Andrew McCarthyFilmography

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Actors: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: Mark S. Waters's adaptation of the popular fantasy novels The Spiderwick Chronicles tells the tale of the Graces, a family who must adapt to their new strange surroundings. As the story begins, twin brothers Jared and Simon, along with their sister Mallory and their mother, move away from the big Read More

Lipstick Jungle: Season 01

Actors: Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, Lindsay Price, Andrew McCarthy, Paul Blackthorne

Lipstick Jungle: Season 02

Actors: Brooke Shields, Kim Raver, Lindsay Price, Andrew McCarthy, Paul Blackthorne

The Hollywood Mom's Mystery

Actors: Justine Bateman, Elizabeth Peña, George Hamilton, Laura Johnson, David Gail

Synopsis: As the wife of fading Hollywood producer Kit Freers (Andrew McCarthy), children's book illustrator Holly Freers (Justine Bateman) would love to have some of the fame and fortune of her movie star neighbors rub off on her just once in a while. However, there is one aspect of living in Beverly Hills Read More

Crusader

Synopsis: An unethical, small-time reporter stumbles onto a secret that just may revolutionize the entire telecommunications industry in this made-for-television action thriller starring Andrew McCarthy, Michael York, and Bo Derek. Having used less-than-legitimate means to acquire the shocking footage from Read More

2B Perfectly Honest

Actors: Mark Margolis, Adam Trese, Andrew McCarthy, John Turturro, Robert Vaughn, Hayley Mills, Michael Badalucco

Synopsis: Frank (Adam Trese of Laws of Gravity) is in trouble. His dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online, essentially bankrupting him and his partner, Josh (Andrew McCarthy). Frank is forced to leave his fancy Manhattan apartment and move back in with his parents (Robert Vaughn and Hayley Mills) Read More

News for the Church

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nora-Jane Noone

Kingdom Hospital

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Diane Ladd, Bruce Davison, Ed Begley, Jr., Jack Coleman

Synopsis: Based upon the critically acclaimed Lars von Trier miniseries Riget (The Kingdom), this American remake from fright master Stephen King unfolds over 15 hours and centers on the creepy goings-on at a hospital known as The Kingdom. Andrew McCarthy leads the cast as Dr. Hook, one of the physicians at Read More

Anything But Love

Actors: Isabel Rose, Andrew McCarthy, Cameron Bancroft, Alix Korey, Ilana Levine

Synopsis: A woman is forced to decide which of her dreams she'd like to come true in this musical-comedy drama. Billie Golden (Isabel Rose) is a young woman who dreams of being a successful cabaret singer and often imagines herself performing in a swank lounge or starring in a classic movie musical of the Read More

Straight from the Heart

Actors: Teri Polo, Andrew McCarthy, Patricia Kalember, Greg Evigan, Christine Tucci

Synopsis: The old "wrong person answers the 'object-matrimony' ad" story device was refreshingly brought up to date in this made-for-TV romance. Jilted by her boyfriend, professional photographer Jordan Donovan (Teri Polo) decides that her problem is one of bad location; though a New Yorker for several Read More

Law & Order: Absentia

Actors: Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: The recent, highly publicized arrest of a longtime fugitive from American justice was the evident source of this 2003 Law & Order episode. It all begins with a jewelry-store robbery in which the owner is killed and a customer (Mandy Patinkin) is wounded. A suspect is brought into court, only to be Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk Goes Back to School

Synopsis: Season Two of Monk begins as television's favorite obsessive-compulsive detective (Tony Shalhoub) hires on as a substitute teacher at Ashton High School. This enables him to investigate the death of English teacher Beth Landow (Erica Yoder), who fell from the school's clock tower while most of the Read More

Heaven Must Wait

Synopsis: A wandering black sheep attempts to gain his angel wings when his large inheritance turns out to be a small church in director Tom Reeve's touching tale of love and redemption. Raymond (Andrew McCarthy) has never been the most popular member of his family, but thanks to a little help from his Read More

Secret Life of Zoey

Actors: Mia Farrow, Cliff De Young, Julia Whelan, Andrew McCarthy, Caroline Aaron

