Harry Connick, Jr. Filmography

P.S. I Love You

Actors: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, James Marsters

Synopsis: A grieving widow finds her husband's warmth radiating from the afterlife when she discovers that he left her a series of tasks to be revealed in ten monthly messages and designed to help her overcome her sorrow while gradually making the transition into a new life. Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is Read More

Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

Actors: Marcus Roberts, Harry Connick, Jr., Lang Lang, Bill Charlap, Hank Jones, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Kenny Barron, Helene Grimaud

Synopsis: While in the 21st Century many musical instruments are mass produced on an assembly line, at the Steinway Factory in Queens, New York, grand pianos are still made largely by hand, much as they were centuries before, and each piano develops a tonal personality very much its own as it slowly takes Read More

Bug

Actors: Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins, Brian F. O'Byrne, Harry Connick, Jr.

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning Exorcist director William Friedkin scuttles deep into the darkest recesses of the traumatized human psyche with this tale of a lonely bartender haunted by the long-ago disappearance of her young son, and the paranoia that emerges when she enters into a tentative relationship Read More

The Happy Elf

Crew: Executive Producer, Songwriter

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr., Kevin Michael Richardson

Synopsis: One of Santa's little helpers learns that even spreading Christmas cheer can be quite a chore in this animated holiday adventure featuring the voice and music of Harry Connick, Jr. Few elves display half the Christmas cheer of Eubie, and when the grumpy town of Bluesville refuses to celebrate the Read More

Saturday Night Live: Lost and Found - SNL in the '80s

Actors: Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Gilbert Gottfried, Jim Belushi, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Synopsis: Saturday Night Live: Lost and Found - SNL in the '80s documents a turbulent decade for the long-running sketch comedy show. The eighties began without creator Lorne Michales at the helm, but still produced Eddie Murphy. By the middle of the decade Michaels returned, but his first season back was a Read More

Mickey

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr., Shawn Salinas

Synopsis: Mainstream Hollywood filmmaker Hugh Wilson teams up with screenwriter/author John Grisham for the independently produced sports drama Mickey. Harry Connick Jr. stars as a widowed father in trouble with the law who runs away to Las Vegas with his 12-year-old, baseball-loving son (Shawn Salinas). Read More

Harry Connick, Jr.: The Only You Concert - Live From Quebec City

Synopsis: Jazz vocalist Harry Connick Jr. took his big band and orchestra to Canada for a concert at the Theatre Capitole in Quebec City, and a camera crew was on hand to record the performance using state-of-the-art high definition digital video equipment. Harry Connick, Jr.: The Only You Concert -- Live Read More

Basic

Actors: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt, Taye Diggs

Synopsis: The disappearance of a military leader and the death of four of his men leads two investigators to wade through a morass of deceptions and half-truths in search of the facts in this thriller. Sgt. Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson) is the leader of an elite team of U.S. Army Special Forces operatives 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

Life Without Dick

Actors: Teri Garr, Claudia Schiffer, Sarah Jessica Parker, Harry Connick, Jr., Johnny Knoxville

Synopsis: Can a woman find happiness with the thug she hired to murder her significant other? That's the 64,000-dollar question in this dark romantic comedy. Colleen (Sarah Jessica Parker) is a woman who is not at all happy with her boyfriend Dick (Johnny Knoxville) -- so unhappy, in fact, that she decides Read More

My Dog Skip

Actors: Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Caitlin Wachs

Synopsis: The popular memoir by Pulitzer prize-winning author Willie Morris became this family comedy-drama about a boy and his dog. Young Willie Morris (Frankie Muniz) is a shy eight-year-old in 1942 Yazoo, MS, who is more comfortable reading than playing sports. A target for local bullies, Willie's only Read More

FilmFest, Vol. 3

Synopsis: Bring the world's most popular film festivals home with this interactive video magazine that travels far north for the Toronto International Film Festival before heading to Chile to attend the Santiago Short Film Fest - all the while speaking with some of the most compelling filmmakers and Read More

The Simian Line

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Jamey Sheridan, Cindy Crawford, Samantha Mathis, Dylan Bruno

Synopsis: Director Linda Yellen spins this study of four couples as they struggle to maintain their relationships. Middle-aged divorcée and landlord Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) is completely smitten with her live-in lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.). She loves throwing parties, and on one Halloween she hosts a Read More

Backstage Pass: Concert Collection, Vol. 1

The Iron Giant

Actors: Eli Marienthal, Vin Diesel, Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Christopher McDonald, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, John Mahoney

