Willie GarsonFilmography

Sex and the City

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth

Synopsis: The hit cable series Sex and the City catwalks its way onto the big screen in this feature-film continuation that fans all over have been clamoring for. Sarah Jessica Parker returns once again as Carrie Bradshaw, the style-maven journalist whose romantic exploits were the key focus of the show. Read More

Chocolate News [TV Series]

Actors: David Alan Grier, Tanea Brooks, Oth'Than Burnside, Jennifer Dyal, Willie Garson

Synopsis: Comedy vet and former In Living Color star David Alan Grier hosts this nightly dose of brutal, hot-button satire, tackling racially charged issues in a Daily Show style "fake news" format. Delivering every headline/punchline with the deadpan seriousness of a stately, buttoned-up news anchor, Grier Read More

The TV Set

Actors: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, Fran Kranz

Synopsis: Writer/director Jake Kasdan's showbiz comedy The TV Set stars David Duchovny as Mike Klein, a television producer who in the beginning of the film successfully sells a network on a story idea. The film follows Klein as he must actually put the show together, navigate the corporate minefield of the Read More

John From Cincinnati [TV Series]

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Garret Dillahunt, Greyson Fletcher, Willie Garson, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: Created by the same team responsible for the quirky, iconoclastic HBO western series Deadwood, John from Cincinnati was a magical mystery tour of the California surfing scene. Set in the town of Imperial Beach, the story focused on the multigenerational Yost family, led by Mitch Yost (Bruce Read More

Jackass: Number Two

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn

Synopsis: For fans who thought the stakes couldn't be raised any higher and the bar couldn't be lowered any further, the original cast and crew of the stunt comedy sensation that swept the globe return for another round of jaw-dropping feats that are guaranteed to have viewers wincing through their Read More

Little Manhattan

Synopsis: The bittersweet pangs of first love among sixth graders sets the stage for this romantic comedy. Gabe (Josh Hutcherson) is an 11-year-old boy living on the more exclusive side of New York City; his parents, Adam (Bradley Whitford) and Leslie (Cynthia Nixon), are splitting up, and as their marriage Read More

Just Like Heaven

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Waters, Ben Shenkman, Jon Heder, Ivana Milicevic

Synopsis: A couple who live on different sides of the divide of life and death discover just how many boundaries love can cross in this romantic comic fantasy. Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is a hardworking and dedicated medical resident who, after 20 hours on duty, is heading home when she falls asleep at Read More

House of D

Actors: Anton Yelchin, Téa Leoni, David Duchovny, Robin Williams, Erykah Badu

Synopsis: Actor David Duchovny made his debut as a director and screenwriter with this coming-of-age drama, in which a grown man looks back at his adolescence. It's 1973, and Tommy (Anton Yelchin) is a 13-year-old boy living in New York's Greenwich Village with his mother (Téa Leoni), who is still coming to Read More

Fever Pitch

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Jason Spevack, Jack Kehler, Scott H. Severance

Synopsis: Nick Hornby's acclaimed memoir about one man's struggle to balance his love of a woman and his love for soccer was the basis of a well-reviewed British film in 1997, and now gets a Americanized rewrite with this picture, in which the game is changed from soccer to baseball. Ben (Jimmy Fallon) is a Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Panic Room

Synopsis: Monk (Tony Shalhoub) takes on his most unusual client when a chimpanzee named Darwin (played by Mowgli of The Dennis Miller Show fame) is accused of killing record producer Ian Blackburn (Stewart McLennan), who was hiding in his supposedly impenetrable "panic room" at the time of his death. Read More

Luster

Actors: Justin Herwick, Shane Powers, B. Wyatt, Pam Gidley, Susanna Melvoin

Synopsis: Written and directed by independent filmmaker Everett Lewis, Luster is a low-budget romantic comedy. Would-be poet Jackson (Justin Herwick) is tired of orgies and wants to settle down. While working at the record store owned by Sam (Shane Powers), he attracts the affection of good boy Derek (Sean Thibodeau Read More

Freaky Friday

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray

Synopsis: A high-strung mom and her punky daughter learn what it's like to walk in each other's shoes -- literally -- in Disney's second update of their 1977 teen fantasy comedy. The new-millennium Freaky Friday has disgruntled teen Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) living, sans father, with her uptight Read More

A Problem With Fear

Actors: Paulo Costanzo, Emily Hampshire, Camille Sullivan, Benjamin Ratner, Keegan Connor Tracy

Taken

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Alonso Oyarzun, Julie Benz, Steve Burton, Julie Ann Emery

Synopsis: Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, the ten-episode, 20-hour miniseries Taken was one of the most ambitious projects undertaken by cable TV's Sci-Fi Network, ultimately costing 40 million dollars -- a price that proved well worth it, inasmuch as the series posted the network's highest-ever Read More

