Advice from a Caterpillar 1999  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Don Scardino
Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Andy Dick, Timothy Olyphant, Jon Tenney, Ally Sheedy, Robert Joy, Sarah Hyland, Patrick Breen, William Duell, Oni Faida Lampley, Alice Drummond, Albert Macklin, Deborah Rush, Dina Waters
When best friends Spaz (Andy Dick) and Missy (Cynthia Nixon) are both attracted to Brat (Timothy Olyphant) at the same time, the result is chaos when jealousy threatens to destroy their friendship.
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Amadeus 1984  PG, 158 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Cynthia Nixon, Kenny(2) Baker, Vincent Schiavelli, Charles Kay, Kenneth McMillan
This Oscar-winning Best Picture tells the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) from the voice of Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), a fellow composer who is awed by Mozart's effortless genius but who is also jealous of it. Meanwhile, the madcap Mozart remains forever the child who delights in his wonderful gift. Oscars also went to Abraham (Best Actor) and Director Milos Forman; Hulce was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
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Baby's Day Out 1994  G, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Patrick Read Johnson
Cast: Adam & Jacob Worton, Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Lara Flynn Boyle, Cynthia Nixon, Eddie Bracken, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Neville
Twins, Adam and Jacob Worton, play Baby Bink who is kidnapped by three inept criminals (Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, and Brian Haley). Baby Bink escapes from his captors and manages to crawl through, over, and under obstacles that would stop grown men. The weak humor in this story is that of the kidnappers as they try to recapture Baby Bink.
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Fifth of July 1982  TV, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Kirk Browning, Marshall W. Mason
Cast: Richard Thomas, Jeff Daniels, Swoosie Kurtz, Cynthia Nixon, Jonathan Hogan, Joyce Reehling, Helen Stenborg, Danton Stone
Lanford Wilson's play, directed by Marshall W. Mason, was brought to TV and now to video/DVD with satisfactory results. Kenneth (Richard Thomas), who lost both legs in the Vietnam War, shares a farm with his lover, Jed (Jeff Daniels). A death brings family and friends to their Missouri home on Independence Day where they reflect on their lives.
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I Am the Cheese 1983 PG, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Jiras
Cast: Robert MacNaughton, Hope Lange, Don Murray, Robert Wagner, Cynthia Nixon, Frank McGurran, Russell Goslant, Robert Cormier, Dorothea MacNaughton, Lee Richardson, Sudie Bond, John Fiedler
This story, adapted from Robert Cormier's novel, involves a teenager (Robert MacNaughton) who tries to uncover facts from his childhood that are locked in his subconscious mind.
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Little Darlings 1980  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Cast: Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante, Matt Dillon, Margaret Blye, Nicolas Coster, Cynthia Nixon, Krista Errickson, Alexa Kenin
Two 15-year-old girls, Angel (Kristy McNichol) and Ferris (Tatum O'Neal), attend summer camp, and vie with each other to see who will lose her virginity first.
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The Manhattan Project 1986 PG-13, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Marshall Brickman
Cast: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, Gregg Edelman, Robert Sean Leonard, Sully Boyar, John Mahoney, Richard Council, Robert Schenkkan
In order to take a stand on their concerns about a neighboring nuclear plant, two teenagers (Christopher Collet and Cynthia Nixon) steal plutonium and set out to produce their own atomic bomb.
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Marvin's Room 1996  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerry Zaks
Cast: Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn, Gwen Verdon, Hal Scardino, Dan Hedaya, Margo Martindale, Cynthia Nixon
This film adaptation of Scott McPherson's play is about a dysfunctional family in crisis and deals with the dilemma of who is going to nurse whom during a terminal illness.
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One Last Thing... 2006 R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Alex Steyermark
Cast: Michael Angarano, Cynthia Nixon, Sunny Mabrey, Matt Bush, Gideon Glick, Gina Gershon, Wyclef Jean, Gia Carides, Johnny Messner, Dana Eskelson, Coati Mundi, Brian Stokes Mitchell
Sixteen-year-old Dylan (Michael Angarano) is dying, and when "United Wish Givers" grants him a wish, he reveals during a televised news conference that he wishes to spend a weekend with supermodel Nikki Sinclair (Sunny Mabrey). A photo-op is scheduled, and during the shoot Nikki tells Dylan to call if he ever comes to New York. It doesn't take long before Dylan and friends Ricky (Matt Bush) and Slap (Gideon Glick) set off on a series of misadventures during a trip to the Big Apple where Dylan hopes to cross paths with Nikki.
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Sex and the City 2008 R, 145 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Patrick King
Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Candice Bergen, Jennifer Hudson, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Jason Lewis, Mario Cantone, Lynn Cohen, Willie Garson, Joanna Gleason, Joseph Pupo
Taking on their original roles from the HBO series, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis provide the emotional ups and downs that are at the center of this story. Carrie (Parker) is still an author and lives in a huge penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue with Mr. Big (Chris Noth) who she plans to marry. Miranda (Nixon) is busy juggling her law career with motherhood while living in Brooklyn with husband Steve (David Eigenberg) and their young son. Meanwhile, Charlotte (Davis) and her husband Harry (Evan Handler) are living happily with their adopted Chinese daughter, and Samantha (Cattrall) is living in Malibu with actor "Smith" (Jason Lewis) whose career she manages. Breakups and reconciliations ensue as the women experience good and bad phases of life and, hopefully, learn from their experiences.
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Tattoo 1981  R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bob Brooks
Cast: Bruce Dern, Maud Adams, Leonard Frey, Rikke Borge, John Getz, Peter Iacangelo, Alan Leach, Cynthia Nixon, Trish Doolan, Anthony Mannino
An offbeat tattoo artist, Karl Kinsky (Bruce Dern), kidnaps the model, Maddy (Maud Adams), and determines that he can force her to bear his mark forever by applying his trade of "needlework" over her entire body.
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Warm Springs 2005  TV, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson, Matt O'Leary, Matt Malloy, Jane Alexander, Kathy Bates, Andrew Davoli, Nelsan Ellis, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Greg Thompson, Devon Gearhart, Brian F. Durkin, Melissa Ponzio
Kenneth Branagh takes the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt–during seven crucial years of his life from 1921 when he was stricken with polio; through rehabilitation at Warm Springs, Georgia; to his nomination of Al Smith for President in 1928. Cynthia Nixon plays the role of Eleanor, while Jane Alexander, who had played Eleanor previously, takes on the role of FDR's mother, Sarah Delano Roosevelt.
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| 1. Advice from a Caterpillar (1999)
2. Amadeus (1984)
3. Baby's Day Out (1994)
4. Fifth of July (1982)
5. I Am the Cheese (1983)
6. Little Darlings (1980)
7. The Manhattan Project (1986)
8. Marvin's Room (1996)
9. One Last Thing... (2006)
10. Sex and the City (2008)
11. Tattoo (1981)
12. Warm Springs (2005)
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