Melora Walters Filmography

Big Love: Season 01

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

Brothers Three

Actors: John Heard, Neal McDonough, Melora Walters, Scott Michael Campbell, Patrick Wilson

Synopsis: A man seeking to escape his turbulent family life is dragged kicking and screaming back into his dysfunctional past when his two siblings summon him to a remote cabin to discuss their late father's true fate, and finally call the lies of the past out into the open. When Peter (Patrick Wilson) took Read More

American Gothic

Actors: Patrick Wilson, Neil McDonough, Scott Michael Campbell, John Heard, Melora Walters

The Butterfly Effect

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, Melora Walters

Synopsis: Final Destination 2 screenwriters Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber make their directorial debut with the sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect. Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher with facial hair) wants to free himself from his disturbing childhood memories. As a kid, he often blacked out for long periods Read More

Cold Mountain

Actors: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil War. Jude Law stars as Inman, a young soldier who, despite an injury, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada (Nicole Kidman Read More

The Big Empty

Actors: Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: A guy looking for easy money gets a lot more than he bargained for in this noir-flavored independent comedy. John Person (Jon Favreau) is a struggling actor living in Los Angeles who is starting to buckle under the pressure of his own failures. With no acting jobs coming in and a massive credit Read More

Runaway Jury

Actors: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: Three people attempt to bend justice for their own purposes in this drama based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham. After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun, with her lawyer, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), arguing that Read More

Speaking of Sex

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Catherine O'Hara, James Spader, Bill Murray, Jay Mohr

Synopsis: Wild Things director James McNaughton explores the doomed efforts of young couple to salvage their failing marriage in a dark romantic comedy starring Bill Murray, James Spader, Jay Mohr, Melora Walters, and Catherine O'Hara. In the grand scheme of things their relationship has only just begun Read More

Threat Matrix [TV Series]

Actors: Jamie Denton, Kelly Rutherford, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Shoshannah Stern, Kurt Caceres

Synopsis: Definitely a series for the post-9/11 generation, ABC's Threat Matrix detailed the exploits of an elite task-force unit of the Homeland Security division. Headed by John Kilmer (Jamie Denton), the unit, comprised of the cream of the FBI, CIA, and NSA, was dedicated to stopping terrorism before it Read More

Wisegirls

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Mariah Carey, Melora Walters, Arthur Nascarella, Saul Stein

Synopsis: David Anspaugh's mix of female bonding and mob drama, Wisegirls concerns a trio of waitresses. Meg (Oscar winner Mira Sorvino), wise-talking Raychel (Mariah Carey), and wannabe dancer Kate (Paul Thomas Anderson regular Melora Walters) grow close while working at an Italian restaurant. After saving Read More

Push, Nevada [TV Series]

Actors: Derek Cecil, Scarlett Chorvat, Jon Polito, Armand Assante, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: Network television's first "interactive" mystery-suspense series, Push, Nevada got under way somewhat in the manner of the 1945 theatrical feature Murder, He Says, with stalwart IRS agent Jim Prufrock (Derek Cecil) venturing into the hinterlands in search of a huge cache of stolen money. Prufrock Read More

Rain

Actors: Melora Walters, Kris Park, Jo Anderson, Diane Ladd, Jamey Sheridan

Synopsis: Love, death, and troubling secrets lurk beneath the surface of a quiet Iowa farming community in this independent drama. Ellen Biddle (Melora Walters) is a Iowa housewife who has reached the breaking point -- a drought is devastating the family farm, creditors threaten to foreclose on the Read More

Desert Saints

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Melora Walters, Leslie Stefanson

Synopsis: In this offbeat thriller, a refined and well-educated hired killer has an unusual way of doing business: He finds women, forces them to help him with his murders, and then kills them before they can tell anyone about his work. With police detectives on his trail, the killer picks up a woman Read More

Magnolia

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy

Synopsis: Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson followed his critical and commercial breakthrough Boogie Nights with this wildly ambitious story of lives intertwining on a single day in California's San Fernando Valley. Earl Partridge (Jason Robards), a successful producer of television game shows, left his Read More

Twice Upon a Time

Actors: Ellen Crawford, Carolyn Fears, Peter Fox, John Fugelsang, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Dissatisfied with the way her life has turned out, Beth Sager (Molly Ringwald) would give anything for the proverbial Second Chance. Upon breaking a wishbone during Thanksgiving dinner, Beth finds her dreams coming true; she is whisked to a parallel world where the people are familiar but the Read More

L.A. Doctors [TV Series]

Actors: Ken Olin, Matt Craven, Rick Roberts, Sheryl Lee, Joseph Ashton

Synopsis: This TV medical drama examines egos and ethics as a trio of doctors enter private practice. Doctors Roger Cattan (Ken Olin), Tim Lonner (Matt Craven), and Evan Newman (Rick Roberts) recruit Dr. Sarah Church (Sheryl Lee) to join their team, and they're in business -- occupying a posh office with Read More

Los Locos

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Melora Walters, René Auberjonois, Paul Lazar, Danny Trejo

Synopsis: Mario Van Peebles wrote, produced, and starred in this follow-up to his 1993 Western Posse. Chance (Van Peebles) is a cavalry scout in the old west who accidentally gives his battalion wrong directions going into a battle. Not being a forgiving bunch, the soldiers beat Chance, tar and feather him Read More

