Michael J. FoxFilmography

Accidental Advocate

Synopsis: Former Dateline NBC producer Jessica Gerstle joins her father Claude in getting to the heart of the federally funded stem cell research issue in this earnest documentary featuring Michael J. Fox, Sam Brownback, Orin Hatch, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Claude Gerstle was a successful surgeon and Read More

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Synopsis: The little mouse with a big heart is back in this animated, straight-to-video sequel that finds Stuart enlisting the help of a few new friends in rescuing Snowbell from the steely clawed clenches of a fearsome forest creature known only as "The Beast." As the Littles packs their bags for a Read More

Barbara Walters: 25 on 20/20

Actors: Barbara Walters

Synopsis: This program takes a look at some of the notable interviews journalist Barbara Walters whose career with news magazine show 20/20 brought her face to face with presidents, murderers, and celebrities. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Saving Milly

Synopsis: Based on the autobiographical book by political journalist Mort Kondracke (here played by Bruce Greenwood, the made-for-TV Saving Milly lovingly chronicles the marriage of Kondracke and his wife Milly (Madeline Stowe)--a union that ended on a note of tragedy. The story begins in Chicago in 1966 Read More

Interstate 60

Actors: James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell, Michael J. Fox, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: At the beginning of Interstate 60, Neal Oliver (James Mardsen) has more questions about his future than answers. Though he would rather pursue a career in art, Neal debates whether or not he should set his goals towards a law degree, as his father would greatly prefer. He has a girlfriend, but he Read More

Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary

Actors: Denis Leary

Synopsis: Irish comic Denis Leary listens to many of his fellow comic friends insult him on The Roast of Denis Leary. Some of the celebrities who stop in to pay homage are Jim Breuer, Jon Stewart, Colin Quinn, and actresses Gina Gershon and Rene Russo. This program contains language that is unsuitable for Read More

Stuart Little 2

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Nathan Lane

Synopsis: This sequel to a family hit based on the popular children's book by E.B. White again mixes live action actors with computer-animated cartoon characters. Michael J. Fox returns as the voice of Stuart Little, a three-inch tall talking mouse adopted by a human family in New York City. When his older Read More

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Actors: Michael J. Fox, James Garner, Cree Summer, Leonard Nimoy, Don Novello

Synopsis: The first Disney cartoon to be produced in the 70 mm format since The Black Cauldron (1985), this blend of traditional animation with computer-generated imagery is a straight adventure tale of the Jules Verne school, eschewing the studio's typical formula of cute critters mixed with song-and-dance Read More

The Concert For New York City

Synopsis: In the wake of the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, many figures in the entertainment community stepped forward to offer their talents to raise money towards relief efforts for the victims and their survivors. On October 20, 2001, some of the biggest names in Read More

Stuart Little

Actors: Miles Marsico, Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story is brought to the screen in this fantasy, which combines computer-animated characters with a cast of live actors. Mrs. Little (Geena Davis), Mr. Little (Hugh Laurie), and their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) live in a brownstone near New York's Central Park. Read More

The Frighteners

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Read More

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

Actors: Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Veronica Lauren, Kevin Timothy Chevalia, Michael J. Fox, Sally Field, Benji Thall

Synopsis: Two dogs and a cat, separated from their human family, must find their way home and face the dangers of a big city for the first time in this adventure story for the whole family. Bob Seaver (Robert Hays) and his wife Laura (Kim Greist), who live in Northern California, are taking their kids on a Read More

Spin City: Season 01

Actors: Michael J. Fox

Mars Attacks!

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown

Synopsis: This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s Read More

Blue in the Face

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Lou Reed, Roseanne, Michael J. Fox, Jim Jarmusch

Synopsis: Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Paul Auster had enough storylines and characters left over from their charming comedy Smoke to make another film, so they shot Blue In The Face immediately after Smoke was completed. The film once again centers on the Brooklyn Cigar Store and manager Auggie (Harvey Keitel Read More

Coldblooded

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jason Priestley, Peter Riegert, Kimberly Williams

Synopsis: A quiet young fellow becomes a reluctant, but effective hit man in this comedy. Cosmo, a robot-like bookie, is promoted to hit man by his crime boss, Gordon. Cosmo's teacher is to be the philosophical and chatty Steve, a real pro. Cosmo is an excellent shot and quickly learns. His problem is that Read More

The American President

Actors: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, David Paymer, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: This earnest, intelligent, and well-written romantic comedy is enjoyable and optimistic in classic Hollywood style, even if its idealism doesn't seem quite so credible against the cynical political backdrop of the Nineties. President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly liberal Read More

