Anjelica HustonFilmography

The Kreutzer Sonata

Actors: Danny Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, Matthew King, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: Based on a story written by Leo Tolstoy in response to Ludwig van Beethoven's eponymous composition, director Bernard Rose's mature dissection of modern marriage tells the tale of a wealthy philanthropist (Danny Huston) who becomes intensely possessive of his wife (Elisabeth Röhm) -- a beautiful Read More

Choke

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad Henke, Clark Gregg

Synopsis: Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has got some problems -- when he's not at Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings hunting for women to bed, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants as a scheme to gather money from unsuspecting strangers, which he uses to keep his ailing mother (Anjelica Huston) in a Read More

Spirit of the Forest

Actors: Sean Astin, Giovanni Ribisi, Ron Perlman, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: Spanish company Dygra Films presents this eco-friendly animated film chronicling the revolt of the plant and animal community against a dastardly businesswoman looking to bulldoze the forest. Sean Astin, Giovanni Ribisi, Ron Perlman and Anjelica Huston provide the voices for the computer animated Read More

Tinker Bell

Actors: Mae Whitman, Kristin Chenoweth, Raven Symone, America Ferrera, Lucy Liu

Synopsis: Before joining Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, Tinker Bell and her fairy brethren were busy creating their own special magic in Pixie Hollow, where they go about the business of bringing rainbows to the sky, color to the flowers, and adding their fairy signature to other miracles of nature. Each Read More

Medium: Season 04

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber, Sofia Vassilieva, Maria Lark, David Cubitt

Martian Child

Actors: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Oliver Platt, Bobby Coleman

Synopsis: Adapted from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelette by author David Gerrold, Menno Meyjes's Martian Child stars John Cusack as a widowed science fiction writer who adopts a boy (Bobby Coleman) who claims to be from the Red Planet. The writer believes the child acts strangely in order to process Read More

The Darjeeling Limited

Actors: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Wallace Wolodarsky

Synopsis: Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited stars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody as three brothers who, at the insistence of the oldest, take a train ride through India together in order to strengthen their bond. Even though the vacation goes wrong in ways they do not anticipate, the Read More

Seraphim Falls

Actors: Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Anjelica Huston, Michael Wincott, Robert Baker

Synopsis: Frequent television director David Von Ancken (Oz and The Shield) offers a thrilling meditation on the true nature of revenge with this post-Civil War era tale of a one man's quest to put his nemesis in the ground, and another man's struggle to survive at any cost. Deep in the snowy mountains of Read More

Material Girls

Actors: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Lukas Haas, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Stripped of their wealth and forced to fend for themselves when the multi-million-dollar cosmetics company inherited from their father suffers due to controversy, two sisters who have never known the simple life must finally find out how the other half lives in a high-fashion comedy about hard Read More

Art School Confidential

Actors: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar

Synopsis: Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and comic artist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes, who collaborated for the acclaimed 2001 comedy-drama Ghost World, team up once again for this offbeat satire. Jerome (Max Minghella) is an aspiring artist who arrives at a prestigious East Coast art institute to study. While Read More

These Foolish Things

Synopsis: An aspiring West End actress intent on maintaining her famous mother's legacy finds her dreams suddenly clouded by the warplanes that buzz overhead in this bittersweet war drama from director Julia Taylor-Stanley. Diana (Zoe Tapper) is a London actress who knows deep within that she has what it Read More

Riding the Bus with My Sister

Crew: Director

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Rosie O'Donnell, Richard T. Jones, D.W. Moffett, Jazzmin Parker, Emily Swiss

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this "Hallmark Hall of Fame" TV movie was produced by Rosie O'Donnell, who also stars as the profoundly mentally challenged Beth Simon. When Beth's father dies, her sister, Rachel (Andie MacDowell), a brittle, self-absorbed fashion photographer, takes charge of Beth -- who Read More

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Actors: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: The first effort from director Wes Anderson since his critically beloved The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou finds the filmmaker re-teaming with a number of familiar faces, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Seymour Cassel. Murray plays Steve Zissou, an Read More

