Olympia Dukakis Filmography

Away From Her

Actors: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Filmmaker Atom Egoyan - a longtime onscreen collaborator with the gifted young thesp Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) - executive-produced Polley's directorial debut, Away from Her, starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy and Wendy Crewson. Adapted by Polley from a short story Read More

In the Land of Women

Actors: Adam Brody, Kristen Stewart, Meg Ryan, Olympia Dukakis, Makenzie Vega

Synopsis: A man having trouble with women suddenly finds himself surrounded by them in this independent comedy drama. Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is a successful writer who has fallen into an emotional tailspin after his girlfriend, well-known actress Sophia (Elena Anaya), breaks up with him. When Carter Read More

3 Needles

Actors: Shawn Ashmore, Stockard Channing, Tanabadee Chokpikultong, Olympia Dukakis, Lucy Liu

Synopsis: Three stories, which offer differing perspectives on the AIDS pandemic, are featured in this anthology-drama. Sister Clara (Chloë Sevigny) is a young nun who is working with two, more experienced, missionaries (Olympia Dukakis and Sandra Oh) in a village along the African coast. Sister Clara finds Read More

The Great New Wonderful

Actors: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olympia Dukakis, Judy Greer, Naseeruddin Shah

Synopsis: A collection of everyday New Yorkers struggle to carry on with their increasingly stressful lives a year after the city was forever changed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Brooklyn-native Danny Leiner's ensemble-cast slice of life. Dr. Trabulous (Tony Shalhoub) is a gifted psychologist with a Read More

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

Actors: Noah Wyle, Gabrielle Anwar, Jane Curtin, Robert Foxworth, Olympia Dukakis, Bob Newhart

Synopsis: An adventurous former librarian sets out in search of the legendary mines of King Solomon in this epic sequel to The Librarian: Quest for the Spear starring Noah Wyle, Gabrielle Anwar, Bob Newhart, and Olympia Dukakis. Flynn Carsen (Wyle) was a quiet bookworm whose 12 bachelor's degrees, six Read More

Day on Fire

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Martin Donovan, Carmen Chaplin, Judy Kuhn, Alyssa Sutherland

Synopsis: Five people cross paths in New York City over the course of a day marked by violence in this independent drama from writer and director Jay Anania. Judy (Judy Kuhn) is a singer who is busy in a recording studio working on an album of British folk songs with jazz keyboardist John Medeski. Shira (Alyssa Sutherland Read More

The Thing About My Folks

Actors: Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Elizabeth Perkins, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: A middle-aged man finds himself dealing with the divorce of his elderly parents as well as many years of emotional baggage in this poignant comedy drama. Ben (Paul Reiser) is a writer who is enjoying a quiet evening at home with his wife, Rachel (Elizabeth Perkins), when they receive an unexpected Read More

Whiskey School

Actors: Gary Swanson, Olympia Dukakis, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: Drawing inspiration from the intervention of a well-known American playwright, director Peter Masterson's adaptation of the stage play by JoAnn Tedesco (who also wrote the screenplay) takes viewers on an emotional rollercoaster ride as one man's support system struggle to save their friend from Read More

Jesus, Mary and Joey

Actors: Marley Shelton, Jennifer Esposito, Vincent Pagano

Synopsis: Love brings a shiftless young man in touch with the Lord, which proves more than a bit confusing to his family in this independent comedy drama. Joey Vitello (Vincent Pagano) is a guy in his mid-twenties who still lives with his extended Italian-American family and his trying to get his life in Read More

The Intended

Actors: Janet McTeer, Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Tony Maudsley, JJ Feild

Synopsis: Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring directs the Dogme 95-inspired period drama The Intended, co-written by leading lady Janet McTeer. Shot with digital video, the film takes place in the Malaysia jungle during the 1920s. Fortysomething British woman Sarah (McTeer) travels with her younger fiancé Read More

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Actors: Noah Wyle, Kyle MacLachlan, Sonya Walger, Jane Curtin, Kelly Hu

Synopsis: A "professional student" lands a truly remarkable job in this witty made-for-TV fantasy adventure. Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) is a 30-year-old graduate student who has managed to collect a whopping 22 university degrees; despite his brilliance, shy Flynn seems to have a hard time with the real Read More

Center of the Universe [TV Series]

Actors: John Goodman, Jean Smart, Diedrich Bader, Melinda McGraw, Spencer Breslin

Signs Out of Time

Actors: Marija Gimbutas, Vikki Nobel, Carol Christ, Elinor Gaydon, Joan Marler

Synopsis: The life and work of acclaimed archeologist Dr. Marija Gimbutas serve as the subjects of this documentary narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. Few archeologists have ever achieved quite the level of fame, or courted quite as much controversy, as the Lithuanian-born mythology Read More

