Chris RydellFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Lead actor, onscreen from the early '80s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Last Goodbye

Actors: Clementine Ford, Chris Rydell, Liam Dunaway O'Neill, Sara Stanton, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: A handful of characters, each at emotional crossroads, find their paths leading to Atlanta in this independent drama. Agnes (Clementine Ford) is an actress currently starring in a successful television series. She was born and raised in Atlanta and has come back to town for a role in a film Read More

2004
A Man Is Mostly Water

Actors: Mark Curry, Michele Harris, Paulina Mielech, Fred Parnes, Heather Roop

Synopsis: A pair of like-minded artists find their personal lives are suffering at the hands of their creative disappointments in this independent drama. Roper (Fred Parnes) is a documentary filmmaker who loves music and is obsessed with the blues; his latest project has been a film about veteran blues Read More

2001
Daddy Who?

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Sean Astin, Jason Lewis, Robert Mailhouse, Chris Rydell

Synopsis: In this comedy, teamwork takes on a new meaning when four friends fall in love with the same woman. Four guys with an interest in competitive rowing -- ad executive Scott (Jason Lewis), architect Michael (Chris Rydell), stockbroker Bob (Sean Astin), and college professor Walter (Robert Mailhouse) Read More

1999
Flesh and Bone

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Small-time Texas businessman Arlis Sweeney (Dennis Quaid) can never shake the memory of his father's (James Caan) wasted life. What particularly sticks in his craw is the murder committed years earlier by his father and a teenaged accomplice. While going through the by-rote motions of his job (he Read More

1993
Trauma

Actors: Chris Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Frederic Forrest, Laura Johnson

Synopsis: In this suspenseful horror movie, a lovely runaway and a helpful hero go looking for the fearsome "Headhunter," the ghoulish hooded killer who sawed off the heads of her parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
In the Deep Woods

Synopsis: A young career woman is thrust into the bright light when police question her about the identity of a serial killer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
For the Boys

Actors: Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Chris Rydell

Synopsis: Bette Midler stars as a Martha Raye-type entertainer during the World War II era in this big-budget nostalgia piece. Midler plays big-band singer Dixie Leonard, who is chosen to perform at an overseas USO Christmas show by her uncle Art Silver (George Segal), a comedy writer for famed comedian Read More

11/22/91
By the Sword

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Eric Roberts, Mia Sara, Chris Rydell, Elaine Kagan

Synopsis: Villard (Eric Roberts) is an expert swordsman who runs a fencing school; he first learned the sport from his father, who was killed in a match when Villard was a young man. One day, an older gentleman (F. Murray Abraham) who looks down on his luck appears at Villard's fencing studio; he introduces Read More

1991
Side Out

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Peter Horton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Harley Jane Kozak, Chris Rydell, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: When Milwaukee college student Monroe Clark (C. Thomas Howell) takes a summer job evicting his wealthy uncle's Los Angeles tenants, he ends up befriending one of the deadbeats, ex-volleyball pro Zack Barnes (Peter Horton), and the two join up together to compete in an important volleyball match. Read More

3/30/90
How I Got into College

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Anthony Edwards, Corey Parker, Finn Carter, Charles Rocket

Synopsis: This teen comedy from Savage Steve Holland stars Corey Parker as an underachieving high schooler who hatches a crazy plot with valedictorian Lara Flynn Boyle to gain acceptance into a prestigious university. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

5/19/89
Listen to Me

Actors: Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, Amanda Peterson, Tim Quill

Synopsis: A college debate team heads to Washington to argue the abortion issue in front of the Supreme Court. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

5/5/89
Under the Boardwalk

Actors: Keith Coogan, Danielle von Zerneck, Richard Joseph Paul, Steve Monarque, Roxana Zal

Synopsis: When two rival groups of surfers face off on a Southern California beach prior to a big surfing contest, things get a little tense. However, when surfer Nick Rainwood (Richard Joseph Paul) meets up with a pretty girl, Allie (Danielle Von Zerneck), the two start off a romance, in spite of the fact Read More

4/14/89
Blood and Sand

Actors: Chris Rydell, Sharon Stone, Ana Torrent, Antonio Flores, Guillermo Montesinos, Albert Vidal, Simon Andreu

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1922 with Rudolph Valentino and in 1940 with Tyrone Power, Vicente Blasco Ibanez's mystical bullfight novel Blood & Sand was given a third big-screen treatment in 1989. Though filmed in Spain by a Spanish director, the 1989 Blood & Sand casts American actor Christopher Rydell Read More

1989
Dixie Lanes

Actors: Hoyt Axton, Karen Black, Art Hindle, John Vernon, Ruth Buzzi

Synopsis: This gentle comedy hearkens back to 1945, just after the war's end where a crazy small-town family awaits the return of one of their own. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Gotcha!

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Linda Fiorentino

Synopsis: "Gotcha!" is a puerile but popular campus game at UCLA in which students stalk one another armed with paint-spewing pellet guns. Veterinary student Anthony Edwards may not be any great shakes in the classroom, but he's a whiz at Gotcha. His skills come in handy when Edwards, on vacation in Paris Read More

1985
The Check is in the Mail

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Anne Archer, Hallie Todd, Michael Bowen

Synopsis: In an unusual comedy by Joan Darling, Brian Dennehy and Anne Archer star as the Richard, a druggist, and his wife Peggy, a pair of debt-ridden parents who rebel against the system. Nothing goes right while they try to uphold the system, then things get even worse when they leave it. Richard Read More

1985
The Sure Thing

Actors: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Tim Robbins, Lisa Jane Persky

Synopsis: Director Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing is essentially It Happened One Night for the 1980s, but its lack of surprise in no way impedes its entertainment value. John Cusack plays Walter "Gib" Gibson, a self-involved college freshman who makes plans to head to California, there to touch base (and a few Read More

1985
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

1985
On Golden Pond

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Read More

1981
Harry and Walter Go to New York

Actors: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: 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 the film will be. The theory has seldom been proven true, and it certainly wasn't in this case. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliot Gould) are a third-rate vaudeville Read More

1976
Cinderella Liberty

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

1973