Kristy McNicholFilmography

Children of the Bride

Synopsis: In this film a middle-aged woman tries to get married to her younger fiance but is hindered by her four grown children who come bearing grudges. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Forgotten One

Synopsis: In this supernatural drama, a writer seeks to revive his flagging career and overcome his writer's block by moving into a big old house. Unfortunately for him, he soon discovers that the place is haunted by the restless ghost of a murdered woman who falls in love with the writer and beckons him to Read More

Two Moon Junction

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Kristy McNichol, Martin Hewitt, Burl Ives

Synopsis: Zalman King wrote and directed this soft-core Harlequinesque Romance that plays like Tennessee Williams meets Fredericks of Hollywood. April Delongpre (Sherilyn Fenn) is the daughter of a powerful senator and heiress to an old and respectable Southern family. April is engaged to marry the Read More

You Can't Hurry Love

Actors: David Packer, Scott McGinnis, Bridget Fonda, David Leisure, Anthony Geary

Synopsis: A young Ohio man moves to Los Angeles in search of a career and a girlfriend in this romantic comedy, whose action centers on the '80s singles scene. Eddy (David Packer) heads to California after his cousin, Skip (Scott McGinnis), promises him a job in the ad biz, but Eddy ends up with the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Showdown in Saskatchewan

Synopsis: This week we're off to Canada, where Jill Morton (Kristy McNichol), the niece of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), has joined the rodeo circuit. While visting Jill, Jessica is disturbed by the presence of the girl's somewhat disreputable rodeo-performer boyfriend. More disturbing still is the Read More

Dream Lover

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Ben Masters, Paul Shenar, Justin Deas, John McMartin

Synopsis: Director Alan J. Pakula does the best anyone can with this complicated tale of what happens when the dream state and the waking state are confused and intermingled. While at home alone one day, Kathy Gardner (Kristy McNichol) defends herself against an intruder by stabbing him in the back. Now Read More

Women of Valor

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Kristy McNichol, Alberta Watson, Valerie Mahaffey, Suzanne Lederer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a group of American nurses stationed in the Philippines are captured when Japanese forces invade during World War II. In the hands of the enemy, the women are held prisoner for three years and must struggle to survive. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Love, Mary

Actors: Matt Clark

Synopsis: Filmed in Canada for American television, Love Mary is based on the true story of Dr. Mary Groda Lewis. When we first meet Mary, she's neither a Lewis nor a doctor, but instead a troubled young girl played by Kristy McNichol. Diagnosed as retarded and incorrigible, Mary is shunted off to a reform Read More

Just the Way You Are

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean, Kaki Hunter, Robert Carradine, Lance Guest

Synopsis: In this standard human interest comedy, Susan Berlanger (Kristy McNichol) has been crippled since a child and has to wear a leg brace in order to get around, but that does not in any way prevent Sam (Robert Carradine) and several other men from being very attracted to her. Susan is a professional Read More

Aladdin and His Magic Lamp

Blinded by the Light

Actors: Jimmy McNichol, Kristy McNichol, Anne Jackson, Michael McGuire, Jenny O'Hara

Synopsis: Real-life brother and sister Jimmy and Kristy McNichol star in this made-for-television drama about a claustrophobic cult. Jimmy McNichol stars as David, oldest son of the seemingly well-adjusted Bowers. When David disappears from his family to live with the Light of Salvation cult, sister Janet (Kristy McNichol Read More

White Dog

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Lynne Moody

Synopsis: A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore Read More

The Pirate Movie

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Maggie Kirkpatrick

Synopsis: An introverted girl who yearns for popularity (Kristy McNichol) attends a pirate festival in her seaside community, featuring a swordplay demo led by a curly haired hunk (Christopher Atkins). After selecting Mabel (McNichol) to participate in the act, the instructor invites her aboard his boat for Read More

Only When I Laugh

Actors: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes

Synopsis: Playwright Neil Simon made one of his periodic forays into serious themes with the drama The Gingerbread Lady, and while this screen adaptation adds a bit more wit to the proceedings, it remains a change of pace from his usual breezy comedies. Georgia (Marsha Mason) is a successful actress who has Read More

