Diana Scarwid Filmography

The Clearing

Actors: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe, Alessandro Nivola, Matt Craven

Synopsis: Dutch film producer Pieter Jan Brugge makes his directorial debut with the dramatic thriller The Clearing. Affluent executive Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) and his lovely wife, Eileen (Helen Mirren), live in a beautiful home in Pittsburg. One day, Wayne is kidnapped by disgruntled employee Arnold Read More

Without Love

Wonderfalls [TV Series]

Actors: Caroline Dhavernas, Kate Finneran, Diana Scarwid, William Sadler, Tyron Leitso

Synopsis: Launched in March 2004 as a mid-season replacement, this supernatural comedy drama suffered a death as quick as its premise was quirky. Thanks in part to a punishing Friday-night time slot, Wonderfalls managed only four episodes before Fox pulled the plug. Less than a year later, however, the Read More

Party Monster

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

A Guy Thing

Actors: Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Shawn Hatosy

Synopsis: A man trying to save his relationship with the woman he loves finds himself sinking into a quicksand of small lies and half-truths in this comedy. Paul (Jason Lee) is a regular guy who is engaged to marry Karen (Selma Blair); while Paul loves Karen, he's more than a bit nervous around her family Read More

Law & Order: Myth of Fingerprints

Synopsis: A jailhouse murder confession raises doubts over the guilt of two other convicts, one of whom died in custody. As the detectives and the D.A.'s office pursue the investigation, it becomes painfully apparent that a former police fingerprint examiner (Diana Scarwid) may have provided false testimony Read More

What Lies Beneath

Actors: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid, Miranda Otto, James Remar, Joe Morton

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, a woman believes that a visitor from another dimension is trying to guide her into a sinister mystery. Feeling lonely after her daughter leaves home for college, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) begins to sense that something is wrong in her house, and feels a spirit is Read More

Dirty Pictures

Actors: James Woods, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid, Leon Pownall

Synopsis: Much attention was given to the Robert Mapplethorpe photographs that became the center of controversy when they were exhibited at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center in 1990, but less was known about Dennis Barrie, the museum director responsible for the exhibit. Barrie's obscenity trial and Read More

The Angel Doll

Actors: Keith Carradine, Betsy Brantley, Cody Newton, Diana Scarwid, Michael Welch

Synopsis: Originally intended for theatrical release, The Angel Doll is an adaptation of Jerry Bledsoe's bestselling novel of the same name. Set in the South of the '50s, the story focuses on "Whitey" Black (Cody Newton), a kid from the wrong side of the tracks who befriends middle-class youngster Jerry Read More

Down Will Come Baby

Actors: Meredith Baxter, Diana Scarwid, Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Amandes

Synopsis: With her parents on the verge of divorce, young Robin Garr (Evan Rachel Wood)does not any more stress in her life. Unfortunately, while attending summer camp, Robin's best friend, a strangely melancholy girl named Amelia (Katie Booze-Mooney) accidentally drowns, a tragedy for which Robin holds Read More

Ruby Bridges

Synopsis: A six-year old African-American girl scores very well on early scholastics tests and is chosen by the New Orleans school district to be the first of her race to be integrated into that city's public school system. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Before He Wakes

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Before He Wakes is based on the novel by Jerry Bledsoe),which in turn was inspired by the true story of convicted murderer Barbara Stager (who at the time of the film was slated for her first parole hearing in 2006). A small North Carolina town is shocked when popular high school Read More

If These Walls Could Talk

Synopsis: The compilation film If These Walls Could Talk consists of three short films that each deal with the controversial issue of abortion. Although each of the stories is set in a different decade, the unifying element (aside from the subject matter) is that all three transpire in the same house. The Read More

Bastard out of Carolina

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Jena Malone, Glenne Headly, Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: Accomplished actress Anjelica Huston, daughter of John Huston, made her directorial debut with this absorbing, often wrenching story of child abuse in the 1950s American South. Based on a novel by Dorothy Allison, the film (narrated by Laura Dern) tells the tale of Bone (Jena Malone), a poor white Read More

The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue

Synopsis: The late Robert Urich completed work on this cable-TV movie only a few days before undergoing cancer surgery. Set in the early months of the Great Depression, the story involves Angus Feagan (Urich), a Detroit family man who has lost both his job and his freedom. Arrested for a crime he didn't Read More

