Jamie Lee Curtis Filmography

Halloween: 25 Years of Terror

Synopsis: Take a fascinating look back at each film in the long-running Halloween franchise started by John Carpenter back in 1978 to see just where the malevolent Michael Myers stands in the blood-soaked annals of horror history as actress P.J. Soles narrates the definitive documentary of the Halloween Read More

The Kid & I

Actors: Tom Arnold, Eric Gores, Linda Hamilton, Henry Winkler

Synopsis: A washed-up actor finds an unlikely path back to the big screen in this offbeat family comedy. Bill Williams (Tom Arnold) is an actor whose career has gone into a severe tailspin ever since his brief fling with fame -- a supporting role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle True Lies. Sinking into Read More

Christmas With the Kranks

Actors: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: Based on John Grisham's novel Skipping Christmas, Christmas With the Kranks revolves around Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther Krank's (Tim Allen) decision to put their normally fanatical enthusiasm for the holidays aside for a tropical cruise. With their daughter in Peru with the Peace Corps, the Read More

Molly & Roni's Dance Party, Vol. 2: 1950s Sock Hop

Synopsis: Moli and Roni, known to many as "The Dance Instructors to the Stars," run a dance studio in Los Angeles, CA. On Molly & Roni's Dance Party, Vol. 2: 1950s Sock Hop the dup teach the viewer how to perform the dance steps made famous during the age of Eisenhower and poodle skirts. On-hand to assist Read More

Freaky Friday

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray

Synopsis: A high-strung mom and her punky daughter learn what it's like to walk in each other's shoes -- literally -- in Disney's second update of their 1977 teen fantasy comedy. The new-millennium Freaky Friday has disgruntled teen Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) living, sans father, with her uptight Read More

Halloween: Resurrection

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Brad Loree, Busta Rhymes, Bianca Kajlich, Sean Patrick Thomas

Synopsis: Masked serial killer Michael Myers makes his seventh appearance in the eighth installment of this long-running slasher series. Although the climax of the previous installment, Halloween: H20, depicted heroine Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) finally finishing off her brother/tormentor, the opening Read More

John Carpenter: Fear is Just the Beginning... The Man and His Movies

Actors: John Carpenter

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Carpenter helped redefine the American horror film in 1978 with Halloween, a low-budget thriller which became a major box office success. Since then, Carpenter has devoted his career to bringing a fresh perspective to genre filmmaking, striving to maintain the freedom of an Read More

The Tailor of Panama

Actors: Dylan Baker, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Set amidst the controversy of the handover of the Panama Canal from America to Panama in late 1999, this espionage thriller follows seductive British spy Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), who has found himself recently banished to Panama. When Osnard stumbles into a tailor shop, he meets Harry Read More

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

Synopsis: Explore the seductive glamour of celluloid beauty Marlene Dietrich as narrator Jamie Lee Curtis and director J. David Reva pay tribute to the filmmaker's legendary grandmother in a series of rarely seen clips and candid interviews. From her German heritage to her tireless efforts to keep the Read More

Daddy & Them

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Jeff Bailey, Brenda Blethyn, Laura Dern, Jim Varney, Daniel Steven Di Vito, Diane Ladd, Walt Goggins, Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this serio-comic look at the trials (literally and figuratively) of an eccentric Arkansas family. Struggling musician Claude (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Laura Dern) get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel (Jim Varney) has been accused of murder Read More

Drowning Mona

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell

Synopsis: Rage, jealousy, murder, and Eastern European automotive engineering combine in this offbeat black comedy. Verplanck, NY, is a small town north of Manhattan that has the dubious distinction of being the Yugo capital of America; the ill-fated import compact was first test-marketed in Verplanck, and Read More

Paul McCartney and Friends: The PETA Concert for Party Animals

Actors: Paul McCartney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: This video features the music icon Paul McCartney, with a stellar cast of performers, giving a live benefit concert for PETA. The organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was the special concern of the former Beatle's deceased wife Linda McCartney. The concert honors her memory Read More

