List of the best Stockard Channing movies: The Business of Strangers(2001), The Room Upstairs(1987), Sweet Revenge(1976), The Truth About Jane(2000), Sparkle(2007), The Matthew Shepard Story(2002), 3 Needles(2005), Staying Together(1989), The Big Bus(1976), Meet the Applegates(1990), Safari 3000(1981), Echoes in the Darkness(1987) ... ...
Drama
USA
2001
84 Minutes
Julie Styron
Stockard Channing Julia Stiles Frederick Weller Mary Testa Jack Hallet Marcus Giamatti Buddy Fitzpatrick Salem Ludwig Shelagh Ratner
employee assistant businessman dark suspenseful bar airport hotel rivalry deception business travel ambition pursuit transformation 2000s
Two businesswomen bond and reveal their inner natures while getting carried away on a revenge attack against an accused rapist.
Comedy, Drama
1987
97 Minutes
Leah Lazenby
Stockard Channing Sam Waterston Linda Hunt Joan Allen Clancy Brown Sarah Jessica Parker James Handy Jerry O'Connell Devoreaux White Renee Estevez Denice Kumagai
teacher tenant friend student amusing emotional endearing positive boston school boarding house tenants loneliness romance friendship discovery love transformation 1980s
A lonely clinic worker (Stockard Channing) runs a boardinghouse at night and meets a cellist (Sam Waterston) there who changes her life.
Comedy, Drama
1976
89 Minutes
Vurrla Kowsky
Stockard Channing Sam Waterston Richard Doughty
A teenage car thief's obsessive quest to own an expensive sports car keeps her lawyer and the police working overtime.
Drama
2000
96 Minutes
Janice
teen girl mother father brother friend newcomer melodramatic touching tender high school gay bar homosexuality homophobia acceptance family friendship sexual awakening discovery forbidden love growing up
A woman (Stockard Channing) finds it difficult to accept the fact that her teen daughter (Ellen Muth) is a lesbian.
Comedy
2007
100 Minutes
Sheila
Stockard Channing Neil Hunter Shaun Evans Anthony Head Bob Hoskins Lesley Manville Amanda Ryan John Shrapnel Peter Gordon
waiter lover pr person landlord boss brother airy emotional endearing lighthearted london city england career love secrets ambition love 21st century
Drama
2002
96 Minutes
Stockard Channing Sam Waterston Shane Meier Kristen Thompson Joseph Ziegler B.J. McLellan David Broadhurst Yani Gellman Damien Atkins Drew Nelson Philip Eddolls
gay man mother father killer attorney friend powerful solemn emotional wyoming court college matthew shepard hate crime homophobia murder grief family transformation love
Parents (Stockard Channing, Sam Waterston) deal with the murder of their homosexual son (Shane Meier) who was beaten and left for dead by two assailants.
Drama
Canada|USA
2005
125 Minutes
Olive Cowie
Shawn Ashmore Stockard Channing Tanabadee Chokpikultong Olympia Dukakis Lucy Liu Sandra Oh Ian Roberts Chloë Sevigny
porn star father mother pregnant woman nun farmer intricate emotional moving rural community china montreal apartment south africa plantation aids epidemic terminal illness pornography scam
A three-paneled look at the worldwide A.I.D.S. crisis. Three tragic stories taking place in South Africa, China, and Montréal.
Drama
USA
1989
91 Minutes
Sean Astin Stockard Channing Melinda Dillon Jim Haynie Levon Helm Dinah Manoff Dermot Mulroney Tim Quill Keith Szarabajka Daphne Zuniga
father mother brother son older brother younger brother emotional heartwarming amusing small town restaurant family business life lessons coming of age father/son relationship mother/son relationship brotherhood growing up 1980s
The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.
Comedy
USA
1976
88 Minutes
Kitty Baxter
Joseph Bologna Stockard Channing John Beck Rene Auberjonois Ned Beatty Bob Dishy Jose Ferrer Ruth Gordon Harold Gould Larry Hagman Sally Kellerman
bus driver driver scientist nuclear physicist passenger saboteur engaging amusing hilarious witty quirky lighthearted bus new york denver new york city comedy bus trip nuclear threat sabotage
A nuclear powered bus driving cross-country, from New York City to Colorado, is destined for disaster due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby.
