Elizabeth Peña Filmography

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

Actors: America Ferrera, Elizabeth Peña, Lucy Gallardo, Eliana Alexander, Steven Bauer

Synopsis: Georgina Garcia Riedel's comedy How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer stars Lucy Gallardo, Elizabeth Peña, and America Ferrara as three generations in a family. Teenager Blanca (Ferrara) detests the boys in her small town and takes on a boyfriend from another town in the hopes that he might be Read More

Adrift in Manhattan

Actors: Heather Graham, William Baldwin, Dominic Chianese, Victor Rasuk, Erika Michels

Synopsis: Adrift in Manhattan, the third feature effort of Hispanic writer/director Alfredo de Villa (Washington Heights, Yellow), intercuts three intensely dramatic stories of life during a cold New York winter, each of which revolves around the concept (and thematic motif) of vision. In the first, an eye Read More

Dragon Wars

Actors: Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, Craig Robinson, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: Korean director Shim Hyung-Rae's monster movie D-War begins with a lengthy prologue, in which an antique dealer named Jack (Robert Forster) watches a young patron, Ethan Kendrick (Cody Erens) get zapped with a force emanating from a chest in his shop. Realizing the significance of this event, Jack Read More

The Lost City

Actors: Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Ines Sastre

Synopsis: Veteran actor Andy Garcia steps into the director's chair for his first voyage into feature filmmaking with this heartfelt tribute to revolutionary, late-'50s-era Cuba featuring Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Tomas Milian, and offering the director himself in the starring role. Fico Fellove (Garcia) Read More

Transamerica

Actors: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña, Graham Greene

Synopsis: The first film by Duncan Tucker, Transamerica stars Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree (whose given name was Stanley). One week before going under the knife, Bree learns that she fathered a boy who is now 17 and is in trouble with the law. Bree would like to ignore this Read More

Sueño

Actors: John Leguizamo, Ana Claudia Talancón, Elizabeth Peña, Nestor Serrano, Jose Maria Yazpik

Synopsis: An aspiring musician looking to break big finds the singer who may finally be able to make his dreams come true in director Renee Chabria's musical drama starring John Leguizamo and Elizabeth Peña. There's nothing that Antonio (Leguizamo) wants more out of life than to be standing on the stage Read More

The Incredibles

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles revolves around former high-profile superhero Bob Parr (aka Mr. Incredible), who has not-so-successfully settled into suburban life along with his wife and kids under the watchful eye of the Superhero Protection Program. A far cry from the "glory days" Read More

Keep Your Distance

Actors: Gil Bellows, Kim Raver, Jamie Harrold, Jennifer Westfeldt

Synopsis: A man who lives what many would consider to be the perfect life begins to see the cracks forming on the surface of his porcelain smooth façade in director Stu Pollard's paranoid tale of deception and betrayal. David Dailey (Gil Bellows) has a picture-perfect home, a career with a promising future Read More

Suena

Maya & Miguel [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Candi Milo, Nika Frost, Elizabeth Peña, Carlos Ponce

Synopsis: A presentation of the daily PBS Kids programming block, Maya & Miguel was a Latino-flavored educational cartoon series geared for children aged 5 through 11. Maya Santos was a lively 10-year-old Hispanic girl who was insatiably curious about the world around her, and who also came up with a Read More

The Hollywood Mom's Mystery

Actors: Justine Bateman, Elizabeth Peña, George Hamilton, Laura Johnson, David Gail

Synopsis: As the wife of fading Hollywood producer Kit Freers (Andrew McCarthy), children's book illustrator Holly Freers (Justine Bateman) would love to have some of the fame and fortune of her movie star neighbors rub off on her just once in a while. However, there is one aspect of living in Beverly Hills Read More

Suburban Madness

Actors: Sela Ward, Elizabeth Peña, Brett Cullen

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-TV drama concerns Clara Harris (Elizabeth Peña), a successful dentist and mother of twins, who hires a private detective, Bobbi Bacha (Sela Ward), to keep tabs on her husband David (Brett Cullen). Clara has suspected for some time that David has been unfaithful Read More