The Event

Actors: Parker Posey, Olympia Dukakis, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Brent Carver

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald directs the sentimental ensemble drama The Event. Nick (Parker Posey) is a district attorney investigating several deaths in the gay community of New York City's Chelsea District. It seems that many AIDS sufferers have died under similar mysterious Read More

Mafia Doctor

Actors: Danny Nucci, Paul Sorvino, Jonathan Scarfe, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: As repayment for services rendered by his father, young New Jerseyite Frank Siena (Danny Nucci) is put through medical school in the U.S. and Italy by powerful mafia don Nicola Dellarusso (Paul Sorvino). Upon becoming a doctor, Siena dutifully returns the favor by giving body and soul to the Read More

From Refugee to Immigrant: A Story of Three Kosovar Albanian Americans

Actors: Olympia Dukakis

Further Tales of the City

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Paul Hopkins, Laura Linney, Barbara Garrick

Synopsis: Armistead Maupin's colorful saga of life in San Francisco in the 1970s continues in this miniseries, the third following the characters of his serialized novel Tales of the City, which follows the story into 1981. After his relationship with Jon Fielding (Bill Campbell) comes to an end, Michael Read More

And Never Let Her Go

Actors: Mark Harmon, Rachel Ward, Kathryn Morris, Steven Eckholdt, Paul Michael Glaser

Synopsis: Based on a true crime story, the two-part TV movie And Never Let Her Go recounts the disappearance of Anne Marie Fahey in June of 1996, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of her accused murderer. Hired as a secretary by powerful Delaware attorney and gubernatorial aide, Thomas Capano (Mark Harmon Read More

Strange Relations

Actors: Paul Reiser, Julie Walters, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Originally filmed in 2001 under the title "My Beautiful Son," the made-for-cable Strange Relations stars comedian Paul Reiser in the largely noncomic role of 39-year-old Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Jerry Lipman. Diagnosed with leukemia, Lipman desperately seeks out a close relative -- any close Read More

Better Living

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Roy Scheider, Edward Herrmann, Cathrine Corpeny, Deborah Hedwall

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, three sisters try to make the most of their lives in a supremely dysfunctional family. Maryann (Catherine Corpeny), Elizabeth (Deborah Hedwall), and Gail (Wendy Hoopes) were raised by their eccentric mother Nora (Olympia Dukakis), mostly without the help of their father Tom (Roy Scheider Read More

Borough of Kings

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: Young Jimmy (James Stanek) is desperate to escape his apparent future as a low-level mobster in his Brooklyn neighborhood. He follows his heart and auditions for a role in a Shakespearean production at New York's famed Joseph Papp Theatre. And he gets the part, mostly because the veteran director (Olympia Dukakis Read More

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Actors: Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Caron, Cleo Laine

Synopsis: A group of trailblazing female musicians try to take another shot at success in this musical comedy-drama produced for the premium cable network HBO. In the 1940s, the Blonde Bombshells were the finest all-female jazz band in the U.K., playing hot swing music that helped raise England's Read More

Climb Against the Odds

Synopsis: This is a moving documentary about 12 brave women and their quest to climb Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, in order to bring global attention to the struggle against breast cancer. Five of the climbers are breast cancer survivors, while the other seven chose to climb in honor Read More

Joan of Arc

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Neil Patrick Harris, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: A literal interpretation of the oft-produced biography of 15th century historical heroine Joan d'Arc, this four-hour television miniseries version of Joan's story is lavishly produced. In a tiny village during the Hundred Years' War, teenager Joan d'Arc (Leelee Sobieski) has been raised by her Read More

Intimate Portrait: Olympia Dukakis

Mafia!

Actors: Jay Mohr, Billy Burke, Christina Applegate, Pam Gidley, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Satirist Jim Arahams returned with this comedy spoofing the Godfather trilogy, and other films and TV, including Jurassic Park, Lord of the Dance, and Barney. The opening emulates a Saul Bass sequence with Anthony Cortino (Jay Mohr) in a flight amid flames much like Robert De Niro in the Casino Read More

More Tales of the City

Actors: Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Colin Ferguson, Bill Campbell, Thomas Gibson

Synopsis: Armistead Maupin calls the three-story wooden house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco "my homestead, my Tara." He began his portrait of Barbary Lane life during the '70s in a daily newspaper serial, expanding the material into a series of six novels. PBS aired the original TV miniseries in 1994 Read More

The Pentagon Wars

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, Olympia Dukakis, John C. McGinley, Tom Wright

Synopsis: Excessive military spending provides the impetus behind this sharp, satirical account of an honest Air Force colonel who is so shocked at government spending in its development of a troop transport vehicle that he decides to launch a personal investigation as to why it has taken the military 17 Read More

