Swoosie Kurtz Filmography

Superman: Doomsday

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Anne Heche, James Marsters

Synopsis: Inspired by the best-selling DC comic The Death of Superman, the animated feature Superman Doomsday finds the Man of Steel locked in mortal combat with an intergalactic serial killer named Doomsday. Never before have two rivals of such equal footing squared off in a duel to the death that could Read More

Pushing Daisies: Season 01

Actors: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Swoosie Kurtz

Category 7: The End of the World

Actors: Gina Gershon, Cameron Daddo, Shannen Doherty, Randy Quaid, James Brolin, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: A series of devastating storms are leveling major cities across the globe, and it's up to discredited scientist Faith Clavell (Shannon Doherty), dedicated storm chaser Tommy Tornado (Randy Quaid), and the FEMA head Judith Carr (Gina Gerson) to journey into the eye of the storm and find out just Read More

Lost: Deus Ex Machina

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Kevin Tighe, Tyler Burns Laudowicz, George O'Hanlon Jr., Lawrence Mandley

Synopsis: As any college theater student will tell you, the title of this episode translates as "god from the machine," a theatrical device whereby everyone's problems are solved by a single, miraculous and highly unlikely climactic act of divine intervention. In this case, the deus ex machina is Read More

Huff: Christmas is Ruined

Nadine in Date Land

Synopsis: The first feature-length romantic comedy produced exclusively for the Oxygen cable network, Nadine in Date Land stars Janeane Garofalo as the title character, who though her own love life is in a shambles somehow believes that she can run a successful dating service. Having borrowed heavily from Read More

Huff: All the King's Horses

Duplex

Actors: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell

Synopsis: Just how far would you go to have the home of your dreams all to yourself? A couple start asking themselves that very question in this dark comedy directed by Danny DeVito. Alex (Ben Stiller) and Nancy (Drew Barrymore) are a young couple who are happy and successful, but lack one thing that they Read More

The Rules of Attraction

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue

Synopsis: Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel about the sexual, emotional, and chemical interactions of a group of wealthy and amoral college students is brought to the screen in this adaptation from writer and director Roger Avery. Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is a student at Camden College, a Read More

Bubble Boy

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, John Carroll Lynch

Synopsis: Jake Gyllenhaal, the young star of the critically well-received October Sky (1999), follows up that film with this offbeat comedy. Gyllenhaal stars as Jimmy Livingston, a teenager with an immune system deficiency who has spent his entire life living in a plastic bubble under the doting Read More

Get Over It!

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Melissa Sagemiller, Sisqo, Shane West, Colin Hanks, Martin Short

Synopsis: Ben Foster stars in this teenage comedy as Berke Landers, an average high schooler who has achieved high status by winning over Allison (Melissa Sagemiller), reputed to be the most popular and beautiful girl in his class. After an initially winning time, Allison finds herself drawn to the hot new Read More

The Wilde Girls

Actors: Olivia Newton-John, Chloe Rose, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: This made-for-cable comedy-drama stars Olivia Newton-John as Jasmine Wilde, a former teen idol who is trying to put her reckless past behind her and live a quiet, inconspicuous life in a small Georgia community where she's raising a teenage daughter, Izzy (Chloe Rose), on her own. Jasmine's best Read More

Sleep Easy, Hutch Rimes

Actors: Steven Weber, Swoosie Kurtz, Gail O'Grady, Nina Siemaszko, Gabriel Mann

Synopsis: Michael O'Connell ran several video stores in Denver, CO, before taking up screenwriting, and the endless stream of direct-to-video thrillers that littered his shelves inspired his script for this satiric black comedy. Hutch Rimes (Steven Weber) runs an insurance company, and even though he's Read More

Intimate Portrait: Swoozie Kurtz

Cruel Intentions

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Louise Fletcher, Swoosie Kurtz, Christine Baranski

Synopsis: In an adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are step-brother and step-sister living in Manhattan. With their absent parents travelling in Europe, the wealthy pair have the family penthouse Read More

Love & Money [TV Series]

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, David Ogden Stiers, Paget Brewster, Brian Doyle-Murray

Outside Ozona

Actors: Robert Forster, Kevin Pollak, Sherilyn Fenn, David Paymer, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: A group of strangers are brought together under unexpectedly dangerous circumstances in this offbeat drama. Trucker Odell Parks (Robert Forster) pulls into a diner in Ozona, Texas, for a cup of coffee, where a number of other weary travelers are taking a break. Wit Roy (Kevin Pollak) is an 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

