Ally Sheedy Filmography

Born:: June 13, 1962 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Alexandra Sheedy
Biography:: Brown-eyed, chestnut-haired actress Ally Sheedy has been involved with acting for most of her life. The daughter of a literary agent mother, she began making commercials and appearing on-stage at the age of 15. She was something of a precocious author, as well: When only 12-years-old, she...Read More

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Harold

Actors: Spencer Breslin, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Nikki Blonsky, Ally Sheedy, Fred Willard

Synopsis: A 13-year-old boy (Spencer Breslin) suffering from premature male-pattern baldness does his best to adjust to life in a new high school despite becoming the hapless target of every bully and cruel-minded teenager in town. While he's got the high-school janitor (Cuba Gooding Jr.) on his side, the Read More

7/11/08
Day Zero

Actors: Elijah Wood, Chris Klein, Jon Bernthal, Ginnifer Goodwin, Elisabeth Moss

Synopsis: Three men come face to face with their concerns about war when they're drafted in this independent drama set in the near future. As the United States becomes more deeply mired in wars around the world and the threat of major terrorist attacks looms large, the federal government decides to Read More

1/18/08
Steam

Actors: Ruby Dee, Ally Sheedy, Kate Siegel, Reshma Shetty, Dick Anthony Williams

Synopsis: Three women struggle with the joys and sorrows of love in this three-part drama from writer and director Kyle Schickner. Teenaged Elizabeth (Kate Siegel) has been raised in a conservative, deeply religious household, and when she goes away to college she revels in her first taste of freedom. Read More

2008
The Veteran

Actors: Michael Ironside, Ally Sheedy, Bobby Hosea, Colin Glazer, Donald Burda

Synopsis: A Vietnam veteran-turned-holy man returns to Saigon, only to be confronted by a former war buddy who forces him to own up to his blood-soaked past in this drama from director Sidney J. Furie. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Happy Here and Now

Actors: Karl Geary, Shalom Harlow, Clarence Williams III, Ally Sheedy, Josephine Martin

Synopsis: Drawn into a menacing underground world of the New Orleans elite while searching for her missing sister, Muriel (Shalom Harlow), Amelia (Liane Balaban) is aided in her investigation by ex-CIA agent Bill (Clarence Williams III) in this effort from Nadja director Michael Almereyda. Soon discovering Read More

12/14/05
Shooting Livien

Actors: Jason Behr, Dominic Monaghan, Joshua Leonard, Sarah Wynter, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: An aspiring musician on the brink of stardom attempts to do battle with his personal demons before they finally get the best of him in an emotional musical drama from filmmaker Rebecca Cook. John Livien (Jason Behr) is a struggling New York City rocker who, along with band-mates Owen (Dominic Monaghan Read More

2004
Noise

Actors: Trish Goff, Ally Sheedy, Giancarlo Esposito, David Thornton, Wendy Makkena

Synopsis: A beautiful divorced young woman moves into a new apartment in New York City only to find out her upstairs neighbor is slowly driving her stark raving mad. Joyce Chandler (Trish Goff) is a successful newspaper copy editor that is still mourning the recent split from her husband when she moves into Read More

2004
The Dead Zone: Playing God

Actors: John L. Adams, Nicole deBoer, Chris Bruno, Kristen Dalton

Synopsis: Johnny (Anthony Michael Hall) is reunited with two of his high-school friends, Jason Moore (Lochlyn Munro) and Jason's sister Kate (Ally Sheedy, with whom series star Hall appeared in the 1982 theatrical feature The Breakfast Club). Upon making physical contact with both Jason and Kate, Johnny Read More

2003
Shelter Island

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Patsy Kensit, Stephen Baldwin, Mimi Langeland, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Geoff Schaaf's thriller Shelter Island features a couple who have attempted to get away from it all at their vacation home at the place where the film takes its title; however, the vacation takes a sinister turn when weather makes contact with the outside world impossible, and a mysterious Read More

2003
No Money Down

Synopsis: An entrepreneurial bachelor and his loyal best friend strike out on their own to live it up in the Hamptons in directors Sam Sokolow and Rob Lobl's all-star comedy featuring Josh Lucas, Bob Balaban, Al Franken, Ally Sheedy, Teri Garr, and Roy Scheider. Eric Traber (Lucas) has just been fired from Read More

2003
A Good Night to Die

Actors: Michael Rapaport, Gary Stretch, Robin Givens, Ally Sheedy, Ralph Macchio

Synopsis: This crime comedy from director Craig Singer is the filmmaker's third independent feature and his second outing with screenwriter Robert Dean Klein and star Gary Stretch, who had contributed to 2001's Dead Dogs Lie, Singer's sophomore effort. Stretch plays Ronnie, a hitman who, three years prior Read More

