Cast: Eileen Brennan

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Eileen Brennan. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Sting

1973 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Robert Redford · Paul Newman · Robert Shaw · Charles Durning

Synopsis The Sting (1973) follows two grifters, Johnny Hooker and Henry Gondorff, who team up to con a ruthless crime boss, Doyle Lonnegan, seeking revenge for the murder of a mutual friend. Set in 1930s Chicago, the duo devises an elaborate...

8.6

98K votes

8.6

98K votes

Murder by Death

1976 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Moore

Cast Alec Guinness · David Niven · Peter Sellers · Peter Falk

Synopsis Murder by Death (1976) is a comedic mystery that parodies classic detective stories. Five renowned sleuths and their sidekicks are invited to a secluded mansion by the eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain. He challenges them to solve a murder that will...

7.2

14K votes

7.2

14K votes

Scarecrow

1973 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

Cast Al Pacino · Gene Hackman · Dorothy Tristan · Ann Wedgeworth

Synopsis Max is an ex-con who's been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at sea. They form an unlikely pair...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

1999 · Documentary · 64 min. · United States

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Peter Bogdanovich · Cybill Shepherd · Jeff Bridges · Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis A solid look at the creation of the picture, featuring new interviews with Peter Bogdanovich, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Eileen Brennan, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn and location manager Frank Marshall. From the lengthy process Bogdanovich and author Larry McMurtry went...

6.7

58 votes

6.7

58 votes

Direction Ray Bradbury · Randy Bradshaw · Roger Tompkins · John Laing

Cast Ray Bradbury · Harold Gould · Charles Martin Smith · Michael Sarrazin

Synopsis TV series (1985-1992). 6 seasons. 65 episodes. A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

6.6

39 votes

6.6

39 votes

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Vic Morrow · Cliff De Young · Michael Constantine · Walter McGinn

Synopsis The true story of the night that Orson Welles broadcast his version of 'H.G. Welles' ' classic ''The War of the Worlds'' on the radio. Designed to be as realistic as possible, many people were fooled into thinking that an...

6.4

39 votes

6.4

39 votes

Clue

1985 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Lynn

Cast Eileen Brennan · Tim Curry · Madeline Kahn · Christopher Lloyd

Synopsis In Clue (1985), six strangers are invited to a mysterious mansion under cryptic aliases. A butler reveals their host, Mr. Boddy, has blackmailed them all. When Boddy turns up dead, the guests must uncover the killer among them. As the...

6.3

6K votes

6.3

6K votes

At Long Last Love

1975 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Burt Reynolds · Cybill Shepherd · Madeline Kahn · Duilio Del Prete

Synopsis A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O'Kelly meet and fall in love. Meanwhile, an indigent woman named Brooke Carter and an Italian gambler named Johnny Spanish meet and fall in love. All four people...

6.0

81 votes

6.0

81 votes

If These Walls Could Talk (TV)

1996 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Nancy Savoca · Cher

Cast Demi Moore · Shirley Knight · Catherine Keener · Sissy Spacek

Synopsis A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crisis over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion. In 1952, when abortion was illegal, a...

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5.9

658 votes

5.9

658 votes

Texasville

1990 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Jeff Bridges · Cybill Shepherd · Annie Potts · Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis Director Peter Bogdanovich revisits small-town Texas life in the long-awaited sequel to his 1971 masterpiece THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. It’s been over 30 years since Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges), Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms), and Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd) graduated from...

5.9

659 votes

5.9

659 votes

White Palace

1990 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Luis Mandoki

Cast Susan Sarandon · James Spader · Jason Alexander · Kathy Bates

Synopsis A waitress in a White Palace fast-food restaurant meets a young, recently widowed, Jewish advertising executive at a bar. They "tentatively" and "uncertainly" start an affair which turns torrid very rapidly and eventually leads to her leaving town and him...

5.9

809 votes

5.9

809 votes

Stella

1990 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction John Erman

Cast Bette Midler · John Goodman · Trini Alvarado · Stephen Collins

Synopsis Stella is determined, courageous, vulgar, unfashionable...and all her daughter has. Through the trials of teenagehood, to the problems of adulthood, Stella will do anything for Jenny...ending in an selfless, unforgettable sacrifice.

5.8

100 votes

5.8

100 votes

Hustle

1975 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Burt Reynolds · Catherine Deneuve · Ben Johnson · Paul Winfield

Synopsis Burt Reynolds stars as Phil Gaines, a L.A. cop who would rather be living in the 1930s when life was cleaner. Ironically, he is in love with a prostitute (Catherine Deneuve). They have dreams of going away and starting a...

5.7

317 votes

5.7

317 votes

Daisy Miller

1974 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Cybill Shepherd · Barry Brown · Cloris Leachman · Mildred Natwick

Synopsis In this version of Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller", a young, bright, and bubbly 19th Century American girl on her Grand Tour of Europe meets a fellow American, Frederick Winterbourne. Winterbourne is shocked by Daisy's modern behavior toward life, and...

5.6

167 votes

5.6

167 votes

Direction Peter Iliff

Cast Kate Vernon · John Stamos · Robert Picardo · Frank Stallone

Synopsis A young gigolo and husband of a female mobster begins an affair with a night club waitress and the two plots to overthrow the gangster.

5.6

25 votes

5.6

25 votes

The Cheap Detective

1978 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Moore

Cast Peter Falk · Ann-Margret · Eileen Brennan · Sid Caesar

Synopsis Lou Peckinpaugh, the Cheap detective has entered a world that is half Casablanca and half Maltese Falcon. A parody of Bogart's films in which Lou goes through a series of scenes from the two movies trying to keep ahead of...

5.5

169 votes

5.5

169 votes

The Fourth Wise Man (TV)

1985 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Michael Ray Rhodes

Cast Martin Sheen · Alan Arkin · Eileen Brennan · Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis The story of Artaban, the fourth Magi, who spends his life looking for Jesus his King.

5.4

26 votes

5.4

26 votes

The Death of Richie

1977 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Ben Gazzara · Eileen Brennan · Robby Benson · Lance Kerwin

Synopsis A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure on him from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.

5.3

29 votes

5.3

29 votes

Divorce American Style

1967 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Bud Yorkin

Cast Dick Van Dyke · Debbie Reynolds · Jason Robards · Jean Simmons

Synopsis After 17 years, married life has become predictable and stale for Richard and Barbara Harmon. After splitting up, they discover divorced life is even worse!

5.3

146 votes

5.3

146 votes

Jeepers Creepers

2001 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Victor Salva

Cast Gina Philips · Justin Long · Jonathan Breck · Patricia Belcher

Synopsis Jeepers Creepers (2001) follows siblings Trish and Darry as they drive home from college through a desolate countryside. During their journey, they encounter a mysterious truck that aggressively pursues them. After a tense chase, they stumble upon a disturbing scene...

4.8

15K votes

4.8

15K votes