Virus

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell

Synopsis: When the salvage tug Sea Star is caught unprepared in a violent storm, it slowly sinks, and the crew, led by Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland), wander upon another ship for refuge. The ship, apparently deserted, turns out to be a Russian research vessel loaded with high-tech electronics. The Sea Read More

Halloween: H20

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd

Synopsis: This is the seventh movie in this horror series and a 20th anniversary follow-up to John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), arguably the most influential horror film of the '70s, a film that set the standard of horror for the next two decades and catapulted the career of Jamie Lee Curtis. Newspaper Read More

Nicholas' Gift

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alan Bates, Gene Wexler, Hallie Kate Eisenberg

Synopsis: In 1994, an American family made international headlines when, during a trip to Italy, their son was shot in the head by bandits. Left brain dead with no hope of recovery, the grieving parents made a great sacrifice and offered Italian surgeons the opportunity to harvest the boy's usable organs Read More

Homegrown

Actors: Don La Fontaine, John Lithgow, Billy Bob Thornton, Hank Azaria, Kelly Lynch, Ryan Phillippe, Jon Bon Jovi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ted Danson, Judge Reinhold

Synopsis: In this comedy thriller, set in northern California, inept but lovable pot farmers Jack Madsen (Billy Bob Thornton) and Carter (Hank Azaria) work for San Francisco entrepreneur Malcolm Stockman (John Lithgow), who arrives for a visit via copter. As soon as Malcolm steps out, the copter pilot Read More

Fierce Creatures

Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Robert Lindsay

Synopsis: The starring cast of the hit A Fish Called Wanda reunited for this farcical comedy, which star and co-screenwriter John Cleese described as "not a sequel, but an equal." When London's Marwood Zoo is purchased by Octopus, Inc., the multi-national holding company run by New Zealand publishing tycoon Read More

House Arrest

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Grover Reindorf (Kyle Howard) is a kid with a problem, which is how to keep his parents from divorcing. He hits on a solution that makes sense to him. Why not lock them up in the basement, and keep them there until they reconcile? He and his younger sister Stacey (Amy Sakasitz) agree to do just Read More

The Heidi Chronicles

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Hulce

Synopsis: Wendy Wasserstein wrote the script for this movie based on her Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Jamie Lee Curtis is effectively cast as Heidi Holland, a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Playing the Unified Field

Synopsis: When Lisa (Katy Selverstone) announces her intention to see other men, Drew (Drew Carey) reciprocrates by dating his hardbitten, hard-living hairstylist Soux (played with unbridled ferocity by Jamie Lee Curtis). This proves to be a big-time blunder, not only because Soux somehow manages to imperil Read More

My Girl 2

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Anna Chlumsky, Austin O'Brien, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christine Ebersole, Richard Masur

Synopsis: In this sequel to My Girl, Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is now thirteen and at the crossroads of adolescence, beginning to question her past. Her father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) is now married to Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis) and preoccupied with an expectant child. Vada feels left out and decides to Read More

Mother's Boys

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave, Luke Edwards

Synopsis: A psychotic estranged wife attempts to sabotage her husband's new romance by turning her children against his lover in this thriller. Jude (Jamie Lee Curtis) had abandoned her husband Robert (Peter Gallagher) and their three sons several years earlier. Unfortunately, now that Robert has filed for Read More

True Lies

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman Read More

Forever Young

Actors: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser, George Wendt

Synopsis: A man undergoes a scientific experiment that causes him to wake up after 50 years without aging a day in this romantic science-fiction tale. In 1939, Daniel (Mel Gibson) is a test pilot who is brave in the air but lacks the nerve to ask his girlfriend Helen (Isabel Glasser) to marry him, even Read More

The Return of Spinal Tap

Actors: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, June Chadwick, Bob Geldof

Synopsis: The mock heavy-metal band Spinal Tap (actually comedians Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer) return to duty in this made-for-TV sequel to Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, filmed to promote the group's album Break Like the Wind. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