Out Cold

Actors: Jason London, Lee Majors, Willie Garson, Zach Galifianakis, David Koechner

Synopsis: Four wacky guys take on a pack of rich stuffed shirts (does this premise sound at all familiar?) in this broad comedy. Rick (Jason London) is a slobby but good-natured snowboarder who is mending a broken heart after splitting up with Anna (Caroline Dhavernas), a girl he met while on vacation in Read More

Thank Heaven

Actors: Jenny McCarthy, Kadeem Hardison, Gia Carides, Willie Garson

Synopsis: Julia (Jenny McCarthy) and Jack (Matt Keeslar) are exes who have grown blind to the fact that they're head over heels in love. Though on the surface it appears as if their relationship has failed, these two co-workers still bicker like a couple that's been together for decades. One day, as Jack Read More

Stargate SG-1: Point of No Return

Synopsis: Willie Garson guest stars as Martin Lloyd, a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed "space alien". Amidst his ramblings about JFK and the CIA, Lloyd intimates that he might have the "lowdown" on the Stargate program. Just to cover all bets, General Hammond (Don S. Davis) asks O'Neill Read More

Play It to the Bone

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson, Lolita Davidovich, Tom Sizemore, Lucy Liu

Synopsis: After covering baseball in Bull Durham, basketball in White Men Can't Jump. and golf in Tin Cup, writer, director, and obvious sports fan Ron Shelton takes on the world of boxing in this comedy. Vince Boudreau (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar Sota (Antonio Banderas) are close friends and aspiring Read More

Being John Malkovich

Actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Would you pay money to journey into the mind of the star of Con Air, The Killing Fields, and In The Line of Fire? Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is having money problems, so he takes a temporary job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a large office building. One day, while Read More

Friends: The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey

Synopsis: Joey (Matt LeBlanc) is in for a lot of ribbing (and not a little pain) when it turns out that his new girlfriend, Katie (Soleil Moon Frye), is slap-happy. Having adjusted to the romance between his sister Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry), Ross (David Schwimmer) finds himself a Read More

Come on Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story

Synopsis: Like many other made-for-TV biopics inspired by popular television series of yore, Come on Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story offers the spectacle of actors playing other actors playing different characters--and as such, those "characters" come off as more interesting than the "real" actors. Read More

NYPD Blue: Dead Girl Walking

Synopsis: The recently demoted Dornan (Richard Gant) returns to the 15th in search of a stash of illegal weapons. This leads to a racial-political crisis, culminating in interdepartmental ill will and a gunshot wound for Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel). On another front, a mother positively identifies the body Read More

Boy Meets World: It's About Time

Synopsis: Just when it seems that nothing else could go wrong with the preparations for the marriage of Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel), Best Man Eric (Will Friedle) throws another spanner in the works by changing the locale of the wedding from the Matthews home to the very expensive Read More

Fortress 2: Re-Entry

Actors: David Roberson, Aidan Rea, Christopher Lambert, Pam Grier, Patrick Malahide, Willie Garson, Beth Toussaint

Synopsis: In this follow-up to Fortress, Stuart Gordon's 1993 sci-fi adventure drama, John Brennick (Christopher Lambert) and his wife Karen (Beth Toussaint) are once again on the run in a totalitarian regime of the future, where a multi-national corporation called Men-Tel has taken control of the world. Read More

There's Something About Mary

Actors: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott

Synopsis: The Farrelly Brothers set this romantic comedy in their home state of Rhode Island. In 1985, when teen-nerd Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren Jenson (W. Earl Brown), his concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary Jenson (Cameron Diaz Read More

Ally McBeal: These Are the Days

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Synopsis: Bobby Donnell (Dylan McDermott) of The Practice comes to Ally for help with a case. Meanwhile, John Cage admits that he's drawn to Renee. ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

Sex and the City: Sex and the City

Actors: Chris Noth

Synopsis: In the first episode of the HBO comedy series Sex and the City, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) suggests to her friends Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), on the occasion of Miranda's 30th birthday, that they should try having sex like men -- just for Read More

NYPD Blue: Hammer Time

Synopsis: Fresh out of prostate surgery, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) returns to active duty -- only to be sidelined by an accident. The investigation of a murder arising from a love triangle is interrupted when Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) is pulled away to investigate a murder that has taken place in the Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Killed By Death

Synopsis: Unable to slay a bad case of the flu, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is admitted to the hospital. While sleeping, she has a dream about a tall dark creature with a young boy. The next day she discovers the same boy is a patient in the children's ward. He says the creature is Death and has killed Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Thirty Days

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Ally McBeal: Compromising Positions

