harvey (Barney Cheng) and Evan (Jason London) have dreamed up for Read More

The Trip

Actors: Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Sirena Irwin, Alexis Arquette, Ray Baker

Synopsis: Stretching from the 1970s to the 1990s, The Trip chronicles the often turbulent romance between two gay men. One night in 1973, teenagers Tommy (Steve Braun) and Alan (Larry Sullivan) meet at an L.A. party. While Tommy is openly gay and organizes for gay civil rights, Alan, an aspiring journalist Read More

Spun

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari, Patrick Fugit, Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: A crystal-meth addict struggles to get his next fix as he obsesses over a recent breakup in Spun, a black-comic drug drama from music video director Jonas Akerlund. Rushmore's Jason Schwartzman stars as Ross, a young man who finds his maniacal world crumbling around him over the course of one long Read More

Killer Drag Queens on Dope

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alexis Arquette, Haji, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Omar Alexis

Synopsis: Two murderous drag queens whose lives are a blood-spattered blur of drugs and death embark on a violent rampage of stoned-out destruction in this tripped-out homage to the sleazy exploitations flicks of the 1970s. Ginger (Alexis Arquette) and Coco (Omar Alexis) are two psychotic transvestites who Read More

The Woman Every Man Wants

Actors: Ryan Hurst, Daniela Lunkewitz, Justin Walker, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: A man tries to create the woman of his dreams but doesn't quite get what he bargained for in this sci-fi tinged comedy. It's the year 2025, and woman are now in political and economic control of the world, with men reduced to menial labor or clerical work. Guy (Ryan Hurst) works in plastic Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess: The God You Know

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Kevin Smith, Adrienne Wilkinson, Alexandra Tydings

Synopsis: Having stolen the "god-hood" of Aphrodite (Alexandra Tydings), the mad Roman emperor Caligula (Alexis Arquette) is now immortal. Under orders from the Archangel Michael (Charles Mesure), Xena (Lucy Lawless) attempts to end Caligula's rampage of terror, and to find some way of revoking his Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess: You Are There

Actors: Michael Hurst, Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Adrienne Wilkinson, Alexandra Tydings

Synopsis: In this freewheeling spoof of the old radio and television series You Are There, modern-day tabloid reporter Nevil (Michael Hurst) literally goes to Hell and back to get the lowdown on Xena's (Lucy Lawless) latest mission. The muckraking Nevil is somehow convinced that Xena's efforts to get the Read More

Friends: The One With Chandler's Dad

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Troy Norton, Mark Consuelos, Chuck Martinez, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: With only a week to go before his marriage to Monica (Courteney Cox), Chandler (Matthew Perry) insists that his intended meet his never-seen, but much-discussed, father. And as all fans of Friends should know by now, Chandler's dad makes his living as a cross-dressing cabaret performer in Las Read More

Cleopatra's Second Husband

Actors: Paul Hipp, Boyd Kestner, Bitty Schram, Radha Mitchell, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: Jon Reiss made his feature directorial debut with this psychological drama. In Los Angeles, Hallie (Bitty Schram) keeps her photographer husband Robert (Paul Hipp) under her thumb, dictating sex on demand. She ignores Robert's weak protests when she allows friends of friends to occupy their house Read More

The Price of Air

Actors: Josh Evans, Charis Michelsen, Michael Madsen, Dick Van Patten, Michelle Phillips

Synopsis: A drug runner finds his life is in danger when he becomes hooked on his own merchandise in this drama. Paul (Josh Evans) is a young hoodlum who falls in with Mr. Ball (Michael Madsen), a crime kingpin marketing a new street drug that he tells Paul is "more addictive than air." With few prospects Read More

Friends: The One With Rachel's Sister

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, James Michael Tyler, Susan Yeagley, Jeffrey David Brooks, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Reese Witherspoon guest stars as Jill Green, spoiled-rotten kid sister of Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston). Showing up at Rachel's doorstep after her parents have cut off her allowance, Jill expects her sister to help her get her life together. Alas, the Read More

Fools Gold

Actors: Blair Singer, Billy Gallo, J.E. Freeman, Camryn Manheim, Tonie Perensky

Synopsis: A road comedy that touches on issues of racial and personal identity, Fools Gold was the feature-length debut for writer/director Jeffrey Janger. Flimp Lopez (Billy Gallo) is Hispanic and Sam Wechter (Blair Singer) is Jewish, which makes both of them outsiders in Oiltown, OK, where they work in a Read More

Beggars and Choosers [TV Series]

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Isabella Hofmann, Carol Kane, Charlotte Ross, Paul Provenza

