Thomas Haden Church Filmography

Big Eyes

Actors: Kate Hudson, Thomas Haden Church

Synopsis: Kate Hudson portrays modern American artist Margaret Keane in this Bureau of Moving Pictures production, helmed by screenwriters-turned-directors Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Man on the Moon, Ed Wood). Keane gained notoriety for her large-eyed portraits of children in the 1950s, which Read More

Smart People

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes

Synopsis: Commercial director Noam Murro makes the leap to feature films with this comedy drama concerning an aging professor-turned-bitter eccentric due to the death of his longtime wife. Ever since his wife passed away, Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) has become overly acerbic and self-absorbed. He's Read More

All About Steve

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church

Synopsis: A brilliant crossword-puzzle designer travels across the country in hopes of convincing a CNN cameraman that the pair is meant to be together, only to find her quest taking an unexpected turn in this romantic comedy starring Thomas Haden Church and Sandra Bullock. Despite the fact that she has Read More

Spider-Man 3

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco

Synopsis: Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger is back, only this time his sunny outlook has become partially overcast in the third chapter of director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man saga. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco return to reprise their roles from the previous two installments, with Thomas Haden Church Read More

Charlotte's Web

Actors: Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the Read More

Idiocracy

Actors: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Synopsis: Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." In 2005, Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced Read More

Over the Hedge

Actors: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner

Synopsis: A group of feisty forest critters awaken following the winter freeze to discover that not only has a new neighborhood cropped up during the cold months, but living in close proximity to humans may have its benefits in this computer-animated comedy-adventure for all ages featuring the voices of Bruce Willis Read More

Broken Trail

Actors: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi

Synopsis: Sideways star Thomas Hayden Church appears alongside Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall in a dramatic mini-series shot in the classic western tradition. The year is 1897. As Print Ritter (Duvall) and his estranged nephew Tom Harte (Church) travel the slow road to reconciliation, they reluctantly Read More

Spanglish

Actors: Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Shelbie Bruce

Synopsis: A Hispanic woman and her young daughter are thrown into the middle of a well-to-do but remarkably dysfunctional family in this comedy drama from writer and director James L. Brooks. Flor (Paz Vega) is a single mother who has struggled to support her daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) working as a 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

George of the Jungle 2

Actors: Christopher Showerman, Julie Benz, Thomas Haden Church, Christina Pickles, Angus T. Jones

Synopsis: Longtime television director David Grossman makes his feature debut with this direct-to-video sequel to the 1997 hit family comedy George of the Jungle. Filling the loincloth originally worn by Brendan Fraser, Chris Showerman plays George this time around. Since the events of the first film Read More

The Badge

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Ray McKinnon, Tom Bower

Synopsis: A good-old-boy small-town sheriff in a New Orleans parish happens upon a murder case that threatens to end his career in Behind the Badge, the embattled second feature of writer/director Robby Henson (Pharaoh's Army). Billy Bob Thornton stars as Darl, a divorced lawman first spotted sleeping in Read More

Rolling Kansas

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlie Finn, Sam Huntington, Jay Paulson, Ryan McDow, James Roday, Rip Torn

Synopsis: The stoner road movie Rolling Kansas is the writing and directing debut of actor Thomas Haden Church (Lowell from NBC's Wings). The story concerns the Murphy brothers: Gas station attendant and local pot dealer Dave (Jay Paulson), paraplegic student Dink (Sam Huntington), and recently divorced Read More

3000 Miles to Graceland

Actors: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox Arquette, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak

Synopsis: After squaring off in 1995 with competing movie biographies of frontier lawman Wyatt Earp, actors Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner co-star in this action crime caper as former cronies engaged in a series of double-crosses over some stolen loot. Michael Zane (Russell) and Thomas Murphy (Costner) are Read More

The Specials

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jamie Kennedy, Thomas Haden Church, Paget Brewster, Kelly Coffield

