Sigourney Weaver Filmography

Crazy on the Outside

Actors: Tim Allen, Ray Liotta, Carrie-Anne Moss, Julie Bowen, Kelsey Grammer

Synopsis: An ex-con (Tim Allen) realizes that prison life is a lot less tough than the outside world in this comedy that finds the Home Improvement star in his feature-film-directing debut. Ray Liotta, Carrie-Anne Moss, Julie Bowen, and Kelsey Grammer co-star in the indie production, written by Judd Pillot Read More

The Tale of Despereaux

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: A diminutive mouse strives to make a mammoth change in his troubled kingdom in this adaptation of author Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal-winning children's book. A long time ago, in the distant kingdom of Dor, a horrible accident broke the heart of the king, left a beautiful princess crestfallen Read More

WALL-E

Actors: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Macintalk

Synopsis: Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Read More

Baby Mama

Actors: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco

Synopsis: Former Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" co-anchors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-star in this baby-fever comedy about a single, career-oriented woman who previously put parenthood on hold, and is forced to hire a surrogate mother when she discovers there is only a one-in-a-million chance that Read More

Vantage Point

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style thriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed from five unique perspectives. As the president arrives in Salamanca, gunshots ring out. An Read More

Be Kind Rewind

Actors: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz

Synopsis: When a bumbling movie lover becomes magnetized while attempting to sabotage a local power plant and accidentally erases all of the videotapes in the small video store where his best friend works, the pair attempt to keep the store's loyal customer base by remaking as many of the top-renting movies Read More

Snow Cake

Actors: Kim Cattrall, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire, James Allodi

Synopsis: An ex-convict is mysteriously drawn to two intriguing women after becoming involved in a car accident while passing through a sleepy Ontario town in director Marc Evans' enigmatic drama. Invited into the home of high-functioning autistic Linda (Sigourney Weaver) after getting into a car accident Read More

The TV Set

Actors: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, Fran Kranz

Synopsis: Writer/director Jake Kasdan's showbiz comedy The TV Set stars David Duchovny as Mike Klein, a television producer who in the beginning of the film successfully sells a network on a story idea. The film follows Klein as he must actually put the show together, navigate the corporate minefield of the Read More

Happily N'Ever After

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Andy Dick, Wallace Shawn, Patrick Warburton

Synopsis: Cinderella's wicked stepmother has tipped the balance of power towards the dark side in Fairy Tale Land, and now it's up to the put-upon princess to restore order and ensure that good triumphs in an animated adventure featuring the voices of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sigourney Read More

The Girl in the Park

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth, Alessandro Nivola, Keri Russell, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: A socially isolated woman still haunted by the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter 15 years ago obsesses over the prospect that a troubled young woman whom she has recently befriended may in fact be her long-lost daughter in The Lake House director/screenwriter David Auburn's affecting Read More

Infamous

Actors: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Douglas McGrath's Infamous represents the second major biopic about the avant-garde belletrist Truman Capote to be released within a year. It thus tells roughly the same story as Bennett Miller's earlier Capote, recounting the events that belied the writer's six-year authorship of the seminal Read More

Planet Earth [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: David Attenborough, Sigourney Weaver

Synopsis: The creators of Blue Planet: Seas of Life reunite to celebrate our remarkable planet as never before thought possible with a stunning trip into the wilderness shot on revolutionary high-definition cameras over the course of five years, and utilizing 40 cameramen in 200 locations. These are the Read More

Imaginary Heroes

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams, Kip Pardue

Synopsis: A shocking and tragic event causes the members of a quietly dysfunctional family to reexamine themselves and their lives in this drama. Ben and Sandy Travis (Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver) are a couple whose troubled family begins to crumble when their eldest son, star college athlete Matt (Kip Pardue Read More

The Village

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver

Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan, the creative mind behind The Sixth Sense and Signs, wrote and directed this characteristically atmospheric thriller. The rustic village of Covington is a small town in rural Pennsylvania that is home to 60 souls. The citizens of Covington lead a quiet and peaceful life, but not Read More

Holes

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Dule Hill

Synopsis: A boy being punished for a crime he didn't commit learns there's more going on at a juvenile correctional facility than meets the eye in this comedy drama. Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is a teenager who has been told all his life that the men in the Yelnats family are cursed, thanks to a Read More

The Guys

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., of September 11, 2001, Jim Simpson, the creative director of New York City's Flea Theater Company, wanted to stage a theater piece which would deal with the human impact of this tragedy. When Simpson met journalist Anne Nelson Read More

