Linda Hunt Filmography

Stranger Than Fiction

Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: A socially isolated IRS agent whose every move is documented by a disembodied female voice discovers that his life is the subject of a book currently being written by a best-selling author, whose creative block has stunted her repeated efforts to kill him off, in a quirky fantasy comedy written by Read More

Christmas in Yellowstone

California and the American Dream [TV Documentary Series]

American Experience: The Great Fever

Yours, Mine & Ours

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Rip Torn, Linda Hunt, Jerry O'Connell, David Koechner

Synopsis: Two big families merge into one super-sized brood in this comedy. Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) is a naval officer who has been raising eight children on his own after the death of his wife, and while he loves his kids, he rules his household with military precision. Frank has been alone just Read More

A Lot Like Love

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Kathryn Hahn, Kal Penn, Ali Larter, Tyrone Giordano

Synopsis: Two friends who've convinced themselves they would never make a good couple discover they might just be wrong in this romantic comedy. Oliver (Ashton Kutcher) and Emily (Amanda Peet) first met when they were college students sharing a flight from California to New York; Emily spontaneously seduced Read More

American Experience: The Great Transatlantic Cable

Synopsis: This documentary chronicles millionaire Cyrus Field's quest to run a cable across the Atlantic ocean, enabling wired communication between Britain and America, a task he finally completed in 1866. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State [TV Documentary Series]

Reporting America at War, Episode 1: The Romance of War

Before We Ruled the Earth: Mastering the Beasts

Synopsis: The Discovery Channel presents Before We Ruled the Earth: Mastering the Beasts. This historical nature program uses reenactments and computer animation to portray the earliest known humans. Watch the progress of human evolution from homo erectus to the Cro-Magnons, presented along with timelines Read More

Before We Ruled the Earth: Hunt or Be Hunted

Synopsis: The Discovery Channel presents Before We Ruled the Earth: Hunt or Be Hunted. This historical nature program uses reenactments and computer animation to portray the earliest known humans. Watch the progress of human evolution from homo erectus to the Cro-Magnons, presented along with timelines Read More

Reporting America at War, Episode 2: Which Side Are You On?

The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's

Synopsis: The documentary The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's intersperses information on leading research scientists conducting experiments that are enlarging the medical community's understanding of the disease with a look at how the disease greatly affects those who suffer from it as well as those Read More

Dragonfly

Actors: Linda Hunt, Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, Kevin Costner plays Joe Darrow, a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily (Susannah Thompson) in a bus accident in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe works extra shifts at the hospital to take his mind off the Read More

American Experience: Jimmy Carter, Part 1 - Jimmy Who?

Synopsis: On January 20, 1977, president-elect Jimmy Carter surprised onlookers by walking the length of Pennsylvania Avenue to his inauguration. To many this offered the perfect symbol for the former peanut farmer who would be president. James Earl Carter, Jr. was born in Plains, Georgia on October 1 Read More

American Experience: Woodrow Wilson, Part 2 - The Redemption of the World

Synopsis: The Redemption of the World concludes American Experience's biography of Woodrow Wilson. In 1915, Wilson strived to keep the United States out of World War I. Meanwhile, he met and began dating Edith Bolling Galt, a widow who eventually became his second wife. Wilson won a hard-fought presidential Read More

American Experience: Woodrow Wilson, Part 1 - A Passionate Man

Synopsis: American Experience: Woodrow Wilson -- A Passionate Man follows the development of Woodrow Wilson from his birth in Staunton, VA, in 1857, till the death of his first wife, Ellen Axson, in 1915. Wilson's father, a Presbyterian minister, instilled a sense of mission and righteousness in young Read More

American Experience: Jimmy Carter, Part 2 - Hostage

Synopsis: The second part of Jimmy Carter concentrates on the 39th president's last three years in office and his post-presidential accomplishments. By the time Carter entered the second year of his presidency, his administration had already bogged down in legislative battles and economic difficulties. Read More

Who Owns the Past?

