Leslie Hope Filmography

Runaway [TV Series]

Actors: Donnie Wahlberg, Leslie Hope

Synopsis: One of the first prime-time offerings of the fledgling CW network, Runaway starred Donnie Wahlberg as DC-based district attorney Paul Rader, who in the series opener was framed for the murder of his sexy associate Erin. This and the fact that the actual (and unknown) killer had threatened Paul's Read More

House: Histories

Synopsis: A homeless, unidentified woman (Leslie Hope) collapses during a run-in with the police, then suffers a seizure at the clinic. Foreman (Omar Epps) thinks that the woman is faking illness to get free room and board, while Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) insists that she has ovarian cancer. Typically Read More

Commander in Chief [TV Series]

Actors: Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Rumor has it that this weekly, hour-long ABC series about America's first woman president was conceived in anticipation of Hillary Rodham Clinton's likely 2008 presidential bid. Whatever the case, Geena Davis starred as Mackenzie Allen, the politically unaffiliated vice president of popular Read More

Meltdown

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Leslie Hope, Arnold Vosloo, James Remar, Susan Merson

Synopsis: Originally titled American Meltdown, this speculative made-for-cable melodrama begins as a group of six terrorists, bearing names like Khalid, Shafig, and Ziad, take over a nuclear power plant in San Juan. It turns out that the terrorists' actions are merely symbolic, and that no real harm is Read More

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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Kevin Zegers, Brenda James, Justin Chatwin, Heather Wahlquist

Synopsis: Paul Johansson's The Incredible Mrs. Richie stars Gena Rowlands as the title character. The film stars Kevin Zegers as Charlie Proud, a young man on the path to juvenile delinquency. Having had enough of Charlie's troublemaking, school principal Mr. Dewitt issues the boy an ultimatum. Charlie must Read More

24: Season 01

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Elisha Cuthbert, Sarah Clarke, Dennis Haysbert

The Spreading Ground

Actors: David Dunbar, Frederic Forrest, Leslie Hope, Dennis Hopper, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: Detective Ed Delongpre (Dennis Hopper) is challenged by the mayor of Burman City to make an arrest in a one-day series of child slayings within 48 hours. With no clues to work with, Delongpre and his longtime partner McGivern (Frederic Forrest) and their team of investigators stake out just about Read More

Bruiser

Actors: Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare, Leslie Hope, Nina Garbiras

Synopsis: Horror-meister George Romero directs this thriller about a 99-pound weakling who strikes back at everyone who has wronged him in the past. Henry Creedlow (Jason Flemyng) works at a fashion mag called Bruiser for the short-fused, dictatorial Miles Styles (Peter Stormare). Henry spends much Read More

Stolen Miracle

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama was inspired by a true story that occurred in Carleton, Ontario during Christmas Week of 1999. Disguised as a nurse, a bipolar woman named Margaret Wheeler (Nola Auguston) kidnaps a premature infant, the first male child of Karen and Phil Lewis (Marnie McPhail, Hugh Read More

Restless Spirits

Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Michael Monty, Juliana Wimbles, Marsha Mason, Leslie Hope

Synopsis: The ghosts of two daring pilots help a troubled young girl in this fantasy for the family. In 1927, a pair of French air aces, Charles Nungesser (Lothaire Bluteau) and Francois Coli (Michel Monty) hop into a single-engine biplane and take off for New York City with the intention of becoming the Read More

The Life Before This

Actors: Stephen Rea, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano, Sarah Polley, David Hewlett

Synopsis: Exploring concepts of fate and free will, Jerry Ciccoritti's contemplative drama shows the lives of a handful of random people during the 12 hours leading up to a bloody shooting spree in a posh coffee shop. Maggie (Emily Hampshire) is a waitress in the café whose acting career is going nowhere Read More

Water Damage

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Leslie Hope, John Neville, Roberta Maxwell, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: A man learns that hard way that not all high school memories are pleasant in this thriller. Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) is invited to a high school reunion, but figures someone is playing a trick on him when he discovers he's one of only three people asked to attend. However, Paul soon learns Read More

Summer of the Monkeys

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Leslie Hope, Wilford Brimley, Corey Sevier, Katie Stuart

Synopsis: Michael Anderson directed this Canadian coming-of-age adventure that generates nostalgia for rural America at the turn of the century. Farmer John Lee (Michael Ontkean) and wife Sarah (Leslie Hope) have two children, Jay Berry (Corey Sevier) and crippled Daisy (Katie Stuart). Hoping to buy a pony Read More

