Suzy Amis Filmography

Born:: January 5, 1961 in Oklahoma City, OK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Advertised as "the face of the '80s," one-time model and Actors Studio-graduate Suzy Amis made her film bow in Fandango (1985). While making the film, Amis met her future husband Sam Robards, the son of Jason Robards, Jr. and Lauren Bacall. She followed Fandango with an off-Broadway appearance in...Read More

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Judgment Day

Actors: Ice-T, Suzy Amis, Linden Ashby, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: This sci-fi thriller finds the world in imminent danger when a collision in outer space sends huge pieces of interstellar debris on a path headed straight for Earth. A scientist has designed a system that would stop the largest meteor fragments from striking the earth, but a fanatical religious Read More

1999
Firestorm

Actors: Howie Long, Scott Glenn, William Forsythe, Suzy Amis, Christianne Hirt

Synopsis: This Chris Soth screenplay is directed by Dean Semler, the Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves cinematographer who also did cinematography for Waterworld and Last Action Hero. The film's action hero is Howie Long (Broken Arrow), Fox Sports commentator and former NFL star. Wyoming firefighter Jesse Read More

1998
Titanic

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher

Synopsis: This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's $7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more Read More

12/19/97
Last Stand at Saber River

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Suzy Amis, David Dukes

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as a Confederate soldier who finds himself at a crossroads, in this made-for-television adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel. Paul Cable (Selleck) who returns to his Arizona homestead after the end of the Civil War, only to find it taken over by Union-sympathizing pioneers. Cable Read More

1997
Dead by Midnight

Synopsis: John Larkin (Timothy Hutton would seem to have the ideal life: A great job, a beautiful home, a happy marriage. Nonetheless, John has always been nagged by the feeling that "something is missing." The truth of this suspicion is violently driven home when John is inexplicably kidnapped from his Read More

1997
The Beneficiary

Actors: Ron Silver, Suzy Amis, Linden Ashby, Stacy Haiduk, Steven Ford

Synopsis: In this thriller, a wealthy man's wife conspires to take his fortune and his life after she learns of his philandering. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
The Ex

Actors: Amy Yasbeck, Yancy Butler, Nick Mancuso, Suzy Amis, Babs Chula

Synopsis: A Manhattan architect starts a new life with a new wife. All seems to be going well until the day when his friends and acquaintances start turning up murdered. The killer turns out to be his psycho ex-wife, and the architect realizes his new wife is next on her list. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Cadillac Ranch

Actors: Suzy Amis, Renee Humphrey, Caroleen Feeney, Linden Ashby, Jim Metzler

Synopsis: Three disparate Texas sisters reunite to celebrate the wedding of the youngest and end-up having a thrilling adventure racing across the prairie with a fortune in stolen loot. The sisters, Francis, Mary Katherine, and the irrepressible spitfire CJ Crowley, whom the other two had to bail out of Read More

1996
The Usual Suspects

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis: Near the end of The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey, in his Oscar-winning performance as crippled con man Roger "Verbal" Kint, says, "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." This may be the key line in this story; the farther along the movie goes, the more Read More

1995
One Good Turn

Actors: James Remar, Lenny Von Dohlen, Suzy Amis, John Savage, Richard Minchenberg

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, Matt's life spirals out of control after he meets his old acquaintance Simon, the man who saved Matt from burning to death after a car accident many years before. Unlike Matt who has since become a successful video game programmer, Simon's life has led him to the Read More

1995
Two Small Bodies

Actors: Suzy Amis, Fred Ward

Synopsis: With her children missing and presumed dead, a promiscuous strip-joint waitress finds herself the prime suspect. Her accuser is a tough-as-nails police lieutenant who continually badgers her. She too is tough, and it isn't long before the pair form a strange sick bond. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

1994
Blown Away

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis

Synopsis: Opening within one month from each other in 1994, Blown Away invited many comparisons to Speed. Both are pyrotechnical displays involving mad bombers and a multitude of flying building debris and body parts. The cop and the mad bomber in this one are Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges), a veteran of the Read More

1994
Nadja

Actors: Elina Löwensohn, Suzy Amis, Galaxy Craze, Martin Donovan, Peter Fonda, Karl Geary

Synopsis: This stylish combination of expressionistic horror and deadpan black comedy centers on the activities of a beautiful female vampire on the streets of New York City. Playing fast and loose with the Dracula legend, the film examines the legendary count's children, particularly the alluring and Read More

1994
Watch It

Actors: Peter Gallagher, Suzy Amis, John C. McGinley, Jon Tenney, Cynthia Stevenson

Synopsis: In Watch It, Peter Gallagher plays a drifter who comes back to Chicago and moves in with his cousin (Jon Tenney) in an attempt to make amends. Soon, the cousins have patched things up, and the duo become involved in a series of complicated practical jokes with Tenney's housemates. Things turn sour Read More

1993
Rich in Love

Actors: Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: The final installment of what might be called Bruce Beresford's southern trilogy (the other films being Crimes of the Heart and Driving Miss Daisy) examines a disintegrating Southern family. The Odom family live in an elegant mansion, where Warren (Albert Finney) is retired and spends the days Read More

1993
The Ballad of Little Jo

Actors: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: The Ballad of Little Jo is based on a true story -- several true stories, in fact. Suzy Amis plays demure young Josephine Monagan, who in 1866 is run out of her home town after bearing an illegitimate child. Fleeing westward, Josephine is terrified by stories of how treacherous the frontier can be Read More

1993
Where the Heart Is

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, David Hewlett, Suzy Amis

Synopsis: In this comedy from writer-director John Boorman, wealthy real estate mogul Stewart McBain (Dabney Coleman) owns a demolition firm which specializes in blowing up old buildings to make way for upscale new ones. When neighbors protest his plans to raze a dilapidated old building to make way for a Read More

2/23/90
Twister

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Dylan McDermott, Jenny Wright

Synopsis: Don't mistake this movie for the stormy special-effects blockbuster of the same name; the two films are light years apart. Based on Mary Robison's novel Oh!, this Twister was the quirky first feature from screenwriter/director Michael Almereyda (Nadja, The Eternal) about an eccentric Read More

6/30/89
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
Plain Clothes

Actors: Arliss Howard, Suzy Amis, George Wendt, Diane Ladd, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Arliss Howard plays a baby-faced undercover cop, posing as a high school student. Howard is investigating the murder of a teacher, a task made difficult when his own brother (Loren Dean) becomes the primary suspect. Meanwhile, the ersatz student falls in love with Alexandre Powers, the daughter of Read More

4/15/88
The Big Town

Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane Read More

9/25/87
Fandango

Actors: Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Chuck Bush, Brian Cesak

Synopsis: The still unknown Kevin Costner carries this film that involves five college roommates on a last "fandango" before they separately face the harsh realities of an unpredictable future. It is 1971, and the Vietnam War has not yet ended. Gardner Barnes (Costner) has extended his college years by six Read More

1985