Dennis ChristopherFilmography

The Lost Room

Actors: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Elle Fanning, Roger Bart, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: A dying man entrusts a straight-shooting police detective with the key to a timeless mystery, thrusting the unsuspecting lawman into a deadly world where everyday objects have an unusual influence over reality as the result of an inexplicable rift in time and space. By all accounts the Sunshine Read More

Nine Lives

Actors: Michael Kearns, Eric Turic, Steve Callahan, Nick Salamone, John Ganun, Dennis Christopher, Dean Howell, William Christian, Debra Wilson

Synopsis: The fates of nine people are intricately tied together in director Dean Howell's thoughtful meditation on modern relationships. Ronnie is getting up there in years, and as he begins his journey into the online world he begins to reflect on the many love affairs he has had over the course of his Read More

Six Feet Under: Nobody Sleeps

Synopsis: Although Six Feet Under often dwells on death -- such as this week's depiction of a scenic designer named Kevin Lamb (Dennis Christopher) who stages his lover's funeral as a miniature opera -- "Nobody Sleeps" also revolves around the birthday of the Fisher matriarch. Electrified by her daring Read More

Freakylinks

Actors: Ethan Embry, Lisa Sheridan, Dennis Christopher

Skeletons

Actors: Ron Silver, Christopher Plummer, James Coburn, Dee Wallace, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: In this grim and suspenseful thriller, a news journalist and his family exchange life in grimy, hectic New York for that in a peaceful Maine village. Unfortunately, the burg they chose is ruled by a harsh, ultraconservative preacher who hates all outsiders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Silencers

Actors: Jack Scalia, Dennis Christopher, Clarence Williams III, Carlos Lauchu, Lucinda Weist

Synopsis: The mythical, urban-legendary "men in black" make a lower-rent appearance here than in the movie of the same name. Jack Scalia stars as Rafferty, a secret service agent whose impressive marksmanship and survival skills are not enough to save a California senator from an assassination at the hands Read More

It's My Party

Actors: Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant, Marlee Matlin, Paul Regina

Synopsis: In this bittersweet comedy drama, a man nearing the end of his life seeks closure with his family and friends, and he confronts the issues of the right to die. Nick Stark (Eric Roberts) is a successful architect who is openly gay. He was involved in a committed relationship with Brandon Theis (Gregory Harrison Read More

Aurora: Operation Intercept

Actors: Natalya Andreichenko, Bruce Payne, Lance Henriksen, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: Russian Francesca Zaborszin (Natalya Andreichenko) is convinced that the United States is responsible for her father's death. Crazed for revenge, she has devised a system that scrambles the navigational controls of commercial airliners, causing them to crash without warning. After two major air Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Search, Part II

Synopsis: In part one of this episode, Sisko and his officers had once more fallen into the hands of the Jem'hadar, soldiers of the Dominion, while Odo had left his comrades high and dry to embark upon a mysterious mission to the Omarion Nebula. In part two, Odo arrives on his home planet, which is now Read More

Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man 2

Actors: Vernon Wells, Deborah Shelton, Jim Metzler, Dennis Christopher, Nicholas Worth

Synopsis: This science fiction adventure, set in the future, depicts an Earth so polluted that people must live underground to avoid the deadly air. It is the sequel to 1989's Circuitry Man. In this new world, people who once would have plugged into drugs for illicit fun, now turn on with computer chips. Read More

Necronomicon

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Bruce Payne, David Warner, Juan Fernandez, Bess Meyer, Richard Lynch, Millie Perkins

Synopsis: Based on horror author H.P. Lovecraft's writings, Necronomicon: Book of the Dead includes three short stories devoted to the deadly and mysterious "Necronomicon." When Lovecraft (played by Jeffrey Combs) manages to smuggle the legendary book out of a heavily guarded library, he quickly finds Read More

Curaao

Murder, She Wrote: Final Curtain

Synopsis: Cabot Cove has been chosen as the location for the pre-Broadway staging of a new play starring David North (Peter Donat), a prominent actor who is emerging from a 10-year retirement. No sooner have rehearsals started than a murder occurs, with North's business manager Eric Benderson (Bradford Read More

Doppelganger: The Evil Within

Actors: Drew Barrymore

Synopsis: This confusing but enjoyably weird film stars Drew Barrymore (still toying with her good girl/bad girl image) as Holly Gooding, a young woman who apparently stabs her mother to death in New York then shows up on the doorstep of young L.A. screenwriter Patrick (George Newbern), in response to his Read More

