Glenn Close Filmography

Damages: Season 02

Actors: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan

Evening

Actors: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy

Synopsis: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago, one she kept secret all their lives. In vivid flashbacks, the Read More

Damages: Season 01

Actors: Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Ted Danson, Tate Donovan, Zeljko Ivanek

Hoodwinked

Actors: Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, Jim Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Anthony Anderson

Synopsis: Forget everything you know about Little Red Riding Hood; the classic fairy tale gets a new look and a new style in this computer-animated comedy for the whole family. Grizzly (voice of Xzibit) and Stork (voice of Anthony Anderson) are a pair of critter cops who have been called the homey bungalow Read More

Nine Lives

Actors: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: Filmmaker Rodrigo García takes an unusual look into the lives of nine different women in this episodic drama. Each of the film's nine sequences has been staged as a single shot, using the Steadicam system to allow the camera to follow the action fluidly and without cuts. In these short episodes Read More

The Chumscrubber

Actors: Jamie Bell, Camilla Belle, Justin Chatwin, Glenn Close, Rory Culkin, Carrie-Anne Moss

Synopsis: The death of a troubled teen throws a suburban neighborhood into chaos in this darkly satirical comedy. Dean (Jamie Bell) is a disaffected teenager living in a California suburb that's beautiful on the surface but populated by families who live emotionally vacant lives, with the parents often too Read More

Heights

Actors: Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford, Eric Bogosian

Synopsis: A handful of New Yorkers find their paths crossing in ways that force them to examine their lives in this contemporary drama produced by Ismail Merchant. Isabel (Elizabeth Banks) is a twentysomething photographer who is supposed to marry her boyfriend, Jonathan (James Marsden), in a month. But Read More

The Shield: Season 04

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Glenn Close, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace

Synopsis: Although the gritty cop drama The Shield would become the FX's network longest-running dramatic series during its fourth season, a serious drop in ratings at the end of season three could well have precipitated the show's cancellation. Giving the program a major shot in the arm was the addition of Read More

A Closer Walk

Actors: Glenn Close, Will Smith

Tarzan II

Synopsis: The direct-to-video sequel Tarzan II continues the story started by Disney in the 1999 animated feature Tarzan. This story involves Tarzan deciding to get away from his family out of concern that harm may come to them simply because of all the interest in him. Thanks to a series of adventures with Read More

The Stepford Wives

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Roger Bart, David Marshall Grant, Jon Lovitz, Faith Hill, Lorri Bagley

Synopsis: Ira Levin's best-selling novel about a town where great wives aren't born but made gets a second screen adaptation in this darkly satirical comedy drama. Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman) is a successful television executive until one day her career hits the glass ceiling and crashes to the ground. Read More

Anything Else

Actors: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Danny DeVito, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: A young artist struggling with his career and his muse is getting more than a little aggravation from Cupid in this romantic comedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is a promising 21-year-old comedy writer living in New York City. While Jerry has talent, he's having a Read More

Le Divorce

Actors: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining), Le Divorce is a romantic comedy from director James Ivory. Revisiting the "Americans in France" theme that Ivory explored in 1998's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Read More

The Safety of Objects

Actors: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson, Jessica Campbell, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Olyphant

Synopsis: Following up on her 1998 opus Bedrooms and Hallways, Rose Troche directs this ensemble film about suburbia and its discontents. Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) now lies in a coma, attentively nursed by his mother Esther (Glenn Close), who dotes on her son to the Read More

The Lion in Winter

Actors: Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Andrew Howard, John Light

Synopsis: An elderly king must come to terms with his past as he plots his nation's future in this historical drama. In 1183, aging monarch King Henry II (Patrick Stewart) decides it is time to pick an heir to his throne, and he must choose one of his three sons -- John (Rafe Spall), Geoffrey (John Light) Read More

Brush With Fate

Actors: Glenn Close, Thomas Gibson, Ellen Burstyn, Phyllida Law, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Susan Vreeland's novel The Girl in Hyacinthn Blue was the source for this made-for-TV drama. Utilizing a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, the film chronicles the 300-year history of a lost painting said to have been created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The story is framed by the Read More

Pinocchio

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Kim Rossi Stuart, Carlo Giuffré

Synopsis: Academy Award-winner Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio. In his usual fashion, Benigni directs and stars, this time as the little puppet boy made out of wood. The familiar story begins as a log of pinewood falls Read More

Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

What I Want My Words to Do to You

Actors: Mary Alice, Glenn Close, Eve Ensler, Hazelle Goodman, Rosie Perez

Synopsis: The documentary What I Want My Words to Do to You offers a look at some actual rehabilitation at a women's maximum security prison. Directors Judith Katz, Madeleine Gavin, and Gary Sunshine used high-definition video cameras to capture an emotional reformation process for several incarcerated Read More

South Pacific

Actors: Glenn Close, Robert Pastorelli, Harry Connick, Jr.

