Robin BartlettFilmography

Touched by an Angel: Quality Time

Synopsis: When teenage volleyball champion Amy Cozzi (Amanda Barfield) is diagnosed with diabetes, the news is especially tough on her paretns Toni (Robin Bartlett) and Paul (Ray Abruzzo), who are preparing to open a new pizza parlor where Monica (Roma Downey) and Andrew (John Dye) are currently employed. Read More

Mad About You: The Dirty Little Secret

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: In this penultimate Mad About You misadventure, Debbie Buchman (Robin Bartlett) embarks upon a genealogical journey along the Buchman and Stemple family trees. It turns out that the roots are somewhat intertwined: According to Debbie's conclusions, Paul (Paul Reiser) and his wife, Jamie (Helen Hunt Read More

Mad About You: Separate Beds

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Though they're still working overtime to bring the magic back into their marriage, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) discover that it is more beneficial to sleep apart. Meanwhile, Ira (John Pankow) tries to turn his timorous employee Marvin (Jeff Garlin) into a pro wrestler. And Read More

Mad About You: The Final Frontier, Part 2

Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: This final episode of Mad About You is set approximately 22 years in the future. Mabel Buchman (Janeane Garafolo), grown-up daughter of Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt), follows in her dad's footsteps by producing a documentary film about her family. Several former series regulars Read More

Mad About You: The Final Frontier, Part 1

Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: Part one of Mad About You's series finale is set approximately 22 years in the future. Mabel Buchman (Janeane Garafolo), grown-up daughter of Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt), follows in her dad's footsteps by producing a documentary film about her family. The starting point is the Read More

Mad About You: The Second Mrs. Buchman

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser) is once again in the doghouse -- this time on two fronts. First off, Paul manages to alienate his father, Burt (Louis Zorich), by agreeing to umpire a senior-citizen baseball game. And secondly, Jamie (Helen Hunt) discovers that she is "the second Mrs. Buchman" -- and Read More

Mad About You: Back to Work

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Everybody wants new mother Jamie (Helen Hunt) to go back to work -- except Jamie. Despite her worries over leaving baby Mabel in the care of others, Jamie agrees to accept a job with political consultants James Carville and Mary Matalin (playing themselves). Elsewhere, Paul (Paul Reiser) goes on Read More

Mad About You: The Caper

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Nobody is allowed to leave the premises during the birthday party of Paul Buchman (Paul Reiser). For one thing, Paul's neighbors Maggie and Hal Conway (Judy Geeson, Paxton Whitehead) suspect that one of the guests has absconded with a valuable painting. And besides, who would want to leave during Read More

Mad About You: The Coin of Destiny

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: The titular coin in this episode is flipped at a restaurant, bringing Paul's obstreperous ex-boss Lou Bonaparte (Larry Miller) back into the series, and landing both Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) on the TV tabloid Hard Copy. Destiny also takes a hand when Paul's parents (Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris Read More

Mad About You: Good Old Reliable Nathan

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Nathan Lane received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of a visiting college film professor. Upon learning that this was the prof to whom his wife, Jamie (Helen Hunt), surrendered her virginity many years ago, Paul (Paul Reiser) reacts in an unpredictable fashion. Meanwhile, Ira (John Pankow) Read More

Mad About You: Breastfeeding

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: The time has come for baby Mabel to choose between breastfeeding or bottle-feeding. Her choice does not please Paul (Paul Reiser) or Jamie (Helen Hunt), by try to reason with an infant. Meanwhile, Jamie's flamboyant mother, Theresa (Carol Burnett), begins dating a much-younger member of the Lord Read More

Mad About You: Cheating on Sheila

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Dissatisfied with their regular therapist, Sheila (Mo Gaffney), Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) try out a new shrink named Sydney (played by Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack). Unfortunately, the cost of this switch cannot merely be counted in dollars -- though Paul certain Read More

