Stephanie Faracy Filmography

Flightplan

Actors: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby

Synopsis: A woman is forced to prove her own sanity to save the life of her daughter in this taut thriller. Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been dealing with the traumatic death of her husband. After traveling to Berlin on business with her six-year-old daughter Read More

Sideways

Actors: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh

Synopsis: Directed by Alexander Payne, Sideways follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), who is distressed about his lack of success as a novelist, and Jack (Thomas Haden Church), an equally unsuccessful actor with a rapidly approaching wedding. In a last-ditch effort to sow their wild oats, Jack and Miles take off Read More

Surviving Christmas

Actors: Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Mitchell, Surviving Christmas finds Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) uneager to spend another lonely Christmas in his own home. Longing for holidays past, Drew travels to his childhood home intending to relive the experience of a family Christmas -- unfortunately, his family no longer Read More

Charlie Lawrence [TV Series]

Actors: Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Ted McGinley, Stephanie Faracy, T.R. Knight

Synopsis: In his second bid for sitcom stardom (the first was the late, unlamented Encore! Encore!), Broadway favorite Nathan Lane starred as Charlie Lawrence, a gay TV actor who forsook his popular weekly series "Guppy Sherman" to enter politics. Appointed to fill out the term of a recently deceased New Read More

The Lot

Actors: Jonathan Frakes, Allen Garfield, Linda Cardellini, Stephanie Faracy, Jeffrey Tambor

The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads

Synopsis: James Garner is reunited with several of his fellow cast members from the Rockford Files series in this made-for-TV sequel. It all begins when schoolteacher Ernie Landale (Hal Holbrook), the husband of private eye Jim Rockford's ex-prostitute friend Rita Kapkovic (Rita Moreno), is accused of child Read More

Murphy Brown: And That's the Way It Was

Synopsis: Corky (Faith Ford) lets slip that Walter Cronkite responded with an enigmatic grunt when asked about Murphy (Candice Bergen). As as result, Murphy drives herself crazier than usual trying to figure out what Cronkite really meant by that grunt. Among those offering aid and support (but not much Read More

Frasier: Voyage of the Damned

Synopsis: When Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is booked on a celebrity cruise, it naturally follows that Niles (David Hyde Pierce), Martin (John Mahoney), and Roz (Peri Gilpin) will go along for the ride. Niles in particular is looking forward to the tranquility of a sea voyage on a luxury liner (which truth to Read More

Touched By an Angel: The Quality of Mercy

Synopsis: Insisting that he has voluntarily turned his back on his Hollywood career, ex-soap opera star Joel Redding (Ted Shackelford) becomes a drama professor at a small-town college. Though Joel's son Marshall (Harley Cross) idolizes his dad, the same cannot be said for Joel's wife Sally (Stephanie Read More

Wings: Single and Hating It

Synopsis: A raging storm traps the terminal gang at a Nantucket singles bar. Having planned to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Joe (Tim Daly) and Helen (Crystal Bernard) instead feel like outcasts admidst a crowd of unattached bar patrons. To keep on everyone's good side, Joe goes through the Read More

Hocus Pocus

Actors: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch

Synopsis: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy romp around like coked-up versions of The Three Stooges in the frantic Disney romp Hocus Pocus. The film begins in 1693 where three witches -- Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy) -- are preparing a Read More

The Only Way Out

Actors: John Ritter, Henry Winkler, Julianne Phillips, Stephanie Faracy, Sam Mancuso

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an woman unwittingly endangers her ex-husband's life after she becomes involved with a sociopath. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bridesmaids

Actors: Brooke Adams, Stephanie Faracy, Shelley Hack, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Four women, all high school best friends, are reunited in Minnesota at the wedding of a fifth friend. On the eve of the nuptials, the foursome discuss their lives, their loves and their innermost secrets. Adultery and a surprise pregnancy are choice ingredients added to this TV-movie brew. For the Read More

The Great Outdoors

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Stephanie Faracy, Annette Bening, Chris Young

