CherFilmography

Burlesque

Actors: Christina Aguilera, Cher

Synopsis: Christina Aguilera makes her dramatic feature-film debut with this Screen Gems musical as a burlesque dancer who finds her dreams in the big city after leaving her small-town roots far behind. Steve Antin directs from a script by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wrecking Crew

Synopsis: The names Hal Blaine, Plas Johnson, Carol Kaye, Earl Palmer, Don Randi and Tommy Tedesco may not mean much to most music fans, but nearly everyone has heard and loved their work. They were members of the team of session musicians nicknamed "the Wrecking Crew," and they were the backbone of the Read More

Rona Barrett's Hollywood: Nothing But the Truth

Actors: Rona Barrett

Synopsis: Frequent Good Morning America, The Today Show, and Entertainment Tonight contributor Rona Barrett serves as the subject of this documentary profile of the celebrity journalist whose innovative "coffee cliché" style has served as the blueprint for what's now considered mainstream celebrity Read More

The Mayor of the Sunset Strip

Actors: Rodney Bingenheimer

Synopsis: When Rodney Bingenheimer was just a teenager -- a diminutive, long-haired kid who was picked on a lot -- his mother, a divorced autograph hound, dropped him off in front of the home of actress Connie Stevens and essentially said, "Good luck." Stevens was on location shooting a movie and Bingenheimer Read More

Cher: The Very Best of Cher - The Video Hits Collection

Synopsis: A true international superstar of pop music, Cher has earned a reputation for her one-of-a-kind visual style as much as for her powerful voice, and this video collection captures both the sound and image of Cher in 15 performance clips. Cher: The Very Best of Cher - The Video Hits Collection Read More

Sixties Soft Rock

Synopsis: {^Sixties Soft Rock} from Passport Video isn't all that different from the accompanying {^Sixties Rock} volume, except for the presence of the girl group the Dixie Cups in place of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs and the Kinks. Other acts on the disc include The Rascals, The Association, and The Read More

Stuck on You

Actors: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Eva Mendes, Wen Yann Shih, Pat Crawford Brown

Synopsis: After tackling schizophrenia, obesity, and the inner workings of the vascular system (as represented by an animated Chris Rock), Peter and Bobby Farrelly set their comedic sights on a set of conjoined twins in this broad comedy. Written and directed by the non-twin Farrellys, Stuck on You stars Greg Kinnear Read More

Cher: The Farewell Tour

Crew: Conception

Actors: Cher

Synopsis: Cher: The Farewell Tour features the Oscar-winning performer delivering close to two-dozen hits from every phase of her lengthy career. Originally aired on NBC, the special comes to home video with additional footage not seen in the original telecast. Among the hits performed by the beloved diva Read More

Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music

Synopsis: While its best known as one of the great living institutions of American television comedy, Saturday Night Live has also earned a reputation as a great showcase for popular music, and this five-volume collection features many of the show's most memorable musical moments. Saturday Night Live: 25 Read More

The I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special

Synopsis: Television's first and most influential situation comedy gets a loving tribute in this television special. The I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special includes interviews with the writers and directors who helped bring the show to life, a visit to Lucille Ball's hometown with Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. Read More

Best of Tina Turner: Celebrate!

Actors: Tina Turner

Synopsis: A video celebrating the incredible career of Tina Turner. The main attraction is a reprise of Turner's 60th birthday concert, featuring duets with Bryan Adams. Clips of her past performances with Cher, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and Rod Stewart are interspersed with testimonials to her artistic Read More

Tina Turner: Celebrate! The Best of Tina Turner

Actors: Tina Turner, Bryan Adams, Cher, Rod Stewart, David Bowie

Synopsis: A video celebrating the incredible career of Tina Turner. The main attraction is a reprise of Turner's 60th birthday concert, featuring duets with Bryan Adams. Clips of her past performances with Cher, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and Rod Stewart are interspersed with testimonials to her artistic Read More

Tea With Mussolini

Actors: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, "Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time." Read More

Cher: Live in Concert

Actors: Cher

Synopsis: After the chart topping hit "Believe" made Cher the oldest solo female artist to have a number one single, she set out on a successful concert tour where she played the biggest hits of her career to adoring fans, while donning a stunning array of outlandish outfits. This documentary captures one Read More

VH1: Divas Live 99

Synopsis: Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Cher, Brandy, and Faith Hill top the bill for this concert special staged by VH1 which pays tribute to the women of pop music. LeAnn Rhimes, Mary J. Blige, Chaka Khan, and diva-for-a-night Elton John make guest appearances; the set list includes such hits as Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies

Synopsis: In June 1998, the American Film Institute announced the top 100 films of the 20th century. The list was complied from a survey of 1,500 participants, including filmmakers, historians, critics, and other entertainment industry professionals. The AFI and CBS produced this multi-packet video feature Read More

If These Walls Could Talk

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The compilation film If These Walls Could Talk consists of three short films that each deal with the controversial issue of abortion. Although each of the stories is set in a different decade, the unifying element (aside from the subject matter) is that all three transpire in the same house. The Read More

Faithful

Actors: Cher, Chazz Palminteri, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Mazursky, Amber Smith