2003
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Mark Rendall, John Bourgeois, Michael Riley

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-cable drama focuses on the plight of 14-year-old Michael Crowe (Mark Rendall). When his younger sister is found murdered in her bed, Michael is accused of the crime and hauled into the local police station. After a grueling interrogation, the cops manage to Read More

2002
Searching for Debra Winger

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Emmanuelle Béart, Katrin Cartlidge, Laura Dern

Synopsis: Directed by actress Rosanna Arquette, this candid documentary is not only about the iconoclastic and somewhat reclusive film star Debra Winger (who does not even appear onscreen until an hour into the film), but also about the trials and tribulations of actresses in Hollywood who have reached Read More

2002
Just a Dream

Actors: Rodney Grant, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy, Robby Benson, Carl Lumbly, Jeremy Sumpter

Synopsis: A wide-eyed young boy finds his small-town life turned upside down in the feature directorial debut from actor Danny Glover. Jeremy Sumpter of Frailty stars as Henry, a youngster in rural America who dreams of Hollywood when a big-studio movie crew comes to town to shoot a new picture. Also Read More

2001
Sugar Town

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
Advice From a Caterpillar

Actors: Cynthia Nixon, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: Andy Dick and Cynthia Nixon star in the romantic comedy Advice from a Caterpillar as best friends who become two points in a love triangle when they each become attracted to the same man. Their feelings make a mess of their once strong friendship, as well as their opinions of themselves. Jon Read More

1999
Our Guys

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Eric Stoltz, Heather Matarazzo, Scott Vickaryous, Sara Botsford

1999
Intimate Portrait: Ally Sheedy

1999
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

1999
High Art

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson, Tammy Grimes, Gabriel Mann

Synopsis: Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd (Radha Mitchell) has a ho-hum relationship with James (Gabriel Mann). Investigating a ceiling leak, she Read More

6/12/98
The Fury Within

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Costas Mandylor, Vincent Berry

Synopsis: This supernatural chiller was made especially for the USA cable network. A couple teetering on the brink of divorce find themselves forced to pull together after an evil poltergeist enters their home and endangers, not only their lives, but that of their son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/98
The Autumn Heart

Actors: Tyne Daly, Ally Sheedy, Jack Davidson, Davidlee Willson, Marla Sucharetza

Synopsis: Steven Maler's first feature film made it's premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Autumn Heart is a heavy melodrama set in 1970 about three daughters who go looking for their long lost brother. What they find is an opened Pandora's box about themselves. Sixteen years have passed since Ann (Tyne Daly Read More

1998
Buried Alive II

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Stephen Caffrey, Tracey Needham, Tim Matheson, Brian Libby

Synopsis: This made-for-cable sequel to the 1990 TV-movie thriller Buried Alive picks up where the earlier film leaves off, with the death of the sheriff who solved the mystery in the original. Old Sam has left his money (a hefty sum indeed) to his niece Laura (Ally Sheedy), who is married to a no-account Read More

1997
Macon County Jail

Actors: Charles Napier, Ally Sheedy, David Carradine

Synopsis: This drama, which bears a certain resemblance to Jackson County Jail, also produced in part by Roger Corman, stars Ally Sheedy as a woman who ends up in a jail in the Deep South on trumped up charges, where she must fight to survive, with the unexpected help of fellow prisoner David Carradine. Read More

1/1/97
The Junior Defenders

Actors: John Waters, Ally Sheedy, Brian O'Halloran, Justin Henry, Bill Raymond

Synopsis: Twenty-five years after the cult-television hit "The Junior Defenders" was abruptly cancelled, the washed-up former child stars who played adolescent superheroes in the series are kidnapped by an obsessive fan and forced at gunpoint to act in a brand new episode. Back in 1978, "The Junior Read More

1997
Family Rescue

Actors: George C. Scott, Ally Sheedy, Rachael Leigh Cook, Don Diamont

Synopsis: Deserted by her no-good mother Angie (Ally Sheedy), Emma Baker (Rachael Lee Cook) has been raised by her grandfather, a tough but compassionate old coal miner named Clayton Hayes (George C. Scott). Now 15 years old, Emma insists upon a reunion with her drink-sodden mom--only to be raped and Read More

1997
Hijacked: Flight 285

Actors: James Brolin, Perry King, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall

Synopsis: While being escorted to prison from Phoenix to New York, crazed killer Peter Cronin (Anthony Michael Hall) hijacks a commercial jet in flight with the help of accomplices. Holding the 200 passengers and the crew members hostage, Cronin forces the plane to land in Dallas, then demands another, more Read More