Synopsis: Rodgers and Hammerstein's award-winning musical South Pacific, based on stories by James A. Michener, successfully debuted in 1949, and has since been performed scores of times on-stage and onscreen. Its revered musical score is infused with many singable favorites. This made-for-TV movie Read More

Golden Dreams: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Set in 1850s California (but actually filmed in Utah), this made-for-TV movie features Jena Malone as title character Lucy Whipple. The emphasis, however, is on Lucy's "mule-stubborn" mother Arvella Whipple (Glenn Close), who defies 19th century sexual stereotyping to try her luck as a gold Read More

102 Dalmatians

Actors: Glenn Close, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Evans, Tim McInnerny, Ian Richardson, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Glenn Close goes to the dogs once again in this sequel to 101 Dalmatians, Disney's 1996 live-action adaptation of their beloved animated classic. After three years in prison, Cruella De Vil (Close) is judged to have paid her debt to society and is set free, as she pledges to have nothing to do Read More

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Actors: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Valeria Golino, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Although Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her does bear some similarities to Short Cuts and Magnolia in its setting (Southern California) and mood (modern malaise), and its multiple story format, its focus is exclusively on female characters, and it's possible to view each story on its own. Read More

The Directors: Robert Altman

Synopsis: One of America's most respected and acclaimed directors, Robert Altman has brought such cinematic masterpieces as Nashville, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and The Player to the silver screen. This video profile charts Altman's long and prolific career, featuring interviews with Glenn Close, Shelley Read More

Baby

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Keith Carradine, Jean Stapleton, Alison Pill, Vincent Berry

Synopsis: Written by the author of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Baby was produced for the TNT cable service. Set in New England, this is the story of the Malones, a family nearly torn apart by the death of an infant son. While trying to cope with this tragedy, Lily and John Malone are surprised by the arrival of Read More

Tarzan

Actors: Brian Blessed, Glenn Close, Minnie Driver, Tony Goldwyn, Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: Author Edgar Rice Burroughs once suggested that animation would be the ideal medium to bring his Tarzan to the screen, and 81 years after the first film about the famous ape-man, Disney brings us the first full-length animated film starring the King of the Jungle. After a disaster at sea causes Read More

Cookie's Fortune

Actors: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Robert Altman directed this bittersweet ensemble piece about an eccentric and entangled group of family and friends living in the Deep South. Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is the widowed matriarch of a small-town Mississippi family, which includes her nieces Camille (Glenn Close), a Read More

Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Jack Palance, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell

Synopsis: This follow-up to the acclaimed made-for-TV movies Sarah, Plain and Tall and Skylark finds Sarah (Glenn Close) and her husband Jacob (Christopher Walken) dealing with the trials of life on their Kansas farm in 1918. Jacob must contend with the unexpected arrival of John (Jack Palance), his father Read More

Welcome to Hollywood

Actors: Tony Markes, Adam Rifkin, Angie Everhart, David Andriole, Nicolas Cage

Synopsis: Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional "mockumentary" about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star. Anton Markwell (Tony Markes, who co-directed the film) is the object of Rifkin's inquiring Read More

Baboon Tales

In the Gloaming

Actors: Glenn Close, Robert Sean Leonard, David Strathairn, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Actor Christopher Reeve made his directorial debut with this dramatic made-for-cable movie about the effects of AIDS on a family. Robert Sean Leonard stars as Danny, a son who returns home to his parents to be with them in the final days of his battle against AIDS. The stress of the situation Read More

Paradise Road

Actors: Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Julianna Margulies

Synopsis: Based on the testimony of survivors, this historical drama recounts the WWII heroism of female prisoners of war. (Glenn Close) stars as Adrienne Partiger, a society doyenne who flees Singapore with other expatriate women, mostly the wives of servicemen, when Japanese forces invade in 1942. When Read More

In & Out

Actors: Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: Life is sweet for high-school English teacher and sports coach Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline); he's still living where he grew up, he has a good relationship with his father (Wilford Brimley) and mother (Debbie Reynolds), he's respected by his community, and he's about to marry Emily (Joan Cusack) Read More

Air Force One

Actors: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: In this action drama, Harrison Ford plays James Marshall, a onetime combat hero in the Vietnam War who is now President of the United States. While visiting the former Soviet Union, Marshall gives a speech in which he supports a get-tough attitude against both terrorists and a right-wing general Read More

101 Dalmatians

Actors: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: There are more puppies than you can shake a rolled up newspaper at in this live-action remake of the Disney animated favorite 101 Dalmatians. Roger (Jeff Daniels) is a designer of computer games who shares his home with his pet dalmatian, Pongo. One day, Roger takes Pongo for a walk in the park Read More

Mars Attacks!