Comedy
USA
1990
90 Minutes
Ed Begley Jr. Stockard Channing Camille Cooper Dabney Coleman Bobby Jacoby Glenn Shadix Susan Barnes
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Action
1981
90 Minutes
David Carradine Stockard Channing Christopher Lee Hamilton Camp Ian Yule Hugh Rouse Mary Ann Berold
stuntman reporter driver competitor count madcap tense africa car desert cars race sabotage car crash journalism money adventure pursuit 1980s
An ex-Hollywood stunt driver (David Carradine) enters an African rally with a woman (Stockard Channing) from a magazine as his navigator.
Drama
1987
250 Minutes
teacher principal coworker child detective mother gripping disturbing intricate pennsylvania suburbia high school family home murder investigation insurance fraud unlikely criminal dark secrets small-town life wretched excess quest
Key to a 1979 Philadelphia murder puzzle are a sly teacher (Peter Coyote) and a strange principal (Robert Loggia).
Musical, Romance
USA
1978
110 Minutes
Rizzo
John Travolta Olivia Newton-John Stockard Channing Jeff Conaway Didi Conn Eve Arden Sid Caesar Joan Blondell Edd Byrnes Alice Ghostley Dody Goodman
greaser foreign exchange student friend teenager amusing playful high school california beach household carnival love friendship competition teen angst song and dance performance love transformation growing up
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
Comedy, Drama
USA
2000
120 Minutes
Thelma 'Sister' Husband
Natalie Portman Ashley Judd Stockard Channing Joan Cusack James Frain Dylan Bruno Keith David Sally Field Richard Jones Mackenzie Fitzgerald Mary Ashleigh Green
pregnant teen single mother nurse ex-boyfriend nun daughter heartwarming melodramatic tender amusing sequoyah, okla. parking lot hospital department store trailer park female bonding abandonment new life small-town life motherhood
A pregnant seventeen-year-old rebuilds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.
Drama
USA
2003
105 Minutes
Julia
Kiefer Sutherland Kyra Sedgwick Stockard Channing Chuck Shamata Hannah Lochner Corey Staden Jason Carter Laura Press Ian Ryan William Colgate Joseph Rutten
photographer brother agent father doctor detective dark emotional sad new york city office boston household party photography siblings reunion childhood aids homosexuality
A dying man must reunite with his sister to face their family's violent past and find peace in their lives.
Romance
USA
1996
124 Minutes
Marcia McGrath
Robert Redford Michelle Pfeiffer Stockard Channing Joe Mantegna Kate Nelligan Glenn Plummer James Rebhorn Scott Bryce Raymond Cruz Dedee Pfeiffer Miguel Sandoval
television reporter television producer agent ex-wife cameraman rival emotional witty confident tender reno, nev. miami philadelphia television studio prison office ambition fame television journalism
An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in television journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love.
Romance
Mexico
2013
112 Minutes
Virginia
Tom Arnold Jaime Camil Stockard Channing Omar Chaparro Laura Ramsey Roberto Sosa Aurora Papile Renata Ybarra
After a night of drinking, Rachel (Laura Ramsey), a diplomat working in Mexico City finds her world turned upside down after she's saved by Alejandro (Jaime Camil), a Mariachi singer whose visa was rejected the day before - by Rachel.
Comedy
USA
1975
88 Minutes
Freddie
Jack Nicholson Warren Beatty Stockard Channing Florence Stanley Richard B. Shull Tom Newman John Fiedler Scatman Crothers Dub Taylor Ian Wolfe Rose Michtom
heiress husband wife friend con artist cheeky madcap winsome train los angeles beach airplane marriage wealth travel adultery inheritance schemes love rivalry
Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1983
120 Minutes
Jocelyn Norris
Kate Nelligan Judd Hirsch David Dukes Stockard Channing Jacqueline Brookes Keith McDermott Kathleen Widdoes Danny Corkill Cheryl Giannini David Simon William Duell
mother son detective ex-husband melodramatic shocking bleak thrilling family home school street police station columbia university brooklyn, n.y. kidnapping sexual abuse investigation missing persons obsession divorce
This movie, centering on a child's abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who ... See full summary »
Drama
USA|Yugoslavia
1988
118 Minutes
Margaret
William Hurt Timothy Hutton Melissa Leo Stockard Channing Megan Follows Francisco Rabal
A modernized version of the story which inspired Verdi's opera, "La Forza del Destino".
