Sally KirklandFilmography

Big Stan

Actors: Rob Schneider, David Carradine, Salvator Xuereb, Buddy Lewis, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Deuce Bigalow star Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways ultimately land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped while serving time, the diminutive convict-to-be enlists the aid of a respected kung-fu expert in Read More

Hollywood Dreams

Actors: Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, Zack Norman, David Proval, Karen Black

Synopsis: When an aspiring young starlet from Iowa falls in love with a handsome and promising young actor, she finds her dreams of fame slowly fading in a poignant tale of show-business aspirations from director Henry Jaglom. Upon arriving in Los Angeles to seek her fortune on film and stage, an innocent Read More

Resurrection Mary

Actors: Kevin Schmidt, Sally Kirkland, Pamela Jean, Richard Riehle, Charlie Schlatter

Synopsis: A moonlit encounter with an urban legend sends the life of an unassuming high school kid spinning out of control. Seventeen year old Jeff Pryce (Kevin G. Schmidt) was driving down a winding country road when he nearly ran over a mysterious beauty walking alone by Resurrection Cemetery. After Read More

Off the Black

Actors: Nick Nolte, Trevor Morgan, Sonia Feigelson, Rosemarie DeWitt

Synopsis: When the growing divide between a troubled teen and his emotionally distant father finds the boy seeking the friendship of a disheveled and temperamental high-school umpire, the bond shared between the unlikely pair leads both to realize things about themselves that they never knew in an affecting Read More

Coffee Date

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Jonathan Bray, Wilson Cruz, Sally Kirkland, Jonathan Silverman, Jason Stuart, Deborah Gibson

Synopsis: A simple brotherly joke goes hilariously awry in director Stewart Wade's zany tale of mistaken sexual identity. Todd's brother Barry wants to help his single sibling out by setting him up on a blind date. While all signs lead to a perfect match, it soon becomes obvious that Barry is having a Read More

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

What's Up Scarlett?

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Susan Priver, Sally Kirkland, Musetta Vander, Jere Burns, Timothy V. Murphy

Synopsis: An L.A. matchmaker and an unemployed actress forge an unlikely romance in this comedy starring Susan Priver and Sally Kirkland. Scarlet Zabrinski (Priver) may be a born cupid, but when it comes to her own love life things aren't going too well; her mother Ruth (Kirkland) insists on setting her up Read More

Fingerprints

Actors: Leah Pipes, Kristin Cavallari, Josh Henderson

Synopsis: Loosely based on an urban legend centering on haunted train tracks, director Harry Basil's sophomore feature follows a young girl who was recently released from rehab as she moves back in with her parents and sister. When strange things begin happening around town, the recovering addict discovers Read More

Chandler Hall

Actors: Jesse Luke Dunn, Shanna Collins, Zack Graham, Jeremy Shawn, Tim Chiou

Synopsis: A college freshman is quickly seduced into the wild life, only to realize too little too late that there's a high price to pay for living large. Jimmy Bravo has just moved into Chandler Hall. He's making some new friends, and in the blink of an eye he's gotten swept up in a heady haze of Read More

Spiritual Warriors

Actors: Jsu Garcia, Robert Easton, Shyla Cruize, Leigh Taylor-Young

Bald

Actors: Jonathan Cherry, Sally Kirkland, Cedric Yarbrough, Dallas Page, Lisa Gleave

Synopsis: When a sex-crazed college student starts to go bald, his best friend concocts a fool-proof plan: they'll start an erotic website (featuring the sexiest co-eds at their school) to raise money for a hair transplant! Bald co-stars wrestler Dallas Page and the host of Bikini Destinations, Lisa Gleave. Read More

Neo Ned

Actors: Jeremy Renner, Gabrielle Union, Ethan Suplee, Cary Elwes, Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: Ned (Jeremy Renner of Dahmer) is a proud member of the Aryan Brotherhood who has been admitted to a mental institution for his involvement in a racially motivated murder. Dr. Magnuson (Cary Elwes) and Johnny (Ethan Suplee) have trouble keeping Ned in line. Boisterous and belligerent, he's prone to Read More