Actors: Linda Hunt

The Living Edens: Kamchatka - Siberia's Forbidden Wilderness

Synopsis: This video is part of a series presented by PBS that takes the viewer to some of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. This episode, narrated by Linda Hunt, showcases the breathtaking landscape of the Kamchata Peninsula. Located below the far eastern reaches of Siberia, Kamchata is a Read More

Island of the Sharks

Actors: Howard Hall, Linda Hunt

Synopsis: Director Howard Hall takes his underwater cameras to Cocos Island, 300 miles from the coast of Costa Rica, which is home to one of the world's largest populations of sharks. Island Of The Sharks captures these undersea predators in their natural environment, with hammerheads, sea lions, manta Read More

National Geographic: The Great Indian Railway

Synopsis: Many a country built its economic development on the back of its cross-country railway system. Strong and dependable, the iron tracks tied the nation together by transporting goods and people from coast to coast. While this is prevalent throughout out the world, none is more vital than the Great Read More

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World

Actors: Irene Bedard, Judy Kuhn, Billy Zane, David Ogden Stiers, Jean Stapleton

Synopsis: For this animated direct-to-video sequel to Disney's 1995 animated Pocahontas, Irene Bedard returns to the title role -- with Judy Kuhn once again providing Pocahontas' singing voice. The story starts in colonial Jamestown before Pocahontas travels to England to meet with the king in hopes of Read More

Amazon

Synopsis: IMAX: Amazon features footage of rain forests and the myriad of plant and animal life that make their home in it. Narrated by actress Linda Hunt, the film contains the kind of detailed footage common to the large-screen IMAX format. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Living Edens: Namib - Africa's Burning Shore

The Relic

Actors: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner

Synopsis: A mythological creature stalks the halls of a museum during a society fundraiser in this cheap sci-fi horror genre knock-off of Alien (1979). Penelope Ann Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History who receives a shipment of artifacts Read More

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End

Actors: Linda Hunt

Synopsis: Paul Monette was a well-regarded gay novelist who (after losing two long-term companions to AIDS) wrote Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story, a memoir which won the Nation Book Award. Ironically, Monette began to receive his greatest acclaim as a writer and produced his deepest and most personal Read More

The Italians

Synopsis: Linda Hunt narrates this rich documentary of the history of the Italian people from the Roman Empire to the Italian Renaissance and on through to the haute fashion and sports car industries of today. Archival footage, old photographs, scenic tours around the country, and interviews with Italian Read More

Rain of Ruin

Pocahontas

Actors: Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, Judy Kuhn, Linda Hunt, Russell Means

Synopsis: History gets the Disney kiddie treatment and a politically correct interpretation in the studio's 33rd feature-length animated movie, the first to be based on actual events and people. Pocahontas (Irene Bedard) is the daughter of Algonquin chief Powhatan (Russell Means), who promises her in Read More

Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

Maverick

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

Younger and Younger

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Lolita Davidovich, Brendan Fraser, Julie Delpy, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: Jonathan Younger (Donald Sutherland) runs his offbeat storage facility as if it were an odd amalgam of a nightclub for the rich and famous and a pied a terre for The Addams Family. He greets each customer and potential customer with the flair and sinister graciousness of Bela Lugosi at the door of Read More

Rain Without Thunder

Actors: Carolyn McCormick, Ali Thomas, Betty Buckley, Iona Morris, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Rain Without Thunder is a "pro-choice" tract, expertly packaged in the form of speculative fiction. In a futuristic society, abortion is a crime punishable by a harsh prison term, and all female sexual activity is electronically monitored. When young Ali Thomas chooses not to bring her unborn Read More

Twenty Bucks

Actors: Linda Hunt, David Rasche, George Morfogen, Concetta Tomei, Sam Jenkins, Christopher Lloyd, Brendan Fraser, Elisabeth Shue