The Greek Americans

Scattering Dad

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Andy Griffith, Lucinda Jenney, Michelle Burke, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this bittersweet comedy-drama, Olympia Dukakis plays Dotty, a woman with extreme agoraphobia. Dotty's condition has prevented her from leaving her house for the past 20 years, but just before her husband Hiram (Andy Griffith) died, he made Dotty promise that she would scatter his ashes near Read More

A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio In America

Synopsis: This film goes beyond informing viewers about the physical consequences of polio. Noted actress Olympia Dukakis narrates in between interviews with polio survivors, their relatives, and physicians all across America. There's also a segment showing a massive inoculation of children in India. Much Read More

Picture Perfect

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon, Olympia Dukakis, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: Friends star Jennifer Aniston made her debut as the leading lady of a feature film in this romantic comedy. Kate (Aniston) is an art director with an advertising agency whose personal and professional life is stuck in neutral; while her work is good, her boss Mr. Mercer (Kevin Dunn) won't give her Read More

A Match Made in Heaven

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, John Stamos, Della Reese

Synopsis: Helen (Olympia Dukakis) is an elderly widow who lives a quiet but happy life with her friends and her housekeeper Katie (Della Reese). A dark cloud appears when Helen discovers she has cancer. While receiving treatment, Helen meets Jane (Kelly Rowan), an attractive nurse who happens to be single. Read More

Touched By an Angel: A Joyful Noise

Synopsis: In a appalling lapse of professionalism, child psychologist Adam Litowski (Dwight Schultz) allows a traumatic incident from his own past to influence his treatment of Melissa Houghton (Mike Boorem), a young girl who insists that she can hear angels singing. Adam has never been able to come to Read More

Mother

Jerusalem

Actors: Maria Bonnevie, Ulf Friberg, Pernilla August

Synopsis: A group of messianic pilgrims abandon their native Sweden and emigrate to Palestine. This fact-based episodic Swedish drama looks at the events leading up to the trek and the immigrants' experiences after they arrive in the holy land. The story begins in Sweden and is introduced by the death of Read More

Milk & Money

Synopsis: A romantic comedy with a few surreal/absurdist twists, the story centers on recent medical school drop-out David who is first seen aimlessly traipsing about Manhattan musing about the rest of his life when he runs into a strange woman who introduces herself as Nancy and asks if he would interested Read More

Never Too Late

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Cloris Leachman, Jan Rubes, Jean LaPointe, Corey Haim

Synopsis: Residents in a retirement home band together to thwart the thievery of the home's crooked director. Woody, Joseph, Olive (Cloris Leachman) and Peter were a bridge foursome. The film opens at Peter's funeral where Joseph (Jan Rubes) is attempting to recruit Rose (Olympia Dukakis) to fill Peter's Read More

Mighty Aphrodite

Actors: Woody Allen, Helena Bonham Carter, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rapaport, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: A dissatisfied Manhattan sportswriter finds more than he expected when he searches for the biological mother of his adopted child in Woody Allen's comedy. Writer-director Allen also plays Lenny, a slightly more relaxed incarnation of his usual neurotic screen persona. Lenny is trapped in a bad Read More

Jeffrey

Actors: Steven Weber, Michael T. Weiss, Patrick Stewart, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Based on Paul Rudnick's hit Off-Broadway play, this romantic comedy centers on the chaotic love life of Jeffrey (Steven Weber), a gay man who swears off sex only to fall in love with his ideal man (Michael T. Weiss). Jeffrey's vow of chastity is inspired by a fear of AIDS, a prospect which has Read More

Mr. Holland's Opus

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy

Synopsis: A teacher belatedly discovers just how important his job really is in this emotional drama. Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is a man with a deep love of music and a desire to write at least one piece of lasting significance. However, playing piano in cocktail lounges while he works on his own Read More

The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Fred Ward

Synopsis: The further misadventures of bumbling Los Angeles police Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) are chronicled in this third installment in the popular Naked Gun comedy series. This by-the-numbers entry begins with Drebin as a happily retired house-husband called back into action when an evil Read More

Century of Women: Work and Family

Synopsis: Throughout the 20th century, women have met the challenges and struggles of balancing work and family. Narrated by Jane Fonda, A Century of Women: Work & Family weaves fictional and factual stories to illustrate the history of women in the workforce, as well as their roles as wives and mothers. Read More

Century of Women: Sexuality and Social Justice

Synopsis: This documentary takes a look at the continuing work of feminists to establish reproductive rights for women. The issue of the right to control one's own body is presented as one that is crucial to the welfare of women. The fight for birth control began in America at the time of the great wave of Read More

Dead Badge

Actors: Brian Wimmer, M. Emmet Walsh, Yaphet Kotto, James B. Sikking, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: In this police drama, a police detective must wear the badge previously owned by a deceased colleague. Following a terrifying shoot-out, the shaken gumshoe begins investigating the circumstances surrounding the slain officer's demise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Love Trouble

