Lewis Arquette Filmography

Little Nicky

Actors: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.

Synopsis: The youngest child of the family often has the most problems -- so why should things be different for the Prince of Darkness and his offspring? Satan (Harvey Keitel) is considering retirement, and is pondering which of his sons should take over the family business -- ambitious Adrian (Rhys Ifans) Read More

Best in Show

Actors: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, Michael Hitchcock, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard

Synopsis: After parodying the idiosyncrasies of community theater devotees in the mock documentary Waiting for Guffman, actor/director Christopher Guest returns with another semi-improvised comedy that casts a satirical gaze on the world of championship dog breeding and training. A television crew is on Read More

Ready to Rumble

Actors: David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: A pair of sewage-truck drivers attempt to rescue the tarnished reputation of their favorite pro wrestler in this comedy from Varsity Blues director Brian Robbins. Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) live vicariously through superstar grappler Jimmy King (Oliver Platt). But Read More

Almost Heroes

Actors: Chris Farley, Matthew Perry, Eugene Levy, Kevin Dunn, Lisa Barbuscia

Synopsis: Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman) directed this comedy about two hapless explorers -- hard-drinking trapper Bartholomew Hunt (the late Chris Farley in his last major role) and foppish Leslie Edwards (Matthew Perry) -- who lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a Read More

Kiki's Delivery Service

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Janeane Garofalo, Matthew Lawrence, Debbie Reynolds

Synopsis: Veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki directs this buoyant children's adventure yarn about a young witch striking out on her own. At her mother's behest, 13-year-old Kiki sets out on a year-long apprenticeship with her black cat in tow. With a shaky command of her broom, she ends up in a charming little Read More

Scream 2

Actors: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis: A year after the monstrous success of 1996's neo-slasher flick Scream, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson reunited for this follow-up. Since viewers last saw the characters, nosy newswoman Gale Weathers has written a sleazy best-selling book based on the events of the first Read More

Sleepwalkers

Actors: Abraham Benrubi, Bruce Greenwood, Kathrin Nicholson, Jeffrey D. Sams, Naomi Watts

Get a Clue!

Actors: Cliff De Young, Ashley Peldon, Ray Walston, Sally Kirkland, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed children's book The Westing Game, the movie version of this tale, Get a Clue!, draws young viewers into the strange mysteries encountered by 13-year-old "Turtle" Wexler. After moving into a new town, Turtle learns the house next door is the notoriously haunted Westin Read More

Babylon 5: Point of No Return

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: As conditions on Earth deteriorate, the population is placed under martial law by the Nightwatch, and the government steels itself for an all-out civil war. The loyalties of B5 crewman Zack --- and his friendship with Garibaldi --- are strained to the breaking point when the Nightwatch takes Read More

Kiss and Tell

Actors: Peter Howitt, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: In this low-budget screwball-mystery, the death of an L.A. woman leads to a surreal murder investigation on the outer fringes of la-la land. When Molly McMannis (Justine Bateman) turns up dead, still impaled with the murder weapon -- a carrot -- the police launch a probe into the colorful world Read More

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: The Ballad of Belle Bonnet

Actors: J.D. Roth, George Segal, Robert Patrick, Michael Benyaer, Frank Welker, Jesse Douglas

Synopsis: Belle Bonnet was a notorious but basically well-intentioned female outlaw, who, in the 19th century, stole a wagonload of gold in order to finance a Native American school. Lost in the caverns of the Southwestern desert, Belle's ghost still stands guard over her purloined gold. Psychically Read More

Waiting for Guffman

Actors: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Bob Balaban, Parker Posey

Synopsis: The city of Blaine, Missouri is celebrating its sesquicentennial, and what better reason could there be to put on a show? Corky St. Claire (Christopher Guest), current leader of Blaine's community theater group and creator of a stage musical version of Backdraft that led to the unfortunate Read More

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

Actors: Edward James Olmos, Beverly D'Angelo, Damian Chapa, Travis Fine, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: We'd rather not rehash the sordied Menendez murder case in this space; besides, it isn't necessary, inasmuch as no fewer than two TV movies were produced on the subject in 1994. The first was Fox's Honor Thy Father and Mother; the second, telecast less than a month later, was Menendez: A Killing Read More

Sleep with Me

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly, Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Susan Traylor