Synopsis: A boy's best friend is his robot in this animated adventure from Brad Bird, best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The Critic. Set in 1957, The Iron Giant focuses on Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal), an imaginative nine-year-old boy who daydreams of alien Read More

Wrestling the Mississippi

Wayward Son

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr., Pete Postlethwaite, Patricia Clarkson, Vinessa Shaw, Michael Gaston

Synopsis: Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Jesse Banks Rhodes (Harry Connick, Jr.) is suddenly and inexplicably released from jail after serving part of a life sentence on a trumped up charge Read More

Hope Floats

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Paré

Synopsis: Actor/director Forest Whitaker (Waiting to Exhale) helmed this romantic drama about a one-time high-school beauty queen who returns to her hometown of Smithville, TX. The Steven Rogers screenplay begins in Chicago, where blonde Connie (Rosanna Arquette, uncredited) appears on a trashy daytime talk Read More

Excess Baggage

Actors: Alicia Silverstone, Benicio Del Toro, Christopher Walken, Jack Thompson, Harry Connick, Jr., Nicholas Turturro

Synopsis: In this combination caper comedy and offbeat romance, Emily (Alicia Silverstone) is a wealthy but petulant young woman desperate to get the attention of her millionaire father, Alexander Hope (Jack Thompson). In fact, she's so desperate that she decides to stage her own kidnapping; she sends a Read More

Independence Day

Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch

Synopsis: A group of intrepid humans attempts to save the Earth from vicious extraterrestrials in this extremely popular science-fiction adventure. Borrowing liberally from War of the Worlds, Aliens, and every sci-fi invasion film inbetween, director Roland Emmerich and producer and co-writer Dean Devlin Read More

Copycat

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Will Patton

Synopsis: A serial killer stalks the streets of San Francisco; unlike his many predecessors does not choose a distinctive, identifying pattern. No, this killer prides himself on his unoriginality: he is a copycat, recreating the violent murders of some of the country's most notorious serial killers, his Read More

Harry Connick, Jr.: The Christmas Special

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr.

Synopsis: Originally aired in 1994 on NBC, this Christmas special features Harry Connick, Jr. singing holiday favorites such as "Sleighride," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "All I Want for Christmas," "Jingle Bells," What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?," and "I'll Be Home Read More

Cheers: A Diminished Rebecca with a Suspended Cliff

Synopsis: Harry Connick Jr. guest stars as Russell Boyd, cousin of Cheers bartender Woody (Woody Harrelson). Smitten by Rebecca (Kirstie Alley), Russell begins composing special songs for her; but his ardor doesn't stop there. Meanwhile, Cliff (John Ratzenberger) angrily protests the new postal uniforms Read More

Harry Connick, Jr.: The New York Big Band Concert

Synopsis: New York's Paramount theater was host to a Connick concert with such titles as "With Imagination," "It Had to be You" and "All of Me." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Little Man Tate

Actors: Jodie Foster, Adam Hann-Byrd, Dianne Wiest, Harry Connick, Jr., David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Jodie Foster made her directorial debut (with a script by Scott Frank) in this tale of a child prodigy's search for social acceptance. Fred Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd) is a precocious fourth grader who has no problem with the most complex mathematical problems or in banging out a Rachmaninoff concerto Read More

Harry Connick, Jr.: Swingin' out Live

Synopsis: Dallas was host a Connick performance with titles such as "Hudson Bomber," "Anguilla" and "Avalon." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Harry Connick, Jr.: Blue Light, Red Light

Memphis Belle

Actors: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, David Strathairn

Synopsis: Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclaimed documentary about the real-life events depicted in the film. The ensemble cast is composed of ten young actors portraying the crew of the World Read More

Harry Connick, Jr.: Singin' & Swingin'

Synopsis: Harry Connick Jr.: "Singin' & Swinging" features a variety of video clips, live performances, and exclusive interview footage of New Orleans native Harry Connick, Jr. Performances include "Stompin' at the Savory", "Where or When", and "It Had to Be You". ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Ed O'Neill

Actors: Ed O'Neill, Harry Connick, Jr.

Synopsis: This 1990 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Ed O'Neill and features musical guests Harry Connick Jr. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

When Harry Met Sally

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: Rob Reiner's romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as the title pair. The film opens with the two strangers, both newly graduated from the University of Chicago, share a car trip from Chicago to New York, where they are both going to make their way. During the trip Read More

Harry Connick, Jr.: Do You Know What It Means....

Synopsis: Harry Connick, Jr. in New York City with his unusual Tin Pan Alley songs. ~ All Movie Guide Read More