Comedy
USA
1978
92 Minutes
Bess
Peter Falk Ann-Margret Eileen Brennan Sid Caesar Stockard Channing James Coco Dom DeLuise Louise Fletcher John Houseman Madeline Kahn Fernando Lamas
detective resistance fighter old flame sexy woman police detective amusing lighthearted san francisco office false accusations investigation infidelity jewelry theft race against time pursuit underdog mystery 1940s
San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1998
94 Minutes
Lieutenant Verna Hollander
Paul Newman Susan Sarandon Gene Hackman Reese Witherspoon Stockard Channing James Garner Giancarlo Esposito Liev Schreiber Margo Martindale John Spencer M. Emmet Walsh
private detective movie star friend daughter police officer chauffeur uneasy brooding cool intricate mexico los angeles california mansion malibu, calif. apartment aging friendship infidelity murder
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Drama
USA
1986
108 Minutes
Julie Siegel
Meryl Streep Jack Nicholson Maureen Stapleton Jeff Daniels Stockard Channing Richard Masur Catherine O'Hara Steven Hill Milos Forman Mamie Gummer Karen Akers
food critic columnist daughter journalist cheeky emotional sad new york city washington, d.c. marriage pregnancy infidelity home repairs sex commitment fall love transformation sacrifice 1980s
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.
Romance
USA
2005
98 Minutes
Dolly
Diane Lane John Cusack Elizabeth Perkins Dermot Mulroney Stockard Channing Christopher Plummer Julie Gonzalo Brad Henke Ali Hillis Glenn Howerton Ben Shenkman
divorcée teacher sister craftsman love interest romantic rival lighthearted amusing endearing apartment park supermarket boat united states internet love triangle love blind dating relationships love
A thirty-something preschool teacher looks to the personals for a change of pace and a relationship, with hilarious results.
Drama, Romance
2010
88 Minutes
Vivian
Alyssa Milano Eric Winter Kristin Booth Emily Alyn Lind Ivan Sergei Stockard Channing Gage Munroe Kofi Payton Lindsay Ames
family guardian angel emotional new york city united states loyalty childhood friends marriage forbidden love 2000s
Straight-laced Jane's imaginary childhood friend, Michael, returns and helps her rediscover joy, innocence and creativity.
Comedy
USA
1996
102 Minutes
Cynthia Swann Griffin
Goldie Hawn Bette Midler Diane Keaton Maggie Smith Sarah Jessica Parker Dan Hedaya Stockard Channing Victor Garber Stephen Collins Elizabeth Berkley Marcia Gay Harden
friend ex-husband interior decorator socialite daughter mafioso amusing emotional quirky hysterical new york city funeral apartment bar store city apartment reunion suicide divorce friendship
Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.
Drama
USA
2010
97 Minutes
Pamela
Timothy Hutton Mira Sorvino Dana Delany Mario Van Peebles India Ennenga Laila Robins Stockard Channing Nadia Dassouki
NYC, 1979: Gabriel and Annie's marriage is falling apart with only their daughter holding it together. Gabriel quits his architect job to become a playwright, writing about his life. Annie and Liz leave.
Drama, History
2003
190 Minutes
Peter Stormare Friedrich von Thun Peter O'Toole Zoe Telford Terence Harvey Justin Salinger Liev Schreiber Matthew Modine Julianna Margulies Jena Malone Stockard Channing
adolf hitler dictator nazi german shocking austria nazi germany city home germany painting life story war crime historical events evil nazism awakening discovery
The Nazi leader gains power after World War I when his hatred of Jews becomes central to his political mission.
Drama
Germany|Japan|USA
1995
112 Minutes
William Hurt Wayne Wang Harvey Keitel Harold Perrineau Forest Whitaker Victor Argo Erica Gimpel Clarice Taylor Malik Yoba Mary B. Ward Jared Harris
writer shop owner teen boy father mechanic ex-girlfriend creative amusing profound brooklyn, n.y. smoke shop upstate new york apartment reunion coincidence bereavement unlikely friendship family quest love
A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.