Alice Drummond Filmography

Chronic Town

Actors: J.R. Bourne, Emily Wagner, Jeff Jensen, Alice Drummond, Dan Butler

Synopsis: A man who has spent much of his life wandering through a haze of liquor and drugs learns that clearing his mind isn't an easy process in this independent comedy-drama. Truman (J.R. Bourne) is a hard-drinking cab driver who lives and works in Fairbanks, Alaska, driving home boozers and tourists who Read More

Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Ellen Burstyn, Scott Cohen, Samantha Mathis, Vadim Imperioli

Synopsis: Emmy Award-winner Michael Imperioli and Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn headline this made for television adaptation of author and radio personality Mitch Albom's bestselling book about a suicidal ex-baseball player who finds redemption after being granted one more day with his dearly departed Read More

House of D

Actors: Anton Yelchin, Téa Leoni, David Duchovny, Robin Williams, Erykah Badu

Synopsis: Actor David Duchovny made his debut as a director and screenwriter with this coming-of-age drama, in which a grown man looks back at his adolescence. It's 1973, and Tommy (Anton Yelchin) is a 13-year-old boy living in New York's Greenwich Village with his mother (Téa Leoni), who is still coming to Read More

Pieces of April

Actors: Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Derek Luke, Alison Pill

Synopsis: Novelist and screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April. Family outcast April Burns (Katie Holmes) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby (Derek Luke). In order to spend some time with her dying mother Read More

The Rising Place

Actors: Laurel Holloman, Elise Neal, Mark Webber, Liam Aiken, Bill Campbell

Synopsis: A woman learns a valuable lesson about her family as she and her aunt look back at her troubled past in this independent drama. As Virginia Wilder (Frances Fisher) visits her elderly Aunt Millie (Alice Drummond) for the Christmas holidays, she discovers a number of letters she received during the Read More

Joe Gould's Secret

Actors: Ian Holm, Marc Alan Austen, Stanley Tucci, Andrei Belgrader, Ted Blumberg, Patricia Clarkson, Hope Davis, Harry Bugin, Nell Campbell, Steve Martin

Synopsis: This historical comedy-drama is based on the true story of Joe Gould, a bohemian eccentric who was a fixture in New York's Greenwich Village from his arrival in 1916 to his death in 1964. Gould, who claimed to be a graduate of Harvard, would cadge drinks and subsist on catsup as he regaled patrons Read More

The Love Letter

Actors: Kate Capshaw, Blythe Danner, Tom Selleck, Tom Everett Scott, Ellen DeGeneres, Geraldine McEwan, Julianne Nicholson

Synopsis: Helen (Kate Capshaw) runs a bookstore in Loblolly By The Sea, a small fishing community in New England where everyone seems to know everyone else's business. A 42-year-old single mother, she is emotionally distant and fearful of getting too close to anyone. George (Tom Selleck) has known Helen Read More

Earthly Possessions

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Stephen Dorff, Elisabeth Moss, Jay O. Sanders, Alan Pottinger

Synopsis: Susan Sarandon stars in this made-for-cable-TV adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel about a housewife who thinks her life is going nowhere. However, she suddenly gets a lot more adventure than she bargained for when she's taken hostage during a bank robbery. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

I'll Take You There

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Reg Rogers, Lara Harris, John Pyper-Ferguson, Alice Drummond

Synopsis: Former Hal Hartley collaborator Adrienne Shelly directs her second feature about a blind date gone horribly horribly awry. Still thoroughly depressed after his girlfriend dumped him three months ago, Bill (Reg Rogers) is coerced by his sister (Shelly) into going on a blind date with Bernice (Ally Sheedy Read More

'Til There Was You

Actors: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dylan McDermott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olin

Synopsis: This romantic comedy is the first film from two television veterans, writer Winnie Holzman and director Scott Winant. Gwen Moss (Jeanne Tripplehorn) is a writer working on the life story of former child actress Francesca Lanfield (Sarah Jessica Parker), who is recovering from drug addiction. Nick Read More

Office Killer

Actors: Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Barbara Sukowa, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Photographer Cindy Sherman, who often uses motifs from exploitation films in her work, pays witty tribute to slasher films in this satiric horror-comedy. Dorine Douglas (Carol Kane) has spent 16 years at the bottom of the totem pole as a copy editor for Constant Consumer magazine when, due Read More

Commandments

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Courteney Cox Arquette, Anthony LaPaglia, Louis Zorich, Pamela Gray

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, Seth Warner (Aidan Quinn) is a good man having a run of bad luck. His pregnant wife disappeared in the ocean during a trip to the beach, a tornado destroyed his house while leaving everything else in the neighborhood untouched, his boss fired him, and he was struck by a bolt Read More

