Bonnie BedeliaFilmography

Manhood

Actors: Nestor Carbonell, Janeane Garofalo, John Ritter, Tom Arnold

Synopsis: When Jill (Janeane Garofalo), the sister of reformed womanizer and former high-profile fashion photographer Jack (Nestor Carbonell), leaves her 17-year-old son with his uncle in an unstable bid to find herself, her brother and sister face an increasingly uncertain future in this dark drama from Read More

Sordid Lives

Actors: Newell Alexander, Rosemary Alexander, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Writer-director Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (Ann Walker), and Sissy (Beth Grant) plan her Read More

The Division: Season 01

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Nancy McKeon, Tracey Needham, Lisa Vidal

Flowers For Algernon

Actors: Matthew Modine, Kelli Williams, Ron Rifkin, Bonnie Bedelia, Richard Chevolleau

Synopsis: Matthew Modine stars in this adaptation of the classic novel by Daniel Keyes. In the film, Modine plays Charlie Gordon, a gentle, simple man with an IQ of 68 who is the subject of an intelligence-enhancing experiment. This lowly janitor, who was the butt of many of his co-workers' jokes, is soon Read More

Picnic

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Josh Brolin, Ben Caswell, Gretchen Mol, Chad Morgan

Synopsis: Originally staged on Broadway in 1953 and filmed two years later, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic drama Picnic went before the cameras a second time in 2000 as a made-for-TV movie. Josh Brolin stars as Hal Carter, a handsome and impecunious drifter who shows up in a tranquil Kansas Read More

Anywhere But Here

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Eileen Ryan, Ray Baker, John Diehl

Synopsis: As with his earlier film The Joy Luck Club (1993), Chinese director Wayne Wang tackles mother-daughter relationships in this coming of age comedy-drama. Susan Sarandon stars as Adele August, a Bay City, Wisconsin, mother who longs for a more exciting and glamorous life in Beverly Hills Read More

Gloria

Actors: Sharon Stone, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Jeremy Northam, Cathy Moriarty, George C. Scott, Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: Director Sidney Lumet has remade the 1980 movie by his contemporary, John Cassavetes, casting Sharon Stone in the role of Gloria (portrayed in the original by Cassavetes' wife, Gena Rowlands), a street-toughened woman sliding into middle age. When the neighbors are murdered by a group of Read More

Locked in Silence

Actors: Dan Hedaya, Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: Bonnie Bedelia and Bruce Davidson star in this drama produced for the Showtime premium cable network about a family struggling with an emotional crisis. They discover the toll it has taken on their youngest son when he suddenly cannot -- or will not -- speak, and a psychologist is brought in to Read More

Bad Manners

Actors: Caroleen Feeney, David Strathairn, Bonnie Bedelia, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: Two couples share an evening of bad karma in this domestic drama. Matt (Saul Rubinek) is a musicologist who has devised a computer program that can spontaneously compose music; however, one of the first pieces it comes up with features a prominent quote from "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." His Read More

To Live Again

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Annabeth Gish, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: A woman overcomes a tragedy in her own life by helping a teenage girl with a tragic family background in this made-for-TV drama. A disturbed woman who is unhappy with what she perceives to be the eccentric behavior of her daughter keeps her child a prisoner in her home for 16 years. A social Read More

Any Mother's Son

Synopsis: One of the most controversial (and widely-reported) stories of the early 1990s is vividly dramatized in this made-for-cable movie. In 1992, Allen Schindler, a navy sailor serving on the USS Belleau Wood, is savagely beaten to death while on leave in Japan. Allen's grieving mother Dorothy Read More

Homecoming

Actors: Anne Bancroft, Kimberlee Peterson, Bonnie Bedelia, Hanna R. Hall, Anna Louise Richardson

Synopsis: In this tender made-for-TV drama, four children are effectively orphaned when they are deserted by their mother. With nowhere else to go but some institution, the kids manage to locate their estranged grandmother. A bitter, and seemingly cold-hearted loner, the woman reluctantly takes the waifs Read More

Her Costly Affair

Synopsis: It's Fatal Attraction with a bit of gender and age fine-tuning in this made-for-TV melodrama. Bonnie Bedelia stars as Dr. Diane Weston, a professor in Shakespearean studies who has a brief fling with graduate student Jeff (Brian Austin Green). Once she has gotten over her attraction to Jeff, Diane Read More