Greedy

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis, Olivia D'Abo, Phil Hartman

Synopsis: It's been said that nothing can bring two men closer together than a dollar placed between them, and a large family finds themselves becoming far closer than they'd like over several million dollars in this satiric comedy. Uncle Joe McTeague (Kirk Douglas) is an elderly man with a multi-million Read More

Where the Rivers Flow North

Actors: Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal, Bill Raymond, Michael J. Fox, John Griesemer

Synopsis: Jay Craven and Don Bredes adapted Howard Frank Mosher's novel about a 1920s Vermont logger who is being pressured to sell his land to a power company so the region can enjoy its first hydroelectric dam. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Don't Drink the Water

Actors: Mayim Bialik, Michael J. Fox, Edward Herrmann, Julie Kavner, Woody Allen, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made-for-television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself. The fish-out-of-water premise remains the same: Allen plays Walter Hollander Read More

For Love or Money

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Gabrielle Anwar, Anthony Higgins, Michael Tucker, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox stars as Doug Ireland in this romantic comedy about a brash concierge at a swanky New York hotel who always makes it a point to go out of his way for the hotel guests. But Doug doesn't want to be a concierge forever. What he would really like to do is build a swanky hotel of his Read More

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Actors: Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Jean Smart, Benji Thall, Michael J. Fox, Veronica Lauren, Don Ameche, Sally Field

Synopsis: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Disney's 1993 remake of the 1963 hit The Incredible Journey, follows three household pets as they travel across mountains and plains on their way to find their owners. A misunderstanding leads the animals to mistakenly believe that they have been abandoned Read More

Hollywood Remembers: James Cagney - Top of the World

Synopsis: This hour-long documentary pays tribute to Jimmy Cagney (1899-1986), who carved a niche for himself in Hollywood's pantheon of the 1930s and '40s with tough-guy gangster roles in movies such as The Public Enemy (1931) and The Roaring Twenties (1939). However, as this program shows, he had some Read More

Life with Mikey

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christina Vidal, Nathan Lane, Cyndi Lauper, David Krumholtz

Synopsis: James Lapine, whose Broadway credits as a writer/director includes work with Stephen Sondheim, made his Hollywood debut with this comedy. Michael J. Fox plays Michael Chapman, who once upon a time was a wise-cracking child star on a situation comedy called "Life With Mikey." Now in his thirties Read More

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories [Animated TV Series]

Synopsis: Duvall's Emmy- and ACE award-winning animated bedtime stories, narrated by celebrities. Each tape contains two stories and are available individually. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories, Vol. 4: There's a Nightmare in My Closet

Synopsis: This made-for-cable TV feature includes the three Mercer Mayer stories There's an Alligator Under My Bed, There's a Nightmare in My Closet, and There's Something in My Attic. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Doc Hollywood

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Barnard Hughes, Woody Harrelson, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: A big city doctor is stranded in a small rural town, where he finds love, professional challenges, and a pet pig, in this comedy. Fresh out of residence at a Washington D.C. hospital, hot-shot plastic surgeon Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) hops in his Porsche and is headed for California, where a Read More

The Hard Way

Actors: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Annabella Sciorra, Penny Marshall, LL Cool J, John Capodice

Synopsis: Action film director John Badham bites the hand that feeds him in this action movie spoof that features ribbing of pretty-boy Hollywood action stars by Michael J. Fox and a parody of colorful, hair-trigger James Woods types by the man himself. Woods plays New York homicide detective John Moss, who Read More

Saturday Night Live: Michael J. Fox

Actors: Michael J. Fox, The Black Crowes

Synopsis: This 1991 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Michael J. Fox and features musical guest the Black Crowes. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales From the Crypt: The Trap

Crew: Director

Remember Pearl Harbor

Synopsis: This program chronicles the events of December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and the event that brought America into World War II. The events of that day are chronicled here, effectively and dramatically bringing across the horror and heroism Read More

The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy

Back to the Future Part III

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson

Synopsis: The final installment in the Back to the Future trilogy picks up where the second film left off, but it casts off the dizzying time travel of the first two films for mostly routine comedy set in the Old West. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) receives a 70-year-old letter from his inventor friend, Doc Read More

Back to the Future Part II

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Harry Waters, Jr.

