Lea Thompson film reviews

Lea Thompson
American actress
Born
31 May 1961
in RochesterMinnesotaUnited States
Born as Lea Katherine Thompson - American actress, television director and television producer. Best known for Back to the Future trilogy, NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Other films she is known for include All the Right Moves, The Beverly Hillbillies, Howard the Duck, Jaws 3-D, Red Dawn, and Some Kind of Wonderful. She studied ballet as a girl and practiced three to four hours every day. She was dancing professionally by the age of 14, but later she decided to give up dancing in favor of an acting career. She has been married to film director Howard Deutch since 1989. She has starred in more than 30 films, 25 television movies, 4 television series, more than 20 ballets, and starred on Broadway in "Cabaret". Lea is currently in pre-production on "The Year of Spectacular Men", a film written by her daughter Madelyn Deutch, and is writing her first book of essays.
1982 |
as Cecily "Sissy" Loper | |
![]() A little bit "Clue"-like movie / video game. Derrick Reardon was killed in his huge mansion on Long Island and every person present on the crime scene is a suspect. | ||
1983 |
as Kelly Ann Bukowski | |
![]() Another incarnation of original Jaws - this time huge shark is attacking tourists in amusement park in Florida. | ||
1983 |
as Lisa Litski | |
![]() Small town in Pennsylvania with only two ways for young Stef to start his adult life - work in steel-factory like his father or win scholarship in football. | ||
1984 |
as Erica | |
![]() Cuban and Russian forces land in small town in Colorado. While the national defence collapses the group of teenagers turn into partisans to fight the occupants and save their families. | ||
1984 |
as Anita | |
![]() Group of teenagers at the edge of adult life have to face the adult problems. | ||
1985 |
as Lorraine Baines | |
![]() Teenager Marty McFly travels back in time with a help of eccentric scientist Doc Brown to the moment, in which his parents first met. What he does in the past can change the present reality. | ||
1985 |
as Marigold de la Hunt | |
![]() Private investigator Henry Brilliant is hired by Miss de la Hunt to protect her step-daughter Marigold during her trip to Denmark. The daughter happens to be a seductive young woman, who doesn’t really want to be protected. | ||
1986 |
as Beverly Switzler | |
![]() Howard, a duck-like creature from another world, is dropped to Earth, where he has to save our planet from alien invaders. | ||
1986 |
as Kathryn Fairly | |
![]() Young people arrive to a summer camp with space travel as main theme. During their training unusual circumstances lead to their actual flight in space. | ||
1987 |
as Amanda Jones | |
![]() A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school. Unfortunately, the girl’s old boyfriend, who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith. | ||
1988 |
as Sybil | |
![]() Young boy have to move to his aunt’s house when his father is going on World War II. Lonely and unhappy he has to grow up and face the reality. | ||
1988 |
as Stacy | |
![]() Light comedy about men-women relationships - Stacy and her friend Melissa took a trip to health resort in order to find a partner for life. Their efforts are giving strange results, but in the end they gain more knowledge about themselves. | ||
1989 |
as Sally Matthews | |
![]() Based on a true facts story about first US Army experiments with nuclear bombs - in 1950s as part of scientific research large groups of American soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation after atomic bomb explosion. | ||
1989 |
as Lorraine Baines | |
![]() Second part of Back to the Future - same story, same concept, same characters. | ||
1989-1996 |
as Sylvia Vane | |
![]() Episode: Only Sin Deep. Lea Thompson as a high class prostitute is trying to find the way to keep her youth, but it turnes out to be a dead end... | ||
1990 |
as Lorraine Baines | |
![]() Another part of Back to the Future - this time Marty McFly is moving back in time to 19th century, where he meets his grand-grandparents. | ||
1990 |
as Peg Guthrie | |
![]() The family of ranchers in Montana are torn apart when big oil company offers a ton of money to buy out their land. The family members have completely different approach towards the past and the future of their ranch. | ||
1992-1998 |
as Lea Thompson | |
![]() Sitcom centered around host of a late night talk show. | ||
1992 |
as Dr. Robin Van Dorn | |
![]() This movie shows a reality of Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Kansas City where war veterans are treated by the heartless bureaucracy like unneeded corps. | ||
1993 |
as Laura Jackson | |
