Parker PoseyFilmography

Born:: November 8, 1968 in Baltimore, MD
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Displaying an off-kilter beauty and an ability to embrace the comically bizarre, Parker Posey has been repeatedly referred to as "The Queen of the Indies." Following her indie debut in Richard Linklater's 1993 Dazed and Confused, Posey went on to star in no less than 15 independent features over...Read More

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Spring Breakdown

Actors: Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Parker Posey, Amber Tamblyn, Missi Pyle

Synopsis: A trio of thirtysomething friends (Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, and Parker Posey) go vacationing at a popular spring break resort frequented by college coeds in order to prevent a politician's daughter from embarrassing her family. Larry Kennar and Rick Berg produce a script penned by director Ryan Shiraki Read More

1/1/09
Happy Tears

Actors: Demi Moore, Parker Posey, Rip Torn, Ellen Barkin, Christian Camargo

Synopsis: Teeth director Michael Lichtenstein takes a sharp turn from teen-oriented satire to mature family drama with this semi-autobiographical story concerning a pair of grown-up sisters who return to their family home in order to care for their ailing father. Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) Read More

2009
The Eye

Actors: Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Rade Serbedzija, Fernanda Romero

Synopsis: Sydney Wells (Jessica Alba) has been given the gift of sight, but it comes with a horrifying price in the English-language remake of Danny and Oxide Pang's The Eye. The double corneal transplant was to open up a new world for Sydney, a concert violinist whose blindness has plagued her since Read More

2/1/08
The Return of Jezebel James [TV Series]

Actors: Parker Posey, Lauren Ambrose, Scott Cohen, Michael Arden, Ron McLarty

Synopsis: If nothing else, the extremely shortlived Fox comedy series The Return of Jezebel James will make a nice answer to the trivia question "In what 2008 TV show did the title character never appear?" Indie-film favorite Parker Posey starred as Sarah Thomkins, a successful editor of children's books. Read More

2008
Fruitcake

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Parker Posey

Synopsis: Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey star in John Waters' new comedy Fruitcake, a This Is That and Killer Films production about a runaway boy's adventures during the holidays. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
Broken English

Actors: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands, Justin Theroux

Synopsis: A single thirtysomething whose friends all seem to be romantically involved, happily married, or with child meets an eccentric Frenchman who shows her just what an amazing place the world can truly be in director Zoe Cassavetes' entry into the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. As if it wasn't Read More

6/22/07
Fay Grim

Actors: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, James Urbaniak, Saffron Burrows, Liam Aiken

Synopsis: A single mother from Queens becomes unwittingly embroiled in international espionage in director Hal Hartley's sequel to the critically acclaimed Henry Fool. Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is determined to raise her 14-year-old son, Ned (Liam Aiken), so he won't be like his father, Henry (Thomas Jay Read More

5/18/07
For Your Consideration

Actors: Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Mockumentary mastermind Christopher Guest turns his satirical eye away from dog shows, small-town theater, and folk music to offer a hilarious take on Hollywood award season in this comedy focusing on trio of actors whose lives are turned upside down when they discover that their performances in Read More

11/17/06
The Oh in Ohio

Actors: Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito, Mischa Barton, Miranda Bailey

Synopsis: A woman gets a belated introduction to the joy of sex in this comedy. Priscilla (Parker Posey) is a thirtysomething public-relations agent with the unenviable job of trying to lure new businesses to Cleveland, OH. Priscilla is married to Jack (Paul Rudd), a high-school teacher who is reaching the Read More

7/14/06
Superman Returns

Actors: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint

Synopsis: The Man of Steel returns to the big screen with this continuation of the icon's film legacy that picks up after the events of the first two Christopher Reeve films. Some time has passed since the events of Superman II and the world has gotten used to life without Superman (Brandon Routh) ever Read More

6/28/06
Adam & Steve

Actors: Melinda Dillon, Julie Hagerty, Sally Kirkland, Paul Sand, Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan

Synopsis: A forgotten one-night-stand from the 1980s sets the stage for romance fifteen years removed in director Craig Chester's urban romantic comedy starring Parker Posey, Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, and Chris Kattan. Despite the fact that neither Adam (Chester) nor Steve (Gets) recall the Read More

