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Center Stage

Center Stage (2000) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Hytner
featuring Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldana, Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy, Debra Monk, Ethan Stiefel, Julie Kent, Eion Bailey

In this emotional drama, a team of young dancers are competing for places in a prestigious dance troupe. The dancers have to deal with the ups and downs of trying to find their place in the world, even as their profession also places an enormous physical and psychological challenge before them. They train with the rigor of championship athletes, ...

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While You Were Sleeping

While You Were Sleeping (1995) more movies like this

directed by Jon Turteltaub
featuring Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden

This latter-day romantic screwball comedy stars Sandra Bullock as a love-starved subway toll booth operator, Lucy. Lucy pines for regular customer Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), but the self-absorbed attorney pays her no heed. One day, Peter is beaten by a gang of thugs and tossed onto the tracks. Lucy rescues him from death. While he is ...

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Summer Lovers

Summer Lovers (1982) more movies like this

directed by Randal Kleiser
featuring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valerie Quennessen, Barbara Rush, Carole Cook

Set upon a romantic Greek island, this drama chronicles the experiences of a pair of young American adults who go there for summer vacation. Their idyll is interrupted by a sexy archaeologist who has come there to work on a dig. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Mr. Deeds

Mr. Deeds (2002) more movies like this

directed by Jared Harris, Steven Brill
featuring Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Allen Covert, John Turturro

One of Frank Capra's best-loved stories gets a modernized and wildly slapstick reinterpretation in this romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler. When Preston Blake (Harve Presnell), a remarkably wealthy media magnate, dies with neither a wife nor children, the question on the lips of most of his associates is who will inherit the estate. The ...

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The Man Who Knew Too Little

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) more movies like this

directed by Jon Amiel
featuring Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson

Jon Amiel directed this satire on mistaken-identity thrillers and the spy genre, scripted by Robert Farrar, Tim John, and Oliver Butcher from Farrar's unpublished novel, Watch That Man. In the female lead, Joanne Whalley returned to films after a three-year absence, choosing to do so with director Amiel. Farrar's Hitchcockian-style story focuses ...

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Titanic

Titanic (1996) more movies like this

directed by Robert H. Lieberman
featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint, George C. Scott, Marilu Henner, Peter Gallagher, Tim Curry

In 1912, the H.M.S. Titanic was the largest ocean liner built to date, and its designers had incorporated several features they believed would make the ship virtually unsinkable. However, the Titanic never returned from its maiden voyage; after striking an iceberg, the ship slowly sank to the bottom on the ocean, with most of its passengers ...

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House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill (1999) more movies like this

directed by William Malone
featuring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan

In this remake of William Castle's campy 1958 classic, an eccentric millionaire named Steven Price invites a diverse group of people to a reputedly haunted mansion that was formerly the site of an insane asylum. Steven offers his guests $1,000,000 each if they can spend the entire night at the old house without fleeing in terror. It sounds simple ...

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Watch It

Watch It (1993) more movies like this

directed by Thomas Flynn
featuring Peter Gallagher, Suzy Amis, John C. McGinley, Jon Tenney, Cynthia Stevenson

In Watch It, Peter Gallagher plays a drifter who comes back to Chicago and moves in with his cousin (Jon Tenney) in an attempt to make amends. Soon, the cousins have patched things up, and the duo become involved in a series of complicated practical jokes with Tenney's housemates. Things turn sour when Gallagher falls in love with his cousin's ...

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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) more movies like this

directed by Alan Rudolph
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. The story is related in flashback form, as Mrs. Parker, in Hollywood to cowrite the 1937 feature A Star ...

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The Idolmaker

The Idolmaker (1980) more movies like this

directed by Taylor Hackford
featuring Ray Sharkey, Paul Land, Olympia Dukakis, Peter Gallagher, Joe Pantoliano, Tovah Feldshuh

The story of Philadelphia-based rock 'n' roll starmaker Bob Marcucci is given a pointed a clef treatment in The Idolmaker. Ray Sharkey plays Vincent Vacarri, who takes a couple of raw young kids (Peter Gallagher and Paul Land) and molds them into teen idols. If Gallagher and Land seem at times to be clones of Fabian and Frankie Avalon, then you ...

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The Player (1992) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has committed the ...

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sex, lies, and videotape (1989) more movies like this

directed by Steven Soderbergh
featuring James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo, Ron Vawter

Steven Soderbergh kickstarted the independent film movement of the 1990s with this landmark drama about the tangled relationships among four people and a video camera. John (Peter Gallagher) is an unscrupulous, self-centered yuppie lawyer with a beautiful wife named Ann (Andie MacDowell). Ann feels secure and well provided-for in their ...