Critical Choices

Actors: Betty Buckley, Pamela Reed, Diana Scarwid, Liisa Repo-Martell, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: An unplanned pregnancy throws a monkey wrench into the carefully orchestrated plans of a financially struggling young couple. They already have two children, and having another baby would force the mother to drop out of college and would be a terrible financial strain on the family. While trying Read More

The Neon Bible

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Jacob Tierney, Diana Scarwid, Drake Bell, Denis Leary

Synopsis: A young boy comes of age in rural Georgia during the 1940s in Terence Davies' challenging, visually powerful drama. Acclaimed for his nostalgic, beautifully photographed reflections on England's past (The Long Day Closes, Distant Voices, Still Lives), Davies looks beyond his home country to Read More

The Cure

Actors: Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Erik (Brad Renfro) is a 13-year-old boy whose single mother, Gail (Diana Scarwid), has just moved to a new home in Minnesota. Erik feels like a fish out of water with his Southern accent, and he has trouble making friends until he meets Dexter (Joseph Mazzello), a kid a year or two younger who Read More

Truman

Actors: Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: This award winning made-for-cable movie tells the story of American President Harry S.Truman and his role in the second World War. Gary Sinese stars in the title role of this biographical account, which is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner David McCullough's book. The film chronicles Truman's rise Read More

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

Actors: Christina Ricci, Anna Chlumsky, Polly Draper

Synopsis: A teen from Los Angeles and her recently widowed mother move back to the family's Pacific Northwest home in 1980 to try to reassemble their lives. Young teen Beth at first hates country living, but then she meets the outspoken, defiant Jody and the two become fast friends. Jody has quite a Read More

JFK: Reckless Youth

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Terry Kinney, Loren Dean, Yolanda Jilot, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: Originally aired as a two-part miniseries, this biography looks at the early years of America's most dashing president from his early childhood through his nomination for Congress. It's based on Nigel Hamilton's best-selling biography. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Brenda Starr

Actors: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Brook Shields plays the comic-strip journalist, Brenda Starr, who travels to a South American jungle on an assignment. It is there that she covers the story about a mad scientist who plans to blow up the planet with his newly developed rocket fuel. Also appearing are Timothy Dalton and Charles Durning Read More

Night of the Hunter

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: "Remake fever" spread in 1991 to the producers of the TV-movie Night of the Hunter. 36 years earlier, writer James Agee, director Charles Laughton and stars Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish combined their considerable talents to create the original Night of the Hunter, a first-rate Read More

Heat

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Neil Barry

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds stars as the bitter bodyguard and degenerate gambler Mex in this uneven action film. He wakes up hungover, vowing to rekindle his dream of leaving Las Vegas for good if he can just raise enough money. Mex divides his time working for the low-key millionaire Cyrus Kinnick (Peter MacNicol Read More

After the Promise

Actors: Mark Harmon, Donnelly Rhodes, Mark Hildreth

Synopsis: Mark Harmon plays an itinerant Depression-era carpenter in the made-for-TV After the Promise. When his wife dies, Harmon is declared an unsuitable parent purely on the basis of his financial situation, and his four children are made wards of the Court. Fighting against the seemingly invulnerable Read More

Extremities

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Diana Scarwid, Alfre Woodard, Sandy Martin

Synopsis: Attacked by a masked assailant, Marjorie (Farrah Fawcett) lives in mortal fear that the unidentified man will strike again -- especially since he knows her address. Sure enough, Joe the attacker (James Russo) breaks into Marjorie's home and subjects her to a night of terror and sexual humiliation. Read More

Psycho III

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Diana Scarwid, Jeff Fahey, Roberta Maxwell, Hugh Gillin

Synopsis: For his third outing as disturbed innkeeper Norman Bates, Anthony Perkins directed as well as starred in the thriller Psycho III. This time out, Norman is still manning the desk at the Bates Motel, where he now has an assistant, Duane (Jeff Fahey), and a new long-term tenant, Maureen Coyle (Diana Scarwid Read More

The Ladies Club

Actors: Karen Austin, Diana Scarwid, Christine Belford, Bruce Davison, Shera Danese

Synopsis: A rare attempt by a female director to attack the issue of rape from a woman's perspective, this drama is sure to cause varied reactions. A sense of the film's perspective can be garnered from paraphrasing its publicity: "Rapists have two problems and the 'Ladies Club' is about to remove them Read More

