Christine Vachon Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: One of the most influential producers in the independent film industry, Christine Vachon was behind many of the groundbreaking indie films of the 1990s. Her name has been associated in particular with a number of the gay and lesbian independent films of that decade, an association that began when...Read More

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Gigantic

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Ed Asner, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: There Will Be Blood's Paul Dano stars as Brian, an unhappy mattress salesman whose infatuation with Happy (Zooey Deschanel), one of his attractive customers, temporarily pushes aside his obsession with adopting a Chinese baby in this unconventional romantic comedy from director Matt Aselton. John Goodman Read More

1/1/09
Savage Grace

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Dancy, Elena Anaya

Synopsis: Adapted from the nonfiction book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, Tom Kalin's Savage Grace recounts the true crime tale of the death of Barbara Baekeland. Stephen Dillane stars as Brooks Baekeland, the son of the man who invented Bakelite, one of the early forms of plastic. As the family Read More

5/30/08
Then She Found Me

Crew: Producer

Actors: Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Ben Shenkman

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt makes her feature directorial debut with this adaptation of Elinor Lipman's best-selling novel about a Philadelphia schoolteacher (Hunt) whose long-lost birth mother (Bette Midler) reappears at the very moment her daughter is careening into a midlife Read More

4/25/08
The Bell Jar

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julia Stiles

Synopsis: Screen starlet Julia Stiles assumes the role of ambitious reporter Ester Greenwood in this screen adaptation of the critically acclaimed, semi-autobiographical novel by celebrated author Sylvia Plath. When a bid to seek out fame in New York City proves too much strain for the young writer to bear Read More

1/1/08
Fruitcake

Crew: Producer

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Parker Posey

Synopsis: Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey star in John Waters' new comedy Fruitcake, a This Is That and Killer Films production about a runaway boy's adventures during the holidays. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
Motherhood

Crew: Producer

Actors: Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver

Synopsis: Uma Thurman, Minnie Driver, and Anthony Edwards star in writer/director Katherine Dieckmann's slice of life indie about hapless mother of two's attempt to prepare for her daughter's rapidly-approaching sixth birthday party. Along the way, the harried mother is forced to contend with a monumental Read More

2008
I'm Not There

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere

Synopsis: Director Todd Haynes's unconventional biopic of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan features different actors playing the part of the Minnesota native at various stages of his remarkable career. Among the actors playing the singer are Cate Blanchett, who portrays the man during his Don't Read More

11/21/07
This American Life [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: With This American Life, Ira Glass brings his popular NPR radio series to the small screen, providing a unique a forum for Americans of all backgrounds and lifestyles to tell their stories. Allowing the individuals to recount their varied and compelling tales in the first person, Glass interjects Read More

2007
An American Crime

Crew: Producer

Actors: Catherine Keener, Ellen Page, James Franco, Bradley Whitford, Ari Graynor

Synopsis: The true story of a young girl held captive by her insane caretaker comes to life in this disturbing film from Ella Enchanted director Tommy O'Haver. Hard Candy's Ellen Page stars as Sylvia Likens a teenager who, along with her sister, is left to live temporarily with seemigly-mild-mannered Read More

2007
Infamous

Crew: Producer

Actors: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Douglas McGrath's Infamous represents the second major biopic about the avant-garde belletrist Truman Capote to be released within a year. It thus tells roughly the same story as Bennett Miller's earlier Capote, recounting the events that belied the writer's six-year authorship of the seminal Read More

10/13/06
The Notorious Bettie Page

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Gretchen Mol, Christopher Bauer, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: Celebrated and vilified in equal measure, the pinup goddess Bettie Page inspired a legion of followers -- and an indecency scandal -- by appearing in a series of nude, sado-masochistic, and/or revealing magazine spreads in the 1950s. An era later, writer/director Mary Harron casts a knowing eye Read More

4/14/06
Mrs. Harris

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Frances Fisher, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: The sensationalistic murder of diet guru Dr. Herman Tarnower is explored in this stylized take on the tabloid cover story from first-time director Phyllis Nagy. As the inventor of the popular "Scarsdale Diet," Dr. Herman Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) became an overnight success during the peak of the Read More

2005
A Dirty Shame

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd

Synopsis: America's leading titan of bad taste, John Waters, returns to X-rated territory (well, actually NC-17-rated territory, but you get the idea) for this wildly over-the-top comedy. Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman) is a wife and mother living in Baltimore who, along with her husband Vaughn (Chris Read More

9/24/04
A Home at the End of the World

Crew: Producer

Actors: Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy Spacek

Synopsis: Directed by Michael Mayer and based on The Hours author Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World chronicles the 1980s reunion of childhood best friends Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts). Where they were once best pals -- and teenage lovers -- in Read More

7/23/04
The Company

Crew: Producer

Actors: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco, Barbara Robertson, William Dick, Joffrey Ballet