Harvey

Actors: Harry Anderson, Swoosie Kurtz, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Previously adapted twice before, most notably for the Oscar-nominated 1950 film starring James Stewart, Mary Chase's classic stage-play Harvey once again receives the celluloid treatment with this 1998 CBS made-for-TV movie. Night Court's Harry Anderson fills Stewart's shoes, starring as the Read More

ER: Suffer the Little Children

Synopsis: When the wife (Swoosie Kurtz) of televangelist Emmitt Chambliss (Gary Grubbs) is brought into the ER suffering the aftereffects of a recent face-lift, Chambliss draws up plans to telecast a fundraiser from the hospital. Elsewhere, Ross (George Clooney) and Carol (Julianna Margulies) put their Read More

My Own Country

Actors: Naveen Andrews, Glenne Headly, Hal Holbrook, Swoosie Kurtz, Marisa Tomei

Synopsis: From the director of the acclaimed Salaam Bombay, My Own Country is based on the best-selling memoir of an Ethiopian doctor who treated HIV and AIDS patients in Johnson City in the smoky mountains of Eastern Tennessee in 1985. The film narrates the tribulations of a physician who takes home the Read More

Little Girls in Pretty Boxes

Actors: Courtney Peldon, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: The often too-intense world of competitive gymnastics is the focus of this made-for-television movie. Courtney Peldon stars as Katie Bryant, an aspiring young gymnast who is willing do whatever it takes to make it to the top of her sport -- including suffering verbal abuse from her demanding Read More

Touched By an Angel: Charades

Synopsis: Hollywood agent Libby Glaser (Swoosie Kurtz) is surprised when her movie-star mother Vera King (Janet Leigh) refuses to appear at an awards dinner honoring former Hollywood Blacklist victim Clive Hathaway (Joseph Campanella)--especially since Hathaway had been the best friend of Libby's late Read More

Liar Liar

Actors: Krista Allen, Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe

Synopsis: An attorney who tells the truth for 24 hours straight? This has got to be the movies! Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey) is a lawyer obsessed with his career, and he's devoted his life to bending the truth to his advantage. This habit has broken up his marriage to Audrey (Maura Tierney) and isn't doing Read More

Citizen Ruth

Actors: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston

Synopsis: The divisive issue of abortion is at the center of Citizen Ruth, a political satire that attempts to subject both pro-choice and pro-life forces to equal ridicule. Laura Dern portrays Ruth Stoops, an irresponsible, unemployed woman who's addicted to inhaling household chemicals and has becomes Read More

A Promise to Carolyn

Actors: Delta Burke, Swoosie Kurtz, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama based on a true story, two estranged sisters, Debra (Delta Burke) and Kay (Swoosie Kurtz), are brought together when one begins to question if the death of a third sibling when they were children could have been a result of physical abuse from their parents. Using Read More

Sisters: Season 06

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember, Elizabeth Hoffman, Sheila Kelley

Synopsis: The sixth and final season of Sisters opens with the series' 100th episode, in which longtime regular Julianne Phillips is conspicuous by her absence. To compensate for Phillips' departure, the writers explain that her character, Frankie Reed, has left her hometown of Winnetka to pursue new Read More

Storybook

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, William McNamara, Sean Fitzgerald, Richard Moll, Milton Berle, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: A trip to the attic of his new house lands young Brandon and his loyal dog in a magical world ruled by a wicked queen. There he meets a captive prince and vows to help the youthful prince relocate a powerful sword and prevent it from falling into the queen's greedy hands. This fantasy adventure is Read More

One Christmas

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn and Henry Winkler star in this heartwarming Christmas drama adapted from a Truman Capote short story. In the film, a young boy is finally reunited with his dallying dad. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Reality Bites

Actors: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn

Synopsis: This film was one of the more mainstream offerings in the array of films that emphasized the overly hyped "Generation X" phenomenon, a list that ranges from Slacker to Singles and includes a host of other films. Winona Ryder stars as Lelaina, a recent college graduate. Out on her own and Read More

Sisters: Season 05

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember, Julianne Phillips, Elizabeth Hoffman

Synopsis: At the end of Sisters' fourth season, Alex Reed (Swoosie Kurtz), oldest of the Reed sisters of Winnetka, was patiently awaiting the release of her new husband, Big Al Barker (Robert Klein), who'd been jailed on a phony tax-fraud charge; Alex's younger sister, Teddy (Sela Ward), had become the Read More

Sisters: Season 04

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember, Julianne Phillips, Elizabeth Hoffman

