Christopher McDonald Filmography

Superhero Movie

Actors: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner

Synopsis: After spoofing disaster films in Airplane!, police shows in The Naked Gun, and Hollywood horrors in Scary Movie 3 and 4, producer David Zucker sets his satirical sights on the superhero genre with this anarchic comedy lampooning everything from Spider-Man to X-Men and Superman Returns. Shortly Read More

Mad Money

Actors: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root

Synopsis: A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri's (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her Read More

Deep in the Valley

Actors: Chris Pratt, Brendan P. Hines, Rachel Specter, Kate Albrecht, Denise Richards, Tracy Morgan

Synopsis: Albino Alligator screenwriter Christian Forte pulls double duty as writer and director of this fantasy comedy concerning two friends who enter a mysterious video booth and find themselves suddenly transported to an alternate dimension in which the entire world has taken on the traits of an adult Read More

Summerhood

Actors: Lucien Maisel, Christopher McDonald, Raquel Alessi, Jacob Medjuck, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: Director/screenwriter Jacob Medjuck crafts this incisive tale of childhood friendships revolving around four longtime friends who just so happen to hate each other. Summertime has finally arrived, and a neurotic young boy named Fetus is determined to establish himself in his small social circle. Read More

Awake

Actors: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Jessica Alba, Hayden Christenson, and Terrence Howard star in first-time director/screenwriter Joby Harold's nerve-jangling psychological thriller about a man who experiences the frighteningly common surgical phenomenon known as "anesthetic awareness," in which those laid out on the operating Read More

Kickin' It Old Skool

Actors: Jamie Kennedy, Miguel A. Nuñez, Maria Menounos, Michael Rosenbaum, Bobby Lee

Synopsis: Rendered comatose for 20 years after a freak breakdancing accident, former child dancer Justin Schumacher (Jamie Kennedy) awakens from his extended repose with no motor skills and the mental capacity of a 12-year-old. So much has changed since Justin lapsed into a coma; not only have people Read More

Player 5150

Actors: Ethan Embry, Kathleen Robertson, Christopher McDonald, Kelly Carlson

Synopsis: A high-stakes day trader wagers that his luck in the stock market will transfer to the gambling tables in a dramatic look at the lure of the almighty dollar starring Ethan Embry and Kathleen Robertson. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning

Actors: Jonathan Bennett, Randy Wayne, April Scott

Synopsis: Hazzard County's two rowdiest siblings are back and stirring up more mischief than ever in this prequel to the 2005 comedy adventure that explores the origins of the General Lee while finding out just how Bo (Jonathan Bennett) and Luke Duke (Randy Wayne) first incurred the wrath of bumbling greedy Read More

American Pie Presents: Beta House

Actors: John White, Steve Talley, Jake Siegel, Jordan Prentice, Christopher McDonald, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: It's pledge time, and as fraternity row becomes rife with eager young freshman looking to make an impression on campus, the stage is set for Greek rivalry so fierce it will resurrect a competition that was previously banned by the administration. Great Falls high school graduates Erik and Cooze Read More

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

Actors: Christopher McDonald, Emilio Estevez, T.K. Carter, Ronny Cox, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial for beating motorist Rodney King were found innocent. The city was engulfed by a massive riot, but the film plays these moments for laughs. In Read More

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile

Actors: John White, Steve Talley, Candace Kaye Kroslak

Synopsis: Upon realizing that he may be the first in his family to ever graduate from high school with his virginity intact, Erik Stifler sets out on a mission to slip between the sheets with a girl before slipping into his cap and gown. In order to accomplish his libidinous goal, however, Erik will first Read More

Funny Money

Actors: Chevy Chase, Penelope Ann Miller, Armand Assante, Robert Loggia, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Leslie Greif directs this adaptation of Ray Cooney's hit British play, a throwback farce about mistaken identity. Chevy Chase plays Henry Perkins, a listless late-middle-aged executive in a wax fruit company; his wife, Carol (Penelope Ann Miller), is similarly bored, a struggling sculptor and Read More

Rumor Has It...