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The O.C.: Season 02 (2004) more movies like this

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The Feast of All Saints (2001) more movies like this

directed by Peter Medak
featuring Gloria Reuben, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals, Robert Ri'chard

Based on a story by Anne Rice, this made-for-cable miniseries explores the little-known phenomenon of the "Gens de Couleur Libres," or "Free People of Color," who lived in Louisiana at a time when slavery still held a stranglehold on much of the South. In 1822, it was not at all uncommon for attractive women of color to be retained as a "placage," ...

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The Murder of Mary Phagan (1987) more movies like this

directed by William Hale
featuring Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Peter Gallagher, Richard Jordan, Wendy J. Cooke

The made-for-TV The Murder of Mary Phagan is an account of the real-life events fictionalized in the 1937 theatrical feature They Won't Forget. In 1913, Atlanta-area teenager Mary Phagan (Wendy J. Cooke) is found murdered. Although the evidence points to another suspect (who years later confessed to the crime), the authorities choose to bring ...

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Short Cuts (1993) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Tim Robbins, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Anne Archer, Matthew Modine, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls into a coma. Meanwhile, Andy (Lyle Lovett), a baker ...

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Last Dance (1996) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Beresford
featuring Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Peter Gallagher, Jack Thompson

The relationship between an unproven lawyer and the female convict he attempts to save from execution is detailed in this death-row drama. Sharon Stone plays against type as Cindy Liggett, convicted of murder at the age of 19, who has spent over a decade in prison awaiting execution. Having resigned herself to her eventual death, she cares little ...

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Mother's Boys (1994) more movies like this

directed by Yves Simoneau
featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave, Luke Edwards

A psychotic estranged wife attempts to sabotage her husband's new romance by turning her children against his lover in this thriller. Jude (Jamie Lee Curtis) had abandoned her husband Robert (Peter Gallagher) and their three sons several years earlier. Unfortunately, now that Robert has filed for divorce after falling in love with Callie (Joanne ...

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Tune in Tomorrow (1990) more movies like this

directed by Jon Amiel
featuring Peter Falk, Keanu Reeves, Barbara Hershey, Bill McCutcheon, Hope Lange, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Gallagher

Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news writer for a local radio station, Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves), meets and falls in love with his aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), a divorced woman who is looking for a new husband. Meanwhile, new-in-town eccentric radio-soap ...

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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996) more movies like this

directed by Michael Pressman
featuring Peter Gallagher, Claire Danes, Kathy Baker, Wendy Crewson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bruce Altman, Laurie Fortier

In this story of obsessive and enduring love, David Lewis (Peter Gallagher) spends most of his time swimming, dancing, and frolicking on the beach with the spirit of his dead wife Gillian (Michelle Pfeiffer). After Gillian's drowning death, David made their summer cottage on Nantucket Island into a permanent home. He lives there with his teenage ...

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The Underneath (1995) more movies like this

directed by Steven Soderbergh
featuring Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner, Adam Trese, Joe Don Baker

A remake of the classic Robert Siodmak film noir Criss Cross, Steven Soderbergh's The Underneath follows much the same plot and narrative arc of the original, but expands the possibilities of its thriller structure to also explore the complexities and insecurities at the heart of modern relationships. Peter Gallagher stars as Michael, a compulsive ...

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The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina (2002) more movies like this

directed by Glenn Chaika
featuring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Elijah Wood, Peter Gallagher, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Guillaume, Jane Leeves

After being raised by a normal sized family, tiny Tom Thumb (voiced by Elijah Wood) sets out to find others of his diminutive stature. He happens upon Thumbelina (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a former circus performer, who is not only his size and age, but is also looking for others like her. But just as they meet Thumbelina is taken prisoner by the ...

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White Mile (1994) more movies like this

directed by Robert Butler
featuring Alan Alda, Peter Gallagher, Robert Loggia, Bruce Altman, Dakin Matthews

When a company-sponsored white-water rafting expedition turns into a nightmare, an advertising executive finds himself faced with a moral dilemma and an extremely guilty conscience. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Brotherhood of Murder (1999) more movies like this

directed by Martin Bell
featuring William Baldwin, Peter Gallagher, Kelly Lynch

This drama is based on the true story of Thomas Martinez (William Baldwin), a poor and uneducated Army veteran living in Philadelphia in 1983. Frustrated by his inability to find a job, especially as his wife (Kelly Lynch) is expecting their first child, Thomas thinks he's found a sympathetic ear when he meets Bob Matthews (Peter Gallagher), the ...

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Long Day's Journey into Night (1987) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Miller
featuring Jack Lemmon, Bethel Leslie, Kevin Spacey, Peter Gallagher, Jodie Lynne McClintock

Previously filmed by director Sidney Lumet in 1962, Eugene O'Neill's gloomy Pulitzer Prize-winning play Long Day's Journey Into Night is given a vibrant videotaped treatment by Jonathan Miller. Set on one hot August day and night in 1912, the story concerns the tragic Tyrone family (based, as any American literature student will tell, on O'Neill's ...

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