1996
Tin Soldier

Actors: Jon Voight, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: Jon Voight directed and stars in this fantasy about a young boy who begins hanging out with the wrong crowd until he's given a gift of a tin soldier. The soldier comes to life, and uses his steely principles to set the boy back on the straight and narrow. However, the soldier also has a few Read More

1995
One Night Stand

Actors: Ally Sheedy, A. Martinez, Frederic Forrest, Diane Salinger, Don Novello

Synopsis: When a woman hopes that a night of passion will grow into something deeper, she finds that her new beau may have some secrets in this erotic thriller. Ever since her divorce, Michelle Sanderson (Ally Sheedy) has tried to focus on her career in advertising, but she's become terribly lonely, and Read More

1995
Parallel Lives

Synopsis: Directed by Linda Yellen, this made-for-cable movie originally aired on the Showtime network and featured a star-studded cast including Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, and James Belushi. The plot centers around several fraternity and sorority graduates who have decided to regroup at their alma mater. Read More

1994
Amnesia

Actors: Julio Jung, Nicholas Walker, Pedro Vicuna, Dara Tomanovich, Ally Sheedy, Nelson Villagra, Jose Secall, Sally Kirkland, John Savage, Marcela Osorio

Synopsis: A former guard in South American detention camp exacts his revenge on his cruel sergeant in this Chilean black comedy. When the odd-looking Ramirez sees a familiar face on the street, he follows him to a bar. The face belongs to Zuniga, a formerly domineering ex-sergeant in the desert known for Read More

1994
Ultimate Betrayal

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Mel Harris, Ally Sheedy, Eileen Heckart, Kathryn Dowling

Synopsis: A family is torn apart when two adult sisters decide to take their father to court for sexually abusing them as children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
The Haunting of Seacliff Inn

Actors: William R. Moses, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: A couple gets more than they bargained for when they buy an old seaside mansion, in this made-for-television movie. Ally Sheedy and William R. Moses star as a couple from San Francisco who decide to rekindle their love and life, by moving away to a small town and buying an inn. After a series of Read More

1994
Man's Best Friend

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen, Fredric Lehne, John Cassini

Synopsis: A reporter (Ally Sheedy) sneaks into a lab to investigate animal cruelty, and emerges from the ordeal with a mastiff named Max in this 1993 thriller. The dog, which has been genetically enhanced, makes her life miserable while they are being chased by the owner of the lab (Lance Henriksen). ~ John Read More

1993
Chantilly Lace

Synopsis: A group of seven women reunite three times a year to share their experiences with each other in this made-for-cable drama. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
The Pickle

Actors: Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon, Clotilde Courau, Shelley Winters, Barry Miller, Jerry Stiller, Chris Penn, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged man looking back on his life's failures. Harry Stone (Danny Aiello) is a film director who desperately needs a hit -- so desperately that he gets talked into directing an Read More

1993
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard

Synopsis: John Hughes and Chris Columbus repeat their best-selling formula from the first Home Alone film with this sequel. Once again Kevin McCallister's (Macaulay Culkin) family leave him behind, only now he gets on a flight to New York instead of going with his family to Miami. Kevin manages to hail a Read More

11/20/92
Tattle Tale

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: In this comedy, an actor masquerades as another more appealing man in hopes that his ex-wife will fall in love with him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Only the Lonely

Actors: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Kevin Dunn, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: Writer-director Chris Columbus mines Paddy Chaveysky's Marty for this bittersweet comedy about a lonely 38-year old Chicago cop dominated by his harridan mother. Danny Muldoon (John Candy), in spite of being well known and well liked in his neighborhood, still lives at home with his mother Rose (Maureen O'Hara Read More

5/24/91
Betsy's Wedding

Actors: Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell(Dylan Walsh), just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie (Alan Alda), a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP Read More

6/22/90
Fear

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Dina Merrill, Michael O'Keefe, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Fear stars Ally Sheedy as a psychic who frequently helps the police track down criminals. This time, however, there's a serial killer at large who's a pretty efficient psychic in his own right. The story boils down to a battle of wills, and for while it looks as though the villain's will is the Read More

1990
The Lost Capone

Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV gangster docudrama, Al Capone (Eric Roberts) wages war against his younger brother (Adrian Pasdar), a Midwestern sheriff. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
The Heart of Dixie

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, Treat Williams, Don Michael Paul

Synopsis: Set at a Southern college during the 1950s, three co-eds (Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates) re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

8/25/89
Maid to Order

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Beverly D'Angelo, Michael Ontkean, Valerie Perrine, Dick Shawn

Synopsis: Rich but repulsive teenager Jessie (Ally Sheedy) can't stand the notion that the whole world doesn't jump to the crack of her whip. Her overindulgent father, millionaire Charles Montgomery (Tom Skerritt), wishes he could teach his daughter a lesson, but can't bring himself to deny his little Read More