Actors: Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte, Saul Rubinek, James Rebhorn, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In the style of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, I Love Trouble depicts the developing romance of two rival reporters who reluctantly fall for each other while competing for a major scoop. Old hand Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and aspiring newcomer Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) Read More

Look Who's Talking Now

Actors: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Lysette Anthony, David Gallagher, Tabitha Lupien, Danny DeVito, Diane Keaton

Synopsis: This final installment in the Look Who's Talking trilogy is a combination of Make Room For Daddy and The Lady and the Tramp. In the six years since the original Look Who's Talking, Mikey and Julie are now old enough to speak for themselves, so the producers came up with a new gimmick -- talking Read More

Tales of the City

Actors: Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Thomas Gibson

Synopsis: Author Armistead Maupin's serialized tale of sexual infidelity and identity in 1970s San Francisco becomes a sprawling comic melodrama in this much-acclaimed miniseries. Produced by PBS and Britain's Channel 4, Tales of the City covers in its five hours the interlocking stories of more than a Read More

The Cemetery Club

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Diane Ladd, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: Based on the play by Ivan Menchell, this drama concerns three friends, Doris (Olympia Dukakis), Lucille (Diane Ladd), and Esther (Ellen Burstyn). All three live in the same Jewish community in Pittsburgh, are in their mid-to-late 50s, and have become widows within the past few months. Once a week Read More

Sinatra

Synopsis: Developed by Tina Sinatra and approved by Frank himself, Sinatra is a made-for-television mini-series following the life and times of Frank Sinatra, one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century. Opening with his childhood in Hoboken, New Jersey, the film follows Sinatra's (Philip Casnoff Read More

Over the Hill

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Sigrid Thornton, Derek Fowlds, Bill Kerr, Steve Bisley

Synopsis: Somewhere in the Northeastern U.S., Alma (Olympia Dukakis) is a 60-year-old recent widow who has never been on her own since her early marriage to a domineering husband. Her son tries to immure her in a dowdy apartment in the basement of his house and showers her with perfunctory and thoughtless Read More

Ruby Cairo

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson, Viggo Mortensen, Jack Thompson, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The owner of an aircraft salvage company (Viggo Mortensen) is reported killed in a crash. However, his wife (Andie MacDowell) knows better, and she decides to find him and his secret bank accounts. She travels around the world, and winding up in Cairo, she meets Liam Neeson, who helps her uncover Read More

Digger

Actors: Adam Hann-Byrd, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Williams, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: This oddly unsettling PG-rated film stars Adam Hand-Byrd as Digger, a 12-year-old whose parents are going through serious domestic problems. To keep him out of the line of fire, Digger is sent to live with his crusty grandmother Olympia Dukakis in the Pacific Northwest. He has a great deal of Read More

Fire in the Dark

Synopsis: When her Mother breaks her hip and needs full-time care, a married woman is forced to a new understanding of the process of aging and the human spirit. Her Mother becomes resentful and fearful in this powerful affirmation of the dignity of the elderly and the power of a family. ~ Tana Hobart, All Read More

Lucky Day

Actors: Amy Madigan, Chloe Webb, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: A made for TV movie, on the surface it is the story of a young, slightly retarded girl who has been cared for by her sister. When the girl wins the lottery, her recovering alcoholic Mother is suddenly on the scene again. Amy Madigan's portrayal of the over-protective sister of the lucky winner is Read More

In the Spirit

Actors: Elaine May, Marlo Thomas, Jeannie Berlin, Peter Falk, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Elaine May and Marlo Thomas star in this black comedy taking place in the black comedy capital of the world -- New York City. Elaine May plays Marianne Flan, who moves back to a nightmare New York City from Beverly Hills after her husband, Roger (Peter Falk), has been fired from his job. She hires Read More

Look Who's Talking, Too

Actors: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Elias Koteas, Twink Caplan, Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Mel Brooks

Synopsis: Amy Heckerling repeats the successful formula of Look Who's Talking in this sequel, with the addition of John Travolta singing "All Shook Up" to a group of nursery schoolers and Mel Brooks cast as the voice of a toilet. The film begins with James struggling to support his family. He stills wants Read More

Steel Magnolias

Actors: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron. Robert Harling's original stage play was set exclusively in a Louisiana beauty parlor where an all-female cast of characters laughed, cried and compared menfolk. The film expands Read More

Dad

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Ted Danson, Olympia Dukakis, Kathy Baker, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: Looking like death warmed over, Jack Lemmon plays the aging father of Ted Danson. Always proud of being able to fend for himself, Lemmon despises being reliant upon others, but his enfeebled state does not allow him his old independence. For his part, Danson resents having to care for his dad as Read More

Look Who's Talking

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