Synopsis: Having survived breast cancer, Alex Reed (Swoosie Kurtz), oldest of the Reed sisters of Winnetka, has launched a new career as a motivational speaker as Sisters begins its fourth season. Invited to appear on a local TV talk show, Alex is so hilarious that she causes the show's host, Harry Busby (Jack Betts Read More

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

Actors: Holly Hunter, Beau Bridges, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad in this made-for-cable satire based on a true story. Holly Hunter stars as Wanda Holloway, a twice-married Baptist mother of two who becomes obsessed when her daughter, Shanna (Frankie Ingrassia Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

Sisters: Season 03

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember, Julianne Phillips, Elizabeth Hoffman

Synopsis: Season three of Sisters begins as Alex (Swoosie Kurtz), the oldest of Winnetka's Reed sisters, insists upon micro-managing the marriage between her widowed mom, Bea (Elizabeth Hoffman), and Judge Truman Ventnor (Philip Sterling). Fed up with her daughter's interference, Bea decides to elope with Read More

Terror on Track 9

Actors: Joan Van Ark, Swoosie Kurtz, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Richard Crenna makes his fifth appearances NYPD detective Frank Janek in Terror on Track 9. The villain this time is a serial killer who preys upon women at Grand Central Station. The murderer's modus operandi is to inject his victims with poison. Janek suspects that the perpetrator is a man with Read More

Sisters: Season 01

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember, Julianne Phillips, Elizabeth Hoffman

Synopsis: The first "trial" season for Sisters runs seven episodes, beginning with the awkward reunion of the Reed sisters in their hometown of Winnetka, IL, not long after the death of their father. Though Mr. Reed has only been in his grave a short time, his widow, Beatrice (Elizabeth Hoffman), has Read More

Sisters: Season 02

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember, Julianne Phillips, Elizabeth Hoffman

Synopsis: As season two of Sisters gets under way, John Whitsig (Garrett M. Brown), the unemployed husband of Georgie Reed (Patricia Kalember), suddenly develops a sense of responsibility when his son Evan (Dustin Berkovitz) is diagnosed with leukemia. John records a musical tape, markets it himself, and Read More

Sisters [TV Series]

Actors: Elizabeth Hoffman, Patricia Kalember, Sheila Kelley, Swoosie Kurtz, Julianne Phillips, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Winnetka, IL, was the unlikely setting for the semi-serialized 60-minute drama series Sisters, which made its NBC debut on May 11, 1991. The stories revolved around the endless trials and tribulations of the Reed sisters, four highly individualized women who were brought back together in adulthood Read More

Stanley & Iris

Actors: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Harley Cross

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama with romantic overtones, Iris (Jane Fonda) is a working mother with a job at a large commercial bakery who is still getting over the death of her husband, though her circumstances don't give her much time to grieve. She's sharing her house with her two children Read More

A Shock to the System

Actors: Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert, Swoosie Kurtz, Will Patton

Synopsis: Shock to the System is a black comedy about a middle-aged advertising executive (Michael Caine) who loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man (Peter Reigret). In frustration, Caine accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train--and he gets away with the death. Realizing that Read More

The Image

Actors: Albert Finney, Marsha Mason, Swoosie Kurtz, John Mahoney, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Albert Finney stars as a TV-news anchorman who wrongly implicates a good friend in a savings-and-loan scandal; when the friend commits suicide, Finney must question his ethics and obsession with high Nielsen ratings. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dangerous Liaisons

Actors: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Keanu Reeves, Uma Thurman, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: Adapted for stage and screen several times over the past century, French author Francois Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liasons Dangeureuses was the basis for this Academy Award-winning Stephen Frears film. The plot is motivated by a cruel wager between the beautiful but debauched Marquise de Read More

Bright Lights, Big City

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox once more makes a courageous effort to shed his nice-guy image in Bright Lights, Big City. Fox plays an impressionable Kansan who comes to the Big Apple to take a job at a major magazine. It isn't long before he falls into the twin traps of drug and alcohol abuse. His only hope for Read More

Vice Versa

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer, Swoosie Kurtz, David Proval

Synopsis: A magical jeweled skull makes the wish of 11-year-old Charlie (Fred Savage) come true in this routine but entertaining situation comedy. Charlie wishes he can switch places with his father Marshall (Judge Reinhold), a shallow junior executive of a toy-manufacturing company. Marshall retains his Read More

Baja Oklahoma

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, Billy Vera, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Based on a 1983 novel by Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma is set sometime in the 1950s. Texas barmaid Lesley Ann Warren wants more than anything to be a rich and famous country-western songwriter. Unfortunately, she spends most of her time sorting out her many dead-end romances. Just when she thinks Read More