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Synopsis: Ally faces a moral dilemma when she's assigned to defend Richard's partner, who was arrested for solicitation. Meanwhile, Richard tries to use Ally to snag a client. ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

NYPD Blue: A Remington Original

Synopsis: "Death by typewriter" is the coroner's verdict when the body of a man is found. Elsewhere, a naked female corpse, dumped in a junkyard, leads Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) on another far-from-merry chase, and still-wobbly Gina (Lourdes Benedicto) returns to work. Outside the Read More

Touched By an Angel: Dear God

Synopsis: Elliot Gould guest stars as Max, an embittered Auschwitz survivor now working for the US Postal Service. Assigned to the dead-letter department, Max responds to people who have written letters addressed to God by coldly informing them that God does not exist. Assigned to help Max regain his faith Read More

NYPD Blue: Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone's (Jimmy Smits) investigation of a limo driver's murder leads to a vice ring. Henry (Willie Garson), the nephew of the woman from whom Simone inherited an apartment building, finally reveals what he knows about a murder that occurred just outside the building. Read More

Kingpin

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, Bill Murray, Chris Elliott

Synopsis: In the '70s, Roy Munsen (Woody Harrelson) was a bowling phenomenon. He was none too sharp about picking friends, though, and the champion he had to beat, "Big Ern," takes him under his supposedly friendly wing. Big Ern (Bill Murray) shows him the high-living lifestyle, and induces him to go on the Read More

NYPD Blue: Thick Stu

Synopsis: Detective Stu Morrissey (Conor O'Farrell) thinks that a father knows more than he's letting on about a missing baby. Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) makes a bet that he can lose more weight than Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) campaigns to be elected the squad's union delegate. Bobby Read More

NYPD Blue: Yes, We Have No Cannolis

Synopsis: When Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) reopen a old case in which a man may have wrongly been sent to prison, the detective who originally worked the case isn't too happy. Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) runs against Gotelli (Carmine Caridi) in the union-delegate election. Simone Read More

The Rock

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe

Synopsis: The sophomore film from former music video and commercial director Michael Bay, this fast-paced action yarn featured rapid-fire editing, a cutting-edge rock soundtrack and liberal use of shots awash in a haze of burnished hues, all trademarks of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Nicolas Cage Read More

NYPD Blue: Moby Greg

Synopsis: The fourth season of NYPD Blue begins with a clean-and-sober Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) finally coping with the death of his son Andy Jr., but obsessing over the care given his baby boy, Theo -- so much so that it seriously affects his work. On the verge of proposing to Diane Russell (Kim Delaney Read More

The Tie That Binds

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Moira Kelly, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Produced by the same team that bankrolled the hit The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this violent domestic thriller is often compared to that mega-hit. Screenwriter Wesley Strick made his directorial debut with this script by Michael Auerbach. Vincent Spano and Moira Kelly are Russell and Dana Read More

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Actors: Don Cheadle, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Jenny McCarthy, Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams

Synopsis: In the mode of Quentin Tarantino, this film, directed by Gary Fleder from a script by Scott Rosenberg, concerns itself with hip, smart gangsters. The film is set in Denver, and the title comes from a Warren Zevon song. A retired, good-hearted gangster named Jimmy the Saint (Andy Garcia) runs a Read More

Mad About You: New Year's Eve

Synopsis: Not by choice, Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) spend their first New Year's Eve apart. This is not the only offbeat occurrence in the course of this episode, you may be sure. Things reach a summit of strangeness during the traditional countdown in Times Square. And yes, that Read More

Speechless

Actors: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Christopher Reeve, Bonnie Bedelia, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: A mix of political satire and a modern take on 1930's-style screwball comedy, this romance from director Ron Underwood was assumed by many to be based on the real-life relationship between liberal political consultant James Carville and conservative commentator Mary Matalin. Michael Keaton stars Read More

Groundhog Day

Actors: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty

Synopsis: Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp. Phil displays a charm and wit on camera that evaporates the moment the red light goes off; he is bitter, appallingly self-centered, and treats his Read More

Boy Meets World: The Father/Son Game

Synopsis: Figuring they have better things to do, Cory (Ben Savage) and Eric (Will Friedle) try to get out of playing with their dad Alan (William Russ) in a father/son softball game. To save them the embarrassment, Alan claims that the game was cancelled anyway. When they find out that their dad is lying Read More

Boy Meets World: Father Knows Less

Synopsis: Mr. Feeny (William Daniels) flunks Cory (Ben Savage) when the boy falls asleep during a test. This time, however, it was all dad Alan's fault; Alan (William Russ) had let Cory stay up to watch a baseball game to make up for cancelling a promised night out. Unfortunately, Mr. Feeny refuses to let Read More

Untamed Heart

Actors: Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Kyle Secor, Willie Garson

