All the Way 2003  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: The Night We Called It a Day
Director: Paul Goldman
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, David Hemmings, David Field, Victoria Thaine, Stephen O'Rourke, Nicholas Hope, Tony Barry, Vincent Ball
1970s' promoter Rod Blue (Joel Edgerton) has given all to get Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) to perform in a concert in Australia. But when Sinatra and his wife, Barbara Marx (Melanie Griffith), arrive in Australia, Sinatra insults a reporter and sets off a chain of events that requires Rod to save the day.
|  | |
Another Day in Paradise 1998 R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Clark
Cast: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner, James Otis, Paul Hipp, Brent Briscoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Kim Flowers, Branden Williams
Based on ex-con Eddie Little's novel, this is a story about people who depend on sex and drugs to get them through the day. The plot revolves around two couples–Mel (James Woods) & Sid (Melanie Griffith) and Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) & Rosie (Natasha Wagner)–who, after Bobbie is physically beaten, form a dysfunctional family of unredemptive souls.
| | |
 The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990 R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman, John Hancock, Kevin Dunn, Clifton James, F. Murray Abraham
Brian De Palma directed this comedy/drama based on Tom Wolfe's novel. It stars Tom Hanks as a millionaire whose mistress kills a young black man with his car. Comfortable in the sedate world of Wall Street, he finds himself unable to cope with the life of a suspected criminal. Melanie Griffith is good as his self-involved mistress. This is a pretty good depiction of the problems evolving from racism, but overall it doesn't do justice to Wolfe's novel.
| | |
Born Yesterday 1993 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, John Goodman, Edward Herrmann, Max Perlich, Michael Ensign, Ted Raimi, Fred Dalton Thompson, Benjamin C. Bradlee, Sally Quinn
This is a remake of the classic 1950 hit starring Judy Holliday. This time around, Melanie Griffith takes on the role of the delightful Billie Dawn. When she appears a little too dizzy to help her real estate tycoon lover, a tutor (Don Johnson) is hired to enlighten her. Watch the earlier version.
| | |
Buffalo Girls 1995  TV, 180 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Rod Hardy
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Sam Elliott, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Coyote, Tracey Walter, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Jack Palance, Charlayne Woodard, John Diehl, Liev Schreiber, Russell Means
Calamity Jane (Anjelica Huston) falls in love with Wild Bill Hickok (Sam Elliott), but he is gunned down, leaving Calamity pregnant. She is then befriended by whorehouse madam Dora DuFran (Melanie Griffith) and gives her infant up for adoption to an English couple. What is a girl to do? Calamity Jane joins Buffalo Bill Cody's (Peter Coyote) Wild West Show, which just happens to be traveling to England where she might meet her daughter.
| | |
 Cecil B. DeMented 2000 R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Waters
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Larry Gilliard Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jack Noseworthy, Eric M. Barry, Erika Lynn Rupli, Harriet Dodge
When indie-film director Cecil B. DeMented (Stephen Dorff) and his cult followers kidnap A-list Hollywood star Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith), they plan to give her a punk makeover and star her in their own underground movie as a statement in their guerilla assault on mainstream films. Unfortunately, this is one of those uninspired comedies that comes across as amateurish and not very funny.
| | |
Celebrity 1998 R, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Hank Azaria, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Famke Janssen, Michael Lerner, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth, Winona Ryder
Kenneth Branagh mimics the Woody Allen persona in this film, which is a multi-layered story about people who want fame and notoriety. In reality, their methods to achieve that goal affect not only themselves but also the people around them.
| | |
Cherry 2000 1987 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Steve DeJarnatt
Cast: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, Brion James, Harry Carey Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Pamela Gidley, Michael C. Gwynne, Marshall Bell
A science fiction film about women androids who are used only for making love. When a man breaks his robot/sex toy, he is led through the desert by a flesh and blood soldier of fortune (Melanie Griffith) and encounters maniacal renegades.
| | |
 Crazy in Alabama 1999  PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Antonio Banderas
Cast: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Rod Steiger, Richard Schiff, John Beasley, Robert Wagner, Noah Emmerich
In Antonio Banderas' first directorial effort, he combines two stories in one. The first involves an eccentric woman, Lucille (Melanie Griffith), who beheads her husband and flees to Hollywood. At the same time her nephew, Peejoe (Lucas Black), becomes involved in the meaning of another death that propels him into the middle of the 1960's civil rights battle.
| | |
 The Drowning Pool 1975 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Koslo, Coral Browne, Andrew Robinson
This is a sequel to "Harper" in which Lew Harper (Paul Newman) answers a call from Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward) and ends up in the middle of a murder.
