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Sep. 19, 2008 1:37 AM ET (AP)
Actors: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton, Justin Theroux, Terryn Westbrook
Synopsis: Cinema of the surreal icon David Lynch follows up the success of his critically acclaimed 2001 feature Mulholland Drive with this dark mystery, shot on a handheld Sony PD150 digital video recorder. It is the tale of an actress whose personality becomes increasingly fragmented as she delves ever Read More
Actors: Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Tim Blake Nelson, Laura Prepon, Scott Wilson
Synopsis: A Southern beauty whose habit of waking up in strange beds with head-ringing hangovers is beginning to wear thin determines to uncover her secret shrouded family past in hopes of discovering the truth about the woman she has become in the feature filmmaking debut of actor-turned-director Joey Lauren Adams Read More
Actors: Diane Ladd, Lee Majors, Amy Redford, Richard Tyson, Bernie Casey
Synopsis: Diane Ladd Lee Majors, Bernie Casey, and Amy Redford star in writer/producer/director Tonya S. Holly's childhood drama about a girl who leaves her loving family behind in order to overcome her fears and set her heart at peace. The year is 1965: Lily Strickland lives in Alabama with her loving Read More
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Paul Rodriguez, Aaron Murphy, Annie Whittle
Synopsis: The true story of a man who never gave up on his dreams of doing something big -- and doing it very, very fast -- provides the basis for this engaging comedy drama. Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) was born in 1899 in Invercargill, New Zealand. From childhood, Munro had a passion for machines that Read More
Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Diane Ladd, Bruce Davison, Ed Begley, Jr., Jack Coleman
Synopsis: Based upon the critically acclaimed Lars von Trier miniseries Riget (The Kingdom), this American remake from fright master Stephen King unfolds over 15 hours and centers on the creepy goings-on at a hospital known as The Kingdom. Andrew McCarthy leads the cast as Dr. Hook, one of the physicians at Read More
Actors: Kristen Bell, Anne Heche, Diane Ladd
Synopsis: Her childhood forever lost to a mother (Anne Heche in an Emmy-nominated performance) whose irresponsible, drug-fueled escapades forced her and her siblings to fend for themselves, 17-year-old Gracie Thompson (Kristen Bell) vows to pick up the pieces and give her brothers and sisters the mother Read More
Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Ladd, Queen Latifah, Jack Palance, Michael Moriarty
Synopsis: This two-part CBS TV movie was filmed as Talking to Heaven, the title of the autobiographical book upon which it was based. Ted Danson stars as real-life psychic James Van Praagh, a man who spent much of his life ignoring or denying his clairvoyant gifts until it became impossible for him to Read More
Actors: Diane Ladd, John Savage, Alexandra Paul, Rachel Hunter
Synopsis: When an escaped convict is discovered hiding in a barn by two young children, he convinces the kids that he is a ghost while learning an important lesson in paying penance for his crimes. Witt Hampton was a convicted embezzler sentenced to year behind bars for his greedy transgressions. Read More
Actors: Diane Ladd, James Waterston
Synopsis: Based on Catherine Marshall's novel of the same name, Christy: A New Beginning is the second episode of the two-part TV miniseries Christy: Return to Cutter Gap. Set in 1913, the story concentrates on feisty young schoolteacher Christy Huddleston (Lauren Lee Smith) -- a character based on author Read More
Actors: Jeff Bailey, Billy Bob Thornton, Brenda Blethyn, Laura Dern, Jim Varney, Daniel Steven Di Vito, Diane Ladd, Walton Goggins, Andy Griffith
Synopsis: Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this serio-comic look at the trials (literally and figuratively) of an eccentric Arkansas family. Struggling musician Claude (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Laura Dern) get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel (Jim Varney) has been accused of murder Read More
Actors: Melora Walters, Kris Park, Jo Anderson, Diane Ladd, Jamey Sheridan
Synopsis: Love, death, and troubling secrets lurk beneath the surface of a quiet Iowa farming community in this independent drama. Ellen Biddle (Melora Walters) is a Iowa housewife who has reached the breaking point -- a drought is devastating the family farm, creditors threaten to foreclose on the Read More
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Diane Ladd, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi
Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a journalist who's become too much the life of the party finds a new lease on life in a drug and alcohol treatment center. New York newspaper columnist Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) has a fondness for liquor, a boyfriend (Dominic West) with a similar taste for the bottle Read More
Actors: Alison Lohman
