Ellen Albertini DowFilmography

Fat Girls

Actors: Ash Christian, Ashley Fink, Jonathan Caouette, Robin De Jesus, Joe Flaten

Synopsis: Two misfits struggle to make their way through the living hell that is high school in this independent comedy drama. Rodney (Ash Christian) lives in a small Texas town where most folks don't have much use for musical theater or much understanding of the gay lifestyle. Since the barely closeted Read More

Wedding Crashers

Actors: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: Two guys find out the hard way that sneaking into the wrong party can cause serious problems in this comedy. Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) are a pair of longtime friends who work for a law firm, helping contentious couples mediate their divorces. Their job has given Read More

Annie's Point

Synopsis: This heartwarming made-for-cable "road" picture begins in Chicago, where widowed grandmother Annie Eason (Betty White, convincingly portraying a 69-year-old while herself in her eighties!) wants to grant the final request of her husband Elliott: To release his ashes from the top of "Annie's Read More

Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

Actors: Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, Rob Schneider

Synopsis: Come celebrate the joy and togetherness of the Hanukkah season with Adam Sandler -- yeah, that Adam Sandler -- in this raucous animated comedy written and produced in collaboration with the noted funnyman. Davey Stone (voice of Adam Sandler) is a twentysomething man with a short temper and a Read More

Maybe It's Me [TV Series]

Actors: Reagan Dale Neis, Julia Sweeney, Fred Willard, Patrick Levis, Andrew Walker

Synopsis: Yet one more derivation of Malcolm in the Middle, the WB Network sitcom Maybe It's Me went into production under the less sensitive but more amusing title Maybe I'm Adopted. The "Me" in question was 15-year-old Molly Stage (Regan Dale Neis), a resident of "the smallest town in the smallest state," Read More

Road Trip

Actors: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Paulo Costanzo, D.J. Qualls, Tom Green

Synopsis: In this raunchy comedy, Josh (Breckin Meyer), a student at a college in Ithaca, NY, videotapes his one-night stand with beautiful sorority girl Beth (Amy Smart). A few days later, Josh discovers that one of his friends accidentally mailed the homemade porn tape to his girlfriend, Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard Read More

Ready to Rumble

Actors: David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: A pair of sewage-truck drivers attempt to rescue the tarnished reputation of their favorite pro wrestler in this comedy from Varsity Blues director Brian Robbins. Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) live vicariously through superstar grappler Jimmy King (Oliver Platt). But Read More

54

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Mike Myers, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Mark Christopher wrote and directed this look back at the Disco Era when the popular Studio 54 was at its apogee in the late '70s. With obvious comparisons to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997) and Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (1998), the story introduces working-class Read More

The Wedding Singer

Actors: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Christine Taylor, Allen Covert, Matthew Glave, Ellen Albertini Dow

Synopsis: Mousse up your hair and pull your Missing Persons records out of mothballs for this romantic comedy set in that era of questionable fashion decisions, the '80s. In 1985, Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) is a vocalist whose rock band stubbornly refuses to get off the ground. In the meantime, he makes a Read More

Problem Child 3

ER: Hell and High Water

Synopsis: During a torrential downpour, Ross (George Clooney) struggles to rescue 12-year-old Ben Larkin (Erik Von Detten), who is trapped in a flooded culvert. Realizing that the youngster is already suffering from hypothermia and may not survive his ordeal even if rescued, Ross orders on-the-spot Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Sub Rosa

Synopsis: First telecast February 5, 1994, this episode is an emotional showcase for Dr. Beverly Crusher. Not long after attending the funeral of her grandmother Felisa Howard, Dr. Crusher begins to experience curious and bizarre happenings. All evidence indicates that she has fallen under the spell of Read More

Radioland Murders

Actors: Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty, George Burns, Scott Michael Campbell

Synopsis: A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer George Lucas. In 1939, Penny Henderson (Mary Stuart Masterson) is the harried general secretary and de facto manager of a new fourth radio network, WBN. On the night that the Read More

Sister Act

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes

Synopsis: A sleeper hit that received a lukewarm reception from critics but was a success with audiences, Sister Act (1992) was star Whoopi Golberg's first bona fide smash after her Oscar victory for Ghost (1990). Goldberg stars as Deloris Van Cartier, a Reno lounge singer who accidentally witnesses a Read More

