Sally Field Filmography

Two Weeks

Actors: Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Lauren Ellman, Julianne Nicholson, Tom Cavanagh

Synopsis: Director Steve Stockman takes the helm for this semi-autobiographical comedy drama about an estranged family that comes together for one last goodbye, and finds their assumedly brief farewell inexorably dragged out for two excruciating weeks. Aging matriarch Anita (Sally Field) is dying, but Read More

Brothers & Sisters: Season 02

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin, Patricia Wettig

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo [D]

Actors: Sid Levin, Andy Sidaris, Haskell Wexler, William Friedkin, Georgiana M. Alonzo

Synopsis: Axel Schill's non-fiction work The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo joins Light Keeps Me Company, Tell Them Who You Are, and other recent documentaries in paying homage to one of the world's great cinematographers. Active from the early 1960s until just before his death Read More

Brothers & Sisters: Season 01

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin, Patricia Wettig

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Taking home a paycheck that nearly rivals the budget of the first film, Reese Witherspoon reprises the role of Elle Woods in this sequel to 2001's surprise blockbuster Legally Blonde. When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on Read More

ER: A Thousand Cranes

Synopsis: Magoo's, a local hangout frequented by the ER staffers, is the scene of a bloody holdup, in which three people are killed and one seriously injured. As Chen (Ming-Na) pieces together a sketchy description of one of the likely perps, her African-American colleagues Gallant (Sharif Atkins) and Pratt Read More

ER: A Boy Falling Out of the Sky

Synopsis: Abby (Maura Tierney) has just about reached the end of her rope: Her biploar brother, Eric, has vanished, and her bipolar mother Maggie (Sally Field) has come back into her life. As Carter (Noah Wyle) tries to help Abby cope with her many burdens, a shaken and humbled Kovac (Goran Visnjic) returns Read More

ER: First Snowfall

Synopsis: The first big blizzard of the year results in an overload of patients at the ER, including members of a family who were building a snowman when they were struck down by a drunk driver. Carter (Noah Wyle) would sooner leave Chicago behind and join Abby (Maura Tierney), who has flown to an Omaha Read More

ER: Next of Kin

Synopsis: A major crisis arises for Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) and Harkins (Leslie Bibb) as they care for an injured teenager who is harboring a secret from her father. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) has an eye-opening encounter with an elderly female patient. Chen (Ming-Na) reacts strangely when an abandoned baby turns Read More

Say It Isn't So

Actors: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Bobby Farrelly and brother Peter Farrelly continue exploring outrageous premises with this comedy directed by their first assistant director J.B. Rogers. In this wacky spin on the boy-meets-girl tale, Gilly Noble (Chris Klein) enters a sexually charged, passionate love affair with girl of his Read More

ER: Where the Heart Is

Synopsis: A softball game between the hospital staffers is but one of this episode's many story ingredients. In other developments, Greene (Anthony Edwards) suspects that his seven-year-old patient is a victim of abuse. Weaver (Laura Innes) finds out what her former lover Legaspi (Elizabeth Mitchell) has Read More

ER: Fear of Commitment

Synopsis: Abby's (Maura Tierney) bipolar mother, Maggie (Sally Field), testifies in court as to her competency, with surprising results. Back at the ER, Weaver (Laura Innes) is shocked to learn that her latest patient, a homeless derelict (Bette Ford), is actually "Princess Taffeta," Weaver's favorite Read More

ER: Sailing Away

Synopsis: Abby (Maura Tierney) is forced to leave Chicago to retrieve her bipolar mother, Maggie (Sally Field), who has squirreled herself away in an Oklahoma motel room and has refused to seek out treatment for her mental condition. When Carter (Noah Wyle) offers to accompany Abby on her trip, he Read More

Beautiful

Crew: Director

Actors: Minnie Driver, Joey Lauren Adams, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Kathleen Turner, Leslie Stefanson

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field makes her debut as a director of a theatrical feature with this gently satiric comedy. Mona Hibbard (Minnie Driver) is a woman from a small town in Illinois who never enjoyed much of a rapport with her parents. Looking for approval and validation, Mona Read More

Where the Heart Is

Actors: Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, James Frain, Dylan Bruno, Keith David, Sally Field

Synopsis: Pregnant 17-year-old Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) runs away from her Tennessee home toward the bright lights of California, accompanied by her boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickins (Dylan Bruno). But Willy gets cold feet and abandons her at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, OK. Novalee's life savings amount to Read More