Synopsis: Originally titled On the Edge, this Lifetime cable network feature film is the story of Zoey Carter (Julia Whelan), the superachieving "perfect" daughter of professional couple Marcia and Larry Carter (Mia Farrow and Cliff De Young). Traumatized by her parents' divorce, Zoey begins experimenting Read More

Nowhere in Sight

Actors: Helen Slater, Chris Heyerdahl, Mark Camacho, Richard Jutras, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: A woman must battle villains she cannot see in this thriller. Carly (Helen Slater) is a woman who has lost her sight in an accident. Still adjusting to her new circumstances, Carly is having a hard time handling things on her own and has come to depend on her boyfriend for help as she re-learns Read More

New Waterford Girl

Actors: Liane Balaban, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Walsh, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: While imagining the childhood of Andy Warhol, Lou Reed once wrote, "There's only one good thing about a small town: you hate it, and you know you have to leave." A similar notion seems to have occurred to Mooney Pottie (Liane Balaban), a 15-year-old Canadian girl growing up in a village deep in Read More

A Storm in Summer

Actors: Peter Falk, Aaron Meeks, Nastassja Kinski, Andrew McCarthy, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: Robert Wise brings his distinguished name and considerable directorial skill to this remake of a 1970 Rod Serling TV drama. Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick (Peter Falk), a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his Read More

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Tim Matheson, Tom Skerritt, Frances Fisher, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: The life of one of the most famous American women of the last half of the 20th century receives yet another retelling in this made-for-TV drama. Raised by a harsh, domineering mother (Frances Fisher) and a charming but unfaithful (and alcoholic) father (Fred Ward), Jacqueline Bouvier (Joanne Read More

The Sight

Synopsis: Filmed in London, the cable-TV movie The Sight stars Andrew McCarthy as American architect Michael Lewis. Like the youthful protagonist in the theatrical feature Sixth Sense, the reluctantly psychic Michael "sees dead people." In fact, he sees the ghosts of 21 dead people in a single location, the Read More

I'm Losing You

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Amanda Donohoe, Buck Henry, Salome Jens, Frank Langella

Synopsis: This 1998 film about a dysfunctional Los Angeles family is directed by Bruce Wagner, on whose novel this is based. Everyone in this family has a problem. Perry (Frank Langella) is a successful TV producer who has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer just before his 60th birthday. His son Bertie (Andrew McCarthy Read More

New World Disorder

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Andrew McCarthy, Tara Fitzgerald

Synopsis: In this high-tech thriller, David Marx (Rutger Hauer), a take-no-prisoners homicide detective, is teamed with computer expert Kris Paddock (Tara Fitzgerald) to track down Kurt Bishop (Andrew McCarthy), a software pirate who has been trying to steal a valuable encryption security program. Bishop Read More

Beyond Redemption

Synopsis: The city's latest serial killer has got it in for priests, nuns, and other pious people, and the method of dispatching them is nasty: crucifixion. Detective Henry Smith, played by Andrew McCarthy, investigates the repulsively grisly crimes but his own moral crisis at home -- he and his wife (Jayne Read More

Perfect Assassins

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Robert Patrick, Nick Mancuso, Portia de Rossi

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a specially-trained FBI agent suspects that his former professor may be involved in terrorist activities. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Woke Up Early The Day I Died

Actors: Billy Zane, Sandra Bernhard, Ron Perlman, Tippi Hedren, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: Aris Iliopulos directed this campy comedy utilizing schlock filmmaker Ed Wood's last unproduced screenplay. Stock footage and old hygiene films are intercut with this near-silent story following a cross-dresser (Billy Zane), who escapes from the Casa de la Loco Sanitarium, manages to acquire some Read More

A Change of Heart

Synopsis: Former Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy stars in this emotional drama about a widowed man's fight for the child he loves. When Keith (McCarthy) and Kim (Teri Polo) made plans to adopt a baby, they never expected Kim to suddenly die of cancer, leaving Keith with the tasks of both grieving for his loss Read More

A Father for Brittany

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Michael Learned, Teri Polo, Linda Sorenson, Chuck Shamata

