Successful comic-turned-playwright Mike Birbiglia brings his popular one man show to the big screen with this...
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2012
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Barbara
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2010
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Hapless bounty hunter Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler) jumps for joy at the prospect of tracking down his bail-skipping ex-wife,...
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2010
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Years after Hollywood nearly bled him dry, desperate KC Munk (Peter Dinklage) returns to L.A. to bid an old friend goodbye,...
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2010
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Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.'s 1974 animated classic comes to vivid life for a whole new generation of viewers in this...
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Mother Nature
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2006
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The toughest man in the American military faces a new kind of challenge -- looking after four kids in soccer-mom suburbia --...
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2005
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One of Santa's little helpers learns that even spreading Christmas cheer can be quite a chore in this animated holiday...
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2005
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Fed up with American women and determined to procure a docile Asian wife, an angry L.A. misogynist gets a mail order bride in...
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2005
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British actress/director Sara Sugarman makes her U.S. feature debut with the Disney-produced comedy Confessions of a Teenage...
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2004
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Mrs. Shaw
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2003
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Having promised her dying mother that she would always look after her two young siblings (one of whom is mentally...
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Missy
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2003
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Like La Ronde, Peter Mattei's debut film Love in the Time of Money consists of a series of conversational duets that...
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2002
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A first feature from acclaimed actress Christine Lahti (who won an Academy Award for her short film Lieberman in Love in...
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Mrs. Benson
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2001
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Lois (voice of Alex Borstein) learns that her sister Carol (voice of Carol Kane) is having a baby and that her husband has...
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2001
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Dr. Louise Rosenberg
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2001
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Actress Polly Draper, best known for her role on the TV series thirtysomething, wrote and co-produced this family drama, as...
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2000
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Comedian Andy Kaufman gave performances that were bizarre and difficult to categorize, in which he might do or say almost...
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1999
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Miss Sherman
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1999
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1999
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The biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood gets a decidedly unusual retelling in this film, produced as a two-part TV...
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Sarah
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1999
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The inimitable Tim Curry and Carol Kane provide the voices for this distinctly autumn-oriented tale of a duckling who is...
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1999
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To paraphrase the late, great NBC programming executive Brandon Tartikoff, the television industry is comprised of two...
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Lydia (L.L.) Luddin
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1999
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Just how much trouble can two guys get into while trying to catch some fish? Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) and Gus Green...
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1997
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While investigating the possibility that an HIV-positive man was murdered by an embittered AIDs victim, Ballard...
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1997
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Photographer Cindy Sherman, who often uses motifs from exploitation films in her work, pays witty tribute to slasher films in...
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Dorine Douglas
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1997
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In this comedy, a writer's triumphant return to his hometown turns out to have a very long string attached. As a child, small...
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Faith
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1996
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Character actor Steve Buscemi made his debut as a writer and director with this seriocomic tale of a guy who is going through...
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1996
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In this episode of the Reading Rainbow series, the featured story, Someplace Else, tells about Mrs. Tilby, a woman who seeks...
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1996
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A Jewish high school teacher, Phyllis Saroka (Rhea Perlman), steps in to take on the thankless job of coaching the school's...
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Mona
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1996
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This dark comedy is a clever homage to classic generation gap comedies such as The Graduate (1967), The Last Picture Show...
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Tom's Mom
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1996
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Whoopi Goldberg headlines this youth-oriented comedy fantasy set in a near future where scientists for some reason have...
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1996
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A collection of losers, misfits, and outcasts find their lives unexpectedly converging at a diner along a desert highway in...
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Helen
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1996
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A fairly faithful remake of Disney's earlier feature of the same name, this version first aired on television. Gaby Hoffman...
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1995
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When an ex-con manages to schmooze her way into being a high-priced nanny for a rich family, she promptly tries to control...
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1995
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This well-wrought made-for-TV comedy drama about a playboy divorced father who must take responsibility for his troubled...
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1995
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Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until...
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1994
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Another psychopath haunts another baby sitter in this made-for-TV sequel to the 1979 feature When a Stranger Calls. When prim...
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Jill
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1993
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Bud Cort's directorial debut is a dark comedy about a romantic obsession that leads to tragedy, featuring a wide array of...
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Colette/Colette's twin sister
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1993
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The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the...
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1993
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1992
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Carol Kane plays the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper in Baby on Board. With her baby in tow, Kane tracks the hitman to...
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Maria
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1992
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Franki D'Angelo
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1990
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Shaldeen
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1990
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Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy,...
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1990
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A yuppie and a hippie are the offbeat pairing of this character comedy in the tradition of earlier mismatched buddy films...