Ten Tiny Love Stories

Synopsis: Directed and written by Rodrigo Garcia, Ten Tiny Love Stories features ten women who, in a series of monologues, talk about the men who have made the largest impact on their respective lives. Though each woman is unique in her experiences with love, sex, death, loss, and many other aspects of the Read More

Adio Kerida

Things Behind the Sun

Actors: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Don Cheadle, Eric Stoltz, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: Writer and director Allison Anders, who used the world of rock & roll as the backdrop for her films Border Radio, Grace of My Heart, and Sugar Mountain, returns to the music scene for this tale of a woman struggling to come to terms with an emotionally devastating past. Sherry McGrale (Kim Read More

Tortilla Soup

Actors: Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Elizabeth Peña, Tamara Mello, Nikolai Kinski, Paul Rodriguez

Synopsis: A remake of Ang Lee's family comedy Eat Drink Man Woman, Maria Ripoli's Hispanic-American ensemble feature set in Southern California about a veteran chef named Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo), who is slowly losing his sense of taste. He has three daughters, all of whom have chosen different Read More

Impostor

Actors: Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tony Shalhoub, Tim Guinee, Mekhi Phifer

Synopsis: This long-delayed science fiction thriller from director Gary Fleder was actually filmed prior to his box-office hit Don't Say a Word (2001), which preceded it in theaters by several months. Based on a 1953 short story by Philip K. Dick, the film shares that schizophrenic author's long-running Read More

Zigzag

Actors: Sam Jones III, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Natasha Lyonne, Wesley Snipes

Synopsis: Zigzag is the directorial debut of screenwriter David S. Goyer (Blade, Blade 2). Based on the well-received debut novel by Landon J. Napoleon, the film tells the story of an autistic teenager, Louis "Zigzag" Fletcher (Sam Jones III). Zigzag is a sensitive and thoughtful boy who retreats into his Read More

Seven Girlfriends

Actors: Tim Daly, Olivia D'Abo, Jami Gertz, Melora Hardin, Laura Leighton

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a man gets an insider's perspective on his drawbacks as a boyfriend. Jesse (Tim Daly) has never had much luck sustaining a romance. When one of his former girlfriends dies, he asks his current flame (Olivia D'Abo) to marry him. After she turns him down, he decides to visit Read More

On the Borderline

Actors: Eric Mabius, Marley Shelton, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: A desperate man is lured to the wrong side of the law with dangerous consequences in this drama. Luke (Eric Mabius) and Nicole (Marley Shelton) are a young couple who have decided to pull up stakes and relocate to California. While passing through a small town along the Mexican border, they Read More

Border Line

Synopsis: Executive-produced by actor Anthony Edwards, the made for TV Border Line is a showcase for Edwards' ER costar Sherry Stringfield, cast as attorney and single mom Allison Westlin. As the representive of the LA-based Fuller Adoption Agency, Allison has never had any reason to question the integrity Read More

StrangeLand

Actors: Dee Snider, Kevin Gage, Brett Harrelson, Elizabeth Peña, Robert Englund

Synopsis: Dee Snider, of the Twisted Sister heavy metal music group, made his debut as a screenwriter and producer with this horror film, directed by John Pieplow. A psycho on the Internet uses the handle, "Captain Howdy" (Snider), an obvious reference to the unseen Ouija board spirit in The Exorcist Read More

Rush Hour

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Tom Wilkinson, Elizabeth Peña, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: Brett Ratner directed this action-comedy that found box-office success by teaming Chris Tucker with Jackie Chan -- performing his own stunts as per his earlier films. As the story begins, Hong-Kong supercop Lee's (Chan), detective savvy leads to the confiscation of $500 million in weapons, drugs Read More