Jeffrey

Actors: Steven Weber, Michael T. Weiss, Patrick Stewart, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Based on Paul Rudnick's hit Off-Broadway play, this romantic comedy centers on the chaotic love life of Jeffrey (Steven Weber), a gay man who swears off sex only to fall in love with his ideal man (Michael T. Weiss). Jeffrey's vow of chastity is inspired by a fear of AIDS, a prospect which has Read More

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: Patrick Swayze plays Vida Boheme, a classy and long-reigning drag queen. With his understudy Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), Vida wins a New York drag stage contest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood. But when Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) cries at having lost the contest Read More

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Actors: Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sean Young, Dan Marino

Synopsis: When your dog, bird, or water-dwelling mammal disappears, who do you call? Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) is a low-rent private eye who specializes in recovering lost animals, so when Snowflake, the Miami Dolphins' aquatic mascot, is kidnapped, team representative Melissa Robinson (Courtney Cox) puts Read More

Nobody's Fool

Actors: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh

Synopsis: Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination (and won citations from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Berlin International Film Festival) for his performance in this well-drawn comedy-drama. Sully (Newman) is a 60-year-old man who emotionally seems to have never quite emerged from adolescence; Read More

I.Q.

Actors: Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks

Synopsis: Legendary scientist Albert Einstein (played here by Walter Matthau) takes a break from theoretical physics to try to set up his intellectual niece with a handsome auto mechanic in this romantic comedy. The movie's central conceit is that Einstein's brilliance extends to matters of the heart Read More

Law & Order: Mayhem

Synopsis: The emphasis is more on law than order as the viewer follows detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) through an extremely eventful 24 hours. Their unusually heavy case load includes five murders -- all unrelated -- and a violent, domestic quarrel, in which the husband gets the Read More

Money for Nothing

Actors: John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story, dockworker Joey Coyle (John Cusack) finds over $1 million, which fell from an armored car. Instead of returning the money, he embarks on a spending spree unchecked by the wishes of his friend (Michael Rapaport) and hires a crime ring to launder the money. The detective Read More

Daybreak

Synopsis: In this chilling made-for-cable-television outing, the population of the United States is nearly wiped out by a sexually transmitted disease. In order to stop its spread, those infected are sequestered in special camps. To make sure no infected person is allowed to go free, a group of vigilantes Read More

Awakenings

Actors: Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic Read More

Tales From the Darkside: The Movie

Actors: Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, Rae Dawn Chong, William Hickey, James Remar, David Johansen

Synopsis: This feature-length spin-off of the popular television horror anthology is directed by John Harrison, who directed many episodes of the television series. The film consists of four grisly and gruesome horror teasers. "The Wraparound Story" stars Deborah Harry as Betty, a chef with a kitchen Read More

Animal Behavior

Actors: Karen Allen, Armand Assante, Holly Hunter, Richard Libertini, Josh Mostel

Synopsis: In this enjoyable, lighthearted "he's fallen for her" situational, a music professor finds a science department faculty member too deeply engrossed in her inter-species communication studies (she talks to chimps) to even notice him. Since he can't get her mind off her studies, he decides to work Read More

Money, Power, Murder

Synopsis: As a reporter investigates the disappearance of an anchorwoman, his important characters are being killed by an "avenging angel." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Running on Empty

Actors: Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Jonas Abry

Synopsis: In this family drama from director Sidney Lumet, Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play Arthur and Annie Pope, a pair of '60s radicals who have eluded the FBI for 16 years after bombing a napalm laboratory as a Vietnam War protest. This lifestyle involves continually moving their base of operations Read More

Funny Farm

Actors: Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith, Kevin O'Morrison, Joseph Maher, Jack Gilpin

Synopsis: Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every Read More

The House on Carroll Street

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Rhode, Jessica Tandy

Synopsis: Yes, there are commies under the bed. But are there Nazis there too? Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis) is a modestly successful Life photo editor living in 1950s New York, until she is called before the Senate Un-American Activities Committee to testify about her "communist" associations. When she Read More

Night Court: Murder

Synopsis: Sweet old Mrs. Rothman (Florence Stanley) dodders into the courtroom to confess the murder of her husband. The motive, opportunity and details are clear--but Judge Harry (Harry Anderson) has trouble believing her. Elsewhere, Dan (John Larroquette) is taken aback when he is rejected as a sperm Read More

The Suicide Club

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Robert Joy, Lenny Henry, Madeleine Potter, Michael O'Donoghue