Mad About You: Separate Planes

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: On the off-chance that an unexpected tragedy might leave baby Mabel an orphan, Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) decide to take separate planes to Los Angeles. The results are, as usual, hilariously unpredictable. Jamie ends up "mothering" a planeful of grownups (including two old Read More

Mad About You: The Finale

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Ellen DeGeneres guest stars as Nancy Bloom, a former caterer whom Paul (Paul Reiser) had indirectly fired from the set of his "Making of Titanic" documentary. Through a twist of fate, Nancy is now the Buchmans' nanny -- but is she responsible for the brief "misplacement" of baby Mabel? Titanic Read More

Mad About You: Nat & Arley

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) try to play matchmaker with their dogwalker, Nat (Hank Azaria), and their babysitter, Arley (Lili Taylor). Thing of it is, Nat and Arley don't need any help -- though that's not the story they tell the Buchmans. On other fronts, a sleep clinic Read More

Mad About You: The Thanksgiving Show

Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: Once again (and for the last time), Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) preside over an eventful Thanksgiving dinner. This time, the guest list includes not only the couple's families and friends, but also Jamie's boss Henry Vincent (Fred Willard), baby Mabel's pediatrician Dr. Lee (Steve Park Read More

Mad About You: Tragedy Plus Time

Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: The title of this episode refers to the comedian's basic definition of comedy -- and also, indirectly, to the unexpected demise of Alan Tofsky (Eric Stoltz), former flame of Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt). In a videotaped will, Alan leaves all his worldly goods to Jamie -- and, much to the dismay of Read More

Mad About You: Fire at Riff's

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Lisa Kudrow and Fred Willard reprise their Mad About You roles as Ursula Buffay and Henry Vincent. Trouble begins smoldering when Joan (Suzie Plakson), the life partner of Paul's sister, Debbie (Robin Bartlett), is asked to pose for a "20 Most Eligible Bachelorettes in New York" magazine article. Read More

Mad About You: The Baby Video

Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: Filmmaker Paul (Paul Reiser), his writer-wife Jamie (Helen Hunt), and his producer-cousin Ira (John Pankow) collaborate on a video aimed at children. Alas, Paul's "method" portrayal of the Sandman is too frightening for younger viewers (and a few older viewers). Adding to this headache, Paul's Read More

Mad About You: Paul Slips in the Shower

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) takes a tumble in the shower, and in that split second his whole life flashes before his eyes. Highlights (or lowlights) include Paul's first kiss, and his mother Sylvia's (Cynthia Harris) outraged reaction; the sage advice of Paul's dad, Burt (Louis Zorich), specifically "you Read More

Mad About You: Mother's Day

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Hoping to surprise Jamie (Helen Hunt) with an elaborate Mother's Day gift, Paul (Paul Reiser) seeks out the advice of his cousin Ira (John Pankow) and Ira's employee Marvin (Jeff Garlin). The choices boil down to a rocking chair and a Times Square video message. Meanwhile, Paul's jealous mom Read More

City of Angels

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz, Colm Feore

Synopsis: An angel must decide if love is more important than eternal peace in this Americanized adaptation of Wim Wenders' modern classic Wings of Desire. Seth (Nicholas Cage) is an angel who hovers over the city of Los Angeles, listening to people's thoughts, observing their lives, and guiding them to the Read More

Mad About You: Season 06

Actors: Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt, Anne Ramsay, Leila Kenzle, John Pankow

Synopsis: Not surprisingly, most of Mad About You's sixth season was built around little Mabel Buchman, newborn daughter of leading players Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt). Many longtime fans of the series felt that the introduction of Mabel was the "jump the shark" moment, in which the Read More

Mad About You: Le Sex Show

Synopsis: Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) are anxious to have sex for the first time since baby Mabel's birth. Alas, even with the therapeutic assistance of Joan Golfinos (Suzie Plakson), the magic seems to be elusive. This episode is dedicated to former Mad About You regular George O. Petrie Read More