Synopsis: By rights, child psychologist Dr. Nina Moss (Mare Winningham) should be pleased and proud that her daughter Beth (Alison Lohman) is a slim, eternally upbeat overachiever. But Nina suspects that all is not well with Beth--and she's right. Desperate to be accepted by her family and friends, and Read More
Actors: Sarah Polley, Brendan Fletcher, Diane Ladd, Sean McCann
Synopsis: Two young people struggling to find happiness in the midst of adversity exist side by side with their alter egos, an older and very unhappy married couple, in this offbeat drama. Beatrice (Sarah Polley) is a supermarket checkout girl fascinated by Henry (Brendan Fletcher), an angry and withdrawn Read More
Actors: Lauren Lee Smith, Diane Ladd, James Waterston, Stewart Finlay-McLennan
Synopsis: Based on the best-selling books by Catherine Marshall, the original TV series Christy focused on 19-year-old Christy Huddleston, an idealistic schoolteacher who left a life of wealth and comfort behind to accept a job in the backward mountain community of Cutter, NC, in 1912. First telecast as a Read More
Actors: Andrew Airlie, Maria Conchita Alonso, Gary Busey, Thomas Calabro
Synopsis: E! Entertainment's debut original TV production is an over-the-top depiction of Hollywood decadence and desperation. Five down-and-out women vie for a major award. The five include a drugged-out indie queen; a plumy British actress with a womanizing director for a husband; a porn star looking for Read More
Actors: Pamela Bach, Craig Benton, Diane Ladd
Synopsis: In this touching drama from England, a family is given a puppy for a year so that he can be housebroken and taught basic behavioral commands; after that time, the dog will be put into training as a helper for the disabled. A young daughter in the household soon bonds with the puppy, and the dog Read More
Actors: Bryan Burke, Ralph Macchio, Michelle Trachtenberg
Synopsis: A boy tries to solve the mysteries of growing up with the help of a ghostly friend in this comedy-drama. Thirteen-year-old Danny (Bryan Burke) is having more than his share of problems adjusting to life after the death of his father, and it doesn't help that he's falling in love with Julie Read More
Actors: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester
Synopsis: Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a Read More
Actors: Barbara Hershey, William L. Petersen, Diane Ladd
Synopsis: A nun's prayers seem to be answered when an enigmatic carpenter mysteriously appears to build a new spiral staircase for her church. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Emilio Estevez, Steven Weber, Diane Ladd
Synopsis: Emilio Estevez, Steven Weber and Diane Ladd star in this comedy about a man whose marriage is going through a rough patch. One of his buddies decides he needs some cheering up, so he takes him for a night on the town that proves to be a bit wilder than he was expecting. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More
Actors: Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Barbara Williams, Sebastian Spence, Andrew Jackson, Kim Weeks
Synopsis: A priest has been murdered in the neighborhood of Inspector Paul Fein's youth, and it's up to the seasoned cop to crack the case in director David Greene's entry into the tense Family of Cops series. It's not going to be easy going back to the streets of his childhood, but despite the demons that Read More
Actors: Cliff De Young, Ashley Peldon, Ray Walston, Sally Kirkland, Diane Ladd
Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed children's book The Westing Game, the movie version of this tale, Get a Clue!, draws young viewers into the strange mysteries encountered by 13-year-old "Turtle" Wexler. After moving into a new town, Turtle learns the house next door is the notoriously haunted Westin Read More
Actors: Casper Van Dien, Carrie Mitchum, Robert Mitchum
Synopsis: Toluca Lake newspaper owner Mardi Rustam is the producer of this biographical drama about James Dean (Casper Van Dien), re-creating Dean's romance with Pier Angeli (Carrie Mitchum, granddaughter of Robert Mitchum) and depicting other '50s Hollywood personalities -- from Ursula Andress (Monique Parent Read More
Synopsis: Mean-spirited IRS auditor Carolyn Sellers (Diane Ladd) tries to close down a group home for Down Syndrome adults that has opened across the street from her house. Life Goes On's Christopher Burke) appears as Taylor, one of the home's residents, whose efforts to save a youngster from a serious Read More
Actors: Randy Quaid, Laura Dern, Kirsten Dunst, Darren E. Burrows
Synopsis: The tragic story of the Ruby Ridge "massacre" has been so thoroughly covered and disseminated by the mainstream press that to add anything here would be pointless. Suffice to say that the two-part TV movie The Siege at Ruby Ridge uses the facts at hand to show how the tragedy occurred, and how but Read More
Actors: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston
Synopsis: The divisive issue of abortion is at the center of Citizen Ruth, a political satire that attempts to subject both pro-choice and pro-life forces to equal ridicule. Laura Dern portrays Ruth Stoops, an irresponsible, unemployed woman who's addicted to inhaling household chemicals and has becomes Read More
