Amanda PlummerFilmography

Red

Actors: Brian Cox, Noel Fisher, Tom Sizemore, Kyle Gallner, Shiloh Fernandez

Synopsis: After his 14-year-old dog, Red, is senselessly murdered by three thrill-seeking teenagers, an aging recluse sets out seeking justice for his four-legged companion and finds himself gradually pushed to take extreme measures. Brian Cox and Tom Sizemore star in this adaptation of the Jack Ketchum Read More

Affinity

Actors: Anna Madeley, Zoe Tapper, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: Sarah Waters' 1999 novel of the same name serves as the inspiration for director Tim Fywell and screenwriter Andrew Davies' gothic period drama detailing the relationship between an upper class Victorian girl still mourning the death of her father and a once-successful medium imprisoned for Read More

Inconceivable

Actors: Colm Feore, Jennifer Tilly, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth McGovern, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also criminal in this independent drama. Dr. Freeman (Colm Feore) is a doctor who runs an upscale fertility clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Freeman specializes in helping women who have had trouble Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Exodus, Part 1

Actors: Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: Part one of the two-part story arc "Exodus" gets underway as Sharon and her crew successfully deflect a surprise attack by the Cylons and Tyrol stages a daring mission to rescue a group of suspected insurgents from the Cylon firing squad. While these two events indeed provide the human population Read More

Satan's Little Helper

Actors: Amanda Plummer, Alexander Brickel, Katheryn Winnick, Stephen Graham, Joshua Annex

Synopsis: Jeff Lieberman, celebrated by horror film buffs for his imaginative cult favorites Squirm and Blue Sunshine, returns to filmmaking with this offbeat shocker. It's late October, and Douglas (Alexander Brickel), like most nine-year-olds, is looking forward to Halloween, especially trick or treating. Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Weak

Synopsis: Mary Stuart Masterson makes the first of three appearances as psychologist Rebecca Hendrix, whom exacutive producer Fred Wolf had brought in as a temporary replacement while series regular B.D. Wong (Dr. Huang) was appearing in the Broadway musical "Pacific Overtures." Dr. Hendrix joins the SVU Read More

My Life Without Me

Actors: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Deborah Harry, Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros

Synopsis: Isabel Coixet's Mi Vida Sin Me (My Life Without Me) is a tale of a woman dying before her time. Sarah Polley plays Ann, a 24-year-old mother of two. Ann is married to Don (Scott Speedman), and they live near Ann's mother (Deborah Harry), who is bitter about the fact that Ann's father is serving a Read More

Ilaria Alpi: Il Più Crudele Dei Giorni

Actors: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Rade Sherbedgia, Angelo Infanti, Amanda Plummer, Tony Lo Bianco

Synopsis: While pursuing a story in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1994, Italian investigative reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin were brutally murdered for uncovering what was later discovered to be one of the largest governmental corruption scandals in European history. Director Ferdinando Vincentini Orgnani Read More

Triggermen

Actors: Neil Morrissey, Donnie Wahlberg, Adrian Dunbar, Claire Forlani, Amanda Plummer, Michael Rapaport, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: John Bradshaw's crime comedy Triggermen begins when a pair of professional killers (Michael Rapaport and Donnie Wahlberg) are hired to execute one of the major figures in organized crime (Pete Postlethwaite). Soon the pair are mistaken with a pair of British conmen (Neil Morrissey and Adrian Dunbar Read More

Man for All Stages: The Life and Times of Christopher Plummer

Actors: Christopher Plummer

The Gray In Between

Actors: Josh Rofé, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: Directed by Josh Rofé, The Gray In Between centers around Cully (Rofé), a mischievous teen whose exploits are suddenly curtailed after being shot in the back. Permanently paralyzed and deeply depressed, the now wheelchair-bound Cully finds solace in Julie (Natasha Gregson Wagner), an older friend Read More

Ken Park

Actors: James Ransome, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso, James Bullard, Mike Apaletegui

Synopsis: Filmmaker Larry Clark reunites with Kids screenwriter Harmony Korine, with some additional directorial assistance from cinematographer Ed Lachman, for this look at a group of troubled teens and their guardians living in Southern California. Ken Park takes its name from the skate park where an Read More

8 1/2 Women

Actors: John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Shizuka Inoh, Barbara Sarafian, Toni Collette, Amanda Plummer, Polly Walker

Synopsis: From Peter Greenaway, one of Britain's most controversial directors, 8 1/2 Women is a laconic black comedy that examines the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and consequences. A rich businessman from Geneva acquires eight and a half pachinko parlors in Kyoto, Japan. They are Read More

