Helen Hunt
Actor | Director | Producer | Writer
Actor | Director | Producer | Writer
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Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom Mad About You for seven years, before being cast in the romantic comedy As Good as It Gets (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress) and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Some of her other Hollywood credits include Twister, Cast Away, What Women Want and Pay It Forward. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me.
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As: Nancy Gibbon
In New York City, a young guy falls for the daughter of his father's nemesis.
Directed by: Collin Schiffli
Stars: Helen Hunt | Alexandra Daddario | Olivia Munn | Diego Boneta
As: Ethel Bromley
Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigation closes in, Bart makes a personal connection with a beautiful guest named Andrea, but soon realises he must stop the real murderer before she becomes the next victim.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Michael Cristofer
Stars: Helen Hunt | John Leguizamo | Johnathon Schaech | Ana de Armas | Tye Sheridan
As: Jackie Harper
Strange occurrences plague a small town detective and his family as he investigates the disappearance of a young boy.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Adam Randall
Stars: Helen Hunt | Jon Tenney | Owen Teague | Judah Lewis | Libe Barer
As: Herself
An investigation into the way media portrayals impact the actual inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Jenni Gold
Stars: Bryan Cranston | Helen Hunt | Ben Affleck | Jane Seymour | RJ Mitte ...
As: Kathy
Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Ben Shelton
Stars: Helen Hunt | Jacob Latimore | Christina Hendricks | Sami Gayle | Uzo Aduba
As: Kathy Bresnahan
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Sean McNamara
Stars: Helen Hunt | William Hurt | Erin Moriarty | Danika Yarosh | Nesta Cooper
As: Aura Topher
When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Louis C.K.
Stars: John Malkovich | Chloë Grace Moretz | Rose Byrne | Louis C.K. | Charlie Day
As: Jackie
A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Helen Hunt
Stars: Helen Hunt | Leonor Varela | Robert Knepper | Luke Wilson | Brenton Thwaites
As: Pamela Smart (archive footage)
In an extraordinary and tragic American story, a small town murder becomes one of the highest profile cases of all time. From its historic role as the first televised trial to the many books and movies made about it, the film looks at the media’s enduring impact on the case.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Jeremiah Zagar
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Helen Hunt | Nicole Kidman | Matt Dillon | Joyce Maynard
As: Lena
Jack Deth the super cop from the future, has put away three centuries worth of time traveling criminals. But Deth's most dangerous collar, the ultraviolent assassin Edlin Shock, has escaped from her maximum security holding cell and won't rest until she's exacted revenge. Meanwhile, Deth is trying to make a life for himself as a private eye in 1988 Los Angeles with his hot-blooded girlfriend Lena. ...
Runtime: 24 min.
Directed by: Charles Band
Stars: Helen Hunt | Tim Thomerson | Grace Zabriskie | Telma Hopkins | Art La Fleur
As: Mary-Claire King
The lives of a breast-cancer patient and a researcher who is trying to prove a genetic link to cancer intersect in a groundbreaking study.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Steven Bernstein
Stars: Helen Hunt | Alice Eve | Maggie Grace | Aaron Paul | Samantha Morton
As: Cheryl Cohen Greene
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Ben Lewin
Stars: Helen Hunt | William H. Macy | John Hawkes | Moon Bloodgood | Annika Marks
As: Jess (voice)
Animated-family adventure based on a true story that tells the heart-warming, coming-of-age story of a man and his best-friend, a lovable and fearless dog named, Jock. Set in the Bushveld near what is today the world famous Kruger National Park, this animated family tale is about Jock's adventures with Fritz, his master. Jock escapes death, builds crazy friendships and displays his unrivalled loyalty ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Duncan MacNeillie
Stars: Ted Danson | Helen Hunt | Anthony Bishop | William Baldwin | Bryan Adams
As: Cheri Hamilton
Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton. Bethany lost her left arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.Bethany (AnnaSophia Robb) was born to surf. A natural talent who took to the waves at a young age, she was leading an idyllic life on Kauai, participating in national ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Sean McNamara
Stars: Helen Hunt | Kevin Sorbo | AnnaSophia Robb | Dennis Quaid | Carrie Underwood
As: Jeannie
Ned (Liev Schreiber) is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. His work as a writer on an outrageous, semi-pornographic TV show is less than satisfying. His fifteen year old son has just told him he is gay and his eleven year old is afraid of, well pretty much everything. When his wife, Jeannie (Helen Hunt), moves her sick and embittered father (Brian Dennehy) from Detroit into their home in NY, it puts added ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Richard Levine
Stars: Helen Hunt | Liev Schreiber | Ezra Miller | Carla Gugino | David Harbour
As: April Epner
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Helen Hunt
Stars: Helen Hunt | Colin Firth | Ben Shenkman | Matthew Broderick | Bette Midler
As: Samantha Stevens
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Emilio Estevez
Stars: Helen Hunt | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Anthony Hopkins | Ashton Kutcher | Heather Graham
As: Stella Erlynne
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windemere's Fan
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Mike Barker
Stars: Helen Hunt | Tom Wilkinson | Stephen Campbell Moore | Scarlett Johansson | Milena Vukotic
As: Betty Ann Fitzgerald
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Helen Hunt | Dan Aykroyd | Woody Allen | Charlize Theron | David Ogden Stiers
As: Kelly Frears
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo.