All Lies End in Murder

Synopsis: Having played a cop for several seasons on NYPD Blue, Kim Delaney shows up as a cop's wife in the made-for-TV All Lies End in Murder. Content to bask in the popularity of her highly respected detective husband Daniel (Jamey Sheridan), Meredith Scialo (Delaney) is totally unprepared to confront the Read More

Mad About You: Moody Blues

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) really asks for it when he agrees to direct a charity production of The Pirates of Penzance. Meanwhile, Jamie (Helen Hunt) insists she doesn't have postpartum depression, even though she obsesses over her "Dr. Seuss Character" figure. The separate crosses borne by Paul and Jamie Read More

Mad About You: Letters to Mabel

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: With lots of time on her hands, Jamie (Helen Hunt) begins writing letters to her baby daughter, Mabel, to be opened on Mabel's 18th birthday. Before long, Paul (Paul Reiser) has been caught up in the letter-writing mania, as have Ira (John Pankow) and Joan (Suzie Plakson). Trouble is, the words Read More

Mad About You: Coming Home

Actors: Robin Bartlett

Synopsis: Season six of Mad About You picks up where season five left off, as Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) bring their new baby daughter home from the hospital. The next step: What to name the kid? Surprisingly, Jamie's scatterbrained mother, Theresa (Carol Burnett), solves this knotty Read More

Mad About You: Uncle Phil and the Coupons

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Mel Brooks makes another unbearably funny appearance as Uncle Phil, here about to face trial for coupon fraud. Meanwhile, three-week-old Mabel is placed on a long waiting list for preschool, and Jamie (Helen Hunt) and Ira (John Pankow) have a strange adventure. Listen carefully for the Grand Read More

Mad About You: Speed Baby

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Though everybody thinks that they're overreacting, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) agonize over baby Mabel's nonstop crying. Paul in particular has his undies in a bundle because he has to meet with an important European film distributor after yet another sleepless night. Then Read More

Mad About You: The Birth, Part 2

Synopsis: After innumerable false alarms, it looks as though Jamie (Helen Hunt) is going to have her baby. But before this blessed event can take place, Jamie is unexpectedly reunited with old flame Alan (Eric Stoltz), while her husband, Paul (Paul Reiser), is given a guided hospital tour by a very big Read More

Mad About You: The Dry Run

Synopsis: Gynecologist Joan Golfinos manages to get Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) into a birthing class. Almost immediately, Paul and Jamie manage to flunk out. Meanwhile, the great mystery of the missing JFK Commemorative Spoon prompts Paul's parents Burt and Sylvia (Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris Read More

Mad About You: Citizen Buchman

Synopsis: While being interviewed on film by Paul (Paul Reiser), great-uncle Marty (Shecky Green) ruins the shot by dropping dead. Marty's garbled final words ("Hummus?" "Cow Moos?" "Hey Miss?") touches off yet another crisis in the Buchman family. Amidst a veritable smorgasbord of famous guest stars Read More

Mad About You: The Magic Pants

Synopsis: After several unworthy candidates, new parents Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) believe they've found the perfect babysitter in the form of a lass named Arley (Lili Taylor). Now the Buchmans are secure enough to take their first evening out in months. Unfortunately, fate intervenes Read More

Mad About You: The New Friend

Actors: Louis Zorich

Synopsis: Mare Winningham guest stars as Sarah, a divorced mother of three who teaches Jamie (Helen Hunt) the "casual" parenting method. Jamie and Paul (Paul Reiser) are convinced that Sarah would make an ideal blind date for Paul's cousin Ira (John Pankow). Unfortunately, Ira ends up falling for WNBA star Rebecca Lobo Read More

Mad About You: The Birth, Part 1

Synopsis: After innumerable false alarms, it looks as though Jamie (Helen Hunt) is going to have her baby. This expected blessed event coincides with the unexpected film-festival triumph of Jamie's husband, Paul (Paul Reiser) -- who'da thunk that "Buchman" would win an award over a Michael Moore project? Read More

