Holland TaylorFilmography

Baby Mama

Actors: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco

Synopsis: Former Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" co-anchors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-star in this baby-fever comedy about a single, career-oriented woman who previously put parenthood on hold, and is forced to hire a surrogate mother when she discovers there is only a one-in-a-million chance that Read More

Two and a Half Men: Season 06

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time

Actors: Jennifer Hale, C.D. Barnes, Susan Blakeslee, Tress MacNeille, Russi Taylor

Synopsis: Experience a compelling twist on the familiar fairy tale in an animated Disney sequel that explores just what may have happened had the mythical glass slipper not fit. Cinderella's wicked stepmother has stolen the Fairy Godmother's magic wand, and now she's determined to turn back the hands of Read More

Two and a Half Men: Season 05

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

Monk: Mr. Monk is at Your Service

Synopsis: Monk (Tony Shalhoub) agrees to investigate the "accidental" deaths of a wealthy couple who lived next door to Natalie's parents. The assignment requires Monk to go undercover as the butler for the couple's closest relative, obnoxious young billionaire Paul Buchanan (Sean Austin). His new job is Read More

Two and a Half Men: Season 04

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

D.E.B.S.

Actors: Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Meagan Good, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie

Synopsis: Filmmaker Angela Robinson writes and directs the action comedy D.E.B.S., a feature-length adaptation of her award-winning short film produced by a grant from POWER UP (Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up). This 90-minute spy parody involves a secret crime-fighting unit Read More

The Wedding Date

Actors: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: A gal who needs a date for a family function gets the best man money can buy in this romantic comedy. Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) is a woman in her mid-thirties living in New York City and has had more than her share of romantic problems -- enough so that she's gotten word that her younger Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding

Synopsis: Natalie (Traylor Howard) and Lt. Disher (Jason Gray-Stanford) attend the wedding of her brother Jonathan (Robert P. Benedict)--an event that is anything but festive for Natalie, since she has been long on the outs with her wealthy and highly judgmental parents. Soon, however, Natalie has a lot Read More

Two and a Half Men: Season 03

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

The L Word: Longing

Two and a Half Men: Season 02

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

The L Word: Lies, Lies, Lies

Home Room

Actors: Nathan West, Busy Philipps, Erika Christensen, Victor Garber, Holland Taylor, Ken Jenkins, Raphael Sbarge

Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Paul F. Ryan makes his feature debut with the psychological drama Home Room. The students of Valley High School try to get on with their lives in the aftermath of a traumatic school shooting in which nine students were killed. Even though the perpetrator is dead, the Read More

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: The first American theatrically released 3-D movie from a major studio since 1991's Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over is the third entry in three years in Robert Rodriguez's family-oriented action-adventure series. Along with the four members of the Cortez family, played Read More

Two and a Half Men: Season 01

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Holland Taylor, Marin Hinkle

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara

Synopsis: The prepubescent, globetrotting, super-spy sibling duo from director Robert Rodriguez's surprise 2001 hit Spy Kids is back to save the world for a second time in this bigger-budget, larger-scale sequel. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams opens with our heroes Carmen and Juni (Alexa Vega and Daryl Read More

Baby Bob [TV Series]

Actors: Adam Arkin, Joely Fisher, Kenneth Hudson Campbell, Holland Taylor, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: Never mind that every other TV sitcom about a talking baby had been virtually strangled in its crib: CBS boldly went forward with yet another variation on the theme, Baby Bob. The title character was a six-month-old infant, who, with the aid of voice-over artist Ken Hudson Campbell and Clutch Read More

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True

Synopsis: Fifty years after releasing their opulent adaptation of the classic fairy tale Cinderella, Walt Disney Productions revisits the characters in this direct-to-video sequel. Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True encompasses three short stories; first, after Cinderella (voice of Jennifer Hale) marries Prince Read More

Happy Accidents

Actors: Marisa Tomei, Vincent D'Onofrio, Nadia Dajani, Tovah Feldshuh, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: Is Ruby Weaver's Mr. Right really an emissary from the year 2,470, or is he just a complete loon ball? This question is at the heart of Brad Anderson's whimsical romantic comedy. The story opens with Ruby (Marisa Tomei) lamenting over her boyfriend Sam (Vincent D'Onofrio) to her shrink (Holland Taylor Read More

