Brooke AdamsFilmography

Monk: Mr. Monk Visits a Farm

Synopsis: Lt. Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford) retires from the force when he inherits a farm from his late uncle Harvey. It isn't long before Disher begins to suspect that his uncle was murdered--along with his prize pig Harvey. Though he recoils at the notion of being stranded on a dusty, dirty farm with Read More

At Last

Actors: Martin Donovan, Kelly Lynch, M.C. Gainey, Jessica Hecht, Brooke Adams

Synopsis: Thirty years after realizing that they had they had both found that rare once in a lifetime love, a man and a woman separated by fate decide to take a second shot at romance despite the fact that both had moved on with their lives a long time ago. As children growing up together in Grosse Pointe Read More

The Legend of Lucy Keyes

Actors: Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux, Brooke Adams, Mark Boone, Jr., Jamie Donnelly

Synopsis: One family comes face-to-face with the forces of the unknown in this supernatural thriller based on actual events. On April 14, 1755, something terrible happened to Lucy Keyes in the forest surrounding Wachusett Mountain. 250 years later, Guy (Justin Theroux) and Joanne Cooley (Julie Delpy) move Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Kid

Synopsis: Brooke Adams, the wife of Monk star Tony Shalhoub, appears in this final episode of the series' third season as Abigail Carlyle, the mother of violin prodigy Daniel Carlyle...and a key player in a bizarre extortion plot. Monk is called in to investigate after a 22-month-old kid named Tommy (played Read More

Made-Up

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brooke Adams, Lynne Adams, Eva Amurri

Synopsis: Award-winning actor Tony Shalhoub adds the "director" hyphenate to his calling card with this labor of love, starring his wife, Brooke Adams, and written by his sister-in-law, Lynne Adams. Made-Up lightly parodies the reality-TV "makeover" craze as it tells the tale of Elizabeth (Brooke Adams), a Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Airplane

Synopsis: In the final episode of Monk's first season, the ultra-phobic Mr. Monk (Tony Shalhoub) is forced to take his first plane ride. Galvanized by sheer terror, Monk spends the first part of the flight driving his fellow passengers crazy with his anxious questions. Before long, he really has something Read More

Wings: All About Christmas Eve

Synopsis: Joe (Tim Daly) and Brian (Steven Weber) find themselves back in charge of Sandpiper Air, just in time for Christmas Eve. To celebrate the occasion, Joe plans a surprise party for Helen (Crystal Bernard), who is out shopping with Fay (Rebecca Schull) and Casey (Amy Yasbeck). Unfortunately, the Read More

The Baby-Sitters Club

Actors: Bre Blair, Tricia Joe, Stacey Linn Ramsower, Schuyler Fisk, Rachael Leigh Cook, Larisa Oleynik

Synopsis: Based on the characters from the series of best-selling books by Ann M. Martin, The Baby Sitters Club concerns a group of seven girls, each edging into their teenage years, who are close friends and have formed a co-operative baby-sitting service. Their business has become so successful that the Read More

Frasier: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

Synopsis: Aghast at finding a tiny scratch on his otherwise flawless hardwood floor, Frasier calls in a contractor to repair the damage. What begins as a relatively small job mushrooms into a vast and expensive undertaking -- one that threatens to ruin a wine-tasting party being held at Frasier's home. The Read More

The Fire This Time: Why Los Angeles Burned

Actors: Brooke Adams

Synopsis: In 1992, television cameras on the ground and in helicopters caught the violence of an inner city riot in south central Los Angeles, which broke out after the acquittal of several white policemen in the brutal beating of Rodney King, also captured on video cameras. This documentary explores the Read More

Picture Windows

Actors: Brooke Adams, Sally Kirkland, Michael Lerner, George Segal, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: In the television miniseries Picture Windows, a number of acclaimed Hollywood directors and top stars team up for short stories about love. In "Soir Bleu," directed by Norman Jewison, Tully (Alan Arkin) is a clown who has fallen in love with a married woman. To make matters more complex, her Read More

Touched By an Angel: An Unexpected Snow

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) and Tess (Della Reese) must somehow straighten out the domestic travails of lawyer Susana (Brooke Adams), her husband Jack (Ed Marinaro) and his mistress Megan (Nancy Allen). Using the Thanksgiving-weekend traffic rush to their advantage, the two angels contrive to have Monica Read More

The Last Hit

Actors: Brooke Adams, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Bryan Brown stars as CIA hit man Michael Grant, who plans to retire after one more assignment. He buys a house in New Mexico from a widow (Brooke Adams), and they fall in love; only later does Michael realize his final target is the woman's father. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Gas Food Lodging

Actors: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin, Robert Knepper

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Richard Peck called Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Allison Anders's melodramatic coming-of-age tale Gas Food Lodging takes place in Laramie, NM, a small town right off the highway. Nora (Brooke Adams) is a truck-stop waitress who lives in a trailer park with her two teenaged Read More

