Biography: Eileen Brennan |
American actress Eileen Brennan was the daughter of Jean Manahan, a moderately successful silent screen actress. Brennan studied at both Georgetown University and the American Academy of Dramatic Art before making her mark as star of the 1959... more
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Cast: Ernest Borgnine
Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Family
Length: 90min
In this adventure story for the whole family, young Ian (Jeffrey Sharmat) has resigned himself to a boring vacation after he's told that he'll have to spend the summer with his Grandma Mimi (Eileen Brennan). After making friends with a neighborhood...
Cast: Shelley Duvall Christopher Lloyd Moira Kelly Teri Garr
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 95min
In this comedy with dramatic overtones, Susan "Soosh" Teagarden (Moira Kelly) is an aspiring artist with plenty of emotional baggage. Her father Theo (Christopher Lloyd) is a famous painter; he's also an alcoholic who has never been able to express...
Tags: Comedy Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Coming-of-Age
Length: 74min
The second outing in the Boys Life series collects another set of gay-themed shorts. Must Be the Music follows a group of Los Angeles teens, three gay and one straight, through a night of romantic misadventures at a hip dance club. In Nunzio's Second...
Cast: Mia Farrow Scott Glenn Tony Goldwyn
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy
Length: 91min
Reckless is a dark, dream-like comedy-fantasy adapted by Craig Lucas from his play that takes place in a strange, hallucinogenic otherworld. Mia Farrow stars as annoying, air-headed housewife Rachel, who discovers on Christmas Eve that her husband Tom...
Cast: Helen Shaver
Tags: Crime
Length: min
Made for video, the Canadian Murder So Sweet stars Harry Hamlin as a ladies' man with a smooth line and a cool approach. Trouble arises only whenever one of Hamlin's girlfriends starts insisting upon a committment. That's when he settles the argument...
I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore (1992)
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 112min
Jason Alexander stars in this sweet-natured romantic comedy, marred by some overblown stereotypes. Alexander plays shoe salesman Bernie Fishbine. Bernie is lonely and shy and ever conscious about his weight problem. He stills lives at home with his...
Cast: Susan Sarandon Kathy Bates James Spader Jason Alexander
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 103min
Screenwriters Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent adapted the novel by Glenn Savan into this intelligent comedy-drama about a May-December omance where the woman is the senior partner. James Spader is Max Baron, a 27-year-old St. Louis advertising executive...
Cast: Carol Kane Shelley Long
Tags: Family Fantasy Fantasy Comedy
Length: min
A fairly faithful remake of Disney's earlier feature of the same name, this version first aired on television. Gaby Hoffman stars as Annabelle, a girl who thinks her mother has an easy life. Her mother Ellen (Shelley Long) thinks Annabelle's life is...
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Cast: Eileen Brennan Dennis Dugan
Tags: Family Family-Oriented Adventure
Length: 100min
Precocious Pippi Longstocking (Tami Erin) falls off her father's pirate ship and washes up in a small coastal town in Florida. She causes social worker Miss Bannister (Eileen Brennan) no end of trouble and influences two neighbor kids with her...
Length: min
Actress Theda Blau is well on the wrong side of forty, but she's gamely pretending to be thirty. Though it's hard to believe, she nonetheless manages enough of the ancient siren's song to get a middle-aged producer of TV commercials to come back to...
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