3/31/06
Meet the Santas

Synopsis: In this sequel to the extraordinarily popular 2004 cable movie Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus, Steve Guttenberg returns in the role of Nick, son of the soon-to-be retired Santa Claus (John Wheeler) and heir to the North Pole toyshop. Likewise, Crystal Bernard repeats her characterization of Beth Read More

2005
The Sisters of Mercy

Actors: Parker Posey, Sabrina Lloyd

2005
Blade: Trinity

Actors: Steve Braun, Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds, Parker Posey

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes returns as legendary vampire hunter Blade in this, the third film inspired by the popular Marvel Comics character. A fearless warrior immune to vampires, Blade (Snipes) has become a hated enemy of the bloodsucking community, and as they gather in their desert compound, a group of Read More

12/8/04
Laws of Attraction

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Michael Sheen, Parker Posey, Frances Fisher, Nora Dunn

Synopsis: Though equally respected in their field, divorce lawyers Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are opposites inside and out of the courtroom. Audrey is meticulous and by the book, while Daniel relies on personality and luck to get by. Despite the difference in methods Read More

4/30/04
Frankenstein

Actors: Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Thomas Kretschmann, Adam Goldberg

Synopsis: This made-for-cable Frankenstein was originally intended as the pilot for a weekly series based on Frankenstein: The Prodigal Son, a novel by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson. The story is set in modern-day New Orleans, the home of demented scientist Dr. Victor Helios (Thomas Kretschmann). Helios Read More

2004
In the Company of Women

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

2004
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

9/19/03
A Mighty Wind

Actors: Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins

Synopsis: The writing and directing team who created Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to Read More

4/16/03
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

Actors: John Ventimiglia, Kyra Sedgwick, David Warshofsky, Brian Tarantina, Mara Hobel, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: Three women whose lives have followed very different paths ponder their pasts and their futures in this omnibus film from second-time director Rebecca Miller, adapted from her acclaimed short story collection of the same name. Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) grew up in a fractured household; her mother Read More

11/22/02
The Sweetest Thing

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Thomas Jane, Jason Bateman, Parker Posey

Synopsis: Former South Park writer and Win Ben Stein's Money sidekick Nancy Pimental makes her feature screenwriting debut with this relationship comedy. Cameron Diaz stars as Christina Walters, a jaded, club-hopping single woman in San Francisco who has given up trying to find the perfect mate to focus on Read More

4/12/02
Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Parker Posey, Shannen Doherty

Synopsis: In this broadly satirical TV biopic, Shirley MacLaine pulls out all the stops as legendary cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash. In Citizen Kane fashion, Mary Kay relates her rise to the top of the home-beauty industry to an inquiring reporter (Rachel Crawford), never allowing an opportunity pass to Read More

2002
The Anniversary Party

Actors: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jane Adams, Mina Badie, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: In this Dogma 95-inspired first feature for acclaimed performers Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, the two star as Joe and Sally Therrian, a couple who have recently reconciled after a yearlong separation, and who decide to throw a sixth anniversary party in their honor. They invite a Read More

6/8/01
Josie and the Pussycats

Actors: Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson, Alan Cumming, Parker Posey

Synopsis: Based on the animated hit TV show of the 1970s, Josie and the Pussycats is a live-action tale of a group of young girl rockers who desire to make it big. Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Val (Rosario Dawson), and Melody (Tara Reid) make up an aspiring garage band that is discovered by shady Read More

4/11/01
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

2001
Best in Show

Actors: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, Michael Hitchcock, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard

Synopsis: After parodying the idiosyncrasies of community theater devotees in the mock documentary Waiting for Guffman, actor/director Christopher Guest returns with another semi-improvised comedy that casts a satirical gaze on the world of championship dog breeding and training. A television crew is on Read More

9/29/00
Scream 3

Actors: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley

Synopsis: Wes Craven's Scream (1996) was a half-parody/half-tribute to the first wave of slasher films of the 1970s and 1980s, and since most of them spawned a large number of sequels, it's only appropriate that Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson produced a third installment of their Scream franchise. Read More

2/4/00
Futurama: The Deep South

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: In the episode "The Deep South," the Planet Express crew goes fishing on their day off. Bender catches huge fish and ends up sinking the whole ship. The crew experiences their version of the lost city of Atlantis myth by landing in Atlanta, an old U.S. city that now exists at the bottom of the Read More

