Lily Tomlin Filmography

Kate Clinton: The 25th Anniversary Tour

Actors: Kate Clinton, Urvashi Vaid, Lily Tomlin, Melissa Etheridge, Billie Jean King

Synopsis: The self-proclaimed "Last Lesbian Comic Standing," Kate Clinton stands at the forefront of the lesbian movement thanks to her fearless, politically-charged humor and pointed insight into female sexuality. A former high school English teacher who walked away from her day job back in 1981, Clinton Read More

The Ant Bully

Actors: Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Paul Giamatti, Zach Tyler Eisen

Synopsis: A kid who hates ants finds himself living among the six-legged critters in this computer-animated comedy-adventure. Lucas Nickle (voice of Zach Tyler Eisen) is a ten-year-old boy whose family has just moved to a new town, and Lucas isn't enjoying it much -- he hasn't made any friends yet, his big Read More

A Prairie Home Companion

Actors: Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Virginia Madsen, Maya Rudolph

Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Robert Altman (Short Cuts, Nashville) brings National Public Radio stalwart Garrison Keillor's long-running radio program to vivid life on the big screen in a intricately woven backstage fable centering on the final performance of a fictionalized version of his variety show. As Read More

I Heart Huckabees

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin, Jude Law

Synopsis: Five years after achieving commercial and critical success with his film Three Kings, director and screenwriter David O. Russell returns to the more idiosyncratic territory of his earlier work with this intelligent and offbeat comedy. Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) are a Read More

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Jackie Curtis, Harvey Fierstein, John Vaccaro, Holly Woodlawn, Ellen Stewart

Synopsis: Directed by Craig B. Highberger and narrated by Lily Tomlin, Superstar in a Housedress offers a unique retrospective of the late avant-garde actor and female impersonator Jackie Curtis, who was discovered in the 1960s by experimental filmmaker Andy Warhol. In addition to rare clips of Curtis in Read More

Goodnight, We Love You: The Life and Legend of Phyllis Diller

Actors: Phyllis Diller

Synopsis: The comedienne who shot to stardom as "the world's worst housewife" offers an intimate look at her life and career on the eve of her farewell stand-up performance. Phyllis Diller has been keeping her fans in stitches for nearly half-a-century. A gleefully self-depreciating comic whose outlandish Read More

Great Women of Television and Comedy

Synopsis: Organized by New York's Museum of Television and Radio, this impressively assembled tribute to the funny women boasts a stellar all-female cast, drawn from half a century's worth of video entertainment. Hosted by Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), the special uses rare film clips and interviews to pay Read More

Orange County

Actors: Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Catherine O'Hara, Schuyler Fisk, John Lithgow

Synopsis: Some cast and crew from NBC's highly acclaimed, little-seen series Freaks and Geeks reunite for this teen comedy that also marks the first starring role for Tom Hanks' son, Colin. The younger Hanks plays Shaun Brumder, a high schooler eager to propel himself out of the land of surf bums and ranch Read More

Disney's The Kid

Actors: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Chi McBride

Synopsis: If you could talk to the child that you used to be, what advice would you give him? That question forms the basis of this comic fantasy. Forty-year-old Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) is a wealthy and powerful "image consultant" who has made a career out of telling people how to present themselves. But Read More

Get Bruce!

Actors: Bruce Vilanch, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: This is a documentary portrait of a Hollywood comedy writer cited by many of entertainment's biggest stars as their comedic "secret weapon." Bruce Vilanch is a rotund, hirsute New Jersey native who left a job at a Chicago newspaper in the 1970s to become a gag writer for singer and actress Bette Midler Read More

Tea With Mussolini

Actors: Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea With Mussolini is a drama with comic accents about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935, when, as one character puts it, "Mussolini was just a man who made the trains run on time." Read More

Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Laughs

Synopsis: Like it or not, for 25 years, Saturday Night Live has graced our living rooms on Saturday nights. The show has gone through changes and ups and downs in its 25 year run and has become a breeding ground for many talented comics who use its stage as a trampoline to stardom. This side-achingly funny Read More

Krippendorf's Tribe

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, Gregory Smith, Carl Michael Lindner