Bruce Almighty

Actors: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Philip Baker Hall, Catherine Bell

Synopsis: After a bad day at work, a man suddenly gets a new job -- as the world's new Heavenly Father -- in this comedy. Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is a television reporter working in Buffalo, NY, who has been growing increasingly dissatisfied with his existence, and after an especially bad day, he flies Read More

Mango Kiss

Actors: Michelle Wolff, Daniele Ferraro, Sally Kirkland, Shannon Rossiter, Dru Mouser

Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Sascha Rice makes her feature debut with Mango Kiss, based on the stage play Bermuda Triangles: The Non-Monogamy Experiment. Butch Lou (Michelle Wolff) and femme Sassafras (Daniele Ferraro) drive to San Francisco together, share an apartment, and become lovers in an Read More

Another Pretty Face

Synopsis: The media's tendency to favor youth and cosmetic perfection over experience and intelligence is the gist of this mildly trenchant TV movie. Mel Harris stars as Diana, a top TV news anchor who is summarily dumped from her lofty perch in favor of a younger and prettier journalist named Amber (Julianne Morris Read More

Deranged

Actors: Jason Brooks, Sally Kirkland, Kari Wuhrer, JoBeth Williams

Mothers and Daughters

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Sheri Hellard, Heidi Marnhout, Tom Bosley, Morgan Brittany

Synopsis: Sally Kirkland produced and starred in this lighthearted family drama about three generations of women. Priscilla (Sheri Hellard) and her mother (Kirkland) couldn't more more different. The younger woman is a hardworking housewife who has always had trouble seeing eye to eye with the elder of the Read More

Wish You Were Dead

Actors: Elaine Hendrix, Cary Elwes

Synopsis: Small-town insurance adjustor Macbeth (Cary Elwes) is swindled into signing over a one-million-dollar policy to trailer park harlot Sally (Mary Steenburgen), who then hires a seductive hit woman, Jupiter (Elaine Hendrix), to kill him. But the ruthless Jupiter, who specializes in slaying cheating Read More

Coffee Date

A Month of Sundays

Synopsis: A small town baseball announcer embarks on the journey of a lifetime after facing the prospect of being placed in a retirement home against his will in this bittersweet drama featuring Academy Award-winning actor Rod Steiger in his final film role. Despite the fact that his health is fading, and Read More

Thank You, Good Night

Actors: Christian Campbell, J.P. Pitoc, Mark Hamill, Sally Kirkland, Jay Leggett

Synopsis: An underachieving, New Jersey-based rock band set out for their last tour with the understanding that if success doesn't come this time out, it's time to step out of the spotlight and back into the daily grind. The year is 1994, and as summer draws near the Handy Kaufmans begin the preparations Read More

Out of the Black

Actors: Tyler Christopher, Sally Kirkland, Dee Wallace, Jack Conley, Jacqueline Aries

Synopsis: A family faces new crises while trying to resolve an old one in this drama. After the death of Cal Malby (Miles O'Keefe), a miner who died in an accident that eventually leveled the economy of a small Pennsylvania community, his sons Patrick (Jason Widener) and Cole (Tyler Christopher) have been Read More

Norma Jean, Jack and Me

Actors: David De Vos, Sally Kirkland, Michael Murphy

Synopsis: Cyrus Nowrasteh directs this wacky postmodern indie flick. Shipwrecked Gen-Xer Rob (Kai Lennox) happens upon an uncharted Caribbean island with a suitcase full of drugs and cash. Much to his surprise, he also happens upon an aging, but very much alive, Marilyn Monroe (Sally Kirkland) who lives on Read More

EDtv

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The turning point in the life of Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey) comes thanks to the misfortunes of the NorthWest Broadcasting Company. After two years on the air, their flagship cable channel, True TV, has slid into obscurity due to competition from the The Gardening Channel. Program director Read More