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Tom Hanks | Helen Hunt | Chris Noth | Paul Sanchez | Lari White
As: Darcy McGuire
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Stars: Mel Gibson | Helen Hunt | Lauren Holly | Marisa Tomei | Alan Alda
As: Arlene McKinney
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Mimi Leder
Stars: Kevin Spacey | Jim Caviezel | Helen Hunt | Haley Joel Osment | Jay Mohr
As: Bree
Dr. Sullivan Travis is a man at the top of his game, a rich and successful Dallas gynecologist whose "religion" is women. Dr. T. worships women. In his immediate family and in his office, they surround him. He is loving and giving to each and every one at all times -- he is their savior. And sure enough, as in the story of Job, one day a higher force decides to test his faith. Once a man in ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Robert Altman
Stars: Liv Tyler | Helen Hunt | Kate Hudson | Richard Gere | Farrah Fawcett
As: Pamela Smart
Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitement. Looking for a way out she applies for a job at a local TV station. When her dreams of fame are dashed by rejection, she seduces 15-year-old Billy, one of her students. Pam challenges Billy to prove his love for her by getting rid of her ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Joyce Chopra
Stars: Helen Hunt | Chad Allen | Howard Hesseman | Hank Stratton | Larry Drake
As: Viola & Cesario
Ah, summer! School is out, work slows down and passions heat up in the warm summer air. Theatrically speaking, it's the perfect time for a sexy comedy where no one is what, or who, they seem and life is full of romantic possibilities. In other words, the perfect time for William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT, or 'What You Will—’ which Lincoln Center Theater presented in the summer of 1998 at the Vivian ...
Runtime: 164 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Hytner
Stars: Helen Hunt | David Patrick Kelly | Philip Bosco | Kyra Sedgwick | Paul Rudd
As: Carol Connelly
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: James L. Brooks
Stars: Helen Hunt | Greg Kinnear | Skeet Ulrich | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jack Nicholson
As: Dr. Jo Harding
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Jan de Bont
Stars: Helen Hunt | Cary Elwes | Bill Paxton | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Jami Gertz
As: Bev Kilmartin
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, a police officer named Calvin Hart is injured and Jimmy lands back in prison. In exchange for an early release, he is asked to help bring ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Barbet Schroeder
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Helen Hunt | Samuel L. Jackson | Kathryn Erbe | David Caruso
As: Gina Pulasky
After young policewoman Gina Pulasky succeeds in handling a domestic fight particularly well, she's added to a small team of detectives assigned to a case of gruesome child killings. She proves herself to be a worthwhile reinforcement by tracking down the prime suspect, a disturbingly smart young man named Kyle Timler. Much to the horror of her team mate and lover Will McCaid, Pulasky goes undercover ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: David Anspaugh
Stars: Helen Hunt | Jeff Fahey | Mike Bacarella | Steven Weber | Margaret Travolta
As: Lena
A time traveling cop, Jack Deth, from the future is taken back to the past to be given the task of destroying the Trancer program before it has a chance to get out of control, sending the world into a state of chaos and war.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: C. Courtney Joyner
Stars: Tim Thomerson | Dawn Ann Billings | Andrew Robinson | Tony Pierce | Melanie Smith
As: Annie Wells
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Billy Crystal
Stars: Julie Warner | Billy Crystal | David Paymer | Jerry Orbach | Mary Mara
As: Rose Pondell
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Tim Robbins
Stars: Tim Robbins | Giancarlo Esposito | Ray Wise | Alan Rickman | Brian Murray
As: Anna
An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to deal with his new found handicap and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as difficult a time as he ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Neal Jimenez | Michael Steinberg
Stars: William Forsythe | Helen Hunt | Elizabeth Peña | Wesley Snipes | Eric Stoltz
As: Clare
Dumped by his fiancee, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Stars: Helen Hunt | Andrew McCarthy | Kelly Preston | Tom McFadden | Joel Murray
As: Lena Deth
Once again someone from the future has come back to create an army of Trancers, human zombies who do what they're told without question or pause. Now officer Jack Deth, a cop from the future stranded in the past, must once again go forth to stop them. This sci-fi action sequel chronicles his courageous actions as he struggles to save the future. His difficulties are compounded when his boss sends his first ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Charles Band
Stars: Helen Hunt | Tim Thomerson | Biff Manard | Megan Ward | Martine Beswick
As: Blossom
A bounty hunter searches the west for a wanted outlaw named Red Roundtree.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Sam Pillsbury
Stars: Helen Hunt | Bruce Dern | Mariel Hemingway | Dylan McDermott | Lisa Pelikan
As: Jesse McCandless
When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tries to shut down the company and everybody turns against him. In his fight he is joined by a beautiful student activist, and soon his obsession with revenge threatens his marriage as well as his career.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Michael Pressman
Stars: Philip Baker Hall | Helen Hunt | Tess Harper | Mike Farrell | Arthur Rosenberg
As: Jessie Gates
Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: John Irvin
Stars: Helen Hunt | Ted Levine | Liam Neeson | Adam Baldwin | Patrick Swayze
As: Jennifer
Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Gary Sinise
Stars: Helen Hunt | Brian Dennehy | Richard Gere | Penelope Ann Miller | Kevin Anderson
As: Leena (Trancers sequence)
In this 'sequel' anthology, the film offers a TRANCERS sequel written by original creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, a new Lovecraft adaptation THE EVIL CLERGYMAN, featuring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, and finally a sequel to THE DUNGEONMASTER.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Charles Band
Stars: Helen Hunt | Richard Moll | Jeffrey Byron | Velvet Rhodes | David Gale
As: Teri Macdonald
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan
Stars: William Sadler | Helen Hunt | Matthew Broderick | Johnny Ray McGhee | Willie
As: Beth Bodell
Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Helen Hunt | Catherine Hicks | Kathleen Turner | Joan Allen
As: Henrietta
Children's musical based on Grimm's fairy tale of The Frog-King. A young girl learns how to be a good friend and princess with the help of a "tall frog."
