Monica PotterFilmography

Born:: June 30, 1971
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: With looks that have been compared to Julia Roberts', Monica Potter emerged as one of the more promising actresses of the late '90s. The second of four girls in a close-knit family, Potter was raised in Cleveland, OH, where she was born on June 30, 1971. At the age of 12, she started modeling and...Read More

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The Last House on the Left

Actors: Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter, Sara Paxton, Garret Dillahunt, Aaron Paul

Synopsis: A pair of teenage girls are brutally raped and terrorized by a vicious gang of psychopaths, who subsequently find their cruelty returned tenfold when they seek sanctuary in the home of one of the victim's parents in this contemporary reworking of Wes Craven's controversial 1972 shocker. Shortly Read More

3/13/09
Lower Learning

Actors: Eva Longoria Parker, Jason Biggs, Rob Corddry

Synopsis: Eva Longoria Parker, Rob Corddry, and Jason Biggs star in first-time writer/director Mark Lafferty's satirical look at the American school system as seen from the perspective of a burnt-out elementary school vice principal on the verge of a nervous breakdown. When it comes to receiving a proper Read More

10/10/08
Boston Legal: Season 02

Actors: James Spader, William Shatner

2005
Saw

Actors: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: The directorial debut from filmmaker James Wan, this psychological thriller comes from the first screenplay by actor Leigh Whannell, who also stars. Whannell plays Adam, one of two men chained up in a mysterious chamber. The other, Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes), like Adam, has no idea how either of them Read More

10/29/04
Eulogy

Actors: Hank Azaria, Jesse Bradford, Zooey Deschanel, Glenne Headly, Famke Janssen

Synopsis: Writer/director Michael Clancy makes his feature film debut with the black comedy Eulogy. Zooey Deschanel plays Kate Collins, an unhappy college student who is made even more unhappy when her grandfather (Rip Torn) dies. Even though the entire family hates each other, they reunite at the home of Read More

10/15/04
Boston Legal: Season 01

Actors: James Spader, William Shatner, Candice Bergen, Mark Valley, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: David E. Kelley's legal spin-off was an instant success thanks to stars James Spader and William Shatner, who won Emmys in the final season of The Practice. Spader and Shatner each promptly collected another Emmy for their work in Season 1 of Boston Legal, which introduces the wide range of Read More

2004
Reversible Errors

Actors: William H. Macy, Tom Selleck, Monica Potter, Felicity Huffman, James Rebhorn

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by author Scott Turow, this four-hour miniseries tells the tale of a lawyer determined to find the evidence that will deliver the potentially innocent convicted murderer from a grim walk down the silent halls of death row. The date of execution is drawing ever Read More

2004
I'm With Lucy

Actors: Monica Potter, Julianne Nicholson, John Hannah, Gael García Bernal, Anthony LaPaglia, Henry Thomas, David Boreanaz, Harold Ramis

Synopsis: A single New York woman endures a series of blind dates in search of the perfect spouse in director Jon Sherman's romantic comedy I'm With Lucy. Looking back on her search as she prepares for her wedding, Lucy (Monica Potter ) recalls the physical chemistry of her and Gabriel (Gael García Bernal) Read More

11/3/02
Along Came a Spider

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem

Synopsis: Morgan Freeman returns as forensic psychologist Dr. Alex Cross in this thriller based on the novel by James Patterson (whose work also formed the basis of the hit Kiss the Girls). Gary Soneji (Michael Wincott) is a brilliant but remorseless psychopath who has landed a teaching position at an Read More

4/6/01
Head Over Heels

Actors: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare

Synopsis: If you think you've seen a man killing someone, does that mean you shouldn't be dating him? This and other questions about modern relationships are explored in this offbeat romantic comedy. Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter) has found a great job (restoring paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Read More

2/2/01
The Very Thought of You

Actors: Monica Potter, Rufus Sewell, Tom Hollander, Joseph Fiennes, Ray Winstone

Synopsis: Nick Hamm (Talk of Angels) directed this U.K. romantic comedy following a group of British blokes and their encounters with an American woman in London. As Laurence (Joseph Fiennes, brother of Ralph Fiennes) narrates the tale to his neighbor, Dr. Pedersen (Ray Winstone), the scene flashes back to Read More

8/27/99
A Cool, Dry Place

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams, Monica Potter, Bobby Moat, Devon Sawa

Synopsis: Vince Vaughn stars in this drama about a single father trying to balance career ambitions against personal responsibilities. In A Cool Dry Place, Vaughn plays Russell, a lawyer in a small town in Kansas who has been raising his five-year-old son Calvin (Bobby Moat) on his own since his wife Kate (Monica Potter Read More

1999
Patch Adams

Actors: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: The fact-based story of an unconventional physician who attempted to heal patients with laughter, based on his own book and mixing equal doses of scatological humor and pathos. Robin Williams stars as Hunter Adams, a troubled young man who commits himself to a mental institution in the late 1960s. Read More

12/25/98
Without Limits

Actors: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis: One of two filmed biographies of late track star Steve Prefontaine to be produced in the late '90s, Without Limits comes from director Robert Towne, who previously took a stab at the track-star drama with his directorial debut, 1982's Personal Best. Billy Crudup stars as the ill-fated athlete who Read More

1998
Con Air

Actors: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: Former war hero Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) is sentenced to eight years in prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl while defending his pregnant wife. When his release comes through, he's eager to see the daughter he's never met. However, Poe's original flight is delayed, so he's Read More

1997
Heaven Or Vegas

Actors: Richard Grieco, Yasmine Bleeth, Monica Potter

Synopsis: Yasmine Bleeth stars in this drama about a woman looking for a way out of her dead-end existence. Six years after she ran away from her home in Utah, Rachel (Bleeth) is living in Las Vegas, where she gets by as an exotic dancer and occasional prostitute. Rachel lives in a fantasy world as a way of Read More

1997