Starry Night

Actors: Abbott Alexander, Lisa Waltz, Lou Wagner, Sally Kirkland, Brian Drillinger

Synopsis: How would you feel if you came back to life over a century after your death to discover that you'd become famous in the interim? A woman creates a magic potion that can bring people back from the dead, and first recipient of this special treatment in none other than Vincent Van Gogh (played by (Abbott Alexander Read More

Brave New World

Actors: Peter Gallagher, Leonard Nimoy, Tim Guinee, Rya Kihlstedt, Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: Aldous Huxley's 1932 science fiction novel was previously adapted to film (a 1980 TV movie starring Bud Cort) and radio (a 1956 CBS Radio Workshop two-parter with an opening intro by Huxley) and again to TV in this 1998 production. In a high-tech city of a future time, humans are genetically Read More

Paranoia

Actors: Brigitte Bako, Larry Drake, Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: 20 years ago, Jana Mercer (Brigitte Bako) witnessed the brutal murder of her entire family by a ruthless serial killer, Calvin Hawks (Larry Drake). Today, Jana has isolated herself inside an apartment that's more like a fortress than a home, with her last contact with the outside world being Read More

Dead Silence

Actors: Danny Aiello, Sally Kirkland, Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis: During her valedictorian address at her high school graduation, Renata Devereaux (Shanee Edwards) makes a startling confession: She's killed a fellow student. In flashbacks, she tells the story of how she came to accidentally drown a student (Charles Newmark) who taunted her. After that drowning Read More

Little Ghost

Actors: Jameson Baltes, Trishalee Hardy, Kristina Wayborn

Synopsis: In this youthful fantasy adventure, the ghost of a long-dead little girl returns to befriend a lonely boy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Get a Clue!

Actors: Cliff De Young, Ashley Peldon, Ray Walston, Sally Kirkland, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed children's book The Westing Game, the movie version of this tale, Get a Clue!, draws young viewers into the strange mysteries encountered by 13-year-old "Turtle" Wexler. After moving into a new town, Turtle learns the house next door is the notoriously haunted Westin Read More

Excess Baggage

Actors: Alicia Silverstone, Benicio Del Toro, Christopher Walken, Jack Thompson, Harry Connick, Jr., Nicholas Turturro

Synopsis: In this combination caper comedy and offbeat romance, Emily (Alicia Silverstone) is a wealthy but petulant young woman desperate to get the attention of her millionaire father, Alexander Hope (Jack Thompson). In fact, she's so desperate that she decides to stage her own kidnapping; she sends a Read More

The Hunger: Bridal Suite

Amnesia

Actors: Nicholas Walker, Ally Sheedy, Sally Kirkland, John Savage

Synopsis: Ally Sheedy, John Savage and Nicholas Walker co-headline this barely released indie feature from 1996, which arrived just prior to Sheedy's shattering onscreen rebound in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art. Walker stars as Paul, a sleazy, philandering pastor in an American small town, married to the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Scent of Murder

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Seth (William Windom) are invited to the South Carolina plantation owned by Seth's cousin, a wealthy botanist. The visit becomes somewhat less than pleasant when the cousin turns up murdered. Evidently there are several people who would have benefited from this death Read More

Picture Windows

Actors: Brooke Adams, Sally Kirkland, Michael Lerner, George Segal, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: In the television miniseries Picture Windows, a number of acclaimed Hollywood directors and top stars team up for short stories about love. In "Soir Bleu," directed by Norman Jewison, Tully (Alan Arkin) is a clown who has fallen in love with a married woman. To make matters more complex, her Read More

Gunmen

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Denis Leary, Patrick Stewart, Kadeem Hardison

Synopsis: This film opens with a big fat close-up of a sweaty prisoner with a fly (on a string) crawling on his face. The prisoner quickly pops the fly in his mouth and spits it out. Then he leeringly laughs about it to the prisoner next door. Nope. This is not a bad undiscovered Sergio Leone spaghetti Read More

Roseanne: It's a Boy!