Synopsis: Six screenwriters, all real-life friends, each wrote one of the sequences in this romantic comedy-drama that unfolds at a half-dozen parties and celebrations. During a cross-country trip, Joe (Eric Stoltz) proposes to his girlfriend Sarah (Meg Tilly) with his best friend Frank (Craig Sheffer) Read More

Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Daniel Baldwin, William Windom, Frances Fisher, Cristi Conaway

Synopsis: This made-for-cable remake of the cult favorite 1957 film of the same name is updated with an even more feminist slant and has a more thoughtful (and clever) script. Nancy Archer (Darryl Hannah) is a rich but troubled young woman married to a cheating lowlife who only stays with her for her money. Read More

A Child Lost Forever

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Michael McGrady, Dana Ivey

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-TV Child Lost Forever was advertised as a "docudrama." A unwed teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption. 16 years later, the girl (played as an adult by Beverly D'Angelo), now married and the mother of two, decides to look for the son she lost. Read More

The Linguini Incident

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, David Bowie, Marlee Matlin, Eszter Balint, Buck Henry, Andre Gregory

Synopsis: A magic-obsessed New York waitress (Rosanna Arquette) is persuaded by a colorful group of characters to help her rob the restaurant where she works. Along the way, she falls in love with the eatery's bartender (David Bowie), who just so happens to be looking for someone who will make him a Read More

Book of Love

Actors: Chris Young, Keith Coogan, Josie Bissett, Beau Dremann, Aeryk Egan, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Jill Jaress

Synopsis: A teenager in the '50s moves to a new neighborhood and has to deal with all the problems that come with it in this lighthearted feature--complete with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever

Actors: Corey Feldman, Mary Woronov, Mojo Nixon, Larry Linville, Liane Alexandra Curtis

Synopsis: A new principal is imported to Rock 'n' Roll High to put the clamps on the rock-inspired rebelliousness that has the local school board quite concerned. The lady principal is a terse-lipped brute who's up against the predictable shenanigans concocted by school rebels. Will it be rock and roll Read More

Double Trouble

Actors: Peter Paul, David Paul, Roddy McDowall, James Doohan, A.J. Johnson

Synopsis: Two beefed-up twins (played by the Paul brothers, Peter and David, who have appeared in several programmers as "The Barbarian Brothers") operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in this actioner. Peter Jade is a notoriously arrogant burglar who ends up with the key Read More

Chopper Chicks in Zombietown

Actors: Jamie Rose, Don Calfa, Catherine Carlin, Kristina Loggia, Lycia Naff, Martha Quinn

Synopsis: New York's Troma Films continue their grand tradition of relentlessly bad taste with this horror epic, which follows the exploits of an all-girl motorcycle gang -- who go by the quaint moniker "The Cycle Sluts" -- and their fearless leader Rox (Catherine Carlin), who offers the freedom of the road Read More

Syngenor

Synopsis: A multinational corporation specializing in military defense technology creates an indestructible killing machine for use on the battlefield, only to find out just how effective their monstrous invention truly is after the prototype malfunctions and embarks on a bloody killing spree. Syngenor is a Read More

Tango & Cash

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone tries his luck with his first cop buddy movie in Tango and Cash, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Stallone is Ray Tango, a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Kurt Russell is Read More

The Horror Show

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, DeDee Pfeiffer, Aaron Eisenberg

Synopsis: This muddled attempt at creating a new supernatural serial killer franchise (in the mode of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series) features perennial movie thug Brion James as sadistic mass murderer Max Jenke, who hacked up more than 100 victims with a meat cleaver before his Read More

Big Business

Actors: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Michele Placido

Synopsis: Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby girls grow up to be Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin-and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. One of the Midlers is a ruthless New York CEO, while one of the Tomlins is her air-headed Read More

The Great Outdoors

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Chris Young

Synopsis: In the John Hughes-scripted The Great Outdoors, John Candy stars as Chet Ripley, an oafish paterfamilias who takes his family on a vacation at a lakeside resort. Their enjoyment is seriously compromised when brother-in-law Roman Craig (Dan Aykroyd) shows up with his wife and kiddies. The rest of Read More

A Very Brady Christmas

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, the characters from the beloved "Brady Bunch" television series return home to spend the holidays together. All grown up with families of their own, the kids all return to take part in the Brady Christmas reunion. All of the original stars, save one, of the original Read More

My First Love

Synopsis: An ageing widow's relationship with an ex-flame is re-ignited when she runs into her former boyfriend at a class reunion in this warmhearted tale of middle-aged romance starring Bea Arthur, Richard Kiley, and Joan Van Ark. Despite their rekindled feelings, the pair soon finds their powerful Read More

Dance 'til Dawn

Synopsis: While at the high-school prom, a group of students find romance and fun, while their parents enjoy the same. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Married... With Children: Where's the Boss?