Synopsis: A hit man discovers the pros and cons of getting to know his victim in this dark comedy. Margaret (Cher) is supposed to be celebrating her 20th wedding anniversary, but she hardly feels like having a party; her marriage is in sad shape, her husband Jack (Ryan O'Neal) has just called to say he's Read More

Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors 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

Cher: Extravaganza - Live at the Mirage

Actors: Cher

Synopsis: Ever since her early days performing alongside the late Sonny Bono, multi-talented music diva Cher has captivated audiences worldwide. In this 1992 concert performance captured live at Las Vegas' Mirage hotel during her "Heart of Stone" tour, the legendary Cher performs eleven of her greatest Read More

Cherfitness: Body Confidence

Synopsis: A fitness routine designed to help the participant gain confidence and feel great. Led by superstar Cher, the program has two segments. The first is a 38-minute "Hot Dance" routine that boosts the heart rate and metabolism. The dance steps are easy to follow and are a good aerobic lead-in to the Read More

Cherfitness: A New Attitude

Synopsis: CherFitness: A New Attitude delivers just what you expect from a fitness program designed around the superstar's personal style. There's great rock music, a few jokes, costuming with flair, and an intensive workout to shape and tone the entire body. The routine consists of three segments. Read More

Mermaids

Actors: Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, Michael Schoeffling

Synopsis: There's no point in recounting the many production problems and personal hostilities which plagued the filming of Mermaids: the end result is all that matters. Set in the 1960s, the film details the relationship between an unorthodox, unmarried vagabond mother (Cher), and her two daughters. The Read More

Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

Actors: Paul Reubens

Synopsis: The secret word is "Happy New Year" as Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) and the Playhouse gang hold a Christmas party. Things threaten to get out of hand fairly early as the increasingly disappointed Pee-Wee receives one fruitcake after another. When he complains that he didn't get anything he Read More

Moonstruck

Actors: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello

Synopsis: When there's a full moon over Brooklyn, anything can happen, and everything happens in the neighborhood where widowed bookkeeper Loretta Castorini (Cher) lives. First, Loretta agrees to marry a man she does not love, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), simply because he knows how to propose properly. Read More

Suspect

Actors: Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: British filmmaker Peter Yates directs Suspect, a suspenseful courtroom drama set in Washington, D.C. After a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and a Justice Department secretary is found dead, a deaf-mute homeless veteran, Carl Wayne Anderson (Liam Neeson), is the suspected killer. Lonely yet Read More

The Witches of Eastwick

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends -- Alex (Cher), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Jane (Susan Sarandon) -- meet to chug martinis, learn Chinese aphrodisiac cooking and lament the scarcity of Read More

Saturday Night Live: Candice Bergen [4]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Cher

Synopsis: This 1987 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Candice Bergen and features musical guest Cher. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ugly Duckling

Actors: Cher

Synopsis: Hans Christian Andersen's touching fairy tale is brought to life in this video. Narrated by Cher and featuring the music of famed harpist Patrick Ball, The Ugly Ducking is the story of a little duckling who looks different from his peers. He is constantly ridiculed, until he grows up and discovers Read More

Mask

Actors: Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: This is the true story of Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), a personable young man suffering from "lionitis," a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. The son of freewheeling biker Rusty Dennis (Cher), Rocky is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and cycle buddies, but Read More

Silkwood

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Silkwood begins and ends with Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) driving along a lonely road in 1974, heading to a meeting with a New York Times reporter to deliver evidence of negligence at the Kerr-McGee Plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma. The balance of the film flashes back to Read More

Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Marta Heflin

Synopsis: Robert Altman directed this low-budget film version of the play by Ed Graczyk, also directed by Altman on Broadway with the same cast. The film takes place in the small Texas town of McCarthy in 1975. Inside of a five-and-dime store, a reunion is planned for the members of a local 1950s James Dean Read More

Sonny and Cher: Nitty Gritty Hour

Actors: Sonny Bono, Cher

Synopsis: Sonny and Cher, the popular '70s rock music duo, are featured in this humorous and musical video. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Chastity

Actors: Cher, Barbara London, Stephen Whittaker, Tom Nolan, Danny Zapien

Synopsis: This road movie features Cher in her first title role. The story, written and produced by her husband Sonny, is the tale of Chastity, a wandering girl who goes hitchhiking across the U.S looking for adventure. She has taken on a new name and the attitude that she will spurn the advances of anyone Read More

Good Times

Actors: George Sanders, Norman Alden, Larry Duran, Kelly Thordsen

Synopsis: Pop singers Sonny and Cher are featured in this fluffy film that chronicles the popular duo's ideas for the film in which they are to make their cinematic debut. Much of the story centers around Sonny's movie fantasies as he tries to convince the studio head to use a more interesting script than Read More

Wild on the Beach

Synopsis: It's mayhem on the sand in this tuneful beach romp that centers on a coed and a frat boy who battle it out for possession of the same beach house. Both had scheduled parties there on the same weekend. Fortunately, the arrive at a fun compromise and music, dancing, wild parties and love ensues. Read More

Glen Campbell: Good Times Again

Synopsis: As its title suggests, the release Glen Campbell: Good Times Again actually culls and presents, in a single collection, an hour of the best performances from the now legendary musical variety series Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, which ran on CBS from January 1969 through June 1972. The 11 musical Read More