NOVA: Secret of Photo 51

Actors: Sigourney Weaver

Synopsis: It is now conventional wisdom that biologist/crystallographer Rosalind Franklin was unfairly ignored by the Nobel Prize committee when the award was presented in 1962 Franklin's male colleagues James Watson and Francis Crick for their 1953 discovery of the Double Helix structure of DNA. This Read More

Tadpole

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Stanford, John Ritter, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Iler

Synopsis: Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, but this may be the only area in which Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) could be called typical. An honor student at an exclusive prep school, Oscar is confident, keenly intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in the work of a Read More

Big Bad Love

Actors: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: Actor Arliss Howard made his debut as a director with this emotional drama adapted from a handful of short stories by Larry Brown. Barlow (Arliss Howard) is a deeply troubled Vietnam veteran who has been chasing a career as a writer, with little success; when he isn't struggling with his Read More

Heartbreakers

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta, Jason Lee, Gene Hackman

Synopsis: After the little white lies of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), director David Mirkin focuses on scheming of a different sort in Heartbreakers. Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play Max and Page Conners, a mother and daughter who share everything with each other Read More

Company Man

Actors: Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Anthony LaPaglia, Ryan Phillippe

Synopsis: Former Woody Allen collaborator Douglas McGrath co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in this historical screwball comedy that offers up its own creative suggestion as to what might have spurned 1961's Bay of Pigs invasion. McGrath plays Allen Quimp, a nebbish schoolteacher who -- in an attempt to Read More

On This Island

The Alien Saga

Synopsis: Originally aired on AMC, this documentary focuses on one of the most horrifying series ever to be committed to celluloid -- the Alien film series. With interviews from most of the main players, including Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, and H.R. Giger, the special goes through Read More

Bride of Monster Mania

Synopsis: Image Entertainment presents this collection of clips, tracing the history of women in horror films. Hosted by Cassandra Peterson better known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Bride of Monster Mania compiles scenes from such classics as Carrie, The Exorcist, The Stepford Wives, and the Alien Read More

Galaxy Quest

Actors: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Enrico Colantoni

Synopsis: A team of intrepid adventurers travels through the outer reaches of the galaxy, each week finding excitement and adventure on Galaxy Quest! Or at least that's the way it was in the mid-1970s, when brave if reckless Captain Peter Quincy Taggart, lovely Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Read More

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

Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees Cry

Synopsis: Do animals feel the same emotions as human beings? While many animals seem to exhibit outward signs of happiness, anger, or fear, do they actually feel joy or sorrow, or is this merely our interpretation of other behaviors? And do they possess more complex feelings such as love or jealousy? The Read More

Alien Resurrection

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Michael Wincott

Synopsis: The fourth film in the Alien series, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children) at a cost of 70 million dollars, takes place aboard an immense ship, the Auriga, where General Perez (Dan Hedaya) heads a staff of seven science officers and 42 enlisted, all Read More

The Ice Storm

Actors: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood

Synopsis: Set on Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, The Ice Storm looks into the lives of a wealthy Connecticut family who are calm and civil on the outside, but whose lives are quietly falling into chaos. Sixteen-year-old Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) is home for the holidays from prep school; he'd just as soon Read More

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows, Monica Keena, Miroslav Táborský

Synopsis: Once upon a time, pursuing wolves frighten horses drawing a carriage, and it tumbles down a hill. Dying, the pregnant woman inside orders her grieving husband Frederick (Sam Neill) to cut the baby from her womb, so that at least it might live. Years later, the infant is now headstrong young Lilli (Taryn Davis Read More

The Universal Story

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Utilizing archival footage, personal interviews and film clips, This compilation film, recounts the colorful history of and pays tribute to one of Hollywood's most enduring studios, Universal Studios. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jeffrey

Actors: Steven Weber, Michael T. Weiss, Patrick Stewart, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Based on Paul Rudnick's hit Off-Broadway play, this romantic comedy centers on the chaotic love life of Jeffrey (Steven Weber), a gay man who swears off sex only to fall in love with his ideal man (Michael T. Weiss). Jeffrey's vow of chastity is inspired by a fear of AIDS, a prospect which has Read More

Copycat

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Will Patton

Synopsis: A serial killer stalks the streets of San Francisco; unlike his many predecessors does not choose a distinctive, identifying pattern. No, this killer prides himself on his unoriginality: he is a copycat, recreating the violent murders of some of the country's most notorious serial killers, his Read More

Death and the Maiden

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: Ariel Dorfman's acclaimed play of the same name serves as the basis for Roman Polanski's drama, which depicts a politically and psychological complex battle of wills amongst three characters in an unnamed South American country. The trio in question is made up of Paulina Sigourney Weaver, her Read More

