Andrea MartinFilmography

The Toe Tactic

Actors: Lily Rabe, Daniel London, Kevin Corrigan, Sakina Jaffrey

Synopsis: Acclaimed animator and independent filmmaker Emily Hubley directed this offbeat fusion of animation and live action. Mona Peek (Lily Rabe) is slowly coming to terms with the death of her father when she learns that the house where she grew up is about to be sold. As a child, Mona buried a bone in Read More

Breaking Upwards

Actors: Daryl Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones, Julie White, Olivia Thirlby, Peter Friedman

Synopsis: Their marriage turning stifling after just four years, a young New York couple attempts to escape their ennui by carefully strategizing their own break-up. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, real-life couple Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones star as themselves in order to offer an Read More

The TV Set

Actors: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, Fran Kranz

Synopsis: Writer/director Jake Kasdan's showbiz comedy The TV Set stars David Duchovny as Mike Klein, a television producer who in the beginning of the film successfully sells a network on a story idea. The film follows Klein as he must actually put the show together, navigate the corporate minefield of the Read More

Black Christmas

Actors: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Oliver Hudson, Lacey Chabert

Synopsis: A few innocent women experience a nightmare before Christmas in this bloody thriller. Billy Lenz, a severely maladjusted child, finally snaps under years of brutal treatment by his family, killing and eating them in an explosion of violence on Christmas Eve. For years, the Lenz house stands Read More

Brother Bear 2: The Moose Are on the Loose

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Mandy Moore, Wanda Sykes, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: An old friendship is renewed and new bonds are forged as Kenai and Nita set out on the adventure of a lifetime in this animated, direct-to-video sequel to the 2003 Disney hit Brother Bear. When Kenai emerges from his first hibernation with a hearty appetite and a craving for the best spring Read More

The Producers

Actors: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach

Synopsis: After transforming his first motion picture into a smash Broadway musical, Mel Brooks brings the story of two would-be theatrical moguls turned con men back to the screen in this musical comedy. Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) was once one of Broadway's most successful producers, but a string of Read More

New York Minute

Actors: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Andy Richter, Riley Smith

Synopsis: Marking their first theatrical-release feature since 1995's It Takes Two, the Olsen twins bring their adventures back to the big screen with New York Minute. Billed as a sort of Ferris Bueller's Day Off for tweens, the plot involves the escapades of two enterprising Long Island girls, Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen Read More

My Big Fat Greek Life [TV Series]

Actors: Nia Vardalos, Steven Eckholdt, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan, Louis Mandylor

Synopsis: It was all but inevitable that the most successful independently produced film of all time, 2002's My Big Fat Greek Wedding, would spawn a weekly, half-hour TV sitcom. What was not inevitable, and indeed a bit surprising, was that the CBS series My Big Fat Greek Life would feature virtually the Read More

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Actors: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin

Synopsis: One woman's rocky road to the altar gets played for laughs in this comedy, adapted from the one-woman off-Broadway show written by and starring Nia Vardalos. Toula (Vardalos) is a Greek-American woman who is in her early thirties and single, with no immediate prospects of changing that status any Read More

George and Martha: Hippo Hoedown! - Costumed Duo

George and Martha: Hippo Hoedown! - The Dance Recital

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Debi Derryberry, Frank Welker, Rob Paulsen, Carolyn Lawrence, Candi Milo

Synopsis: Originally filmed as a pilot for a Nickelodeon cable network TV series, the computer-animated feature Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius turned out so well that it was decided to release the film theatrically in 2001. One year later, things came full circle, and the weekly, half-hour TV version of Jimmy Read More

George and Martha: Hippo Hoedown! - The Play's the Thing

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Actors: Megan Cavanagh, Mark de Carlo, Debi Derryberry, Jeff Garcia, Bob Goen

Synopsis: This animated feature from Nickelodeon is the story of ten-year-old genius inventor Jimmy Neutron, whose penchant for gadget-creation gets him and his robot dog, Goddard, into trouble at home and school. However, when the parents of Jimmy's hometown are kidnapped by the gooey green aliens known as Read More

All Over The Guy

Actors: Dan Bucatinsky, Richard R. Ruccolo, Adam Goldberg, Sasha Alexander, Christina Ricci

Synopsis: Actor and playwright Dan Bucatinsky wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his play I Know You Are, But What Am I?, though for the big-screen version, his slightly fractured love story was given a same-sex twist. Eli (Dan Bucatinsky) is a journalist working with a major L.A. newspaper who is Read More