This Matter of Marriage

Actors: Leslie Hope, Rick Peters, Sherry Miller

Synopsis: In this romance, a lonely lady architect discovers that if only she would pay attention, true love is as close as the man next door. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blackout Effect

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Charles Martin Smith, Leslie Hope

Synopsis: A man is forced to find the truth behind a tragic accident that has effected him personally in this made-for-TV drama. Henry Drake (Charles Martin Smith) is a high-strung and somewhat eccentric air traffic controller who is trying to clear airliners for landing stacked up in a pattern over Read More

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Rowing Through

Actors: Colin Ferguson, Leslie Hope, Peter Murnik

Synopsis: A man must decide how long can he hold onto his dream in this drama. Tiff Wood (Colin Ferguson) is a world-class amateur rower whose dream is to compete in the Olympic games. While competition is fierce and Wood suffers more than his share of disappointments, in 1980 he makes the U.S. Olympic team Read More

The Conspiracy of Fear

Actors: Leslie Hope, Andrew Lowery, Christopher Plummer, Geraint Wyn Davies, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: A son is left in a dangerous situation as he struggles to deal with his father's legacy, in this made-for-television drama. After his father dies, Chris King (Andrew Lowery) is left to figure out why some determined thugs are interested in getting their hands on a suspicious package that his Read More

Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story

Actors: Ann-Margret, Peter Coyote, Freddy Rodriguez, Christian Campbell, Jonah Blechman

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, director John Patterson's made for television thriller stars ageing screen siren Ann-Margaret the titular black widow, a deeply-disturbed, part-time Wisconsin schoolteacher who manipulates her students into killing her husband under the false pretences that he is an Read More

First Degree

Actors: Rob Lowe, Leslie Hope, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: In this suspenseful detective drama, a police detective's personal involvement with a beautiful widow takes a professional turn when she is accused of murdering her husband. The gumshoe feels it is his job to prove her innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Schemes

Synopsis: A grieving widower discovers that the kindness of his late wife's best friend is malevolently motivated in this thriller starring James McCaffrey, John Glover, and Leslie Hope. When his wife passed away he thought he had nothing more to live for. Though at first the comforting embrace of a close Read More

Fun

Actors: Alicia Witt, Renee Humphrey, William R. Moses, Leslie Hope, Ania Suli

Synopsis: Bonnie (Alicia Witt) and Hillary (Renee Humphrey) are two seemingly average California teenagers who have some very heavy emotional baggage to lug around. Bonnie was abandoned by her mother years ago, and Hillary was sexually assaulted by her father, who is now behind bars. Bonnie and Hillary have Read More

Boozecan

Actors: Leslie Hope, Justin Louis, Jan Rubes, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: Justin Louis, Eugene Lipinski and Andrew Miller star in this gritty thriller from Canada about the owner of an after-hours club who finds himself pursued by a obsessive undercover policeman. Also features Jan Rubes and Kenneth Welsh. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Sweet Killing

Actors: Anthony Higgins, Leslie Hope, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Ironside, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Based on Agnes Hall's novel Qualthrough, this suspenseful crime drama chronicles the comeuppance of a murderous banker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Doppelganger: The Evil Within

Actors: Drew Barrymore

Synopsis: This confusing but enjoyably weird film stars Drew Barrymore (still toying with her good girl/bad girl image) as Holly Gooding, a young woman who apparently stabs her mother to death in New York then shows up on the doorstep of young L.A. screenwriter Patrick (George Newbern), in response to his Read More

Paris, France

Actors: Leslie Hope, Peter Outerbridge, Victor Ertmanis, Dan Lett, Raoul Trujillo

Synopsis: Lucy, a writer of erotic novels who is uninspired unless she gets some new sexual experience, plunges into a torrid affair with Sloan, an arrogant bisexual, who has written a novel about a serial killer and whom Lucy's husband, a publisher, has introduced to her. Lucy either fantasizes or recalls Read More

Caught in the Act

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable thriller an unemployed actor makes a little cash running acting classes. His troubles begin when the student he has been sleeping with calls him one day and says that she has been kidnapped. The next thing he knows, he is being framed for embezzlement and murder. ~ Sandra Read More