Synopsis: In the John Hughes-scripted The Great Outdoors, John Candy stars as Chet Ripley, an oafish paterfamilias who takes his family on a vacation at a lakeside resort. Their enjoyment is seriously compromised when brother-in-law Roman Craig (Dan Aykroyd) shows up with his wife and kiddies. The rest of Read More

Windmills of the Gods

Actors: David Ackroyd, Michael Moriarty, Franco Nero, Jaclyn Smith

Synopsis: Windmills of the Gods was adapted for television by John Gay from a best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. Jaclyn Smith plays an American college professor, appointed US ambassador to Romania. While attending a peace conference, Jaclyn's life is placed in jeopardy by an all-powerful secret Read More

Blind Date

Actors: Joyce Van Patten, Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette, William Daniels, Phil Hartman, George Coe

Synopsis: When speaking of Laurel and Hardy's first feature film Pardon Us, Stan Laurel described it as "a three-story building on a one-story base"-in other words, a 2-reeler stretched and bloated into 6 reels. Much the same could be said of Blake Edwards's Blind Date, though one wonders if Stan Laurel Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Magnum on Ice

Synopsis: This episode is the conclusion of a two-part "crossover" story, which began as "Novel Connection", an episode of Magnum PI. While in Hawaii to help one of her myriad of friends, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) crosses paths with freewheeling private detective Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) and Magnum's Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Novel Connection

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury guest stars as crime novelist and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher in this crossover episode with Lansbury's own series Murder, She Wrote. When one of Robin Master's guests (Dorothy Loudon) is marked for murder, Magnum finds himself working with--and against--the redoubtable Ms. Read More

Classified Love

Synopsis: To spice up their tepid social lives three ad execs from Manhattan place ads in the personals column of a local magazine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

American Geisha

Actors: Richard Narita

Synopsis: The made-for-television American Geisha was based on the published reminiscences of real-life anthropologist Liza Dalby. Pam Dawber stars as the Dalby counterpart, here renamed Gillian Burke. As part of the research for her Stanford University grad-school thesis, Gillian heads to the Japanese town Read More

Hotel

Actors: Bette Davis, Morgan Fairchild, Shirley Jones, Erin Moran, Mel Tormé

Synopsis: Arthur Hailey's novel Hotel had already served as the inspiration for a 1967 theatrical film when this TV pilot came along on September 21, 1983. Bette Davis stars as Laura Trent, the entrenched owner of the Hotel St. Gregory (moved from the novel's New Orleans to San Francisco, to allow for Read More

Goodnight, Beantown [TV Series]

Carpool

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, T.K. Carter, Stephanie Faracy, Harvey Korman, Peter Scolari

Synopsis: This made-for-TV comedy postulates that, someday, members of carpools will be selected by computer. The four so anointed herein are Harvey Korman, Peter Scolari, T.K. Carter and Stephanie Faracy. Their lives go along in their usual luckless fashion until the quarter of mismatched "poolers" find Read More

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

Actors: Candy Clark, Marjoe Gortner, Stephanie Faracy, Lee Grant, Hal Linden

Synopsis: When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? has been presented often as a stage play by amateur theatrical groups. Evangelist-turned-actor Marjoe Gortner plays Teddy, a cracked Vietnam vet who holds the denizens of a Texas roadside diner hostage at gunpoint. Candy Clark plays Cheryl, his zoned-out hippie Read More

Scavenger Hunt

Actors: Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little

Synopsis: When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives the entire willed fortune. So 15 potential heirs are sent on a zany quest where they must outrace and outsmart one another to inherit the big bucks. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Heaven Can Wait

Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Opting for light entertainment after the critical satire of Shampoo (1975), producer-director-writer-star Warren Beatty remade the 1941 comic fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Dimly amiable L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Beatty) is prematurely called to Heaven by an over-eager escort (Buck Henry Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Excuse Me, May I Cut In?

Synopsis: Hoping to win a new TV set at a dance contest, Laverne and Shirley butter up their (Happy Days) high-school friends Richie (Ron Howard) and Potsie (Anson Williams). Actually, Richie is dispensable: the girls are really interested in Potsie, who is Jefferson High's best dancer. Unfortunately Read More