Synopsis: Darlene wants David (Johnny Galecki) to move into the Conners' home. Roseanne disagrees at first, but then she meets David's mom, Barbara Healy (Sally Kirkland), and convinces Dan to let him stay. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Schneeweissrosenrot

Actors: Paul Getty III, Dennis Hooper, Leonard Cohen

Synopsis: By now, few will remember the tragic kidnapping of the grandson of the man who, in the '60s, was the world's richest man, J. Paul Getty. Getty, a paranoid and miserly man, refused to pay ransom for his handsome, ne'er do well grandson, J. Paul Getty III. He may have believed that the boy Read More

Cheatin' Hearts

Actors: Sally Kirkland, James Brolin, Pam Gidley, Kris Kristofferson, Laura Johnson

Synopsis: Rod McCall wrote and directed this slice-of-life melodrama about a woman in a mid-life crisis who struggles to preserve her home and family. Sally Kirkland stars as Jenny, who must deal with a serious problem involving her errant husband Henry (James Brolin) as she prepares for the wedding of her Read More

Forever

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Sean Young, Keith Coogan, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: The full title of this direct-to-video enterprise is Forever: A Ghost of a Love Story. Though the title suggests that we're in the heart of rip-off country, the film actually has very little in common with either Love Story (1969) or Ghost (1990). Music-video director Keith Coogan prepares to film Read More

Double Deception

Synopsis: In classic noir tradition, the protagonist of the made-for-TV Double Deception is hard-boiled private eye John Kane (James Russo), who provides the first-person narration for the deliciously convoluted plotline. Kane knew that former call girl Pamela Sparrow (Alice Krige) was a keg of dynamite the Read More

Eye of the Stranger

Actors: David Heavener, Martin Landau, Sally Kirkland, Don Swayze, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: The plot in this suspenseful mystery evokes the old westerns while dealing with contemporary issues concerning the further development of the West. It all begins when a stranger rolls into a remote little town and discovers that they are doing their best to keep secret the murder of a civil Read More

The Woman Who Loved Elvis

Actors: Roseanne, Tom Arnold, Sally Kirkland, Cynthia Gibb, Danielle Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, the life of a social worker undergoes dramatic changes after she is assigned to oversee the case of a welfare mother who is almost unnaturally obsessed with Elvis Presley. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Black Cat

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

Blast 'em

Synopsis: A descent into the world of freelance celebrity photographers, Joseph Blasioli's documentary focuses on Victor Malafronte as he makes his nightly rounds of New York charity events, premieres, and club openings. Malafronte has two current targets: Michael J. Fox and John F. Kennedy Jr., neither of Read More

Our Hollywood Education

Actors: Oliver Stone, Glenn Ford, Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: In this documentary, a variety of directors and actors, many of them well known, give answers to questions the viewer never hears -- answers which, on the face of it, call into question the validity of the whole filmmaking enterprise and the culture which spawned it. The narration asserts that the Read More

Primary Motive

Actors: Judd Nelson, Justine Bateman, Richard Jordan, John Savage, Malachi Throne

Synopsis: In this political thriller, an ambitious press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the nest of his campaigns with terrible lies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hit the Dutchman

Actors: Bruce Nozick, Eddie Bowz, Will Kempe, Sally Kirkland, Matt Servitto

Synopsis: The ever economy-minded Menahem Golan -- of the legendary and defunct Cannon Films -- directed this gangster saga in Moscow to take advantage of low production costs, even shooting a second gangster film (Mad Dog Coll) at the same time, on the same locations, with the same cast. Hit the Dutchman Read More

