Amy MadiganFilmography

Living Proof

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr., Bernadette Peters, Amanda Bynes, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Director Dan Ireland adapts writer Robert Bazell's autobiographical novel Her-2 to the screen with this made-for-Lifetime drama concerning UCLA oncologist and researcher Dr. Dennis Slamon, creator of the promising breast cancer drug Herceptin. Convinced that his revolutionary drug could Read More

Gone Baby Gone

Actors: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton

Synopsis: Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Boston who takes on a case involving a kidnapped girl. The girl's aunt begs Patrick to take the case because he has connections to criminal Boston Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Season 04

Actors: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens, Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh

Synopsis: In the fourth season of ABC's popular medical drama, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), Cristina (Sandra Oh), Alex (Justin Chambers) and Izzie (Katherine Heigl) graduate to resident status, while George (T.R. Knight) must repeat his intern year after failing his exam. That's not George's only problem: He Read More

Winter Passing

Actors: Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Amelia Warner

Synopsis: Money and emotions lead to a difficult reunion between a father and daughter in this drama. Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) is a struggling stage actress in New York City whose life has become an uphill struggle -- her career isn't giving her satisfaction, her relationship with would-be rock star Read More

The Path to 9/11

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Michael Benyaer, Shirley Douglas, Barclay Hope, Patricia Heaton, Mido Hamada

Synopsis: This five-hour ABC miniseries depicts the events leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, through the scope of a handful of intelligence and counter-terrorism officials in the U.S. government. Harvey Keitel plays John O'Neill, the counter-terrorism chief of the FBI whose belief Read More

Carnivàle: Season 02

Actors: Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown

Admissions

Actors: Fran Kranz, Taylor Roberts, Christopher Lloyd, Amy Madigan, John Savage, Lauren Ambrose

Synopsis: A gifted high-school student flubs her college admissions interviews for the most unexpected reasons in this independent coming-of-age drama. Cynical, world-weary Evie (Lauren Ambrose) is more interested in taking care of her family than getting into the Ivy League institutions for which she seems Read More

The Ranch

Actors: Amy Madigan, Nicki Micheaux

Synopsis: Susan Seidelman directed this made-for-cable comedy drama about a few days in the lives of a group of "working girls" in Reno, NV. "The Ranch" is a legally operated brothel that operates under the careful watch of state health inspectors (who insist on weekly medical checkups) and the Read More

In The Land of Milk and Money

Actors: Chris Coulson, Kim Gillingham, Tom Bower, Sandra Seacat, Keith Mills

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Synopsis: Experience legendary boxer Jack Johnson's remarkable struggle both in and out of the ring in documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' two-part look at the career of one of the sports world's most remarkable athletes. From his childhood in Galveston, TX, as the son of former slaves to his triumph as the Read More

Carnivàle: Season 01

Actors: Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown, Michael J. Anderson, Clea Duvall, Patrick Bauchau, Tim DeKay

The Sleepy Time Gal

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Martha Plimpton, Nick Stahl, Amy Madigan, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: Two women connected by family are drawn closer by fate in this low-key drama. Frances (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman in her early fifties who had already begun to sense time was running out for her when she learned that she has cancer. While Frances is fighting the disease through medical Read More

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

A Time for Dancing

Actors: Larisa Oleynik, Shiri Appleby

Synopsis: A girl with powerful dreams for her future may not have the chance to live them out in this drama based on the novel by Davida Wills Hurwin. Samantha (Shiri Appleby) and Juliana (Larisa Oleynik) are a pair of high-school students who have been close friends for years. Both girls share a love of Read More

Shot in the Heart

Actors: Giovanni Ribisi, Elias Koteas, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: This gripping drama is based on the real-life story of Mikal Gilmore, a respected journalist whose brother Gary Gilmore was a felon convicted of murder. In 1977, after he was sentenced to death, Gary Gilmore generated international controversy when he demanded that his lawyers call off all Read More

The Laramie Project

Actors: Christina Ricci, Peter Fonda, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Buscemi, Dylan Baker, Amy Madigan, Joshua Jackson, Jeremy Davies, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Laramie, WY, is a small town which became infamous overnight in the fall of 1998, when Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was found tied to a fence after being brutally beaten and left to die, setting off a nationwide debate about hate crimes and homophobia. A month after the crime, Moises Read More

Pollock

Actors: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: Artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized American painting in the 1940's with his exciting abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint in a manner at once excitingly physical and structurally intelligent. While Pollock became a heroic figure in the art world, his private life was nothing Read More

In the Name of the People

Actors: Amy Madigan, Richard Thomas, Scott Bakula, Kimberly Warnat, Robin Ann Phipps