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Maggie
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1990
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1990
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Ghost of Christmas Present
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1988
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Les (Corey Haim) is embarrassed when he fails his driving test in this routine teen comedy. His buddies are depending on him...
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Les' Mom
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1988
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This screwball urban comedy is about two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly (Melanie Mayron) and Hattie...
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Kitty
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1988
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1988
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Paul Reiser was still the star of the TV sitcom My Two Dads when he headlined this 60-minute video. Instead of the standard...
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1988
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Maxine
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1988
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Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to...
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1987
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Considered one of the great box-office turkeys of its decade, Ishtar was an attempt by writer/director Elaine May and stars...
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1987
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Cynthia
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1986
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1985
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In a plot that combines Mary Shelley's mad Dr. Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, two yellow journalism reporters,...
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Lupi
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1985
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Supposedly focusing on the life of Sigmund Freud by means of a fictional secret diary, this attempt at satirizing the man...
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Martha Bernays
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1984
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When a rash of coal mine fires breaks out underground in Tennessee, the government sends a geologist to assist the...
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1984
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Carol Kane guest stars as the emotionally fragile Amanda, whom Diane (Shelley Long) befriended while she was at the mental...
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1984
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Sean Penn graduated to full stardom with the 1984 drama Racing with the Moon, even though the film itself hardly set new box...
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1984
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A man is torn between true love and the lure of fine dining in this romantic comedy. Alby Sherman (Elliott Gould) was born...
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1984
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Based on Joan Taylor's novel Asking for It, the made-for-TV An Invasion of Privacy stars Valerie Harper as recently divorced...
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1983
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Based on the beloved fairy tale, this installment of Shelley Duvall's "Faerie Tale Theatre" tells the well-known tale of a...
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1983
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Carol Kane won an Emmy Award for her performance in this episode, in which she recreates the role of Simka Dahblitz,...
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1982
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Scoffing at superstition, Laverne (Penny Marshall) refuses to answer a chain letter and tosses the missive in the trash....
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1982
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In this Australian coming-of-age comedy, a 13-year old boy falls in love with his seductive sister-in-law. Though much...
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Rose
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1982
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Candy Jefferson
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1982
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Although Taxi had earned scores of industry awards and the unflagging loyalty of its fans during its four-year lifespan on...
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1982
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1982
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This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the...
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1981
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1981
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In "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses," a married couple (Jeff Bridges and Carol Kane) attempt to have a pleasant Sunday...
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1981
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The Greatest Man in the World is based on a genteelly vitriolic short story by James Thurber. Brad Davis stars as a '30s-era...
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1980
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In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her...
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Louise
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1980
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Carol Kane makes her first series appearance as Simka Dahblitz, a woman from the same unpronounceable foreign country as...
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Simka Dahblitz
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1980
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In this thriller, a baby-sitter is terrorized by an anonymous telephone caller who turns out to be a particularly persistent...
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Jill Johnson
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1979
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Not to be confused with the 1986 TV miniseries of the same name, Strong Medicine is the bizarre tale of a bizarre young...
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1979
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A British writer goes to live in a Spanish village while he looks into the mysterious life of a 19th century wanderer who...
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Daisy
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1979
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Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have...
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1979
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In this combination of domestic melodrama and offbeat suspense flick, an astronomer must shoulder the burden of caring for...
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Cissy
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1978
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With the text taken entirely from the journals of real life leaders in the women's suffrage movement, Out of Our Fathers'...
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1978
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A true classic of the "ensemble sitcom" genre, Taxi ran for five years on two different networks, accumulating dozens of...
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1978
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Annie
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1977
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Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics....
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Allison
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1977
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Rudolph Valentino, born in Italy in 1895 as Alfonzo Raffaele Pierre Philibert Guglielmi, emigrated to the U.S. and became for...
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Fatty's Girl
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1977
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Harry and Walter Go to New York was born of the theory that, the more stars and money that you throw into a film, the better...
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1976
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Among the first releases in the new wave of independent films of the 1970s, writer/director Joan Micklin Silver's portrait of...
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Gitl
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1975
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Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York...
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1975
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Two Navy "lifers" and one military innocent briefly attempt to thumb their nose at Authority in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail...
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Prostitute
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1973
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Carol Kane makes one of her earliest screen appearances in the Canadian Wedding in White. Set during World War 2, the film...
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1972
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1971
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"Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love." With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer,...
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1971
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Though the title smacks of World War II, Is This Trip Really Necessary is actually a 1971-vintage drug flick. The "trip" of...
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1970
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This collection features works by six different artists including Allen Kaprau ("Hello"), Otto Piene ("Electronic Light...
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1969
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