Kristy Swanson Filmography

Living Death

Actors: Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Greg Bryk (A History of Violence) stars in the direct-to-video gothic thriller Living Death as the wealthy Victor Harris, a sadistic, incorrigible beast of a man whose sole pleasure comes from physically beating his wife, Elizabeth (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer's Kristy Swanson), and torturing the Read More

Bound By Lies

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: In this crime thriller with a kinky undertow, police detective Max Garret (Stephen Baldwin) is a cop with a habit of doing things his own way -- so much so that he's just coming off of a six-month suspension for disregarding orders. Garret's first case after returning to active duty is looking Read More

The Only Witness

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Vincent Spano, Bruce Boxleitner, Vladimir Kulich, Tony Todd, Daveigh Chase

Synopsis: Tom Whitus' thriller Dead Silence begins with when Rachel Pressman (Daveigh Chase) sees a murder. Cop Steve Banks (Vincent Spano) and psychiatrist Dr. Julie Craig (Kristy Swanson) are former lovers, and they are responsible for keeping Rachel safe and helping her testify. The murder, however Read More

Red Water

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Coolio, Jaimz Woolvett, Rob Boltin

Synopsis: A treacherous Louisiana river is the setting where divorced couple Sanders (Lou Diamond Philips) and Kelly (Kristy Swanson) forget their differences long enough to search for a new source of energy. The couple is joined -- and later waylaid -- by a pair of crooks named Ice (Coolio) and Jerry (Jaimz Woolvett Read More

Zebra Lounge

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Kristy Swanson, Cameron Daddo

Synopsis: A couple learns the dangers of a walk on the wild side in this erotic thriller. Alan and Wendy Barnet (Cameron Daddo and Brandy Ledford) have been married just long enough for the excitement to have gone out of their relationship, and they're looking for a way to put some spice back in their Read More

Soul Assassin

Actors: Derek de Lint, Kristy Swanson, Skeet Ulrich, Rena Owen

Synopsis: Soul Assassin is an action movie from The Netherlands made by music video director Laurence Malkin. Skeet Ulrich plays Kevin Burke, a recently promoted young executive at Jorgensen Financial in Rotterdam. After a hit man murders his girlfriend Rosalind (Katherine Lang), he goes off in search of Read More

Dude, Where's My Car?

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Kristy Swanson, Jennifer Garner, Marla Sokoloff

Synopsis: The startling effects of chemically induced short-term memory loss provide the backdrop for this resinous teen comedy. Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) are two hard-partying dudes who wake up after a very long night on the town to discover they've forgotten the presents Read More

Grapevine [TV Series]

Actors: Kristy Swanson, George Eads, Steven Eckholdt

Synopsis: After a brief stint in 1992, this series returns to CBS oozing with 21st century irony and youthful neuroses. The series focuses on busybody Susan (Kristy Swanson), who frets that she doesn't have a boyfriend and obsesses over her friends. She also regularly turns to the camera when asking for Read More

Big Daddy

Actors: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Josh Mostel, Leslie Mann

Synopsis: Prospective parents everywhere, you have a new role model: Adam Sandler! In Big Daddy, Sandler plays 30-year-old bachelor Sonny Koufax, a carefree slob who has never much taken to adult responsibilities. However, as his old buddies start getting married and drifting away, Sonny realizes that if he Read More

Tinseltown

Actors: Arye Gross, Joe Pantoliano, Ron Perlman, Kristy Swanson, Tom Wood

Synopsis: A pair of would-be filmmakers realize that they may very well be living next to the city's notorious serial killer nicknamed "The Costumed Killer." They then do what any good samaritan living in Los Angeles would do- approach him to be the subject of their next film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Meeting Daddy

Actors: Josh Charles, Alexandra Wentworth, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, Peter (Josh Charles) is a well-educated Jewish writer from Los Angeles who has fallen in love with Melanie (Alexandra Wentworth), who was born and raised in the Deep South -- where much of her family still lives. Melanie travels to Georgia for a few days to visit her father Read More