Synopsis: To paraphrase the late, great NBC programming executive Brandon Tartikoff, the television industry is comprised of two different groups of people: The "beggars," those actors, writers, directors, and producers who tirelessly and relentlessly package and pitch ideas, concepts, and premises for new Read More

The Strip

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Guy Torry, Joe Viterelli, Stacey Dash, Tippi Hedren

Bride of Chucky

Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Katherine Heigl, Nick Stabile, John Ritter, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: This horror film, directed by Ronnie Yu, marked a return (after an eight-year lapse) of Chucky and the Child's Play series that began in 1988. At the moment of his death, the spirit of former serial killer Charles Lee Ray was mystically relocated in the doll Chucky (voice of Brad Dourif). After Read More

Love Kills

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Lesley Ann Warren, Daniel Baldwin, Donovan Leitch, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: New Age masseur Poe Finklestein (Mario Van Peebles) has an appointment at the posh estate of widow Evelyn Heiss (Lesley Ann Warren), who lives with her gay stepson Dominique (Donovan Leitch) and her sister-in-law Alena Heiss (Louise Fletcher). The gardener (Melvin Van Peebles) is a bystander Read More

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror

Actors: Stacy Galina, Alexis Arquette, Eva Mendes, Adam Wylie, Ahmet Zappa, Greg Vaughan

Synopsis: In this chapter of the horror saga, the murderous title children and their demonic leader terrorize a group of college kids visiting a ghost town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wedding Singer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor, Allen Covert, Matthew Glave, Ellen Albertini Dow

Synopsis: Mousse up your hair and pull your Missing Persons records out of mothballs for this romantic comedy set in that era of questionable fashion decisions, the '80s. In 1985, Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) is a vocalist whose rock band stubbornly refuses to get off the ground. In the meantime, he makes a Read More

Love Reinvented

Actors: Pierre Salvadori, Paul Vecchiali, Marion Vernoux, Nils Tavernier

Synopsis: Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of short vignettes. The film is designed as sort of a gay version of 1994's 3,000 Scenarios to Combat a Virus, an anthology that was comprised of 30 short films -- made by some of France's best directors -- out of story ideas Read More

I Think I Do

Actors: Alexis Arquette, Christian Maelen, Maddie Corman, Guillermo Diaz, Lauren Vélez

Synopsis: A group of old college friends work through their long-standing sexual tensions when they reunite for a wedding in this comedy-drama. Bob (Alexis Arquette), a student at George Washington University, has a mad crush on his buff, beautiful roommate, Brendan (Christian Maelen). Brendan senses the Read More

Inside Out

Goodbye America

Actors: Alexis Arquette, Wolfgang Bodison, James Brolin, Rae Dawn Chong, Maureen Flannigan, John Haymes Newton, Corin Nemec, Michael York, Alma Concepcion

Synopsis: This United States/Philippine co-production examines how the real-life closing of the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay profoundly effected both the local Filipino community and the Americans who had served there. As the base's operations slowly wind down and naval manpower begins to dwindle, Commander Read More

Never Met Picasso

Synopsis: This gay-oriented drama centers on the life and exploits of Andrew, an aspiring painter. Still living at home with his mother Genna, an avant garde actress, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Read More

Cosas Que Nunca Te Dije

Actors: Lili Taylor, Andrew McCarthy, Debi Mazar, Alexis Arquette, Leslie Mann

Synopsis: Filmed in St. Helens, Oregon, this comedy-drama centers on highly educated Anne, a young woman forced by circumstance to work in a photographic equipment store. Poor Anne goes into a terrible funk after her lover, a foreign correspondent assigned to Eastern Europe, dumps her via telephone. This Read More

Kiss and Tell

Actors: Peter Howitt, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: In this low-budget screwball-mystery, the death of an L.A. woman leads to a surreal murder investigation on the outer fringes of la-la land. When Molly McMannis (Justine Bateman) turns up dead, still impaled with the murder weapon -- a carrot -- the police launch a probe into the colorful world Read More

Sometimes They Come Back... Again

Actors: Alexis Arquette, Hilary Swank, Michael Gross, Jennifer Elise Cox, W. Morgan Sheppard

Synopsis: Murderous spirits hell-bent on revenge return to haunt John Porter, a young man whose sister they had murdered three-decades ago. Just as before, they start tormenting him by taking over the body of his lovely teenage daughter, but the spirits make a terrible mistake by underestimating Porter; for Read More

Paradise Framed

Synopsis: In this art-film, a famous multimedia artist abandons his former life for a new one in a hermetically sealed room filled with living portraits. His new space becomes a haven for the terminally dysfunctional. Trouble ensues when two strangers, the world-weary Col. Hardy and the handsome son of an Read More