Synopsis: Todd Holland directed this Charlie Peters adaptation of Frank Parkin's novel. Respected anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) and his wife, Jennifer (Barbara Williams), bring their three children along during their failed search in New Guinea for a lost tribe. After Jennifer's death Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 10

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The tenth and final season of Murphy Brown resolves the previous season's cliffhanger finale, as TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) bids farewell to her co-workers on the Washington-based newsmagazine "FYI," in preparation of starting her new job as a White House correspondent. Not Read More

Flirting With Disaster

Actors: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: In this satirical comedy, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) has a beautiful wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and a four-month old son, and on the surface his life is good. But something's been troubling him: Mel knows he was adopted, and he can't resolve his issues with the mother who gave him away years Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - The Hat

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: While traveling to Harrisburg, PN, to extradite suspected murderer Rose Halligan (Lily Tomlin), Baltimore homicide detectives Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Kellerman (Reed Diamond) bide their time and relax as much as possible. Their lethargy proves to be their undoing when Halligan slips through the Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 09

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: With the defection of series regular Grant Shaud at the end of Murphy Brown's eighth season, it was necessary to eliminate the actor's character Miles Silverberg, executive producer of "FYI," the Washington-based TV newsmagazine on which Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is star reporter. Miles' Read More

The Celluloid Closet

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein, Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin, Gore Vidal

Synopsis: Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream Hollywood films to illustrate how the movies have dealt explicitly -- and more importantly, implicitly -- with gay and lesbian themes. Layered between the clips are Read More

Getting Away with Murder

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt, Brian Kerwin

Synopsis: A well-meaning man discovers the downside of taking the law into your own hands in this black comedy. Jack Lambert (Dan Aykroyd) is a college ethics professor who lives next door to a kindly old man of German descent named Max Mueller (Jack Lemmon); Jack is also in love with an attractive doctor Read More

Blue in the Face

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Lou Reed, Roseanne, Michael J. Fox, Jim Jarmusch

Synopsis: Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Paul Auster had enough storylines and characters left over from their charming comedy Smoke to make another film, so they shot Blue In The Face immediately after Smoke was completed. The film once again centers on the Brooklyn Cigar Store and manager Auggie (Harvey Keitel Read More

The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed (Seeds)

Synopsis: Energetic schoolteacher Ms. Frizzle returns for another episode of the series that finds creative ways to fully involve children in the wonder of learning. In this program, Ms. Frizzle challenges the children to develop their class garden, since it will soon be featured on the cover of a magazine. Read More

The Magic School Bus Hops Home (Habitat)

Synopsis: In this episode, Ms. Frizzle has her hands full when one of her students, Wanda, decides to create the "perfect" home for her pet frog Bella. Wanda simply turns the entire classroom into the home she thinks her frog has always wanted. When Bella jumps out an open window, Ms. Frizzle's class really Read More

Frasier: The Unkindest Cut of All

Synopsis: Another crisis looms at the Crane household when Eddie the dog sires a litter of puppies. Solemnly, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) declare that it is high time Eddie was neutered. When Martin (John Mahoney) balks at taking his pet to the vet, Frasier grabs the bull (or the Read More

The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm (Weather)

Synopsis: Ms. Frizzle takes a humid, sticky day in the summer and turns it into a lesson on how to become weather-wise. This time, the Magic School Bus morphs into the Weathermobile and the kids are up and away through the sky to learn about how the weather gets that way. Ralphie gets to be a superman Read More

The Magic School Bus [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: Based on the popular books by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, this television series combines fantasy with science education. Via her magical transforming school bus, Ms. Frizzle takes her curious and often doubting class "into" the natural and scientific worlds. Through their many science lessons Read More

The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in its Pants (Ants)

Synopsis: This 30-minute video features Ms. Frizzle and the curious kids in her classroom studying ant colonies for their science fair. When the class shrinks down and enters an anthill, they are able to see how well ants communicate and cooperate to help one another live. They learn that every ant is Read More

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Actors: Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Lorraine Bracco

Synopsis: Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until Good Will Hunting -- is based on Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist bestseller. Uma Thurman plays Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with very large thumbs. After her parents (Grace Zabriskie Read More