Iron Jawed Angels

Actors: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker

Synopsis: German filmmaker Katja von Garnier directs the HBO original movie Iron Jawed Angels, inspired by a pivotal chapter in American history. Hilary Swank plays Alice Paul, an American feminist who risked her life to fight for women's citizenship and the right to vote. She founded the separatist Read More

Kaena: The Prophecy

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Richard Harris, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: Billed as the first European 3-D CGI feature-length film, Kaena: The Prophecy revolves around a mammoth tree that rises 100 miles from the planet's surface and provides shelter and sustenance for a variety of different races and species. Referred to as Axis, the tree has been losing its sap at a Read More

Daddy Day Care

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin, Steve Zahn, Regina King, Kevin Nealon, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: Two fathers get a crash course in caring for kids other than their own in this family-friendly comedy. Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) is an advertising executive whose job monopolizes his time, making it difficult for him to stay in touch with his young son, Ben (Khamani Griffin). However, after Read More

The Man From Elysian Fields

Actors: Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Julianna Margulies, Olivia Williams, James Coburn, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: George Hickenlooper directs this psychological drama about an impoverished writer lost in a world of money, power, and male escorts. Though happily married with a young child, Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) is struggling to make ends meet as a novelist. His last work, called "Hitler's Child," had an Read More

Blood Work

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus

Synopsis: A retired detective must battle former colleagues and his own failing health in order to bring a murderer to justice in this action drama produced and directed by its star, Clint Eastwood. Terry McCaleb (Eastwood) was one of the best and most thorough detectives at the FBI's Southern California Read More

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Joan Crawford

Synopsis: Narrated by Anjelica Huston, this cable-TV documentary offered an up-close and personal look at the life and career of quintessential movie queen Joan Crawford. From her humble beginnings as MGM contract starlet Lucille LaSeuer, Crawford climbed to the top with a heady combination of talent Read More

Barbie as Rapunzel

Actors: Kelly Sheridan, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: A beloved fairy tale gets a whole new look in this computer-animated feature for the whole family. The world's best-loved fashion doll, Barbie (voice of Kelly Sheridan) stars as Rapunzel, a lovely girl with beautiful golden hair who is locked in a tower by a wicked witch (voice of Anjelica Read More

The Royal Tenenbaums

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional family reunion. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Read More

Kennedy Center Presents: The Irish Gala

Synopsis: Hosted by actress Anjelica Huston and author Frank McCourt, Kennedy Center Presents: The Irish Gala is a celebration of Irish and Irish-American music, dance, and culture. The 90-minute program features performances by the following artists: Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Carlos Read More

The Mists of Avalon

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen, Samantha Mathis, Caroline Goodall

Synopsis: This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In ancient England, Christianity is spreading and the Saxons are invading. It's up to Viviane (Anjelica Huston) -- Lady of the Lake and high priestess of Read More

The Golden Bowl

Actors: Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: The distinguished director/producer/writer team of James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala returns to the works of 19th century novelist Henry James in this adaptation of his tale of love and treachery. Wealthy American art collector Adam Verver (Nick Nolte) is traveling Europe with Read More

Agnes Browne

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Marion O'Dwyer, Niall O'Shea, Ciaran Owens, Roxanna Williams

Synopsis: Actress Anjelica Huston directed and stars in this drama based on Brendan O'Carroll's novel The Mammy. Set in Dublin in 1967, Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston) is the mother of seven children, barely making ends meet when her husband dies, leaving her to figure out not only how to support the family Read More

Intimate Portrait: Witches

Actors: Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: Lifetime's Intimate Portrait: Witches presents a discussion of ancient magic traditions and psychic customs. From the Brothers Grimm to The Wizard of Oz, witches abound in the lore of Western culture. The program traces the origins of witch beliefs to a time when society worshipped a goddess, and Read More