Wigstock: The Movie

Actors: Alexis Arquette, Crystal Waters, RuPaul

Synopsis: Come to the land of a thousand Lizas (and Barbaras, Judys, and Marilyn Monroes) in this gay and colorful documentary that chronicles the great spectacle of New York's annual festival of drag queens. The event has been taking place every Labor day in Manhattan for thirty years. Over 20,000 people Read More

Dead Weekend

Synopsis: Sex and science fiction are again combined in this sophomoric fantasy set somewhere in the future in an unnamed US city. The tale begins as the media announces the unwelcome arrival of an alien spacecraft, from which a beautiful Asian woman disembarks. She has come to the gang-ravaged city for a Read More

Frisk

Actors: Michael Gunther, Parker Posey, Alexis Arquette, Raoul O'Connell

Synopsis: A man pursues his sexual obsessions to their darkest and most dangerous extremes in this gay-themed drama based on a novel by Dennis Cooper. Dennis (Michael Gunther) is a gay man, who as a teenager developed a perverse attraction to violent pornography and simulated snuff photographs, which he Read More

Grief

Actors: Craig Chester, Jackie Beat, Illeana Douglas, Alexis Arquette, Carlton Wilborn

Synopsis: Richard Glatzer's bittersweet comedy concerns the production of a sleazy tabloid television program called "The Love Judge" and the problems that arise when the Divine-esque producer Jo (Kent Fuher) announces that he/she is leaving to become a Hungarian housewife. Mark (Craig Chester), the head Read More

Threesome

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Charles, Alexis Arquette, Martha Gehman

Synopsis: Well-groomed junior transfer student Eddy (Josh Charles) forges an unlikely friendship with messy party animal Stuart (Stephen Baldwin) after the two room together in an all-male dorm at a large university. When Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle) ends up in the adjoining suite because of her mannish name Read More

Pulp Fiction

Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious Read More

Don't Do It

Actors: Heather Graham, James LeGros, Sheryl Lee, James Marshall, Esai Morales

Synopsis: The secret longings of three young, hip L.A. couples provides the impetus of the conversations in lightweight drama which focuses upon the issue of commitment. One member of each couple, Suzanna and Dodger, Alicia and Robert, and Michelle and Charles secretly carries a torch for former lovers. It Read More

Jack Be Nimble

Actors: Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Alexis Arquette, Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry, Elizabeth Hawthorne

Synopsis: Alternating between urban affluence and rural squalor in its New Zealand setting, this contemporary update of the Brothers Grimm tells the story of a boy and his sister whose placement into very different adoptive homes can't destroy the psychic bond that connects them. An impressionistic opening Read More

Of Mice and Men

Actors: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: Gary Sinese directed this respectful re-telling of John Steinbeck's classic novel, with Sinese as the wily George and John Malkovich as the brutish, simple-minded Lennie. Set during the Depression era, the film opens as George and Lennie are running from a woman with a torn dress, who has sent a Read More

Jumpin' at the Boneyard

Actors: Tim Roth, Alexis Arquette, Danitra Vance, Kathleen Chalfant, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: This bleak, provocative drama, the debut of filmmaker Jeff Stanzler, gives a haunting look at the effects of drug abuse upon those who care for the user. It tells the story of unemployed, depressed and just-divorced Bronx-resident Manny who hears burglars in his kitchen one morning and walks in to Read More

Terminal Bliss

Actors: Timothy Owen, Luke Perry, Estee Chandler, Sonia Curtis, Micah Grant

Synopsis: Two adolescent children of wealthy parents deal with the emotional travails of spoiled youth by indulging in self-serving and self-destructive behavior including but not limited to drugs, parties, and teen sex. Starring Luke Perry of television's hit-show, Beverly Hills 90210, as John and Timothy Owen Read More

Miracle Beach

Actors: Ami Dolenz, Dean Cameron, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Felicity Waterman

Synopsis: In this comedy-fantasy, beach-bum Scotty McKay and his buddies are granted their every wish by a luscious genie who has been assigned to do Scotty's bidding. Soon the fellows are carousing in splendor surrounded by their hearts' desires. Unfortunately, it isn't enough for Scotty, who really wants Read More

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang Read More

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Actors: Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, Little Richard, Tracy Nelson

Synopsis: Down and Out in Beverly Hills is an updated remake of the 1932 Jean Renoir film Boudu Saved From Drowning. Philandering businessman Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) rescues scraggly tramp Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) from drowning himself in Dave's swimming pool. Much against his will, Jerry is Read More