Synopsis: A satire of comic-book superheroes in the same vein as the 1999 Mystery Men, The Specials is set in a parallel universe where gangs of superheroes regularly compete against one another for glory or, failing that, flattering action-figure likenesses. The Specials are one of these gangs, and not a Read More

Mr. Murder

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Julie Warner, Bill Smitrovich, Thomas Haden Church, James Coburn

Synopsis: A scientific experiment gone wrong causes a man to become his own evil twin in this made-for-TV thriller. Marty Stillwater (Stephen Baldwin) would seem to have it made; he has a beautiful wife, two loving daughters, and a great career as a bestselling mystery novelist. However, it soon seems Read More

Scotch and Milk

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Clea Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi, Cole Hauser

Synopsis: Taking a stylistic cue from the French New Wave and Cassavetes, Adam Goldberg wrote and directed and stars in this black-and-white neo-noir -- with "additional dialogue by the cast." Writer wannabe Jim (Goldberg) lives in a seedy L.A. apartment building where he tries to write and broods over his Read More

Free Money

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mira Sorvino, Marlon Brando, Charlie Sheen, Thomas Haden Church

Synopsis: The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino) to investigate. On the home front, the Read More

George of the Jungle

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, Richard Roundtree, John Cleese

Synopsis: Jay Ward's fondly-remembered cartoon series about a klutzy king of the jungle gets the big-screen, live-action treatment in this comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. A young boy named George becomes lost in the jungles of the African nation of Bukuvu following a plane crash, where he's rescued and Read More

Ned and Stacey: Season 02

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Thomas Haden Church, Debra Messing, Greg Germann, Nadia Dajani, Dori Brenner, Harry Goz, Ford Rainey

Synopsis: Season one of Ned and Stacey concluded as selfish ad executive Ned (Thomas Haden Church) and abrasive left-wing journalist Stacey (Debra Messing) were on the brink of divorcing, thus breaking up the "marriage of convenience" that had been brokered by Stacey's sister Amanda (Nadia Dajani) so that Read More

One Night Stand

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Ming-Na Wen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: A man's brief fling threatens to ruin what he values most in life in this drama. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) lives in California, where he has a successful career directing television commercials and is happily married to Mimi (Ming-Na Wen), with whom he has two children. While visiting New York Read More

Wings: The Person Formerly Known as Lowell

Synopsis: Former Wings regular Thomas Haden Church makes a guest appearance in his familiar role as funky mechanic Lowell Mathers. Thing of it is, he's not Lowell Mathers anymore -- or at least he won't be soon. Having witnessed a mob murder, Lowell has elected to bid Nantucket farewell, assume a new Read More

Ned and Stacey: Season 01

Actors: Thomas Haden Church, Debra Messing, Greg Germann, Nadia Dajani, Dori Brenner, Harry Goz

Synopsis: Here's the premise for season one of Ned and Stacey: abrasive counter-culture journalist Stacey (Debra Messing) is in desperate need of an apartment. Arrogant advertising executive Ned (Thomas Haden Church) needs a wife to improve his image at the ad firm of Kirkland and Haywood, which caters Read More

Demon Knight

Actors: Billy Zane, Bill Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot Read More

Tombstone

Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert John Burke, Dana Delany

Synopsis: A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that Read More

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert

Actors: Teri Garr, Sam Elliott, Thomas Haden Church, Warren Frost, Geno Silva

Synopsis: This police drama is set amidst the warm splendor of Palm Springs. A boozy cop, an eager-beaver rookie, and a local gumshoe must team up to discover the identity and mission of a mysteriously well-connected stranger in town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wings: Season 01

Actors: Tim Daly, Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard, Tony Shalhoub, Thomas Haden Church

Cheers: Death Takes a Holiday on Ice

Synopsis: Long-suffering Carla (Rhea Perlman) loses yet another husband when hockey player Eddie LeBec is killed in a freak ice-show accident (something to do with a penguin and a Zamboni machine). As if this isn't devastating enough, Carla is in for another shock at Eddie's funeral: It seems that the dear Read More