Ground Control

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Kelly McGillis, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Ground Control follows the reluctant return to work of Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland), a retired air traffic controller who is still haunted by his role in a probably unavoidable plane crash that has left him guilt-ridden and professionally gun shy. When a Phoenix airport fighting budget cutbacks Read More

Supreme Sanction

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Michael Madsen, David Dukes, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Donald Faison

Synopsis: A hired killer (Kristy Swanson) joins forces with one of her targets after seeing him with his son, but while this saves one man's life, it also means the one-time killer is now a hunted woman, with operatives of a classified government agency hot on her trail. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Lover Girl

Actors: Sandra Bernhard, Kristy Swanson, Tara Subkoff, Loretta Devine, Susan Barnes

Synopsis: This independent drama takes an unexpectedly light and emotionally sensitive approach to a potentially controversial subject -- a teenager taking up a career as a prostitute. Sixteen-year-old Jake (Tara Subkoff) is a pretty but troubled girl who has been abandoned by her mother. Needing a place to Read More

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag

Actors: Joe Pesci, Andy Comeau, Kristy Swanson, David Spade, Todd Louiso, George Hamilton

Synopsis: Cross What's up Doc with Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and you get this dark screwball comedy of murder and lost luggage. Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some Read More

Bad to the Bone

Synopsis: "She's every man's dream (if you can get past the whole murder and adultery thing)." So went the ABC ad copy for the heavy-breathing TV movie Bad to the Bone, which is (astonishingly) based on a true story. Playing radically against type, Kristy Swanson stars as beautiful 19-year-old Francesca Read More

Self Storage

Actors: Ron Perlman, Arye Gross, Tom Wood, Kristy Swanson, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, screenwriter Tiger (Tom Wood) is on the brink of waving goodbye to Hollywood and heading home, but his scripting partner Max (Arye Gross) convinces him to stay a bit longer. They score an inside track, arranging a meeting with Arnie (Joe Pantoliano), but they have no place to Read More

The Phantom

Actors: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar

Synopsis: The first superhero ever, created by Lee Falk in 1936, gets another shot at movie stardom 60 years after achieving fame in comics and serials. Billy Zane stars as Kit Walker, who discovers that he's the 21st in a line of purple-clad African superheroes known as "The Phantom" or, to superstitious Read More

Marshal Law

Actors: Jimmy Smits, James LeGros, Kristy Swanson, Scott Plank, Vonte Sweet

Synopsis: A former U.S. Marshall takes extreme measures to save his family from a band of psychopaths after an earthquake destroys the apartment complex in which they live. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Higher Learning

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Tyra Banks, Busta Rhymes, Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly, Ice Cube

Synopsis: This drama examines the personal, political, and racial dilemmas facing a group of college freshmen as they begin their first semester at Columbus University. Malik (Omar Epps) is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in Read More

The Chase

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, Wayne Grace

Synopsis: This high-speed action comedy stars Charlie Sheen as Jack Hammond, who has been given a life sentence for a bank robbery that he didn't commit. Hammond manages to escape, and while trying to avoid capture at a gas station, he ends up kidnapping Natalie Voss (Kristy Swanson); he threatens her with Read More

Getting In

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Andrew McCarthy, Stephen Mailer, Dave Chappelle, Matthew Perry

Synopsis: An attempted black comedy, Getting In endeavors to satirize the cut-throat competition surrounding the medical school admissions process -- a struggle that in this case literally turns deadly. Gabriel Higgs is an aspiring medical student, not out of a great dedication to his craft but due to Read More

Chili Con Carne

The Program

Actors: James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Eastern State University isn't particularly notable for anything except its football program. Lately, even that hasn't been doing too well, and the athletic staff led by Coach Winters (James Caan) are under considerable pressure by the administration and alumni to bring in a winning season. To do Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens, Luke Perry