2000
Dinner at Fred's

Actors: Gil Bellows, Parker Posey, Kevin McDonald, John Neville, Valerie Mahaffey

Synopsis: In this Canadian comedy, Richard (Gil Bellows) departs his office, driving north for a Christmas holiday at the country home of his fiancé Sarah (Kristin Leeman), the daughter of his boss George Billings (Leon Powhall). When his car collapses en route, he arrives instead at a house inhabited by a Read More

1999
The Venice Project

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Dennis Hopper, Linus Roache, Ben Cross, Stuart Townsend

Synopsis: In this witty drama, the future of art is examined from two vantage points: the years 1699 and 1999. Roland (Dennis Hopper) is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister, Countess Camilla Volta (Lauren Bacall), lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father, The Read More

1999
You've Got Mail

Actors: Michael Palin, Hallee Hirsh, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Jean Stapleton

Synopsis: Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The story brings romance Read More

12/18/98
Henry Fool

Actors: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter, James Saito, Kevin Corrigan, Liam Aiken, Veanne Cox, Jan Leslie Harding

Synopsis: Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) is a garbageman, and his life is about as unpleasant and uneventful as you'd expect given his profession; he doesn't much care for his work, he's treated with violence or contempt by most of the people in his neighborhood, and he shares a house with Mary (Maria Porter) Read More

6/19/98
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

1998
Independent's Day

Synopsis: The Sundance Channel produced this guided tour through the world of independent films and filmmakers, tossing out the statistic that the movement has escalated from some 50 films in 1985, to 800 in 1997. Interview segments include Sundance fest director Geoffrey Gilmore, fest programmer Bob Hawk Read More

1998
The Misadventures of Margaret

Actors: Parker Posey, Jeremy Northam, Craig Chester, Elizabeth McGovern, Brooke Shields

Synopsis: In this British-French comedy of manners, Parker Posey stars as Margaret, an award-winning writer of bawdy novels who's grown vaguely dissatisfied with her life in Manhattan -- and her marriage to Edward (Jeremy Northam), a junior poetry professor. Engrossed in the sexually charged 18th century Read More

1998
SubUrbia

Actors: Jayce Bartok, Amie Carey, Nicky Katt, Ajay Naidu, Parker Posey

Synopsis: Director Richard Linklater and writer/actor Eric Bogosian collaborated on this adaptation of Bogosian's play about a handful of people edging into their 20's who seem like the poor relations of the genial eccentrics in Linklater's Slacker. While the Texas bohemians in Slacker has their myriad Read More

1997
Drunks

Actors: Richard Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Calista Flockhart, Spalding Gray, George Martin

Synopsis: An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting brings together a disparate group of people struggling with addiction to drugs and liquor in this film based on Gary Lennon's play "Blackout." Jim (Richard Lewis) is in a bad mood as he sits in on an AA meeting in the basement of a church in New York City; he's Read More

1997
Clockwatchers

Actors: Joshua Malina, Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Alanna Ubach

Synopsis: Four women reflect on their lowly place in the corporate caste system in this dryly satiric comedy. Iris (Toni Collette) is a college graduate who hasn't decided what she wants to do with her life, except that she doesn't want the job her father has lined up for her at a frozen food company. While Read More

1997
The House of Yes

Actors: Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: A wealthy young man wants to wed a painfully ordinary girl, and a few hours with his family will convince anyone why he's doing so in this black comedy. Marty Pascal (Josh Hamilton) is engaged to marry Lesly (Tori Spelling), a dizzy blonde he met when she was working at a doughnut shop, and he Read More

1997
The Daytrippers

Actors: Hope Davis, Pat McNamara, Anne Meara, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: The debut from writer/director Greg Mottola, The Daytrippers follows a Long Island family as they make a disastrous journey into New York City. The impetus is a love letter discovered by suburbanite Eliza (Hope Davis) which seemingly incriminates her publisher husband Louis (Stanley Tucci) in an Read More

1996
Waiting for Guffman

Actors: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Bob Balaban, Parker Posey

Synopsis: The city of Blaine, Missouri is celebrating its sesquicentennial, and what better reason could there be to put on a show? Corky St. Claire (Christopher Guest), current leader of Blaine's community theater group and creator of a stage musical version of Backdraft that led to the unfortunate Read More

1996
Basquiat

Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie

Synopsis: Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at Read More

1996
The Doom Generation

Actors: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech, Lauren Tewes, Margaret Cho

Synopsis: Billed as "a heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki," The Doom Generation is the director's self-styled bad-taste teen film. Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won't have sex with her because he's Read More

1995
Party Girl

Actors: Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey, Omar Townsend, Sasha von Scherler, Guillermo Diaz, Anthony de Sando

Synopsis: The debut feature from director Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Party Girl pretty much cemented Parker Posey's status as the indie-film "it girl" of the 1990s. Posey stars as Mary, a fun-loving and irresponsible twentysomething New Yorker who prefers throwing bashes at her loft to pay the rent over Read More

1995
Frisk

Actors: Michael Gunther, Parker Posey, Alexis Arquette, Raoul O'Connell

Synopsis: A man pursues his sexual obsessions to their darkest and most dangerous extremes in this gay-themed drama based on a novel by Dennis Cooper. Dennis (Michael Gunther) is a gay man, who as a teenager developed a perverse attraction to violent pornography and simulated snuff photographs, which he Read More

1995
Flirt

Actors: Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Dwight Ewell, Dominik Bender, Geno Lechner, Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story three times. But while the basic narrative remains the same -- a congenital flirt must decide whether or not to Read More

1995
Kicking and Screaming

Actors: Josh Hamilton, Olivia D'Abo, Carlos Jacott, Christopher Eigeman, Eric Stoltz

Synopsis: Inspired by the advent of Seattle's grunge music sound and popular films such as Slacker (1991) and Singles (1992), the Generation X comedy-drama was born. Typified by characters in their early twenties sharing an abundance of education, a lack of career direction, stunted romantic aspirations and Read More

1995
Sleep with Me

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly, Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Susan Traylor

Synopsis: Six screenwriters, all real-life friends, each wrote one of the sequences in this romantic comedy-drama that unfolds at a half-dozen parties and celebrations. During a cross-country trip, Joe (Eric Stoltz) proposes to his girlfriend Sarah (Meg Tilly) with his best friend Frank (Craig Sheffer) Read More

1994
Mixed Nuts

Actors: Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Anthony LaPaglia, Juliette Lewis, Rita Wilson

Synopsis: A holiday comedy with dark overtones, Mixed Nuts presents a supposedly humorous look at the behind-the-scenes events at a crisis hotline on Christmas Eve. Philip (Steve Martin) runs Lifesavers, a Venice, California organization dedicated to helping the depressed and troubled. Unfortunately, Philip Read More

1994
Amateur

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, Damian Young, Chuck Montgomery

Synopsis: Hal Hartley's fourth feature is a significant break from the quirky romantic comedy territory of his previous work -- though all of the deadpan idiosyncracies which make him such a singular filmmaker remain intact, here he tries his hand at the thriller genre, a move yielding typically Read More

1994
Final Combination

Actors: Michael Madsen, Lisa Bonet, Gary Stretch, Tim Russ, Damian Chapa

Synopsis: Sex and death are the main themes running through this thriller. Matt Dickson is a former hockey player turned L.A. cop. Since his wife left him he has become a hard-drinking carouser. Dickson is on the trail of Welton, a psychotic boxer, using the names of famous fighters for his aliases has left Read More

1994
Joey Breaker

Actors: Richard Edson, Cedella Marley, Fred Fondren, Erik King, Gina Gershon

Synopsis: Richard Edson stars as the title character, a New York talent agent who takes little interest in the world outside of the entertainment industry. Then he falls for Cyan (Cedella Marley), a Jamaican waitress working to put herself through nursing school. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Coneheads

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: "The Coneheads" were a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to feature-length proportions with this film. The story concerns Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin), who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth. Read More

1993
Description of a Struggle

Actors: Parker Posey

1993
Dazed and Confused

Actors: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Rory Cochrane, Milla Jovovich, Joey Lauren Adams, Marissa Ribisi, Adam Goldberg

Synopsis: Like George Lucas' American Graffiti, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Lucas took aim at the conservative 1950's, Linklater jumps ahead a generation to the bicentennial year of 1976 to celebrate the joys of beer blasts, pot Read More

1993

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