My Girl

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Masur, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: Howard Zieff directed this comedy-drama about the emotional awakening of a young girl in a small Pennsylvania town during the summer of 1972. Anna Chlumsky plays eleven-year-old Vada, a quiet child living with her widowed father Harry Dultenfuss (Dan Aykroyd), a local mortician who prepares bodies Read More

Queens Logic

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Linda Fiorentino, John Malkovich, Joe Mantegna, Ken Olin, Tony Spiridakis, Jamie Lee Curtis

Synopsis: Ray (Ken Olin) is a young adult and has a girlfriend whom he lives with quite happily. However, the agreed-upon date of their marriage is coming up, and he's not quite sure he wants to make that kind of commitment. His buddies Dennis, Elliot, and Vinny have their own commitment problems. Dennis (Kevin Bacon Read More

Anything But Love: Season 03

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Lewis, Ann Magnuson, Holly Fulger

Anything But Love: Season 04

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Lewis, Ann Magnuson, Holly Fulger

Blue Steel

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding Read More

Help Save Planet Earth: Easy Ways to Make a Difference

Actors: Ted Danson

Anything But Love: Season 02

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Lewis, Ann Magnuson, Holly Fulger

Anything But Love: Season 01

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Lewis

A Fish Called Wanda

Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin

Synopsis: In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. First, she romances Georgeson's dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin Kline (who won an Academy Award for his Read More

Dominick and Eugene

Actors: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Todd Graff, Mimi Cecchini

Synopsis: Dominick Luciano (Thomas Hulce) is the moderately retarded twin brother of highly intelligent young intern Eugene (Ray Liotta). Anxious to become a successful doctor, Eugene finds he must devote most of his time to caring for Dominick. For his part, Dominick has been contributing to the family Read More

A Man in Love

Actors: Peter Coyote, Greta Scacchi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Riegert, Claudia Cardinale, John Berry

Synopsis: A married American actor (Peter Coyote) falls in love with his on-screen flame (Greta Scacchi) while filming an Italian biography of author Cesare Pavese. France's 1987 entry to the Cannes Film Festival, this was the first English-language film for director Diane Kurys. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alex English, Gregory Peck, William L. Petersen, Joshua Zuehlke

Synopsis: When young Chuck Murdock (Joshua Zuehlke) visits a nuclear missile site, he learns that one bomb would destroy the earth in less time than it would take a piece of silverware to drop from his hand to the floor. This information sends the sensitive boy into existential angst. Wondering why anybody Read More

Film House Fever

Synopsis: This compilation tape is a collection of clips and trailers from low-budget, cult-type movies. The "framing" device of having two guys on a couch (one of whom is future cult-icon Steve Buscemi) watching TV and making cracks about the movies is fairly lame, and many of the films showcased have been Read More

As Summers Die

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the wealthy but decadent members of a landed-gentry white family against a feisty old black woman, on whose property oil has been discovered. Idealistic attorney Scott Glenn Read More

Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Annie Oakley

Synopsis: This episode of Shelley Duvall's American Tall Tales tells the rip-roaring story of Annie Oakley, one of the Old West's greatest sharpshooters and popular star of Buffalo Bill's traveling Wild West Show. The program includes some legendary episodes -- part fact, part fiction -- and shows some Read More

Annie Oakley

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biography appeared as part of the Shelley Duvall series, Tall Tales and Legends, and stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Annie Oakley and Brian Dennehy as Buffalo Bill Cody, who Ms. Oakley accompanied on a hugely successful Wild West show. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Perfect

Actors: David Paymer, John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anne de Salvo, Marilu Henner, Laraine Newman, Jann Wenner

Synopsis: Based on a series of Rolling Stone articles by Aaron Latham, this romance was set in the world of L.A.'s hip fitness scene. Rolling Stone reporter Adam Lawrence (John Travolta) comes to L.A. to write a story about a prominent businessman who's been arrested for drug dealing (shades of the John Read More

Grandview, U.S.A.

