Oliver Platt Filmography

The Year One

Actors: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Vinnie Jones

Synopsis: Written and directed by Harold Ramis, this comedy stars Jack Black and Michael Cera. Produced by Ramis and Judd Apatow after the former appeared in the latter's Knocked Up, Year One is being executive produced by actor/screenwriter Owen Wilson. Oliver Platt, Olivia Wilde, Vinnie Jones, David Read More

Untitled Nicole Holofcener Comedy

Actors: Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener

Synopsis: Lovely and Amazing director Nicole Holofcener writes and directs this comedy drama dealing with death, family, and real estate, and starring Amanda Peet, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, and Rebecca Hall. A woman and her husband live directly next door to the elderly woman whose apartment they own. Read More

Martian Child

Actors: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Oliver Platt, Bobby Coleman

Synopsis: Adapted from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelette by author David Gerrold, Menno Meyjes's Martian Child stars John Cusack as a widowed science fiction writer who adopts a boy (Bobby Coleman) who claims to be from the Red Planet. The writer believes the child acts strangely in order to process Read More

The Ten

Actors: Paul Rudd, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry, Justin Theroux, Liev Schreiber, Oliver Platt, Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney-Silver

Synopsis: Much of the group responsible for MTV's The State - including director/actor David Wain and performers Ken Marino, Kerri Kinney-Silver and Joe Lo Truglio - reunite for this outrageous, irreverent and raunchy sketch comedy, which skewers the Ten Commandments. In the framing sequences, comedian Paul Read More

The Bronx is Burning

Actors: John Turturro, Oliver Platt, Daniel Sunjata

Synopsis: Filmed on location in New York and Connecticut, the ESPN miniseries The Bronx is Burning was a vivid (if not overly expensive) retelling of the New York Yankees' championship year of 1977. Heading the enormous cast of celebrity lookalikes were Oliver Platt as Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and Read More

Who is Killing the Great Chefs?

Actors: Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Actor Oliver Platt stars in an updated version of the 1978 black comedy Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? that transplants the action to Las Vegas to tell the tale of a food critic who is suspected of murder when the best chefs in town turn up murdered in the same manner as their signature Read More

Loverboy

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Blair Brown, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: A mother once neglected as child but possessed of a heart overflowing with love grows increasingly despondent as her beloved child begins to claim his independence in director Kevin Bacon's adaptation of Victoria Redel's best-selling novel. If loving too much were a crime, well-meaning but Read More

Casanova

Actors: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin

Synopsis: History's most renowned ladies' man finally meets his match in this historical romance laced with comedy and adventure. In Venice in 1753, Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) is a notorious playboy whose way with women goes too far when he's caught leaving the bedroom of a novice nun, and one of the Read More

The Ice Harvest

Actors: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Two men on the run from the mob end up negotiating more than their share of obstacles along the way in this comedy drama from director Harold Ramis. Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) and Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) are a pair of friends who work for Bill Gerard (Randy Quaid), a mobster with his Read More

Kinsey

Actors: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton

Synopsis: Alfred Kinsey was an entomologist who taught at Indiana University and had a keen interest in an area of human behavior that had seen little scholarly research -- human sexuality. While the courtship and reproductive patterns of animals had been carefully documented, Kinsey believed that most Read More

NOVA: World in the Balance - The People Paradox

Huff: Season 01

Actors: Hank Azaria, Paget Brewster, Blythe Danner, Anton Yelchin, Andy Comeau

Synopsis: Up until the day that a 15-year-old patient committed suicide right in the middle of his office, prosperous L.A. psychiatrist Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) had been sublimely confident that his was the most secure and well-ordered of lives. But as he finds out in the course of Huff's Read More

NOVA: World in the Balance - China Revs Up

Pieces of April

Actors: Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Derek Luke, Alison Pill

Synopsis: Novelist and screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April. Family outcast April Burns (Katie Holmes) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby (Derek Luke). In order to spend some time with her dying mother Read More

Hope Springs

Actors: Colin Firth, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver, Mary Steenburgen, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Not a sequel to 1998's Hope Floats, Hope Springs is a romantic comedy based on the 2001 novel New Cardiff, the first new book in over 20 years by Charles Webb, author of The Graduate. Directed and written for the screen by Mark Herman (Brassed Off), the film stars Colin Firth as lovelorn British Read More

Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin

Actors: Oliver Platt

Synopsis: The relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller and Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan went far beyond their professional association. In addition to the fact that Kazan directed Miller's earliest Broadway hits, All My Sons and Death of a Salesman, both men held many of the Read More

Queens Supreme [TV Series]

Actors: Oliver Platt, Annabella Sciorra, Robert Loggia, L. Scott Caldwell, James Madio

Synopsis: Actress Julia Roberts was executive producer of Queens Supreme, a weekly, seriocomic look at the judicial system in the Big City. The setting was the Queens Supreme County Courthouse, where a motley crew of judges worked together while working apart. The dramatis personae included Read More

Ash Wednesday

Actors: Edward Burns, Elijah Wood, Rosario Dawson, Oliver Platt, Pat McNamara

Synopsis: A relationship between two brothers literally becomes a matter of life and death in this drama from writer, director and actor Edward Burns. Francis Sullivan (Burns) was a street-wise thug with ties to the Irish mob until his younger brother Sean (Elijah Wood) was killed on Ash Wednesday in 1980 Read More

Liberty Stands Still

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Linda Fiorentino, Martin Cummins

Synopsis: Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), the wife and business partner of wealthy weapons manufacturer Victor Wallace (Oliver Platt), is on her way to her regular assignation with her boyfriend, Russell (Martin Cummins), an actor who's about to go on-stage for the closing night of his hit play. Their Read More

Don't Say a Word

Actors: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Guy Torry

Synopsis: This psychological thriller from screenwriter Patrick Smith Kelly reunites him with his A Perfect Murder (1998) star Michael Douglas. Dr. Nathan Conrad (Douglas) is a respected adolescent therapist faced with a nightmarish scenario when his young daughter (Skye McCole Bartusiak) is snatched by Read More

Zigzag

Actors: Sam Jones III, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Natasha Lyonne, Wesley Snipes

Synopsis: Zigzag is the directorial debut of screenwriter David S. Goyer (Blade, Blade 2). Based on the well-received debut novel by Landon J. Napoleon, the film tells the story of an autistic teenager, Louis "Zigzag" Fletcher (Sam Jones III). Zigzag is a sensitive and thoughtful boy who retreats into his Read More

Ready to Rumble

Actors: David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: A pair of sewage-truck drivers attempt to rescue the tarnished reputation of their favorite pro wrestler in this comedy from Varsity Blues director Brian Robbins. Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) live vicariously through superstar grappler Jimmy King (Oliver Platt). But Read More

Gun Shy

Actors: Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock, José Zuñiga, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: In this action-laced comedy, a cop on the verge of a nervous breakdown finds love at the least convenient time. Charlie Mayo (Liam Neeson) is an undercover agent with the DEA who was nearly killed when a sting set up to nail a gang of drug dealers went horribly wrong. The accident left Charlie Read More

Deadline [TV Series]

Actors: Oliver Platt, Christina Chang, Bebe Neuwirth, Lili Taylor

Synopsis: Hoping to revive the glory days of Lou Grant, NBC, in association with Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, came forth with the weekly, one-hour newspaper drama Deadline. Oliver Platt starred as Wallace Benton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter whose dauntless dedication was matched by his Read More

Sesame Street: CinderElmo

Actors: Kevin Clash

Synopsis: Elmo, everyone's favorite Baby Muppet from the children's TV series Sesame Street, stars in this comic fantasy with music. Elmo (voice of Kevin Clash) finds out that the Princess (Keri Russell) is having a ball at her palace, and he decides he'd like to go. But his grumpy Stepmother (Kathy Najimy) Read More

Bicentennial Man

Actors: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Embeth Davidtz, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Read More

Three to Tango

Actors: Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott, Oliver Platt, Cylk Cozart, John C. McGinley, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy of mistaken identity, Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Oliver Platt) are a pair of struggling but talented Chicago architects given the chance of a lifetime: Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott), an extremely wealthy business tycoon, is considering hiring them Read More

Lake Placid

Actors: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, Betty White

Synopsis: So what's under the water in that lake deep in the Maine woods? No one is sure what it could be, but a dead and severely mutilated body was found near the shore, and the only clue is a large tooth which appears to be from a prehistoric animal resembling a huge crocodile. Jack Wells (Bill Pullman) Read More

The Impostors

Actors: Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Teagle F. Bougere, Elizabeth Bracco, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Actor Stanley Tucci made his directorial debut with a strong cast in this Depression Era farce focusing on two struggling two New York actors. In opening scenes, Maurice (Oliver Platt) and Arthur (Tucci) fabricate a fake fight at an outdoor cafe, do acting exercises, audition for a theater Read More