ER: The Visit

Synopsis: Sally Field makes the first of several appearances in the Emmy-winning role of Maggie Wyczenski, the bipolar mother of ER nurse Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney). Off her medication, a hyper Maggie tries to pay a visit to Abby -- who refuses to see her. Meanwhile, Kovac (Goran Visnjic) looks into a Read More

David Copperfield

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of the BBC's multipart 1999 adaptation of Charles Dickens' semiautobiographical novel David Copperfield came this American-financed version, prepared for the TNT cable network as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Child actor Max Dolbey and adult performer Hugh Dancy share the Read More

ER: Rescue Me

Synopsis: Abby (Maura Tierney) and her bipolar mom, Maggie (Sally Field), have a tense confrontation just before Thanksgiving. In a less serious but similar vein, Chen (Ming-Na) uses a family Thanksgiving party as an opportunity to reveal her pregnancy to her mother (Nancy Kwan). Back at the ER, Abby barely Read More

ER: The Dance We Do

Synopsis: Abby's mentally disturbed mother, Maggie (Sally Field), thinks she's healthy enough to interview for a job -- but she's wrong. Greene (Anthony Edwards) reacts to the news that he has a brain tumor. Kynesha (Toy Connor), the girlfriend of Benton's (Eriq La Salle) murdered nephew Jesse, is herself Read More

A Cooler Climate

Actors: Sally Field, Judy Davis, Winston Rekert

Synopsis: Susan Seidelman directs this critically acclaimed made-for-cable TV movie based on the novel by Zena Collier. A nasty divorce leaves one-time housewife Iris Prue (Sally Field) in unstable financial circumstances, forcing her to accept a demeaning job as live-in housekeeper to the family of Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: Love Crazy

Actors: Sally Field

Synopsis: In this episode of AFI's 100 Years. . .100 movies, viewers look at some of Hollywood's greatest love stories. Some of the films examined include City Lights, The Apartment, West Side Story, Annie Hall, and many others. Other titles in the AFI series include Beyond the Law and Family Portraits Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: The Wilder Shores of Love

Actors: Sally Field

Synopsis: In this episode of AFI's 100 Years. . .100 movies, viewers examine those films defined by grand, sweeping passions. Movies featured include The African Queen, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Midnight Cowboy, and many others. Other titles in the AFI series include Beyond the Law and Family Read More

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies: Family Portraits

Actors: Sally Field

Synopsis: In this episode of AFI's 100 Years. . .100 movies, viewers look at the portrayal of families in American film. Some of the films featured include Giant, It's a Wonderful Life, Shane, The Sound of Music, and many others. ~ Rob Ferrier, All Movie Guide Read More

From the Earth to the Moon

Actors: David Andrews, Bryan Cranston, Tim Daly, Al Franken, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Originally aired on HBO and directed by Apollo 13 star and space enthusiast Tom Hanks, among others, From the Earth to the Moon explores the ups and downs of space travel, beginning with President Kennedy's famous speech before Congress on May 25, 1961, and chronicling the journey to putting the Read More

From the Earth to the Moon, Part 11: The Original Wives Club

Crew: Director

Synopsis: President John F. Kennedy issued the challenge to America in a speech to Congress in 1961: Land a man on the moon within the decade. This HBO mini-series, produced by Tom Hanks, chronicles the story of NASA's efforts to carry out the vision. Episode 11 presents the story of the women behind the Read More

Murphy Brown: Opus One

Synopsis: Murphy Brown returned from a four-month hiatus with this episode, originally telecast April 6, 1998. Now finished with chemotherapy, Murphy (Candice Bergen) hopes to celebrate her 50th birthday in grand style. Picking up on Murphy's high spirits, Frank (Joe Regalbuto) concocts a surprise party to Read More

King of the Hill: Hilloween

The Christmas Tree

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A possible candidate for New York City's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is the subject of this made-for-TV movie. Julie Harris stars as elderly nun Sister Anthony, whose orphanage tree is being courted by a Rockefeller Center gardener (Andrew McCarthy) for use as the famed seasonal attraction. Trini Alvarado Read More

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco

Actors: Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Veronica Lauren, Kevin Timothy Chevalia, Michael J. Fox, Sally Field, Benji Thall

Synopsis: Two dogs and a cat, separated from their human family, must find their way home and face the dangers of a big city for the first time in this adventure story for the whole family. Bob Seaver (Robert Hays) and his wife Laura (Kim Greist), who live in Northern California, are taking their kids on a Read More

Intimate Portrait: Sally Field

Actors: Sally Field

Synopsis: Lifetime's Intimate Portrait: Sally Field profiles the actress who started out playing television's lighthearted Gidget but soon took on weightier roles in Sybil, Norma Rae, and Places in the Heart. The daughter of screen starlet Maggie Mahoney, Field has always been an actress. When her mother Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Where Is the Love?