Actors: Frances de la Tour, Grant Masters, Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Ganiat Kasumu
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Diane Ladd, Bruce Dern, Kelly Preston, Shelley Winters, Jim Walton
Synopsis: This psychological drama was based on the novel by Ella Leffland. After the death of her husband, Rose Munck (Diane Ladd), needs a job and takes a position looking after local business tycoon Patrick Leary (Bruce Dern), who has grown old and infirm and can no longer care for himself. However Read More
Synopsis: Two aspiring young rockers in love with each other, try to make it into Colin Gramercy's upcoming show. Gramercy is not only a major star, he is also the celebrity spokesperson for the World Unity Coalition, a front for a wicked, subversive organization. The girl, Lila, is chosen for a back-up Read More
Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Diane Ladd, Lainie Kazan
Synopsis: Based on the play by Ivan Menchell, this drama concerns three friends, Doris (Olympia Dukakis), Lucille (Diane Ladd), and Esther (Ellen Burstyn). All three live in the same Jewish community in Pittsburgh, are in their mid-to-late 50s, and have become widows within the past few months. Once a week Read More
Actors: Diane Ladd
Synopsis: Prolific television director Jorge Montesi helmed this made-for-TV thriller starring Academy Award nominee Diane Ladd. Hush Little Baby casts Ladd as Edie, a disturbed woman who is separated from her baby and sent off to a mental institution. Years later, though, Edie is reunited with her daughter Read More
Actors: Sally Kirkland, Sean Young, Keith Coogan, Diane Ladd
Synopsis: The full title of this direct-to-video enterprise is Forever: A Ghost of a Love Story. Though the title suggests that we're in the heart of rip-off country, the film actually has very little in common with either Love Story (1969) or Ghost (1990). Music-video director Keith Coogan prepares to film Read More
Actors: Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon, Harrison Page, Clint Howard
Synopsis: One of the more popular features from Roger Corman's "B"-factory Concorde/New Horizons, Carnosaur perpetuates the grand Corman tradition of zeroing in on a big-budget Hollywood studio moneymaker, then dashing off a quick-and-dirty poor man's version before moss gets a chance to grow on the larger Read More
Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Max Parrish, Sean Young, Diane Ladd, Andrea Naschak
Synopsis: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me is an offbeat comedy about a criminal (Max Parrish) who shoots his fiancée (Sean Young) during their shotgun wedding, and runs away with her fortune, winding up in a trailer park. As he bides his time waiting for a phony passport, he falls in love with a young woman Read More
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Halle Berry, Sabrina Lloyd, Brian Bonsall, Michael Ironside
Synopsis: Deadbeat dads be damned. Patrick Swayze plays a con man who tries to live up to the ideals of "family values" by kidnapping his son and daughter from the evil clutches of a corrupt orphanage and taking them on a cross-country trip in his vintage convertible. To complicate matters, his daughter has Read More
Synopsis: Forever: A Ghost of a Love Story was inspired by the unsolved murder of movie director William Desmond Taylor in 1922. High-living music video director Keith Coogan moves into a crumbling Hollywood mansion. Here he is visited by a friendly and very beautiful wraith (Sean Young), who turns out to Read More
Synopsis: One of CBS' most popular weekly series of the early '90s, Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman began life as a two-hour TV movie. Jane Seymour stars as Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, who in the mid-1860s sets up practice in a small Colorado Territory community. Not unexpectedly, there are several hard-bitten Read More
Actors: Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Heard
Synopsis: Rambling Rose is the most part a flashback, related by grown-up Southerner Buddy Hillyer (John Heard). The bulk of the film takes place in 1935, when rambunctious backwoods housekeeper Rose (Laura Dern) virtually invades the Hillyer household. Daddy Hillyer (Robert Duvall), a bed-rock Southern Read More
Actors: Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, James Russo, Diane Ladd
Synopsis: This thriller is the second film based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin. Matt Dillon stars as Jonathan Corliss, a lethal schemer from the wrong side of the tracks. Now a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Jonathan has been obsessed since childhood with the fortunes of a company Read More
Actors: Mark Harmon, Margaret Welsh, Diane Ladd, Tippi Hedren, Shirley Knight