Hedwig and The Angry Inch

Actors: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt

Synopsis: Adapted from the hit off-Broadway musical of the same name is this tale of an "internationally ignored" rock & roll singer who hails from Communist Berlin and who dreams of becoming an American sensation. Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), born a boy named Hansel, is raised by a single mother Read More

George and Martha: Games Hippos Play

Synopsis: This video features the much-loved hippos George and Martha who creator James Marshall has depicted in his acclaimed book series of the same name. Intended for children between the ages of four and eight, the stories feature the two hippo friends, along with the others in their lives, drawn from Read More

Loser

Actors: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Zak Orth, Tom Sadoski, Jimmi Simpson, Greg Kinnear, Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: After making Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) and Clueless (1995), two of the definitive films about the joys and terrors of American high school, writer/director Amy Heckerling moves on to college with this bittersweet romantic comedy. Paul Tannek (Jason Biggs) is a bright but socially inept Read More

George and Martha: Best Friends

Synopsis: Friendship is harder than it looks. So learn George and Martha, hippopotamuses and best buds. This Doors of Wonder presentation goes beneath the surface to examine the harder aspects of getting along. Based on the books by James Marshall, Doors of Wonder: George and Martha - Best Friends includes Read More

Bartok the Magnificent

Actors: Hank Azaria, Kelsey Grammer, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Tim Curry

Synopsis: Ace animator Don Bluth directed this direct-to-video follow-up to his 1997 hit Anastasia, concentrating on the adventures of Bartok the Albino Bat (voice of Hank Azaria). Bartok and his best friend, Zozi the Bear (voice of Kelsey Grammer), are now making their way as street performers, but they Read More

Climb Against the Odds

Crew: Screenplay Consultant

Synopsis: This is a moving documentary about 12 brave women and their quest to climb Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, in order to bring global attention to the struggle against breast cancer. Five of the climbers are breast cancer survivors, while the other seven chose to climb in honor Read More

Believe

Synopsis: Two young friends find themselves immersed in a supernatural mystery after a notorious neighborhood ghost reveals itself to them. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Secret of NIMH II: Timmy to the Rescue

Actors: Harvey Korman, Peter MacNicol, Ralph Macchio, William H. Macy, Arthur Malet, Andrea Martin, Meshach Taylor, Dom DeLuise, Eric Idle, Andrew Ducote

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video sequel to Don Bluth's 1982 animated adventure The Secret of NIMH, Timmy (voice of Ralph Macchio) is the son of two courageous mice who helped save the day for the animals of Thorn Valley. While the wise Nicodemus has predicted that Timmy will some day be a great hero -- and Read More

Wag the Dog

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Woody Harrelson, Denis Leary

Synopsis: In a 29-day shoot, Barry Levinson filmed this $15 million political and media satire, adapted by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet from Larry Beinhart's novel, American Hero. Two weeks prior to re-election, the President (Michael Belson) is accused of cornering an underage girl in the Oval Office. To Read More

Bogus

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Denis Mercier, Andrea Martin

Synopsis: Albert Franklin (Haley Joel Osment) is the son of stage magician Lorraine Franklin, and has learned to do a few magic tricks of his own. However, when his mother dies and he is sent to live with his aunt Harriet (Whoopi Goldberg), it becomes clear that for him the boundary between stage magic and Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Family Business

Synopsis: Quark and his brother Rom (Max Grodenchik) return to their home planet, but their visit could hardly be termed a pleasurable one. Armed with what seems to be overwhelming evidence, Quark must accuse his own mother Ishka (Andrea Martin) of violating Ferengi law. On another family front, Jake Sisko Read More

Harrison Bergeron

Actors: Sean Astin, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Sean Astin stars as the title character in this creepy made-for-cable adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut classic. Set in a future America, where a small, elite group controls the masses, teen Harrison Bergeron is chosen to lead a movement that promotes mediocrity. Christopher Plummer stars as John Read More

In Search of Dr. Seuss

Actors: Matt Frewer, Kathy Najimy

Synopsis: This is a children's video about the life and work of the author commonly known around the world as Dr. Seuss. The video also contains original musical productions based on Dr. Seuss' books, including Oh, The Places You'll Go, Green Eggs and Ham, and The Cat in the Hat. On this video, you will see Read More

Striking Distance

Actors: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Robert Pastorelli, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: A maverick Pittsburgh policeman loses his job after he shares his suspicion that one of his colleagues is a serial killer. This thriller centers on his hunt to prove his point, a search that becomes more desperate when the killer begins killing the cop's female associates. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Ted and Venus