Synopsis: Despite Artie's (Rip Torn) pleas to Larry (Garry Shandling) to ignore a scathing and personal review from critic Tom Shales, the embittered host's subsequent rebuttal sparks a press-fueled war of words between Larry and Shales. When an obscene fax meant for Shales instead finds its way to Hank Read More

The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful: Women in the Movies

Eye for an Eye

Actors: Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Beverly D'Angelo, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: An ordinary woman is driven to the point of violent revenge in this tense thriller. Karen McCann (Sally Field) is a suburban wife and working mother with two daughters. Karen's life is turned upside down when her 17-year-old daughter is raped and murdered, a crime she overhears on her cellular Read More

Forrest Gump

Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field

Synopsis: "Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most Read More

Saturday Night Live: Sally Field

Actors: Sally Field, Tony! Toni! Tone'!

Synopsis: This 1993 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Sally Field and features musical guest Tony! Toni! Tone!. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Mrs. Doubtfire

Actors: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Robin Williams learns that keeping in touch with his children can be a drag in this hit comedy. Daniel Hillard (Williams) is an eccentric actor who specializes in dubbing voices for cartoon characters. Daniel is a kind man and a loving father, but he's a poor disciplinarian and a shaky role model. Read More

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Actors: Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Jean Smart, Benji Thall, Michael J. Fox, Don Ameche, Veronica Lauren, Sally Field

Synopsis: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Disney's 1993 remake of the 1963 hit The Incredible Journey, follows three household pets as they travel across mountains and plains on their way to find their owners. A misunderstanding leads the animals to mistakenly believe that they have been abandoned Read More

Dying Young

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby

Synopsis: Directed by Joel Schumacher, Dying Young was adapted from a novel by Marti Leimbach. When Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott) discovers that he is suffering from leukemia, his wealthy family hires pretty, young Hillary O'Neil (Julia Roberts) to help nurse him through his chemotherapy treatment. As the Read More

Soapdish

Actors: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as those of their television counterparts. Sally Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the star of a declining TV show. To make matters worse, Talbert's career is thrown into turmoil when her Read More

Not Without My Daughter

Actors: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Sarah Badel

Synopsis: In this docudrama based on true events, a mid-'80s Michigan housewife finds her life turned upside down when a vacation to Tehran with her Iranian husband turns into virtual imprisonment for her and her young daughter. Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field) is reluctant to visit the wartorn homeland of her 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

Twisted Justice

Actors: David Heavener, Erik Estrada, Karen Black, Shannon Tweed, Jim Brown

Synopsis: In this futuristic actioner set in the year 2020, guns have become so illegal that even cops cannot use them to stop criminals. But officer James Tucker is a maverick and carries with him an enormous homemade revolver, which he uses to blow away bad-guys and psychotic criminals. His newest Read More

Punchline

Actors: Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell, Kim Greist, Damon Wayans

Synopsis: Sally Field goes the Roseanne route in Punchline. Field plays a housewife and mother who suddenly develops the urge to be a comedienne. Her comic instincts are on target, but her timing and delivery stinks. Tom Hanks, a stand-up comic with a few years' experience under his belt, offers to teach Field Read More

Surrender

Actors: Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Veteran television writer-director Jerry Belson concocted this sweet comedy that stars Michael Caine as Sean Stein, a best-selling mystery novelist who's been constantly hurt by women he's fallen for. Sally Field plays Daisy Morgan, an artist who has not yet hit it big. She and Stein are at a Read More

Murphy's Romance

Actors: Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Dennis Burkley, Georgann Johnson

Synopsis: Newly divorced Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) moves herself and her young son to a small Arizona town, hoping to establish a horse farm. Town pharmacist Murphy Jones (James Garner), the town's most eligible bachelor, develops a platonic friendship with Emma, but he decides to keep his distance when Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Lillian Gish