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Troy Donahue, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: The Saroyanesque Grandview USA focuses on a sleepy Midwestern town and its younger denizens. Bored out of his gourd, recent high-school graduate Tim (C. Thomas Howell), befriends the much-older Michelle (Jamie Lee Curtis), who runs the local demolition derby. Michelle's top driver is "Slam" (Patrick Swayze Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jamie Lee Curtis [2]

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, The Fixx

Synopsis: This 1984 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jamie Lee Curtis and features musical guest the Fixx. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Coming Soon

Synopsis: Made for video, Coming Soon is a 60-minute compilation of Universal "coming attraction" trailers. This being a John Landis project, it's no surprise that the films represented herein are all Universal horror flicks, ranging from Frankenstein to Creature From the Black Lagoon. Distinguishing this Read More

Trading Places

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis

Synopsis: The "nature-nurture" theory that motivated so many Three Stooges comedies is the basis of John Landis's hit comedy. The fabulously wealthy but morally bankrupt Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make a one-dollar bet over heredity vs. environment. Curious as to what might happen if Read More

Love Letters

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Amy Madigan, Bud Cort, Matt Clark

Synopsis: Unmarried disc jockey Jamie Lee Curtis happens across a packet of love letters, written by her late mother. As she peruses these missives, she learns that her mother had carried on a lengthy extramarital affair. At firt appalled by mom's "double life," Curtis is slowly brought around to another Read More

Money on the Side

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Purl, Karen Valentine

Synopsis: Money on the Side is a feminist's worst nightmare. This TV movie proposes that the only recourse a housewife has to the nation's "faltering economy" (to quote the film's press release) is to turn to prostitution. The three suburban housewife hookers in this opus are Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Purl Read More

She's in the Army Now

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy, a group of unprepared young woman sign up with the Army and get themselves into all kinds of trouble when they start their basic training. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story is a surfacy TV-movie rehash of the same real-life events which inspired the 1980 theatrical feature Star 80. Jamie Lee Curtis stars as Dorothy Stratten, here depicted as an ingenuous, highly vulnerable Canadian girl who aspires to show business Read More

Halloween II

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest

Synopsis: While John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic Halloween irrevocably changed the style of horror cinema with its simple but relentlessly tense story, it triggered more than a decade's worth of uninspired, exploitative knock-offs, and one could easily list Halloween II among these failures. As with its Read More

Road Games

Actors: Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Bill Stacey

Synopsis: Hollywood's Stacy Keach stars in Australia's Road Games. Keach is a truck driver who takes the law in his own hands to capture a serial killer. When the police fail to nab the murderer of hitchhikers, Keach takes to the road, conducting his own search. En route, he picks up hitcher Jamie Lee Curtis Read More

Escape from New York

Actors: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is Read More

Terror Train

Actors: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield

Synopsis: Riding the coattails of the resurgent boom in horror films after the success of Halloween, Terror Train features teeth-chattering direction by Roger Spottiswoode and pristine cinematography from John Alcott. The story is the basic slasher film premise, remounted on a moving train. A college Read More

Prom Night

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Eddie Benton, Antoinette Bower

Synopsis: This low-budget, tongue-in-cheek horror film of the slasher genre -- which had recently been popularized by Halloween (1978) -- stars that film's lead, Jamie Lee Curtis, as Kim Hammond, a prom queen who becomes a scream queen. Six years ago, a little girl was taunted by four classmates and fell to Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jamie Lee Curtis [1]

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Brown

Synopsis: This 1980 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jamie Lee Curtis and features musical guest James Brown. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fog

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman

Synopsis: Following the phenomenal box-office success of his seminal horror classic Halloween, director John Carpenter teamed up with producer Debra Hill for a second independent horror project, this time in the mode of an old-fashioned ghost story. The end result was The Fog, a spooky romp about a dark Read More