Legally Blonde

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge

Synopsis: Reese Witherspoon stars in this romantic comedy, the feature film debut of award-winning Australian director Robert Luketic. As a ravishing Miss Hawaiian Tropic, sorority president, and calendar girl, Elle Woods (Witherspoon) is a big hit on the campus of her sun-drenched Los Angeles college. Read More

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Oliver Stone served as executive producer for this made-for-cable drama that looks back at the events of March 30, 1981, when John Hinckley, Jr. attempted to assassinate then-president Ronald Reagan. Richard Crenna stars as Reagan, Christian Lloyd plays Hinckley, Richard Dreyfuss portrays Read More

Keeping the Faith

Actors: Edward Norton, Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Actor Edward Norton debuts as a director with this comedy-drama about love, friendship, and faith. Priest Brian Finn (Norton) and rabbi Jacob Schram (Ben Stiller) have known each other since childhood. When Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman), whom they both knew as children, returns to New York, both men Read More

Ally McBeal: Do You Wanna Dance?

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

Mail to the Chief

Actors: Randy Quaid, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: The fun begins when Kenny Witowski, a typical middle school student, begins seeking out e-mail pals on the Internet. Thanks to a glitch in the system, Kenny is connected with a correspondent who signs himself "Average Joe," and who solicits our hero's opinion on practically everything. Little does Read More

The Spiral Staircase

Actors: Nicollette Sheridan, Judd Nelson, Alex McArthur, Debbe Dunning, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: Ethel Lina White's suspense novel Some Must Watch was first filmed under the title The Spiral Staircase in 1946. This same title was applied to a subsequent 1962 TV special adaptation, and a 1975 British TV-movie remake. The Spiral Staircase resurfaced again in 2000 as a made-for-cable feature Read More

Deadly Look of Love

Actors: Jordan Ladd, Vincent Spano, Holland Taylor, Richard Blackburn, Hrant Alianak

Synopsis: Bored with her dead-end existence in a small Iowa town, neurotic Janet Flanders (Jordan Ladd) retreats into the rarefied world of romance novels. Her dreams of being swept off her feet by a handsome young prince seem to come true when Chicago businessman Brett Becker (Vincent Spano) enters her Read More

ER: Power

Synopsis: During a power outage at the ER, Greene (Anthony Edwards) is forced to improvise to treat an injured utilities repairman. Elsewhere, a helpful neighbor brings in an elderly couple suffering from suspicious injuries. Carol (Julianna Margulies) tries to send word to Ross about her pregnancy, despite Read More

The Lot

Actors: Jonathan Frakes, Allen Garfield, Linda Cardellini, Stephanie Faracy, Jeffrey Tambor

Next Stop Wonderland

Actors: Hope Davis, Alan Gelfant, Victor Argo, Jon Benjamin, Cara Buono

Synopsis: An independent romantic comedy, Next Stop, Wonderland (1998) made headlines at the Sundance Film Festival when it became the object of a bidding war, ultimately won by Miramax Pictures to the tune of $6 million. Hope Davis stars as Erin Castleton, a night-shift nurse who's cruelly dumped by her Read More

The Truman Show

Actors: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone

Synopsis: Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the British TV series The Prisoner and Paul Bartel's The Secret Cinema. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is unaware that his entire life Read More

My Last Love

Synopsis: Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Chicago attorney Susan Morton (Nancy Travis) returns to her home town of California to wait out her final months. She also brings along her 11-year-old daughter Carson (Jamie Renee Smith), in hopes of finding a good home for the girl when the time comes. Read More

Betty

Actors: Cheryl Pollak, Udo Kier, Holland Taylor, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: Richard Murphy made his feature directorial debut with this drama about sexy Hollywood film star Betty Monday (Cheryl Pollak) who walks away from a $70-million movie during production. In search of a more meaningful way of life, she drives to Palm Springs, rents a condo from slightly unreal real Read More

George of the Jungle

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Richard Roundtree, John Cleese