Synopsis: Al (Ed O'Neill) is wrong when he jumps to the conclusion that his never-seen boss Gary (Geoffrey Scott) has died, but he is right on the money when he concludes that Gary has gone out of his way to avoid him. His gorge rising, Al demands that his boss acknowledge his existence--or he'll quit. The Read More

ALF: Some Enchanted Evening

Synopsis: A squirrelly ALF decides to make his presence known to the neighborhood by crashing the Tanners' Halloween party. Fortunately, everyone is in costume, so ALF is assumed to be one of the guests, dressed up in an alien outfit. Although ALF is the hit of the evening, Willie (Max Wright) worries that Read More

Nobody's Fool

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Eric Roberts, Mare Winningham, Jim Youngs, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This sharp drama is about the trials and tribulations of a young woman defeated by her past, yet tempted to overcome it through a meaningful relationship. Cassie (Rosanna Arquette) works as a waitress in a southwestern town. Not that long ago, she stabbed her lover (and the father of her baby) in Read More

Just Between Friends

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Salome Jens

Synopsis: A timid aerobics instructor learns that her new best friend is also her husband's mistress in this domestic drama starring Mary Tyler Moore. Suffering from a bit of empty-nest syndrome as her children pass through adolescence, indecisive homemaker Holly Davis (Moore) reluctantly accepts a Read More

Badge of the Assassin

Actors: James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Alex Rocco, David Harris

Synopsis: Based on the true story that took place in Harlem during 1971, this made-for-TV crime drama centers on assistant district attorney Robert Tanenbaum's desperate search for a trio of cop killers. Tanenbaum (James Woods) is assisted by an equally determined detective (Yaphet Lau Kotto). ~ Sandra Read More

The Check is in the Mail

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Anne Archer, Hallie Todd, Michael Bowen

Synopsis: In an unusual comedy by Joan Darling, Brian Dennehy and Anne Archer star as the Richard, a druggist, and his wife Peggy, a pair of debt-ridden parents who rebel against the system. Nothing goes right while they try to uphold the system, then things get even worse when they leave it. Richard Read More

Off the Wall

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Rosanna Arquette, Patrick Cassidy, Billy Hufsey, Ralph Wilcox

Synopsis: Off the Wall is a moderately funny comedy about two young men who end up in a Tennessee jail and then find romance and/or adventure from there. Randy (Patrick Cassidy) and Rico (Billy Hufsey) are hitchhiking through the South when they are picked up by the pretty daughter (Rosanna Arquette) of the Read More

The Waltons: The Tempest

Synopsis: Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) receives word that her husband Curt, reported killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, is actually alive and living in Florida. Rushing to her husband's side, Mary Ellen is shocked when Curt claims not to recognize her--and even more so when, after admitting that Read More

The Waltons: The Move

Synopsis: Freed from a Japanese POW camp and safely returned to Walton's Mountain, Ben intends to enter the postwar working world as a professional engineer. His dad John (Ralph Waite), however, wants Ben to give up his plans and become a full partner at the family lumber mill. The situation changes Read More

The Jayne Mansfield Story

Actors: Loni Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Synopsis: Loni Anderson plays the 1950s sexpot Jayne Mansfield, who starred in films like The Girl Can't Help It and who married bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (Arnold Schwarzenegger) before a car accident ended her life. A.K.A. Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Loose Shoes

Actors: Lewis Arquette, Danny Dayton, Murphy Dunne, Howard Hesseman, Steve Landesberg

Synopsis: Preview trailers for movies not coming to a theater near you are collected in this satiric comedy. Loose Shoes is a sketch comedy which takes the form of a series of "coming attractions" for movies that don't happen to exist. The oddball trailers include the Billy Jack parody Billy Jerk Read More