![]() Movie based on TV-series Beverly Hillbillies popular in the 1960s - the Clampett family gets very rich thanks to oil discovered on their land and they move to Beverly Hills. Comedy is based on the differences between previous and current lifestyle. | ||
1993 |
as Annie Beales | |
![]() Movie based on a true story. Set in Tennessee in 1940 where welfare worker discovers that head of a local adoption agency is actually selling babies in black-market deals. | ||
1993 |
as Alice Mitchell | |
![]() Movie created on Hank Ketcham’s long-running comic strip, cartoon show, and television comedy. Dennis Mitchell, the hell-of-a-kid is terrorizing all animals in the neighborhood and also older man living next door). | ||
1994-2003 |
as Caroline Duffy | |
![]() School time friends begin to live together in two flats in New York City, but their emotions from the past begin to affect their present love and career choices. | ||
1994 |
as Amy Hightower | |
![]() Wife and mother of four children is ill and expects to die soon. She decides to find a new wife for her husband, who will take her of the family in future. She doesn’t have too much choice and decides to teach a prostitute named Pearl how to be a wife and good mother. | ||
1994 |
as Ms. Roberts | |
![]() Children’s comedy based on characters from "Our Gang" shorts of the 1920s and 1930s. | ||
1995-1998 |
as Caroline Duffy | |
![]() Successful New York cartoonist Caroline Duffy, author of comic strip called Caroline in the City, hires an uptight artists Richard as the colorist. With her midwest approach she just can’t help trying to change his cynical mind. | ||
1995 |
as Brianne Hawkins | |
![]() Young woman involved in a shooting is sent to prison, but her family is convinced that she is innocent. | ||
1996 |
as Officer Christine Paley | |
![]() A young police officer starts the duty and on the first night she faces cases that only on the surface seem to be simple. | ||
1997 |
as host | |
![]() Lea Thompson was a host for TV Guide Christmas program. | ||
1998 |
as host | |
![]() Lea Thompson was one of the hosts (along with Walter Cronkite, Tom Selleck, Tom Arnold, Milton Berle and Art Linkletter) for program showing the first steps of television as a entertainment media. | ||
1998 |
as herself | |
![]() TV program dedicated to Lea Thompson - interviews with her, her family, friends and co-workers. | ||
1998 |
as host | |
![]() Lea Thompson was a host for this TV program presenting buzz around the celebrity weddings. | ||
1998 |
as Melissa Cavatelli | |
![]() In his last will man dying of AIDS asks his closest friends to take part in a 450-miles bike-a-thon along the California coast to raise money for the foundations that are looking for cure. His ex-wife, ex-lover and long strained twin brother have to face the loss and realize what is important in their lives. | ||
1998 |
as Amanda Steward | |
![]() Miniseries telling long story of women living all through the 20th century - immigration to USA, fight for women rights, World War I, times of Great Crisis, World War II... | ||
2000-2003 |
as Liz Stevens | |
![]() Ed Stevens, a lawyer in New York City firm, after finding his wife in bed with mailman decides to change his lie. He moves back to his hometown - Stuckeyville - and opens his own legal practice in bowling alley that he bought. | ||
2002 |
as Peg Van Legge | |
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2002-2002 |
as Camille Paris | |
![]() Camille Paris is a liberal-minded Los Angeles deputy district attorney. Her professional world is turned upside down when a conservative African-American district attorney is elected and becomes her new boss. | ||
2002 |
as Clara | |
![]() Nautilus is a rundown restaurant in the middle of the desert, miles from the nearest highway. Jimmy, who runs it together with his sister Clara, plans to sell it and finally see the world, but young couple that arrives one day will shake up the Nautilus. | ||
2003 |
as Sarah Gibson | |
![]() Jack Clayton can only escape after his partner in crime Harry Zordich messes up a Christmas sales department sore robbery in a Santa suit. Stuck in a rural small town, he finds himself forced to accept a menial job under the alias Oscar Burton as Santa in Sarah Gibson’s nursery. | ||
2004 |
as Michelle Osborne | |
![]() The series shows the work of Special Victims Unit, a new elite squad of NYPD detectives who investigate sexually oriented crimes. | ||
2005 |
as Cathy Davis | |
![]() Cathy Davis is a typical housewife taking care of house and family. But sometimes she also has to take care of the criminals. | ||
2005 |
as Carol Lamm | |
![]() Family movie about friendship between 12-year-old girl and her grandpa. | ||
2006 |
as Grace | |
![]() In one night, a madam at a brothel makes plans to get pregnant, while a magician working across the street makes a drastic move to change his life. | ||
2007 |