7/31/87
We Are the Children

Synopsis: The made-for-TV We are the Children stars Ally Sheedy as an idealistic doctor, working in Ethiopia. When famine hits the land, Sheedy struggles valiantly to protect the hundreds of men, women and children in the village where she works. While so doing, she falls in love with adventurous Read More

1987
Short Circuit

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Tim Blaney

Synopsis: Struck by lightning, an endearing little robot known only as "Number 5" escapes from an experimental electronics firm. Technician Steve Guttenberg and his indecipherable East Indian assistant Fisher Stevens set out to locate Number 5 before the military can go through with its plans to destroy the Read More

5/9/86
Blue City

Actors: Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Paul Winfield, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: When prodigal son Billy Turner (Judd Nelson) returns to his Florida home town, he's caught in a brawl and thrown in jail. He tells the guards to call his father, the mayor, who will have him released; however, he soon discovers his father has been killed. After Turner finally gets out of jail, he Read More

5/2/86
The Breakfast Club

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason

Synopsis: John Hughes wrote and directed this quintessential 1980s high school drama featuring the hottest young stars of the decade. Trapped in a day-long Saturday detention in a prison-like school library are Claire, the princess (Molly Ringwald); Andrew, the jock (Emilio Estevez); John, the criminal (Judd Nelson Read More

1985
Twice in a Lifetime

Actors: Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn, Amy Madigan, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: On the occasion of his 50th birthday, blue-collar family man Gene Hackman is possessed by our old friend, The Mid-Life Crisis. Visiting a local tavern, Hackman becomes enchanted by gorgeous barmaid Ann-Margret. In less time than it takes to down his beer, he has resolved to leave his wife Ellen Burstyn Read More

1985
St. Elmo's Fire

Actors: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Mare Winningham, Andie MacDowell

Synopsis: Post-collegiate angst, '80s style, is the subject of this coming-of-age ensemble piece, which traces the fortunes of a group of Georgetown grads as they enter the real world and grapple with work, infidelity, and adulthood. The most outwardly upscale member of the gang, Jules (Demi Moore), hides a Read More

1985
Oxford Blues

Actors: Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays, Julian Sands, Julian Firth

Synopsis: This is an uneven modern remake of A Yank at Oxford (1938) from writer-director Robert Boris, the man behind such diverse earlier productions as Some Kind of Hero (1981) and Doctor Detroit (1983). Rob Lowe stars as Nick Di Angelo, an American hustler and parking attendant in Las Vegas who falls in Read More

1984
Bad Boys

Actors: Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Esai Morales, Eric Gurry, Jim Moody

Synopsis: Following magnetic performances in Taps (1981) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), young actor Sean Penn sealed his reputation as one of his generation's most gifted performers with his gritty star turn in Bad Boys (1983), an entertaining tale of teen hoodlums in juvenile lock-up. Penn plays Read More

1983
WarGames

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Read More

1983
Deadly Lessons

Actors: Nancy Cartwright, Donna Reed

Synopsis: Considering how seldom she appeared on TV in the 1980s, Donna Reed could have picked a better vehicle than Deadly Lessons. Ms. Reed is cast as the headmistress of an exclusive all-girl's prep school. Like the title suggests, the school is being terrorized by a mysterious murderer. Only by Read More

1983
The Best Little Girl in the World

Actors: Charles Durning, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eva Marie Saint, Melanie Mayron, Jason Miller

Synopsis: A young girl's dangerous dance with dieting leads to near disaster in this exceptional made-for-television drama. In one of the earliest treatments of the subject, Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Casey Powell, the quiet daughter of an overbearing mother and milquetoast father. Feeling pressure to be Read More

1981
Splendor in the Grass

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Graham Jarvis

Synopsis: William Inge's sexual-awakening drama had already been satisfactorily filmed by director Elia Kazan 1961, twenty years before this TV movie made its debut. Melissa Gilbert and Cyrill O'Reilly are not a completely fair trade for the original film's Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, but the players Read More

1981
The Day the Loving Stopped

Actors: Dominique Dunne, Valerie Harper, Ally Sheedy, Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver and Valerie Harper play a married couple on the brink of divorce in The Day the Loving Stopped. Ally Sheedy plays the younger of the couple's two daughters; the story of the breakup is told primarily from her point of view. The dissolution of Weaver and Harper's marriage is Read More

1981
The Violation of Sarah McDavid

Synopsis: Violation of Sarah McDavid is a surprisingly explicit TV movie concerning the undercurrent of violence in a purportedly "good" high school. Patty Duke Astin is a new teacher at Benjamin Harrison High, where the GPA is high but where sadism and brutality amongst the students is the order of the Read More

1981
The Definite Maybe