Mary Kay Place Filmography

Big Love: Season 02

Actors: Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton

Death & Texas

Actors: Charles Durning, Steve Harris, Corbin Bernsen, Jello Biafra, Pamela Tice Chapman

Synopsis: Death & Texas mixes humor and drama in order to tell the story of a football player who ends up on death row. However, when his team begins to lose without him there is a movement to get him released. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Killer Diller

Actors: William Lee Scott, Lucas Black, Fred Willard, John Michael Higgins, W. Earl Brown

Synopsis: A musician who is supposed to mend his ways ends up changing the habits of a group of fellow inmates in this comedy. Wesley Benfield (William Lee Scott) is a guitar player with a habit of walking on the wrong side of the law. One night, Benfield gets into a fistfight in a Missouri honky-tonk, and Read More

Lonesome Jim

Actors: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: A less than auspicious homecoming for an introspective artist sets the stage for this low-key comedy drama directed by Steve Buscemi. Jim (Casey Affleck) is a chronically glum aspiring novelist who, after a failed two-year sojourn in New York City, has returned home to his parents' home in Goshen Read More

Big Love: Season 01

Actors: Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton

Grey's Anatomy: Superstition

Synopsis: An unusually high death rate at Seattle Grace has aroused the superstitious instincts of the hospital staff. In particular, Izzie (Katherine Heigl) has a premonition that Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), will not survive his heart-transplant surgery, while an OCD patient whose life is dictated by "the Read More

Nine Lives

Actors: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: Filmmaker Rodrigo García takes an unusual look into the lives of nine different women in this episodic drama. Each of the film's nine sequences has been staged as a single shot, using the Steadicam system to allow the camera to follow the action fluidly and without cuts. In these short episodes Read More

Silver City

Actors: Danny Huston, Maria Bello, Billy Zane, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Daryl Hannah, Kris Kristofferson, Mary Kay Place, Miguel Ferrer, Thora Birch

Synopsis: Celebrated writer and director John Sayles turns his eye to politics in America in this drama. The son of respected Colorado politician Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper) is a charming but half-bright man with a bad habit of mangling the English language and a Read More

Evergreen

Actors: Cara Seymour, Mary Kay Place, Noah Fleiss, Gary Farmer, Lynn Cohen, Addie Land

Synopsis: Writer/director Enid Zentelis makes her feature-length debut with the coming-of-age drama Evergreen, shot on-location in Seattle, WA. Teenager Henri (Addie Land) and her single mother Kate (Cara Seymour) move in with Henri's grandmother (Lynn Cohen) in a crumbling old house. Kate works at a Read More

Latter Days

Actors: Wesley A. Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss, Rebekah Jordan, Amber Benson, Khary Payton

Synopsis: Sweet Home Alabama screenwriter C. Jay Cox directs the independent romance Latter Days. Christian (Wesley A. Ramsey) is a young gay party boy who lives in Southern California. When a group of good-looking Mormon missionary guys move into his apartment complex, he's determined to pick one up. He Read More

The Safety of Objects

Actors: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson, Jessica Campbell, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Olyphant

Synopsis: Following up on her 1998 opus Bedrooms and Hallways, Rose Troche directs this ensemble film about suburbia and its discontents. Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) now lies in a coma, attentively nursed by his mother Esther (Glenn Close), who dotes on her son to the Read More

Nobody Knows Anything

Actors: Alanna Ubach, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: An aspiring filmmaker learns that success in Hollywood doesn't come as easy as she suspected as she attempts to discover the formula to success in this satirical comedy from director William Tannen. When the guidance of her helpful has-been uncle (Michael Lerner) fails to pave the way, Sarah Read More

Sweet Home Alabama

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: After establishing herself as a bankable star with the fish out of water comedy Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon returns in what could be described as a "fish back in water" comedy. Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey Read More

Human Nature

Actors: Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Video director Michel Gondry and scriptwriter Charles Kaufman -- who shot to fame after penning Being John Malkovich -- collaborate on this bizarre fable about human behavior in and out of society. The film opens by quickly introducing the three leads -- Lila (Patricia Arquette) who is locked away Read More

My First Mister

Actors: Albert Brooks, Leelee Sobieski, Desmond Harrington, Carol Kane, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: A first feature from acclaimed actress Christine Lahti (who won an Academy Award for her short film Lieberman in Love in 1995), My First Mister explores the delicate relationship between two unlikely individuals who bring each other out of their protective shells. Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski), the Read More

