Movies Starring Lea Thompson
Splinterheads
Life is full of attractions.
Thomas Middleditch, Rachael Taylor, Christopher McDonald, Lea Thompson, Dean Winters, Frankie Faison, Edmund Lyndeck, Pamela Shaw, Jason Rogel, Brendan Burke, Jason Mantzoukas, Lennon Parham, Shiro Aoki, Michael Biscardi, Gary Buccola
DIRECTOR:Brant Sersen
In this independent comedy, Justin (Thomas Middleditch) is a twentysomething slacker who has a hard time getting out of bed before noon and works part-time mowing lawns with his buddy Wayne (Jason Rogel), who is only slightly more ambitious. Justin hears a lot from his family about making something of himself, but he doesn't pay much attention until he and Wayne check out a traveling carnival one evening. Justin meets Galaxy (Rachael Taylor), a beautiful and spunky girl who works at a dunk-tank concession, and he is so taken with her he doesn't mind when she takes his money in a fixed game. Justin unexpectedly crosses paths with Galaxy the next day, and before long he's spending most of his time with her and her fellow carnies. Has Justin finally found his destiny with Galaxy, or is he just another stop on the road for her? Also starring Lea Thompson, Christopher McDonald, and Frankie Faison, Splinterheads received its world premiere in 2009 at the South by Southwest Film Festival, where director Brant Sersen's first feature, Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, won the Audience Award in 2004.
Exit Speed
Desmond Harrington, Lea Thompson, Julie Mond, Alice Greczyn, Fred Ward, Gregory Jbara, David Rees Snell, Kelli Dawn Hancock, Nick Sowell, Everett Sifuentes, Wally White, Danielle Beacham, Asante Jones, Roy Samuelson, Jennifer Sipes
DIRECTOR:On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker. Forced off the road by other members of the gang, the passengers take refuge in the hell hole of an abandoned scrap yard. They use improvised weapons and sheer guts to mount a defense against the murderous bikers but, as their numbers dwindle, they realize that their survival depends on doing the unthinkable. They must go on the offensive.
Spy School aka Doubting Thomas
Forrest Landis, AnnaSophia Robb, Rider Strong, Lea Thompson, D. L. Hughley, Roger Bart, Brian Posehn, Ezra Buzzington, Timmy Deters, Andrew Hoeft, Shawn Prince, Melanie Abramoff, Mitch Rouse, Suzy Nakamura, Evan Adrian
DIRECTOR:Mark Blutman
Spy School is the story of a twelve 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.
Senior Skip Day
The day to make your mark...Don't skip it.
Larry Miller, Gary Lundy, Tara Reid, Lea Thompson, Norm MacDonald, Clint Howard, Kayla Ewell, Talan Torriero, Chuck Carter, Brett Claywell, Mike Dunay, Lindsey Axelsson, Jackson Rathbone, Taryn Southern, Derek Mio
DIRECTOR:Nick Weiss
The plan for these high-school seniors with a major case of senioritis: break into Principal Dickwalder's house and throw the party of the year. But Principal Dickwalder overhears Adam explaining the plan; ruining the celebration... or does it? Adam's only chance at redemption is to host the party himself. Gorgeous models stripteases a gigantic gravity bong a funeral and some crepes are the key elements to the best skip-day party ever. Their only problem? Prinicipal Dickwalder is on a mission to stop the festivities. This hilarious fun-filled adventure will make you want to plan a skip day of your own.
The Beverly Hillbillies
The day they moved in... Beverly Hills moved out.
Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Lea Thompson, Rob Schneider, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Penny Fuller, Kevin Connolly, Linda Carlson, Lyman Ward, Leann Hunley, Ernie Lively
DIRECTOR:Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.
Back to the Future Part III
They've saved the best trip for last... But this time they may have gone too far.
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, James Tolkan, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Dysart, Matt Clark, Dub Taylor, Harry Carey Jr., Pat Buttram, ZZ Top, Thomas F. Wilson, Christopher Wynne, Sean Gregory Sullivan, Mike Watson, Marc McClure
DIRECTOR:The movie continues where the last one with Marty stuck in 1955. But Doc Brown sent him a letter from 1855 through Western Union, that told him that after the Delorean was struck by lightning he was sent to 1855 and was unable to repair it, but has managed to bury it somewhere, where Marty can get to it in 1955 and hopefully the younger version of himself can repair it so he can drive it back to 1985 and then destroy it. But after finding it, Marty discovers that shortly after sending the letter Doc would be shot by an outlaw, Mad Dog Tannen. Marty then goes back to 1885 to save him and meets his ancestors. After finding the Doc, they were about to leave when Marty told the Doc that upon arriving the Delorean's gas tank was punctured, so they don't have any gasoline to run the car, which means they have to find some way to get the car to 88 mph. They decide to try pushing it with a locomotive. And things are fine except for the fact that Tannen, who had it in for Doc, now has it for Marty and has challenged him to gunfight on the day that they are going to leave, and Doc is smitten with Clara Clayton, the new school teacher.
