Christine Lahti

Christine Lahti
Total Credits at Criticker: 45 (Actor), 2 (Director)
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Running on Empty
The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own. (imdb)
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison is an artist that makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck... (imdb)
Gross Anatomy
A smart first-year med student takes nothing seriously, except the pursuit of his Gross Anatomy (human dissection) lab partner. It's up to her and their teacher to find a way to convince him to take his studies and life seriously. (imdb)
...And Justice for All
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred. (imdb)
Leaving Normal
A female buddy picture whose initial run was handicapped by being released after "Thelma and Louise." The film chronicles Marianne and Darly's cross country adventure, the hardships and characters they encounter. Where "Thelma and Louise" was about keeping control until the very end, "Leaving Normal" is about knowing when to stop. (imdb)
Women vs. Men
Paul Reiser, Joe Mantegna, Glenne Headly and Christine Lahti duke it out in this sexy comedy from the producers of thirtysomething! The marriages of Dana and Michael, and Brita and Bruce suddenly experience a meltdown after Dana catches Michael and Bruce enjoying that ever-popular 'spectator sport' the lap dance at a seedy strip club... (amazon.com)
Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story
Fact-based story about a Bible-quoting woman (Christine Lahti) who in 1990 murdered a camp counselor (Robert Bockstael), whom she learned molested her 7 year old son (Andrew Ducote). Seeking revenge, she turns to murder when she learns the man had previously been convicted of the same crime in 1983 and got off with probation. (imdb)
Housekeeping
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up the most people's expectations. (imdb)
The Doctor
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions. (imdb)
Pie in the Sky
A whimsical saga of a young man whose two life-consuming passions are unraveling traffic gridlock and an avant garde dancer. A romantic comedy written and directed by Bryan Gordon, Pie in the Sky provides funny situations and a story that keeps us guessing until the final fade-out. (imdb)
Smart People
Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother. (imdb)
Hideaway
Hatch Harrison had a traffic accident with his car. At first the doctors said he was dead but then they succeeded to bring him back to life after two hours. But Hatch starts to have strange sensations in following time and discovers that he is now united with a mad killer who had entered his mind during his death. (imdb)
The Executioner\
The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.
Yonkers Joe
Family life gets in the way of a con man's search for the perfect scam. (imdb)
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death. So far that she gets on a tour with a washed-out glam-rock group and a rising British punk band, radically changes her appearance, attracts a cult following and national media attention. With luck like this, what could go wrong? (imdb)
Swing Shift
A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an airport plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war. (imdb)
Obsessed
A successful professional man with a beautiful wife finds his idyllic life threatened by a temp in his office who reveals herself as a stalker.
Funny About Love
A cartoonist (Wilder) and a gourmet chef (Lahti) fall in love and marry, but when they have trouble conceiving a child, it causes friction.
Dr. Scorpion
Spy thriller in which an ex-spy comes up against a power-man villain. (BFI)
Just Between Friends
Lahti plays a crass, cynical TV news reporter who makes friends with aerobics instructor Mary Tyler Moore and is soon having dinner with Moore and her family--only to discover Mary's husband (Ted Danson) is Lahti's secret affair. (imdb)
The Fear Inside
An agoraphobic children's book illustrator is trapped inside her home by two young psychos-in-love, who terrorize her. It is only when her young son is threatened that she manages to overcome her paralyzing fears and attempt to leave her home to save him... (imdb)
Out of the Ashes
Based on a true story, film follows the journey of Gisella Perl, a Jewish-Hungarian doctor who manages to survive Auschwitz. Decades later, she's applying for U.S. citizenship when she becomes accused of colluding with the Nazis. Her judge and jury are three INS investigators who must decide her fate. (imdb)
Touchback
A man looks back 15 years to the injury that ended his career as a promising high-school football player. (imdb)
The Henderson Monster
A famous scientist, while performing experiments involving DNA, accidentally creates a monster. (imdb)
Hateship Loveship
A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict. (imdb)
Petunia
The film relates simultaneously the lives and romantic/sexual relationships of the Petunias and their extended family
Trial by Media
A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a background check reveals she once neglected to return a jury-duty notice. Then she makes a mistake in comments about her home-maker mother that leaves her open to a media blitz and her sure-fire nomination suddenly appears shaky.
Operating Instructions
Returning from Iraq to work at an inner-city hospital, a surgeon finds her war experience hasn't prepared her for the bureaucratic health system. (Netflix)
Flying Lessons
With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember. (imdb)
Touched With Fire
Two manic depressives meet in a psychiatric hospital and begin a romance that brings out all of the beauty and horror of their condition.
Jack & Bobby
Two brothers, one of whom will grow up to be the President of the United States. The story is set in present day, but also told through retrospective interviews with White House staffers and the First Lady. (imdb)
The Steps
An uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister visit their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, and rough-around-the-edges kids. When the parents announce they're adopting a child to bring the family together, it has the opposite effect.
Chicago Hope
The lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago.
Becks
After a crushing breakup with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn musician moves back in with her Midwestern mother. As she navigates her hometown, playing for tip money in an old friend's bar, an unexpected relationship begins to take shape. Based on the life and times of Allyssa Robbins, my cousin. (imdb)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
A journalist's life is enriched by friendship when he takes on an assignment profiling Fred Rogers.
Evil
Evil (2019) - TV Series
A skeptical female clinical psychologist joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possession, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there's a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work. (imdb)
Evil - Season 1
Evil - Season 2
The Four Diamonds
Young Christopher fantasizes about being a squire of the Round Table but he gets cancer. He writes a fictional story with characters from the people around him: Squire Millard goes on a quest against an evil sorceress to gain the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty, and Strength: qualities that Chris himself attains as his health fails. (imdb)
Evil - Season 3
Chicago Hope - Season 2
  • Stand (1995) - Season 2
Lieberman in Love
Joe Lieberman is attracted to Shaleen. They begin a professional relationship, which continues even after Joe develops a romantic interest in a woman named Kate, who is married.
The Pilot\
Kathryn, a recently widowed woman, struggles to learn if her husband intentionally crashed the plane he was piloting. The black box recovered from the wreckage suggests he was a terrorist, but she suspects something worse is happening. (imdb)
Evil - Season 4
Crazy from the Heart
A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor. (imdb)