Further Tales of the City

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Paul Hopkins, Laura Linney, Barbara Garrick

Synopsis: Armistead Maupin's colorful saga of life in San Francisco in the 1970s continues in this miniseries, the third following the characters of his serialized novel Tales of the City, which follows the story into 1981. After his relationship with Jon Fielding (Bill Campbell) comes to an end, Michael Read More

A Woman's A Helluva Thing

Actors: Angus MacFadyen, Penelope Ann Miller, Ann-Margret, Kathryn Harrold, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: A comedy detailing the war of the sexes with some new twists, this film stars Angus MacFadyen as Houston Blackett, a men's magazine owner whose mother suddenly dies in the Rocky Mountains. His mother has evidently left the estate not to her estranged son, but to her lover, a local girl named Zane Read More

Nailed

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Brad Rowe, Rachel Blanchard, Mary Kay Place, Dash Mihok

Synopsis: A man struggling to do the right thing for his child finds himself at odds with his family in this emotional drama. Tony Romano (Harvey Keitel) runs a successful clothing company in New York City; eager to share his good fortune with his family, Tony's daughter and younger son both have important Read More

Committed

Actors: Heather Graham, Casey Affleck, Luke Wilson, Goran Visnjic, Patricia Velasquez

Synopsis: Heather Graham stars in this indie exploration of love and marital commitment directed by Lisa Krueger. A hardcore believer in the sanctity of marriage, plucky Joline (Graham) is stunned when her husband Carl (Luke Wilson) abruptly dumps her, leaving only a vaguely-worded note to explain himself. Read More

Girl, Interrupted

Actors: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and Read More

Being John Malkovich

Actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Would you pay money to journey into the mind of the star of Con Air, The Killing Fields, and In The Line of Fire? Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is having money problems, so he takes a temporary job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a large office building. One day, while Read More

Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story

Synopsis: A real-life murder story that commanded headlines for several months in 1990 served as the basis for the tense but unsatisfying cable-TV movie Judgment Day: Ellie Nesler Story. Christine Lahti stars as Ellie Nesler, who cannot help but notice that her seven-year-old son Brandon (Andrew Ducote) has Read More

Pecker

Actors: Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Mary Kay Place, Martha Plimpton, Brendan Sexton, Jr.

Synopsis: John Waters wrote and directed this $6.5 million satire on the Manhattan art world, a rags-to-riches comedy about 18-year-old amateur photographer Pecker (so named because he pecks at his food). Pecker (Edward Furlong) is a blue-collar kid who works in a Baltimore sandwich shop and takes snapshots Read More

How to Make The Cruelest Month

Actors: Clea DeVall, Gabriel Mann, John David Souther, Mary Kay Place, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Synopsis: Kip Koenig wrote and directed this comedy, set in a small college town, about neurotic Bell Bryant (Clea DuVall) who explains her problems directly to the camera: her older sister Sarah (Jorja Fox) has a happy marriage plus a baby on the way. Her other sister, beautiful Dot (Amy Smart), is Read More

Point Last Seen

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Mary Kay Place, Kevin Kilner

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this intense made-for-television drama chronicles the courage of a search-and-rescue team leader who masters her own fears and concerns to find a child lost in the desert. Her inner turmoil stems from the fact that her potentially dangerous ex-husband has abducted her own Read More

King of the Hill: Peggy's Pageant Fever

Naturally Native

Actors: Valerie Red-Horse, Irene Bedard, Kimberly Norris Guerrero, Pato Hoffmann, Mark Abbott

Synopsis: Connecticut's Mashantucket tribe financed this Native American drama about three sisters who enter the business world by selling Naturally Native, a homegrown line of cosmetics based on traditional tribal remedies. Married to a Native American, Vickie (Valerie Red-Horse) believes strongly in Read More

Eye of God

Actors: Martha Plimpton, Kevin Anderson, Hal Holbrook, Nick Stahl, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Ainsley Dupree (Martha Plimpton) is a short-order cook at a diner in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a country town in the middle of nowhere. Lonely and bored, Ainsley becomes pen pals with Jack Stillings (Kevin Anderson), who is currently serving time in prison. When Jack is released, he immediately asks Read More

The Rainmaker

Actors: Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing Read More

My Very Best Friend

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Jill Eikenberry, Tom Irwin, Tom Mason, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: In this sudsy made-for-television drama, long-buried resentments, jealousy and other negative emotions re-emerge when a fashion model and an old friend are reunited. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Citizen Ruth