Roseanne: It's No Place Like Home for the Holidays

Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, a snowstorm separates the Conner family at different places. Roseanne and Jackie are stranded at the Lunch Box with Bev (Estelle Parsons) and Nana Mary (Shelley Winters). Meanwhile, Darlene learns about David's (Johnny Galecki) terrible home life. Sally Kirkland guest stars as Read More

Forever: A Ghost of A Love Story

Synopsis: Forever: A Ghost of a Love Story was inspired by the unsolved murder of movie director William Desmond Taylor in 1922. High-living music video director Keith Coogan moves into a crumbling Hollywood mansion. Here he is visited by a friendly and very beautiful wraith (Sean Young), who turns out to Read More

Double Jeopardy

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Rachel Ward, Sela Ward

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable TV movie, a man (Bruce Boxleitner) travels to visit his ex-girlfriend (Rachel Ward) and arrives just in time to witness her kill her vicious boyfriend. However, when his lawyer wife (Sela Ward) is assigned to his ex's case, the man finds himself in the problematic role of Read More

Prime Time Murder

Synopsis: In this slasher/murder mystery, a serial killer known as the "downtown slasher" is murdering derelicts and other denizens of the city's Skid Row. A freelance video journalist teams up with an ex-cop to try to catch the killer. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Double Threat

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Andrew Stevens, Sherrie Rose, Chick Vennera, Gary Swanson

Synopsis: In this erotic thriller (which at the same time parodies many stereotypical elements of the genre), Monica Martel (Sally Kirkland) is a one-time sex symbol whose career has seen better days. Hoping for a comeback, Monica agrees to appear in a steamy murder mystery, but there's a catch: while the Read More

JFK

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been Read More

Two Evil Eyes

Actors: Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, Ramy Zada

Synopsis: Two well-known directors each adapt stories by Edgar Allen Poe in this horror drama. George Romero's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" tells how the wife of an elderly, wealthy man and her lover--who also happens to be the husband's private physician--scheme to control his assets. Dying Read More

The Haunted

Actors: Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: The Haunted is a Fox Network TV-movie purportedly based on eyewitness testimony. The story goes that in the mid-1980s, the Smurl family of Pittston, Pennsylvania began noticing something askew in their four-bedroom Victorian home. Apparently there are agents of Satan at work, bedeviling the family Read More

Revenge

Actors: Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Sally Kirkland, Tomas Milian, Joaquin Martinez, James Gammon, Joe Santos

Synopsis: Kevin Costner plays an ex-pilot who visits the posh Mexican estate of an old associate (Anthony Quinn) "Tibey" Mendes, for a bit of R & R. Tibey has turned into a very powerful Godfather type who rules his world and those who touch it. Costner can't help but notice his old friend's incredibly Read More

Bullseye!

Actors: Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Sally Kirkland, Deborah Barrymore, Mark Burns

Synopsis: A hectic caper flick with farcical overtones, Bullseye! doesn't quite hit the....oh, you know. Government scientist Michael Caine and his titled pal Roger Moore plan to auction off a cold fusion formula to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, a pair of con artists-also played by Caine and Read More

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Synopsis: Fascinating documentary of artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol, combining rare footage with interviews with his friends and colleagues, including Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, Taylor Mead, and Sylvia Miles. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Heat Wave

Actors: Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Margaret Avery

Synopsis: Set during the Watts riots of the mid-'60s, the made-for-cable Heat Wave follows the story of Los Angeles Times reporter Robert Richardson (Blair Underwood), who was the only journalist on staff able to cover the story, since White reporters were unable to gain access to the area and the rioters. Read More

Best of the Best

Actors: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Phillip Rhee, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Learning the value of teamwork, the racially diverse U.S. karate team must work through their personal troubles to successfully participate in the upcoming international competition. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Cold Feet

Actors: Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Tom Waits, Bill Pullman, Rip Torn

Synopsis: The leader of a group of misfits (Keith Carradine), his girlfriend (Sally Kirkland) and a hit man (Tom Waits!) hatch a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewels across the Mexican/American border by means of implanting them in a racehorse surgically. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