The Waltons: The Last Straw

Synopsis: Already having great difficulty meeting his business deadlines, John Walton (Ralph Waite) is further stymied by a total breakdown of equipment at the lumberyard. Accordingly, John himself "breaks down"and announces his retirement, celebrating his new-found freedom in the company of his friend Ike Read More

The Waltons: The Home Front, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of The Waltons' two-part season eight opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), newlyweds Ben (Eric Scott) and Cindy (new series regular Leslie Winston) nearly buckle under the pressure to start a family of their own; Erin (Mary McDonough) bristles at the Read More

The Waltons: The Innocents

Synopsis: Erin (Mary McDonough) wants to open a daycare center on behalf of J.D. Pickett's female employees, but Pickett (Lewis Arquette) is determined to set up a tavern for his male workers instead. Meanwhile, Ike Godsey (Joe Conley) hopes to surprise his wife Corabeth (Ronnie Claire Edwards) by learning Read More

The Waltons: The Wager

Synopsis: J.D. Pickett (Lewis Arquette) and his male employees laugh out loud when Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) and Erin (Mary McDonough) enter a "ride and run" horse race staged by Pickett to raise money for the war effort. Defiantly, Erin bets J.D. a week's wages that she will win the race -- a very Read More

The Waltons: The Starlet

Synopsis: A motion-picture production company wants to make a documentary about J.D. Pickett's factory, but Erin (Mary McDonough) tries to prevent them from pestering the other workers. To get Erin out of their hair, the producers promise to take her to Hollywood and make her a star -- and she falls for Read More

The Waltons: The Home Front, Part 1

Synopsis: The Second World War has made quite an impact on Walton's Mountain as the eighth season of The Waltons gets under way. Fired up with patriotic fervor, everyone in the Walton family is involved in the war effort. For example, John Walton (Ralph Waite) is serving on the local draft board, Jason (Jon Walmsley Read More

The China Syndrome

Actors: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: This gripping 1979 drama about the dangers of nuclear power carried an extra jolt when a real-life accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania occurred just weeks after the film opened. Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) is a TV reporter trying to advance from fluff pieces to harder Read More

The Waltons: The Obstacle

Synopsis: The Waltons play host to John-Boy's college friend Mike Paxton (Dennis Redfield), who has been wounded and paralyzed in the war. Consumed with bitterness and self-pity, Mike initially rebuffs the family's efforts to help himself get his act together -- and worse, by the time he has actually Read More

Ruby and Oswald

Synopsis: Producer/director Mel Stuart, who'd previously worked with David L. Wolper on the historical-recreation series Appointment with Destiny, applies the same docudrama techniques to the feature length Ruby and Oswald. Framed in the form of a documentary, the film recounts the days just prior to the Kennedy Read More

Rescue From Gilligan's Island

Actors: Jim Backus, Bob Denver, Russell Johnson, Natalie Schafer, Dawn Wells, Vincent Schiavelli

Synopsis: Eleven years after the network cancellation of Gilligan's Island, the crew and passengers of the ill-fated S. S. Minnow returned to the small screen in Rescue from Gilligan's Island. The cast remains the same, with one significant change. Bob Denver plays inveterate bumbler Gilligan, Alan Hale is Read More

The Waltons: The Illusion

Synopsis: The Waltons' African-American neighbor Verdie Foster (Lynn Hamilton) is pleased and proud when her college-educated daughter Esther (Lynne Moody) returns to the Mountain. But Esther is frustrated by her lack of success in the working world -- the result of general prejudice against her gender and Read More

The Waltons: Season 07

Actors: Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby, Judy Norton-Taylor, David W. Harper

Synopsis: Having suffered a stroke which kept her from working throughout most of 1977 and 1978, Waltons regular Ellen Corby gallantly (albeitly briefly) returns to the role of Grandma Walton as the series inaugurates its seventh season. Unfortunately, Grandma is now a widow; actor Will Geer had died in Read More

Alice: The Second Time 'Round

Synopsis: Alice moved from Saturdays to its soon-to-be-traditional Sunday Night timeslot for this first episode of the series' second season. Still working at Mel's Diner on a "temporary"basis, Alice (Linda Lavin) finds her shift enlivened one evening by the arrival of a notorious flasher. Simultaneously Read More