Mad About You: Her Houseboy, Coco

Synopsis: With Jamie (Helen Hunt) incapacitated, Paul (Paul Reiser) must wait on her hand and foot. His already difficult job is complicated by the lack of heat in the Buchmans' apartment -- and by an unscheduled kidnapping. At one point, it appears as though this episode should have been titled "Her Read More

Mad About You: Guardianhood

Synopsis: Just in case of emergency, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) decide to line up a guardian for their unborn baby. Alas, no one seems to want the job -- not even the people whom Paul and Jamie don't want for the job. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Bobby Rubenfield (Seth Green) develops a Read More

Mad About You: Outbreak

Synopsis: Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt) have decided to hold off telling everyone that Jamie is pregnant until the couple can make a formal announcement at their Thanksgiving dinner. This plan is undermined by a number of "security leaks" in the office of gynecologist Joan Golfinos (Suzie Plakson Read More

Mad About You: Dr. Wonderful

Actors: Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: Season five of Mad About You begins with Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) happily reconciled, thanks to Jamie's impending pregnancy. With their regular gynecologist, Mark, in Europe, the Buchmans need a new doctor to handle the preliminaries. Paul's gay sister, Debbie (Robin Bartlett Read More

Mad About You: The Finale, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first chapter of Mad About You's three-part fourth season finale, Paul (Paul Reiser) decides to confess to wife Jamie (Helen Hunt) that he has had a rendezvous -- literally, since the occurrence took him around the block -- with an attractive female filmmaker. Almost simultaneously, Jamie Read More

Mad About You: Everybody Hates Me

Synopsis: Once again, Ira's (John Pankow) heart is broken by a beautiful girl. Even so, the girl in question has a profound effect on Jamie (Helen Hunt), who elects to adopt a bold "new look." Both Jamie's cosmetic recklessness and her husband Paul's (Paul Reiser) careless tongue figure largely in the Read More

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

Actors: Rick Moranis, Eve Gordon, Bug Hall, Allison Mack, Robin Bartlett

Synopsis: The Szalinsky family once again discovers size really does matter in this follow-up to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Honey, I Blew up the Kid. Inventor Wayne Szalinsky (Rick Moranis) is preparing to donate his problematic shrinking/expanding machine to the Smithsonian Institution as he and Read More

Mad About You: Ovulation Day

Synopsis: Determined to have a baby, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) carefully arrange a romantic afternoon at precisely the right day of the month. Alas, the couple's best-laid plans repeatedly go awry thanks to the interruptions of Paul's family. On top of that, Paul's sister Debbie (Robin Bartlett Read More

Mad About You: The Good, the Bad & the Not-So-Appealing

Synopsis: In her never-ending efforts to "bond" with her contentious mother-in-law, Sylvia Buchman (Cynthia Harris), Jamie (Helen Hunt) embarks upon yet another exotic cooking experiment. This time, Jamie is convinced that she will succeed -- after all, how can one go wrong with Martha Stewart as one's Read More

Dangerous Minds

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney Vance, Robin Bartlett, Bruklin Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, a school teacher discovers that it takes more than the ABCs to get through to a class of "uneducatable" kids. When Lou Anne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps with a degree in education, begins a new job at an inner-city school in California, the Read More

A Dangerous Affair

Actors: Connie Sellecca, Gregory Harrison, Christopher Meloni, Rosalind Cash, John Marshall Jones

Synopsis: Connie Sellecca portrays another 1990s woman in peril in this made-for-television thriller. Sellecca stars as Sharon Blake, a successful career woman who has a passionate affair with a possessive man (Gregory Harrison). When she tries to break off the relationship though, she uncovers the dark Read More

