Mary Beth HurtFilmography

The Walker

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Lily Tomlin, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: With The Walker, Paul Schrader unofficially updates themes and tropes first explored by his controversial erotic thriller American Gigolo (1980). Woody Harrelson stars as Carter Page III, an overtly gay, Virginia senator's son, paid as an asexual escort of middle-aged women in the upper-crust Read More

The Dead Girl

Actors: Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, Mary Beth Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Brittany Murphy

Synopsis: Karen Moncrieff, the Independent Spirit Award-nominated director of Blue Car, assembles a stellar cast comprised of Toni Collette, James Franco, Giovanni Ribisi, and Mary Beth Hurt to tell the tale of one girl's mysterious death, and how the tragic actions of the people who surround her eventually Read More

Lady in the Water

Actors: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury

Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs this self-proclaimed, grown-up "bedtime story" about an apartment building superintendent named Cleveland (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a magical sea-nymph named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who's been transported to this world and is living in the building's Read More

Perception

Actors: Piper Perabo, Seth Meyers, Mary Beth Hurt, Heather Burns, David Rasche, Kate Mulgrew, Aunjanue Ellis

Synopsis: Piper Perabo (Cheaper by the Dozen) plays Jen Marshall, a young girl in her mid-twenties who has more than a few skeletons in her closet, in Irving Schwartz's bittersweet drama release from Empire Pictures. Though she initially appears to be nothing short of a saint - leaving L.A. for Brooklyn to Read More

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Actors: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore

Synopsis: In this blend of psychological thriller and courtroom drama, Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) is a 19-year-old college student who begins displaying bizarre and troubling behavior; as her actions become increasingly destructive and shocking, Emily begins speaking in strange tongues and destroys Read More

No Ordinary Baby

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Mary Beth Hurt, Philip Bosco, Valerie Mahaffey, Adam Le Fevre

Synopsis: When their young daughter is killed in a tragic car accident, a devastated couple goes to extreme measures to bring love back into their lives in a heart-rending family drama starring Adam LeFevre, Valerie Mahaffey, Mary Beth Hurt, and Bridget Fonda. Chris (LeFevre) and Virginia Hytner Read More

The Family Man

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek

Synopsis: In this whimsical romantic comedy that recalls It's a Wonderful Life, Nicolas Cage plays Jack Campbell, a workaholic bachelor who gets to see what his life might have been like had he stayed with his old sweetheart, Kate (Tea Leoni). Thirteen years before, Jack accepted a brokerage internship that Read More

Autumn in New York

Actors: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia, Elaine Stritch, Vera Farmiga

Synopsis: An man gets an unexpected lesson in love and life from a much younger woman in this romantic drama. Will Keane (Richard Gere) is a wealthy 50-year-old restaurant tycoon who has a knack for wooing beautiful women, but is unable to commit to a lasting relationship. On day Will meets a beautiful Read More

Bringing Out the Dead

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: This tense urban drama stars Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of physical and emotional collapse. Frank has worked for years in one of New York's most brutal neighborhoods, and the pressure of his job has taken its toll; plagued with self-doubt, he is haunted by the spirits Read More

Leo the Late Bloomer

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Leo may not be able to read, write, or even speak as well as the other animals in his age group, but perhaps with a little time he'll catch up to his peers. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Affliction

Actors: Nick Nolte, James Coburn, Sissy Spacek, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Nick Nolte and James Coburn deliver some of the finest work of their respective careers in this powerful but troubling adaptation of Russell Banks's novel. Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is the sheriff in a small New England town; it's a part-time job with few taxing responsibilities, and Wade fills Read More

A Weekend With Wendell

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: A story from children's author Kevin Henkes -- whose tales, illustrated with sketches of friendly mice, offer gentle, but important, lessons about understanding others and yourself -- comes to life in this animated video. In A Weekend With Wendell, a little girl learns how to deal with an Read More

Boys Life 2

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mary Beth Hurt, Miles Perlich, Brett Barsky, J.D. Cerna, Jonah Rooney

Synopsis: The second outing in the Boys Life series collects another set of gay-themed shorts. Must Be the Music follows a group of Los Angeles teens, three gay and one straight, through a night of romantic misadventures at a hip dance club. In Nunzio's Second Cousin, police Sgt. Tony Randozzy (Vincent Read More

Law & Order: Deceit

Synopsis: A lawyer is murdered, and high on the list of suspects is the dead man's abrasive girlfriend. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) track down the suspect, only to discover that "she" is really a "he." As if that wasn't baffling enough, another suspect suddenly resurfaces Read More

Alkali, Iowa

Actors: J.D. Cerna, Mary Beth Hurt, Ed Seamon, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Kent Broadhurst

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: The meteoric rise and tragic fall of actress Jean Seberg is dissected in this fascinatingly complex psuedo-documentary that features actress Mary Beth Hurt playing Seberg as she examines her life. Along the way, filmmaker Mark Rappaport frequently digresses and examines the lives of those famous Read More

My Boyfriend's Back

Actors: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Danny Zorn, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Actor Bob Balaban directed this black comedy for Disney concerning a young zombie's love for a pretty high school girl. Johnny Dingle (Andrew Lowery) is a sweet-natured soul who has been in love with Missy McCloud (Traci Lind) ever since first grade, but he's always been reluctant to ask her out Read More