Back to the Future Part II
Getting back was only the beginning.
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Marc McClure, James Tolkan, Casey Siemaszko, George Di Cenzo, Joe Flaherty, Elisabeth Shue, Charles Fleischer, Thomas F. Wilson, Jeffrey Weissman, Billy Zane, J.J. Cohen, E. Casanova Evans, Jay Koch, Charles Gherardi, Ricky Dean Logan
DIRECTOR:This movie picks up where the last one left off; with Doc Brown and Marty going into the future to help Marty's future offspring. After doing that they returned to their own time, only to discover that things have changed. They discovered that while in the future, Marty's nemesis, Biff Tannen got the sports book that Marty bought so that he could know the results of sports events and make a killing, but Doc Brown nixed his plans, but Tannen who overheard their conversation, got the book and the time machine and went back into the past and gave the book to himself, who has not only amassed a fortune but also extremely powerful. So Doc and Marty have to go back to when Biff got the book and get it away from him. And it seems that it was in 1955 on the night of the dance that Biff got the book. So not only must they get the book but they must also avoid the other versions of themselves.
Some Kind of Wonderful
Before they could stand together, they had to stand alone.
Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer, John Ashton, Elias Koteas, Molly Hagan, Maddie Corman, Jane Elliot, Candace Cameron Bure, Chynna Phillips, Scott Coffey, Carmine Caridi, Lee Garlington, Laura Leigh Hughes
DIRECTOR: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.
Howard the Duck
Trapped in a world he never made.
Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Jordan Prentice, Paul Guilfoyle, Liz Sagal, Dominique Davalos, Holly Robinson Peete
DIRECTOR:Willard Huyck
The story begins of a sarcastic humanoid duck the size of a man by the name of Howard from outer space is pulled from his home world to Earth through a laser beam and somehow winds up in Cleavland where he meets and quickly befriends with Beverly Switzler, a lead singer where they must stop an alien invader known as the Dark Overlords at all costs.
Back to the Future
17 year old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early.
Crispin Glover, Billy Zane, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Wendie Jo Sperber, Marc McClure, Claudia Wells, James Tolkan, Casey Siemaszko, George Di Cenzo, Thomas F. Wilson, Frances Lee McCain, J.J. Cohen, Harry Waters Jr.
DIRECTOR:Marty McFly is an aspiring musician, but he is not sure of what the future holds for him; first his band was rejected as the performing band for the school dance, and historically, no McFly has succeeded in anything. The only bright spots in his existence are his girlfriend and Emmett Brown, the town crackpot scientist, who is Marty's good friend. Marty was helping brown with his latest invention a time machine, which is fitted into a Delorean. The time machine needs a tremendous amount of power to work, which he gets from plutonium. Now Brown got the plutonium from some Libyans who want him to build a bomb; they find Brown and shoot him, Marty gets into the Delorean and drives off and when he reaches the speed of 88 mph that activates the time machine, he finds himself in 1955, cause that was the date that Brown entered, which was when he first conceived the time machine. Now having already used up all the power of the plutonium, Marty must find a way to get it working, so he can go back to his own time. Marty looks for Brown but before he does, he runs into his father as a teenager, and accidentally interferes with his father's first meeting of Lorraine, his future mother. Marty then goes to see Brown and convinces him that he is from the future and to help him. But when he learns of the amount of power that is needed to power the machine, he tells Marty that it's hopeless cause the only other thing that can generate that much power is a bolt of lightning and it's impossible to determine when and where they will strike, but Marty has with him an old newspaper cliping that states that the town clock tower will be struck by lightning, so they plan to draw the energy from the lightning so they can power the machine. But before they do, Marty must act as cupid for his parents cause it seems that because they never met they won't fall in love and get married and Marty will not exist.
Red Dawn
A full scale military invasion by foreign troops begins. Total surprise. Almost total success . . . .
Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Jennifer Grey, Brad Savage, Doug Toby, Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton, Ron O'Neal, William Smith, Vladek Sheybal, Powers Boothe, Frank McRae
DIRECTOR:A group of high school students become guerrilla fighters when their town is invaded by Central American and eventually Soviet soldiers at the beginning of WWIII in this apocalyptic fantasy. The pressures of their desperate existence begin to wear away at the "Wolverine's" unity as the Soviet bloc forces hunt them down.
