JoBeth Williams
Actor
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight…
- A rowdy spirit disrupts suburban tranquility for an average family when it kidnaps their 5–year–old daughter. The horror film receives an…
- Big Chill, The (1983)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt…
- Old college friends gather together for a weekend after the funeral of one of their peers, where they reconcile their current lives in the 1980's…
- Day After, The (1983)
- Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg…
- Emmy award–winning cautionary tale of the Reagan era chillingly dramatises the day after (and less successfully – the day 'before') a…
- American Dreamer (1984)
- Dir. Rick Rosenthal
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti…
- Comedy adventure in which a fed–up housewife pens a story about a spy and wins a trip to Paris where she starts to believe she is the spy in…
- Memories of Me (1988)
- Dir. Henry Winkler
Feat. Billy Crystal, Alan King, JoBeth Williams
- Henry Winkler (The "Fonz" from HAPPY DAYS) directs this sentimental drama with Billy Crystal playing a New York doctor who, after a…
- Welcome Home (1989)
- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Sam Waterston…
- Fairly tepid post–Vietnam War drama has Kris Kristofferson play a pilot shot down over Cambodia and was rescued by a Khmer Rouge woman, whom he…
- My Name is Bill W. (1989)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
Feat. James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner
- James Woods plays Bill Wilson, the famed co–founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in this tele–movie charting his descent from 1920's business…
- Switch (1991)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams…
- Sultry Ellen Barkin suceeds in a comic role as a womanizing 'man' who is reincarnated in her body and gets a taste of his own sexist medicine.
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams…
- Taking a leaf out of Arnie's playbook, Sylvester Stallone tries his hand at comedy – sending up his tough guy persona as a mommy's boy who has…
- Chantilly Lace (1993)
- Dir. Linda Yellen
Feat. Lindsay Crouse, JoBeth Williams, Martha Plimpton
- Satisfying story of friendship among seven women who trade memories at a country retreat.
- Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
- Dir. John Pasquin
Feat. Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams…
- New–Yorker Tim Allen (in his second big–screen outing), discovers he has a 13–yr old son who's had an Amazon rainforest unbringing.…
- From the Earth to the Moon (TV Series) (1998)
- Feat. Dylan Baker, Adam Baldwin, Gary Cole…
- Truly epic dramatisation of the Apollo space programme – produced by Tom Hanks after the success of APOLLO 13 – which looks at the entire…
- Perfect Catch, The (Fever Pitch) (2005)
- Dir. Bob Farrelly, Pete Farrelly
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, James B. Sikking…
- Americanization of FEVER PITCH sees soccer swapped for baseball, but the story is essentially the same with Fallon as the sports obsessive, and…
- TiMER (2009)
- Dir. Jac Schaeffer
Feat. Emma Caulfield, Michelle Borth, John Patrick Amedori…
- A fresh, engaging independent rom–com that posits the invention of a literal biological clock which, when implanted, counts down to the moment…
- Big Year, The (2011)
- Dir. David Frankel
Feat. Jack Black, Steve Martin, Owen Wilson…
- Light–as–a–feather comedy of competitive bird watching, with three fanatical bird–spotters vying to sight the highest number…