Priscilla Pointer
Actor
Actor
As: Sally (voice)
Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Jeff Daniels | Marlee Matlin | Michael Ormsby | Ed Waterstreet | Phyllis Frelich
As: Mrs. Henry Howard
Eddie Lomax (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny (Danny Trejo). Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who beat him and steal his bike. However, Lomax is not a man to take an injustice lying down, and soon he begins exacting a violent revenge ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: John G. Avildsen
Stars: Danny Trejo | Jean-Claude Van Damme | Pat Morita | Larry Drake | Gabrielle Fitzpatrick
As: Susan Hight
An aging, recently widowed man is approached by an oil company ready to pay him for his land. While his family is in favor, the man struggles with the decision in this Horton Foote screenplay.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Stars: James Earl Jones | Ed Begley Jr. | Hume Cronyn | Shelley Duvall | Shelley Duvall
As: Lily Henson
Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room schoolhouse with Rosealee, his lover and his best friend's widow. Joseph, who lacks a college degree, learns that he will lose his teaching job at the end of the year when the school district expands into his town. Meanwhile, he is seduced by 17-year-old Catherine, a ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Bruno Barreto
Stars: Amy Irving | Gary Busey | Dennis Hopper | Amy Locane | Julie Harris
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series.. In "The Theater," a young woman attends a movie theater only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Stars: James Earl Jones | Gary Cole | Amy Irving | Patrick Bergin | Julia Campbell
As: Grandma
A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to remember what her age is.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Alfredo Ringel | Deborah Ringel
Stars: George Clooney | Colleen Camp | Diane Salinger | John Calvin | Priscilla Pointer
As: Sr. Francine
10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now the same urge overcomes him with his new patient Sandy. He doesn't know that she's the daughter of his previous victim and that she's come for revenge.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Charles Winkler
Stars: Geoffrey Lewis | Malcolm McDowell | Irwin Keyes | Pamela Gidley | Priscilla Pointer
As: Dr. Berlin
A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors go awry, and legions of murderous zombies are unleased upon a surburan neighborhood.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: David Irving
Stars: Tricia Leigh Fisher | Gerrit Graham | Bill Calvert | Robert Vaughn | Brian Robbins
As: Queen Grizelda
A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: David Irving
Stars: John Moulder-Brown | Amy Irving | Clive Revill | Priscilla Pointer | Jonny Phillips
As: Dr. Elizabeth Simms
It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy's decided to herald his return by invading the kids' dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Chuck Russell
Stars: Patricia Arquette | John Saxon | Heather Langenkamp | Robert Englund | Craig Wasson
As: Mrs. Martha Williams
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Bob Clark
Stars: John Hurt | Judd Nelson | Elizabeth Perkins | Darren McGavin | Dan Monahan
As: Mrs. Beaumont
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: David Lynch
Stars: Isabella Rossellini | Hope Lange | Dennis Hopper | Kyle MacLachlan | Laura Dern
As: Mrs. Lee
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Stars: Timothy Hutton | Pat Hingle | Sean Penn | Joyce Van Patten | Rob Reed
As: Miss Cox (segment "Kick the Can")
Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the originals, where eerie and disturbing situations gradually spin out of control. "A Quality of Mercy", "Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life", and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Landis | Steven Spielberg | George Miller | Joe Dante
Stars: Kathleen Quinlan | Dan Aykroyd | John Lithgow | Albert Brooks | Vic Morrow
As: Myra
The story involves newscaster Rodney Pointsetter (Shawn) who is so depressed between his job and his family that he tries to make a film about his life, which he intends to culminate with his own suicide. It is often interrupted with irrelevant comic sketches that an emcee claims that the audience prefers to see.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: David Irving
Stars: LaWanda Page | Pamela Brull | Cynthia Sikes | Dick Shawn | Pierre Jalbert
As: She
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Gary Sherman
Stars: James Stephens | Vic Tayback | John Forsythe | Priscilla Pointer | Noah Beery, Jr.
As: Rosalee Boyer
A young woman is faced with local disapproval and strain on her marriage when she agrees to serve as a surrogate mother.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Jerry London
Stars: Paul Le Mat | Cassie Yates | Susan Dey | Priscilla Pointer | Caroline McWilliams
As: Mrs. Chadwick
In this biographical film, glamorous yet lonely star Joan Crawford takes in two orphans, and at first their unconventional family seems happy. But after Joan's attempts at romantic fulfillment go sour and she is fired from her contract with MGM studios, her callous and abusive behavior towards her daughter Christina becomes even more pronounced. Christina leaves home and takes her first acting role, only ...
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Frank Perry
Stars: Faye Dunaway | Howard Da Silva | Steve Forrest | Diana Scarwid | Mara Hobel
As: Rosella Ramsey
Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Stars: Amy Irving | Slim Pickens | Dyan Cannon | Willie Nelson | Joey Floyd
As: Chrissie Campbell
Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy scheme. They drive out to a deserted onion field in Bakersfield, where one cop is killed and the other escapes. The film explores the consequences.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Harold Becker
Stars: Ted Danson | John Savage | James Woods | Ronny Cox | Franklyn Seales
As: Mrs. Dunn
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Stars: Diane Keaton | William Atherton | Richard Gere | Tuesday Weld | Richard Kiley
As: Judge Cudahy
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Richard C. Sarafian
Stars: O.J. Simpson | Rosalind Cash | John Mahon | Priscilla Pointer | Elizabeth Montgomery
As: Missy LeHand
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Runtime: 155 min.
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Rosemary Murphy | Edward Herrmann | Jane Alexander | Priscilla Pointer | Walter McGinn
As: Mabel
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway! This movie is based, extremely loosely, on the early career on Cecil B. De Mille. ...
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Stars: Tatum O'Neal | Stella Stevens | Burt Reynolds | Brian Keith | Ryan O'Neal
As: Mrs. Snell
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Stars: William Katt | Amy Irving | John Travolta | Sissy Spacek | Piper Laurie
As: Marion Chapman
Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Robert Butler
Stars: Myrna Loy | Monte Markham | Melvyn Douglas | Yvette Mimieux | Bert Convy