Sheila McCarthyFilmography

Breakfast With Scot

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett, Jeananne Goossen

Synopsis: A decidedly non-stereotypical gay male couple finds their efforts to keep their personal and professional lives completely separate challenged by the arrival of the gay nephew whose presence threatens to reveal their closely guarded secret in director Laurie Lynd's drama. Eric (Tom Cavanagh) is a Read More

The Stone Angel

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser, Ellen Page, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Director Kari Skogland takes the reins for a Buffalo Gals Pictures production starring Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn as author Margaret Laurence's much-lauded heroine Hagar Shipley. Hagar may by 90, but she not ready to lie down and die just yet. Her decisions stem straight from her heart Read More

Little Mosque on the Prairie [TV Series]

Cow Belles

Actors: Alyson Michalka, Amanda Michalka

Synopsis: When dad decides to leave the family dairy in the hands of his two spoiled teenage daughters in order to take a much-needed vacation, the self-absorbed girls find that saving the struggling business may take even more effort than maintaining their high-ranking status among the popular set in a Read More

Bailey's Billion$

Actors: Jon Lovitz, Dean Cain, Laurie Holden, Jennifer Tilly, Tim Curry

Synopsis: The phrase "it's a dog's life" takes on a whole new meaning in this family-friendly comedy. When eccentric billionaire Constance Pennington passes on, she leaves her entire fortune to her closest companion, Bailey. However, there's something that sets Bailey apart from most of the nuevo Read More

Being Julia

Actors: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: A woman scorned unleashes her fury in this droll comedy based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is a famous and well-respected actress, but though her life in the limelight seems glamorous, things are not going well for her off-stage. Julia's husband is unfaithful Read More

The Day After Tomorrow

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather Read More

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox, Adam Garcia, Glenne Headly, Alison Pill

Synopsis: British actress/director Sara Sugarman makes her U.S. feature debut with the Disney-produced comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, based on the young-adult novel by Dyan Sheldon and adapted for the screen by Gail Parent. The story concerns a popular urban teenager named Mary Elizabeth Cep (Lindsay Lohan Read More

Geraldine's Fortune

Actors: Jane Curtin

Full Court Miracle

Actors: Richard T. Jones, Alex D. Linz, Elle Downs, Linda Kash, Jason Blicker

Synopsis: The made-for-cable biopic Full Court Miracle is the true story of Lamont Carr, here played by Richard T. Jones. A college basketball star, Lamont seems to be a shoo-in for the Philadelpha 76ers until he is permanently sidelined by a knee injury. Seeking out employment in his chosen profession Read More

Rare Birds

Actors: William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker, Cathy Jones, Vicky Hynes

Synopsis: Iceland-born Canadian filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson spins this offbeat comedy about fine food and feathered friends. The owner of a failing gourmet eatery in a small Newfoundland town, Dave Purcell (William Hurt) is about to throw in the towel. As he raids his wine cellar and nurses his sorrows, his Read More

I Was a Rat

Actors: Calum Worthy, Tom Conti, Brenda Fricker, Katie Blake, James Millard

Synopsis: Based on the children's book by Philip Pullman, Laurie Lynd's I Was a Rat is a feature-length fable originally made as a three-part BBC miniseries. A reworking of a popular fairy tale, the story opens with a young abandoned pageboy (Calum Worthy) taken in by a childless couple: the aging cobbler Read More

Rats

Actors: Daveigh Chase, Shawn Michael Howard, Vincent Spano, Mädchen Amick, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Initially titled The Colony, this made-for-TV thriller offers the nightmarish scenario of thousands upon thousands of verminous rats swarming over a posh Manhattan department store. Inevitably, the dirty rodents threaten the entire city, and it is up to such hardy souls as hero Jack (Vincent Read More

Haven

Actors: Natasha Richardson, Hal Holbrook, Martin Landau, Anne Bancroft, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: An American journalist takes on the dangerous responsibility of rescuing nearly a thousand refugees from a Nazi concentration camp in this two-part made-for-TV movie based on a true story. In the early days of America's involvement in World War II, Ruth Gruber (Natasha Richardson) is a reporter Read More

Custody of the Heart

Actors: Lorraine Bracco, Martin Donovan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Michael Cera, Charlotte Arnold

Synopsis: Superachiever Claire Raphael (Lorraine Bracco) expertly divides what little time she has between her job, her family, and her invalid mother. As a result, Claire's stay-at-home husband Dennis (Martin Donovan) suffers from a profound inferiority complex. As a means of reclaiming his "manhood," Read More

You Know My Name

Actors: Sam Elliott, Arliss Howard, Carolyn McCormick, James Gammon, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Produced for U.S. cable outlet TNT, You Know My Name is based on the colorful true story of Bill Tilghman, who went from Wild West lawman to Hollywood filmmaker to lawman again. Tilghman, played by Sam Elliott, was once an associate of Wyatt Earp and had run-ins with such famous outlaws as Cattle Read More

