Sara Rue Filmography

Born:: January 26, 1978 in New York, NY
Occupation:: Actor

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Idiocracy

Actors: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Synopsis: Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." In 2005, Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced Read More

9/1/06
Danny Roane: First Time Director

Actors: Andy Dick

Synopsis: A washed-up television star attempts to crawl out of the bottle and back to the top of the heap in this showbiz mockumentary starring Andy Dick as the biggest underdog the small screen has ever known. The time has come to sober up and jump back in the fray, but could it be that Danny Roane Read More

2006
A Slipping-Down Life

Actors: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Making its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, this story adapted for the screen and directed by first-timer Toni Kalem is based on the Anne Tyler novel of the same name. The story deals with finding love in a dead-end life. Evie (Lili Taylor) is a loner, living with her widowed Read More

5/14/04
Gypsy 83

Actors: Sara Rue, Kett Turton, Karen Black

Synopsis: What can help one woman overcome the fears, anxieties, and traumas of a lifetime? Perhaps the music of Stevie Nicks? Gypsy (Sara Rue) is a woman in her mid-twenties who is still emotionally stuck in adolescence; her job (at a drive-through photo processing center) is nothing to write home about Read More

4/2/04
This Time Around

Actors: Carly Pope, Sara Rue, Brian Austin Green, Gina Tognoni, Mallory Margel

Synopsis: Back when they were junior-high-school "geeks," Melissa and Gabrielle (aka Mel and Gabby) were perennial targets for abuse from the prettier and more popular girls on campus -- especially the beautiful but bitchy Cara Cabot. The most crushing humiliation came when Mel was led to believe that the Read More

2003
The Ring

Actors: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: A disturbing videotape appears to hold the power of life and death over those who view it in this offbeat thriller. A strange videotape begins making the rounds in a town in the Pacific Northwest; it is full of bizarre and haunting images, and after watching it, many viewers receive a telephone Read More

10/18/02
Less Than Perfect [TV Series]

Actors: Sara Rue, Sherri Shepherd, Andrea Parker, Zachary Levi, Andy Dick

Synopsis: The charming, pleasantly plump Sara Rue starred on this ABC sitcom as Claudia "Claude" Casey, a "permanent temp" working in various low-level clerical capacities in a TV news department. Claude's amusingly self-deprecating self image was given a boost when she was appointed assistant to Will Read More

2002
Pearl Harbor

Actors: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: At the time of its release, this lavish period war drama from hyperkinetic director Michael Bay became the most expensive motion picture ever green-lighted by a studio. Ben Affleck stars as Rafe McCawley, a military pilot stationed under Jimmy Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) in New Jersey, along with his Read More

5/25/01
The Division: Season 01

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Nancy McKeon, Tracey Needham, Lisa Vidal

2001
Popular: Season 02

Actors: Carly Pope, Leslie Bibb, Tammy Lynn Michaels, Sara Rue, Christopher Gorham, Tamara Mello, Bryce Johnson, Lisa Darr, Scott Bryce, Leslie Grossman

Synopsis: Season one of Popular ended with what seemed to be a dual triumph for snooty high-school cheerleader Brooke (Leslie Bibb) and her intellectual classroom rival Samantha (Carly Pope), as the wedding between Brooke's dad, Mike (Scott Bryce), was canceled after the announcement from Brooke's real mom Read More

2000
A Map of the World

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Ron Lea, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: In this contemporary drama, Sigourney Weaver plays a woman out of her element and at the end of her rope. Alice Goodwin is a wife and mother who finds that the pressures of her life are starting to become more than she can bear. Alice works part-time as a school nurse while her husband Howard (David Strathairn Read More

12/3/99
Popular: Season 01

Actors: Carly Pope, Leslie Bibb, Tammy Lynn Michaels, Sara Rue, Christopher Gorham, Tamara Mello, Bryce Johnson, Lisa Darr, Scott Bryce, Ron Lester, Leslie Grossman

Synopsis: It's "clique" vs. "anti-clique" at Jacqueline Kennedy High School during the first season of the continuing teen drama Popular. Outraged by the smug social supremacy of head cheerleader Brooke Page (Leslie Bibb) and her snooty, shallow friends, Samantha "Sam" McPherson, crusading editor of the Read More

1999
Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane [TV Series]

Actors: Selma Blair, David Moscow, Michael Rosenbaum, Azura Skye, Mary Page Keller

1999
Can't Hardly Wait

Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green

Synopsis: After the Huntington Hills High graduation ceremony, the fun gets underway at the graduation party where an assortment of jocks, geeks, prom queens, bimbos, headbangers, and nerdy misfits unload four years' worth of emotional baggage at a house where the hostess (Michelle Brookhurst) loses control Read More

6/12/98
Nowhere To Go

Actors: Tricia Vessey, John Shea, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Carroll Baker, Jacob Smith

Synopsis: Rebellious teen Niki (Tricia Vessy) has nowhere to go. She doesn't get along with her widowed father (John Shea) or her selfish boyfriend (Scott Caan), and she's about to be kicked out of high school. The school's principal (Zeljko Ivanek) suggests she work counseling troubled children, but she Read More

1998
The Simple Life [TV Series]

Actors: Judith Light, Brett Cullen, Florence Stanley, Ashlee Levitch, James Patrick Stuart

Synopsis: This TV sitcom apparently was inspired by the low concept of Martha Stewart meets Green Acres, since the central character is country-living TV host Sara Campbell (Judith Light) who feels it's deceptive to do a show about life in the country as part of the population in New York City. So she Read More

1998
ER: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Synopsis: Fresh from the recently closed South Side hospital, new ER chief of staff Anspaugh (John Aylward) imperiously asserts his authority by imposing patient quotas on each doctor. Though they resent Anspaugh, the staff is more politely inclined to the other South Side expatriates, doctors Abby Keaton (Glenne Headly Read More

1996
Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare

Actors: Melissa Joan Hart, Jason Marsden, Susan French, Joe Flaherty, Romy Walthall

Synopsis: In this frenetic made-for-television outing, a young boy tries to get into the crazy, competitive spirit of his relatives' annual "Family Olympics," but finds himself more interested in the enigmatic runaway who seems to come out of nowhere. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Passed Away

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William L. Petersen, Helen Lloyd Breed, Maureen Stapleton, Patricia Reed

Synopsis: In this black comedy, elderly Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) passes away just as he's about to tell his oldest son Johnny (Bob Hoskins) what he's decided is truly important in life, which does little to ease Johnny's mid-life anxieties. Jack's funeral and the subsequent wake brings together the Read More

4/24/92
Roseanne: Halloween IV

Synopsis: Roseanne stays home while everyone else goes out to a Halloween party. She gets visited by the ghosts of Halloween Past (Lee Arenberg), Halloween Present (Mario Roccuzzo), and Halloween Future (Garry Bullock). Laurie Metcalf's daughter Zoe Perry plays Jackie as a little girl. ~ Andrea LeVasseur Read More

1992
Rocket Gibraltar

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis, Patricia Clarkson, Frances Conroy, Sinéad Cusack, John Glover, Bill Pullman, Macaulay Culkin

Synopsis: On the occasion of wealthy patriarch Burt Lancaster's 77th birthday, his Long Island home is invaded by well-meaning family members. Lancaster is bored by the well-meaning interference of his grown children, but he thrives on the company of his grandchildren, especially 5-year-old Macaulay Culkin Read More

9/2/88