The Dance Goes on

Synopsis: In this drama, an avaricious city boy leaves his LA home to meet his estranged father on the family homestead in Quebec. They have both inherited the land from a recently deceased uncle. The father has stayed close to his rural roots and cannot understand why his son is so indifferent to his Read More

The Abduction of Allison Tate

Synopsis: Three young Native Americans decide to abduct a land-mogul's daughter when the wealthy land developer swipes tribal acreage. Exposed to the "other side," this young woman finds herself joining the side of her abductors. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

True Confections

Actors: Leslie Hope, Kyle McCulloch

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama produced for Canadian television, Verna (Leslie Hope) is a young Jewish woman who is looking for the man of her dreams in the late '50s. But Verna's pseudo-beatnik style and pre-feminist outlook does not make her seem like much of a catch to many eligible bachelors, and her Read More

Men at Work

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Leslie Hope, Keith David, John Getz, Dean Cameron

Synopsis: A pair of garbage workers (Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez) are shocked to find the body of a city councilman in one of their trash cans. With help from a supervisor (Keith David), the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops. Estevez also directed and Read More

The Big Slice

Actors: Casey Siemaszko, Justin Louis, Heather Locklear, Leslie Hope, Kenneth Welsh, Nicholas Campbell

Synopsis: Written and directed by John Bradshaw, The Big Slice stars Casey Siemaszko and Justin Louis as a pair of aspiring mystery novelists. Knowing next to nothing about crime, the two writers decide to "live" their adventures. Venturing out into the Big Bad World, the boys pose as a cop and a Read More

Working Trash

Synopsis: Working Trash's ad copy consisted of a photo of a large threaded screw, with the caption "Tonight, two working stiffs are going to do to Wall Street what it's done to us." Wink wink, nudge nudge. The two stiff workers--er, working stiffs--are George Carlin and Ben Stiller, janitors in a large Read More

Talk Radio

Actors: Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Monologist Eric Bogosian's one-man theatre piece Talk Radio, co-written by Bogosian and Ted Savinar, is searingly brought to the screen by Oliver Stone. Bogosian plays a provocateur radio talk-show host, whose constant espousal of his inflammatory views and ceaseless hectoring of his Read More

Kansas

Actors: Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, Leslie Hope, Brent Jennings

Synopsis: A drifter becomes both a bank robber and a hero in this crime thriller. Andrew McCarthy stars as Wade Corey, who hitches a ride on a freight train already occupied by Doyle Kennedy (Matt Dillon), a charming ex-con who convinces Wade to accompany him to his hometown. Once there, Wade realizes too Read More

It Takes Two

Actors: George Newbern, Leslie Hope, Kimberly Foster, Barry Corbin, Anthony Geary

Synopsis: Travis Rogers (George Newborn) is a young man slated to marry his childhood sweetheart Stephi (Leslie Hope) in this romantic comedy. Just days before the wedding, Travis leaves his Texas ranch and buys a hot red sports car from Jonni Tigersmith (Kimberly Foster), the sex kitten sales person. Jonni Read More

Hunter: Requiem For Sergeant McCall

Synopsis: When Ronald Moody (Paul Lieber), the man convicted of killing DeeDee McCall's husband Steve, is paroled, McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) reopens the case on which Steve had been working at the time of his death. She also defies orders and begins tailing Moody, hoping to find a connection between him and Read More

Sword of Gideon

Actors: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Peter Dvorsky, Robert Joy, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: In the made-for-cable thriller Sword of Gideon, a team of anti-terrorist commandos, led by Steven Bauer, sets out to avenge the deaths of Israeli athletes killed during the Munich Olympics of 1972. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Love Streams

Actors: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel, Margaret Abbott

Synopsis: In this emotional roller coaster ride, Robert Harmon (John Cassavetes) is a street-wise, sometimes obnoxious writer currently working on a book about the seamier side of buying/selling love, and Sarah Lawson (Gena Rowlands) is an emotive wife and mother struggling through a divorce and custody Read More

Ups & Downs

Actors: Colin Skinner, Andrew Sabiston, Gavin Brannan, Leslie Hope

Synopsis: This teen comedy/drama, set in a Canadian boarding school, is about growing up while being thrown together in school rooms and residences. Conflicts and passions arise as the teens try to handle issues like a mother dying of cancer, prejudice, the agony of physical "defects," and other more or Read More