A Season in Purgatory

Actors: Blair Brown, Patrick Dempsey, Brian Dennehy, Sherilyn Fenn, David Marshall Grant, Craig Sheffer

Shadow of a Doubt

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: An alcoholic lawyer has to prove more than just his case in this made-for-television crime drama. Brian Dennehy stars as Charlie Sloan, a defense attorney with a drinking problem. When his old flame Robin Harwell (Bonnie Bedelia) asks him to defend her teen daughter (Fairuza Balk) who is accused Read More

Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Meredith Salenger, Jon Maynard Pennell, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: Plagued throughout his life by fuzzy, disturbing memories, Coloradoan William Coit Jr. (Neil Patrick Harris) realizes that these memories may put a crimp in the happiness of his recent marriage. In his efforts to get at the root of his anxieties, Coit ruminates over his unhappy, unstable childhood Read More

Speechless

Actors: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Christopher Reeve, Bonnie Bedelia, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: A mix of political satire and a modern take on 1930's-style screwball comedy, this romance from director Ron Underwood was assumed by many to be based on the real-life relationship between liberal political consultant James Carville and conservative commentator Mary Matalin. Michael Keaton stars Read More

Judicial Consent

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Will Patton, Billy Wirth, Dabney Coleman, Michael Greene, Lisa Blount

Synopsis: A judge is set up for murder in this suspenseful thriller. Criminal court judge Gwen Warwick is about to be appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court. One night she engages in sex with law clerk Martin in his office. They begin a torrid affair. A colleague of Gwen's, Charles Matron, is discovered Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark world of detectives and police officers. Called to look into a murder, an investigator (Gary Oldman) discovers that the victim of the crime is none other than his estranged wife Read More

Fire Next Time

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Richard Farnsworth, Jürgen Prochnow, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This ecological drama, set in 2017, presents a world where pollution has generated ever more unpredictable weather and rendered large chunks of the planet into disaster zones. After a hurricane destroys everything they've built for themselves, Louisiana shrimp fisherman Drew Morgan (Craig T. 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

A Mother's Right: The Elizabeth Morgan Story

Synopsis: When a mother will not tell where her child is because she maintains that her ex-husband abused the girl, the mother is imprisoned in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Switched at Birth

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, Ed Asner, John M. Jackson, Lois Smith

Synopsis: The two-part, four-hour TV movie Switched at Birth is based on an actual event which began unfolding in Wauchula, Florida in 1978. Brian Kerwin and Judith Hoag play the new parents of a baby girl; a few days later, another couple, played by John M. Jackson and Bonnie Bedelia, have a baby at the Read More

When the Time Comes

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a woman suffering the ravages of terminal cancer desires, against the wishes of her husband, to permanently end her suffering. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Presumed Innocent

Actors: Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) is a bland, oppressed man who burns with a quiet, corrosive intensity that can flare uncontrollably. A Philadelphia prosecutor, Sabich's fire seems to have one outlet: his job. He loves prosecuting people. Otherwise, his life is dead-ended. He has a loveless marriage Read More

Die Hard 2

Actors: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Bill Sadler, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, John Amos

Synopsis: "Another basement, another elevator...how can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks John McClane (Bruce Willis), in what is doubtless the key question of this film. A year after foiling the terrorist takeover of a high-rise office building in the first movie, McClane is waiting to Read More

Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

Actors: Arliss Howard, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: Based on Doug Magee's novel Slow Coming Dark, the made-for-cable Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture is about a photojournalist (Roy Scheider) who is hired by a man (Arliss Howard) convicted of killing a policeman to photograph his execution. As the execution grows nearer, the photographer uncovers Read More

Fat Man & Little Boy

Actors: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern

Synopsis: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were the nicknames given the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning days of World War II. This elaborately assembled film is the story of the events leading up to the dawn of the atomic age. Paul Newman plays General Leslie Groves, a 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

Die Hard

Actors: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Reginald VelJohnson

Synopsis: It's Christmas time in L.A., and there's an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who plan to steal the 600 million Read More

The Stranger

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Riegert, Barry Primus, David Spielberg, Marcos Woinski

Synopsis: After witnessing a murder, Alice Kildee (Bonnie Bedelia) is involved in a car accident. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who she is, but has total recall concerning the murder. The problem is, no such killing has been reported. So the authorities, assuming that Alice is merely Read More