Synopsis: This fascinating chronicle of the life and times of a twenty dollar bill was originally written by Endre Boehm in 1935 and languished forgotten on the shelf until his son Leslie resurrected it after his father's death, and updated the script. (Both received screenwriter credit for the released Read More

American Experience: Ishi, The Last Yahi

Synopsis: In 1911, an Indian wandered out of the hills of Northern California, unable to speak a word of English, and clad in the ancient manner. His discoverers, who found him hiding in a barn, didn't know what to make of him and sent him to San Francisco to be studied like some rare animal by the young Read More

If Looks Could Kill

Actors: Richard Grieco, Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Robin Bartlett, Gabrielle Anwar

Synopsis: Television flavor-of-the-month Richard Grieco made his feature-film debut in this juvenile spoof of James Bond films. He plays a high-school senior named Michael Corben who has flunked out of his French class, but has the chance to make up his grade on the French Club's summer trip to Europe. On Read More

Kindergarten Cop

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger sheds his action image in Ivan Reitman's police comedy Kindergarten Cop, where he plays an undercover cop teaching a class of hyperactive six-year-olds. As the film begins, John Kimble (Schwarzenegger) and his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) are in pursuit of notorious Read More

She-Devil

Actors: Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Begley, Jr., Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles

Synopsis: Susan Seidelman directed this loose adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil concerning the extreme revenge exacted by a dumpy housewife on her philandering husband. Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep) is a best-selling romance novelist of the manner of Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins Read More

Waiting for the Moon

Actors: Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Andrew McCarthy, Bernadette Lafont, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Well into the 1930s, there was an expatriate community of Americans who lived in Paris or the French countryside, and who eventually became influential artists and writers. These included the painter Edward Hopper, the writer Ernest Hemingway, and the musician Virgil Thomson. Writer and poet Read More

The Room

Synopsis: In this made for TV drama, two youthful strangers endeavor to rent the room already owned by a strange woman and her almost comatose husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Room Upstairs

Actors: Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: More a series of ragged comic anecdotes than a unified whole, the made-for-TV The Room Upstairs top-bills Stockard Channing as a Boston teacher of the hearing-impaired. Strapped for cash, Ms. Channing converts her family home into a boarding house. Six tenants with varying degrees of Read More

Silverado

Actors: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, John Cleese

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the town of Silverado, held in thrall by crooked sheriff Brian Dennehy and his behemoth "deputies." The four disparate heroes--Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn Read More

Eleni

Actors: Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt, Oliver Cotton, Ronald Pickup

Synopsis: Based on the autobiographical novel by Nicholas Gage, Eleni traces Gage's search for the truth behind the execution of his Greek mother Eleni. John Malkovich plays Gage (herein referred to only as Nick), a New York Times journalist assigned to cover a border war in Albania. Intimately familiar Read More

The Bostonians

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Madeleine Potter, Jessica Tandy, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Henry James, Merchant/Ivory's The Bostonians is set among the Back Bay uppercrust of the 19th century. Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), bored by his opulent lifestyle and his "proper" friends, is fascinated by his cousin, outspoken suffragette Read More

Dune

Actors: Francesca Annis, Leo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Kyle MacLachlan, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: David Lynch wades through dark waters in his adaptation of Frank Herbert's cult science fiction novel. In condensing Herbert's rambling and complex book by eliminating characters and compacting events, Lynch succeeds in rendering the story incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the novel and Read More

The Year of Living Dangerously

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr

Synopsis: Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own Read More

Popeye

Actors: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in Read More

Fit: Episodes in the History of the Body

Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America

Actors: Linda Hunt

Synopsis: The bloody Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia left a country in ruins and killed one in every seven people. In their attempt to annihilate the past, the Khmer Rouge intended to destroy everything that Cambodian society had believed in -- family, dance, and most importantly, the Buddhist religion. Read More

The New Chimpanzees

The Brink of Summer's End: Paul Monette