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill, Don Stroud, Arlen Dean Snyder

Synopsis: A would-be Nashville star finds himself in hot water during a stay in Georgia in this drama based (very loosely) on the hit song of the same title. Travis Child (Dennis Quaid) is a country singer looking for his big break, crisscrossing the country playing honky-tonks with his younger sister (and Read More

Little Darlings

Actors: Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Matt Dillon, Armand Assante, Krista Errickson

Synopsis: Little Darlings is a teen sex comedy about a group of 15-year-old girls at a summer camp who establish a contest to see which one of them will lose their virginity first. Tatum O'Neal stars as Ferris, a naive but sexually aware rich girl on the make with the older camp swimming instructor Gary (Armand Assante Read More

My Old Man

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Kristy McNichol, Warren Oates

Synopsis: My Old Man was adapted from Ernest Hemingway's short story of the same name by Jerome Kass. Hemingway's story told of a down-on-his-luck horse trainer who is given a second chance at making something of his life by his son. This made-for-TV version changed the son to a daughter, played by Kristy McNichol Read More

The End

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg

Synopsis: At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story." Lawson's first reaction is to cry uncontrollably, much to the discomfort of his fellow elevator passengers. He heads to a nearby church Read More

Like Mom, Like Me

Actors: Linda Lavin, Kristy McNichol

Synopsis: Professor Patrick O'Neal packs his pipe and cardigan and walks out on wife Linda Lavin and daughter Kristy McNichol. Left with nothing but each other, Lavin and McNichol find themselves agreeing to disagree often as not. The principal bone of contention is the fact that Mom is dating again. McNichol Read More

Summer of My German Soldier

Actors: Kristy McNichol

Synopsis: Despite its far-fetched plotline, the made-for-TV Summer of My German Soldier was popular with audiences and critics alike. The film is set in Georgia during World War II. Bruce Davison plays Anton Reiker, a German POW assigned to work at a local farm. Reiker escapes, taking refuge in a barn owned Read More

Black Sunday

Actors: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats

Synopsis: Bruce Dern is ideally cast as Lander, a crazed Vietnam veteran, in Black Sunday. Lander joins terrorists Dahlia (Marthe Keller) and Fasil (Bekim Fehmu) in a plot to create a bloodbath at the annual Super Bowl. Piloting the ubiquitous Goodyear blimp, Lander is to ram the aircraft into the capacity Read More

The Pinballs

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Johnny Doran, Sparky Marcus, Priscilla Morrill, Walter Brooke

Synopsis: The protagonists of this ABC Afternoon Special are three parentless children of divergent backgrounds, all of whom share the same foster home. All their lives, Carlie (Kristy McNichol), Harvey (Johnny Doran), and Thomas J. (Sparky Marcus) have been "pinballs," bouncing around from one foster Read More

The Love Boat II

Actors: Celeste Holm, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Diane Stilwell, Lyle Waggoner, Fred Grandy, Quinn K. Redeker

Synopsis: This second of two pilot films for the Love Boat TV series was originally telecast on January 21, 1977. After the shakedown cruise, several of the actors playing the crew of the Pacific Princess were replaced. In Love Boat 2, Ted Lange, Bernie Kopell and Fred Grandy portray the roles they would be Read More

Family [TV Series]

Actors: Sada Thompson, James Broderick, Kristy McNichol, Gary Frank

Me and Dad's New Wife

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Lance Kerwin, Melendy Britt, Betty Beaird, Alice Playten

Synopsis: Produced for the third season of the ABC Afterschool Special series, this episode was not seen until halfway through season four. Kristy McNichol stars as 12-year-old Nina Beckwith, who, much to her own surprise, finds that she is able to adjust quite satisfactorily to her parents' divorce. Read More

The Fawn Story

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Poindexter, Med Flory, Karen Oberdiear, Gordon Jump

Synopsis: Two popular TV child actors of the 1970s, Kristy McNichol and Poindexter (aka Randall Yothers Jr.), team up for this compelling ABC Afterschool Special entry. Against his better judgment, a farmer (Med Flory) allows his children (Kristy McNichol, Poindexter) to tend to a young doe that has been Read More