Synopsis: Based on a play by Tim Boland, the made-for-TV drama In the Name of the People stars Scott Bakula as death-row inmate John Burke. Facing execution for the murder of a teenaged girl, Burke's only concern is over the future of his own 13-year-old daughter Lisa (Robin Ann Phipps). Connie Murphy (Amy Madigan Read More

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First One Hundred Years

Actors: Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Amy Madigan, Lisa Anderson, Audra McDonald

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, which was later adapted into a Broadway play, Having Our Say tells the true story of the Delany Sisters, two African-American women who were fathered by a former slave, went on to attend college, and Read More

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Actors: Sally Kellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Julie Harris, Amy Madigan, Adam Arkin

Synopsis: Upon finding a written biography of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, film producers Paul Barnes and Ken Burns (director of "The Civil War") were shocked and outraged that her story -- which is also that of Stanton's longtime friend and political partner Susan B. Anthony Read More

With Friends Like These...

Actors: Adam Arkin, Robert Costanzo, Beverly D'Angelo, Elle MacPherson, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Life among insecure, middle-aged character actors, former New Yorkers in L.A., is the main plot focus of this Philip Frank Messina comedy about four friends who want the same role in the next Martin Scorsese gangster flick. Balding Johnny DiMartino (Robert Costanzo) is so excited by the news of a Read More

A Bright Shining Lie

Actors: Bill Paxton, Amy Madigan, Vivian Wu, Donal Logue, Eric Bogosian

Synopsis: Adapted from Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, this $14-million TV docudrama, re-creating the Vietnam War with convincing combat footage, was the most expensive two-hour movie ever produced by HBO Pictures. Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann (Bill Paxton) spends ten years Read More

Loved

Actors: Robin Wright Penn, William Hurt, Amy Madigan, Lucinda Jenney, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: The mysterious reasoning of women who protect men who hurt them is explored in this psychological drama. Hedda (Robin Wright-Penn) was once involved with a man who had a long history of violence against women (played by Anthony Lucero). Even though Hedda broke up with him after a violent incident Read More

Riders of the Purple Sage

Actors: Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Henry Thomas, Robin Tunney, Norbert Weisser

Synopsis: Based on a popular Zane Grey novel, this well-wrought western centers on a plucky female rancher who incurs the wrath of the local clergy when she boldly refuses to marry a deacon. To get revenge, the town preacher and his followers begin harassing the woman and her ranch hands until a sympathetic Read More

Female Perversions

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas, Laila Robins, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: An outwardly successful woman teeters on the brink of emotional collapse in this psychological drama. Evelyn Stevens (Tilda Swinton) is a skilled and well-regarded attorney who is being considered for a prestigious judicial appointment. However, she's plagued by self-doubt and neurotic obsessions Read More

And Then There Was One

Actors: Amy Madigan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Jane Daly, Steven Flynn, John Robinson

Synopsis: The tragic and true story of a family dealing with AIDS is re-told in this heart-wrenching made-for-cable drama. Amy Madigan and Dennis Boutsikaris star as Roxy and Vinnie Ventola, a successful television screenwriting couple. After struggling to become pregnant and finally conceiving a child, the Read More

Frasier: Flour Child

Synopsis: Although he and Maris are childless, Niles (David Hyde Pierce) begins wondering if he'd make a good father. To "prepare" himself, he begins to carry a ten-pound sack of flour all around Seattle. While Niles is thus occupied, his brother, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer), is asked to sign a get-well card Read More

American Experience: The Donner Party

Synopsis: In 1846, a group of over eighty Westward-bound pioneers were headed to the coast of California from Illinois, which had itself only recently been brought up to "civilized" status. They made it to a pass high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California when they were halted by a truly monstrous Read More

The Dark Half

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Marking the first collaboration between horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King since 1982's Creepshow, this moody, atmospheric adaptation of King's novel was actually completed in 1991, but the highly-publicized bankruptcy of its distributor Orion Pictures in that same year nearly doomed Read More

Lucky Day

Actors: Amy Madigan, Chloe Webb, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: A made for TV movie, on the surface it is the story of a young, slightly retarded girl who has been cared for by her sister. When the girl wins the lottery, her recovering alcoholic Mother is suddenly on the scene again. Amy Madigan's portrayal of the over-protective sister of the lucky winner is Read More

Uncle Buck

Actors: John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin

Synopsis: In this cheerful, lightweight comedy, excruciatingly clumsy, disorganized, and messy Uncle Buck Russell (John Candy) becomes the screens most unlikely babysitter since Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty. While their parents are away, eight-year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), six-year old Maizy (Gaby Read More

Field of Dreams

Actors: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: "If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, "he" seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on Read More

Is Your Mama a Llama?