Highway Hitcher

Actors: William Forsythe, James LeGros, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: William Forsythe, James LeGros and Elizabeth Pena star in this modern noir-style thriller. A guy whose luck has not been good lately picks up a hitch-hiker one night. This seemingly innocent act draws him into a dark world of corrupt police officers and strange behavior; it also brings him into Read More

Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth Peña, Joan Plowright

Synopsis: More chilling than fiction, this taut drama chronicles the CIA's search to prove that one of its agents has succumbed to greed and is exchanging highly classified government secrets for money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Second Civil War

Actors: Beau Bridges, James Coburn, Phil Hartman, Dan Hedaya, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: This made-for-cable black-comedy stars Beau Bridges as a governor in a future United States, with an unusual plan for his state. Bridges stars as Jim Farley, the Governor of Idaho, who decides that the only way to keep the new immigrants out of his state is to close down the borders. Defying the Read More

Contagious

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Tom Wopat, Elizabeth Peña, Alexandra Purvis, Matt Hill

Synopsis: The country is thrown into a panic when passengers aboard a routine flight from South American are discovered to have been exposed to cholera during the flight. Following the autopsy of the dread disease's first victim, officials launch a desperate all-out search for the remaining passengers and Read More

Lone Star

Actors: Miriam Colon, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Joe Morton, Ron Canada, Clifton James, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Reminiscent of a fine novel in depth and complexity, writer-director John Sayles' acclaimed drama uses the investigation of a 25-year-old murder as the framework for a detailed exploration of life in a Texas border town. The nominal center of the film is Sheriff Sam Deeds (the superb, subtle Chris Cooper Read More

It Came from Outer Space 2

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Elizabeth Peña, Jonathan Carrasco, Lauren Tewes, Howard Morris

Synopsis: Alien invaders descend upon a peaceful desert community and take over the minds and bodies of the residents. Now only a brave photographer can save them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead Funny

Actors: Elizabeth Peña, Andrew McCarthy, Paige Turco, Blanche Baker, Allison Janney

Synopsis: In this independent drama, Vivian Saunders (Elizabeth Pena) comes home one day to an unusual surprise: her boyfriend Reggie (Andrew McCarthy) is lying on the kitchen table with a large sword sticking out of his body. At first Vivian thinks this must be some sort of joke, but she discovers that Read More

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Actors: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson, Mary Kate Schellhardt

Synopsis: Two unlikely friends -- a boy and a killer whale -- are reunited under potentially dangerous circumstances in this sequel to the successful family adventure Free Willy. Jesse (Jason James Richter) has finally found stability and contentment with his foster parents Glen and Annie Greenwood (Michael Madsen Read More

Across the Moon

Actors: Elizabeth Peña, Christina Applegate, Tony Dean Fields, Peter Berg, Michael Aniel Mundra

Synopsis: Elizabeth Pena and Christina Applegate play Carmen and Kathy, two women from Los Angeles with practically nothing in common. Carmen is a working-class Latina and single mother from the East Side barrio, while Kathy comes from a wealthy family in Beverly Hills. However, both of their boyfriends Read More

Roommates

Fugitive Among Us

Actors: Peter Strauss, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-TV Fugitive Among Us stars Peter Strauss and Eric Roberts. Strauss plays Max Cole, a police detective obsessed with tracking down a rapist. Cal Harper (Roberts), who is as outgoing and uninhibited as Cole is buttoned-up and repressed, is the number-one suspect. Read More

The Waterdance

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Helen Hunt, William Forsythe, Wesley Snipes, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: Paralyzed in a 1984 accident, writer/director Neal Jimenez (of River's Edge fame) channelled his own experiences and emotions into his 1991 film Waterdance. Eric Stoltz stars as a young writer left incapacitated by a hiking accident. He is placed in a paraplegic ward, peopled by patients of all Read More

Jacob's Ladder

Actors: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Ving Rhames, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Synopsis: A tortured man finds himself caught in a middle-ground between hallucination and reality in this supernatural thriller, scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin of Ghost (1990) and My Life (1993).
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is a soldier stationed in Vietnam who undergoes a traumatic experience on the Read More