The Million Dollar Hotel

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Peter Stormare

Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to the screen with this loosely structured murder mystery. The Million Dollar Hotel unites Wender's obsession with cool music, lost souls, and American trash culture. Set in 2001, the film opens with Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies) taking a flying leap off the roof Read More

7 Days To Live

Actors: Amanda Plummer, Sean Pertwee, Nick Brimble, Gina Bellman, Sean Chapman

Synopsis: In 1976 a group of English villagers led by cop Carl (Nick Brimble) journey to a remote house where they discover a traumatized man and the corpse of his wife. Twenty-three years later, the remote house is home to Martin (Sean Pertwee), a burned-out novelist, and his American wife Ellen (Amanda Plummer Read More

The Apartment Complex

Actors: Chad Lowe, Fay Masterson, Amanda Plummer, Obba Babatunde, R. Lee Ermey, Patrick Warburton

October 22

Actors: Tate Donovan, Ernie Hudson, Michael Paré, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: In this offbeat drama, a group of people who have nothing in common are having breakfast at the same diner, with Denise the waitress (Amanda Plummer) serving them coffee. As we view the unrelated strands of their lives, the patrons are suddenly and dramatically brought together when a lunatic with Read More

L.A. Without a Map

Actors: David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Cameron Bancroft

Synopsis: Mika Kaurismaki directed this British-French-Finnish romantic comedy adapted from Richard Rayner's autobiographical novel about a series of Hollywood misadventures. Vacationing in the North of England, aspiring Los Angeles actress Barbara (Vinessa Shaw) stops briefly in a village where she meets Read More

You Can Thank Me Later

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Amanda Plummer, Ted Levine, Mark Blum, Mary McDonnell

Synopsis: Shimon Dotan directed this Canadian comedy-drama from Oren Safdie's screenplay based on Safdie's play, Hyper-Allergenic, set in a hospital room where a dysfunctional family awaits the results of surgery. Shirley Cooperberg (Ellen Burstyn) heads a Montreal Jewish family, and during her husband's Read More

A Simple Wish

Actors: Martin Short, Mara Wilson, Robert Pastorelli, Amanda Plummer, Francis Capra

Synopsis: This comic children's fantasy from director Michael Ritchie stars Mara Wilson as eight-year-old New Yorker Anabel, who wishes that her father Oliver (Robert Pastorelli), a hansom cab driver in Central Park, would see his dream come true. In a thinly veiled jab at the overblown stage productions of Read More

Hercules

Actors: Tate Donovan, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart, Danny DeVito, James Woods

Synopsis: Disney's animation team dipped into the rich well of ancient mythology for this musical comedy. The son of Greek gods Zeus (voice of Rip Torn) and Hera (Samantha Eggar), Hercules (voice of Josh Keaton) is stolen as a boy by the minions of Hades (voice of James Woods), lord of the underworld. Read More

American Perfekt

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Amanda Plummer, David Thewlis, Robert Forster

Synopsis: In this noir-influenced road movie, Jake (Robert Forster) is a criminal psychiatrist who has come to the conclusion that our lives are dictated primarily by chance, and has given himself over to this notion by making most of his decision by the flip of a coin. Sandra (Amanda Plummer) is a neurotic Read More

Hysteria

Actors: Patrick McGoohan, Amanda Plummer, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: Dutch cult filmmaker Rene Daalder (Massacre at Central High, Habitat) directed this surreal tale of thought-control experiments on the inmates of an insane asylum. Like his other films, Hysteria is a rich and thematically dense sociopolitical allegory, but this time around the concept is Read More

Drunks

Actors: Richard Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Calista Flockhart, Spalding Gray, George Martin

Synopsis: An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting brings together a disparate group of people struggling with addiction to drugs and liquor in this film based on Gary Lennon's play "Blackout." Jim (Richard Lewis) is in a bad mood as he sits in on an AA meeting in the basement of a church in New York City; he's Read More

Freeway

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Brooke Shields, Amanda Plummer, Wolfgang Bodison, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: In this postmodern exploitation flick loosely based on "Little Red Riding Hood," the uneducated daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute flees the foster-care system in search of her long-lost grandmother but meets up instead with a serial killer. Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon), a nearly illiterate Read More

Don't Look Back

Actors: Eric Stoltz, John Corbett, Josh Hamilton, Annabeth Gish, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: A drug addict gets more than a quick fix in this made-for-cable thriller. Eric Stoltz stars as Jesse Parish, a musician and druggie who leads a mobster to his old stomping grounds after stealing a case of cash and going on the lam. Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thorton co-stars and co-wrote the script. Read More

Dead Girl

Actors: Adam Coleman Howard, Anne Parillaud

Synopsis: Adam Coleman Howard wrote, directed, and stars in this gallows-comedy misfire as Ari Rose, an unsuccessful would-be actor whose treatment by Hollywood has driven him quite mad. He falls for a beautiful woman named Helen-Catherine (Anne Parillaud from La Femme Nikita and Innocent Blood) but Read More