Synopsis: In this drama, a wealthy young heiress endeavors to discover if her life does indeed have any meaning after she participates in a far-from-harmless parlor game at an exclusive costume party held in a grand old mansion. Sasha, the heiress, has fallen into a deep depression following the suicide of Read More

Ghostbusters

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is Read More

Night Court: Harry and the Rock Star

Synopsis: Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson) becomes a celebrity-by-association when he begins dating rock star Jennifer Black (Kristine DeBell). Before long, the courtroom is under siege by reporters, photographers and some truly frightening music fans! This episode originally marked Night Court's move Read More

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors

Synopsis: In this filmization of the hit Broadway musical, a popular brothel is threatened with a shutdown by Texas authorities. Burt Reynolds plays the Sheriff, while Dolly Parton portrays the Chicken Ranch madam. While this film has its moments, it never reaches the entertainment heights of its stage Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods, Irene Worth

Synopsis: Fresh off the success of Breaking Away(1979), writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates re-team on a thriller starring a young William Hurt as a janitor infatuated with television reporter Sigourney Weaver. When she arrives at his building to interview the tenants about a murder that's occurred Read More

Hide in Plain Sight

Actors: James Caan, Jill Eikenberry, Danny Aiello, Robert Viharo, Joe Grifasi

Synopsis: Star James Caan made his directorial debut in the fact-based Hide in Plain Sight. Caan plays a divorced husband and father who comes to visit his ex-wife and children, only to discover that they've evidently disappeared from the face of the earth. Running up against the stonewall tactics of the Read More

The Sanctuary of Fear

Synopsis: A Manhattan priest with a fondness for dabbling in detective work investigates a series of unnerving, mysterious attacks, seemingly designed to terrify a young actress. This made-for-television film, retitled for its video release, is inspired by the books of mystery author G.K. Chesterton. ~ Judd Read More

King of the Gypsies

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Not surprisingly, this fascinating dissection of Gypsy life in America was vilified by several ethnic special-interest groups, who'd previously delivered their mimeoed missives to novelist Peter Maas, on whose book the film was based. Sterling Hayden is the "king" of a New York-based gypsy tribe Read More

Thieves

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Hector Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: In this comedy based on a play by Herb Gardner, a zany, disparate couple tries to beat the odds and stay together. The man runs a posh private school and cannot see why his lover prefers teaching in the Lower East Side where they were raised. The two temporarily split, and each of them has an Read More

Man on a Swing

Actors: Richard Dryden

Synopsis: Man on a Swing, purportedly based on a true case, is a puzzling crime thriller concerning a clairvoyant who helps find a murderer. After a murder is committed, supposed clairvoyant Franklin Wills goes to police Chief Lee Tucker (Cliff Robertson) and gives him details of the crime that he has seen Read More

Where's Poppa?

Actors: George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, Trish VanDevere, Barnard Hughes

Synopsis: Director Carl Reiner, most closely associated with the homey values of situation comedies, shocked, surprised, and (in some cases) delighted his admirers with the jet-black comedy Where's Poppa?. George Segal plays Gordon Hocheiser, a New York attorney whose love life is constantly being sabotaged Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 294

Synopsis: The ghostly Sarah (Sharon Smyth) again helps Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) to escape, this time from Windcliff Sanitarium. Maggie returns to the Blue Whale Café -- and runs smack dab into her former tormentor, Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid). This final black-and-white episode of Dark Shadows Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 283

Synopsis: Victoria (Alexandra Moltke) is drawn to Eagle Hill cemetary, where she pays a visit to Josette's grave. Meanwhile, Julia (Grayson Hall) escorts Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) to the exact same location. The problem is, Victoria, like virtually everyone else in town, has been led to believe that Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 265

Synopsis: Against the advice of therapist Julia Hoffman, Sam (David Ford) and Joe (Joel Crothers) visit Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) at Windcliff Sanitarium. Grayson Hall makes her first Dark Shadows appearance in the role of Dr. Julia Hoffman. This episode originally aired on June 30, 1967. ~ Hal Erickson Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 276

Synopsis: As Willie (John Karlen) disposes of Jason's body, Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) slowly recovers her memory under the care of Dr. Julia Hoffman (Grayson Hall). And the ghostly Sarah (Sharon Smyth) makes another appearance -- this time closer to her own "home." This episode originally aired on July Read More

Particular Men

Actors: Glenn Bloom, Alice Drummond, Stacy Keach

Synopsis: Presented by The Broadway Theatre Archive, Particular Men is one of a variety of plays televised between the 1960s and '80s. This production takes place during one of the most notorious advances in military threats -- the dawn of nuclear technology -- and follows a select group of men at the Read More