True Stories

Actors: David Byrne, John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Alix Elias

Synopsis: Director David Byrne (of Talking Heads) takes an outside-looking-in glance at Texas and Texans in True Stories. Casting himself as the protagonist/narrator, Byrne adopts what he thinks is "standard" western garb and drives his red convertible into the small town of Virgil. Here he observes the Read More

Wildcats

Actors: Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively, Brandy Gold, Nipsey Russell, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Blonde-haired, blue-eyed women's libber Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn) quits her teaching job at a comfortable middle-class school to take a new position as varsity football coach at a predominantly black inner-city school. Culture and gender clashes abound; she must win over the hard-boiled youths Read More

Guilty Conscience

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Blythe Danner, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: Richard A. Levinson and William Link took the "fantasy murder" concept popularized in the classic Preston Sturges film Unfaithfully Yours (1948) one fatal step further in Guilty Conscience. Criminal attorney Arthur Jamison (Anthony Hopkins) wants to divorce his wife Louise (Blythe Danner) but will Read More

A Time to Live

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Jeffrey DeMunn, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: Adapted from Mary-Lou Weisman's book Intensive Care, this made-for-television movie stars Liza Minnelli (in her first TV appearance) as a woman who must remain strong and contend with her son's muscular dystrophy and all the problems within the family that accompany the illness. ~ Kristie Hassen Read More

Against All Odds

Actors: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark, Pat Corley

Synopsis: A remake of Jacques Tourneur's noir classic Out of the Past (1947), in this version a labyrinthine web of corruption touches on the world of pro football. When an injury-riddled body causes pro football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) to be cut by his team, Jake Wise (James Woods), a shady Read More

A Caribbean Mystery

Actors: Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes

Synopsis: Helen Hayes plays Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple in A Caribbean Mystery. Recuperating from an illness at a resort in the Bahamas, Miss Marple makes the acquaintance of a genial British major (Maurice Evans). When her new friend is murdered, Miss M takes on the case herself. She Read More

Fifth of July

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Cynthia Nixon, Richard Thomas, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Lanford Wilson's dramatic play is adapted for the small screen in this made-for-television movie. Richard Thomas stars as Ken Talley, a Vietnam vet who lost both of his legs in the war. When his friends and family gather at his Missouri farm (which he shares with his lover Jed) after a death, the Read More

The World According to Garp

Actors: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. Robin Williams plays the title character, the son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (Glenn Close, in her film debut). Every effort Read More

The Mating Season

Synopsis: Essentially a light-weight made for TV romance between different classes - this time a female attorney who meets a laundromat owner at a bird-watching retreat. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Walking Through the Fire

Synopsis: Bess Armstrong is the anguished heroine of the made-for-TV Walking Through the Fire. A normal, healthy housewife and mother, Bess' world is shattered when she falls victim to Hodgkin's disease. Not only is her life threatened by this debilitating illness, but also the life of her unborn child. Read More

Marriage Is Alive and Well

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a wedding photographer learns the secrets of marriage while working at several ceremonies. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Oliver's Story

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Edward Binns, Benson Fong

Synopsis: Get ready for another dose of love and loss in this sequel to the four-handkerchief classic Love Story (1970). Oliver Barrett (Ryan O'Neal) is emotionally devastated after the death of his wife Jenny, and while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain Read More

Uncommon Women... and Others

Actors: Jill Eikenberry, Swoosie Kurtz, Ann McDonough, Meryl Streep, Alma Cuervo

Synopsis: A group of classmates from Mount Holyoke College meet for an informal reunion circa 1978, some seven years after graduation. Designated "uncommon" because they were predicted by friends to be "amazing" before they were 30, we seein flashbacks how these women conducted themselves in their senior Read More

First Love

Actors: William Katt, Susan Dey, John Heard, Beverly D'Angelo, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: It's hardly likely that anyone will confuse 1977's First Love with the 1939 Deanna Durbin musical of the same name. In the earlier film, Durbin received her first screen kiss from Robert Stack. In the 1977 film, no one stops at kissing. College boy Elgin (William Katt) falls for coed Caroline (Susan Dey Read More

Slap Shot

Actors: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse

Synopsis: Paul Newman plays Reggie Dunlop, the coach of a pathetic minor-league American hockey team. His career at a standstill and his marriage in tatters, Dunlop has nothing to lose by taking on a new group of players who are one evolutionary step above Neanderthals. Only when the team begins winning Read More