Musical Max

Synopsis: When Max's neighbors started complaining about the noise, the young musician quickly packed up his bass, trombone, harmonica, flute, xylophone, synthesizer, and symbols. Now the neighbors have realized just how deafening the silence can be, but is it already too late to convince Max to start Read More

The Age of Innocence

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes, Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is reacquainted Read More

The Wild West [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: A ten-part series of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil War to 1900. Includes first-person narratives, anecdotes, newspaper accounts, journals, and letters covering Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson Read More

Shimmer

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt, Tom Bower

Synopsis: Spacy Callahan (Markus Klemp) has two problems. In the first place, he's a young teen, which is difficult enough. In the second place, he has been placed "for his own good" in an Iowa juvenile facility which has more than a passing resemblance to a military prison. If a boy breaks one of the Read More

Six Degrees of Separation

Actors: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this thoughtful comedy-drama. Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Read More

Light Sleeper

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Paul Schrader's brilliant study of another alienated urban denizen skirting the borderline of madness stars Willem Dafoe as John Le Tour, a rich, upscale drug dealer for Manhattan professionals -- "White drugs for white people," as he puts it. John is a recovering addict and for him it's the Read More

Defenseless

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, Kellie Overbey

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a lawyer finds out more than she wanted to know about her friends and lovers. T.K. Katwuller (Barbara Hershey) is a lawyer with a firm command of her career but an unstable hold on her private life; she's more single than she'd like to be, and she's become romantically Read More

Slaves of New York

Actors: Bernadette Peters, Nick Corri, Madeleine Potter, Charles McCaughan

Synopsis: Based on the stories by Tama Janowitz, this film follows the relationships and problems of a group of artists struggling to survive in New York City. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Parents

Actors: Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky, Juno Mills-Cockell

Synopsis: In this bizarre and very black comedy set in 1950s suburbia, Michael Laemle (Bryan Madorsky) comes to suspect that his conventional parents (Randy Quaid and Mary Beth Hurt) have a little secret which they have kept from him. Nothing too major - - just that they happen to be cannibals. It seems Read More

Baby Girl Scott

Actors: John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Linda Kelsey, Robert Desiderio, Ronny Cox

Synopsis: This heartrending TV movie stars John Lithgow and Mary Beth Hurt as the parents of a severely handicapped premature infant. Weighing a scant 20 ounces at birth, the baby girl has no esophagus and very few signs of being able to stay alive without artificial assistance. The desperate couple sign Read More

Compromising Positions

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Director Frank Perry brings Susan Issacs' comedic whodunit novel to the screen with Susan Sarandon as a Long Island housewife who tries to escape her deadening suburban life by trying to solve the murder of a philandering local dentist. The dentist, Bruce Fleckstein (Joe Mantegna), is the kind of Read More

D.A.R.Y.L.

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Barret Oliver stars as robot boy Daryl (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform). The film begins with an intense chase through hairpin mountain roads as a helicopter chases after a racing automobile and the driver of the car shoves a young boy out of the door. The child is rescued and is adopted by Read More

The World According to Garp

Actors: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. Robin Williams plays the title character, the son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (Glenn Close, in her film debut). Every effort Read More

A Change of Seasons

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins, Bo Derek, Michael Brandon, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Middle-aged angst is the catalyst for this drama about an older married couple who join up with younger partners. When Karen Evans (Shirley MacLaine) discovers that her husband Adam (Anthony Hopkins) has been dallying around with young co-ed Lindsey Rutledge (Bo Derek), she is furious. She fights Read More

Head Over Heels

Actors: John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Joan Micklin Silver's writing and direction are at the heart of this wistful recollection of a romance, based on Ann Beattie's novel Chilly Scenes of Winter. The film concerns Charles (John Heard), who recalls his love affair with Laura (Mary Beth Hurt). It has been a year since Laura has left him Read More

Five Forty-Eight

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt, Laurence Luckinbill, Laurinda Barrett, Philip Scher, Kathy Keeney

Synopsis: The questionable past of a philandering executive returns to haunt him when he least expects it as Tony-award-winning playwright Terrence McNally's tense adaptation of author John Cheever's short story comes to the Broadway stage. When a callous, white-collar power player seduced and fired his Read More

Interiors

Actors: Maureen Stapleton, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G. Marshall, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, and Mary Beth Hurt play Renata, Flyn, and Joey, the grown daughters of wealthy Arthur (E.G. Marshall) and his emotionally disturbed wife, Eve (Geraldine Page). When Arthur leaves Eve, her three daughters rally around her. As it turns out, none of the daughters are Read More

Secret Service

Synopsis: In this Civil War Drama, a Union spy impersonates a Confederate soldier and ends up almost botching his mission when he falls in love with a Southern belle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: A Shield for Murder, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour "special"), Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) tackles a case of matricide that has remained unsolved from two years. Unfortunately, he meets stiff opposition in the form of Edna Morrison (Geraldine Page), a powerful Read More

Kojak: A Shield for Murder, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Kojak (Telly Savalas) steps up his efforts to help Karen Foster (Marybeth Hurt), whom he believes has been falsely charged with murdering her mother. At the same time, powerful politician Edna Morrison Read More

Royce

Synopsis: Royce, a 60-minute pilot film from MTM productions, enjoyed its first and last network exposure on May 21, 1976. Robert Forster stars as Royce, a Westerner raised by Comanches. In the tradition of Clint Eastwood, Royce is laconic and reclusive; unlike Eastwood, Royce carries no gun. In this Read More

Noisy Nora

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt