Priscilla Pointer Filmography

Touched By an Angel: 'Til We Meet Again

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is the nurse at the bedside of elderly Joe Carpenter (Harvey Vernon), who is on the verge of being "collected" by Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye). But before Joe can leave this world, Monica and Tess (Della Reese) must somehow repair the fractured relationships between the Read More

Painted Desert

Actors: James Gammon, Nobu McCarthy, Kazuya Kimura, Priscilla Pointer, Don Opper

Synopsis: Veteran director Masato Harada spins this Bagdad Café-style drama about a group of quirky strangers stuck in the desert. The film opens with a yakuza named Jiro (Kazuya Kimura) staggering into a remote tumble-down café with an ugly shoulder wound. The place is run by tough-as-nails Read More

Un-Becoming Age

The Magic Bubble

Actors: Diane Salinger, John Calvin, Wallace Shawn, George Clooney, Priscilla Pointer, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: Julia Cole (Diane Salinger) is more than a little upset about turning 40. She's depressed about growing older, distressed at the lack of attention from her workaholic husband Charles (John Calvin), and bored with being a stay-at-home wife and mother. On her birthday, she finds a bottle of Read More

Runaway Father

Actors: Donna Mills, Jack Scalia, Chris Mulkey, Jenny Lewis, J.C. Brandy

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-television movie Runaway Father is about a husband who fakes his death so he can abandon his family. After surviving 20 years of poverty, his wife discovers he is still alive, and she sues him to collect 17 years of back child support. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Read More

A Show of Force

Actors: Amy Irving, Robert Duvall, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Melendez (Amy Irving) investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Disturbed

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Pointer, Pam Gidley, Irwin Keyes

Synopsis: The terror in this erotic horror thriller begins in the past when Dr. Russell, the director of a mental hospital, rapes a patient who afterward kills herself. Many years pass and the main story begins when a lovely model checks into the asylum. Dr. Russell feels those old lustful, violent Read More

The Flash

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, the well-known DC comic book character the Flash must use his super-human abilities to stop the Dark Riders, an evil motorcycle gang who caused the death of his brother and now threatens to take over Central City. A TV series of the same name resulted from this pilot Read More

C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the C.H.U.D.

Actors: Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Gerritt Graham, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Originally conceived as a Return of the Living Dead sequel and later inexplicably re-titled (despite the highly questionable marketing value of a C.H.U.D. franchise) this clunky attempt at a horror satire involves a pair of teenage do-nothings who abscond from a military base with a corpse who Read More

From the Hip

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Darren McGavin, Dan Monahan

Synopsis: Director Bob Clark, whose previous cinematic endeavors ran the gamut from Porky's to A Christmas Story, called the shots on From the Hip. Fresh out of law school, Robin Weathers (Judd Nelson) is hired by a law firm not known for its ethics. Weathers' first client is a man who, up to trial time Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, Robert Englund

Synopsis: The best of the Elm Street sequels, this creepy, surreal fantasy features terrific effects, a fine young cast, and an air of grim fatalism that sets it apart from its giggly successors. Patricia Arquette stars as Kristen, whose nightmare leads to a slashed wrist which looks suspiciously like a Read More

Rumpelstiltskin

Actors: Amy Irving, Billy Barty, Clive Revill, Priscilla Pointer, John Moulder-Brown

Synopsis: Billy Barty, one of the world's biggest little people, stars in this musical children's fable from the Brothers Grimm. Rumpelstiltskin (Barty) promises the miller's daughter Katie (Amy Irving) that she will be able to spin straw into gold in order to win the love of the Prince (John Mouler-Brown). Read More

Blue Velvet

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his Read More

Generation

Actors: Bert Remsen

Synopsis: Set on the last day of 1999, Generation takes place during a family reunion. Richard Beymer plays an inventor who has created high-tech prosthetic devices in order to help his younger brother Drake Hogestyn. Once a star athlete in the brutal (and sometimes fatal) game of combat hockey, Hogestyn Read More

The Falcon and the Snowman

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, David Suchet, Lori Singer, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this fact-based drama - adapted from Robert Lindsay's bestseller of the same title -- about two Californians, friends since boyhood, who are caught selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) is an all-American boy, studying for the Read More

Micki + Maude

Actors: Dudley Moore, Amy Irving, Richard Mulligan, Ann Reinking, George Gaynes, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Micki (Ann Reinking) is the wife of Rob (Dudley Moore), an airheaded TV talk show host. Maude (Amy Irving) is an attractive musician who is unaware of Micki's existence, and with whom Rob falls in love. Rob is a guy who can't say no, thus when Maude announces that she's pregnant, Rob obligingly Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Quincy's Wedding, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single, two hour "very special" episode), Quincy (Jack Klugman) and his fiancee Emily (Anita Gillette) are at last prepared to march down the aisle and tie the knot. While Emily is busily discussing details with wedding planner Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Quincy's Wedding, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), it looks like the wedding of Quincy (Jack Klugman) and Emily (Anita Gillette) will have to be postponed definitely. After all, Quincy cannot be bothered with mundane domestic details while he is busily Read More

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jeff Bannister, Patricia Barry, Peter Brocco, Albert Brooks

Synopsis: Based on the popular television series created by Rod Serling, this film of horror and the supernatural tells four separate stories--each by a different director: John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller. In one, a bigot is taught a lesson when he is transported to experience the Read More

The A-Team: The Out-of-Towners

Synopsis: This week the A-Team shows up in New York, where they champion the cause of a group of Delancy Street shopkeepers who are being terrorized by a vicious protection racket. The team quickly discerns that the man behind the racket is a flamboyant nightclub owner, which of course obligates our heroes Read More

Mysterious Two

Synopsis: In this sci-fi adventure, space aliens try to convince a couple of cynical Earthlings to come and help them establish a new colony on a better world. The film is also known as Follow Me If You Dare. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Follow Me If You Dare

The Gift of Life

Synopsis: The Gift of Life is a non-sensational study of surrogate pregnancy. Susan Dey stars as Joleen Sutton, a woman with a husband and two kids who agrees to be artificially inseminated on behalf of another woman. Since the surrogate mother concept is somewhat cloudy on a legal basis, Joleen faces Read More

Mommie Dearest

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva, Mara Hobel, Rutanya Alda

Synopsis: When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Crawford's will, "for reasons which are well known to them." Industryites have suggested that it may have been this posthumous act of rejection rather Read More

The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

Actors: Belinda Bauer, Lane Caudell

Synopsis: The plan was to develop a Star Wars type TV series with heavy injections of Sword N Sorcery. The title of the pilot was Archer: Fugitive From the Empire (the Archer part was lopped off when the film went into syndication). Soap opera refugee Lane Caudell plays a prince on a faraway planet who has Read More

Honeysuckle Rose

Actors: Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens, Joey Floyd

Synopsis: After displaying his easygoing charm in a number of television appearances and a showy supporting role in The Electric Horseman, Willie Nelson scored his first leading role in this romantic comedy-drama in which he (appropriately enough) plays a musician. Buck Bonham (Nelson) is a country Read More

The Competition

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker, Joseph Cali, Ty Henderson

Synopsis: Can two prodigies fall in love and stay in love, even when they are competing against one another in an international piano competition? Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving attempt to answer that question in The Competition. Richard Dreyfuss plays Paul Dietrich, a shabby prodigy slouching past the Read More

The Onion Field

Actors: John Savage, James Woods, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox, Franklyn Seales

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field is based on an actual 1963 case. L.A. plainclothesmen Karl Hattinger (John Savage) and Ian Campbell (Ted Danson) routinely investigate a pair of suspicious types, Greg Powell (James Woods) and Jimmy Smith (Franklin Seales). Unexpectedly, Powell pulls a gun on the Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Dead and Alive

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) investigates when the mother and sister of apparent murder victim Peter Nielsen (Bruce Wright)--whom he has already officially declared dead--come forth to declare that the "dead" man is not only still alive, but has been in contact with them since the "killing." The Read More

Mom and Dad Can't Hear Me

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Stephen Elliott, Priscilla Pointer, Eric Scott, Wendy Rastatter

Synopsis: A very young Rosanna Arquette stars in this poignant, Emmy-winning ABC Afterschool Special as a troubled teenager named Charlie. Although Charlie's parents (Stephen Elliott, Priscilla Pointer) are proud of their daughter, the feeling isn't mutual, and for a unique reason: Charlie's mom and dad are Read More

The 3,000 Mile Chase

Actors: Cliff De Young, Glenn Ford

Synopsis: A casual glance at the cast list for the made-for-TV 3000 Mile Chase might lead one to conclude that stars Cliff De Young and Glenn Ford play dual roles. In fact, De Young is a bonded courier, and Ford is a government witness. Both men are obliged to assume false identities while en route to a Read More

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Actors: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere

Synopsis: Adapted from Judith Rossner's best-selling novelization of a true story, Richard Brooks's melodrama turns one woman's search for a liberated life into a cautionary tale about promiscuity. After an affair with her college professor, no-longer-good Catholic girl Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) follows Read More

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: First aired March 13, 1977, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years was the brilliant follow-up to the equally praiseworthy 1976 TV movie Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years. The film is framed in a flashback experienced by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Jane Alexander) while accompanying the Read More

A Killing Affair

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth Montgomery, O.J. Simpson, John Mahon

Synopsis: Ingredients essential to this made-for-TV movie are a famous former pro football player, an interracial romance, and a brutal murder. Yes, the football player is O.J. Simpson, but the film was made a full 17 years before the death of Nicole Brown Simpson. In A Killing Affair, Simpson is cast as Read More

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

Actors: Natasha Ryan

Synopsis: Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night stars Susan Dey as a young mother with a history of mistreating her 3 year old daughter. Ms. Dey's erratic behavior is rooted in her own unhappy childhood and her failed marriage. Tricia O'Neil plays the doctor who endeavors to help both Dey and her daughter Read More

Nickelodeon

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich's early career as a film writer stood him in good stead for this comedy drama about the early days of the motion-picture industry, based in part on his interviews with pioneering directors Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan. Leo Harrigan (Ryan O'Neal) is a lawyer and Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds Read More

Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander, Linda Kelsey, Rosemary Murphy, Linda Purl

Synopsis: The winner of 11 Emmy awards, the made-for-TV Eleanor and Franklin stars Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. The film traces the first four decades of the lives of cousins Franklin and Eleanor, beginning with their marriage in 1905. Conflicts loom in Read More

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

Actors: Claudia Jennings, Jocelyn Jones, Johnny Crawford, Christopher Pennock, Tara Strohmeier

Synopsis: Exploitation film vixen Claudia Jennings stars with Jocelyn Jones in this all-trash rip-off of Bonnie and Clyde with Jennings and Morgan playing a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into countryside banks with a carload of fresh dynamite. The story literally begins with a bang as Candy Read More

Carrie

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, Nancy Allen, John Travolta

Synopsis: This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her Read More

Kojak: Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard

Synopsis: Azure Dee (Denyce Liston), a former prostitute who has struck it rich, is found hanging from the chandelier in the living room of her lavish home. Curiously affected by this death, Kojak begins to investigate Azure's friends, family members and customers, hoping to determine if the woman committed Read More

The Keegans

Synopsis: The Keegans was a TV pilot film for a projected serialized weekly about an extended Irish-American family. Tim Keegan (Tom Clancy), the clan's father is a dock worker. Son Larry Keegan (Adam Roarke) is a magazine reporter, while Larry's brother Pat (Spencer Milligan) is a pro football player. And Read More

The Big Rip-Off

Synopsis: The Big Rip-Off was the pilot film for Tony Curtis' shortlived TV series McCoy. Curtis plays a sly but basically decent con artist who is engaged to recover $250,000 in ransom money from a recent high-society kidnapping. In the tradition of The Sting, Curtis uses scam tactics to get the money Read More

The Rockford Files: Profit and Loss, Part 2 - Loss

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim continues probing into the kidnapping and murder of computer programmer Alec Morris, despite pressure brought to bear by Morris' bosses at Fiscal Dynamics. Based on evidence provided by other employees, it appears that the company's higherups ordered the Read More

The Rockford Files: Profit and Loss, Part 1 - Profit

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Alec Morris (John Carter), a terrified computer programmer for Fiscal Dynamics Incorporated, comes to Jim Rockford (James Garner) for help, only to be promptly kindapped. Following up this puzzling incident on behalf of Morris' wife Helen (Priscilla Read More

Adam-12: Van Nuys Division

Synopsis: Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) is in for quite a drubbing from his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and the rest of the police force when he decides to grow a mustache. But the kidding diminishes as the day wears on and the two mobile cops tackle a variety of tough cases during their brief Read More

The Failing of Raymond

Synopsis: Jane Wyman makes her TV-movie debut in The Failing of Raymond. She plays a middle-aged schoolteacher on the verge of retirement. Just before packing up and heading out, she is terrorized by former student Dean Stockwell. Having flunked out of her class ten years earlier, the demented man intends Read More

Death Takes a Holiday

Synopsis: This 1971 TV movie remake of the 1934 film of the same name (see the above synopsis) adds little to the original story about Death assuming human form to discover why mankind fears him. In updating the story, the scenarists removed much of the "nobility" of the principal characters--and also a lot Read More