Melissa Toth Filmography

Occupation:: Costume Designer

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Adventureland

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Bill Hader

Synopsis: Superbad's Greg Mottola takes the writing and directing chores for Adventureland, a comedy based on the director's own life that follows a college grad's adventures working at an amusement park after his dreams of heading to Europe fall through. Jesse Eisenberg and Ryan Reynolds head up the cast Read More

3/27/09
Synecdoche, New York

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson

Synopsis: A wild-eyed theater director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) attempts to build a life-sized replica of New York City in preparation for an ambitious play in the feature directorial debut of notoriously quirky screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Catherine Keener Read More

10/24/08
The Visitor

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Marian Seldes

Synopsis: A lonesome widower and college economics professor finds his mundane existence suddenly shaken up when he befriends a pair of illegal immigrants, one of whom has recently been threatened with deportation by U.S. immigration authorities, in the sophomore feature from The Station Agent director Tom McCarthy Read More

4/11/08
Margaret

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno, Matthew Broderick

1/1/08
No Reservations

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jennifer Wade

Synopsis: Carol Fuchs adapts writer/director Sandra Nettelbeck's screenplay for the 2001 romantic drama Mostly Martha for this Scott Hicks directed remake starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, and Patricia Clarkson. Kate Armstrong (Jones) is the master chef who is equally intense both in and out of Read More

7/27/07
Take the Lead

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Lauren Collins

Synopsis: A teacher and his students open up new worlds for one another in this urban drama inspired by a true story. Pierre Dulaine (Antonio Banderas) is a prize-winning ballroom dancer and instructor from Manhattan who volunteers his services to a high school in one of the roughest neighborhoods in the Read More

4/7/06
Prime

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams, Zak Orth

Synopsis: Two women get a new and unusual perspective on the doctor/patient relationship in this romantic comedy. Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a woman in her mid-thirties who has recently gone through a messy divorce. Rafi has been seeing an analyst, Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep), as she struggles to get back Read More

10/28/05
Nola

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Emmy Rossum, Mary McDonnell, Steven Bauer, James Badge Dale, Thom Christopher

Synopsis: Nola (Emmy Rossum) is a Kansas teen who runs away to New York City to escape an abusive stepfather. Once she gets to the big town, she sets about looking for a job and for her father, whom she's never met. She attacks both tasks with fierce determination, but has little success, until she stumbles Read More

7/23/04
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood

Synopsis: The second feature from director Michel Gondry (Human Nature) finds the filmmaker reteaming with screenwriter Charlie Kaufman for this off-the-wall romantic comedy. Jim Carrey stars as Joel Barish, a man who is informed that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their Read More

3/19/04
The Perfect Score

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, Leonardo Nam

Synopsis: Produced by MTV Films, The Perfect Score is a teen crime comedy about a group of high school students who decide to steal the answers to the SAT exam. Kyle (Chris Evans) wants to be an architect, but his scores are too low to get into the school of his choice. Matty (Bryan Greenberg) is Read More

1/30/04
Hollywood Ending

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Woody Allen, Téa Leoni, Debra Messing, Mark Rydell, Treat Williams, George Hamilton

Synopsis: A down-on-his luck auteur gets one more chance at the big time -- provided his neuroses don't swallow him whole -- in Woody Allen's 33rd feature release, Hollywood Ending. Allen plays Val Waxman, a one-time cinematic genius who's resorted to taking advertisement work to pay the bills for himself Read More

5/3/02
Maze

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Rob Morrow, Laura Linney, Craig Sheffer, Rose Gregorio, Robert Hogan

Synopsis: An artist with Tourette's syndrome and an aversion to romance falls for his best friend's girl in this sometimes comic drama. Lyle Maze (Rob Morrow), a successful painter who's also starting to explore sculpture, relies on emotional armor a foot thick to protect him from other people. In addition Read More

11/9/01
Too Tired To Die

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Mira Sorvino, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Imperioli, Geno Lechner

Synopsis: South Korean-born Wonsuk Chin, a NYC resident for eight years, made his directorial debut with this hip comedy, shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. With numerous cinematic references and allusions (Bergman, Godard, Woo, Hartley), the tale begins with a black-and-white silent sequence Read More

2/21/01
Saving Silverman

Crew: Costume Designer, Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black, Amanda Peet, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: This romantic comedy is from director, former actor, and regular Adam Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan. Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) is a loser at love, so his best friends J.D. (Jack Black) and Wayne (Steve Zahn) set him up on a date with his dream girl, Judith (Amanda Peet). A serious Read More

2/9/01
You Can Count On Me

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, Matthew Broderick, Jon Tenney

Synopsis: Kenneth Lonergan, the co-screenwriter for Analyze This (1999), makes his directorial debut with this sensitive portrait of a pair of grown siblings. Sammy and Terry Prescott (Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo) were orphaned as children after their parents were killed in a car accident. Since then, the Read More

11/17/00
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen, Tristen Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner

Synopsis: One of the most financially successful independent films of all time spawns a sequel that at once honors and confronts the pseudo-documentary style of the original in this follow-up to The Blair Witch Project. After The Blair Witch Project becomes a box-office smash, tourists begin to descend upon Read More

10/27/00
Luminous Motion

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Eric Lloyd, Deborah Kara Unger, Terry Kinney, Jamey Sheridan, James Berland

Synopsis: Bette Gordon, who made her directorial debut in 1983 with Variety, returned 15 years later with this adaptation of Scott Bradfield's novel The History of Luminous Motion about an alcoholic mother. "Only two things mattered to me -- being with my mom and being in motion," says ten-year-old Phillip (Eric Lloyd Read More

5/19/00
Coming Soon

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Tricia Vessey, Gaby Hoffmann, Bonnie Root, James Roday, Mia Farrow

Synopsis: Coming Soon is yet another youth comedy about the sexual misadventures of a group of high school students, but with a difference -- this time, it follows three teenage girls who are in search of sexual and romantic fulfillment. Nell (Tricia Vessey), Jenny (Gaby Hoffmann), and Stream (Bonnie Root) Read More

5/12/00
Love God

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Shannon Burkett, Kymberli Ghee, Will Keenan

Synopsis: In this inarguably bizarre comedy, Larue Maxwell (Will Keenan) is an unfortunate young man suffering from "compulsive reading syndrome," a neurochemical malady that causes him to furiously read as many books as he can, and then destroy them. Larue is released from the mental institution he's Read More

1997
The Deli

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Judith Malina, Debi Mazar, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, David Johansen

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hard-luck gambler learns a new commandment: Honor Thy Mother's Lottery Winnings. Johnny Amico (Mike Starr) runs a delicatessen in New York City; regarded as a nice guy by his friends and regular customers, he has a weakness for gambling and is usually in debt. Johnny is Read More

1997
One Way Out

Crew: Costume Designer

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two recently released prisoners, Frank and Bobby, get into more trouble when Bobby begins plotting one last bank heist and Frank starts plotting revenge against Walt, the thug who harmed his family. Deciding to team up, Frank and Bobby conspire to rob Walt's garage. Read More

1996
Welcome to the Dollhouse

Crew: Costume Designer

Actors: Eric Mabius, Heather Matarazzo, Daria Kalinina, Matthew Faber, Angela Pietropinto, Bill Buell

Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is perhaps the most put-upon adolescent in film history in Todd Solondz's bitterly hilarious black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse. Dawn is bright but awkward, both physically and socially, and is appallingly unpopular among her peers, to whom she's Read More

1995