Blue Steel

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding Read More

Shannon's Deal

Actors: Jamey Sheridan

Synopsis: Cynical Philadelphia lawyer-turned-p.i. Jamey Sheridan aims his investigatory skills at an international smuggling ring. Sheridan wants to know who's supplying the weapons that are leaving the country, and who's supplying the drugs that are rolling in. The deeper he digs, the dirtier it gets; Read More

Vibes

Actors: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Falk, Googy Gress, Julian Sands

Synopsis: Two hapless psychics unwittingly aid a criminal in his quest to obtain a mystic relic in this farcical adventure. Street smart beauty-school dropout Sylvia Pickel (Cyndi Lauper) navigates life with the counsel of a spirit named Louise, while genteel Nick Deezy (Jeff Goldblum) has the ability to Read More

*batteries not included

Actors: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Carmine

Synopsis: Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are among the impoverished residents of a slum tenement threatened with demolition by evil land developers. Only a miracle can save Cronyn, Tandy, and their friends -- and that miracle manifests itself in the form of a "family" of extraterrestrial flying saucers, who Read More

La Bamba

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna de Soto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Lou Diamond Phillips plays legendary 1950s rocker Ritchie Valens (born Ricardo Valenzuela), in this musical biography. Before scoring radio and concert success with hits like "La Bamba", "C'mon Let's Go", and "Donna", Valens was a 15-year-old migrant worker who worked with his mother Connie (Rosana De Soto Read More

I Married Dora [TV Series]

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Actors: Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, Little Richard, Tracy Nelson

Synopsis: Down and Out in Beverly Hills is an updated remake of the 1932 Jean Renoir film Boudu Saved By Drowning. Philandering businessman Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) rescues scraggly tramp Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) from drowning himself in Dave's swimming pool. Much against his will, Jerry is invited Read More

Crossover Dreams

Actors: Rubén Blades, Shawn Elliott, Tom Signorelli, Elizabeth Peña, Frank Robles

Synopsis: Ruben Blades stars in this low-budget independent salsa musical (filmed in Spanish Harlem at a cost of $600,000), chronicling the rise and fall of a salsa artist who wants to hit the big time. Blades plays Rudy Veloz, a salsa musician who grabs one-night gigs in Latino nightclubs. He idolizes Julio Iglesias Read More

Found Money

Actors: Sid Caesar, Richard Sanders, Dick Van Dyke

Synopsis: Two giants of American TV comedy--Dick Van Dyke and Sid Caesar--were teamed for the first (and thus far last) time in Found Money. Forced into early retirement, bank executive Max Shepherd (Van Dyke) befriends bank guard Sam Green (Caesar) who likewise has been given the sack. Since both men have Read More

They All Laughed

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Dorothy Stratten, Colleen Camp, John Ritter

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich wrote and directed this quirky romantic comedy that was shelved by Twentieth Century-Fox for a year, until Bogdanovich purchased the film from Fox and tried to distribute it himself, with limited success. Suave John Russo (Ben Gazzara), inept Charles Rutledge (John Ritter), and Read More

Thief

Actors: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: In Thief, James Caan plays Frank, a professional jewel thief who wants to marry Jessie (Tuesday Weld) and settle down into a normal life. In order to achieve his dream of a family, Frank--who is used to working solo--has to align himself with a crime boss named Leo (Robert Prosky), who will help Read More

Times Square

Actors: Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Peter Coffield, Herbert Berghof

Synopsis: Two runaway teens face life on the streets in New York City with a devil-may-care attitude and a punk-rock image. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

El Súper

Actors: Raymundo Hidalgo-Gato, Zully Montero, Raynaldo Medina, Efrain Lopez Neris

Synopsis: Filmed in the US but acted in Spanish, El Super is a warmhearted spin on the plight of Cuban exiles in old, cold New York. The coldness is not only figurative but literal: the refugees arrive in the Big Apple in the dead of winter, and hole up in a barely heated basement apartment. "El Super" is Read More