Synopsis: Childless couple Keith and Kim Lussier (Andrew McCarthy and Teri Polo) have seemingly had their prayers answered when they are placed in charge of 3-month old foster child Brittany. When the couple decides to adopt the child, it is Kim who seems most enthusiastic about her prospective parenthood Read More

Stag

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, John Stockwell, Kevin Dillon, Taylor Dayne, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: A group of ten men come together for a bachelor party that goes horribly wrong in this made-for-TV drama. Mario Van Peebles and John Stockwell star as old friends Michael and Victor, both of them successful, well-off young professionals. The latter is about to be married, so Michael throws him a Read More

Mulholland Falls

Actors: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Four men just barely on the right side of the law step into a web of danger and corruption in this drama. In the early 1950s, Max Hoover (Nick Nolte) is a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who leads what's been dubbed "the hat squad," a group of sharp-dressed cops who are ordered to Read More

Cosas Que Nunca Te Dije

Actors: Lili Taylor, Andrew McCarthy, Debi Mazar, Alexis Arquette, Leslie Mann

Synopsis: Filmed in St. Helens, Oregon, this comedy-drama centers on highly educated Anne, a young woman forced by circumstance to work in a photographic equipment store. Poor Anne goes into a terrible funk after her lover, a foreign correspondent assigned to Eastern Europe, dumps her via telephone. This Read More

Escape Clause

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Kate McNeil, Paul Sorvino, Connie Britton, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: This suspenseful thriller originally aired on the Showtime cable network. Successful insurance executive Richard Ramsay has had a pretty good life until the day he is called by a paid assassin and informed that his wife is planning to have him killed. The hitman then makes Richard a most unusual Read More

The Heist

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Cynthia Geary, Wolf Larson, Hannes Jaenicke, Cali Timmins

Synopsis: When a would-be bank robber's attempt to steal $6 million goes awry, he takes a woman hostage without realizing that she is an ex-cop. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead Funny

Actors: Elizabeth Peña, Andrew McCarthy, Paige Turco, Blanche Baker, Allison Janney

Synopsis: In this independent drama, Vivian Saunders (Elizabeth Pena) comes home one day to an unusual surprise: her boyfriend Reggie (Andrew McCarthy) is lying on the kitchen table with a large sword sticking out of his body. At first Vivian thinks this must be some sort of joke, but she discovers that Read More

The Courtyard

Dream Man

Actors: Patsy Kensit, Bruce Greenwood, Andrew McCarthy, Denise Crosby

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. The story is related in flashback form, as Mrs. Parker Read More

Getting In

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Andrew McCarthy, Stephen Mailer, Dave Chappelle, Matthew Perry

Synopsis: An attempted black comedy, Getting In endeavors to satirize the cut-throat competition surrounding the medical school admissions process -- a struggle that in this case literally turns deadly. Gabriel Higgs is an aspiring medical student, not out of a great dedication to his craft but due to Read More

Night of the Running Man

Actors: Scott Glenn, Andrew McCarthy, John Glover, Wayne Newton

Synopsis: In this taut thriller, a Las Vegas taxi driver must run for his life after stealing a cool million's worth of Mafia money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Weekend at Bernie's II

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Tom Wright, Steve James, Troy Beyer, Barry Bostwick

Synopsis: When they discover that their deceased boss had stashed away two million illegally embezzled dollars in a Caribbean safe deposit box, two co-workers decide to claim the cash. To do so, however, they must convince everyone the boss is actually alive -- a situation which seems oddly familiar to them Read More

The Joy Luck Club

Actors: Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave sixteen mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy Tan's best-selling novel about the clash between generations. The film takes place in present-day San Francisco, concentrating on a group of late-middle-aged Read More

Only You

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Kelly Preston, Helen Hunt

Synopsis: The feature film directing debut of actress Betty Thomas, this romantic farce attempts to mimic the screwball comedies of the 1930s. Andrew McCarthy stars as Cliff Godfrey, a doll house designer and perpetual loser in love who is dumped by his fiancee on the eve of their pre-nuptial vacation to Read More

Common Pursuit

Year of the Gun

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, John Pankow, Mattia Sbragia

Synopsis: In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Loved to Death

Weekend at Bernie's

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Stewart, Terry Kiser, Don Calfa

Synopsis: When two bumbling businessmen, Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman), alert their boss, Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), to an expensive discrepancy in the company books, he invites them to his home on the beach with the intent to have them murdered. However when they Read More

Docteur M.