The Wild Swans

Actors: Sigourney Weaver

Dave

Actors: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: The ghost of Frank Capra must have smiled when he saw Dave, an amusing and effective update of one of Capra's favorite themes -- the scrupulously honest little guy who becomes a force for good against a corrupt system. Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) runs an employment agency and seems to genuinely enjoy Read More

Alien ³

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover

Synopsis: Acclaimed director David Fincher's promising career was lucky to survive this astonishingly wrong-headed, almost universally despised second sequel to Alien (1979). The film careens into oblivion virtually from the beginning, as Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor of a Read More

1492: Conquest of Paradise

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Wincott, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: This, the second of 1992's 500th anniversary Christopher Columbus films (the first being Warner Bros. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery), adheres to the historical facts of Columbus's (Gerard Depardieu) possessed quest to discover the New World, and his solicitation of Queen Isabella (Sigourney Weaver Read More

Rabbit Ears: Peachboy

Synopsis: This delightful story comes from Japan and tells of a boy who lives in a peach! A poor couple finds him and raises him until he grows into a master warrior who conquers a clan of ogres. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ghostbusters 2

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghostbusters is looser and more self-assured than the original. The film opens with a title reading "Five Years Later" and finds the ghostbusters living in hard times. A restraining order has forbidden the boys to partake in paranormal warfare Read More

Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge

Synopsis: Helmut Newton is a still photographer known for his innovative fashion photography of glamorous women, and who has also made a name for himself for his black-and-white nude photographs of female celebrities. His groundbreaking fashion photos appeared on the cover of Vogue in the 1950's and '60s. Read More

Working Girl

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is Read More

Gorillas in the Mist

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson

Synopsis: Gorillas in the Mist is based on the autobiographical 1983 book by naturalist Dian Fossey. Before the book could be brought before the cameras, Fossey had been mysteriously killed; her death provides a logical, if somewhat ghoulish climax to the film. A Kentucky girl, Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is Read More

One Woman or Two

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Michel Aumont, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Zabou

Synopsis: Basically an updated take on "Bringing Up Baby," this screwy French comedy centers on the travails of a paleontologist (Gerard Depardieu) whose delight at finding the skeleton of the first French woman is dampened by the presence of an aggressive advertising executive (Sigourney Weaver) who is Read More

Half Moon Street

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh, Keith Buckley, Nadim Sawalha

Synopsis: Based on Paul Theroux's Doctor Slaughter, Half-Moon Street is motivated by the moneymaking schemes of the heroine, PhD researcher Laura Slaughter (Sigourney Weaver). Stuck in a low-paying government job in London, Laura decides to increase her bank account by working for what is euphemistically Read More

Aliens

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser

Synopsis: Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/director James Cameron turned what should have been a by-the-numbers sci-fi sequel into both a blockbuster and a seven-time Oscar nominee. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew Read More

Saturday Night Live: Sigourney Weaver

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Buster Poindexter

Synopsis: This 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Sigourney Weaver and features musical guest Buster Poindexter. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Adventures: Past, Present and Future Featurettes

Synopsis: Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are some of the trailers and coming attractions seen in movies like Airport 77, Futureworld, Alien and Doc Savage. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Ghostbusters

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is Read More

Deal of the Century

Actors: Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Gregory Hines, Vince Edwards, William Marquez

Synopsis: The humor in this Chevy Chase comedy lies solely in the eyes of the beholder. The comic plays Eddie Muntz, an arms dealer looking to make a big sale of war planes to a South American dictator. In order to do so, his girlfriend (Sigourney Weaver) has to sleep with the dictator and his friend (Gregory Hines Read More

The Year of Living Dangerously

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr

Synopsis: Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own Read More

Eyewitness

Actors: William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer, James Woods, Irene Worth

Synopsis: Fresh off the success of Breaking Away(1979), writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates re-team on a thriller starring a young William Hurt as a janitor infatuated with television reporter Sigourney Weaver. When she arrives at his building to interview the tenants about a murder that's occurred Read More

Alien

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm

Synopsis: "In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the Read More

Sorrows of Gin

Synopsis: Based on a short story by John Cheever, this is a movie about an eight-year-old girl in a dysfunctional family situation which leads to her becoming a runaway. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Madman

Synopsis: A Soviet Jew defects to the Israeli Army so he can get even with the hated Russians in this 1979 film, the first big role for Sigourney Weaver (released the same year as her break in Alien). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Annie Hall

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon

Synopsis: Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Singer (Allen) ponders the modern quest for love and his past romance with tightly-wound WASP singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton, née Diane Hall). The Read More

Stories to Remember: The Snow Queen

Actors: Sigourney Weaver

Synopsis: An animated version of the tale by Hans Christian Andersen, tells of a girl who must rescue her friend that is held in the icy palace of the Snow Queen. ~ All Movie Guide Read More