The Unborn

Actors: Brooke Adams, Jeffrey Hayenga, James Karen, K Callan, Jane Cameron

Synopsis: A married woman who has not been able to successfully conceive a child turns to a specialist who succeeds in inseminating her artificially. Before too long, she hears rumors of the doctor's past and present genetic experiments and when she finally aborts the fetus, finds that it is a monster as Read More

Sometimes They Come Back

Actors: Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, William Sanderson

Synopsis: This adaptation of Stephen King's thriller is about a man who returns to his hometown after 27 years. Soon he is tormented by ghosts of the dead teens who killed his brother years before. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Bridesmaids

Actors: Brooke Adams, Stephanie Faracy, Shelley Hack, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Four women, all high school best friends, are reunited in Minnesota at the wedding of a fifth friend. On the eve of the nuptials, the foursome discuss their lives, their loves and their innermost secrets. Adultery and a surprise pregnancy are choice ingredients added to this TV-movie brew. For the Read More

Moonlighting: Fetal Attraction

Synopsis: This week's episode opens as a helpful nurse recaps the previous weeks' activities to an ABC executive who'd been in a coma ever since he found out that David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) had still not gotten back together! As it happens, David is ruminating over his upcoming "role" Read More

Moonlighting: And the Flesh Was Made Word

Synopsis: In the last episode of Moonlighting's fourth season, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) returns to work after ending her brief marriage to Walter Bishop (Dennis Dugan). Her first post-nuptual case involves a public-relations man who wants to find his partner's lover, who has proven a major business Read More

Moonlighting: Maddie Hayes Got Married

Synopsis: David (Bruce Willis) finally meets Walter (Dennis Dugan), the man whom Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has impulsively married. Rather than get angry or exhibit jealousy, David generously offers to throw a bachelor party for Walter. That David might have an ulterior motive is evidenced when the stripper Read More

Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

Synopsis: Paul Reiser was still the star of the TV sitcom My Two Dads when he headlined this 60-minute video. Instead of the standard live-before-an-audience approach, Out on a Whim tells a self-contained story. Reiser, playing himself, is from time to time approached by an ethereal lady who wants to know Read More

Man on Fire

Actors: Scott Glenn, Jade Malle, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Joe Pesci, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: An agent newly retired from the CIA (Scott Glenn) agrees to become an Italian businessman's bodyguard in this adventure film. Things fall apart though, when terrorists kidnap the Italian's daughter and the agent must rescue her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lion of Africa

Actors: Brooke Adams, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: This made-for-cable action story stars Brian Dennehy as a diamond dealer and Brooke Adams as a doctor who join forces to make their way to Kenya. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Key Exchange

Actors: Ben Masters, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Daniel Stern, Nancy Mette

Synopsis: Based on a play by Kevin Wade, this comedy stars Brooke Adams as a television producer who demands commitment from her free-spirited lover (Ben Masters). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Stuff

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Garrett Morris

Synopsis: When a group of miners discovers a mysterious but delicious white substance bubbling up from the earth, a conglomerate markets the gooey, addictive fluff as a dessert in this tongue-in-cheek horror spoof from former NBC scriptwriter Larry Cohen. When a new product called "The Stuff" begins eating Read More

Lace II

Actors: Brooke Adams, Deborah Raffin, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins

Synopsis: In this sequel to the original miniseries, Lili (Phoebe Cates), having discovered the true identity of her mother, now begins looking for her father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Special People: Based on a True Story

Synopsis: Special People: Based on a True Story is the TV-movie saga of Toronto's Famous People Players, a theatrical troupe comprised principally of mentally handicapped young adults. Brooke Adams stars as a novice social worker who dreams up the concept of the Famous People Players and struggles to bring Read More

Haunted

Actors: Brooke Adams, Jon de Vries, Ari Meyers, Trish VanDevere, Audrey Matson

Synopsis: Michael Roemer both wrote and directed the 60-minute TV drama Haunted. Brooke Adams stars as a troubled young woman who returns to her Rhode Island home. Why she does this is a mystery: her childhood was a textbook example of misery, exacerbated by her spiteful adoptive mother and her abusive Read More

Almost You

Actors: Brooke Adams, Griffin Dunne, Karen Young, Joe Silver, Marty Watt, Christine Estabrook

Synopsis: After Griffin Dunne's wife Brooke Adams is injured in a car crash, Dunne begins an affair with Adams' nurse Karen Young. You think that takes gall? Dunne also becomes best friends with Young's boyfriend Marty Watt. Believe it or not, Griffin Dunne is the most likeable character in the movie. After Read More

Lace

Actors: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: A notorious, internationally known sex symbol (Phoebe Cates) attempts to track down her birth mother in this glitzy, deliciously trashy melodrama. The mother could be one of three women, all of whom have vowed to never reveal the secret truth behind the child's illegitimate birth. Based on the Read More

The Innocents Abroad

Actors: Craig Wasson, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Filmed on location in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, Innocents Abroad was adapted by Dan Wakefield from the 1869 book by Mark Twain. The Twain original was an amusing, semi-satiric account of the author's Grand Tour of Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. Most of the humor derived from the Read More

