Summer PhoenixFilmography

Born:: December 10, 1978 in Winter Park, FL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Proclaimed a "breakout actress" by Interview magazine in the spring of 2002, Summer Phoenix -- the younger sister of River, Rain, and Joaquin Phoenix -- in fact appeared on-camera from the age of six (when she guest starred in such popular series as Murder, She Wrote and Growing Pains) but...Read More

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Suzie Gold

Actors: Summer Phoenix, Leo Gregory, Stanley Townsend, Rebecca Front, Frances Barber

2004
The Believer

Actors: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane, A.D. Miles

Synopsis: In this powerful and disturbing drama, Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling) is a member of a gang of racist skinheads who espouses a vile but well-articulated philosophy of anti-Semitism. Danny also has a secret -- he is a Jew, and was a top student in Hebrew school before he began to ask too many Read More

5/17/02
Wasted

Actors: Nick Stahl, Summer Phoenix, Brittney Irvin

Synopsis: An outgrowth of the MTV cable network's 1998 documentary True Life: Fatal Dose, Wasted is a cautionary modern fable about the pitfalls of heroin addiction. The three teenaged protagonists, lifelong friends all, are Samantha (Summer Phoenix), Owen (Aaron Paul), and Chris (Nick Stahl). As Read More

2002
Dinner Rush

Actors: Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Kirk Acevedo

Synopsis: Music may be the food of love, but a group of gangsters are singing a very different tune at a fancy New York dining room in this dark comedy. Louis (Danny Aiello) is the owner of an upscale restaurant in New York's Tribeca district where his son Udo (Edoardo Ballerini) has become the head chef. Read More

9/28/01
The Laramie Project

Actors: Christina Ricci, Peter Fonda, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Buscemi, Dylan Baker, Amy Madigan, Joshua Jackson, Jeremy Davies, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Laramie, WY, is a small town which became infamous overnight in the fall of 1998, when Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was found tied to a fence after being brutally beaten and left to die, setting off a nationwide debate about hate crimes and homophobia. A month after the crime, Moises Read More

2001
Esther Kahn

Actors: Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Fabrice Desplechin, Frances Barber, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: The English-language debut of French director Arnaud Desplechin, Esther Kahn charts the ascension of a lower-class Jewish girl from a turn-of-the-century London ghetto to one of the stage's leading actresses. Esther (Summer Phoenix) feels set apart from her large, raucous family, who are all Read More

2000
SLC Punk

Actors: Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Lien, Christopher McDonald, Devon Sawa, Summer Phoenix, Til Schweiger, Adam Pascal

Synopsis: What's it like being the only punk rockers in the biggest Mormon community in the world? Stevo (Matthew Lillard) and Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian) provide the answer to this and other questions in SLC Punk. Stevo and Bob (whose name is actually an ironic reference to his fear of needles) are two Read More

4/16/99
The Faculty

Actors: Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Clea Duvall, Jordana Brewster

Synopsis: Miramax Films darlings Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Kevin Williamson teamed up for a high-school alien-horror film that they described as The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dilapidated Herrington High is the location for a story about a school faculty taken over by Read More

12/25/98
Girl

Actors: Dominique Swain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Summer Phoenix, Tara Reid, Selma Blair, Portia de Rossi

Synopsis: Dominique Swain stars as spoiled, small-town high-school senior, 18-year-old Andrea Marr, who lives with her parents in an upscale suburb of Porter City, Washington -- where Andrea and her gal pals make the scene at various concerts and clubs. Before the summer ends and an Ivy League school takes Read More

1998
ER: Ambush

Synopsis: This first episode of ER's fourth season originally aired live on September 25, 1997, with two separate telecasts for the East and West Coasts. A TV documentary crew follows Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) during a "typical" shift in the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital. Still Read More

1997
Arresting Gena

Actors: Paul Lazar, Sam Rockwell, Summer Phoenix, Aesha Waks

Synopsis: Gena (Aesha Waks) is a 16-year-old girl whose mother has fallen into a coma; with her immediate family unable to watch over her, it's decided that she'll spend the summer with her Uncle John (Paul Lazar). Gena takes a part-time job at a beauty parlor and makes friends with a girl named Jane (Summer Phoenix Read More

1997
Runaway Ralph

Synopsis: Based on Beverly Cleary's novel The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph is an ABC Kidtime special about a mouse named Ralph who leaves home on his motorcycle once his parents ground him. Eventually, Ralph ends up at a summer camp, where he has several adventures. ~ Stephen Thomas Read More

1988
Russkies

Actors: Whip Hubley, Leaf Phoenix, Peter Billingsley, Stefan DeSalle, Susan Walters

Synopsis: This children's movie is set in sunny Key West during a Fourth of July celebration. Three buddies sneak off to their secret fort and to their surprise discover a Russian sailor hiding there. He is Mischa, who with two shipmates was assigned to sneak into the town military base to steal certain Read More

11/6/87
Growing Pains: Big Brother is Not Watching

Synopsis: Ben (Jeremy Miller) consults his older siblings in order to figure out the best strategy to get a new bike from his parents. Mike (Kirk Cameron) suggest that Ben go into full "fawning" mode, a ploy that fails miserably. But our hero has better luck when he adopts the subtler approach suggested by Read More

1987
Murder, She Wrote: We're Off to Kill the Wizard

Synopsis: The duplicitous owner (James Coco) of a popular theme park engages Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to design a "house of horror". Shortly, thereafter, the owner is murdered in his underground office--an "impossible" crime, inasmuch as the office was securely locked from the inside. Inasmuch as the wife Read More

1984