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins, Mena Suvari

Synopsis: A woman discovers that a part of her family history may be more complicated -- and more famous -- than she ever imagined in this comedy. Thirtysomething Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston), who has spent most of her adult life in New York City, is flying home to California with her long time Read More

Broken Flowers

Actors: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy

Synopsis: A man sets out to find the son he didn't know he had and winds up getting answers to some questions he never asked in this comedy drama from director Jim Jarmusch. Don Johnston (Bill Murray) is an emotionally blank middle-aged man who has never married and lives a quiet, comfortable life thanks to Read More

Justice League Unlimited: For the Man Who Has Everything

Actors: Eric Roberts, Dana Delany, Christopher McDonald, Josh Hutcherson, Mike Farrell

Synopsis: Based on a comic-book story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, "For the Man Who Has Everything" is that rarest of rare Justice League Unlimited episodes, giving center stage to the series' three biggest stars. It's Superman's birthday, so Batman and Wonder Woman head to the Fortress of Solitude to Read More

Grind

Actors: Colin McKay, Mike Vogel, Vince Vieluf, Adam Brody, Joey Kern, Jennifer Morrison

Synopsis: Gaylord Films producer Casey La Scala makes his directorial debut with the teen comedy Grind. Just before entering college, young skateboarder Eric Rivers (Mike Vogel) decides to take a road trip from Chicago to California with his smart friend Dustin (Adam Brody) and his wacky friend Matt (Vince Vieluf Read More

Cracking Up [TV Series]

Actors: Molly Shannon, Christopher McDonald, David Walton, Jake Sandvig, Caitlin Wachs

Children on Their Birthdays

Actors: Sheryl Lee, Joe Pichler, Jesse Plemons, Tania Raymonde

Synopsis: A boy in the deep South learns the joys and sorrows of first love in this comedy-drama based on the short story by Truman Capote. Billy Bob Murphy (Joe Pichler) is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small Alabama town in 1947. Billy Bob's mother Elinore (Sheryl Lee) lost her husband during Read More

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara

Synopsis: The prepubescent, globetrotting, super-spy sibling duo from director Robert Rodriguez's surprise 2001 hit Spy Kids is back to save the world for a second time in this bigger-budget, larger-scale sequel. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams opens with our heroes Carmen and Juni (Alexa Vega and Daryl Read More

Speakeasy

Synopsis: A runner-up in HBO's popular series Project Greenlight, this touching tale of common threads and self-discovery stars David Strathairn, Nicky Katt, and Christopher McDonald. Brought together by a car accident, Bruce Hickman (Strathairn) and Frank Marnikov (Katt) soon discover that they are Read More

61*

Actors: Barry Pepper, Thomas Jane, Anthony Michael Hall, Richard Masur, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Noted baseball fan Billy Crystal directed this made-for-cable drama set in the summer of 1961, as two of the strongest hitters in the major leagues, Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) and Roger Maris (Barry Pepper), find themselves neck and neck in a battle to break Babe Ruth's long-standing record for Read More

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Actors: Tuesday Knight, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: When a group of kids on a field trip discover the bodies of children that have been missing for some time, a small western town becomes a web of deception, confusion, and mistrust. Will the community survive the revelation of who killed these children? ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Requiem for a Dream

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., this gritty drama concerns four people trapped by their addictions. Harry (Jared Leto), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are impoverished heroin addicts living in Coney Island, NY, while Harry's girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) is a fellow Read More

The Perfect Storm

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes

Synopsis: In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot waves; tragically, the crew of a fishing boat was lost in the midst of the fearsome storm. Read More

The Skulls

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a college student finds himself immersed in forces beyond his control. Born and raised in a working-class Connecticut community, Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) made it into an Ivy League college, where he's done quite well; his dream is to be accepted into Harvard Law Read More

Track Down

Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Russell Wong, Angela Featherstone, Donal Logue, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Follow a skilled computer hacker and a determined computer-crimes expert on a thrilling, cat-and-mouse race through cyberspace in this high-tech tale of intrigue from Halloween 6 and prolific television director Joe Chappelle. Based on actual events, this thriller follows top cyber-schemer Kevin Read More

The Iron Giant

Actors: Eli Marienthal, Vin Diesel, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Christopher McDonald, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney

Synopsis: A boy's best friend is his robot in this animated adventure from Brad Bird, best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Critic. Set in 1957, The Iron Giant focuses on Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal), an imaginative nine-year-old boy who daydreams of alien Read More

SLC Punk

Actors: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien, Christopher McDonald, Devon Sawa, Summer Phoenix, Til Schweiger, Adam Pascal

Synopsis: What's it like being the only punk rockers in the biggest Mormon community in the world? Stevo (Matthew Lillard) and Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian) provide the answer to this and other questions in SLC Punk. Stevo and Bob (whose name is actually an ironic reference to his fear of needles) are two Read More

Family Law [TV Series]

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan, Julie Warner, Christopher McDonald, Dixie Carter

Five Aces

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Christopher McDonald, David Sherrill

Synopsis: Charlie Sheen stars in this comedy as Chris Martin, a bachelor who is about to take the plunge and marry his long-time girlfriend. Wanting to enjoy his last few days of "freedom," Martin spends several nights hanging out with his old friends, as they drink, swap stories, and chase women. What Read More