Synopsis: Hosted by the American Film Institute, this video is a tribute to career of Lillian Gish. Included are excerpts from: The Birth of a Nation, Duel in the Sun, The Scarlet Letter and other films. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Places in the Heart

Actors: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover

Synopsis: Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 (Country and The River were the other two), Places in the Heart is the only one set during the Depression. After her husband is killed, Sally Field is forced to take over the debt-ridden Texas family farm herself. Though slightly embittered by the Read More

Kiss Me Goodbye

Actors: Sally Field, James Caan, Jeff Bridges, Paul Dooley, Claire Trevor

Synopsis: Robert Mulligan directed this Americanized re-make of the successful Brazilian comedy Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Sally Field stars as Kay Villano, a lonely widow of three years who can't forget the memory of her dead husband, Jolly (James Caan). Jolly was a selfish and unfaithful Broadway Read More

All the Way Home

Synopsis: Tad Mosel's Broadway play All the Way Home was based on James Agee's A Death in the Family. A film version of the Mosel piece, starring Robert Preston and Jean Simmons, was released in 1963. 18 years later, All the Way Home was given an all-star staging by the NBC television network. Set in 1915 Read More

Absence of Malice

Actors: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: In this legal drama from director Sydney Pollack, Sally Field stars as Megan, an ambitious newpaper reporter who, based on information from FBI investigator Rosen, played by Bob Balaban, writes a scathing article that implicates Gallagher, a reclusive business-owner played by Paul Newman, in the Read More

Back Roads

Actors: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon, Michael Vincente Gazzo

Synopsis: For his follow-up to 1979's Academy Award-winning Norma Rae, director Martin Ritt re-teams with that film's star, Sally Field, for this gritty romantic road comedy. Reportedly Ritt's homage to Frank Capra's films of the 1930s, Back Roads stars Field as Amy Post, a no-nonsense prostitute in the Read More

Smokey and the Bandit II

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Jerry Reed

Synopsis: Former stuntman Hal Needham made his directorial debut with the first Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and repeated his success with the sequel, a virtual remake that substituted a live elephant for a truckload of beer. Burt Reynolds returns as law-defying anti-hero Bandit, now a washed-up alcoholic Read More

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Actors: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Irwin Allen's second water-logged disaster film picks up where The Poseidon Adventure left off; Salvagers Michael Caine, Karl Malden and Sally Field enter the Poseidon to take what they can, unaware that evil salvager Telly Savalas and his henchmen lie in wait. When an explosion rocks the ship Read More

Norma Rae

Actors: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Gail Strickland, Barbara Baxley

Synopsis: Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman) Read More

The End

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, David Steinberg

Synopsis: At the beginning of The End, Wendell Sonny Lawson (Burt Reynolds) is informed by his doctor that he's dying from "the same thing Ali MacGraw had in Love Story." Lawson's first reaction is to cry uncontrollably, much to the discomfort of his fellow elevator passengers. He heads to a nearby church Read More

Hooper

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field, Brian Keith, John Marley

Synopsis: Following the blockbuster success of Smokey and the Bandit, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field and director Hal Needham reunited to make the very similar Hooper, an action-laced comedy about a Hollywood stunt man who enters a dangerous rivalry with a younger stunt man. Hooper (Reynolds) and the younger Read More

Smokey and the Bandit

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason, Mike Henry

Synopsis: "Smokey," aka Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), is the prospective father-in-law of unwilling bride Carrie (Sally Field). The Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a maverick racecar driver, makes an 80,000-dollar bet that he can transport a shipment of Coors beer from Texarkana, TX, to Atlanta within Read More

Heroes

Actors: Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Val Avery, Olivia Cole

Synopsis: Heroes is an old-fashioned social problem movie concerning a troubled Vietnam veteran and the loving woman who helps him to work out his problems. Henry Winkler plays Jack Dunne, a veteran who has a history of mental problems. Jack fools the hospital doctor Elias (Hector Elias) and escapes from Read More

Sybil

Actors: Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, Martine Bartlett, William Prince, Jane Hoffman

Synopsis: The multiple award-winning made-for-TV movie Sybil was based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. Sally Field won an Emmy for her portrayal of the title character, a substitute teacher in New York who has developed multiple personality disorder. As a coping mechanism to deal with the abuse she Read M