Chris Matheson Filmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter

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NowhereLand

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Nicole Ari Parker, Ronny Cox, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: A powerful financial executive whose career was sent spiraling down the drain due to sudden lack of confidence finds the answers to his inexplicable setback in an imaginary world dreamt up by his young daughter in a fantasy comedy starring Eddie Murphy and co-scripted by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson Read More

6/12/09
Evil Alien Conquerors

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Tori Spelling, Drew Carey Show stalwart Diedrich Bader, and SNL alum Chris Parnell team up for this wacky takeoff on B-movies, written and directed by Bill and Ted co-creator Chris Matheson. True to its title, Evil Alien Conquerors involves the efforts of Matheson and Parnell's bickering Read More

2002
Mr. Wrong

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack, Dean Stockwell, Joan Plowright

Synopsis: Popular comic and television personality Ellen DeGeneres had her first starring role in a feature film in this black comedy. Martha Alston (DeGeneres) is a thirtysomething single working as a producer for a talk show. Ever since Martha's younger sister got married, her parents have been after her Read More

1996
A Goofy Movie

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Farmer, Jason Marsden, Jim Cummings, Kellie Martin, Rob Paulsen

Synopsis: This animated Disney feature is based on a popular afternoon television show. The story centers on Goofy's teenage son, Max, who is terrified that he will grow up to be as dorky a dog as his daffy daddy. Just as shy Max has screwed up enough courage to ask his dreamgirl, Roxanne, on a date, Goofy Read More

1995
Mom and Dad Save the World

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Jon Lovitz, Wallace Shawn, Thalmus Rasulala

Synopsis: Just after the evil Emperor Spengo (Jon Lovitz) imprisons King Raff (Eric Idle), he spots a California housewife (Teri Garr) through his telescope. He decides to beam her up along with her husband (Jeffrey Jones), but isn't prepared to deal with the results when both become interplanetary freedom Read More

7/24/92
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Crew: Co-producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Bill Sadler, Joss Ackland, Pam Grier

Synopsis: Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey find the two obtuse pals battling The Grim Reaper, God, robots, great philosophical questions, and girls -- although not necessarily in that order. In this loose parody of the Terminator movies, directed by Peter Hewitt, the ultimate has happened -- at Bill and Ted Read More

7/19/91
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

6/15/90
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Bernie Casey, Terry Camilleri, Dan Shor

Synopsis: With only a few days before their high-school graduation, it looks like airheaded rock star wannabes Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are doomed to flunk all their finals. The boys' long-suffering teacher (Bernie Casey) gives them one more chance. If they can ace an oral exam on the topic Read More

2/17/89
Dudes

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jon Cryer, Daniel Roebuck, Flea, Lee Ving, Catherine Stewart

Synopsis: Penelope Spheeris, director of the infamous documentary The Decline of Western Civilization may well have given the world its first punk-rock Western in the form of Dudes, a sort of Suburbia meets High Noon meets Deliverance. Three East Coast punks (Jon Cryer, Daniel Roebuck, and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers Read More

8/28/87