The Faculty

Actors: Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Clea Duvall, Jordana Brewster

Synopsis: Miramax Films darlings Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Kevin Williamson teamed up for a high-school alien-horror film that they described as The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dilapidated Herrington High is the location for a story about a school faculty taken over by Read More

Dirty Work

Actors: Norm MacDonald, Jack Warden, Artie Lange, Traylor Howard, Don Rickles

Synopsis: Shortly after leaving the "Weekend Update" anchor slot on Saturday Night Live, Norm Macdonald resurfaced in this comedy about smart-aleck Mitch Weaver who teams with buddy Sam McKenna (Artie Lange of Mad TV). They open a revenge-for-hire business (Dirty Work Inc.) in order to raise $50,000 so Read More

Divorce: A Contemporary Western

Actors: Elias Koteas, Christopher McDonald, Terry Kiser

Flubber

Actors: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Raymond Barry, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: Although "flub" is defined as "to make a mess of," the word "flubber" is a contraction from "flying rubber." In this remake of the 1961 comedy-fantasy The Absent Minded Professor, Robin Williams takes on the role created by Fred MacMurray and later executed by Harry Anderson on television, while Read More

A Smile Like Yours

Actors: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Holly, Joan Cusack, Jay Thomas, Jill Hennessy

Synopsis: This romantic comedy from the John Hughes school of domestic farce stars Greg Kinnear and Lauren Holly as Danny Robertson, an elevator installer, and his wife Jennifer, the owner of an aroma therapy products store. They have a great marriage until Jennifer, who desperately wants a child, secretly Read More

Lawn Dogs

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Christopher McDonald, Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce McGill, Mischa Barton

Synopsis: A young girl finds friendship on the wrong side of the career tracks in this drama. Camelot Gardens is a "gated community" where wealthy people can purchase luxurious (if sterile) homes and a security force ensures that riffraff will be kept away from your door after nightfall. The Stockard family Read More

Gun: Ricochet

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest

Actors: Tim Dutton, Richard Jenkins, Nathaniel Parker, Peter Horton, Pamela Gien

Synopsis: Based on Jon Krakhauer's harrowing account of folly and tragedy on the slopes of the world's highest mountain, this made-for-TV movie re-enacts that fateful excursion. Christopher McDonald and Peter Horton star. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The Eighteenth Angel

Actors: Wendy Crewson, Christopher McDonald, Stanley Tucci, Maximilian Schell, Rachael Leigh Cook

Synopsis: This ominous apocalypse thriller sports a fairly ambitious but ultimately confusing plot involving a prophecy which proclaims that the return of Satan will be precipitated by the arrival of eighteen physically-perfect angelic beings. In order to fulfill the prophecy, a secret sect of Etruscan Read More

Leave It to Beaver

Actors: Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik Von Detten, Adam Zolotin

Synopsis: The Cleaver Family makes the jump from the small black and white screen to color and Panavision in this updated version of the classic TV sit-com. Eight-year-old Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Cameron Finley) is a good natured kid with a habit of getting in trouble; he's not bad, mind you, just a bit Read More

Unforgettable

Actors: Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote, Christopher McDonald, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Iconoclastic director John Dahl used a screenplay by John Geddie as the basis for this far-fetched story of a man -- suspected of killing his wife -- who borrows murder victims' memories to track the real culprit. Ray Liotta plays Dr. David Krane, a Seattle medical examiner charged with murdering Read More

Happy Gilmore

Actors: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers

Synopsis: Adam Sandler's second popular starring vehicle after Billy Madison is a goofy lowbrow paean to golf, hockey, and the comic hysterics of its childlike star. In Happy Gilmore, Sandler plays the title character, a raw, determined, but ultimately untalented hockey player who keeps trying out for the Read More

House Arrest

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Grover Reindorf (Kyle Howard) is a kid with a problem, which is how to keep his parents from divorcing. He hits on a solution that makes sense to him. Why not lock them up in the basement, and keep them there until they reconcile? He and his younger sister Stacey (Amy Sakasitz) agree to do just Read More

Jaded

Actors: Carla Gugino

Synopsis: A young woman, Megan (Carla Gugino), is discovered naked and lying unconscious on a beach. Immediately, it is presumed that Megan was raped and a local detective (Aida Turturro) begins investigating the presumed crime. As the investigation digs deeper, it is discovered that Megan was raped by two Read More

Chalk

Synopsis: With a cast comprised of a few professional and many more non professional actors and a realistic, earth setting, this independent drama of a young pool shark's decision whether or not to turn pro rings convincing and true. Most of the tale is set at the Crab Tree, a funky East Bay, San Francisco Read More