A Bunny's Tale

Actors: Lela Rochon

Synopsis: A Bunny's Tale is a TV-movie adaptation of Gloria Steinem's experiences as a Playboy bunny. Engaged by a magazine to write an investigative article on publisher Hugh Hefner's nightclub chain, Ms. Steinem (Kirstie Alley) poses as a young girl named "Marie" and enters the Bunny training program at Read More

Silkwood

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Silkwood begins and ends with Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) driving along a lonely road in 1974, heading to a meeting with a New York Times reporter to deliver evidence of negligence at the Kerr-McGee Plant in Cimarron, Oklahoma. The balance of the film flashes back to Read More

Strange Invaders

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: In this subtly humorous, alien-invasion film by Michael Laughlin, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Condon, the aliens infiltrate a small Midwestern town in 1958 and beam the "spirits" of several of the townspeople up to their spacecraft in little blue bubbles, while they settle into the Read More

Rumble Fish

Actors: Herb Rice, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of gang culture in a rough-and-tumble town full of stunted youths. The central character is the strutting Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a foul-mouthed lunkhead clad in Read More

Desperate Lives

Actors: Helen Hunt

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a high-school counselor (Joyce Brothers) faces ineffectual help from administration in combating drugs, so she recruits several students to help in the battle. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Synopsis: In this drama, an attorney tries to prove that his incarcerated client is indeed innocent of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mommie Dearest

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva, Rutanya Alda, Mara Hobel

Synopsis: When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Crawford's will, "for reasons which are well known to them." Industryites have suggested that it may have been this posthumous act of rejection rather Read More

Honeysuckle Rose

Actors: Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens, Joey Floyd

Synopsis: After displaying his easygoing charm in a number of television appearances and a showy supporting role in The Electric Horseman, Willie Nelson scored his first leading role in this romantic comedy-drama in which he (appropriately enough) plays a musician. Buck Bonham (Nelson) is a country Read More

Inside Moves

Actors: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid, Harold Russell, Amy Wright

Synopsis: Richard Donner directed this compassionate tale concerning the daily struggles of handicapped citizens. The film deals with the volatile relationship between Roary (John Savage), who has unsuccessfully tried to kill himself, and the hair-trigger Jerry (David Morse), a basketball player who has no Read More

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Actors: Powers Boothe, Veronica Cartwright, Rosalind Cash, Brad Dourif, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious "colony" of Jonestown. The catalyst for this tragedy was cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones (played by Powers Boothe, who won an Emmy for his performance), head of the Read More

Studs Lonigan

Synopsis: Adapted from the once-notorious trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell, the three-part miniseres Studs Lonigan isn't quite as earthy and explicit as its source, but is lot more faithful to the original than the 1960 film version. Set in Chicago and covering the years from 1916 to 1931, this is the Read More

Battered

Actors: Karen Grassle, LeVar Burton, Mike Farrell, Chip Fields, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: Battered concentrates upon three female victims of spousal abuse. Chip Fields is the new wife of struggling young Levar Burton. Joan Blondell is the alcoholic middle-aged spouse of the equally bibilous Howard Duff. And Karen Grassle (who cowrote the screenplay) is married to Ivy leaguer Mike Farrell Read More

Forever

Synopsis: According to the network press release, the made-for-TV Forever was concerned with the "joys and anguish" of teenage romance. The teenage romancers herein are played by Stephanie Zimbalist and Dean Butler. It is the first serious relationship for both, and so far as they are concerned, it will be Read More

Pretty Baby

Actors: Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Frances Faye, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: After making a series of acclaimed and controversial films in his native France, director Louis Malle made his American debut with this disturbing but visually beautiful story about Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a prostitute working in New Orleans' Storyville district at the turn of the century. When Read More

A Woman Accused

Actors: Chad Everett, Barbara Hershey, Howard Duff, Anthony Zerbe, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: In the Glitter Palace was the first made-for-TV movie in which lesbianism was a crucial plot factor. Chad Everett stars as a defense lawyer and erstwhile detective, whose gay client is Barbara Hershey. She is on trial for murdering her slimy blackmailer (played by that master of sliminess, Anthony Zerbe Read More

The Possessed

Synopsis: An ex-priest helps exorcise the demons that have taken over the residents of an exclusive girls' school in this made-for-TV supernatural thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More