High Stakes

Actors: Kathy Bates, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sally Kirkland, Robert LuPone, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: Sally Kirkland stars as a good-hearted hooker named Bambi Rose in this odd crime-drama from director Amos Kollek. Bambi is getting a bit long in the tooth, and is at the mercy of a sadistic pimp named Slim (Richard Lynch), who has his fingers in nearly every sort of crime imaginable. When a greedy Read More

Paint It Black

Actors: Rick Rossovich, Sally Kirkland, Julie Carmen, Martin Landau, Doug Savant

Synopsis: In this Hitchcockian thriller, a wealthy and naive young sculptor learns that people are not always nice and helpful. His first mistake is to fall for the seductress who runs the gallery that has an exclusive on his work. He then hooks up with an insane art collector who gets jealous of the Read More

White Hot

Actors: Robby Benson, Danny Aiello, Tawny Kitaen, Kevin Gray, Tony Gillian

Synopsis: Also released under the title A Crack in the Mirror, this drama follows the events that befall a well-to-do couple when the husband's loss of a job tempts them into the lucrative drug trade. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Anna

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Robert Fields, Paulina Porizkova, Gibby Brand, John Robert Tillotson

Synopsis: Anna's early scenes concentrate upon Czech refugee Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova), who arrives in New York in search of her idol, famed actress Anna (Sally Kirkland), who was denied reentry to her native country after the 1968 communist invasion. Unable to recapture her celebrity in New York, Anna Read More

Talking Walls

Actors: Stephen Shellen, Marie Laurin, Barry Primus, Karen Leigh Hopkins, June Wilkinson

Synopsis: Intending to complete a master's thesis about the sexual relationships between men and women, sociology student Paul Barton sets off to capture examples on videotape. Paul's viewfinder takes him around campus and into rooms of a sleazified Hollywood motel to get first-hand study sessions. During Read More

Fatal Games

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, Sean Masterson, Teal Roberts

Synopsis: In spite of some interesting names attached to this low-budget, embarrassing horror film (Rafael Buñuel, son of acclaimed Luis Buñuel is the co-writer and co-producer), the result is anemic. At the core of the story, seven athletes in training for the Olympics at the Falcon Academy of Athletics in Read More

Love Letters

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Amy Madigan, Bud Cort, Matt Clark

Synopsis: Unmarried disc jockey Jamie Lee Curtis happens across a packet of love letters, written by her late mother. As she peruses these missives, she learns that her mother had carried on a lengthy extramarital affair. At firt appalled by mom's "double life," Curtis is slowly brought around to another Read More

The Killing Touch

Human Highway

Actors: Neil Young, Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, Charlotte Stewart

Synopsis: Rock legend Neil Young directed this bizarre bit of sci-fi-accented satire under his nom de cinema Bernard Shakey, as well as starring as Lionel Switch, an amiable but half-bright auto mechanic who has a furious crush on Charlotte Goodnight (Charlotte Stewart), a waitress at the diner next Read More

Double Exposure

Synopsis: Double Exposure is a dull, predictable mystery thriller with a fine cast but hampered by a poor script and bad direction and production. A photographer (Michael Callan) begins to have a series of nightmares concerning bloody, gruesome murders. When those murders become reality, he is the prime Read More

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, Maria Smith, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: The Incredible Shrinking Woman, directed by Joel Schumacher, is an attempted social satire focusing on the position of women in our society and our social values. After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer (Lily Tomlin) begins to shrink. While this baffles Read More

Follow That Car

Actors: Tanya Tucker

Synopsis: This Roger Corman-produced made-for-television movie was a pilot for a proposed series starring country singer Tanya Tucker. She plays a Southerner who runs an auto repair shop. She and her girlfriends become government agents and go up against a crime ring headed by a woman known as the Dragon Read More