The Boy Who Could Fly

Actors: Lucy Deakins, Jay Underwood, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Savage, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: Jay Underwood plays an autistic boy who provides a source of fascination to a new family in town. Never uttering a sound, Underwood spends hours in his backyard, attempting to fly like the birds. Lucy Deakins, the daughter of the new family, befriends Underwood; she is encouraged by teacher Colleen Dewhurst Read More

Violets Are Blue

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline, Bonnie Bedelia, Jim Standiford

Synopsis: This small-town romance may be trying to ride the coattails of the Big Chill that also featured Kevin Kline. Kline plays Henry here, and when the film opens he and his love Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek, wife of director Jack Fisk), are sitting together planning the future they will have. She will Read More

Death of an Angel

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Nick Mancuso, Pamela Ludwig, Alex Colon, Abel Franco

Synopsis: In this undistinguished, confusing story about priests, gangsters, illegal immigrants and everything except pizza, Grace (Bonnie Bedelia) is the mother of an invalid, wheelchair-bound daughter. For no clear reason, the daughter runs off to a mission near the Mexican border, and her worried mother Read More

Alex: The Life of a Child

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Gennie James, Craig T. Nelson

Synopsis: Alex: The Life of a Child is based on the true story of Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford and his dying 8-year-old daughter Alex. Craig T. Nelson plays Deford and Gennie James is Alex, both of whom come to grips in different ways with Alex's fatal cystic fibrosis. A subplot involves the Read More

The Lady from Yesterday

Actors: Wayne Rogers, Bonnie Bedelia, Pat Hingle, Barrie Youngfellow, Blue Deckert

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a Vietnam vet's family life is shattered when the child he fathered during wartime suddenly appears on his doorstep. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Memorial Day

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, Mike Farrell stars as an attorney who finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam, including Robert Walden and Edward Herrmann. The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved. ~ Jason Read More

Heart Like a Wheel

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges, Leo Rossi, Hoyt Axton, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Heart Like a Wheel stars Bonnie Bedelia as real-life racing champion Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney. Overcoming sexist hurdles, Shirley works hard to qualify for the major auto race competitions of America. Firmly in her cheering section is her dad (Hoyt Axton), and--at least at first--her husband Read More

Million Dollar Infield

Synopsis: Rob Reiner coproduced, cowrote and costarred in this TV-movie about suburban "angst" in the 1980s. Reiner is one of four wealthy Long Islanders who play for an amateur softball team. All four men (Reiner, Bruno Kirby, Robert Costanzo and Christopher Guest) suffer from profound personal and Read More

Walking Through the Fire

Synopsis: Bess Armstrong is the anguished heroine of the made-for-TV Walking Through the Fire. A normal, healthy housewife and mother, Bess' world is shattered when she falls victim to Hodgkin's disease. Not only is her life threatened by this debilitating illness, but also the life of her unborn child. Read More

Fighting Back

Actors: Robert Urich

Synopsis: The overused title Fighting Back made its first appearance of the 1980s in this TV biopic. Robert Urich stars as real-life football player Rocky Bleier, who joins the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1968. Rocky's career is curtailed by military service in Vietnam. On August 20, 1969, Bleier is seriously Read More

Tourist

Synopsis: In this drama, an American tourist visits some of the world's most glamorous capitals. The tale is based on a Gerald Green novel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Salem's Lot

Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Reggie Nalder

Synopsis: Novelist David Soul returns to his hometown of Salem, finding that things have changed a bit. More than a bit, in fact: the previously warm and friendly community is downright sinister. Soul suspects that the bizarre behavior of his onetime friends and neighbors is the handiwork of oddball antique Read More

The Big Fix

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, Ofelia Medina

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss plays Moses Wine, an ex-Sixties radical who pays the bills as a private eye. Wine is hired to stem a smear campaign against a popular political candidate. Gradually the plot thickens into a murder case, involving a hippie leader whose values, like Wine's, have been severely Read More

Forever

Synopsis: According to the network press release, the made-for-TV Forever was concerned with the "joys and anguish" of teenage romance. The teenage romancers herein are played by Stephanie Zimbalist and Dean Butler. It is the first serious relationship for both, and so far as they are concerned, it will be Read More