The Dead Zone

Actors: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person's future simply by touching his or her hand. After seeing several examples, Smith's doctor (Herbert Lom) becomes convinced that Smith can Read More

Utilities

Actors: Robert Hays, Brooke Adams, John Marley, James Blendick, Ben Gordon

Synopsis: In this weakly limned comedy, romance, and social drama, Bob Hunt (Robert Hays) is a dedicated social worker out to save an elderly woman from having her heat shut off in the dead of winter. But his noble intentions are thwarted by Marion Edwards (Brooke Adams) a plainclothes policewoman, a Read More

Mark Twain Classics: Innocents Abroad

Summer

Tell Me a Riddle

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Brooke Adams, Lili Valenty, Dolores Dorn

Synopsis: Featuring Lila Kedrova and Melvyn Douglas as elderly couple Eva and David who, after forty years of a less-than-satisfying marriage, find the lost love they once had for each other as they travel to San Francisco to visit their grandchildren. Actress Lee Grant's first directorial feature, this Read More

The Great Train Robbery

Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Wayne Sleep, Michael Elphick, Malcolm Terris

Synopsis: Not a remake of the landmark 1903 Edwin S. Porter film, The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England. The conspirators in this undertaking are Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), Agar (Donald Sutherland) and Clean Willy (Wayne Sleep). Pierce is Read More

Cuba

Actors: Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Hector Elizondo, Jack Weston, Chris Sarandon, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: In director Richard Lester's Cuba, Sean Connery plays British soldier-of-fortune Robert Dapes, sent to Havana during the last days of the Batista regime. He is supposed to train Batista's soldiers for their upcoming confrontations with Castro's followers. As Dapes becomes increasingly sympathetic Read More

A Man, a Woman, and a Bank

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Paul Mazursky, Allen Magicovsky, Leigh Hamilton

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, Donald Sutherland and Paul Mazursky play Reese and Norman, two charming computer whizzes who tie into a bank under construction, and arrange to withdraw a huge sum of money without being caught. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Days of Heaven

Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Richard Gere Read More

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: This remake of the 1956 horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers moves the action from small-town USA to 1970s San Francisco and replaces at least part of the original's psychological horror with special effects. Spores rain forth, unseen, from outer space, and soon strange flowers begin Read More

Shock Waves

Actors: Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, John Carradine, Fred Buch, Jack Davidson

Synopsis: This horror film concerns a shipwrecked yachting party. Rose (Brooke Adams) and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain (John Carradine) run aground on an island when they hit an odd-looking freighter. Once beached, they meet up with an aging SS Commander (Peter Cushing) who had been in Read More

Nero Wolfe

Synopsis: Rex Stout's corpulent, orchid-loving detective Nero Wolfe would eventually headline his own 1980s TV series, courtesy of star William Conrad. This earlier unsold TV pilot stars Thayer David, whom some Stout devotees consider the best of the many media Wolfes (which included Walter Connolly and Sidney Greenstreet Read More

Kojak: Dead Again

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) is one of several authority figures who dismiss the claims of Julie Winston (Brooke Adams), a young and friendless newcomer to the Big Apple, when she insists that she has been threatened by a "dead" man. According to Julie, her tormenter was a known felon who had previously Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: The Boy Next Door

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Finally getting custody of his son Howie, Howard must now face the problem of proper child care when he isn't around. At first, Howie is left in the hands of Bob and Emily, who in turn hire a gorgeous babysitter named Mitzi Margolis (Brooke Adams). Howard is so impressed by Mitzi that he asks her Read More

James Dean

Actors: Michael Brandon, Stephen McHattie, Brooke Adams, Amy Irving

Murder on Flight 502

Synopsis: While bound for London from New York, the occupants of a 747 are terrorized by a mad bomber. The jet's pilot (Robert Stack) and several brave passengers must thwart the plot. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

James Dean: A Legend in His Own Time

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biography, based on the memoirs of onetime James Dean roommate William Bast, stars Stephen McHattie in the title role of the Hollywood rebel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ronny Cox, MacDonald Carey, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: The still-unsolved Black Dahlia murder case, fictionalized in the 1981 theatrical feature True Confessions, is handled on a more factual level in this made-for-TV movie. Lucie Arnaz plays Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet of questionable morals, who in 1947 was murdered by person or persons Read More

The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return

Actors: Brooke Adams, Dan Dailey

Synopsis: [124828] This TV movie is a sequel to 1972's Daughters of Joshua Cabe (which was also a TV movie). Cabe (Dan Dailey) is an itinerant western trapper hoping to gain extra homesteading land by pretending to have a family. He hires three "fallen women" (Ronne Troup, Brooke Adams and Christina Hart) Read More

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

Synopsis: In a strange blending of reality and fantasy, this is the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of the creative process to try to work out and ameliorize his own marital difficulties, writing the fictional "The Last of the Belles" while trying to work out his own relationship with Zelda during WWI. Read More