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Richard Chamberlain, Lindsay Frost, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: The top-rank performances of Lauren Bacall, Richard Chamberlain and Lindsay Frost elevate the two-part TV biopic Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke from the usual malaise of lurid, voyeuristic trash. As she lies near death in her luxurious mansion, 80-year-old tobacco heiress Doris Duke Read More

More Tales of the City

Actors: Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Colin Ferguson, Bill Campbell, Thomas Gibson

Synopsis: Armistead Maupin calls the three-story wooden house at 28 Barbary Lane in San Francisco "my homestead, my Tara." He began his portrait of Barbary Lane life during the '70s in a daily newspaper serial, expanding the material into a series of six novels. PBS aired the original TV miniseries in 1994 Read More

Emily of New Moon: Season 01

Actors: Martha MacIsaac, Stephen McHattie, Susan Clark, Sheila McCarthy

The Care and Handling of Roses

Synopsis: Jean Townsend (Ann Jillian) is happily married to the dull but dependable Roger (Garrett M. Brown), who does not object to her evenings out to attend various classic-film festivals. On one of these occasions, Jean befriends Tom Doster (Lee Horsley), a fellow film enthusiast likewise mired in a Read More

House Arrest

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak, Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Grover Reindorf (Kyle Howard) is a kid with a problem, which is how to keep his parents from divorcing. He hits on a solution that makes sense to him. Why not lock them up in the basement, and keep them there until they reconcile? He and his younger sister Stacey (Amy Sakasitz) agree to do just Read More

The Awakening

Actors: Cynthia Geary, David Beecroft, Sheila McCarthy, David Ferry, David Gardner

Synopsis: The reticent owner of a small bed and breakfast sets out on the adventure of a lifetime after joining a rugged bounty hunter in his search for an elusive antiques smuggler. Sara is a woman who never took any risks in life. She always lived strictly by the book, but her life is about to be turned Read More

A Woman of Independent Means

Actors: Sally Field, Ron Silver, Tony Goldwyn, Jack Thompson, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Adapted from Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey's best-selling novel, Woman of Independent Means follows the journey of a woman forced to face fresh challenges following the unexpected death of her husband. Sally Field stars as Bess Steer Garner, a widow who documents her many triumphs and tragedies in a Read More

The Possession of Michael D.

Actors: Phylicia Rashad, Sheila McCarthy, Stephen Lang, Michael Riley

Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills

Actors: Edward James Olmos, Beverly D'Angelo, Damian Chapa, Travis Fine, Julio Oscar Mechoso

Synopsis: We'd rather not rehash the sordied Menendez murder case in this space; besides, it isn't necessary, inasmuch as no fewer than two TV movies were produced on the subject in 1994. The first was Fox's Honor Thy Father and Mother; the second, telecast less than a month later, was Menendez: A Killing Read More

The Lotus Eaters

Actors: Sheila McCarthy, R.H. Thomson, Frances Hyland

Synopsis: It is the 1960s, but Hal Kingswood (R.H. Thomson), the old-fashioned headmaster of a small school in British Colombia not far from Vancouver hasn't quite gotten hip to it yet. He won't even let his late-teen daughter Cleo (Tara Frederick) go to a concert alone with her boyfriend Dwayne (Gabe Khouth Read More

A Private Matter

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Aidan Quinn, Estelle Parsons, Sheila McCarthy, Leon Russom

Synopsis: When Sherri Finkbine (Sissy Spacek), the host of the Sixties children's television program Romper Room, learns that her unborn child has been damaged by her use of the drug thalidomide, she and her husband decide to abort the fetus, setting in motion the media controversy that is the subject of Joan Micklin Silver Read More

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

Actors: Neil Munro, Fiona Reid, Albert Schultz

Synopsis: Prague and Ontario stand in for 19th century Vienna in Beethoven Lives Upstairs. Young Chris (Illya Woloshin) lives with his none-too-prosperous mother (Fiona Reid) and uncle (Albert Schultz), who are forced to take in a boarder. Enter a fellow named Ludwig (Neil Munro), with a hearing problem, a Read More

Beautiful Dreamers

Actors: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox

Synopsis: Rip Torn does a magnificent job as American poet Walt Whitman in the fanciful period piece Beautiful Dreamers. The scene is a hellish 19th century Canadian institution for the mentally retarded. Compassionate doctor Maurice Bucke (Colm Feore) defies his superiors by treating his patients as human Read More

Paradise

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood, Thora Birch, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Mary Agnes Donohue adapted her French success Le Grand Chemin for this American version, reworked as a vehicle for Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Paradise is a coming-of-age story about a 10-year-old boy named Willard (Elijah Wood), who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend Lily (Melanie Griffith Read More