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

Synopsis: Do not confuse this fact-based feature with the more tongue-in-cheek cable TV version, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom. This one looks seriously at the story of a Texas mother who was willing to kill to ensure her daughter's place on the cheerleading Read More

The Disco Years

False Arrest

Actors: Donna Mills, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Though based on fact, the two-part TV movie False Arrest plays more like one of those Linda Blair "babes in prison" flicks. Donna Mills plays Joyce Lukezic, a well-off Phoenix businesswoman/homemaker accused of murder. She knows, and we know, that she didn't do it. The double homicide was the Read More

Circuitry Man

Actors: Jim Metzler, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Vernon Wells, Lu Leonard, Barbara Alyn Woods

Synopsis: Set in a grim post-WW III America, this sci-fi fantasy tells the story of a woman attempting to sell black-market computer chips that allow patrons to experience the nearly forgotten pleasures of sex and drugs. She is hanging out with the gang she works for in a local nightclub when the police Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Shear Madness

Synopsis: 15 years ago, Jessica's cousin Anne (Shirley Jones was about to be married when her fiancé was murdered, ostensibly by Anne's mentally unbalanced brother, who was promptly locked up in an institution. Now, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is in attendance when Anne decides to give matrimony a second Read More

Dead Women in Lingerie

Synopsis: There are murderous goings on at a sweatshop that specializes in lingerie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

It

Actors: John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Annette O'Toole, Tim Curry, Harry Anderson

Synopsis: Originally titled Stephen King's It, this two-part TV movie first aired on November 18 and 20, 1990. The story starts in Maine, where a small child is lured into the hands of what audiences everywhere can be assured is one mean clown. The 30-year struggle against an evil supernatural force that Read More

A Sinful Life

Actors: Anita Morris, Rick Overton, Dennis Christopher, Blair Tefkin, Mark Rolston

Synopsis: When former dancer and single mother Claire Vin Blanc (Anita Morris) is in danger of losing her daughter, Baby, to the welfare authorities, she attempts to pull herself together and create a model home life, complete with a husband. This film was based on the play Just Like the Pom Pom Girls. Read More

Christabel

Actors: Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dillone

Synopsis: A BBC production, Christabel was one of several British TV iniseries seen during the 1988-89 season of the PBS anthology series Masterpiece Theatre. Dennis Potter adapted the teleplay from Christabel Bielenberg's autobiography The Past is Myself. Elizabeth Hurley plays Christabel, a British woman Read More

Friends

Actors: Dennis Christopher, Sven Wollter, Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Olin, Anita Wall

Synopsis: John (Dennis Christopher) is a legal assistant who investigates divorce cases in this offbeat comedy drama. He looks forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally (Edita Brychta), but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through his window. A bratty kid enters the room, followed by Read More

Alien Predator

Actors: Dennis Christopher, Martin Hewitt, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Luis Prendes, J.O. Bosso

Synopsis: This Spanish horror movie steals ideas from at least three different major films including Alien, Predator, and The Andromeda Strain as it tells the story of three American teens on vacation in Spain who drive their RV into a tiny Spanish town where a large piece of Skylab has fallen and infected Read More

Jake Speed

Actors: Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Leon Ames, Donna Pescow

Synopsis: An adventure tale for movie buffs, Jake Speed deftly lifts scenes from detective films of the '40s through the '70s to bring an added dimension to its spoof of the detective and adventure genres. When a family gets word that their daughter has been kidnapped in Paris, her father comments that they Read More

Flight of the Spruce Goose

Actors: Dan O'Shea, Jennifer Runyon, Karen Black, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: This romantic drama is about Adam, a young coal miner (Dan O'Shea) and Terry (Jennifer Runyon), the high-class model he falls for when she has a photo shoot at the mine where he works. Terry's mother and her sleazy agent would both prefer Adam stay away from her, while his job and his position in Read More

Moonlighting: The Lady in the Iron Mask

Synopsis: A woman wearing a heavy veil shows up at the offices of the Blue Moon Detective Agency and hires David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) to locate a recently paroled convict named Frank Harbert (Joel Polis). It seems that, years ago, Frank had horribly disfigured the veiled woman's face Read More

Jack and the Beanstalk

Synopsis: This is one of many versions of the fairy tale about a boy who trades his family cow for magical beans and soon finds himself on an adventure in a magical land. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Didn't You Hear?