The Right to Remain Silent

Actors: Lea Thompson, Robert Loggia, Judge Reinhold, Laura San Giacomo, Patrick Dempsey

Synopsis: In this police actioner, a brand-new lady cop's lack of enthusiasm at getting a job behind a criminal processing desk instead of on the streets proves unfounded. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Search and Destroy

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Illeana Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, John Turturro

Synopsis: Martin Mirkhein (Griffin Dunne) is a failed entrepreneur trying to figure out how to pay a huge tax bill to the State of Florida when he gets a brainstorm -- Daniel Strong, the inspirational men's movement novel by New Age philosopher Luther Waxling (Dennis Hopper), would make a great film. Never Read More

Butterfly Kiss

Actors: Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves, Paul Bown, Freda Dowie, Fine Time Fontayne

Synopsis: This unsettling variation on Thelma and Louise (1991) is an unusual and often macabre love story/black comedy about two peculiar women, played by Amanda Plummer and Saskia Reeves, who roam through Northern England on a killing spree. Plummer is Eunice, a tattooed, schizophrenic free spirit who is Read More

The Final Cut

Actors: Sam Elliott, Charles Martin Smith, Matt Craven, Anne Ramsay, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: In this high-energy direct-to-video actioner, a retired bomb expert is called back to duty to find out who has been planting terrorist bombs in Seattle. While he investigates, more bombs explode and it becomes frighteningly clear that the terrorist is targeting bomb-squad members. Matters get more Read More

The Prophecy

Actors: Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, Moriah Snyder

Synopsis: The directorial debut from Highlander screenwriter Gregory Widen stars Christopher Walken as the angel Gabriel, who, fed up with God giving all of his attention to humans, decides to stage a sort of coup. With plans of killing all of the good angels, Gabriel decides to enlist the help of a Read More

Under the Piano

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

Nostradamus

Actors: Tchéky Karyo, F. Murray Abraham, Rutger Hauer, Amanda Plummer, Julia Ormond

Synopsis: This period drama explores the life and times of the 16th century doctor and scientist who some believed could see into the future. Michel de Nostradamus (Tcheky Karyo) was the son in a Jewish family who posed as Catholics to be spared the wrath of the Inquisition. As a student of the renowned Read More

Pax

Actors: Amanda Plummer, Isabel Ruth, Joao Lagarto, Paulo Guilherme, Carlos Cainha Martins

Synopsis: This lightweight comedy is part of a trilogy about Lisbon. Scatter-brained Franny is in Lisbon to deliver a valuable package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and only knows that the recipient's name is Joao. When she meets an old hooker, Esmeralda, the two join forces and begin cruising the Read More

Needful Things

Actors: Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Satan opens an antique shop in a small town and lures the residents into evil actions in this supernatural chiller. Based on a novel by the prolific Stephen King, the film bears many of the author's trademarks, such as the New England setting and the focus on regular people tempted by the forces Read More

Last Light

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: Kiefer Sutherland directed and stars in this death-row drama, playing an inmate who forms a complex relationship with a guard (Forest Whitaker). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica

Actors: Susan Dey, Michael Ontkean, Amanda Plummer, David Keith, Anna Ferguson

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-television movie, a little girl finds herself a pawn in a bitter custody battle between her adoptive parents and her biological parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Actors: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Comic actor and former Saturday Night Live stock player Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title character in Wayne's World (1992) (and its sequel) into a romantic leading man with this box office disappointment. Myers stars as Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet who Read More

Freejack

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, David Johansen

Synopsis: Geoff Murphy directed this time-travel chase movie. Emilio Estevez stars as Alex Furlong, a racecar driver from 1991, who is just about to experience a deadly crash in his Formula Atlantic. But at the last moment Alex finds himself transported to the streets of New York in 2009. He is saved from Read More

Miss Rose White

Actors: Maureen Stapleton, Kyra Sedgwick, Maximilian Schell, Amanda Plummer, Penny Fuller

Synopsis: In this Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film set in the post-war era, Kyra Sedgwick is the title character, a New Yorker who has long kept her Jewish heritage under wraps. Born in Poland but sent to the U.S. before the Holocaust, the young career woman receives word that the older sister she presumed was Read More

The Sands of Time

Actors: Deborah Raffin, Michael Nouri, Ramy Zada, Amanda Plummer, Kim Weeks

Synopsis: In this two-part adventure drama based on a thriller by author Sidney Sheldon, three nuns must run for their lives from a cruel colonel. Their flight leads them straight to a renowned Spanish rebel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fisher King

Actors: Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, David Hyde Pierce, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his Read More

