Lynn Redgrave Filmography

My Dog Tulip

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Producer Norman Twain spearheads this independent animated film adapted from British author J.R. Ackerley's 1956 novel detailing the 14-year friendship shared between the author and a German shepherd he once rescued. With vocal contributions by Christopher Plummer, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Hecht Read More

The Jane Austen Book Club

Actors: Kathy Baker, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy

Synopsis: Robin Swicord's adaptation of the novel The Jane Austen Book Club concerns a group of women and a man who meet regularly to discuss the works of the popular author, but soon discover their lives are playing out much like one of the author's fictional worlds. Among the members of the club are Read More

Eloise: Eloise Goes to School

Actors: Mary Matilyn Mouser, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, Doris Roberts, Neil Patrick Harris, Henry Gibson

Eloise: Eloise in Hollywood

Actors: Mary Matilyn Mouser, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, Cynthia Nixon, Lacey Chabert, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Lynn Redgrave, Alan Cummings, Cynthia Nixon, and Tim Curry all lend their voices to this wide-eyed tale of adventure and awe in the exciting world of Tinseltown. Adapted from the popular series of children's books by Kay Thompson, Eloise in Hollywood finds everyone's favorite six-year old Plaza Read More

Eloise in Springtime

Actors: Mary Matilyn Mouser, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, Neil Patrick Harris

Synopsis: In this 45 minute animated adventure, everyone's favorite hotel-dwelling little girl Eloise is excited that, with Nanny out of town, she's left in the care of a hip young woman named Nicole. The two are enjoying a fabulous spring, but Eloise begins to feel jealous when Nicole starts spending time Read More

Eloise: Little Miss Christmas

Actors: Mary Matilyn Mouser, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, Curtis Armstrong, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis: Christmas Eve is drawing near, and when the Plaza's most famous six-year-old vows to put on the best holiday show ever a last minute cancellation threatens to sink the elaborate holiday celebration in an animated tale that offers holiday fun for the whole family. A variety of traditions from Read More

Eloise: Me, Eloise

Actors: Mary Matilyn Mouser, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry, Curtis Armstrong, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis: As Eloise begins preparation for her sixth birthday celebration, the planning for her extravagant party suddenly goes awry with the arrival of a young Japanese violin prodigy who inadvertently steals the spotlight away from the birthday girl in this animated tale of friendship and understanding Read More

The White Countess

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis: James Ivory directed this historical drama of a man who has shut himself away from a world he cannot change. Todd Jackson (Ralph Fiennes) is an American expatriate living in Shanghai in the late '30s. While Jackson was once an American diplomat who came to Shanghai with great optimism about Read More

Kinsey

Actors: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton

Synopsis: Alfred Kinsey was an entomologist who taught at Indiana University and had a keen interest in an area of human behavior that had seen little scholarly research -- human sexuality. While the courtship and reproductive patterns of animals had been carefully documented, Kinsey believed that most Read More

Peter Pan

Actors: Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lynn Redgrave, Richard Briers, Olivia Williams, Ludivine Sagnier

Synopsis: Director P.J. Hogan (Muriel's Wedding, My Best Friend's Wedding) helms this live-action retelling of J.M. Barrie's classic children's play Peter Pan. Starring Jeremy Sumpter (Frailty) in the title role, the film follows the adventures of the Darling children, Wendy (Rachel Hurd-Wood), John (Harry Newell Read More

Spider

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Bradley Hall, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville

Synopsis: Ralph Fiennes plays a grown man haunted by his childhood in David Cronenberg's stylized psychological drama Spider. Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider (Fiennes) takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of the film Read More

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

Actors: Lacey Chabert, Tom Kane, Tim Curry, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: The Nickelodeon cartoon series The Wild Thornberrys gets its first feature-length animated film, directed by show creator Cathy Malkasian with a screenplay by Kate Boutilier (writer of Nickelodeon's Rugrats in Paris). The main character is 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry (voice of Lacey Chabert), a Read More

My Kingdom

Actors: Richard Harris, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Bell, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's King Lear is transposed into a modern-dress British crime drama in this tense tale of family ties and the lust for power. Sandeman (Richard Harris) is the elderly leader of a Liverpool crime syndicate who is fiercely loyal to his wife Mandy (Lynn Redgrave) and his daughters Read More