Synopsis: Jay Ward's fondly-remembered cartoon series about a klutzy king of the jungle gets the big-screen, live-action treatment in this comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. A young boy named George becomes lost in the jungles of the African nation of Bukuvu following a plane crash, where he's rescued and Read More

One Fine Day

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Even without money problems, many divorced single parents have a hard row to hoe. At the drop of a hat, a competent, responsible professional person can be reduced to a frazzled, bumbling parent, when his or her children become unexpected daytime wards. This is what happens to Jack Taylor (George Clooney Read More

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Actors: Brooke Smith, Victoria Foyt, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Robin Baitz, Melissa Leo, Martha Plimpton

Synopsis: A legendary theatrical family gather for one final show at their East Hamptons estate in this verbose comedy-drama. Swedish actress Viveca Lindfors takes center stage as Helena, the family matriarch, who has made the difficult decision to sell the estate due to financial problems. A mixed group Read More

Steal Big, Steal Little

Actors: Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin, Joe Pantoliano, Ally Walker

Synopsis: Director Andrew Davis followed up the action blockbuster The Fugitive (1993) with this Capra-esque box office dud that nevertheless featured engaging dual performances by Andy Garcia. Garcia stars as Ruben and Robby, twin brothers who were raised separately and have become total opposites. Ruben Read More

To Die For

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Alison Folland

Synopsis: The price of fame is murder -- or at least it is in the mind of one woman in New Hampshire. Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has spent most of her life wanting to be famous; she's attractive, speaks well, and imagines herself to be intelligent ("imagines" is the key word here), so she has set her Read More

How to Make an American Quilt

Actors: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney Read More

The Favor

Actors: Harley Jane Kozak, Elizabeth McGovern, Bill Pullman, Brad Pitt, Ken Wahl

Synopsis: They say you can't miss what you never had, but one woman wants to put that idea to the test in this comedy. Kathy Whiting (Harley Jane Kozak) is a housewife and mother of two who enjoys a happy but unexciting relationship with her husband Peter (Bill Pullman), while her best friend Emily Embrey (Elizabeth McGovern Read More

In the Best of Families

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Keith Carradine, Harry Hamlin, Holland Taylor, Jayne Brook

Synopsis: The full title of this made-for-TV film was In the Best of Families: Pride and Madness. Based on a true story, the film details the bitter divorce between overly idealistic Keith Carradine and emotionally disturbed Kelly McGillis. Caught in the middle are the couple's sons, played by Erik Von Detten Read More

The Counterfeit Contessa

Actors: Téa Leoni

Synopsis: A case of mistaken identity goes too far in this made-for-television romantic comedy. Tea Leoni stars as Gina Nardino, a young store clerk who pretends to be an Italian countess in order to impress a rich man of society. Her charade starts to fall apart though when his brother gets wise to her Read More

Betrayal of Trust

Actors: Judith Light, Judd Hirsch, Betty Buckley, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: A chilling exploration of the violation of doctor/patient trust, this made-for-TV drama is based on actual events. Singer Barbara Noel (Judith Light) is a mess. Tired of her constant depression and the effect it has had upon her husband and family, she goes to see the renowned psychiatrist Dr. Read More

Cop and a Half

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II, Ruby Dee, Holland Taylor, Ray Sharkey

Synopsis: When an eight-year-old black youth (Norman D. Golden II) witnesses a mob hit, he orders the police to make him a cop for a day before he will help identify the killer. Detective Nick McKenna (Burt Reynolds) is the unfortunate assigned to the case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

With Hostile Intent

Actors: Mel Harris, Melissa Gilbert, Peter Onorati, Cotter Smith, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner and Mel Harris star as two female police officers fighting the police force in this made-for-TV movie about sexual harassment in the workplace. After Miranda Berkley (Harris) breaks up with her boyfriend/superior officer, she and her partner find themselves on-the-job Read More

The Rape of Dr. Willis

Synopsis: In this ironic drama, a hard working, devoted doctor finds herself accused of murder after the man who raped her dies under her care. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Alice