Synopsis: Robert Altman directs the musical drama The Company from an original story by actress Neve Campbell, based on her own experiences with The National Ballet of Canada. At the center of the ensemble cast is the young dancer Ry (Campbell), a rising star with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. She Read More

12/25/03
Party Monster

Crew: Producer

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloë Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Justin Hagan

Synopsis: After profiling Monica Lewinsky, Billy Haynes, and Tammy Faye Bakker, documentarians Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato make their feature debut with this true-life tale of the rapid climb and lurid demise of a flamboyant young club promoter in late-'80s/early-'90s Manhattan. Based on James St. Read More

9/5/03
Camp

Crew: Producer

Actors: Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Robin De Jesus, Tiffany Taylor, Sasha Allen

Synopsis: Tony-nominated actor Todd Graff makes his directorial debut with the musical comedy Camp, featuring an ensemble cast of newcomers. Guitarist Vlad (Daniel Letterle) attends Camp Ovation, the summer theater camp for budding actors, dancers, and musicians. Finding himself to be one of the only hetero Read More

7/25/03
The Safety of Objects

Crew: Producer

Actors: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson, Jessica Campbell, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Olyphant

Synopsis: Following up on her 1998 opus Bedrooms and Hallways, Rose Troche directs this ensemble film about suburbia and its discontents. Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) now lies in a coma, attentively nursed by his mother Esther (Glenn Close), who dotes on her son to the Read More

3/7/03
Far from Heaven

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957 Read More

11/8/02
The Grey Zone

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, David Chandler, Alan Corduner

Synopsis: Actor, writer, and director Tim Blake Nelson adapts this grim look at the Holocaust from his own play, based on Miklós Nyiszli's book, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account. The film centers on the Sonderkommando: Jewish concentration camp prisoners whose job was to herd their fellow Jews into Read More

10/18/02
One Hour Photo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Dylan Smith

Synopsis: Funnyman Robin Williams steps out of character in this tense, low-key thriller that marked the feature-film directorial debut of music video veteran Mark Romanek. Semour "Sy" Parrish (Williams) runs the photo processing department at a large discount store; Sy is dedicated to his job, and takes Read More

8/21/02
Chelsea Walls

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kevin Corrigan, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Sean Leonard

Synopsis: Actor Ethan Hawke takes the director's chair for a test drive with this independent feature, based on a play by Nicole Burdette, in which a number of creative types living in New York's famed bohemian enclave the Chelsea Hotel struggle with their muses as well as their personal concerns. Read More

4/19/02
Storytelling

Crew: Producer

Actors: Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Wisdom, Noah Fleiss

Synopsis: From the controversial director of Happiness comes another dark look at New Jersey, this time broken into two separate stories. The first is a 26-minute segment entitled "Fiction," which highlights the life of Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick), an aspiring writer who was born with deformities due to Read More

1/25/02
Hedwig and The Angry Inch

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt

Synopsis: Adapted from the hit off-Broadway musical of the same name is this tale of an "internationally ignored" rock & roll singer who hails from Communist Berlin and who dreams of becoming an American sensation. Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), born a boy named Hansel, is raised by a single mother Read More

7/20/01
Series 7: The Contenders

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brooke Smith, Glenn Fitzgerald, Marylouise Burke, Richard Venture

Synopsis: The "reality TV" craze is taken to its final, logical extreme as six people hunt each other down in a small town for the benefit of network TV cameras in this darkly comic satire. "The Contenders" is a top-rated television game show in which six contestants are set loose in the same Connecticut Read More

3/2/01
Women In Film

Crew: Producer

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Portia de Rossi

Synopsis: Novelist/filmmaker Bruce Wagner skews the classic George Cukor film The Women in this digital video effort adapted from a section of his novel I'm Losing You (which was also made into a feature film). Using a video diary format, the director focuses on three women desperate to become filmmakers. Read More

2001
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia

Crew: Producer

Actors: Monica Keena, Vincent Kartheiser, Ellen Barkin, Jeffrey Wright, James DeBello

Synopsis: Recalling both The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and American Beauty (1999), this teen drama recounts the trials and tribulations of one very dysfunctional family. Roseanne Skolnik (Monica Keena) is a popular high school student who is dating Jimmy (James DeBello), the football captain. She Read More

9/15/00
Wildflowers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Clea Duvall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Eric Roberts appears in this coming-of-age drama about a young lass coming to terms with her parents' radical past. Raised without a mom, Cally (Clea DuVall just happens to stumble across Sabine (Daryl Hannah), a hippy-dippy artist with a passion for gauzy fabrics, driftwood sculptures, and potent Read More

2000
Boys Don't Cry

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton, Jr., Alison Folland

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this drama was adapted from the life of Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, a woman who chose to live her life as a man and suffered tragic consequences as a result. In 1993, 20-year-old Brandon (Hilary Swank) leaves Lincoln, Nebraska for the nearby community of Falls City Read More

10/8/99
I'm Losing You

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Amanda Donohoe, Buck Henry, Salome Jens, Frank Langella