| | |
Fear City 1984  R, 93 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith, Jack Scalia, Rossano Brazzi, Rae Dawn Chong, Joe Santos, Michael V. Gazzo, Jan Murray, Maria Conchita Alonso
New York prostitutes are being killed, and police try to find the murderer. This film contains plenty of violence and follows the predictable course as good guys try to capture the bad guy. Very good cast wasted.
| | |
Forever Lulu 2000 R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Along for the Ride
Director: John Kaye
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Patrick Swayze, Penelope Ann Miller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Richard Schiff, Annie Corley, Lee Garlington, Michael J. Pollard, Steven Bauer, David Duran, Ryan Bollman, Matthew Fairchild, Elisa Goodman, Greg Lipari, Beans Morocco
Lulu (Melanie Griffith), a schizophrenic, leaves the mental hospital and shows up at her ex-boyfriend's, Ben (Patrick Swayze), home. She convinces him that they had a baby from their affair 17 years ago, and it is time to reunite with the son. Ben, unhappily married, agrees, and off they head to Wisconsin. But Ben's wife (Penelope Ann Miller) decides to head there too to see what's going on, including whether or not there is a son or just a rekindling of an affair. This comedy/drama is disappointing, especially considering the cast.
| | |
Joyride 1977 R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Ruben
Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr., Robert Carradine, Melanie Griffith, Anne Lockhart, Tom Ligon, Cliff Lenz, Robert Loper, Diane O'Mack, Susan Ludlow, Duncan Maclean, Richard Riehle
Four teens hop into a Cadillac, leave L.A., and head north to Alaska. But what began as a joy ride ends up with more than a few violent moments along the way.
| | |
 Lolita 1997  R, 137 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain, Suzanne Shepherd, Keith Reddin, Erin J. Dean, Joan Glover, Ed Grady, Michael Goodwin
After two years of rejection by major studios in Hollywood, this adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel was aired on Showtime. Jeremy Irons brings out all of Humbert's sick personality as he lusts after young Lolita (Dominique Swain), the daughter of Humbert's landlady, Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith).
| | |
The Milagro Beanfield War 1988 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Chick Vennera, Christopher Walken, Sonia Braga, Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Julie Carmen, James Gammon, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, M. Emmet Walsh
When big money interests want to build a resort near a small town, a group of its citizens fight for the right to cultivate the land. Great scenery.
| | |
Milk Money 1994 PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Anne Heche, Casey Siemaszko, Philip Bosco, Brian Christopher, Adam LaVorgna, Kevin Scannell, Jessica Wesson, Amanda Sharkey
Frank (Michael Patrick Carter) and his two buddies pool their money and bike to town to find a prostitute who will strip for them. They are befriended by kind-hearted V (Melanie Griffith), who ends up taking them home after their bikes are stolen. Frank thinks she would be a perfect new wife for his dad, Tom (Ed Harris), who is too preoccupied trying to save the wetlands. She stays in Frank's tree house, unknown to Tom who thinks she is a tutor for Frank. But a crime boss is after V, believing she has run off with the gang's money. Near the bottom of the barrel, jokes and all.
| | |
Mulholland Falls 1996 R, 107 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Jennifer Connelly, John Malkovich, Treat Williams, Bruce Dern, Daniel Baldwin
Set in the 1950s, this is the true story about an elite LAPD unit: the Hat Squad. They were so-named because of their stylish suits and wide-brimmed hats. The crime fighters consisted of Max Hoover (Nick Nolte), Ellery Coolidge (Chazz Palminteri), Eddie Hall (Michael Madsen), and Arthur Relyea (Chris Penn). When a prostitute, Allison Pond (Jennifer Connelly), is found murdered, her list of men she was involved with turns up including Max Hoover whose wife, Katherine (Melanie Griffith), has no inkling of her husband's infidelity.
| | |
Night Moves 1975 R, 99 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Ed Binns, Harris Yulin, Melanie Griffith, Susan Clark, Kenneth Mars, James Woods, John Crawford, Max Gail
Loser private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) uncovers a smuggling operation while on a routine missing-person investigation.