Celtic Pride

Actors: Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd, Gail O'Grady, Adam Hendershott

Synopsis: Two basketball fans, whose enthusiasm overwhelms their intelligence, come up with a new but legally problematic way of helping their favorite team in this comedy. Physical education instructor Mike O'Hara (Daniel Stern) and plumber Jimmy Flaherty (Dan Aykroyd) are close friends and obsessive Read More

The Rich Man's Wife

Actors: Halle Berry, Christopher McDonald, Clive Owen, Peter Greene, Clea Lewis

Synopsis: This is a domestic thriller in the Hitchcock mode with a legalistic twist involving that modern invention, the prenuptial agreement. Halle Berry stars as Josie Potenza, the unhappy wife of alcoholic, philandering executive Tony Potenza (Christopher McDonald). Josie is unfaithful too, but she wants Read More

The Tuskegee Airmen

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Tuskegee Airmen chronicles the experiences of the first African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Using Hannibal Lee (Laurence Fishburne) as a focal point, the movie follows the airmen from their initial training at Tuskegee, Alabama, through their Read More

Fair Game

Actors: Cindy Crawford, William Baldwin, Steven Berkoff, Christopher McDonald, Miguel Sandoval

Synopsis: Supermodel and sex symbol Cindy Crawford made her acting debut in this high-decibel thriller. Kate McQuean (Crawford) is a lawyer who -- in the course of a divorce proceeding -- attempts to seize a 157-foot freighter docked off the Florida coast in lieu of unpaid alimony. It turns out that the Read More

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back

Actors: Phillip Rhee, Gina Gershon, Christopher McDonald, Dee Wallace, Cristina Anzu Lawson

Synopsis: In this martial arts actioner, a straight-arrow, Midwestern small-town sheriff teams up with a martial arts master and kicks the stuffing out of a band of white supremacists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Teacher's Wife

Actors: Tia Carrere, Christopher McDonald, Alexondra Lee, Jason London

Synopsis: Jason London stars in this teen wish fulfillment romantic comedy, playing Todd Boomer, a would-be cartoonist who needs a recommendation to Harvard from his smarmy math teacher (Christopher MacDonald). However, calculus is the one subject in which Todd isn't pulling his weight. One rainy night he Read More

Road Flower

Synopsis: The Road Flower was given a limited release in 1993, then reissued two years later under the title The Road Killers. Essentially a rehash of the old drive-in perennial Hot Rods to Hell, the film stars Christopher Lambert as the taciturn head of a vacationing family. While motoring somewhere in the Read More

Quiz Show

Actors: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer

Synopsis: It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to "take a dive" and allow Charles Read More

Monkey Trouble

Actors: Finster, Thora Birch, Harvey Keitel, Mimi Rogers, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: A young girl secretly adopts a runaway monkey only to have to deal with the simian's mischief-making tendencies in this family comedy. Young Eva (Thora Birch)'s dreams of having a pet are frustrated by the objections of her mother (Mimi Rogers) and allergic stepfather (Christopher McDonald). When Read More

Another Midnight Run

Terminal Velocity

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock

Synopsis: Party-hard skydiving teacher Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has a knack for getting himself into trouble, but his booze-babes-and-planes shenanigans hardly prepare him for an international plot that pits Brodie and a mysterious KGB agent against a post-Cold War Russian villain called Kerr (Chris Read More

Benefit of the Doubt

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Amy Irving, Rider Strong, Christopher McDonald, Graham Greene

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, a woman wonders if she can trust her memory when her father returns from prison a very different man from the violent psychopath she remembers. Karen (Amy Irving) is a single mother who twenty years ago delivered the testimony that put her father Frank (Donald Read More

Grumpy Old Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly elevated by the presence of masterful performers in the lead roles. Jack Lemmon is John Gustafson, an ice-fishing Minnesota native who has been feuding with his neighbor Read More

Cover Story

Telling Secrets

Synopsis: Cybill Shepherd takes a ride into the dark side in this two-part TV movie, purported based on a true story. Shepherd is cast as wealthy and seductive Phoenix socialite Faith Kelsey, who opts not to get mad but to get even when her husband, Terry (Christopher McDonald), enters into an affair with Read More

Bums

Synopsis: In this actioner, a veteran sergeant enlists the aide of an army of homeless vagabonds to take on the rich and powerful killers of his brother, a skid-row bum. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fatal Instinct

Actors: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Fatal Instinct is an Airplane-style spoof of the late-'80s, early-'90s cycle of erotic crime thrillers. Setting the plot in motion is a kinky murder. Arm