Synopsis: The idea of fusing teen sex-comedy and horror genres into a boffo box-office bonanza seems like classic braindead Hollywood-think... but somehow, beyond all reason, the makers of this film manage to pull it off. Much of the credit goes to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Tokyo Pop) who chooses wisely to Read More

Highway to Hell

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Chad Lowe, Kristy Swanson, Adam Storke, Pam Gidley

Synopsis: This semi-spoof of the Orpheus legend stars Chad Lowe and Kristy Swanson as newlyweds whose car is pulled over by Beezelbub (Patrick Bergin), who kidnaps the girl and takes her to Hell. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Hot Shots!

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: From director Jim Abrahams, one of the minds behind the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, comes another parody. This time around, Abrahams has his sights set on the action-adventure genre, specifically Top Gun. Charlie Sheen stars as Topper Harley, a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in Read More

Mannequin 2: On the Move

Actors: William Ragsdale, Kristy Swanson, Meshach Taylor, Terry Kiser, Stuart Pankin

Synopsis: Flamboyant window dresser Hollywood Montrose (Meshach Taylor) provides the link between this film and the original Mannequin after the departure of Kim Cattrall and Andrew McCarthy from the cast. Hollywood has now been promoted to the head of Prince & Company's Visual Display Department. He takes Read More

Diving in

Actors: Matt Adler, Kristy Swanson, Burt Young, Matt Lattanzi, Yolanda Jilot

Synopsis: In this sports drama, a diver has all the right stuff to make it to the Olympics. There is only one catch--he is terrified of heights. Fortunately his lovely coach is there to patiently help him overcome his terror and go for the gold. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dream Trap

Synopsis: When a sorority is going to be banished from campus, it is up to a young college man to save the sorority and find the girl of his dreams. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

B.L. Stryker: The Dancer's Touch

Nightingales

Actors: Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Beautiful young women, all living together in one apartment in various states of undress: Yes, we're in Aaron Spelling country again. Made for TV, Nightingales is set in Los Angeles, and centers upon the lives and loves of eight toothsome student nurses. Just to prove that this isn't real life Read More

Flowers in the Attic

Actors: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams, Ben Ganger

Synopsis: Based on the popular novel by V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity. When their father is killed, teenagers Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams), together with their preteen siblings Cory (Ben Ganger) and Carrie (Lindsay Parker Read More

Growing Pains: Thank God It's Friday

Synopsis: Mike (Kirk Cameron), Boner (Josh Andrew Koenig) and Eddie (K.C. Martel) are invited to a college party by the old pal Roland. Upon arrival, they discover that many of the guests are indulging in cocaine--and they are expected to do likewise, lest they be written off as "uncool." When it first Read More

Not Quite Human

Synopsis: A malevolent toy tycoon threatens the happiness of a teen android and his inventor. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Friend

Actors: Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey, Anne Ramsey

Synopsis: With the over-the-top gruesomeness of The Re-Animator to compare it to, Wes Craven's Deadly Friend limps into the second tier, coming across as a Frankenstein tale lost on Elm Street. Paul (Matthew Laborteaux) is a teen computer genius who has recently moved to a new town. The quiet and peaceful Read More

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey

Synopsis: Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last grand duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day bacchanal through the Read More

Pretty in Pink

Actors: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy, Annie Potts

Synopsis: John Hughes crafts an exemplary '80s Brat Pack romance out of the standard Cinderella story in Pretty in Pink. Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a teenager who lives in the dingy part of town with her terminally underemployed dad (Harry Dean Stanton). She works at a record store with eccentric Ionia Read More

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was not, as has sometimes been reported, a remake of the 1938 Spencer Tracy film Boys Town. It was filmed on location at Father Flannagan's Nebraska-based home for troublesome and troubled youths, but the story is strictly contemporary. Art Carney stars as a crusty Read More