| | |
Nobody's Fool 1994  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Benton
Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gene Saks, Josef Sommer, Philip Bosco, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Dent, Jay Patterson, Alexander Goodwin, Carl J. Matusovich, Jerry Mayer
This comedy/drama was Jessica Tandy's last picture. It is also one of the year's best. Tandy plays Sully Sullivan's (Paul Newman) landlady, Mrs. Beryl, in this story about 60-year-old Sully who hasn't seen or spoken to his ex-wife in many years. Both Sully and his best friend Rub (Pruitt Taylor Vince) do enjoy flirting with Toby (Melanie Griffith) who is married to local contractor Carl (Bruce Willis) who sometimes gives Sully work. Changes begin for Sully when his son Peter (Dylan Walsh) arrives in town for Thanksgiving, and Sully learns that he has a grandson. Now, Sully decides that the holiday season is the time to start fixing up broken relationships. Newman was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
| | |
Now and Then 1995 PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Cast: Gaby Hoffmann, Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Melanie Griffith, Rita Wilson, Janeane Garofalo, Cloris Leachman
When a mother-to-be is about to give birth, her lifelong friends gather around for support and reminiscences.
| | |
One on One 1977 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lamont Johnson
Cast: Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G.D. Spradlin, Gail Strickland, Melanie Griffith, Lamont Johnson, Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Hector Morales
College basketball is the theme of this film starring Robby Benson as the naive Henry Steele who has much to learn. With the help of beautiful tutor Janet Hays (Annette O'Toole) he manages to make the grade academically so that he can compete in his scholarship sport of basketball.
| | |
Pacific Heights 1990 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Michael Keaton, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Laurie Metcalf, Dorian Harewood, Luca Bercovici, Tippi Hedren, Dan Hedaya
In order to aid financing the restoration of their San Francisco home, a couple (Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine) rents space in their home as apartments. They get more than they bargained for when their socio-path tenant (Michael Keaton) creates major problems.
| | |
Paradise 1991 PG-13, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mary Agnes Donoghue
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood, Thora Birch, Sheila McCarthy, Eve Gordon, Louise Latham, Sarah Trigger, Richard K. Olsen, Anthony Romano, Greg Travis, Rick Andosca, Timothy Erskine, Chestley Price, Dave Hager
A woman (Eve Gordon) with marital difficulties sends her 10-year-old son Willard (Elijah Wood) to a friend's house for the summer. In this quiet Southern town, the boy is befriended by a girl (Thora Birch), and attempts to find out why the couple (Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson) who he is staying with are so unhappy with each other. He makes them contemplate their lives, which had been marred by the death of their own child.
| | |
RKO 281 1999 R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Benjamin Ross
Cast: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider, Liam Cunningham, David Suchet, Fiona Shaw, Anastasia Hille
Project 281 was RKO's name for the production of "Citizen Kane," which would become largely regarded as the greatest film ever made. Liev Schreiber plays Orson Welles, director of the film, and James Cromwell is William Randolph Hearst, upon whom the film is based. This is the story of that production and the attempts of Hearst to stop the release of the film, which shows him in a poor light. Some good performances in this HBO-produced film.
| | |
Shade 2003 R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Damian Nieman
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Hal Holbrook, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend, Dina Merrill, Bo Hopkins, Jamie Foxx, Patrick Bauchau, Roger Guenveur Smith, Charles Rocket, Joe Nicolo, George Tovar, Frank Medrano
Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) and Tiffany (Thandie Newton) join forces with fellow L.A. poker players Larry (Jamie Foxx) and Vernon (Stuart Townsend) to carry out a sting in which they plan to beat "The Dean" (Sylvester Stallone) in a poker game. There is one catch: the ill-begotten money belongs to a mob boss, he wants his money back, and now they are pursued by gangsters.
| | |
Shadow of Doubt 1998  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Randal Kleiser
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Tom Berenger, John Ritter, Craig Sheffer, Huey Lewis, Wade Dominguez, Nina Foch, Kimberley Kates, James Morrison, Lisa Pelikan
The plot for this made-for-TV thriller revolves around the brutal murder of a prominent businessman. When the rapper, Bobby Medina (Wade Dominguez), is arrested for the crime, Kit Devereaux (Melanie Griffith) jumps to his defense as his attorney fighting the prosecuting attorney, Jack Campion (Tom Berenger).
| | |
 Shining Through 1992 R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Seltzer
Cast: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, John Gielgud, Sylvia Syms, Francis Guinan, Patrick Winczewski, Mathieu Carriere, Wolf Kahler
In 1940, Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith) suspected her boss (Michael Douglas) of spying. However, it is not until the U.S. becomes involved in World War II that she learns that her suspicions were correct. He enlists her aid, and she agrees to be dropped behind enemy lines where she is to penetrate the household of a high German official.
| | |
Smile 1975 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis, Nicholas Pryor, Colleen Camp, Joan Prather, Annette O'Toole, Melanie Griffith, Titos Vandis
Behind-the-scenes action of beauty pageants is the subject of this satire on middle-class lives in California. Lots of laughs.