Private Benjamin

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Sam Wanamaker, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: Devastated when her brand-new husband Albert Brooks) drops dead on their wedding night, Jewish American princess Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) is receptive to the pitch delivered by a duplicitous recruiter for the Women's Army Corps. Quickly adivsed by topkick Captain Lewis (Eileen Brennan) that she Read More

Hometown USA

Actors: Gary Springer, David Wilson, Brian Kerwin, Pat Delaney, Julie Parsons

Synopsis: Max Baer Jr. borrows liberally from George Lucas's American Graffiti for this slice-of-life look at teenage life circa 1957. The story concerns a group of adolescents whose main concerns are cars, cruising, and sex. The story centers upon Rodney C. Duckworth (Gary Springer), a shy, virginal teen Read More

Kojak: May the Horse Be With You

Synopsis: After a retired police officer is found beaten, Kojak discovers that the ex-cop had been keeping an over-the-hill thoroughbread race horse in the police stables, in defiance of department rules. Now the old nag is missing, and Kojak wants to know why. Meanwhile, the horse's abductors are spreading Read More

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?

Synopsis: Barbara Eden, who's had more pilots than series to her name, goes the Police Woman route here as she plays the widow of a cop shot down while on duty. Honoring the memory of her husband, she becomes a private eye, devoted to tracking down those miscreants who've slipped through the long fingers of Read More

Kojak: By Silence Betrayed

Synopsis: It's On the Waterfront, Kojak-style, when sardonic Lt. Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) investigates a murder on the docks. The victim was a longshoreman, and the killing was obviously linked to corruption within the local labor unions. Unfortunately, none of the other longshoremen are willing to talk Read More

Breakheart Pass

Actors: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Jill Ireland, Richard Crenna, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Posing as a fugitive from justice, frontier undercover agent John Deakin (Charles Bronson) boards a train to go after a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ingredients essential to the action include an anti-military conspiracy involving gunrunners and Indians, a phony epidemic, and a down-and-dirty Read More

Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story

Actors: Peter Falk, Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: Jeff Griffin (Peter Falk) is dying of cancer. Sarah Phoenix (Jill Clayburgh) is suffering from terminal leukemia. Ignored or reviled by their respective families, Griffin and Phoenix turn to each other for emotional support. Deciding to live their last months to the fullest, they indulge in Read More

Pipe Dreams

Actors: Gladys Knight, Barry L. Hankerson, Bruce French, Sherry Bain

Synopsis: The rugged world of those who built the Alaskan pipeline provides the backdrop for this drama featuring the non-singing film debut of soul-singer Gladys Knight (she and her Pips do sing on the soundtrack though). The story centers on her attempts to regain the love of her estranged husband who Read More

Baretta: The Left Hand of the Devil

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: In order to bring a vicious motorcycle gang to justice, undercover detective Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) needs the testimony of one of the gang members. Unfortunately, the intractable Assistant District Attorney (Alan Mandell) refuses to plea bargain with the witness. As a result, Baretta is Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More

A Star Is Born

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Mazursky, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark

Synopsis: The third remake of the 1932 drama What Price Hollywood?, this adaptation of A Star Is Born moved the story into the mid-1970's and changed the milieu from the movie business to pop music. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a rock star whose career has peaked; he is numbed by booze and Read More

Death Scream

Synopsis: The 1975 TV movie Death Scream is based on the shameful Kitty Genovese affair of 1964, in which a N.Y.C. woman was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses locked their windows and doors and pretended not to hear. Raul Julia stars as the detective who investigates the murder and stirs up the guilt Read More

The Noah

Actors: Robert Strauss, Sally Kirkland, Geoffrey Holder

Synopsis: Nuclear warfare has decimated the planet, and as the last surviving member of the human race struggles to maintain his sanity by creating an imaginary companion, his slipping sanity banishes the rules of a bygone society in director Daniel Bourla's haunting "lost" classic. The mushroom clouds have Read More

