Sally Kirkland Filmography

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

Fingerprints

Actors: Leah Pipes, Kristin Cavalleri, 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

What's Up Scarlett?

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

Chandler Hall

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

Spiritual Warriors

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

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

Deranged

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Hunger: Soul for Sale

Synopsis: As restaurant patients eagerly await to dine on food cooked by arguably the greatest chef in the world, they don't realize that his cuisine is literally to die for. Meanwhile, a recently married couple give a new meaning to the phrase "until death do us part." Later on, a female murderer becomes 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

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

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

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

The Black Cat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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