12:01

Synopsis: Based on a story by Richard Lupoff (a short filmization of the same story earned an Oscar nomination for 1990), 12:01 centers on a member of the personnel department in a science lab, who discovers that the world has become somehow trapped in a strange time warp that causes the same 24-hour period Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, and James Elroy). It looks as if a con-artist (Peter Gallagher) has finally met someone who can pull the wool over his eyes in "The Frightening Frammis." Read More

Deceived

Actors: Goldie Hawn, John Heard, Robin Bartlett, Ashley Peldon, Tom Irwin

Synopsis: Goldie Hawn delivers a surprisingly understated performance (allowing the audience to shift their laughter from the usually comic Hawn to the unbelievable storyline) in the unsuccessful thriller Deceived. Hawn plays Adrienne Saunders, a successful art restorer who is married to Jack (John Heard) Read More

Regarding Henry

Actors: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn, Mikki Allen, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: Combining elements of A Christmas Carol and Rain Man (1988), this modern-day parable of greed and redemption was crafted with generous helpings of sentimentality by director Mike Nicholas. Harrison Ford stars as Henry Turner, a slick, ruthless corporate attorney willing to spin any falsehood to Read More

If Looks Could Kill

Actors: Richard Grieco, Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Robin Bartlett, Gabrielle Anwar

Synopsis: Television flavor-of-the-month Richard Grieco made his feature-film debut in this juvenile spoof of James Bond films. He plays a high-school senior named Michael Corben who has flunked out of his French class, but has the chance to make up his grade on the French Club's summer trip to Europe. On Read More

Alice

Actors: Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna, Alec Baldwin, Blythe Danner, Judy Davis

Synopsis: Woody Allen's character study of a well-kept, upscale Manhattan woman (Mia Farrow) takes the title character on a journey through a Wonderland of her own making, in which she learns some truths about herself, her relationships, and the universe in general. Alice leads a comfortable life, except 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

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Actors: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. Martin Landau plays Dr. Judah Read More

See You in the Morning

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: This film is a somewhat contrived pairing of two divorcees who are giving it a second go. They're up against considerable odds, however, because the children of each are not too pleased with their new "parent." Jeff Bridges stars as the husband and Alice Krige plays his second wife. ~ All Movie Read More

Lean on Me

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Robert Guillaume, Beverly Todd, Lynne Thigpen, Jermaine Hopkins

Synopsis: After earning rave notices for powerful supporting turns as a pimp in Street Smart (1987) and an alcohol abuse counselor in Clean and Sober (1988), actor Morgan Freeman began his ascent to stardom with this, his first lead role in a major motion picture. Freeman is real-life high school principal Read More

Moonstruck

Actors: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello

Synopsis: When there's a full moon over Brooklyn, anything can happen, and everything happens in the neighborhood where widowed bookkeeper Loretta Castorini (Cher) lives. First, Loretta agrees to marry a man she does not love, Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), simply because he knows how to propose properly. Read More

Baby Boom

Actors: Diane Keaton, Harold Ramis, Sam Wanamaker, James Spader, Pat Hingle, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: Management consultant Diane Keaton has no time in her life for anything except her high-profile job. All this changes when she inherits a 14-month-old infant from a pair of recently deceased-and very distant-relatives. Intending to put the child up for adoption, she discovers that she has grown Read More

Courage

Actors: Sophia Loren, Billy Dee Williams, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: This three-hour TV movie stars Sophia Loren as New Yorker Marianna Miraldo. Hurt and angered by her son's cocaine addiction, Marianna discovers that a close friend also has ties with the drug scene. After several of her imprisoned friend's associates try to contact him through her, the DEA Read More

Sophie's Choice

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman

Synopsis: The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska Read More

Heaven's Gate

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, John Hurt, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism Read More

Skokie

Actors: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their intended site is the Chicago suburb of Skokie Read More

Playing for Time

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: The made-for-television Playing for Time debuted on September 30, 1980. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fania Fenelon, a Jewish cabaret singer working in Paris at the time of the Nazi invasion. Shipped to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944, Fenelon is certain that she is as doomed as all the other Read More