Boogie Nights

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle, Heather Graham, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy

Synopsis: While set within the milieu of the Los Angeles adult film industry, Boogie Nights is less a film about pornography than the serio-comic story of a group of misfits, losers, and lost souls who are embraced by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a director who makes "adult films, exotic motion pictures." Read More

Eraser

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: Top-notch action sequences and exciting stunt work highlight this fast-moving thriller. John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a top agent in the U.S. Marshalls' Witness Protection Program; it's his job to "erase" the pasts of Federal witnesses under his watch and deal with anyone who tries to Read More

Hard Eight

Actors: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, F. William Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Before his commercial breakthrough with Boogie Nights (1997), writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson made this low-key drama. John (John C. Reilly), a half-bright loser stranded in Reno, is down to his last few bucks when Sydney (Phillip Baker Hall), taking pity on him, buys him breakfast and offers Read More

American Strays

Actors: Luke Perry, Jennifer Tilly, Eric Roberts, John Savage, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A collection of losers, misfits, and outcasts find their lives unexpectedly converging at a diner along a desert highway in this violent and offbeat comedy drama. Dwayne (John Savage) is a strait-laced-looking vacuum cleaner salesman with a bad habit of murdering prospective customers, while Patty Read More

NYPD Blue: The Bank Dick

Synopsis: Simone (Jimmy Smits) confronts Russell (Kim Delaney) over her drinking, then tries to protect John Irvin (Bill Brochtrup) and his lover from gay-bashing fellow cops. An unexpected "witness" surfaces in a serial-killing case. And in off-duty matters, altar-bound Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) asks Simone Read More

NYPD Blue: Dirty Laundry

Synopsis: The IAB wants Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) to keep an eye on a possibly "dirty" cop, Detective Drucker (Michael MacRae). This causes some discomfort for Bobby as he and Drucker investigate the case of an alleged flasher. In another development, a young woman claims to have witnessed the murder of a Read More

Ed Wood

Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself Read More

Cabin Boy

Actors: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brion James

Synopsis: Former NBC intern and Get a Life creator Chris Elliott stars as the title character, a recent graduate of the exclusive Fancy Lad Academy who unwittingly boards the wrong sea vessel and ends up a whipping post for its gruff, foul-mouthed crew after his predecessor (Andy Richter of The Late Show) Read More

All Tied Up

Actors: Zach Galligan, Teri Hatcher, Tracy Griffith, Lara Harris, Edward Blatchford

Synopsis: This variation on the themes of 9 to 5 (1980) and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) presents one philandering man as the target of revenge for all scorned women everywhere. When Brian Hartley (Zach Galligan) has been unfaithful yet again to his fiancée Linda Alissio (Teri Hatcher), he shows up at her Read More

Twenty Bucks

Actors: Linda Hunt, David Rasche, Concetta Tomei, George Morfogen, 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

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

Dead Man's Revenge

Beethoven

Actors: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Nicholle Tom, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Castile

Synopsis: Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of Read More

Murphy Brown: He-Ho, He-Ho, It's Off to Lamaze We Go

Synopsis: For various reasons, some of them legitimate, Frank (Joe Regalbuto) and Jim (Charles Kimbrough) turn down the opportunity to be Murphy's Lamaze class partner, while Murphy (Candice Bergen) herself turns down Corky's offer to help out (the fact Corky [Faith Ford once assisted in a calf's birth does Read More

America's Deadliest Home Video

Actors: Danny Bonaduce

Synopsis: Child star-cum-talkshow host Danny Bonaduce is the hapless hero of America's Deadliest Home Video. Receiving a video camera for his second wedding anniversary, Bonaduce tests it out in his bedroom, where he records his wife (Greta Bonaduce) and her lover having their own celebration. Later on Read More

Roseanne: Hair

Synopsis: Continuing her search for a job, Roseanne finds she can excel at her usual household chores cleaning up at a beauty salon. She is surprised when she actually gets along with her co-workers Marsha (Elizabeth Franz), Iris (Lori Tan Chinn), and Debbie (Melora Walters). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Read More

How to Murder a Millionaire

Actors: David Ogden Stiers, Joan Rivers, Alex Rocco, Morgan Fairchild

Synopsis: The millionaire of the title is Joan Rivers, an over-aged Beverly Hills brat whom many of the film's characters want to see dead or in rags. Armed with only her mile-a-minute mouth, Rivers fends off con men, fortune hunters, and would-be murderers--among them, possibly, her own husband (Alex Read More

Rude Awakening

Actors: Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts play two draft-dodging hippies who flee to a commune in Central America where they stay for 20 years. When they return in 1989 and seek out some of their old NYC buddies, they find they've turned yuppie and things just aren't what they'd expected. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dead Poets Society

Actors: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen

Synopsis: Robin Williams toned down his usually manic comic approach in this successful period drama. In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process Read More

Underground Terror

Actors: Doc Dougherty, Lenny Loftin, Rick Siler

Synopsis: A New York City police officer struggles to remove the threat presented by a gang of crazed killers who are wreaking havoc in the subway system. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More