Allison Anders Filmography

Born:: November 16, 1954 in Ashland, Kentucky
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: The hardships encountered and overcome by director Allison Anders are often reflected in the grittiness and strength of her female characters, a quality that lends her stories a tough but refreshing honesty. Anders cares about her characters, but she refuses to give them falsely happy endings and...Read More

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Actors: Kimberly Peirce, Alison Andres, Jon Lewis, David Ansen, Martin Garbus, Wayne Kramer

Synopsis: In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by Read More

9/1/06
In the Company of Women

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

2004
Things Behind the Sun

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Don Cheadle, Eric Stoltz, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: Writer and director Allison Anders, who used the world of rock & roll as the backdrop for her films Border Radio, Grace of My Heart, and Sugar Mountain, returns to the music scene for this tale of a woman struggling to come to terms with an emotionally devastating past. Sherry McGrale (Kim Read More

10/12/01
Sugar Town

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jade Gordon, Michael Des Barres, John Taylor, Martin Kemp, Larry Klein

Synopsis: Ten years after Allison Anders and Kurt Voss collaborated on Border Radio, a gritty and evocative look at life along the margins of the L.A. punk rock scene, the two have reunited for another look at the California music biz, this time aiming their sights considerably higher up the ladder. Sugar Read More

9/17/99
Lover Girl

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sandra Bernhard, Kristy Swanson, Tara Subkoff, Loretta Devine, Susan Barnes

Synopsis: This independent drama takes an unexpectedly light and emotionally sensitive approach to a potentially controversial subject -- a teenager taking up a career as a prostitute. Sixteen-year-old Jake (Tara Subkoff) is a pretty but troubled girl who has been abandoned by her mother. Needing a place to Read More

1997
Grace of My Heart

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz, Bruce Davison, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Illeana Douglas delivers a superb performance as Denise Waverly, a fictional singer and songwriter whose life bears more than a passing resemblance to that of real-life pop star Carole King. Edna Buxton, the daughter of a Philadelphia steel tycoon, aspires to a career as a singer, and when against Read More

1996
Four Rooms

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tim Roth, Valeria Golino, Jennifer Beals, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven Read More

1995
My Crazy Life

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Neighborhood pride runs deep in Echo Park, so when two lifelong friends join the local gang as a matter of course, they're handed down gang names from the previous generation of homegirls. Unfortunately, Sad Girl (Angel Aviles) and Mousie (Seidy Lopez) don't remain friends for long. When Mousie Read More

1993
Gas Food Lodging

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Richard Peck called Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Allison Anders' melodramatic coming-of-age tale Gas Food Lodging takes place in Laramie, NM, a small town right off the highway. Nora (Brooke Adams) is a truck-stop waitress who lives in a trailer park with her two teenaged Read More

7/31/92
Border Radio

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Chris D, John Doe, Luana Anders, Chris Shearer, Dave Alvin

Synopsis: In this semi-improvised look at life along the edges of L.A.'s rock scene, Chris D. (real name Chris Desjardins, leader of the L.A. punk band The Flesh Eaters) plays Jeff, a singer/songwriter who has suddenly gone missing. Two of his friends, bandmate Dean (John Doe, from the group X) and faithful Read More

1987