Biography: Bernadette Peters |
American actress Bernadette Peters was a five-year-old performer on Horn and Hardart's kiddie-talent radio program, and by age 11 was appearing on Broadway in Most Happy Fella. Peters achieved national fame in 1968 with her campy performance as Ruby,... more
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Cast: Renée Zellweger
Tags: Medical Drama Drama
Length: 91min
Director Dan Ireland adapts writer Robert Bazell's autobiographical novel -Her-2 to the screen with this made-for-Lifetime drama concerning UCLA oncologist and researcher Dr. Dennis Slamon, creator of the promising breast cancer drug Herceptin....
Cast: Rachel Ward Jonathan Silverman Jeremy Kagan
Tags: Drama
Length: 95min
Jeremy Paul Kagan directs this Showtime family drama set in a rural village in Ireland. Bernadette Peters and Rachel Ward star as a lesbian couple who run the local tavern. They end up taking care of a orphaned boy and one of them is diagnosed with...
Tags: Coming-of-Age Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy
Length: 90min
Adam Marcus, whose previous works include Jason Goes to Hell (1993), directs this heartwarming romantic comedy. The film opens with little James Ellis watching his parents divorce and his mother (Bernadette Peters) hop from one Mr. Wrong to the next....
Cast: Judy Davis Hugh Grant Emma Thompson Julian Sands
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy of Manners Comedy Romance
Length: 108min
Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, better known in the literary world as George Sand, not only took a man's name, but trotted around wearing pants and smoking cigars in public. No great shakes today, but in the 1800s she was perhaps the most famous (or...
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg Ralf Bode
Tags: Fairy Tales & Legends Fantasy Family
Length: 120min
Seen on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, this 12-million production is the only musical Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote for television. The CBS-TV original, with 21-year-old Julie Andrews in the title role and Edie Adams as the Fairy Godmother, played...
Cast: Kevin Spacey
Length: 96min
The Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker story was a "natural" for TV-movie adaptation, and Fall From Grace more than fills the bill. Bernadette Peters heaps on makeup by the trowel as Tammy Faye, the wife of televangelist Jim Bakker (here played with boyish...
Cast: James Ivory Betty Comden
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Manners Urban Comedy
Length: 115min
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
Cast: Clint Eastwood Jim Carrey
Tags: Comedy Action Chase Movie Action Comedy
Length: 125min
For his third film as a director and his third film directing Clint Eastwood, stunt-man Buddy Van Horn helmed this action comedy involving a skip tracer, some neo-nazis, and the titular vehicle. Eastwood stars as Tommy Nowak, a bounty hunter with a...
Sunday in the Park with George (1986)
Cast: Bernadette Peters Mandy Patinkin
Tags: Musical Drama Musical
Length: 120min
James Lapine directed this television adaptation of his acclaimed musical, which he created in collaboration with the great composer Stephen Sondheim. In the first act, artist Georges Seurat (Mandy Patinkin) is working on his latest painting with the...
Cast: Marvin Hamlisch
Length: 96min
In this above-average made-for-television drama, Bernadette Peters stars as a mother facing the greatest challenge of her life. Based a true story, Matthew Lawrence stars as David Rothenberg, a six year-old who was viciously set on fire by his jealous...
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