Synopsis: In this comedy, a Walter-Mitty-esque college youth creates a fabulous daydream world when he finds himself increasingly unable to relate to real life. In his own La-La land, he pretends that he commands a sailing ship. With a crew comprised of schoolmates, they set sail for many adventures. Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Jack and the Beanstalk

Synopsis: An impressive cast drives this early episode of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. Dennis Christopher -- best known from the 1979 sleeper hit Breaking Away -- is Jack, a boy who acquires a handful of magic beans in exchange for his poor family's cow. His mother, Soap's Katherine Helmond, is Read More

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

Actors: Dennis Christopher, Susan Saint James, Lisa Lu

Synopsis: This heartwarming tale of courage and devotion is set during the Vietnam war and centers upon a young medic who makes extra money on the side dealing drugs. His life is forever changed when he meets an Army doctor who persuades him to help her save a group of war orphans. First she appeals to his Read More

Chariots of Fire

Actors: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, Ian Holm, Daniel Gerroll, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning drama of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a serious Christian Scotsman, believes that he has to succeed as a testament to his undying Read More

The Last Word

Actors: Richard Harris, Karen Black, Martin Landau, Dennis Christopher, Biff McGuire

Synopsis: Danny Travis (Richard Harris) is a kindly Irish inventor and widower whose projects leave his family in a constant state of near poverty. He takes on the system when the city slates his apartment building for demolition. Danny uncovers a plot hatched by the scheming Governor Davis (Biff McGuire) Read More

Jack and the Beanstalk

Synopsis: This is one of many versions of the fairy tale about a boy who trades his family cow for magical beans and soon finds himself on an adventure in a magical land. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Fade to Black

Actors: Dennis Christopher, Linda Kerridge, Tim Thomerson, Morgan Paull, Hennen Chambers

Synopsis: An interesting, introspective variant on the '80s slasher formula, this low-key psychological thriller details the troubled life of obsessed movie junkie Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher), whose love of old movies extends far beyond his job at a film distributor's warehouse and endless late-night Read More

Breaking Away

Actors: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Paul Dooley, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: Dennis Christopher stars as a recent high school graduate in Bloomington, Indiana, who is caught with his friends -- Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley -- coasting between high school and deciding what to do with the rest of their lives. The four friends are snobbishly looked down upon Read More

Elvis

Actors: Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell, Season Hubley, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: The first volley in the never-ending "Presley movie" blitzkrieg, the made-for-TV Elvis: The Movie stars Kurt Russell as the King, Season Hubley as Priscilla, Pat Hingle as Col. Parker, Shelley Winters as Elvis' mom, and Bing Russell (Kurt's real-life father) as Elvis' dad. The film recounts Presley Read More

California Dreaming

Actors: Glynnis O'Connor, Seymour Cassel, Dorothy Tristan, Dennis Christopher, John Calvin

Synopsis: T.T. (Dennis Christopher), a Midwesterner, has traveled to the beaches of California for a dose of the surfin' life. He believes that the people he finds there are glamorous and knowledgeable. They reject his Midwestern nerdiness, make fun of him, and generally give him a hard time for not fitting Read More

A Wedding

Actors: Carol Burnett, Mia Farrow, Paul Dooley, Lillian Gish, Amy Stryker, Howard Duff, Geraldine Chaplin, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: Robert Altman's over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker). As the film begins, a senile bishop forgets the lines to the wedding ceremony and Nettie Sloan (the groom's Read More

9/30/55

Actors: Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrrell, Deborah Benson, Lisa Blount, Tom Hulce

Synopsis: This film, aired on television as 24 Hours of the Rebel, delves into the hero-worship aura that surrounded James Dean following his tragic death. This stars The Waltons' Richard Thomas (getting a break from his usual "goody-goody" roles), who, as character "Jimmy J," is stunned by Dean's death and Read More

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Actors: Shelley Duvall, Henry Fonda, Polly Holliday, Gary Springer, Bud Cort, Lane Binkley, Veronica Cartwright, Dennis Christopher, Patrick Reynolds

Synopsis: Many observers consider the 60-minute Bernice Bobs Her Hair to be the best-ever filmed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bernice (Shelley Duvall), a shy retiring girl of the Roaring 20s, yearns to be popular. On the advice of her flapper cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), Bernice cuts her Read More

Blood and Lace

Actors: Louise Sherrill, Mary Strawberry, Ronald Taft, Gloria Grahame, Melody Patterson, Milton Selzer

Synopsis: Gloria Grahame joined the list of aging Hollywood stars who bloodied their hands in the wake of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? with this sick, effective horror film about nasty doings at a private orphanage. Grahame gives a wonderfully grotesque performance as Mrs. Dorothy Deere, a crazy widow Read More

The Young Graduates

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, teenagers grow into young adults. The story centers on a young woman who falls in love with one of her teachers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More