Simon Birch

Actors: Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn

Synopsis: This comedy-drama features a narration by Jim Carrey, looking back to childhood in a manner similar to the narration on TV's The Wonder Years. The film is the directorial debut of writer Mark Steven Johnson, scripter of Grumpy Old Men and its sequel. Johnson adapted only a small portion of John Irving Read More

Dr. Dolittle

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: Betty Thomas directed this adaptation of the classic children's stories by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), updating the original concepts into the present day. When noted surgeon Dr. John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy) swerves his car to avoid hitting a dog, he hits his head on the windshield, triggering his Read More

Bulworth

Actors: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), and stars in this political satire, a comedy-drama about a U.S. senator who decides to start speaking the truth. Despondent California Sen. Jay Bulworth (Beatty), up for re-election, is disillusioned by Read More

Dangerous Beauty

Actors: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline Bisset, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly

Synopsis: Marshall Herskovitz directed this look at life in 16th-century Venice, based on Margaret Rosenthal's 1994 book The Honest Courtesan. Positioned outside of the Venetian court, Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) hopes to rise above her station, but her interest in nobleman's son Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell Read More

Executive Decision

Actors: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His Read More

Big Night

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: In this witty drama, a pair of brothers debate integrity versus compromise as they try to succeed in the restaurant business. Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci) have journeyed from Italy to New Jersey in the mid-1950s, determined to make a killing with an authentic Italian Read More

A Time to Kill

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately Read More

Funny Bones

Actors: Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Caron, Jerry Lewis

Synopsis: Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las Vegas, but when opening night rolls around Read More

The Infiltrator

Actors: Oliver Platt, Arliss Howard, Alan King, Peter Riegert, Anthony Haygarth

Synopsis: The frightening underworld of neo-Nazism is the subject of this made-for-television drama. Oliver Platt stars as Yaron Svoray, an American journalist who goes to Germany to do a story on neo-Nazis. He gets mistakenly branded a sympathizer of the cause but uses his new status as a way to uncover Read More

Tall Tale

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: This ambitious Disney movie uses a remarkable screenplay from Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat to tell a rollicking tale of America's transition from a close-to-the-land culture of mythic heroes to a corporate world of real estate tycoons. The strong theme about the decline of folk culture is Read More

Indecent Proposal

Actors: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving husband of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his wife to spend one night with a billionaire who looks like Robert Redford. All the cynics Read More

Benny & Joon

Actors: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Johnny Depp was nominated for a Golden Globe for his astonishing performance in Benny & Joon, though the entire cast is equally impressive. Benny (Aidan Quinn) runs a small car repair shop. He must also take care of his mentally ill sister Juniper, better known as Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson). Read More

The Temp

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dwight Schultz, Oliver Platt, Steven Weber

Synopsis: The Temp is yet another installment in the 1990s thriller genre of "the conniving woman who gets back at all who stand in her way to success," as seen in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Single White Female, Basic Instinct, The Crush, The Babysitter, et al. In this rehash of the perennial formula Read More

The Three Musketeers

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry

Synopsis: This comedy-adventure is one of several adaptations of Alexadre Dumas' (pere) classic novel. Provincial swordsman D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) travels to Paris to follow in his father's footsteps and become a king's guard, a musketeer. Meanwhile, the evil royal advisor Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Read More

Diggstown

Actors: James Woods, Louis Gossett, Jr., Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham

Synopsis: In this comedy, a charming con man teams up with a boxer fallen on hard times in hopes of making some quick money. After doing time for selling art that turned out to be forged, Gabriel Caine (James Woods) and his partner Fitz (Oliver Platt) set their sights on a village called Diggstown; Fitz Read More

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

Postcards from the Edge

Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point Read More

Flatliners

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation Read More

Crusoe

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Ade Sapara, Elvis Payne, Richard Sharp, Colin Bruce

Synopsis: Master cinematographer Caleb Deschanel is, not unexpectedly, stronger on visuals than substance in his direction of Crusoe (though the camerawork is officially credited to Tom Pinter). The protagonist, played by Aidan Quinn, is a shipwreck victim, just as novelist Daniel Defoe proscribed over two Read More

Working Girl

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is Read More

Married to the Mob

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the Read More