Bite the Bullet

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: An excellent cast, featuring Gene Hackman, Ben Johnson, and James Coburn, highlights this entertaining Western that came and went at the box office, barely noticed by audiences. That doesn't stop the exciting story from capturing the viewer's attention as a disparate group of riders assembles to Read More

Crazy Mama

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint Kimbrough), turning her Read More

The Kansas City Massacre

Actors: Dale Robertson

Synopsis: In this sequel to Melvin Purvis, G-Man, Dale Robertson returns as the crime fighter, who must battle such notorious gangsters as Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: Cop in a Cage

Synopsis: Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) is both disturbed and perplexed by the appearance of Peter Ibbotson (John R. Ryan, an ex-convict whom the lieutenant had sent to prison. Staying carefully within the limits of the law, Ibbetson begins methodically stalking Kojak and his family just before the wedding of Read More

Big Bad Mama

Actors: Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee

Synopsis: Angie Dickinson essays the title role in Big Bad Mama. This Depression-era crime caper casts the future star of Police Woman as sexy Ma Barker type Wilma McClatchie, who forces her nubile daughters (Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee) into participating in a robbery/kidnapping/murder spree. Wilma seems to Read More

Cinderella Liberty

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

The Young Nurses

Synopsis: This crime drama is the fourth in Roger Corman's series of sexy "nurseploitation" films. Three curvaceous health care workers in a big city hospital expose a drug ring that is operating from inside the facility. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sting

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones Read More

The Way We Were

Actors: Sally Kirkland, James Woods, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: "Gorgeous goyish guy" meets Jewish radical girl in Sydney Pollack's glossy romance. In 1937, frizzy-haired Red co-ed Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) briefly captures the attention of preppy jock Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford) with her passionate pacifism, while the writing talent beneath his Read More

Going Home

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jason Bernard, Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum delivers a top-notch performance as Harry Graham, a lonely and tender lout of a father who, released from prison after having killed his wife many years ago, has to start anew but must deal with his embittered teenage son Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent). Jimmy, seeking vengeance upon Read More

Brand X

Synopsis: This satirical spoof on television commercials stars Taylor Mead, Sally Kirkland, Candy Darling, Tally Brown, Baby Jane Holzer, Sam Shepard, Frank Cavestani and 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman. Ultra Violet also appears and sings. Mead plays several roles including the President of the United States. Read More

Coming Apart

Actors: Rip Torn, Lois Markle, Viveca Lindfors, Sally Kirkland, Lynn Swann

Synopsis: The considerable talents Rip Torn, Viveca Lindfors and Sally Kirkland are largely squandered in this Manhattan-based film. In this symbolic and erotic drama Manhattan psychiatrist Joe Glazer (Torn) is a psychoanalyst who specializes in female neuroses. Obsessed by his work, he begins filming his Read More

Futz

Actors: Seth Allen, John Bakos, Mari-Claire Charba, Peter Craig

Synopsis: Futz is the tender story of a man and his pig. Seth Allen plays a young farmer whose luck with women ranges from lousy to hopeless. Unable to relate to human females, the poor farmer concentrates all his love and affection upon his prize sow Amanda. The ensuing public uproar is but one of many Read More

Fade-In

Synopsis: A female film editor falls in love with a handsome man while shooting the film Blue in Mexico in this off-beat romance that was never released theatrically. On video, the film is titled Iron Cowboy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blue

Actors: Terence Stamp, Joanna Pettet, Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalban, Anthony Costello

Synopsis: An international collection of second-string actors grace the cast of this bargain-basement Sergio Leone knock off. Terence Stamp stars as Azul, the son of evil Mexican bandit Ortega (Ricardo Montalban). Although Azul is a mean, low-down, varmint like Ortega's three other sons, there is a slight Read More

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Crack in the Mirror

Actors: Orson Welles, Juliette Greco, Bradford Dillman, Alexander Knox, Catherine Lacy

Synopsis: Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin (Orson Welles) is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine (Juliette Greco). The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man Read More