Actors: Amy Madigan

Synopsis: When Lloyd the llama begins asking all the critters around him whether their mama is a llama, the one answer he hopes to hear also proves the most elusive. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roe vs. Wade

Actors: Holly Hunter, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Based on the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a woman's right to have an abortion, the made-for-television film Roe Vs. Wade follows an unmarried Texas woman (Holly Hunter) and her lawyer (Amy Madigan), as they take her case to the Supreme Court. Abortion is always a controversial Read More

The Prince of Pennsylvania

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Amy Madigan, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Ward, Joseph de Lisi

Synopsis: Set in a remote Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this off-beat comedy follows the friendship between an old hippie woman and a depressive teenage punk rocker who feels like a pariah. The fun begins when the two conspire to kidnap the boy's crazy father in hopes of getting a hold of the family Read More

Nowhere to Hide

Actors: Amy Madigan, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Michael Ironside, Robin Mac Eachern, John Colicos

Synopsis: In this exciting action thriller, an artistic widow fights to stay alive after her husband, a Marine who had discovered that the military was well aware that it was placing defective parts in its helicopters, is mysteriously murdered. Believing that the widow, a metal sculptress, has the damning Read More

The Revolt of Mother

Synopsis: Set in 1890 New England this is a slice-of-life story about two hard-working farmers, based on a Mary E. Wilkins Freeman story. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Alamo Bay

Actors: Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Nguyen Ho, Donald Moffat, Truyen V. Tran

Synopsis: Director Louis Malle scrutinizes modern-day racism in Alamo Bay. The scene is the Texas coast, where local fishermen resent the "intrusion" of Vietnam refugees. Fair-minded shrimp supplier Wally (Donald Moffat) hires several Vietnamese workers, which serves to further infuriate the locals. The Read More

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

Laundromat

Actors: Carol Burnett, Amy Madigan, Michael Wright

Synopsis: Based on a 1978 play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman, The Laundromat was made for cable by acclaimed director Robert Altman. Late in the middle of one night, two women from different backgrounds meet at a laundromat. Alberta (played by Carol Burnett) is a middle-aged ex-school teacher who Read More

Places in the Heart

Actors: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 (Country and The River were the other two), Places in the Heart is the only one set during the Depression. After her husband is killed, Sally Field is forced to take over the debt-ridden Texas family farm herself. Though slightly embittered by the Read More

Streets of Fire

Actors: Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: More like a series of MTV sequences than a long-term narration, this super-thin story line focuses on a kidnapped singer (Diane Lane) and her ex-boyfriend (Michael Pare) who goes forth to save her through rainy streets, the roar of elevated subways, several alleys, and the usual warehouses. Each Read More

Eureka Stockade

Travis McGee

Synopsis: In this detective drama, ultra-macho investigator Travis McGee, based on a character by author John D. MacDonald, looks into the case of a seemingly drowned land developer. Along the way he meets a boozy old sailor, a high-strung pianist, and the dead developer's sister. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Love Letters

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Amy Madigan, Bud Cort, Matt Clark

Synopsis: Unmarried disc jockey Jamie Lee Curtis happens across a packet of love letters, written by her late mother. As she peruses these missives, she learns that her mother had carried on a lengthy extramarital affair. At firt appalled by mom's "double life," Curtis is slowly brought around to another Read More

The Day After

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: A peaceful Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike in this powerful and deeply disturbing testament to the folly of pro-military hawks who believed that annihilation was a justifiable means of attaining power and control. The Day After originally aired Read More

Empty Copper Sea

Synopsis: Empty Copper Sea is the reissue title for the made-for-TV mystery Travis McGee. Sam Elliot stars as Travis McGee, the "been there, done that" private eye created by novelist John McDonald. McGee's assignment this time is personal: he hopes to help clear the name of his old pal, charter boat Read More

The Ambush Murders

Actors: James Brolin, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: The fact-based TV movie The Ambush Murders was adapted from a book by Ben Bradlee Jr. Dorian Harewood plays an African-American political activist who is loyal to his ideals and faithful to his friends and family. After two white policemen are killed, Harewood is charge with the crime. 49 months Read More

Love Child

Actors: Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, Mackenzie Phillips, Albert Salmi, Joanna Merlin

Synopsis: Based upon the true story of a woman's battle to raise her baby in prison after having become pregnant by a prison guard while serving a twenty-year stretch for robbery, Amy Madigan, in her debut film, delivers an impressive intensity and range as Terry Jean Moore, a wild young woman with a chip Read More

Crazy Times

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, set in 1955, three tough New York youths must learn to deal with a troubled world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Victims

Synopsis: In this suspenseful horror movie, four rape victims team up to bring their brutal attacker to justice. He had been tried before on similar charges and acquitted on a technicality. Now the women, led by a determined young doctor are determined to make him pay for destroying their lives. Read More