as Debbie Smith | |
![]() Case of Debbie Smith, a rape victim, that changed the use of DNA testing in investigations. | ||
2007 |
as Alicia Bender | |
![]() A group of terrorists hijack a passenger plane and threaten to detonate a nuclear device over L.A. On board there is an ex FBI negotiator that does his best to save the people. | ||
2007 |
as Ginger Gainor | |
![]() Ginger plans the family road trip from Omaha to California in an RV. Her family is reluctant and would prefer to spend the time other way, but Ginger doesn’t want to give up her dream. | ||
2007 |
as Cathleen Harris | |
![]() Teenage Adam Harris falls in love with Cara, the most popular girl in school. | ||
2008 |
as Maudie McMinn | |
![]() Group of passengers on a bus traveling across Texas are terrorized by the gang of bikers. | ||
2008 |
as Claire Miller | |
![]() The story of a 12-year-old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President’s daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own. | ||
2008 |
as Sophie | |
![]() Woman makes a wish her life were completely different and the wish becomes truth, but she learns some wishes should remain just wishes. | ||
2009 |
as Master Bartologist | |
![]() Private detective Rock Slyde begins new investigation, in which he will have to face the cult leader Bart that is for some reason determined to force Slyde of his office. | ||
2009 |
as Susan Frost | |
![]() A traveling carnival rolls in to town for the summer and changes the life of young man Justin Frost. | ||
2009 |
as Darla | |
![]() Two couples have dinner in a restaurant. Everything goes smoothly until the check arrives. | ||
2009 |
as Rebecca | |
![]() Attractive woman raped by a man she was dating seeks help of her friends to get even. | ||
2010 |
as Abby Wells | |
![]() A police detective takes his incompetent nephew as a partner. | ||
2010 |
as Laura | |
![]() Arthur Lyle miraculously discovers the secret to stopping an evil dragon named Lord Darksmoke who threatens to destroy all civilization. | ||
2011 |
as Jo Ann Prohaska | |
![]() A dishonest insurance salesman gets involved in the plot to earn some quick money, but ends up with a dead body. | ||
2011-2016 |
as Kathryn Kennish | |
![]() Switched at Birth tells the story of two teen girls who discover that they were accidentally switched at birth. | ||
2011 |
as Abbie | |
![]() When industrious high school gamer Zach Taylor lands a prized scholarship to the prestigious Digital Institute of Game Design (DIGD), his future breaks wide open. The opportunity to study under gaming legend Marcus Bentton and alongside the country’s most creative minds will certainly propel him into a successful career as a video game designer. | ||
2011 |
as Lela Rogers | |
![]() J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the FBI for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life. | ||
2011 |
as Emily | |
![]() Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she’s engaged. | ||
2011 |
as Lily MacDougal | |
![]() A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can’t stand each other... at first. | ||
2011 |
as Mary Maroni | |
![]() A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. Uneducated, she relies on her street smarts to clean up the town. | ||
2012 |
as Cassandra Williams | |
![]() Hidden objects game - you return to your hometown to hunt down the evil relic that destroyed this place almost forty years ago. | ||
2012 |
as Elissa Beth Dixon | |
![]() Family friends Sam and Kat spend every Christmas Eve at the Children’s Table. They grow up together, sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood. And at thirty, Sam realizes that Kat is the one for him... But he’s afraid that the past will get in the way. | ||
2013 |
as Crandall Miracle | |
![]() A family vacation during the summer of 1985 changes everything for a teenage boy obsessed with ping pong. | ||
2013 |
as Julia | |
![]() Movie centers around the reality of mental illness and families of those suffering from them. | ||
2014 |
as Irene Steele | |
![]() When people begin to disappear without a trace, even on board of an airplane, people try to find the answer to what is going on and they find it in God. | ||
2014 |
as Rene Henderson | |
![]() Fifteen-year-old Headly and her mother Rene are not only mother and daughter, they are also the best friends, especially since Headly’s father died. When she experienced her first romantic crush she wants her mother to find love again. | ||
2014 |
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2018 |
as Jules Osborn-Burgess | |
![]() Sierra is smart and aspirational teenager, she isn’t popular, and not considered attractive. Popular classmate Veronica gives her number to a handsome guy, which starts a surprising chain of events. | ||
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