Hansel & Gretel

Actors: Taylor Momsen, Jacob Smith, Delta Burke, Howie Mandel, Gerald McRaney

Synopsis: One of The Brothers Grimm's best loved fairy tales gets an overhaul using the latest in visual effects technology in this comedy-drama for the whole family. A little girl (Dakota Fanning) has a hard time getting to sleep, so her father (Daniel Roebuck) dusts off a book of children's stories and Read More

How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Jared Harris, Lynn Redgrave, Peter Riegert

Synopsis: Somewhere in L.A., Peter (Kenneth Branagh), a washed-up British playwright, struggles to duplicate his past glory as he surfs a foul-smelling tide of disenchantment. His wife, Melanie (Robin Wright Penn), manages to maintain an optimistic outlook even as she longs for the baby that her husband is Read More

Unconditional Love

Actors: Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Meredith Eaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: What's a middle-aged woman to do when her husband walks out on her and her favorite pop star is murdered by a serial killer? Writer/director P.J. Hogan explores this and many other pressing questions in Unconditional Love, a comic murder-mystery he devised with his wife and co-screenwriter, Jocelyn Moorhouse Read More

Anita & Me

Actors: Kabir Bedi, Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster, Kathy Burke

Synopsis: Directed by Metin Huseyin, Anita & Me follows the development of a cross-cultural friendship between 12-year-old Indian immigrant Meena (Chandeep Uppal) and her 14-year-old British neighbor, Anita (Anna Brewster). An aspiring writer, Meena (Uppal) writes down all the challenges of her new life in Read More

My Sister's Keeper

Actors: Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Perkins, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: Based on a true story, My Sister's Keeper stars Kathy Bates as Christine, who since childhood has suffered from a debilitating mental illness. Spending most of her life in and out of various institutions, Christine has long yearned for independence, but is unable to wrest free of her controlling Read More

The Annihilation of Fish

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: Charles Burnett directed this offbeat comic romance about a pair of aging eccentrics whose imaginary companions sometimes interfere with their "real" lives. Fish (James Earl Jones) is an elderly Jamaican expatriate who has spend much of his adult life in a mental institution in New York. One of Read More

Venus and Mars

Actors: Daniela Amavia, Julie Bowen, Michael Weatherly, Fay Masterson, Ryan Hurst

All I Wanna Do

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Gaby Hoffmann, Kirsten Dunst, Monica Keena, Merritt Wever

Synopsis: Sarah Kernochan wrote and directed this nostalgic coming-of-age comedy-drama with some autobiographical touches. In 1963, budgetary problems at the East Coast boarding school Miss Godard's School for Girls, prompt a merger with a boy's academy. The girls are stunned at the prospect of going co-ed Read More

The Next Best Thing

Actors: Rupert Everett, Madonna, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Vartan, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Best buddies Abbie (Madonna), a heterosexual yoga instructor, and Robert (Rupert Everett), a gay landscaper, cope with failed relationships, the approach of middle age, and the AIDS-related death of a mutual friend by sticking together as a "family of choice." Drunk one night, they have sex, and Read More

The Lion of Oz

Actors: Jason Priestley, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Curry

Synopsis: In this animated adventure inspired by the well-loved characters created by Frank L. Baum, a performing lion from a circus (Jason Priestley) is given a special prize for courage and is sent out to visit the fabled Land of Oz to claim his reward. En route, the lion encounters the Wicked Witch of Read More

Deeply

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Alberta Watson, Brent Carver

Synopsis: On a remote island in Nova Scotia, teenaged Claire (Julia Brendler) slowly befriends Celia (Lynn Redgrave), an eccentric novelist who is working on a manuscript. The manuscript, which is set a half-century ago, tells the story of Silly (Kirsten Dunst), a young woman who tried to leave the island Read More

The Simian Line

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Jamey Sheridan, Cindy Crawford, Samantha Mathis, Dylan Bruno

Synopsis: Director Linda Yellen spins this study of four couples as they struggle to maintain their relationships. Middle-aged divorcée and landlord Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) is completely smitten with her live-in lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.). She loves throwing parties, and on one Halloween she hosts a Read More

Different

Synopsis: 20 years ago, a car crash left Hope Goodell (Annabeth Gish) with permanent brain damage. Hope's ultra-perfectionist mother Amanda (Lynn Redgrave) has since responded to the girl's handicap by virtually rejecting her, lavishing all her affection on Amanda's "normal" sister. Refusing to follow her Read More