Actors: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston

Synopsis: The divisive issue of abortion is at the center of Citizen Ruth, a political satire that attempts to subject both pro-choice and pro-life forces to equal ridicule. Laura Dern portrays Ruth Stoops, an irresponsible, unemployed woman who's addicted to inhaling household chemicals and has becomes Read More

Indecent Seduction

Actors: Mac Davis, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholle Tom, Gary Cole, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-TV For My Daughter's Honor concerns a torrid sexual relationship between 14-year-old Oklahoma high schooler Amy Dustin (Nicholle Tom) and the school's popular football coach Pete Nash (Gary Cole), who so far as the rest of the community is concerned is an Read More

Manny & Lo

Actors: Dean Silvers, Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino, Mary Kay Place, Glenn Fitzgerald, Angie Phillips

Synopsis: The debut feature from writer/director Lisa Krueger stars Scarlett Johansson and Aleksa Palladino as the titular Manny and Lo, orphaned teenaged sisters who avoid foster homes by living on the run, stealing food, and sleeping in random model homes. Older sister Lo is the rude, bossy, incompetent Read More

Friends: The One with the List

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Using Chandler's (Matthew Perry) new computer, Ross (David Schwimmer) draws up a list of plusses and minuses to decide between Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Julie (Lauren Tom). Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler try to help compile the list, and guess what happens next. Elsewhere, Monica (Courteney Cox Read More

The Gospel According to Jesus

Synopsis: This program is designed to take viewers on a spititual journey. The Gospel According to Jesus features a video montage of the enduring state of Jesus' teachings in America today. Includes discussions by everyday people on topics such as the parables, a showcase of poetry, readings from the Read More

Teresa's Tattoo

Actors: Adrienne Shelly, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy McKeon, Lou Diamond Phillips, Casey Siemaszko

Synopsis: It's the old switcheroo in this action comedy that follows the exploits of desperate extortionists. Gloria is a fluffhead with a Chinese dragon tattooed upon her chest. She wears lovely holograph earrings that just happen to contain classified detail of the U.S. space program. She is taken hostage Read More

In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Michael Gross, Mary Kay Place, Brent Jennings, Bruce A. Young

Synopsis: When a gang leader murders the partner and friend of a police detective, the cop vows to get revenge, but as his quest for justice continues, it is at times unclear which is the hunter and which is the hunted. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Telling Secrets

Synopsis: Cybill Shepherd takes a ride into the dark side in this two-part TV movie, purported based on a true story. Shepherd is cast as wealthy and seductive Phoenix socialite Faith Kelsey, who opts not to get mad but to get even when her husband, Terry (Christopher McDonald), enters into an affair with Read More

Captain Ron

Actors: Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto

Synopsis: After he inherits a yacht, Chicago businessman Martin totes his family to the Caribbean to claim it. Not having any skill at boating, he hires long-haired, one-eyed low-life Captain Ron, to pilot the heap to Miami. During the journey, the somewhat inept sailor frequently loses his way while Read More

Samantha

Actors: Martha Plimpton, Dermot Mulroney, Hector Elizondo, Mary Kay Place, Ione Skye

Synopsis: When an adopted 21-year-old finds that she was adopted, she forsakes her adopted parents and goes on a crazed hunt to discover her real parents. When at last she finds them, she is disappointed to discover that they are very empty and shallow people; her adoptive parents earn a new respect in her Read More

Bed of Lies

Actors: Susan Dey, Chris Cooper, G.W. Bailey

Synopsis: When a poor waitress shoots her abusive husband, she is forced to battle the courts for custody of her children while waiting for a verdict on her trial for murder of her husband. Based on a true story, it does a credible job in the depiction of the abusive relationship but some of the impact is Read More

Bright Angel

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Bill Pullman, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: This contemporary western stars Dermot Mulroney as a Montana teenager whose sanity is being eroded by his parent's domestic squabbles. Linking up with Lili Taylor, a Wyoming-bound transient with a checkered history, Mulroney embarks upon an odyssey of self-discovery. Unfortunately, he persists in Read More

Crazy from the Heart

Actors: Christine Lahti, Rubén Blades, William Russ, Mary Kay Place, Tommy Muniz

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy set in a small Texas town, a never-married high school principal starts a scandal when she falls in love with the handsome school janitor. Unfortunately, he is Mexican and she Anglo. The local community frowns on such relationships and ultimately, their new love Read More

Out on the Edge

Synopsis: In this drama, a troubled 17-year old is involuntarily committed to a sleazy behavioral treatment center. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A New Life