| | |
Something Wild 1986 R, 116 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin, Jack Gilpin, Robert Ridgely, Tracey Walter, Adelle Lutz, Charles Napier, John Sayles
Charlie (Jeff Daniels) is a conservative businessman who hooks up with wild Lulu (Melanie Griffith). Soon, the couple is on the run, and when they meet up with Lulu's ex-con husband (Ray Liotta), the plot shifts to the relationship between Charlie and the husband.
| | |
Stormy Monday 1988 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Figgis
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean, James Cosmo, Heathcote Williams, Prunella Gee, Alison Steadman, Al Matthews, Brian Lewis
An American (Tommy Lee Jones) is trying to take over Sting's nightclub, but Melanie Griffith and Sean Bean are out to stop him.
| | |
A Stranger Among Us 1992 PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal, Mia Sara, John Pankow, Tracy Pollan, Lee Richardson, Jamey Sheridan, David Margulies, Jake Weber, James Gandolfini
Melanie Griffith plays a tough New York City cop who investigates the death and robbery of a jeweler. Delving deep into the Hasidic Jewish world of priceless gems, she finds a new sensitivity to the world around her.
| | |
 Stuart Little 2 2002 PG, 76 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Rob Minkoff
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Anna Hoelck, Ashley Hoelck, Nathan Lane, Melanie Griffith, Steve Zahn, James Woods, Marc John Jefferies, Angelo Massagli, Brad Garrett, Jim Doughan
Stuart (voice of Michael J. Fox) and his now friend and cohort, Snowbell (voice of Nathan Lane), come to the rescue when bird-friend Margalo (voice of Melanie Griffith) vanishes from the Little's family home.
| | |
Two Much 1996 PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Fernando Trueba
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Danny Aiello, Joan Cusack, Eli Wallach, Vincent Schiavelli, Austin Pendleton, Allan Rich
Art Dodge (Antonio Banderas) is an artist-turned-disreputable art dealer who enjoys his love affair with Betty (Melanie Griffith) until he falls for her sister, Liz (Daryl Hannah). Art's solution is easy–pretend he has a twin brother, Bart. Bart sleeps with Liz, and Art sleeps with Betty, and all three are happy–for a while.
| | |
Women & Men: Stories of Seduction 1990 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Director: Frederic Raphael, Tony Richardson, Ken Russell
Cast: Beau Bridges, Elizabeth McGovern, Molly Ringwald, Peter Weller, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Kyra Sedgwick, Philip O'Brien
This made-for-TV film is really three different stories taken from works of Mary McCarthy, Dorothy Parker, and Ernest Hemingway. Frederic Raphael, Ken Russell, and Tony Richardson each directed one segment. Overall, well done, and a follow-up was made the following year.
| | |
Working Girl 1988 R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Philip Bosco, Nora Dunn, Oliver Platt, Olympia Dukakis, James Lally, Robert Easton, Jeffrey Nordling, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Zach Grenier
A New York clerical worker (Melanie Griffith) takes full advantage of her rather unethical boss (Sigourney Weaver). While the boss is away, she performs a meteoric rise to the top of her brokerage firm. Carly Simon's song "Let the River Run" won an Oscar, and nominations included Best Picture, Actress (Griffith), two for Supporting Actress (Weaver and Joan Cusack), and Director.
| | |
| 
1. All the Way (2003)
aka: The Night We Called It a Day
2. Another Day in Paradise (1998)
3. Body Double (1984)
4. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
5. Born Yesterday (1993)
6. Buffalo Girls (1995)
7. Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
8. Celebrity (1998)
9. Cherry 2000 (1987)
10. Crazy in Alabama (1999)
11. The Drowning Pool (1975)
12. Fear City (1984)
13. Forever Lulu (2000)
aka: Along for the Ride
14. In the Spirit (1990)
15. Joyride (1977)
16. Lolita (1997)
17. The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
18. Milk Money (1994)
19. Mulholland Falls (1996)
20. Night Moves (1975)
21. Nobody's Fool (1994)
22. Now and Then (1995)
23. One on One (1977)
24. Pacific Heights (1990)
25. Paradise (1991)
26. RKO 281 (1999)
27. Shade (2003)
28. Shadow of Doubt (1998)
29. Shining Through (1992)
30. Smile (1975)
31. Something Wild (1986)
32. Stormy Monday (1988)
33. A Stranger Among Us (1992)
34. Stuart Little 2 (2002)
35. Two Much (1996)
36. Women & Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
aka: Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
37. Working Girl (1988)
In The News
|