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Jackson Hunsicker
Stars: Helen Hunt | Aileen Quinn | John Paragon | Clive Revill | Seagull Cohen
As: Leena
Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Charles Band
Stars: Helen Hunt | Art LaFleur | Tim Thomerson | Biff Manard | Michael Stefani
As: Lynne Stone
Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Alan Metter
Stars: Helen Hunt | Sarah Jessica Parker | Ed Lauter | Morgan Woodward | Lee Montgomery
As: Cathy
Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Helen Hunt | Mary McCusker | Peter Horton | Melissa Gilbert | Mari Gorman
As: Tami Maida
The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a girl. With everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor against her, she's out to prove that not only can she can play football, but she can win the state championship. (Based on a true story)
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Noel Black
Stars: Helen Hunt | Dana Elcar | Barbara Babcock | John Stockwell | Don Murray
As: Jenny Wells
Bill Sackter struggles to cope after his best friend and guardian, Barry Morrow and his wife Beverly move away. Bill moves into a group home run by Mae Driscoll who teaches him how to read. Bill soon discovers his religious heritage, overcoming the fire that accidentally destroyed his small canteen business, and then travels to California to search for the Morrows.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Anthony Page
Stars: Helen Hunt | Tracey Walter | Mickey Rooney | Edie McClurg | Teresa Wright
As: Sandy Cameron
A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Stars: Helen Hunt | William Windom | Art Hindle | Diana Scarwid | Doug McKeon
As: Naomi
Partially based on the true events surrounding a rural religious cult in the American Midwest, and how the members' children suffered for their parents' fanaticism.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Stars: Helen Hunt | Dee Wallace | Diane Lane | Christopher Atkins | Conrad Bain
As: Kathy Miller
With the support of her parents (Sharon Gless & Frank Converse), an Arizona adolescent (Helen Hunt) overcomes severe injuries to run in a 10K race.
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Stars: John de Lancie | Helen Hunt | Sharon Gless | Frank Converse | Bill Beyers
As: Phoebe
Laurie is 15 and she thinks she's pregnant. Her boyfriend doesn't care. Her mother doesn't know. Why did it happen? And whom can she turn to?
Runtime: 44 min.
Directed by: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Stars: Helen Hunt | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Shawn Stevens | Shane Sinutko | Samantha Paris
As: Lizzie Eaton
Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story, made for NBC television. Drama about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with PCP, or "angel dust," and the family wrestles with the crisis.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Stars: Helen Hunt | John Putch | Patrick Cassidy | Arthur Hill | Jean Stapleton
As: Tracy Calder
The plot is about a guile young terrorist who is able to blackmail a series of companies by placing home-made radio controlled bombs within the central attraction of amusement parks; roller coasters. The young man played by Timothy Bottoms gives a hard time to the cops after they give him UV marked money. He then wants revenge and places a bomb in a roller coaster at the most important amusement park event ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: James Goldstone
Stars: George Segal | Timothy Bottoms | Richard Widmark | Susan Strasberg | Henry Fonda
As: Kristina Matchett
A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Lee Phillips
Stars: Helen Hunt | Lelia Goldoni | Jack Colvin | Lee Grant | Susan Myers
As: Teila Rodriguez
TV Movie inspired by the killing of Kitty Genovese: a young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to help and refuse to cooperate with the police.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Richard T. Heffron
Stars: John P. Ryan | Phillip Clark | Lucie Arnaz | Ed Asner | Raúl Juliá
As: Susan Lindsay
Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Randal Kleiser
Stars: Helen Hunt | John Rubinstein | Brad Savage | Dori Brenner | Glynnis O'Connor
As: Sarah Sargeant
A homesteading family in the 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.
Runtime: 74 min.
Directed by: Buzz Kulik
Stars: Helen Hunt | William Shatner | Lance LeGault | Joanna Pettet | David Janssen