Actors: Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis

Synopsis: Woody Allen's character study of a well-kept, upscale Manhattan woman (Mia Farrow) takes the title character on a journey through a Wonderland of her own making, in which she learns some truths about herself, her relationships, and the universe in general. Alice leads a comfortable life, except Read More

People Like Us

Actors: Dennis Farina, Ben Gazzara, Eva Marie Saint

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Dominick Dunne (who virtually disowned the project the minute it hit the small screen), People Like Us is a 2-part, 4-hour TV movie. Ben Gazzara plays a writer whose daughter has been murdered (much like Dunne himself). Upset that the killer's sentence is all too short, Gazzara Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Town Father

Synopsis: Up for re-election as mayor of Cabot Cove, Sam Booth (Richard Paul) figures that his staunch anti-development platform will enable him to easily defeat his pro-development opponent. Unfortunately, Sam's campaign is seriously compromised when a strange woman shows up in town and accuses the Read More

She's Having a Baby

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, Isabel Lorca, William Windom

Synopsis: An aspiring writer faces up to the responsibilities of marriage and family in this romantic comedy from writer, director, and producer John Hughes. Despite the misgivings he pours out to best friend Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin), Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) marries high-school sweetheart Kristy Read More

Key Exchange

Actors: Ben Masters, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Daniel Stern, Nancy Mette

Synopsis: Based on a play by Kevin Wade, this comedy stars Brooke Adams as a television producer who demands commitment from her free-spirited lover (Ben Masters). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Jewel of the Nile

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focas, Avner Eisenberg

Synopsis: The Jewel of the Nile takes up where Romancing the Stone left off, with romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) traveling around the world with her boyfriend, Jack Colton (Michael Douglas). But Joan is becoming bored with Jack and all the romantic attention; as she asks, "How much romance Read More

Perry Mason Returns

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale

Synopsis: In the first of a series of made-for-TV films shot two decades after the original Perry Mason television series ended in 1966, Mason (Raymond Burr), now an Appellate Court Judge, must step down from the bench in order to defend his longtime secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) against murder Read More

Romancing the Stone

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau

Synopsis: Kathleen Turner plays a writer of adventure stories, Joan Wilder, who has been having trouble selling her works of late because they aren't remotely believable. The basic problem is that the mousy Joan has never had any real adventure in her life. All this changes when she receives a frantic phone Read More

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Stewart Granger, Catherine Oxenberg, Dana Wynter

Synopsis: The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana was one of two 1982 TV movies inspired by the 1981 wedding of the Prince of Wales--and, like the competing Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story was all glitter and no substance. Christopher Baines plays Prince Charles like a Monty Python imitation, while Catherine Oxenberg Read More

I Was a Mail Order Bride

Synopsis: Determined to prove that the men who answer advertisements for mail-order brides are nothing more than jerks and lechers, Chicago magazine writer Kate Tosconi (Valerie Bertinelli) places a typical "object matrimony" ad and awaits the inevitable drooling replies. Meanwhile, L.A. lawyer Robert Read More

My Mother Was Never a Kid

Actors: Mary Beth Manning, Rachel Longaker, Holland Taylor, Elizabeth Ward, Jane Lowry

Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Victoria Martin (Mary Beth Manning) is convinced that her "clueless" mother has absolutely no concept of what it is like to be young. Her attitude changes dramatically when, as the result of a bump on the head, Victoria wakes up to find she has gone back in time to 1944. Here she Read More

Kojak: Sister Maria

Synopsis: Season Hubley is cast as Sister Maria, a young nun whose sister has been killed in a highly suspicious auto accident. Vowing vengeance against the airline executive whom she holds responsible for her sibling's death, Sister Maria formulates a plan to see that justice is serve--and ulitmately finds Read More

The Next Man

Actors: Sean Connery, Cornelia Sharpe, Albert Paulsen, Adolfo Celi, Marco St. John

Synopsis: Audiences loved him as a Berber sheik in the historical saga The Wind and the Lion, so who better to play a Saudi Arabian minister of state who wants to make peace with Israel during the Arab oil embargo of 1976 than Sean Connery? Connery plays Khalil Abdull-Muhsen, a peace-mongering diplomat who Read More