Phoenix

Actors: Ray Liotta, Anjelica Huston, Anthony LaPaglia, Daniel Baldwin, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: This noir crime drama set in Arizona and updated for post-modern sensibilities is similar in tone to other hip B-movie homages such as Bad Lieutenant (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994) and the previous year's award winning L.A. Confidential (1997). Ray Liotta stars as Phoenix police detective Harry Read More

Buffalo '66

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: Actor Vincent Gallo (The Funeral, Palookaville) made his feature directorial debut with this drama about convict Billy Brown (Gallo), released after half a decade spent behind bars. Drifting into downtown Buffalo, Billy kidnaps teen Layla (Christina Ricci) and has her pose as his loving wife when Read More

Showgirl Stories

Synopsis: Actress Angelica Huston narrates this look at the often hectic and sometimes glamorous lifestyle shared by many showgirls. During her interview, former showgirl Dixie Lee Evans talks about the reunions she organizes and the museum she runs that heralds this unique lifestyle. Sad stories are also Read More

Ever After

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds

Synopsis: Andy Tennant directed this Cinderella variant. The Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame (Jeanne Moreau) who speaks of the many legends surrounding the fable of the cinder girl before telling the "true" story of her ancestor. In flashback, the story then focuses on Read More

Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories

Bastard out of Carolina

Crew: Director

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Jena Malone, Glenne Headly, Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: Accomplished actress Anjelica Huston, daughter of John Huston, made her directorial debut with this absorbing, often wrenching story of child abuse in the 1950s American South. Based on a novel by Dorothy Allison, the film (narrated by Laura Dern) tells the tale of Bone (Jena Malone), a poor white Read More

The Crossing Guard

Actors: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright Penn, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: Sean Penn wrote and directed this tale of loss, guilt, and revenge. The daughter of Freddy and Mary Gale (Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston) was killed by a drunk driver, John Booth (David Morse). The death of their child took a heavy toll on the Gales; their marriage broke up, and, while Mary Read More

Buffalo Girls

Actors: Jack Palance, Tracey Walter, Peter Coyote, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: A star-studded cast appears in this made-for-television movie about Calamity Jane and her cohorts. Anjelica Huston stars as the infamous cowgirl Calamity Jane, a colorful Western character who, among other things, starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The movie explores her unconventional Read More

The Perez Family

Actors: Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Anjelica Huston, Chazz Palminteri, Trini Alvarado

Synopsis: Old and new loves are turned upside down through a complex case of mistaken identities in this romantic comedy-drama. In 1980, Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina) is released from a Cuban prison after spending 20 years behind bars and is allowed to join a mass emigration to the U.S. While Juan was Read More

Rabbit Ears: Rip Van Winkle

Synopsis: Here's a '90s release of the famous Washington Irving tale where the Catskill Mountain man falls asleep for twenty years to awaken an old man. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Addams Family Values

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci

Synopsis: The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the first. When Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to new baby boy Pubert, the other Addams children, Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and Wednesday (Christina Ricci), devise any Read More

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Adler

Synopsis: There's a real murder and a real mystery in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, but these plot pegs are used mainly to allow Allen to explore modern urban relationships. Allen plays a N.Y.C. book editor, Larry Lipton, married to Carol (Diane Keaton, who replaced Mia Farrow at the last minute Read More

Family Pictures

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Sam Neill, Kyra Sedgwick, Jamie Harrold

Synopsis: Family Pictures is a two-part TV adaptation of the Sue Miller novel of the same name. Anjelica Huston and Sam Neill are Lainey and David Eberlin, a 1950s married couple with six children, one of whom, Randall (Jamie Harrold), is autistic. The parents' initial decision not to institutionalize the Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

The Addams Family

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: Inspired more by the 1960s TV series than by the original Charles Addams New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family proved to be one of the more successful of the TV shows-turned-movies of the 1990s. The film opens on a recreation of the magazine cartoon wherein the ghoulish Addamses prepare to pour Read More

The Grifters

Actors: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John Cusack Read More

