Holly Hunter Filmography

Saving Grace [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Oscar winner Holly Hunter made her TV series debut in the gritty semi-fantasy Saving Grace. Hunter was cast as Oklahoma City police detective Grace Hanadarko, who after the death of her sister in the Murrah Building bombing of 1995 had turned her back on God and taken the first step down the road Read More

Saving Grace: Season 01

Actors: Holly Hunter, Leon Rippy, Bailey Chase, Bokeem Woodbine, Laura San Giacomo

The Big White

Actors: Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson

Synopsis: A travel agent in deep debt attempts to swindle a by-the-books insurance agent by claiming the corpse of a gangland hit as his long-missing brother in director Mark Mylod's dark crime comedy. Paul Barnell (Robin Williams) is in trouble. Saddled with a cantankerous wife (Holly Hunter) and unable to 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 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

Little Black Book

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates, Ron Livingston, Julianne Nicholson

Synopsis: Directed by Nick Hurran, Little Black Book follows Stacy (Brittany Murphy), an associate producer of a popular daytime talk show starring Kippie Kann (Kathy Bates), as she tries to figure out the root of her boyfriend's (Ron Livingston) commitment-phobic nature. Rather than continue to fruitlessly Read More

Thirteen

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Jeremy Sisto, Brady Corbet

Synopsis: Prolific production designer and art director Catherine Hardwicke makes her directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama Thirteen. Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter Read More

Levity

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: Action comedy screenwriter Ed Solomon switches gears to psychological drama for his feature film directing debut, Levity. Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thornton) gets released after doing 23 years in prison for accidentally killing a kid during an attempted robbery. Not having any place to go as a free Read More

Rock That Uke!

Actors: Holly Hunter

Moonlight Mile

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Ellen Pompeo, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Frequent television director Brad Silberling directs the romantic drama Moonlight Mile. Set in a Massachusetts town in the early '70s, Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents, Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and JoJo (Susan Sarandon), while trying Read More

Festival In Cannes

Actors: Jenny Gabrielle, Greta Scacchi, Kim Kolarich, Rachel Bailit, Zack Norman

Synopsis: The romance, intrigue, and industry politics of the world's biggest film festival -- which is also the world's biggest film marketplace -- provides the backdrop for this typically understated comedy-drama from director Henry Jaglom. Alice Palmer (Greta Scacchi) is a well-known American actress who Read More

Searching for Debra Winger

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Emmanuelle Béart, Katrin Cartlidge, Laura Dern

Synopsis: Directed by actress Rosanna Arquette, this candid documentary is not only about the iconoclastic and somewhat reclusive film star Debra Winger (who does not even appear onscreen until an hour into the film), but also about the trials and tribulations of actresses in Hollywood who have reached Read More

American Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln - A House Divided, Vol. 2

Actors: David Morse, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: This is the second part of a three-video, six-hour program that originally aired February 19-21, 2001, as part of the acclaimed PBS series The American Experience. The program focuses on the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and is one of the first documentaries to do so. This Read More

American Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln - A House Divided, Vol. 1

Actors: David Morse, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: This is the first part of a three-video, six-hour program that originally aired February 19-21, 2001, as part of the acclaimed PBS series The American Experience. The program focuses on the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and is one of the first documentaries to do so. This Read More

American Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln - A House Divided, Vol. 3

Actors: David Morse, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: This is the final part of a three-video, six-hour program that originally aired February 19-21, 2001, as a presentation of the acclaimed PBS series The American Experience. The program focuses on the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and is one of the first documentaries to do so. Read More

Intimate Portrait: Holly Hunter

When Billie Beat Bobby

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: Holly Hunter, Ron Silver

Synopsis: This 2001 TV docudrama relates the story of tennis' 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" between Wimbledon champions Billie Jean King (Holly Hunter) and Bobby Riggs (Ron Silver), an event considered by many to be an early victory for feminism. Riggs, 20 years past his prime, lives to wager on anything and Read More