Synopsis: More than a decade after 1982's Six Weeks, director Tony Bill once again explored romance, sentimentality, and dying young with Untamed Heart. The film stars Christian Slater as Adam, an shy and awkward busboy who saves waitress Caroline (Marisa Tomei) from being raped in a park late one night. Read More

Daybreak

Synopsis: In this chilling made-for-cable-television outing, the population of the United States is nearly wiped out by a sexually transmitted disease. In order to stop its spread, those infected are sequestered in special camps. To make sure no infected person is allowed to go free, a group of vigilantes Read More

Everybreath

Actors: Judd Nelson, Joanna Pacula, Patrick Bauchau, Willie Garson, Rebeca Arthur

Synopsis: Judd Nelson is the ex-brat-packer in this particular direct-to-video gem. Befriended by a wealthy but depraved young couple (Joanna Pacula and Patrick Bauchau), Nelson joins the pair in their bizarre notions of fun and games. He thinks he knows the score, but even he isn't parade for the Read More

When the Party's Over

Actors: Elizabeth Berridge, Rae Dawn Chong, Sandra Bullock, Fisher Stevens, Brian McNamara, Kris Kamm

Synopsis: When the Party's Over is a surprisingly down-spirited drama about a group of twenty-something yuppies trying to survive in Los Angeles. All four main characters -- three women (Sandra Bullock, Rae Dawn Chong, Elizabeth Berridge) and one gay man (Kris Kamm) -- live in the same house, where they Read More

Ruby

Actors: Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Arliss Howard, Tobin Bell, David Duchovny

Synopsis: Here's a fictionalized account of Jack Ruby's perspective of the events leading up to his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. Danny Aiello appears convincingly as the nightclub-owner Ruby who (according to this telling) points the finger at an FBI conspiracy as the force behind the Kennedy Read More

Mobsters

Actors: Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: In this fictionalized account based on true figures, a foursome of young thugs decides to team up and take control of New York's east side from the aging bosses who control it. Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) control the physical elements of the operation, while Read More

Soapdish

Actors: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as those of their television counterparts. Sally Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the star of a declining TV show. To make matters worse, Talbert's career is thrown into turmoil when her Read More

Repossessed

Actors: Linda Blair, Leslie Nielsen, Anthony Starke, Ned Beatty, Lana Schawb, Jesse Ventura

Synopsis: This is almost a follow-up to its relative The Exorcist, since it stars Linda Blair, also the leading lady in the '70s head-spinner tale. In Repossessed, a grown-up Blair plays a housewife who becomes possessed by the Devil while watching TV. Leslie Nielsen plays Father Mayii, who gets called to Read More

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Actors: Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley, Morris Day, Lauren Holly

Synopsis: Controversial and often offensive stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay made his debut as a feature film star in this crude comedy. Fairlane is a "rock and roll detective" who works in the music business, has an office on Sunset Boulevard, and drives a 1957 Ford, with clothing to match. He floats Read More

Brain Dead

Actors: Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort, Nicholas Pryor, Patricia Charbonneau

Synopsis: Brain Dead was based on a script by Charles Beaumont, leading some obtuse fans to hail the "return" of that frequent Twilight Zone contributor. Actually Beaumont has been dead since 1967, so this cookie spent a long time in the oven. Stalwart supporting actor Bill Pullman is given star billing as Read More

Troop Beverly Hills

Actors: Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross, Stephanie Beacham

Synopsis: Shelly Long stars in this comedy as a spoiled Beverly Hills wife who decides--wanting to prove her husband's accusation of her selfishness wrong--to become the leader of her daughter's wilderness group. Though taking them on outings at the mall rather than in the woods, she later must prove her Read More

Peter Gunn

Actors: Peter Jurasik, Peter Strauss, Pearl Bailey, Barbara Williams, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Peter Gunn was a one-shot TV movie revival of the classic detective series (1958-61) created by Blake Edwards. Edwards wrote and directed this pilot for a potential Gunn revival, with Peter Strauss stepping into Craig Stevens' gumshoes as private eye Peter Gunn. Peter Jurasik assumes Herschel Bernardi's Read More

Cheers: The Cape Cad

Synopsis: After innumerable turndowns, Diane (Shelley Long) finally accepts Sam's marriage proposal, only to be told that the offer has expired. Unwilling to take no for an answer (though she's proven more than willing to dish it out), Diane vows to break up Sam's romantic weekend with another woman at the Read More

The Leftovers

Synopsis: Originally broadcast as an installment of ABC's Disney Sunday Movie anthology, The Leftovers marked the TV acting debut of singer John Denver. He is cast as Max Sinclair, the director f a foster-care facility for older orphans who, for various reasons, no one has ever adopted. Described themselves Read More