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown

Synopsis: This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s Read More

Mary Reilly

Actors: Linda Bassett, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, Glenn Close, George Cole, Kathy Staff

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Valerie Martin, this gothic suspense story offers a fresh perspective on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by presenting the material from a different viewpoint -- that of Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts), an Irish servant girl who has come to Read More

Journey

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Jason Robards and Meg Tilly star in this acclaimed made-for-TV family drama in which an 11-year-old farm boy named Journey comes to live with his crusty grandfather after his mother leaves. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes

Synopsis: Glenn Close won the "Outstanding Lead Actress" Emmy for her performance in this made-for-television drama about the rights of homosexuals in the military. Close stars as Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, an Army medical officer with an eye on a promotion who is suddenly tossed into discharge Read More

Anne Frank Remembered

Crew: Intertitle Writer

Actors: Glenn Close, Ashley Johnson, Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: This ground-breaking British documentary offers the most complete biographical account ever compiled of the young Jewish girl whose simple diary entries and observations brought the grim realities of the Holocaust to millions of readers the world over. It not only includes interviews from Read More

The Paper

Actors: Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Director Ron Howard's drama follows a beleaguered reporter during a hectic 24 hours at a New York City tabloid. Michael Keaton stars as Henry Hackett, a metro editor for the struggling New York Sun. Hackett is being wooed by the Sentinel, a more upscale paper, but he's addicted to the Read More

The House of the Spirits

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: Bille August directed this film version of the Isabel Allende novel, featuring a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. The story is a sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in South America Read More

Skylark

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell, Jon de Vries

Synopsis: Hallmark Hall of Fame's success with Sarah, Plain and Tall inspired the making of this sequel, with the entire cast back for the second production. Initially a mail-order bride, Sarah (Close) now loves Jacob (Walken) but still wants to return to Maine. When danger threatens, she and the family Read More

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

Saturday Night Live: Glenn Close [2]

Actors: Glenn Close, The Black Crowes

Synopsis: This 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Glenn Close and features musical guest Black Crowes. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

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Hook

Actors: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Phil Collins

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of Read More

Meeting Venus

Actors: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian Read More

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Actors: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: The made-for-television film Sarah, Plain & Tall is a Hallmark Hall of Fame production about a single New England schoolteacher (Glenn Close) who responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower, who is asking for a bride to help him raise his two children. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Read More

National Geographic: Urban Gorilla

Synopsis: This documentary from National Geographic is a rare glimpse into the nature of this extraordinary animal and the care they receive within an urban environment. Debatable in their purpose, many Gorillas exist in zoos across the world. While progress has been made in the reconfiguration of the so Read More

Reversal of Fortune

Actors: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: This film is a darkly humorous, determinedly ambiguous adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's book about his successful legal appeal of Claus von Bulow's conviction for the attempted murder of his wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. Sunny (Glenn Close) -- who remains in a "persistent vegetative state" Read More

I'll Take Romance

Actors: Linda Evans, Tom Skerritt, DeLane Matthews, Larry Poindexter, Kenneth Mars, Heather Tom, Michael McGrady, Alan Blumenfeld

Synopsis: I'll Take Romance has nothing to do with the old Grace Moore musical film of the same name. Rather, this 1990 TV movie is about a publicity contest. Dressed in Joan Crawford Chic, Linda Evans plays a Seattle TV meteorologist, assigned to host a contest to find the most romantic man in Puget Sound. Evans Read More

Hollywood Remembers: The Divine Garbo

Synopsis: People love a good mystery and none were more puzzling than Greta Garbo. Hollywood Remembers: The Divine Garbo recalls the smoky-voiced actress who dictated the parameters of her own stardom. Garbo was a young star, showing up on film at the tender age of 19. Her career lasted a mere 16 years Read More

Hollywood Remembers [Video Series]

Synopsis: A collection of videos on various Hollywood stars and their lives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm

Synopsis: Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father Read More

Immediate Family

Actors: Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Linda Darlow

Synopsis: Glenn Close and James Woods star in this artery-clogging schmaltz about a childless couple who desperately want to have a baby. Linda (Close) and Michael Spector (Woods) are an upscale couple who have everything -- except a child. Linda mists over after she takes her temperature, plans the correct Read More

Saturday Night Live: Glenn Close [1]

Actors: Glenn Close, Gipsy Kings

Synopsis: This 1989 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Glenn Close and features musical guest