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John Goodman

Synopsis: The writing, directing, and producing team of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen created this picaresque comedy (inspired in part by Homer's The Odyssey) set in the Deep South during the Depression. Suave and fancy-talking Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney), dim-witted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) Read More

Jesus' Son

Actors: Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Denis Leary, Jack Black, Will Patton

Synopsis: In this independent drama, a young man tries to find himself in the early 1970s as he wades through a swamp of heroin addiction. FH (Billy Crudup) is a well-intentioned but weak-willed man whose propensity for messing up his life has earned him his nickname, short for "F--khead." FH's problems Read More

Timecode

Actors: Xander R. Berkeley, Golden Brooks, Saffron Burrows, Richard Edson, Salma Hayek, Holly Hunter, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Mann, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Synopsis: Director Mike Figgis helmed this ground-breaking experimental feature, filmed with four synchronized digital video cameras in four separate locations. The story, outlined in advance but otherwise improvised, was enacted in a single continuous take, like a stage play, with the unedited images from 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: David Cronenberg

Synopsis: For those who enjoy discovering or learning more about directors with unique or even bizarre filmmaking interests, David Cronenberg is a true find. His movie Crash tells the story of a group of people who think sex is best when it involves violent car accidents, his remake of The Fly is an eerie Read More

Harlan County War

Actors: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson

Synopsis: The true story of one of the most contentious labor disputes of the 1970s is the basis for this made-for-cable drama. In 1973, many of the men of Harlan County, Kentucky, were employed by Brookside Mining, who operated a number of coal mines. Brookside paid its employees meager wages for Read More

Notes Alive! Dr. Seuss's My Many Colored Days

Synopsis: An orange day. A black day. A blue day. These are some of the colors the hero of this Dr. Seuss poetry program goes through, as the young boy and his dog experience the changing colors of moods. The Minnesota Orchestra provides the music that goes with these moods. Set to state-of-the-art Read More

Woman Wanted

Actors: Holly Hunter, Kiefer Sutherland, Michael Moriarty

Synopsis: Actor Kiefer Sutherland directed this drama about a housekeeper who tries to keep the peace between a widower and his grown-up son. Sutherland also co-stars, along with Holly Hunter, ichael Moriarty and Christopher Plummer. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Living Out Loud

Actors: Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, Martin Donovan, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: Noted screenwriter Richard LaGravenese made his directorial debut with this dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan) Read More

In the Wild: Cheetahs with Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Part Hollywood star expose and part nature film, this PBS video finds actress Holly Hunter traveling to Namibia, Africa, where she is introduced to her favorite animal: the cheetah. Hunter is led through Etosha National Park by scientific experts who detail the causes for the declining cheetah Read More

A Life Less Ordinary

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo, Ian Holm

Synopsis: The acclaimed Trainspotting trio (director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, scripter John Hodge) reunited for this update of '30s screwball comedies and '40s fantasies, such as Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941), Angel on My Shoulder(1946), Down to Earth(1947), and the 1946 Stairway to Heaven Read More

Crash

Actors: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis: After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of 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

Home for the Holidays

Actors: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares Read More

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

Actors: Holly Hunter, Beau Bridges, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad in this made-for-cable satire based on a true story. Holly Hunter stars as Wanda Holloway, a twice-married Baptist mother of two who becomes obsessed when her daughter, Shanna (Frankie Ingrassia Read More

The Piano

Actors: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker

Synopsis: Writer/director Jane Campion's third feature unearthed emotional undercurrents and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times. Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute who has willed herself not to speak, and her Read More

The Firm

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Ed Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, Mitch McDeer (Tom Cruise) is a young man from a poor Southern family who has struggled through Harvard Law School to graduate fifth in his class. Mitch is entertaining offers from major firms in New York and Chicago, but when Read More

Crazy in Love

Synopsis: Set amidst the glorious greens and blues of one of the many islands of Washington's Puget Sound, this made-for-cable television family drama centers on three generations of women and their lovers. The main story centers on one insecure bride who though madly in love with her spouse, still cannot Read More

