Tammy Grimes Filmography

High Art

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson, Tammy Grimes, Gabriel Mann

Synopsis: Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd (Radha Mitchell) has a ho-hum relationship with James (Gabriel Mann). Investigating a ceiling leak, she Read More

Trouble on the Corner

Actors: Tony Goldwyn, Edie Falco, Debi Mazar, Joe Morton, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Alan Madison made his directorial debut with this shrink-wrapped souffle of comedic conflicts in the life of lame NYC psychologist Jeff Stewart (Tony Goldwyn), who is burdened with an unloving wife (Edie Falco) and regarded with contempt by his own patients. In addition to criminals sent to him by Read More

A Modern Affair

Actors: Lisa Eichhorn, Stanley Tucci, Caroline Aaron, Mary Jo Salerno, Robert LuPone, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Most people fall in love and then have a baby, but one woman finds herself reversing the process in this romantic comedy. Grace Rhodes (Lisa Eichhorn) is a businesswoman inching into her 40s who has reached most of her career goals, but she is having a little trouble with her biological clock Read More

Backstreet Justice

Actors: Linda Kozlowski, Paul Sorvino, John Shea, Hector Elizondo, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: In this complexly-plotted action-packed police drama, Pittsburgh policewoman Keri Finnegan (Linda Kozlowski) returns to her home turf to clean up crime and clear the ruined name of her father, a cop who was wrongfully disgraced and fired from the force. McKees Rocks is one Steeltown's roughest Read More

Slaves of New York

Actors: Bernadette Peters, Nick Corri, Madeleine Potter, Charles McCaughan

Synopsis: Based on the stories by Tama Janowitz, this film follows the relationships and problems of a group of artists struggling to survive in New York City. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Mr. North

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: A young man freshly graduated from Yale (Anthony Edwards) moves to Rhode Island and finds himself with a strange power: the ability to create mild electric shocks through his hands. He begins to make friends around the community, and tries to help those around him by healing several minor Read More

America

Actors: Zack Norman, Tammy Grimes, Michael J. Pollard, Richard Belzer, Monroe Arnold

Synopsis: An TV news satire from director Robert Downey, this film concerns a cable evening news show that gradually turns into chaotic performance art. Head newscaster Terrence Hackley (Zack Norman) has been caught by his wife Joy (Tammy Grimes) with a plaid skirt in his suitcase, so he covers up by Read More

My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina

Synopsis: Good ponies battle their naughty counterparts in the legendary Dream Valley, in this animated children's adventure. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Stuff

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Garrett Morris

Synopsis: When a group of miners discovers a mysterious but delicious white substance bubbling up from the earth, a conglomerate markets the gooey, addictive fluff as a dessert in this tongue-in-cheek horror spoof from former NBC scriptwriter Larry Cohen. When a new product called "The Stuff" begins eating Read More

Incredible Book Escape

An Invasion of Privacy

Synopsis: Based on Joan Taylor's novel Asking for It, the made-for-TV An Invasion of Privacy stars Valerie Harper as recently divorced book illustrator Kate Bianchi. Moving into a remote, cloistered island community in Maine, Kate has barely arrived when she is raped by a local handyman. The hostile, inbred Read More

No Big Deal

Synopsis: In this teen-oriented drama, an impoverished street kid puts on a tough act to hide his loneliness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Unicorn

Actors: Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Only one of the mythological creatures escapes the evil King Haggard's (voice by Christopher Lee) plan to eliminate all unicorns from the land in Rankin-Bass's (Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) sophisticated production of The Last Unicorn. In hopes of rescuing her exiled breed Read More

Can't Stop the Music

Actors: Valerie Perrine, Ray Simpson, David Hodo, Steve Guttenberg, June Havoc, Felipe Rose, Barbara Rush, Randy Jones, Glenn R. Hughes, Leigh Taylor-Young, Bruce Jenner

Synopsis: Glitz producer Allan Carr tries to cash in on the late-'70s disco boom with Can't Stop the Music -- a film of such Brobdingnagian banality that it almost in itself stopped the disco movement cold. Comedienne Nancy Walker directed this musical chronicle, purporting to relate the legend of the Read More