Actors: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler, Benoit Regent

Synopsis: Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse. The film features an all-star international cast as it tells the futuristic horror story of a bizarre epidemic which has swept West Berlin leaving a grim trail of grisly Read More

Jours Tranquils a Clichy

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Nigel Havers, Barbara de Rossi, Isolde Barth

Synopsis: Henry Miller's novels were almost entirely autobiographical, and concerned not only his environment and friends, but also recorded his many sexual exploits - which he apparently viewed with something like spiritual awe. Despite his sexual obsessions, his novels are respected worldwide for their Read More

Fresh Horses

Actors: Patti D'Arbanville, Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Ben Stiller, Leon Russom, Viggo Mortensen

Synopsis: Fresh Horses features Molly Ringwald as Jewel, a Kentucky shanty gal. Jewel finds herself romantically involved with wealthy University of Cincinnati student Matt Larkin (Andrew McCarthy). Though willing to throw over his "proper" fiancee for Jewel, Matt isn't prepared for the horrible secret that Read More

Kansas

Actors: Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, Leslie Hope, Brent Jennings

Synopsis: A drifter becomes both a bank robber and a hero in this crime thriller. Andrew McCarthy stars as Wade Corey, who hitches a ride on a freight train already occupied by Doyle Kennedy (Matt Dillon), a charming ex-con who convinces Wade to accompany him to his hometown. Once there, Wade realizes too Read More

Less Than Zero

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader, Michael Bowen

Synopsis: This drama about affluent Los Angeles teens is taken from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Clay (Andrew McCarthy) is a college freshman who returns home during Christmas break. Clay's old flame Blair (Jamie Gertz) is now more interested in her new beau Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.), the fun-loving Read More

Waiting for the Moon

Actors: Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Andrew McCarthy, Bernadette Lafont, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who eventually became influential artists and writers. These included the painter Edward Hopper, the writer Ernest Hemingway, and the musician Virgil Thomson. Writer and poet Read More

Mannequin

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, G.W. Bailey, James Spader

Synopsis: In Mannequin, a lame attempt to revive the style and panache of fantasy-tinged romantic comedies of the '30s and '40s, Andrew McCarthy stars as a department store window-dresser who discovers that one of his mannequins (Kim Cattrall) is actually a woman from ancient Egypt when she becomes animated Read More

Pretty in Pink

Actors: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts

Synopsis: John Hughes crafts an exemplary '80s Brat Pack romance out of the standard Cinderella story in Pretty in Pink. Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a teenager who lives in the dingy part of town with her terminally underemployed dad (Harry Dean Stanton). She works at a record store with eccentric Ionia Read More

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

Heaven Help Us

Actors: Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon

Synopsis: Charles Purpura scribed this semi-autobiographical tale about his experiences in a Brooklyn Catholic school of 1965. The film focuses on several Catholic school boys who get into ever increasing amounts of trouble with the presiding priests of the Catholic school, St. Basil's. Andrew McCarthy Read More

The Beniker Gang

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jennifer Dundas, Charlie Fields, Danny Pintauro, Jeff Alan-Lee

Synopsis: Reportedly made for television, The Beniker Gang seems to have "busted pilot" emblazoned on its forehead. The titular gang consists of five orphaned siblings. Andrew McCarthy, the eldest of the bunch, acts as surrogate parent. When he's not around, the rest of the kids look out for each other. The Read More

Class

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jacqueline Bisset, Andrew McCarthy, Stuart Margolin, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: With a plot that is a cross between a teen, low-brow farce and a coming-of-age story, Class opens with scenes of two best friends -- nerdy whiz Jonathan (Andrew McCarthy) and carefree jock Skip (Rob Lowe) -- going around in lingerie; they also barf on a double date, break into a quiet meeting at a Read More