George's Island

Actors: Ian Bannen, Nathaniel Moreau, Sheila McCarthy, Maury Chaykin, Vicki Ridler

Synopsis: In this children's film, George Waters (Nathaniel Moreau) is a young boy happily living with his eccentric grandfather, retired sailor Captain Waters (Ian Bannen) who tells the boy exciting tales of buried treasure. An interfering schoolteacher (Sheila McCarthy) motivates the child welfare Read More

Stepping Out

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Stepping Out might be considered a textbook exercise in screenwriting cliche: take Mavis Turner (Liza Minnelli), a woman who "coulda been a contenda" had she pursued her dreams of appearing on Broadway; give her an evening job at a converted church teaching tap; mix in a motley crew of left-footed Read More

Bright Angel

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Bill Pullman, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: This contemporary western stars Dermot Mulroney as a Montana teenager whose sanity is being eroded by his parent's domestic squabbles. Linking up with Lili Taylor, a Wyoming-bound transient with a checkered history, Mulroney embarks upon an odyssey of self-discovery. Unfortunately, he persists in Read More

White Room

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Maurice Godin, Margot Kidder, Sheila McCarthy, Barbara Gordon

Synopsis: In this off-beat, suspenseful Canadian fable, an introverted, repressed young writer becomes obsessed with peeping into the apartment of a beautiful rock singer. She becomes his whole world until he finds himself witnessing her murder. Shocked back to reality, he attempts to stop peeping. He Read More

Montréal Vu Par...

Actors: Sheila McCarthy, Charlotte Laurier, Robert Lepage, Denys Arcand

Synopsis: Six short movies by six successful Canadian directors are gathered in this anthology film, commissioned to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Montréal in 1992. The first film, directed by Patricia Rozema, humorously follows a bewildered Toronto housewife as she frantically attempts to enjoy her Read More

Pacific Heights

Actors: Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning Read More

Die Hard 2

Actors: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Bill Sadler, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, John Amos

Synopsis: "Another basement, another elevator...how can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks John McClane (Bruce Willis), in what is doubtless the key question of this film. A year after foiling the terrorist takeover of a high-rise office building in the first movie, McClane is waiting to Read More

Labor of Love

Friends, Lovers & Lunatics

Actors: Daniel Stern, Sheila McCarthy, Elias Koteas, Page Fletcher

Synopsis: A free-spirited commercial artist loses his girl to a stodgy professor and decides to everything in his power to get her back in this Canadian romantic comedy. When he learns that she and her new love are heading off to the mountains for a cozy weekend, he decides to follow them. En route, the Read More

Light Years

Synopsis: Isaac Asimov wrote the English translation for this animated sci-fi tale about the prince of the planet Gandahar, who is sent to the future in order to avenge an attack on his home world. The film is re-edited from the original French version (Ghandahar (1987), created and directed by Rene Read More

Double Standard

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Michele Greene, Pamela Bellwood

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-TV movie follows the scandal that arises when a prominent judge is discovered to be leading a secret life as the husband and father of two different families. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

A Nest of Singing Birds

Actors: Sheila McCarthy, Barry MacGregor, Bernard Hopkins

Synopsis: A woman finds herself torn between her career and love in this Canadian made-for-television movie. Sheila McCarthy stars as Anna, a professor who takes a temporary position at a Western Canadian university. When her tenure is up and she must look elsewhere for work, she has to choose between Read More

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Actors: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald, John Evans, Brenda Kamino

Synopsis: Lensed on a smile and a shoeshine on 16 millimeter, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing effectively shifts from black and white to color and back again to make its artistic statement. Sheila McCarthy stars as a self-effacing amateur photographer who goes to work for yuppie art-curator Paule Baillargeon Read More

9-B

Actors: Robert Wisden

Synopsis: 9-B is the single most dreaded number-letter combination in a tough Canadian high school. It is in room 9-B that the school's most brutish, least teachable students converge on a daily basis. And here is where many an idealistic new teacher has met his or her Waterloo. But British-born instructor Robert Wisden Read More

Really Weird Tales

Synopsis: Originally telecast October 4, 1986, Really Weird Tales was meant to be a satirical spin on the old Twilight Zone series. SCTV regulars John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara and Joe Flaherty head the cast of this 90-minute comedy anthology. The tenor of the project can be gauged by the first Read More

Passion: A Letter in 16mm

Love and Larceny

Actors: Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Love and Larceny is a Canadian distaff version of The Sting. The film is set at the turn of the century; its protagonist is the fetching Jennifer Dale. An accomplished con artist, Dale tires of fleecing the provincial suckers. She heads to New York City to seek her fortune--or anyone else's Read More