The Runner Stumbles

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Director Stanley Kramer ended his career with this absorbing drama, adapted from the play by Milan Stitt and based on a real-life event from 1927. Dick Van Dyke stars as Father Rivard, an intellectual priest in a small, impoverished mining town in the state of Washington. A lonely man with low Read More

You Can't Go Home Again

Just Crazy About Horses

Synopsis: This documentary explores the fascination that thoroughbred horses hold for the very elite moneyed and aristocratic classes. The English upper classes, especially, regard various sorts of horse-centered rituals as being fundamental to their way of life. Moneyed investors regard horse-breeding as Read More

Tartuffe

Synopsis: Donald Moffat stars as the titular scoundrel in this 1978 Circle in the Square production of Moliere's classic comedy, co-starring Victor Gerber and Tony-winner Tammy Grimes and directed by Stephen Porter and Kirk Browning. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Somebody Killed Her Husband

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Wood, Tammy Grimes, John Glover

Synopsis: In this comic mystery, a department store clerk dreams of becoming a famous writer of children's books. He is also having an affair with a lovely patron of the store. The trouble begins when the lovers find that her husband, a pair of neighbors and a bogus detective have been murdered. The lovers Read More

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Synopsis: This animated story tells why Santa Claus won't visit Junctionville, and all because of an insulting letter that was printed in the newspaper. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Spy Who Returned From the Dead

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a leading US agent fakes his death and then begins working as a double agent for an enemy country. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Borrowers

Actors: Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Fans of the 1970s cartoon series The Littles may enjoy its live-action spiritual ancestor The Borrowers. Dennis Larson plays an eight-year-old boy living in Victorian England. While exploring his aunt's (Dame Judith Anderson) mansion, Larson peeks under the floorboards...and what should he see but Read More

Horror at 37,000 Feet

Actors: Chuck Connors, Russell Johnson, Buddy Ebsen, William Shatner

Synopsis: Featuring a smorgasbord of has-beens and never-weres only a Love Boat casting director could love, this silly '70s movie-of-the-week involves a demonically-possessed Druid artifact from an English monastery coming to supernatural life aboard a transatlantic airline flight, taking control of one of Read More

Play It As It Lays

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins

Synopsis: Play It As It Lays offers what is probably the harshest view of Hollywood to be given a major production up to the time of its release; it depicts a world of narcissistic egotists who will do anything to inflate their own sense of importance. Based on the novel by Joan Didion, it tells of the rise Read More

The Other Man

Actors: Arthur Hill

Synopsis: Joan Hackett plays the neglected wife of prominent attorney Arthur Hill. Almost before she know what is happening, Joan is drawn into an affair with handsome stranger Roy Thinnes. Her indiscretion leads to an attempted murder. All that transpires is part of a complicated plan by an ex-convict to Read More

Arthur!! Arthur?

Synopsis: Donald Pleasence, Shelley Winters, Tammy Grimes, and Terry-Thomas star in the obscure British black comedy Arthur!! Arthur? Pleasence plays a henpecked, introverted little nebbish, unhappily wed to Winters. Escaping into fantasy, Pleasence conjures up an extroverted alter-ego, which eventually Read More

Three Bites of the Apple

Actors: David McCallum, Sylva Koscina, Tammy Grimes, Harvey Korman, Domenico Modugno

Synopsis: In this lightweight comedy, David McCallum stars as Stanley Thrumm, a retiring British tour guide who strikes it rich one night in a casino on the Riviera. He's not sure that he wants to take the cash back to England, because he'll have to pay taxes on it, so he decides to put it in a Swiss bank Read More

Max Liebman Presents: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl

Synopsis: Returning to his musical comedy revue roots, Max Liebman, the guiding force behind the classic TV variety series Your Show of Shows, offered this lighthearted tribute to the female office workers of America. Drawing from popular songs, plays and movies that have dramatized the plight of the Read More