Mia SaraFilmography

Hoodlum & Son

Actors: Ron Perlman, Mia Sara, Ted King

Synopsis: Ron Perlman, Mia Sara, and Robert Vaughn star in this period comedy concerning a neglectful gangster father and the troubled ten-year-old son who strives to botch dad's dealings with a dangerous gangster. 1930s-era gangster Charlie (Perlman) was never too big on father/son bonding, and as a result Read More

Birds of Prey [TV Series]

Actors: Dina Meyer, Ashley Scott, Rachel Skarsten, Mia Sara, Shemar Moore

Synopsis: Taking a "revisionist" approach to several DC Comics favorites, the weekly adventure series Birds of Prey could easily have been retitled "Charlie's Superheroines." Dina Meyer headed the cast as Barbara Gordon, who in her younger days fought crime in Gotham City as the caped-and-cowled Batgirl. Read More

The Impossible Elephant

Actors: Mark Rendall, Nicholas Lea, Mia Sara

Synopsis: In this comic fantasy for the family, Daniel (Mark Rendall) is a young boy who is having more than his share of problems -- his mother has died, he's having a hard time with bullies at school, and he wants a pet but his father, Steven (Nicholas Lea), isn't so sure it's a good idea. One night Read More

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Synopsis: Wealthy businessman Jack Robinson (Matthew Modine) is building a new casino on the site of the family castle in England when the construction crew makes a startling discovery: They find the skeleton of a gigantic human being. Soon, foul weather and natural disasters occur at an unnatural rate. Read More

Dazzle

Actors: Maxwell Caulfield, Chantell Stander, Big Mick, Peter Bonner, Wilson Dunster

Hard Time

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Michael Buie, Paco Prieto, Mia Sara

Synopsis: Former Evening Shade costars Burt Reynolds and Charles Durning are reunited in this made-for-TV action thriller, the first entry in a three-picture deal between star-director Reynolds and the TNT cable network. Framed for murder after a botch stakeout, maverick cop Logan McQueen (Reynolds) escapes Read More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Actors: Michael Caine, Patrick Dempsey, Mia Sara, Bryan Brown, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Synopsis: The second of two network-TV adaptations of Jules Verne's speculative 1868 novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, this two-part ABC version originally aired on May 11 and 12, 1997, some two months after CBS's shorter -- and infinitely more faithful -- version. The year is 1886, and an unknown Read More

Undertow

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Mia Sara, Charles Dance

Synopsis: Lost in a storm, transient Jack (Lou Diamond Phillips) seeks shelter in a remote woodland cabin and suddenly finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man who lives there with his child bride. The storm is but the harbinger of a hurricane and though the reclusive Lyle Yates (Charles Dance Read More

The Pompatus of Love

Actors: Jon Cryer, Tim Guinee, Adrian Pasdar, Mia Sara, Kristin Scott Thomas

Synopsis: This lively and complicated romantic comedy-drama centers on four fellows. Runyon is a poet carrying a torch for Kathryn; he flies to LA to talk about scripting a movie and is accompanied by the lovely Tarzaan. Gadabout Josh is seen having a fling with a Chinese hat-check girl and pursuing Read More

The Maddening

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Mia Sara, Brian Wimmer

Synopsis: In this psycho-thriller, a little girl and her mother find themselves the focus of a crazed couple's delusions. The horror begins after Cassie has a fight with her husband David and takes off in the car with their young daughter Samantha. Cassie takes a wrong turn and ends up in the home of the Read More

Bullet to Beijing

Actors: Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Mia Sara, Michael Sarrazin, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Working-class espionage-agent Harry Palmer returns in this spy thriller. The story begins in London after a murder occurs during a demonstration at the North Korean embassy. Palmer, who was supposed to ensure nothing happened, fears repercussions from his higher-ups. They tell him that since the Read More

The Set Up

Actors: Billy Zane, Mia Sara, James Russo, James Coburn

Synopsis: When Charlie Thorpe, an MIT-educated security systems expert and convicted cat-burglar, gets out of prison, he promises himself to go straight. Yet when a psycho he knew from prison kidnaps his girlfriend, he is forced back into the crime game. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Day, Blue Night

Actors: Mia Sara, Michelle Forbes, Gil Bellows, Tim Guinee, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Tough, world-weary wanderer Rinda travels throughout the Southwest working occasionally as a truck-stop cook. She is in one lonely town when she hooks up with sexy Bo Schrag. They have a brief affair, and she doesn't realize Bo is married until his plain wife shows up during one of their sessions Read More

Timecop

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Based on a comic book story, this futuristic film follows the time-travel exploits of policeman Max Walker (Claude Van Damme). In 1994, Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is about to tell him that she is expecting their first child when they are attacked by a group of criminals. Walker is shot and Read More