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Actors: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Chevy Chase stars, though not always visibly, as Nick Halloway, a low-level businessman with an acerbic approach to life and work, whose humdrum existence utterly bores him. Nick gets an unexpected jolt of excitement when, nursing a hangover, he's the only one not to evacuate an office building Read More

Wings: The Customer's Usually Right

Synopsis: It isn't the money but the principal -- aw, the heck with it, it's the money -- when Joe (Tim Daly) blows his stack over being charged a 50-cent rewind fee at the local video store. Joe's rage results in the firing of Debbie (Ellen Albertini Dow), the sweet little old lady who rented him the Read More

Blood and Concrete

Actors: Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, James LeGros, Darren McGavin, Nicholas Worth

Synopsis: Billy Zane stars in this direct-to-video gem as a spectacularly unsuccessful car thief. Hoping to reform by leaving LA, Zane must scare up $400 worth of exit money. He decides to pull off one last job, stealing a TV from William Bastiani. An ill-tempered criminal, Bastiani stabs Zane, who then Read More

Megaville

Actors: Billy Zane, J.C. Quinn, Grace Zabriskie, Kristen Cloke, Daniel J. Travanti

Synopsis: In a futuristic world, the U.S. is ruled by a repressive government that bans most forms of media. As part of the enforcement, a cop (Billy Zane) is sent to the rebel state of Megaville on an undercover mission to infiltrate an unlawful media organization. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Genuine Risk

Actors: Terence Stamp, Peter Berg, Michelle Johnson, M.K. Harris, Max Perlich

Synopsis: Peter Berg stars as Henry, a chronic gambler forever in trouble with the mob and the law. Through the auspices of his old friend Cowboy Jack (M.K. Harris), Henry is hired as an all-around flunkey by gang boss Paul Hellwart (Terence Stamp). But there's a problem: Henry is currently sexually Read More

Murphy Brown: The Bitch's Back

Synopsis: Recoiling from Murphy's latest temperamental outburst, Miles (Grant Shaud) orders Murphy (Candice Bergen) to join the other staffers in a "stress reduction" class. Unfortunately, the therapy is physical as well as verbal, and as result Murphy suffers a slipped disc which lands her in the hospital. Read More

Moonlighting: Los Dos DiPestos

Synopsis: Cybill Shepherd doesn't appear in this week's episode, leaving Allyce Beasley, in her familiar role as the Blue Moon Detective Agency's ditzy secretary Agnes Dipesto, as the heroine by default. Imogene Coca guest stars as Agnes' equally scatterbrained mother Clara. Danger rears its ugly head when Read More

Going To the Chapel

Actors: John Ratzenberger, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: "It's the craziest wedding of the year!" promised the ads for the TV movie Going to the Chapel. Well, maybe not the craziest, but certainly the silliest. The thinnish plot concerns the roadblocks standing in the way of the impending wedding of Scott Valentine and Michelle Greene. As a means to Read More

Walk Like a Man

Actors: Howie Mandel, Christopher Lloyd, Cloris Leachman, Colleen Camp, Amy Steel

Synopsis: In this lively comedy, an animal behaviorist is out studying wolves and she finds a young man who has been raised by the wild canines. Intrigued, she takes him back to the city to tame him. Later she learns that Bobo, as she calls him, is the long-missing heir to $30 million. His sudden Read More

Munchies

Actors: Harvey Korman, Charles Stratton, Nadine Van Der Velde, Alix Elias, Charlie Phillips

Synopsis: While on a dig in Peru, a shady archaeologist uncovers a strange creature, which he dubs a "Munchie." He brings the animal home, but it begins to mutate and procreate--with disastrous results--soon after a con artist kidnaps it. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Beauty and the Beast: Nor Iron Bars a Cage

Tough Guys

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Dana Carvey, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas team up one last time in Tough Guys. Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust Read More

American Drive-In

Actors: Emily Longstreth, Pat Jack Kirton, Rhonda Snow, Joel Bennett, John Rice

Synopsis: Wildly disparate characters are not much balance for the lack of action and interaction in this film by director and co-writer Krishna Shah. A series of people go to a drive-in movie theater one night where not a lot happens until the final, inexplicable scene. These movie-goers include a local Read More