3 Men and a Little Lady 1990  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Emile Ardolino
Cast: Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Robin Weisman, Christopher Cazenove, Sheila Hancock, Fiona Shaw, Jonathan Lynn
In this follow-on to "Three Men and a Baby," five years have passed since the "Baby" was left on their doorstep. It is time for her to attend school, and now her mother thinks she must marry to gain respectability for her child. A series of misunderstandings are handled with humorous insight.
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Body Heat 1981  R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Mickey Rourke, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, Kim Zimmer, Jane Hallaren, Lanna Saunders, Carola McGuinness, Michael(3) Ryan, Lynn Hallowell, Larry Marko, Thom Sharp, Deborah Lucchesi
This is a steamy film with a well-written script about dull, Florida lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) who has a relationship with an intriguing woman Matty (Kathleen Turner) who he first sees at an outdoor concert. Later, Matty invites Ned into her home and manipulates him into killing her older husband, Edmund (Richard Crenna). Matty uses Ned because she believes that his legal expertise will ensure not getting caught. But, unplanned events turn the "easy" killing into something else, and Matty and Ned become prime suspects. A real sizzler by Lawrence Kasdan.
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Cousins 1989  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, Lloyd Bridges, William Petersen, Norma Aleandro, Keith Coogan, George Coe
"Cousins" is about weddings. When a couple of distant cousins sneak off for a lustful little rendezvous, their respective spouses, Maria and Larry (Isabella Rossellini and Ted Danson) get together. Larry doesn't care about his wife's infidelity; however, Maria tracks him down at work and asks if he thinks her husband and his wife are having an affair. Naturally, this is the beginning of their own affair.
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 Creepshow 1982 R, 122 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Cast: Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, E.G. Marshall, Carrie Nye, Viveca Lindfors, Ted Danson, Ed Harris, Gaylen Ross, Stephen King, Warner Shook, Robert Harper, Jon Lormer, Don Keefer
Five different stories–each revolving around a fatal flaw–make up this movie. The fifth story, for example, is about a neat freak who literally lives in a completely sterile environment and encounters, of all things, cockroaches. The screenplay is by Stephen King from the story "The Crate." King has a bit part in one of the stories. Naturally, macabre entertainment.
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Gulliver's Travels 1996 TV, 188 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Charles Sturridge
Cast: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, John Standing, Alfre Woodard, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter O'Toole, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Phoebe Nicholls, Karyn Parsons, Edward Petherbridge, John Wells
An all-star cast, Jim Henson's special effects, and good performances make this made-for-TV miniseries a joy to watch and is probably the most faithful retelling of the Jonathan Swift social satire. Lemuel Gulliver (Ted Danson) returns home to Mary (Mary Steenburgen) after a long absence and acts out his wild adventures that include the tiny Lilliputians, the huge Brobdingnags, the Laputas (the no-common-sense scientists), and the intelligent horses surrounded by wild humans.
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Homegrown 1998 R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Hank Azaria, Ryan Phillippe, Kelly Lynch, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Lithgow, Ted Danson, Jon Bon Jovi, Judge Reinhold, Matt Clark
Following the murder of the owner of a marijuana plantation, three workers–Jack (Billy Bob Thornton), Carter (Hank Azaria), and Harlan (Ryan Phillippe) decide to take over the business. But they find that getting buyers is not as simple a job as they had believed it to be.
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Jerry and Tom 1998 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Saul Rubinek
Cast: Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chaykin, Ted Danson, Charles Durning, William H. Macy, Peter Riegert, Sarah Polley, Shelley Cook, Alyson Court
This story begins and ends in a bar where two hit men–Jerry (Sam Rockwell) and Tom (Joe Mantegna)–reminisce about their lives as hired killers.
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Just Between Friends 1986  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Allan Burns
Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Salome Jens, Susan Rinell, Julie Payne, Read Morgan, Jane Greer, Beverly Sanders, Mark Blum, Timothy Gibbs, Diane Stilwell, Castulo Guerra
Holly Davis (Mary Tyler Moore) is a happily married housewife, with no apparent problems, who runs into a big one when she discovers that her new friend Sandy Dunlap (Christine Lahti) and she are in love with the same man: Holly's husband Chip (Ted Danson). Chip dies suddenly, and, in the midst of the tragedy, Holly discovers that Sandy is pregnant and has been trying to keep it a secret. Problems rise to the fore, but Chip's friend Harry Crandall (Sam Waterston) steps in to help.
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Loch Ness 1996 PG, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy
Director: John Henderson
Cast: Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm, Harris Yulin, Kirsty Graham, James Frain, Keith Allen, Nick Brimble, Wolf Kahler, Philip O'Brien, John Verea, Debora Weston
American crytozoologist Dr. Jonathan Dempsey (Ted Danson) travels to Scotland with new technology in hand to uncover mysteries concerning the Loch Ness Monster. Dempsey does learn something, but that new-found knowledge makes an impact on how to deal with what he has learned.
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Mad Money 2008  PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Callie Khouri
Cast: Diane Keaton, Ted Danson, Katie Holmes, Adam Rothenberg, Queen Latifah, Stephen Root, Sterling Blackman, Peyton "Alex" Smith, Charlie Caldwell, Richard F Law, Meagen Fay, Christopher McDonald, Roger R. Cross
After her husband Don (Ted Danson) is laid off from his job, stay-at-home mom Bridget (Diane Keaton) looks for employment. Her degree in English doesn't count for much after years of not working, and Bridget ends up with a job as janitor at the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank where worn-out paper currency is sent to be destroyed. Bridget notices that there is a way of stealing the cash just before it is shredded and enlists help from paper shredder, single mom Nina (Queen Latifah) and from flaky, cart pusher Jackie (Katie Holmes). Now, time after time, the trio succeeds in stealing the worn-out cash, but will greed prove to be their downfall?
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Made in America 1993 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Nia Long, Will Smith, Paul Rodriguez, Jennifer Tilly, Peggy Rea, Clyde Kusatsu, Lu Leonard, Mel Stewart
This is the story of Zora (Nia Long) who is the result of an artificial insemination of her mother (Whoopi Goldberg). Later, finding out that her father is a car salesman (Ted Danson), Zora realizes that her Black mother was impregnated by the sperm of a White man (and a flashy TV salesman at that!). Nevertheless, Zora wants a relationship with him.
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Nobel Son 2007 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Cast: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Eliza Dushku, Bill Pullman, Ted Danson, Danny DeVito, Ernie Hudson, Lindy Booth, Tracey Walter, Hal B. Klein, Kevin West, Matthew Kimbrough, Mark Famiglietti
Nobel prize-winner Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman) and his wife Sarah (Mary Steenburgen) are in Stockholm for his prize ceremony when they learn that their son Barkley (Bryan Greenberg) has been kidnapped–just before he was to receive his PhD. The kidnapper, Thaddeus James (Shawn Hatosy), demands $2 million, and Detective Max Mariner (Bill Pullman) along with neighbor George Gastner (Danny DeVito) come to their aid, but many twists and turns lie ahead.
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The Onion Field 1979 R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harold Becker
Cast: John Savage, Ted Danson, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ronny Cox, Dianne Hull, David Huffman, Christopher Lloyd, Priscilla Pointer, Richard Venture, Ned Wilson
Based on Joseph Wambaugh's book about cop killers using the California legal system to their advantage, this psychological drama is riveting.
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Our Fathers 2005 R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dan Curtis
Cast: Christopher Plummer, Ted Danson, Brian Dennehy, Daniel Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn, Kenneth Welsh, Steven Shaw, Will Lyman, Wayne Best, Colin Fox, Richard Kiley, Aidan Devine
Based on David Frank's investigation and subsequent book "Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal," this made-for-TV movie provides a dramatized account of the pedophile scandal that shook the Catholic Diocese of Boston.
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Pontiac Moon 1994 PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Medak
Cast: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Todd, Eric Schweig, Cathy Moriarty, Max Gail, Lisa Jane Persky, J.C. Quinn, John Schuck, Don Swayze, Gene Borkan, Ron Burke, Frank Carl Fisher Jr., Suzanne Ircha, Ramsey Ellis
Leaving his agoraphobic wife, Katherine (Mary Steenburgen), at home, absent-minded professor Washington Bellamy (Ted Danson) hatches a plan to support son Andy's (Eric Schweig) interest in space: on the eve of Neil Armstrong's landing on the Moon, they will embark on a road trip that will take the same time as space travel from Earth to the Moon. Thus begins their symbolic adventure from California to Idaho. Meanwhile, Katherine senses that her family needs her and ventures from the security of home to join Washington and Andy.
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 Saving Private Ryan 1998  R, 170 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Max Martini, Dylan Bruno, Joerg Stadler
Steven Spielberg directed this great film depicting war for what it really is. The story involves a World War II drama in which three brothers are killed in action, and the remaining brother is trapped (it is not known whether he is dead or alive) behind enemy lines. Eight comrades, led by Capt. John H. Miller (Tom Hanks), set off on the dangerous mission of finding that fourth brother, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), and sending him home and out of harm's way. Spielberg won his second Director Oscar, and nominations included Best Picture and Actor (Tom Hanks). In all, the film won five Oscars and was nominated for six others.
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Three Men and a Baby 1987 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: 3 Men and a Baby
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Cast: Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg, Nancy Travis, Margaret Colin, Celeste Holm, Philip Bosco, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Derek de Lint, Cynthia Harris
What do three bachelors do when an adorable baby girl is left on their doorstep? Why, they just love her, of course. This film has its good moments as three macho men show tenderness to their new charge.
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| 1. 3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)
2. Body Heat (1981)
3. Cousins (1989)
4. Creepshow (1982)
5. Dad (1989)
6. A Fine Mess (1986)
7. Getting Even with Dad (1994)
8. Gulliver's Travels (1996)
9. Homegrown (1998)
10. Jerry and Tom (1998)
11. Just Between Friends (1986)
12. Little Treasure (1985)
13. Loch Ness (1996)
14. Mad Money (2008)
15. Made in America (1993)
16. Nobel Son (2007)
17. The Onion Field (1979)
18. Our Fathers (2005)
19. Pontiac Moon (1994)
20. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
21. Three Men and a Baby (1987)
aka: 3 Men and a Baby
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