Joe Versus the Volcano

Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy, featuring Bo Welch's signature production design. Tom Hanks plays Joe Banks, a man who hates his job, thinks the overhead fluorescent lights are making him sick, and quakes Read More

Kojak: None So Blind

Actors: Telly Savalas

Synopsis: A rich businessman, his wife and son are involved in illegal transactions as Kojak investigates. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Lover Come Hack to Me

The Story of the Dancing Frog

Synopsis: The gentle animated tale chronicles the adventures of two globe-trotting frogs, George and Gertrude. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Prisoners of Inertia

Actors: Amanda Plummer, Christopher Rich, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Made for television, Prisoners of Inertia first aired April 25, 1990, on PBS' American Playhouse. Amanda Plummer and Christopher Rich are a pair of New York newlyweds who see no earthly reason to emerge from the cocoon of their apartment. One Sunday morning, on a wild caprice, they decide to go Read More

Dancing Frog

True Blue

Gryphon

Synopsis: Amanda Plummer stars as an unorthodox substitute teacher in Gryphon. Assigned to an inner-city classroom, Amanda tries to shake her pupils out of their apathy through her storytelling skills. She manages to "reach" Ricky (Alexis Cruz), the classroom's most contentious student. Unfortunately, Ricky Read More

Riders to the Sea

Synopsis: A mother who has lost three sons to the sea is plagued with worry that the same fate is in store for her last son. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Made in Heaven

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, Don Murray, Ellen Barkin, Marj Dusay

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph directed this offbeat, boy-meets-girl romance in which boy dies, dead boy meets dead girl, dead boy loses dead girl, and dead boy tries to find dead girl again. The tale begins is a small Pennsylvania town, where Mike Shea (Timothy Hutton) dreams of escaping small town life and moving Read More

Courtship

Actors: William Converse-Roberts, Hallie Foote, Michael Higgins

Synopsis: Horton Foote is the author and his daughter Hallie Foote the star of The Courtship. Set in 1915, this minimalist character piece details the courting customs in the small Texas town of Harrison. Hallie, the daughter of a prosperous small-town family, is sought after by travelling salesman William Converse-Roberts Read More

Moonlighting: Take a Left at the Altar

Synopsis: It's been two weeks since David (Bruce Willis) has seen Maddie (Cybill Shepherd), his partner at the Blue Moon Detective Agency--and his lover, or so he'd been led to believe. With no one else around, David teams with the obsequious Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong) for his latest case, involving Read More

Static

Actors: Keith Gordon, Amanda Plummer, Bob Gunton, Barton Heyman, Lily Knight

Synopsis: Keith Gordon plays a oddball loner who builds a very special kind of TV set. He claims he can tune in to images of Heaven, and all evidence points to the veracity of his claim. Gordon's eccentric religiosity attracts the attention of wacko evangelist Bob Gunton, who'd like to snatch the TV for his Read More

The Dollmaker

Synopsis: Jane Fonda stars in this made-for-TV movie, which uses the backdrop of World War II and urbanization to tell the story of one woman's fight to keep her family together. Gertie Nevels (Fonda), the wife of a Kentucky sharecropper, wants nothing more than to one day own her own farm. Thriftily hiding Read More

The Hotel New Hampshire

Actors: Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: This macabre, whimsical, erotic, dark, seriocomic film is a complex tale about an eccentric family and the psychological and emotional maelstroms that follow them around from New England to New York to Vienna, where the Hotel New Hampshire is located. Writer-director Tony Richardson worked from Read More

Daniel

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Asner, Ellen Barkin

Synopsis: Sidney Lumet directed this film version of E.L. Doctorow's novel The Book of Daniel (scripted by Doctorow) that deals in a thinly veiled (although dispassionate way) with the Rosenberg spy case of the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of their children. The Rosenbergs are the Isaacsons here, and the Read More

The World According to Garp

Actors: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. Robin Williams plays the title character, the son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (Glenn Close, in her film debut). Every effort Read More

The Unforgivable Secret

Actors: Amanda Plummer, Barbara Feldon, Danny Aiello, Steve Vinovich, Jo Lynn Sciarro

Synopsis: Amanda Plummer was preparing to star in the Broadway play Agnes of God (for which she ultimately won a Tony Award) when she was cast in this ABC Afterschool Special. Having never known her "late" father, 15-year-old Angela Dunoway (Plummer) is startled when she meets him by accident. Insisting Read More

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Actors: Burt Lancaster, John Savage, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: This offbeat and atmospheric western is set in 1893, as a gang led by longtime outlaws Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster) and Bill Dalton (Scott Glenn) is on the verge of falling apart due to time and fatigue. A pair of teenage girls who long to be part of the outlaw mythos of the west meet up with Read More