Actors: Alan Alda, Ann-Margret, Hal Linden, Veronica Hamel, John Shea

Synopsis: After 20 years of marriage, Steve Giardino (Alan Alda) and his wife Jackie (Ann-Margret) agree to a divorce in this situation comedy. The focus is on both of them as they suffer through matchmaking, blind dates, and their new life as eligible singles. Donna (Mary Kay Place) is Jackie's friend Read More

Portrait of a White Marriage

Synopsis: Portrait of a White Marriage is an outgrowth of Martin Mull's wickedly satirical The History of White People in America, with a bit of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman tossed in. Mull plays a self-involved TV talk host who journeys to Hawkins Falls, Ohio, to reactivate his flagging career. While Read More

Martin Mull in Portrait of a White Marriage

Synopsis: Married couple Hal and Joyce Harrison are visited by humorist Martin Mull who brings disruption into their lives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

History of White People in America, Vol. 3

The Girl Who Spelled Freedom

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Disney's The Girl Who Spelled Freedom is a made-for-television film about a teen-aged Cambodian refugee who arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1979. As she adjusts to American culture, the girl becomes an excellent speller and, a mere four years after she arrived in the Read More

Explorers

Actors: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Amanda Peterson, Dick Miller

Synopsis: Explorers turns out to be much ado about nothing, but it's so sublimely assembled we're willing to overlook the sappy climax. Young sci-fi geek Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) (could he possibly be based on director Joe Dante?) would give anything to travel in space. Thanks to his computer-happy pal Read More

History of White People in America, Vol. 2

Synopsis: A sequel to Martin Mull's spoof about the hardships of white life in middle America. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

History of White People in America, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Comedian Martin Mull's seminal mockumentary concerns the mundane trials and banal tribulations of a gaggle of Ohio suburbanites. All the hallmarks of middle-American culture are skewered: religion, excessive use of dairy products, crime, and family bickering. The cast includes Mull, Mary Kay Read More

Smooth Talk

Actors: Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Levon Helm, Sarah Inglis, Elizabeth Berridge

Synopsis: Produced for PBS' American Playhouse series, Smooth Talk was given a brief theatrical release before its "official" February 9, 1987 TV debut. Laura Dern plays a teenager anxious to experience the pleasures of sexual contact. Left alone in the family summer cottage when her mother (Mary Kay Read More

Mom's On Strike

Actors: Mary Kay Place, Stephen Keep, Yeardley Smith, George Gaynes, Jenny Rebecca Dweir

Synopsis: Mary Kay Place stars in this Emmy-winning ABC Afterschool Special, which was based on a true story. Fed up with her lazy husband and her ungrateful children, housewife Ellie Skinner (Mary Kay Place) plants a sign on her front lawn declaring herself to be "on strike." Pitching a tent on the lawn Read More

For Love or Money

Synopsis: Joanna Piper (Suzanne Pleshette) and Mike Coyne (Gil Gerard) are far more concerned with money than with love. To that end, they sign up as contestants for a TV giveaway show. The catch: in order to claim the grand prize of one million dollars, Joanna and Mike must pretend to be hopelessly Read More

Waltz Across Texas

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anne Archer, Terry Jastrow, Noah Beery, Jr., Mary Kay Place, Josh Taylor

Synopsis: In this easily predictable romantic comedy, Gail (Anne Archer) is a no-nonsense geologist from the East Coast and John (Terry Jastrow) is a down-home, intuitive Texan whose expertise lies in guessing where petroleum is located -- Gail, as a geologist, is not in the habit of guessing. As the two Read More

Terms of Endearment

Actors: Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow

Synopsis: Terms of Endearment covers three decades in the lives of widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Fiercely protected by Aurora throughout childhood, Emma runs into resistance from her mother when she marries wishy-washy college teacher Flap (Jeff Daniels). Read More

The Big Chill

Actors: Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, JoBeth Williams, Tom Berenger, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly

Synopsis: Embraced by the Baby Boomer generation and spawning countless imitators, the sophomore film of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan was a successful comedy-drama with a best selling soundtrack of Motown hits. Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles Read More

Modern Problems

Actors: Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Mary Kay Place, Nell Carter, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: An air-traffic controller (Chevy Chase) is having the worst luck: first his girlfriend leaves him, and then he experiences a nuclear disaster. His life begins to pick up after he realizes that the radiation fallout has given him magical telekinetic powers. He decides to settle a few scores with Read More

Private Benjamin

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Sam Wanamaker, Harry Dean Stanton