Actors: Bud Cort, James Brolin, Kim Adams, Carol Kane, Pamella D'Pella

Synopsis: Bud Cort's directorial debut is a dark comedy about a romantic obsession that leads to tragedy, featuring a wide array of cameo performances including James Brolin, Carol Kane, Rhea Perlman, Martin Mull, Andrea Martin, Woody Harrelson, Timothy Leary, and Gena Rowlands. Cort is Ted Whitley, a local Read More

Gypsy

Actors: Bette Midler, Cynthia Gibb, Peter Riegert

Synopsis: Based on a Broadway play and featuring the Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim score, this is a remake of the 1962 movie which was based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, a stripper, depicting her life growing up in "show biz." ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Real Story of Itsy Bitsy Spider

Synopsis: This half hour length animated special tells the "real" story behind the famous children's song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." I.B. Spider (voiced by Malcolm-Jamal Warner) is sick and tired of being called Itsy Bitsy just because he is so small. He shows everyone that he isn't short on bravery when he Read More

Frosty Returns

Synopsis: In this sequel to the much-loved "Frosty the Snowman" cartoon special, Frosty reappears to befriend a girl named Holly and help save Christmas from the invention of an evil snow-exterminating chemical. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of John Candy on SCTV

Synopsis: For many years, comedian John Candy was a staple of the prestigious Second City comedy troupe where he was known for creating such unforgettable characters as Johnny La Rue and Dr. Tongue. He was also a noted impressionist who had audiences rolling in the aisles with his take on such figures as Read More

All I Want for Christmas

Actors: Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Randall, Thora Birch, Lauren Bacall

Synopsis: The leading lady of the Christmas tale knows just what she wants for Christmas and she lets Macy's Santa know, too. She wants nothing more than the reuniting of her recently divorced parents. Bordering on being a Miracle on 34th Street re-make, this film follows much the same theme, but the kids Read More

Stepping Out

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Stepping Out might be considered a textbook exercise in screenwriting cliche: take Mavis Turner (Liza Minnelli), a woman who "coulda been a contenda" had she pursued her dreams of appearing on Broadway; give her an evening job at a converted church teaching tap; mix in a motley crew of left-footed Read More

Too Much Sun

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Eric Idle, Andrea Martin, Jim Haynie, Laura Ernst

Synopsis: In this riotous British satire, a conniving Catholic priest convinces a dying tycoon into writing the church into his will by having him add the following proviso: the tycoon's children will only inherit the fortune if one of them can produce an heir within one year after his death. If they fail Read More

Boris and Natasha

Synopsis: A live-action rendering of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, this time we follow the exploits of the two Cold War "no-goodniks", Boris and Natasha. Sent from their beloved Pottsylvania by their "Fearless Leader", their job is to try to capture a missing time-reversing microchip. Espionage films being Read More

Worth Winning

Actors: Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, Lesley Ann Warren, Maria Holvoe, Mark Blum

Synopsis: A self-centered womanizer makes a wager that he will be able to propose to three women in a three month time and have each one accept in this romantic Philadelphia-set comedy. His three victims are an icy concert pianist, an innocent blonde receptionist for the Philadelphia Eagles, and a rich Read More

Rude Awakening

Actors: Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts play two draft-dodging hippies who flee to a commune in Central America where they stay for 20 years. When they return in 1989 and seek out some of their old NYC buddies, they find they've turned yuppie and things just aren't what they'd expected. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Love at Stake

Actors: Patrick Cassidy, Kelly Preston, Bud Cort, David Graf, Stuart Pankin

Synopsis: John Moffitt directed this silly Canadian comedy about a falsely accused Salem witch (Kelly Preston). Terry Sweeney's script seems to find most of its humor in sex, drugs, and bathroom jokes, none of which are very amusing. Genre devotees will be quite pleased, however, with a cast featuring Barbara Carrera Read More

Martha, Ruth and Edie

Actors: Jennifer Dale, Andrea Martin, Lois Maxwell, Margaret Langrick, Kate Trotter

Synopsis: Three women gather in a self-help group to discuss their relationships and problems in this distaff drama. Martha (Jennifer Dale) tells of the breakup of her marriage. Ruth (Andrea Martin) discusses her painful emotional struggle in dealing with her mother's death. Edie (Lois Maxwell) tells the Read More

Innerspace

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More

Comic Relief II

Synopsis: Released by the now-defunct Simitar Entertainment rather than Rhino Video, which handles the other Comic Relief videos, Comic Relief II is featured on two separate 60-minute videos. A 1987 live charity event benefiting America's homeless, part one of Comic Relief II is hosted by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg Read More

Club Paradise

Actors: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy

Synopsis: Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the Read More

SCTV Channel [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, John Hemphill

Synopsis: After wrapping production on the weekly, 90-minute NBC comedy-variety series SCTV Network, six members of the Canadian "Second City TV" comedy troupe reassembled for this cable-TV effort, which premiered November 22, 1983 on Cinemax. Seen in a weekly 45-minute slot, SCTV Channel proved an Read More

The Best of SCTV [3]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the last of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include Gregory Peck and Woody Allen's versions of Taxi Driver; the 2-minute adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Doug and Bob Read More

The Best of SCTV [1]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the first of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include "What's My Shoe Size?," "Play It Again, Bob," "Perry Como: Still Alive," "The Merv Griffith Show From Mayberry," "Leave It to Beaver Read More

The Best of SCTV [2]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the second of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include the hilariously irritating Canadian game show "High Q"; Funnyman Bobby Bittman's remake of "On the Waterfront"; "The Irwin Allen Read More

Soup for One

Actors: Saul Rubinek, Marcia Strassman, Gerritt Graham, Teddy Pendergrass, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: When a young, single, neurotic New Yorker finds the perfect woman, he tries desperately to get her to fall for him. Young director Jonathan Kaufer has been compared to Woody Allen with this, his first feature. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

SCTV Network: Season 02

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short

Synopsis: The second and final season of NBC's 90-minute comedy-variety series SCTV Network finds the show's familiar acting troupe short of three members: Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, and Catherine O'Hara. Fortunately, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, and Andrea Martin are still on hand, as is relative Read More

SCTV Network 90: Season 01

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Expanding from 30 to 90 minutes per week in the process of "graduating" from Canada's Global Television Network to America's NBC, the popular sketch comedy series SCTV also boasts an expanded title -- SCTV: Network 90 -- as it launches its first NBC season. The "new" series' format is primarily Read More

Wholly Moses!

Actors: Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: A broadly farcical comedy that attempts to ape the wickedly funny, Bible-spoofing humor of the previous year's Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), this all-star rib-tickler top-lines Dudley Moore as Herschel, a historical also-ran whose life so closely parallels that of Moses that Herschel begins Read More

SCTV: Season 02

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara

Synopsis: Although season two of SCTV appears to be higher-budgeted than season one, the series' strong suit is not its production polish but instead the brilliant ensemble work of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas (Harold Ramis is largely absent this Read More

SCTV: Season 03

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Although former stalwarts John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, and Harold Ramis are no longer part of the action, the third season of SCTV still boasts some of the Canadian-based sketch comedy series' best material. For starters, the season opener offers a special presentation of My Fair Lady...that is Read More

Torn Between Two Lovers

Actors: Andrea Martin, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Lee Remick is Torn Between Two Lovers in this made-for-TV romantic drama. Happily married to Joseph Bologna, Remick becomes involved with handsome architect George Peppard after a chance meeting in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Halfway down the cast list is Second City TV regular Andrea Martin Read More

SCTV [TV Series]

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: An outgrowth of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe, which was created in 1959, the Toronto branch of Second City invaded Canada's CBC in the fall of 1976 with a weekly, half-hour sketch comedy series, making up in talent and energy what it lacked in budget and production polish. Taped in Read More

SCTV: Season 01

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: The Canadian-based sketch comedy series SCTV wastes no time in setting its devastatingly satirical tone as it enters its first season. The opening episode begins with Dave Thomas' sidesplitting commercial for the "Laser-Matic Camera," then segues into the first session of "Johnny LaRue Exercise," Read More

Black Christmas

Actors: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, John Saxon

Synopsis: Although this Canadian production saw its widest U.S. cable TV distribution in the early '80s (primarily under the title Stranger in the House) to capitalize on the phenomenal success of Halloween and its offspring, this effective suspense-thriller actually predates John Carpenter's film by four Read More

The David Steinberg Show [TV Series]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, David Steinberg, Dave Thomas, Bill Saluga

Cannibal Girls

Actors: May Jarvis

Synopsis: Second City TV regulars Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star in this Canadian horror spoof as a couple on a romantic holiday who settle into a quaint little bed-and-breakfast run by a trio of flesh-eating ladies who fancy them for tomorrow's menu. This is a pretty tame affair considering the subject Read More

George and Martha: Hippo Hoedown! - The Sleepwalker