Short Cuts

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins, Bruce Davison, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Synopsis: Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider, Jim Varney

Synopsis: Penelope Spheeris directed this compulsively faithful film adaptation of the popular 1960s television series. The familiar story 'bout a man named Jed Clampett (Jim Varney), a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed, continues to follow the TV show's format. Jed discovers oil on his Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

Shadows and Fog

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, Madonna, Lily Tomlin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death Read More

Ernestine: Peak Experiences

Actors: Lily Tomlin

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This filmed version of Lily Tomlin's successful one-woman performance piece is sometimes classified as a "documentary." However, it is one hundred percent from the show and contains nothing but that show, so it could also be classified simply as a comedy/satire. In any case, it features classic 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

Murphy Brown [TV Series]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Making its first appearance on November 14, 1988, the long-running, Emmy-winning CBS sitcom Murphy Brown starred Candice Bergen as the title character, the driving, driven, often overbearing but essentially likable star reporter of the Washington, D.C.-based TV magazine "FYI." A thorough Read More

Lily Tomlin

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Peggy Feury

Synopsis: Lily Tomlin is more than a filmed record of the comedienne's stage show The Search for Signs of Life in the Intelligent Universe. The film follows Tomlin and her collaborator Jane Wagner as they put together their production, wandering up hill and down alley in search of comic inspiration. Seldom Read More

All of Me

Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: On her deathbed, mean-spirited millionairess Lily Tomlin has her will amended so that her soul will pass into the body of young, healthy Victoria Tennant. Thanks to a mix-up in transmutation, Tomlin winds up instead trapped in the body of upright (and uptight) attorney Steve Martin. The plot Read More

Saturday Night Live: Lily Tomlin [3]

Actors: Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: This 1983 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Lily Tomlin with no musical guest. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, Maria Smith, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: The Incredible Shrinking Woman, directed by Joel Schumacher, is an attempted social satire focusing on the position of women in our society and our social values. After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer (Lily Tomlin) begins to shrink. While this baffles Read More

Nine to Five

Actors: Brad David, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), a housewife whose husband has left her for his secretary, begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation. Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin), a feisty, veteran office manager, instructs her on the perils and procedures of office life -- and of working for Franklin Read More

Moment by Moment

Actors: Lily Tomlin, John Travolta, Andra Akers, Bert Kramer, Shelley R. Bonus

Synopsis: John Travolta played his first romantic lead in this drama about an ill-fated May-September romance. Trisha (Lily Tomlin) is a wealthy middle-aged housewife living in Southern California. Trisha's life has become dull and uneventful, and her long-term marriage to Stu (Bert Kramer) has gone stale. Read More

The Paul Simon Special

Synopsis: Enjoy the sounds of Paul Simon, joined by Art Garfunkel on several songs, in this Lorne Michael ("Saturday Night Live") produced special highlighted by "SNL" star appearances. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Late Show

Actors: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: Even though he barely makes enough money to cover his expenses and finds divorce cases (his bread and butter) unsavory, aging detective Ira Wells (Art Carney) is determined to stay active and to retain some amount of self-respect. When his partner Harry Regan (Howard Duff) is killed while on Read More

Saturday Night Live: Lily Tomlin [2]

Actors: Lily Tomlin, James Taylor

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Lily Tomlin and features musical guest James Taylor. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Lily Tomlin [1]

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Howard Shore

Synopsis: This 1975 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Lily Tomlin and features musical guest Howard Shore and His All Nurse Band. Tomlin performs her famous Ernestine and Edith Ann characters on the show. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Nashville

Actors: Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious Read More

The Lily Tomlin Special, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This award-winning special from comedienne Lily Tomlin features her characters Edith Ann and Ernestine, as well as guest appearances by Richard Pryor and Alan Alda. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Flip Wilson Show: Lily Tomlin, Redd Foxx, The Tempatations, Roger Miller

Lily Tomlin: Lily Sold Out!

Synopsis: After years of performing some of the most intelligent and perceptive comedy in America, Lily Tomlin decides to start aiming for the lowest common denominator in this made-for-TV comedy. Tomlin is invited to bring her one-woman show The Seven Ages Of Woman to Las Vegas in exchange for a Read More

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