Synopsis: This 1998 film about a dysfunctional Los Angeles family is directed by Bruce Wagner, on whose novel this is based. Everyone in this family has a problem. Perry (Frank Langella) is a successful TV producer who has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer just before his 60th birthday. His son Bertie (Andrew McCarthy Read More

7/16/99
Velvet Goldmine

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Toni Collette, Christian Bale, Eddie Izzard

Synopsis: At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, American independent director Todd Haynes (Safe) received the "Artistic Achievement" award for this re-creation of the UK glam rock scene of the early '70s. Glam rock star Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who does a character named Maxwell Demon, predicts his Read More

11/6/98
Happiness

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, Jared Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: After his 1995 breakthrough, Welcome to the Dollhouse, director Todd Solondz was courted by a number of studios to make a big-budget film with top stars. Instead, he chose to make this aggressively dark comedy-drama of perversions and twisted lives. Andy Kornbluth (Jon Lovitz) explodes with anger Read More

10/16/98
Kiss Me, Guido

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nick Scotti, Anthony Barrile, Anthony de Sando, Craig Chester, Christopher Lawford

Synopsis: Can a homophobic tough guy and an out-of-the-closet gay man find happiness splitting the rent in Midtown Manhattan? This and other crucial questions are answered in this comedy. Frankie (Nick Scotti) is a macho and slightly thick-headed Italian-American from the Bronx who works in a Read More

1997
Office Killer

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Barbara Sukowa, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Photographer Cindy Sherman, who often uses motifs from exploitation films in her work, pays witty tribute to slasher films in this satiric horror-comedy. Dorine Douglas (Carol Kane) has spent 16 years at the bottom of the totem pole as a copy editor for Constant Consumer magazine when, due Read More

1997
I Shot Andy Warhol

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton, Stephen Dorff

Synopsis: The true story of Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who became notorious after shooting art world icon Andy Warhol, is portrayed in this fact-based drama. In an attempt to present a fair assessment of her actions, writer-director Mary Harron focuses on Solanas' troubled life, from her Read More

1996
Stonewall

Crew: Producer

Actors: Guillermo Diaz, Frederick Weller, Brendan Corbalis, Bruce MacVittie

Synopsis: The birth of the gay rights movement gets a fictionalized treatment in this drama based loosely on the acclaimed documentary of the same name by Martin Duberman. In 1969, Matty Dean (Fred Weller) arrives in New York City's Greenwich Village hoping that life there will provide the sexual liberation Read More

1995
Safe

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mary Carver, Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman, Xander R. Berkeley, James LeGros, Kate McGregor-Stewart

Synopsis: Todd Haynes presents a revisionist take on the paranoia thriller with this story of a Southern California housewife who suddenly falls victim to an inexplicable, apparently incurable illness. Carol White (Julianne Moore) lives with her husband and son in suburban comfort until she collapses one Read More

1995
Kids

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Sarah Henderson, Rosario Dawson

Synopsis: Kids offers a bleak, unblinking view of a group of vacuous, thoughtless New York City teens in their ceaseless quest for sex, drugs, and trouble. The film primarily follows Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), who, having just realized the conquest of his latest virgin, brags that by day's end he will claim Read More

1995
Go Fish

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Migdalia Melendez, Guinevere Turner

Synopsis: This hit arthouse ensemble piece traces the romantic and political ups and downs of a group of multicultural Chicago lesbians. The central story involves an unlikely romance between Max (Guinevere Turner), a hip young babe, and Ely (V.S. Brodie), a slightly older woman involved in a long-term Read More

1994
Postcards from America

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe, Michael Imperioli, Michael Ringer

Synopsis: This avant garde film is based on two angry autobiographical books by David Wojnarowicz: Close to the Knives and Memories That Smell Like Gasoline. Wojnarowicz, a noted performance artist, died of AIDS . The film examines three sides of his life. The first looks at his suburban childhood and the Read More

1994
Dottie Gets Spanked

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Steven Gale (J. Evan Bonifant) is an artistically inclined six-year-old boy in the 1950's, who is especially fascinated by the television antics of Dottie Frank (Julie Halston) a zany comedienne with her own weekly show (similar to Lucille Ball on I Love Lucy -- his mother (Barbara Garrick) Read More

1993
Swoon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby, Michael Stumm

Synopsis: Tom Kalin directed this cool and aloof black-and-white study of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, a case told before in two previous films -- Rope and Compulsion. In 1924, in Chicago, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two 18-year-olds, kidnapped and murdered the 13-year-old Bobby Franks Read More

9/11/92
Poison

Crew: Producer

Actors: Larry Maxwell, Edith Meeks, Susan Norman, Millie White, Scott Renderer, Buck Smith, James Lyons

Synopsis: This film has become infamous thanks to the efforts of the Rev. Donald Wildmon, who publicly questioned the fact that NEA dollars were spent on this "filth." While Wildmon's point was certainly overstated, this debut feature from Todd Haynes is quite disturbing. The Poison in question is sex, and Read More

1991

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