Voices

Touched

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Tygh Runyan, Maury Chaykin, Lolita Davidovich

Synopsis: Veteran Canadian filmmaker Mort Ransen follows the critical and commercial success of Margaret's Museum (1995) with this unusual romance between a young man and a much older woman in the backwaters of British Columbia. Carrie (Lynn Redgrave) is an aging, hard-drinking widow. Her estranged daughter Read More

A Season For Miracles

Actors: Carla Gugino, David Conrad, Laura Dern, Kathy Baker, Patty Duke

Synopsis: The Yuletide Season is anything but merry for Emily (Carla Gugino), who is forced to take charge of her nephew J.T. (Evan Sabara) and niece Alanna (Mae Whitman) when their drug-addicted mother (Laura Dern) O.D.'s and the kids are dispossessed. When it looks as though the kids will be sucked into Read More

Gods and Monsters

Actors: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Gods and Monsters was promoted from the outset as an artistic drama, but the publicity tended to play coyly on the possibility of a homosexual romance between the retired film director James Whale, played by Ian McKellen and his hunky gardener Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser). While the film does Read More

White Lies

Actors: Sarah Polley, Tanya Allen, Jonathan Scarfe

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, Sarah Polley plays Catherine, a college freshmen who is ignored by her family and feels like an outcast among her fellow students. While browsing the Internet, she comes across the website of a white supremacist group and finds herself drawn into their spiral of hatred. Read More

Rude Awakening

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner, Rain Pryor, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: This TV comedy series, an attempt to find humor in 1990s self-help, rehab and recovery programs, focuses on hard-drinking, former actress Billie Frank (Sherilyn Fenn), once the teen queen of primetime soaps, who now works for lowlife "B"-movie producer Harve Schwartz (Richard Lewis). Johnny (Michael Rapaport Read More

Toothless

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Dale Midkiff, Lynn Redgrave, Ross Malinger, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: In this lighthearted family-oriented fantasy, originally made for the ABC anthology series The World of Disney, all business and unsympathetic dentist (Kirstie Alley) dies too young. Her angelic hosts believe she is not quite ready for heaven and return her to earth as the tooth fairy to give her Read More

Shine

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud

Synopsis: The true story of a gifted Australian piano prodigy, this biographical drama was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor Geoffrey Rush winning for Best Actor. Rush stars as David Helfgott, a pianist with a history of mental problems. As a fragile boy genius at math, chess, and piano, David is Read More

Calling the Shots

Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller & Countrywoman

Synopsis: This documentary, based on the book by Judy Taylor, takes a biographical look at the author and artist who created much-loved storybook characters including Peter Rabbit. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Silent Mouse

Synopsis: Narrated by Lynn Redgrave, the made-for-television Silent Mouse recounts the origin of the famous Christmas carol "Silent Night." Filmed in the mountains of Czechoslovakia and Austria, the movie is about a young boy who rescues a field mouse and the animal repays the child by becoming the church Read More

The Great American Sex Scandal

Synopsis: Michael Schultz's courtroom comedy The Great American Sex Scandal concerns jurors engaged in a complicated embezzlement trial. Through a combination of boredom and other emotions, soon many of the jurors are involved with each other in ways that do not help anyone find justice. ~ Perry Seibert Read More

Jury Duty: The Comedy

Actors: Reginald VelJohnson, Heather Locklear, Bronson Pinchot, Lynn Redgrave, Alan Thicke

Synopsis: Good thing they told us this Jury Duty: The Comedy; we might have thought it was Jury Duty: The Term Paper. This comedy salad features a whole slew of TV luminaries--Alan Thicke, Bill Kirchenbauer, Lynn Redgrave, Heather Locklear, Tracy Scoggin, Reginald VelJohnson etc.--playing judge Read More

Getting It Right

Actors: Jesse Birdsall, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Cook, Lynn Redgrave, Jane Horrocks

Synopsis: Based on Elizabeth Jane Howard's novel, Getting It Right this charming comedy follows the story of Gavin Lamb (Jesse Birdsall), a 31 year-old virgin who is terrified with women and still lives with his parents. Nevertheless, he becomes the subject of desire for a variety of women, including a Read More

Midnight

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Tony Curtis, Steve Parrish, Rita Gam, Gustav Vintas

Synopsis: A TV horror-movie hostess (Lynn Redgrave) is threatened when people close to her turn up dead. The standard version of the film went straight to video, though a director's cut later earned a limited theatrical release. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Death of a Son

Synopsis: A 3 year court case was the result of a mother's fight to convict the man who killed her son with a lethal drug overdose injection as told in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

Actors: Jon Cryer, Lynn Redgrave, Nicholas Pryor, Viveka Davis, Paul Gleason

Synopsis: An ambitious father thinks nothing of using his own son to achieve his political goals in this adolescent comedy. The lonely boy has spent the last seven years tucked away and ignored by his parents, Senator Tom Morgan and his social-climbing wife Nancy, in a distant boarding school. As the story Read More

Here We Go Again!