Call of the Wild

Synopsis: This version of Jack London's classic adventure was made for television and stars Rick Schroder as the inexperienced young prospector who heads northward for the Klondike gold-rush of 1897. While in the rugged territory he becomes friends with Buck, a courageous German Shepherd being used as a Read More

A Stranger Among Us

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal, John Pankow, Tracy Pollan, Lee Richardson

Synopsis: When a Jewish jeweler is found dead and his store is missing more than one million dollars in diamonds, a New York police detective (Melanie Griffith) goes undercover in a community of Hasidic Jews to find the criminal. Once she is immersed in the community, she falls in love with one of the most Read More

Blindsided

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: Jeff Fahey stars as a former cop who has turned to burglary. Caught in the crossfire of a drug sting, Fahey is blinded. While recuperating in Mexico, he makes the acquaintance of beautiful but secretive Mia Sara. His subsequent romantic fling plunges him into yet another perilous situation. Made Read More

A Climate for Killing

Actors: John Beck, Steven Bauer, Katharine Ross, Phil Brock, Mia Sara

Synopsis: When a woman murdered over fifteen years ago is again found dead, a small-town Arizona policeman (John Beck) must solve the case without stepping on the tender toes of procedure, courtesy of a federal agent from Phoenix (Steven Bauer). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

By the Sword

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Eric Roberts, Mia Sara, Chris Rydell, Elaine Kagan

Synopsis: Villard (Eric Roberts) is an expert swordsman who runs a fencing school; he first learned the sport from his father, who was killed in a match when Villard was a young man. One day, an older gentleman (F. Murray Abraham) who looks down on his luck appears at Villard's fencing studio; he introduces Read More

Any Man's Death

Actors: John Savage, William Hickey, Mia Sara, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: John Savage plays a roving reporter on assignment in Africa. While nosing around in the jungle, Savage stumbles upon an unregenerate Nazi war criminal. As he mulls over what do with this information, the Nazi continues laying the groundwork for a worldwide neofascist conspiracy. Despite the Read More

The Call of the Wild

Synopsis: This animated adventure, based on the novel by Jack London, follows the friendship between a young boy and his dog in 19th-century Alaska. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Daughter of Darkness

Actors: Mia Sara, Jack Coleman, Robert Reynolds, Dezso Garas

Synopsis: This made-for-cable vampire potboiler is distinguished mainly by the presence of director Stuart Gordon (of Re-Animator fame) and a sadly pallid looking Anthony Perkins in one of his last roles. Radiant Mia Sara plays schoolteacher Catherine Thatcher, whose trip to Budapest in search of her father Read More

Big Time

Actors: Mia Sara, Dennis Boutsikaris, Adrian Pasdar

Synopsis: Directed by Jan Egleson, Big Time follows a frustrated model (Mia Sara) through the ups and downs of the hectic and drug-addled late '80s fashion scene. The made-for-television feature also stars Ron Silver, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Adrian Pasdar, and is based on a play written by Keith Reddin. Read More

Till We Meet Again

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Lucy Gutteridge, Mia Sara

Synopsis: Originally titled Judith Krantz' Till We Meet Again, this two-part soaper covers forty-three years in the lives of three women. In 1913, French chanteuse Lucy Gutteridge embarks upon a successful showbiz career. She marries a champaigne heir and bears two daughters, played by Courtney Cox and Mia Read More

Apprentice to Murder

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara, Knut Husebö, Rutanya Alda

Synopsis: We're told that Apprentice to Murder is a true story. If so, we'll steer clear of the film's Pennsylvania Dutch locale in the future. A series of murders occur in a sleepy community, and suspicion immediately falls on the local "character": a self-styled faithhealer and mystic. Donald Sutherland Read More

Shadows in the Storm

Actors: Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell, James Widdoes

Synopsis: Thelo (Ned Beatty) is a middle-aged librarian who is fired from his job for drinking too much. He sets out for the woods in hopes that getting back to nature will inspire him to write poetry. There he meets Melanie (Mira Sara), who is the embodiment of everything he finds beautiful in women, and Read More

Queenie

Actors: Mia Sara, Kirk Douglas, Martin Balsam, Claire Bloom, Topol

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Queenie was adapted from the roman a clef by Michael Korda. This is the story of Queenie Kelly,an English girl (Mia Sara) from the slums of Calcutta who is kept from full knowledge of her Indian heritage by her protective mother (Jean Simmons). As a means of bettering Read More

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey

Synopsis: Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last grand duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day bacchanal through the Read More

Legend

Actors: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten

Synopsis: This beautifully staged and costumed fantasy is about young Jack (Tom Cruise) and his lady love Princess Lili (Mia Sara), and how Jack battles Darkness (Tim Curry) to save both the Princess and the world. When the peasant Jack takes Princess Lili to see the unicorns, the strongest animals around Read More