Synopsis: Things have barely settled from the excitement and resolve of the original Back to the Future, when in pops that crazy inventor Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) with news that in order to prevent a series of events that could ruin the McFly name for posterity, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox ) and Read More

Casualties of War

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: Casualties of War was based on a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang. This, in turn, was inspired by a true incident which illustrated the dehumanizing aspects of the Vietnam experience. Michael J. Fox plays Eriksson, a member of an American squadron stationed in the deepest jungles of Southeast Read More

Bright Lights, Big City

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox once more makes a courageous effort to shed his nice-guy image in Bright Lights, Big City. Fox plays an impressionable Kansan who comes to the Big Apple to take a job at a major magazine. It isn't long before he falls into the twin traps of drug and alcohol abuse. His only hope for Read More

Family Ties: Season 07

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall

The Secret of My Success

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow

Synopsis: Released at the height of his popularity on Family Ties and in the wake of Back to the Future and Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox stars in this "country boy in the big city" comedy, directed by Herbert Ross. After making the move from Kansas to New York City, Brantley Foster (Fox) secures a job in the Read More

Light of Day

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett, Michael McKean, Thomas G. Waites

Synopsis: A brother and sister grapple with family and lifestyle issues in this rock-n-roll drama. Real-life rocker Joan Jett stars as Patti Resnick, an unwed mother who sings and plays guitar in a Cleveland bar band with her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Estranged from her parents and struggling to make Read More

Family Ties: Season 06

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall

Comic Relief II

Synopsis: Released by the now-defunct Simitar Entertainment rather than Rhino Video, which handles the other Comic Relief videos, Comic Relief II is featured on two separate 60-minute videos. A 1987 live charity event benefiting America's homeless, part one of Comic Relief II is hosted by Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg Read More

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Actors: Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves, Josh Cruze

Synopsis: Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam was first telecast April 3, 1988, over the HBO cable service. Based on the book of the same name, the program is devoted to poignant recitations of letters to and from American participants of the Vietnam war. The letters are heard over images culled from Read More

Family Ties: Season 05

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall

Family Ties: Season 04

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

Back to the Future

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson

Synopsis: Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the Read More

Poison Ivy

Synopsis: This lively made-for-television comedy is set at a summer camp and chronicles the romantic misadventures of the staff. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Family Ties Vacation

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

Synopsis: All the main characters from the popular TV sitcom Family Ties were carried over into this made-for-TV feature. Michael J. Fox heads the cast as insufferable/lovable young conservative Alex Keaton, who this time around is attending Oxford on a summer scholarship. The Keaton family--ex-hippie Read More

Teen Wolf

Actors: Michael J. Fox, James Hampton, Scott Paulin, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine

Synopsis: After sitting on the shelf for some time, Teen Wolf was released on the heels of the hugely successful Back to the Future in an attempt to cash in on the huge popularity of star Michael J. Fox. Teen Wolf chronicles the plight of Fox as a small-town nerd who can't seem to score a basket on the Read More

Night Court: Santa Goes Downtown

Synopsis: Harry's courtroom docket this evening includes a man claiming to be Santa Claus (Jeff Corey) (red suit, white beard, the whole shootin' match) who's been hauled in for trespassing, and a pair of cynical teenage runaways, one of whom is played by Family Ties costar Michael J. Fox. In his usual Read More

Family Ties: Season 03

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

Family Ties: Season 02

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

High School USA

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox is among the young sitcom stars enlisted for this made-for-TV teen film, about a battle between the rich, popular kids and their average counterparts. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Family Ties: Season 01

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

Class of 1984

Actors: Perry King, Timothy Van Patten, Merrie Lynn Ross, Roddy McDowall, Al Waxman

Synopsis: A music teacher (Perry King) at a tough Los Angeles high school reaches out to his students with the gift of music -- only to find a gang of sadistic punk rockers is actively dissuading new members from joining the orchestra. Not only are the punkers sadistic; they are also led by the nefarious Timothy Van Patten Read More

Palmerstown, USA

Synopsis: A strong, but at times tempestuous interracial friendship between two Southern boys during the '30s is chronicled in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Midnight Madness

Actors: David Naughton, Debra Clinger, Eddie Deezen, Brad Wilkin, Maggie Roswell

Synopsis: The crux of this limited, juvenile comedy is a complex game that begins at midnight and ends by morning. Of main interest is the fact that a young Michael J. Fox plays one of the students involved in the game. Leon (Alan Solomon) has spent a year creating the game and practically needs that long Read More

Letters from Frank

Synopsis: Frank is Frank Miller (Art Carney), a 65 year old newspaper man. His letters are to his oldest son Richard (Mike Farrell), and they're decidedly on the vitriolic side. Frank, you see, was involuntarily retired from his job and replaced by a computer. But with the help and support of his wife Betty Read More