Actors: Lynn Redgrave

Walking on Air

Synopsis: Originally telecast on PBS' Wonderworks, Walking on Air stars Lynn Redgrave as a dotty science teacher. One of Lynn's students is a paralyzed youth (Jordan Marder), who inexplicably has the ability to float around in the air. With Redgrave's help, the boy offers his services to NASA as a Read More

My Two Loves

Synopsis: Mariette Hartley stars in this groundbreaking TV movie as Gail Springer, a widowed mother on the horns of an outwardly familiar romantic dilemma. Equally in love with two different people, Gail has the devil's own time choosing between them. What made this film unique (at least when it initially Read More

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The Bad Seed

Actors: Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, Carrie Wells, David Carradine

Synopsis: The 1985 TV movie The Bad Seed is the second film version of Maxwell Anderson's 1956 Broadway play. Carrie Wells plays Rhoda Penmark, a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself--unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rhoda's mother Christine (Blair Brown) Read More

Murder, She Wrote: It's a Dog's Life

Synopsis: While visiting her cousin Abby (Lynn Redgrave) at lavish Langley Manor in the deep South, Jessica is among those present when patriarch Denton Langley (Dan O'Herlihy) is accidentally killed during a fox hunt. What is puzzling about the situation is that Langley's normally docile horse was startled Read More

The Shooting

Synopsis: While on a hunting trip, an accident leads three boys to believe that they killed a man. Confused and afraid, the boys run away to avoid having their misdeed discovered. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Rehearsal for Murder

Synopsis: Richard Levinson and William Link serve up another Thinking Man's murder mystery with the made-for-television Rehearsal for Murder. Playwright Robert Preston is on the verge of marrying glamorous film star Lynn Redgrave. But a scant few hours after her Broadway debut, Redgrave is found dead, an Read More

Antony and Cleopatra

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jane Lapotaire, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: Perhaps inspired by the success of PBS' Shakespeare Plays series, Bard Productions Ltd. Came out with this diverting if not very cinematic adaptation of the Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Timothy Dalton plays Marc Antony, while Lynn Redgrave is uncharacteristically alluring as Queen Read More

Sunday Lovers

Actors: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Robert Webber, Catherine Salviat, Gene Wilder, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro) finds a businessman (Lino Ventura) trying to Read More

To Love Again

Synopsis: An eccentric college professor prefers solitude until romance blooms between her and her married campus maintenance man in this drama that is based on a novel by Elizabeth Gundy. The story contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Seduction of Miss Leona

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a misanthropic college teacher with a love of solitude ends up falling in love with her married handy man. Though they are in love and want to marry, his wife refuses to divorce him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gauguin the Savage

Actors: David Carradine, Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: The story of Paul Gaugin (1848-1903), the Parisian stockbroker who left his job, his wife and his five children for the life of an artist in Tahiti, was superbly fictionalized in Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence. Gaugin the Savage is the same story with no names changed, told in two Read More

The Muppet Show: Lynn Redgrave

Actors: Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis: Guest star Lynn Redgrave stars in a Muppet production of Robin Hood opposite Kermit the Frog in the title role. Disaster is in the air when Miss Piggy feels jilted at being offered only a bit part in the play, and musician Floyd threatens to go on strike. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More

Beggarman, Thief

Actors: Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Lynn Redgrave, Tovah Feldshuh, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: Beggarman, Thief is the 4-hour sequel to the ratings-busting miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man; both productions were based on the works of novelist Irwin Shaw. For the purposes of the sequel, a new member of the Jordache clan is introduced: filmmaker Gretchen Jordache Burke, played by Jean Simmons. Read More

Sooner or Later

Synopsis: Attempting to get the attention of a 17-year-old rock musician, a 13-year-old pretends to be more mature and soon is faced with the dilemmas of an older teen. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

The Big Bus

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers Read More