A Question of Love

Actors: Josh Albee

Synopsis: A Question of Love is the deceptively bland title for this controversial made-for-TV film. Gena Rowlands plays a divorced nurse who is doing her best to raise her young sons (Keith Mitchell and Josh Albee) without their dad's help. Rowlands' ex-husband Clu Gulager files for full custody of the Read More

Heat Wave

Synopsis: Ben Murphy and Bonnie Bedelia star in the made-for-TV suspenser Heat Wave. Murphy plays a young clerk, and Bedelia portrays his young and pregnant wife. During a record-breaking hot spell, the power in their mountain community goes out, and the water supply is dirty and stagnant. The balance of Read More

Hawkins on Murder

Actors: Strother Martin

Synopsis: Also known as Death and the Maiden, Hawkins on Murder introduced Jimmy Stewart to the TV-detective genre as folksy sleuth Billy Jim Hawkins (this TV movie was produced by MGM, the studio which gave Stewart his start in the 1930s). Hawkins travels from his West Virginia hometown to investigate a Read More

Between Friends

Message to My Daughter

Synopsis: A girl finds herself getting closer to her dead mother after viewing hours of tape made especially for her 17 years ago. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

A Time for Love

Actors: Lauren Hutton, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: Time for Love, aka New Kind of Love, was the pilot for an unsold anthology series. The throughline of the anthology was to have been "Opposites Attract," to which many viewers added, "Yeah? And then what?" The two stories comprising the pilot both trod the tired old "Shy and Nonshy" route. Read More

Get Back

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: Get Back is a "loser" film: not a film that is itself a loser, but one about losers. Michael Parks and Chuck Shantana play a couple of over-aged surfers who sit around wondering why life has passed them by. With nothing else to occupy their time, the duo stages a holdup. The two have a falling out Read More

Bonanza: Forever

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mitch Vogel, Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: The fourteenth and final season of Bonanza began on September 12, 1972 with a special two-hour episode. As originally written by series star Michael Landon (who also directed), "Forever" was supposed to have focused on the ill-starred marriage between Hoss Cartwright (Dan Blocker) and Alice Harper Read More

The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Ken Howard, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Love can take many forms and express itself in any number of ways, as this offbeat drama makes clear. While hitchhiking, Rosalie (Bonnie Bedelia), a young Native American woman, meets Virgil (Ken Howard), a blonde-haired, blue-eyed dreamboat, and she soon becomes infatuated with him. She talks him Read More

Sandcastles

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Jan-Michael Vincent

Synopsis: Sandcastles dresses up an old story with pretty seascapes and prettier actors. Bonnie Bedelia is a lonely young musician who strikes up an acquaintance with the enigmatic Jan-Michael Vincent. Even though she sees him only while walking along the beach, Bonnie falls in love with this curious young Read More

Lovers and Other Strangers

Actors: Bea Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Richard S. Castellano

Synopsis: Lovers and Other Strangers became a "sleeper" hit, based on a play by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna. The story is essentially a series of vignettes and anecdotes, unified by an impending marriage. Father of the bride Hal (Gig Young) has problems with his long-suffering mistress, Cathy (Anne Jackson Read More

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Actors: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons

Synopsis: A total of nine Academy Award nominations went to this wildly acclaimed, allegorical drama set amongst the contestants in a marathon dance contest during the Great Depression. Gig Young stars as Rocky, the obnoxious emcee for a dance marathon that offers prize money of $1,500, a small fortune Read More

Bonanza: The Unwanted

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: Before she played Joe Cartwright's ill-fated love interest in the 1972 Bonanza episode "Forever," Bonnie Bedelia guest-starred in the series' April 6, 1969 episode "The Unwanted." Bedelia is cast as Lorrie, the daughter of Ben Cartwright's old friend, lawman Luke Mansfield (Charles McGraw). Read More

The Gypsy Moths

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directed this low-key drama about three men who stage a sky-diving thrill show and what happens when they roll into a small town in Kansas. Mike Rettig (Burt Lancaster) is the oldest of the group and more than a bit jaded; Joe Browdy (Gene Hackman) is the fast-talking MC who Read More

Then Came Bronson

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Akim Tamiroff, Gary Merrill, Sheree North

Synopsis: This pilot film for the 1969-1970 TV series Then Came Bronson stars Michael Parks in the title role. A young, ambitious journalist, Bronson realigns his priorities after his best friend (Martin Sheen) commits suicide. Borrowing a page from Kerouac, Bronson gives up the rat race for the road. He Read More