The Witches

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Paterson

Synopsis: In Nicolas Roeg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel The Witches, a young boy is vacationing at the seaside with his grandmother when he discovers that the hotel he is staying at is hosting a convention of witches. Eavesdropping on the witches, he learns that the Grand High Witch (Anjelica Huston) Read More

Lonesome Dove: The Making of an Epic

Synopsis: This documentary is about the making of the immensely popular television series Lonesome Dove. The Western epic, adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel, starred Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as two aging cowboys and former Texas rangers, who organize a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The Read More

Enemies: A Love Story

Actors: Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Margaret Sophie Stein, Alan King

Synopsis: Ron Silver stars as Herman, a Holocaust survivor who believes that his wife Tamara (Anjelica Huston) perished in the concentration camps. He marries fellow immigrant Yadwiga (Margaret Sophie Stein), whose family sheltered him from the Nazis, and resettles in the Coney Island area of New York. Not Read More

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Actors: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. Martin Landau plays Dr. Judah Read More

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Evelyn Keyes, Arthur Miller, Michael Caine

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most distinguished directors, John Huston is profiled in this no-holds-barred documentary. Discounting the hokey framing device of host Robert Mitchum wandering through an attic full of Huston memorabilia, this two-hour plus film is a remarkable chronicle of a remarkable man. We Read More

Lonesome Dove

Actors: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Rick Schroder, Robert Urich, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: This six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of which had been considered dead for several years. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as fun-loving Gus MacRae and taciturn Woodrow Call Read More

Mr. North

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: A young man freshly graduated from Yale (Anthony Edwards) moves to Rhode Island and finds himself with a strange power: the ability to create mild electric shocks through his hands. He begins to make friends around the community, and tries to help those around him by healing several minor Read More

A Handful of Dust

Actors: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton Abbey, tradition-bound country squire James Wilby and his wife Kristin Scott Thomas open their doors to well-connected but impoverished Rupert Graves. Graves returns Wilby's Read More

The Dead

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Rachel Dowling, Cathleen Delaney, Helena Carroll

Synopsis: The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James Joyce's Dubliners. Anjelica Huston is top-billed as Gretta Conroy, the niece by marriage of turn-of-century Irish spinsters Kate Morkan (Helena Carroll) and Julia Morkan (Cathleen Delany). At the home of these Read More

Gardens of Stone

Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Set in Washington D.C. during the Vietnam War era, Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard. James Caan plays career soldier Sgt. Clell Hazard, who has come to the sad conclusion that Vietnam is unwinnable and that America should Read More

Behind the Screen: Stories of Cinema - John Huston and the Dubliners

Actors: John Huston, Anjelica Huston, Tony Huston, Roberto Silvi, Donal McCann, Tom Shaw

Synopsis: The legendary filmmaker John Huston is the focus of this documentary as he directs his last film The Dead. Taken from a story by James Joyce, Huston insist his actors are well-prepared while allowing for active participation from the performers. Huston's son Tony collaborated with his father on Read More

Imagine That! Great Moments in History

Synopsis: An educational program that outlines important history facts in a fun way. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Good To Go

Actors: Art Garfunkel, Robert DoQui, Harris Yulin, Reginald Daughtry, Richard Brooks

Synopsis: The beat of "go-go" music -- hip-hop oriented dance music with a heavy emphasis on percussion -- provides the backdrop for this drama about corruption and racism in Washington D.C. There are the good guys who play and promote the music, the bad guys who deal in drugs and crime, the bad racist cop Read More

Saturday Night Live: Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Billy Martin, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin and features musical guest George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Captain Eo

Actors: Michael Jackson

Synopsis: Nowadays, many critics feel that most megabudget films seem designed as a potential theme-park ride first and an actual motion-picture second; Captain Eo, however, was designed as a Disney theme-park attraction from the very beginning. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Michael Jackson Read More

Prizzi's Honor

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, William Hickey, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Richard Condon's delicious black comedy was lovingly translated to the screen by legendary director John Huston in one of his last movies. The Prizzis are a powerful family of mobsters, as devoted to their code of honor as they are to bending laws and breaking skulls. Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson Read More