Synopsis: In this remake of a classic Hitchcock thriller, a niece begins believing that her beloved uncle is a cold-blooded killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis: Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie Wild at Heart. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern Read More
Actors: Melissa Gilbert
Synopsis: Drawn from the novel by Kate Wilhelm, this made-for-cable thriller stars Melissa Gilbert as a grieving young mother who doubts her sanity after seeing the daughter she lost in a car accident. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, William R. Moses, Andrew Robinson, Diane Ladd, Daphne Ashbrook
Synopsis: Rock Hudson is a TV-biopic oversimplification of the life and career of the durable screen idol. Most of the background material is based on the book by Phyllis Gates, who was briefly married to Hudson in the 1950s. The film recounts (in fan-magazine fashion) Hudson's rise from truck driver to Read More
Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Diane Ladd, John Randolph
Synopsis: Chevy Chase, star of National Lampoon's Vacation and its sequel, is back as the paterfamilias of the Griswold family (including Beverly D'Angelo as his missus) to skewer the Yuletide season. Chevy mugs, trips, falls, mashes his fingers and stubs his toes as he prepares to invite numerous Read More
Actors: Arliss Howard, Suzy Amis, George Wendt, Diane Ladd, Seymour Cassel
Synopsis: Arliss Howard plays a baby-faced undercover cop, posing as a high school student. Howard is investigating the murder of a teacher, a task made difficult when his own brother (Loren Dean) becomes the primary suspect. Meanwhile, the ersatz student falls in love with Alexandre Powers, the daughter of Read More
Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Brian Kerwin, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Andrews, Shawnee Smith
Synopsis: Bluegrass was a two-part TV movie that resurrected virtually every "racetrack" cliche known to man. Widowed Cheryl Ladd heads to Kentucky to start up a horse farm. Her wicked neighbor is Wayne Rogers who seeks Ladd's downfall. Faithful farm manager Brian Kerwin won't let Rogers stand in the way of Read More
Synopsis: A group of former CIA agents team up to ransom the entire world by staging an international crisis in the Orient. Only one man (Brian Kerwin), also an agent, can stop them. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson
Synopsis: Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who has sworn to bring Theresa Russell to justice. Ms. Russell has married several millionaires who have all Read More
Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist, James Read, Diane Ladd
Synopsis: In this touching family drama, a loving couple discovers they can no longer make babies so they provide a good home to unwanted children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this prison drama, two adolescent girls are incarcerated with adults by an obsessive judge. There they are terribly exploited and abused. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Teri Copley, Tim Daly, Diane Ladd, Bert Remsen, Anson Williams
Synopsis: In order to win a bet, a nebbishy engineer must meet a model; not only does he get to know her, they begin to date. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Little Red Riding Hood (Mary Steenburgen ) is en route to Grandma's house when she encounters a hungry stranger in the woods whose carnivorous appetite may lead him in the same direction. Malcolm McDowell is delightfully smarmy as the Big Bad Wolf who races to Grandma's house with plans to gobble Read More
Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano
Synopsis: After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Dr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. Dr. Dark is after two young Read More
Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Ian McShane
Synopsis: Grace Kelly, the high-society beauty who became an Oscar-winning actress and then a European princess, is the subject of this TV biopic. Cheryl Ladd has the looks and poise of the original Grace, though she isn't quite as charismatic. The early portion of the film retraces the stormy relationship Read More
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
Actors: Gene Hackman, Barbra Streisand, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Dobson
Synopsis: Gene Hackman plays a disgruntled suburbanite who manages the Ultra-Sav, an all-night drugstore. He hates his job, hates his debts and responsibilities, and isn't overly fond of his wife (Diane Ladd) and son (Dennis Quaid). Partly as a form of protest, Hackman enters into an affair with Barbra Streisand Read More
Actors: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Diane Ladd, Philip McKeon
Synopsis: Though fewer new episodes of Alice were telecast during its fifth season due to a Hollywood writer's strike, the series still remained one of CBS's most popular attractions, ranking seventh in the overall Nielsen ratings. Much of its ongoing success can be attributed to the seamless ensemble work Read More
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
Actors: Deborah Raffin
Synopsis: In this made-for-TV dram