Once Around

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands

Synopsis: Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom made his American movie debut with this romantic comedy, starring Holly Hunter as Renata Bella, an aimless Bostonian thirtysomething who attends a seminar for aspiring condo salespersons. Here she meets hotshot salesman Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss), who Read More

Always

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn

Synopsis: For all its state-of-the-art special effects, Always is essentially a remake of the 1943 Spencer Tracy-Irene Dunne fantasy vehicle A Guy Named Joe--minus the wartime context. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Read More

Animal Behavior

Actors: Karen Allen, Armand Assante, Holly Hunter, Richard Libertini, Josh Mostel

Synopsis: In this enjoyable, lighthearted "he's fallen for her" situational, a music professor finds a science department faculty member too deeply engrossed in her inter-species communication studies (she talks to chimps) to even notice him. Since he can't get her mind off her studies, he decides to work Read More

Miss Firecracker

Actors: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: A hot tamale tries to throw off a different sort of heat in this comedy of small-town manners. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for her unrepentant promiscuity. An orphan taken in by her genteel relatives, she idolizes her older cousin, Elain Rutledge Read More

Roe vs. Wade

Actors: Holly Hunter, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Based on the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a woman's right to have an abortion, the made-for-television film Roe Vs. Wade follows an unmarried Texas woman (Holly Hunter) and her lawyer (Amy Madigan), as they take her case to the Supreme Court. Abortion is always a controversial Read More

The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs

Synopsis: In these faithful animated adaptations of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs, Holly Hunter provides all of the voices for the two stories, reading from Tom Roberts' sharp, witty script. The two stories boast a soundtrack by Art Lande, which gives the film a surprisingly buoyant Read More

Broadcast News

Actors: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Writer/director/producer James L. Brooks scores on all counts with this clear-eyed look at the television news business and the dysfunctional types who work in it. Brooks' intelligent script introduces us to Jane Craig (Holly Hunter), an ambitious producer at the network news division's Washington Read More

End of the Line

Actors: Wilford Brimley, Levon Helm, Mary Steenburgen, Barbara Barrie, Henderson Forsythe

Synopsis: Two Southern railroad workers drive a train engine to Chicago to protest the closing of the station in Clifford, Arkansas. Will Haney (Wilford Brimley) and his friend Leo Pickett (Levon Helm) steal the engine and hope to confront the company president to prevent the shutdown. The duo gathers Read More

Raising Arizona

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe

Synopsis: Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. "Hi" McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim Read More

A Gathering of Old Men

Actors: Holly Hunter, Richard Widmark

Synopsis: Gathering of Old Men was based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, who'd previously written The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Like Pittman, Gathering builds its narrative upon a tapestry of deep-bred racial intolerance in the South. When a bigoted white Louisiana tenant farmer is killed, black Read More

Blood Simple

Actors: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams

Synopsis: In the first film of brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, M. Emmett Walsh plays Visser, an unscrupulous private eye hired by Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to murder Marty's faithless wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her paramour, Ray (John Getz), one of Marty's employees. But Visser is no more Read More

Urge to Kill

Synopsis: Filmed in Dallas, the made-for-TV With Intent to Kill gets under way as high school football hero Bo Reinecker (Alex McArthur) tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen (Catherine Mary Stewart). Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is Read More

Swing Shift

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme made one of his more conventional movies with Swing Shift, an examination of life on the American home front during WWII. Goldie Hawn, who also served as the film's producer, stars as Kay, a woman who takes a job on the line at a plant producing war planes after her husband Read More

An Uncommon Love

Synopsis: In this drama, a college professor gets romantically involved with a student until he learns that she earns tuition working as a part-time hooker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Svengali

Actors: Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Peter O'Toole goes over-the-top as a has-been rocker who mentors a young female singer. This version of the old story was made for cable television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Burning

Actors: Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Larry Joshua, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: Apart from early appearances by Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter, an interesting score by Rick Wakeman, and some typically effective work by effects icon Tom Savini, this slasher film is also among the more frightening of its kind. The plot concerns a summer-camp caretaker named Cropsy (Lou David) Read More