This Is Spinal Tap

Actors: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Tony Hendra, R.J. Parnell

Synopsis: Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap Read More

The Ice Pirates

Actors: Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts, Anjelica Huston, John Matuszak

Synopsis: In this undistinguished parody of the sci fi genre, Robert Urich is Jason who leads a band of pirates in redistributing the wealth of the few to the coffers of the needy. He also joins up with Princess Karina Mary Crosby in searching for her father and a possible source of water in the next Read More

The Cowboy and the Ballerina

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this story concerns a champion rodeo rider (Lee Majors) and his romance with a Russian ballerina (Leslie Wing) who is trying to defect. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Laverne & Shirley: The Fashion Show

Synopsis: Laverne's new boyfriend (Larry Breeding) makes his living as a glamour photographer. Jealous over the fact that her beau spends all his working hours with gorgeous models, Laverne (Penny Marshall) tries to invade the glamour world herself--and ends up strutting down the runway of a major fashion Read More

Rose for Emily

Synopsis: Film adapted version of Faulkner's short story telling the story of Emily's disasterous romance with a laborer after a lifetime of repression under her tyrannical father who kept all her suitors away. With a film guide. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Beauty and the Beast

Synopsis: In this atmospheric, somewhat eerie retelling of the classic story, a young woman named Beauty (Susan Sarandon) is forced to leave her father's home and go to live in the castle of a frightening Beast Klaus Kinski. The reason for this demand is that Beauty's father, on his travels, had stolen a Read More

Laverne & Shirley: An Affair to Forget

Synopsis: This is one of several episodes featuring the late character actor Larry Breeding. On this occasion, Breeding plays Laverne's latest heartthrob, a charmer named Hank. Unfortuantely, Hank has neglected to inform Laverne (Penny Marshall) that he already has a wife named Geraldine (played by no less Read More

Frances

Actors: Robert Harris, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: As played by Jessica Lange, Frances Farmer is a rebel from the word go, winning a high school essay award by writing a piece in defense of Communism. Determining to become an actress, Frances is equally determined not to play the Hollywood game: she refuses to acquiesce to idiotic publicity Read More

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, Michael Lerner, John Ryan

Synopsis: Bob Rafelson's remake of 1946's The Postman Always Rings Twice, with a screenplay by the award-winning playwright David Mamet, stars Jack Nicholson as Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter who ends up at a diner run by Nick Papadakis (John Colicos), who offers Frank a job. Frank takes him up on Read More

The Last Tycoon

Actors: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and Read More

Swashbuckler

Actors: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: A latter-day attempt to update the swordplay success of Errol Flynn movies, this film is part burlesque, part homage to old-fashioned pirate films. James Earl Jones and Robert Shaw play Nick Debrett and Ned Lynch, two pirates who save a noblewoman, Jane Barnet (Geneviève Bujold), and take her to Read More

Sinful Davey

Actors: John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Ronald Fraser, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Davey Haggart (John Hurt) wishes to follow his father's footsteps and become a highway robber. He also wishes to avoid his father's fate -- which was death by hanging at the tender age of 21 after a botched robbery of the Duke of Argyle (Robert Morley). Davey commits a daring robbery in broad Read More

A Walk With Love and Death

Actors: Assaf Dayan, Anjelica Huston, Anthony Corlan, John Hallam, Robert Lang

Synopsis: Heron of Foix (Assaf Dayan) hears the call of the ocean and leaves his school in Paris to walk to the sea. He meets the fair Claudia (Anjelica Huston) and the two fall in love and journey together to escape the ongoing Hundred Years War. They witness the brutal and bloody murder of a peasant who Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Mark Dignam

Synopsis: Perhaps the reason there are so many filmed versions of Hamlet is that in each decade every great Shakespeareian actor, and almost any movie actor with a yen to prove his versatility wants to tilt at this particular thespian windmill. Aside from the much more difficult King Lear, it is also one of Read More

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