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Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedienne, singer-songwriter, activist, and media personality. She is one of a select few people in history to have won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe and Tony Awards.
Goldberg made her film debut in The...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland was a television movie first broadcast in 1999 on NBC and then shown on British television on Channel 4 . It is the 14th film based upon Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Tina...
Burglar
Burglar is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Hugh Wilson and distributed by Warner Bros. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg and Bobcat Goldthwait. Goldberg plays Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former burglar who resumes when a corrupt police...
Clara's Heart
Clara's Heart is a 1988 movie starring Kathleen Quinlan and Whoopi Goldberg, based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Joseph Olshan. The movie tells the story of a family in crisis. The mother, Leona (Quinlan), escapes to Jamaica to grieve...
Everyone's Hero
Everyone's Hero is a 2006 computer animated feature film. It is directed by Colin Brady, Christopher Reeve (who was working on this film at the time of his death), and Daniel St. Pierre, with music by John Debney. The majority of this film was...
Farce of the Penguins
Farce of the Penguins is a 2007 American direct-to-DVD parody film of the 2005 documentary March of the Penguins. The motion picture features Samuel L. Jackson as narrator, with the two main characters being voiced by Bob Saget, who also wrote and...
Ghost
Ghost is a 1990 film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker. It was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning for Best Original...
Ghosts of Mississippi
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The plot is based on the true story of the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist accused of...
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film about a teen's 18-month stay at a mental institution, and it stars Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. It was adapted from the original memoir of the same name, written by Susanna Kaysen. The film was directed by...
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
How Stella Got Her Groove Back is a 1998 romance film, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan. The film stars Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Whoopi Goldberg and Regina King. This film is an adaptation of Terry McMillan's bestselling novel by the same title....
Made in America
Made in America is a 1993 comedy film released on May 28, 1993 by Warner Bros. starring Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, and featuring Nia Long, Jennifer Tilly and Will Smith.
Zora Matthews (Long), whose mother, Sarah (Goldberg) conceived her with...
Monkeybone
Monkeybone is a 2001 film that combines live-action with stop-motion animation. It was based on Kaja Blackley's graphic novel Dark Town. The movie stars Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Haden Church, Rose McGowan, Dave Foley,...
Rat Race
Rat Race is a 2001 comedy film directed by Jerry Zucker, and stars an ensemble cast featuring Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Jon Lovitz, Lanei Chapman, Seth Green, Kathy Najimy, Vince Vieluf, John Cleese, Breckin Meyer, Kathy...
Sister Act
Sister Act is a 1992 American comedy film released by Touchstone Pictures. Directed by Emile Ardolino, it features musical arrangements by Marc Shaiman and stars Whoopi Goldberg as a Reno lounge singer who has been put under protective custody in a...
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is the 1993 comedy film starring Whoopi Goldberg, directed by Bill Duke, and released by Touchstone Pictures. It's the sequel to the smash hit 1992 film Sister Act.
Although not as successful as Sister Act, it still...
Soapdish
Soapdish is a 1991 comedy film which tells a backstage story of the cast and crew of a popular fictional television soap opera. It stars Sally Field as an aging soap star, joined by Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg,...
The Associate
The Associate is the title of a 1996 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Timothy Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Austin Pendleton and Lainie Kazan.
Investment banker Laurel Ayres is a smart and single woman trying to make it up the Wall...
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. The film tells the story of a young...
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The Lion King
The Lion King is a 1994 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Released to theaters on June 15, 1994 by Walt Disney Pictures, it is the 32nd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The story, which was...
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The Player
The Player is a 1992 satirical film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own 1988 novel of the same name. A follow-up book, Return of the Player, was later published in 2006. It is the story of Hollywood studio...
Corrina, Corrina
Corrina, Corrina is a 1994 feature film set in 1959 about a widower (Ray Liotta) who hires a housekeeper-nanny (Whoopi Goldberg) to care for his daughter (Tina Majorino). It was written and directed by Jessie Nelson. It was the last film ever made...
In the Gloaming
In the Gloaming is a 1997 HBO film directed by Christopher Reeve based on a story written by Alice Elliott Dark. Starring Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg and Robert Sean Leonard. The film borrows its title from the popular 1877 song "In...
Sarafina
Sarafina! is a South African musical by Mbongeni Ngema depicting students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to apartheid. It was also adapted into the 1992 movie starring Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani and...
Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away
Citizen : I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away (1982), directed by William Farley, marks the first screen appearance of Whoopi Goldberg. It is an avant-garde ensemble piece also starring West Coast performance artists Stoney Burke, Bob Carroll...
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns is a 1999 Hallmark Entertainment made-for-TV fantasy movie. It stars Randy Quaid, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin, Roger Daltrey and Whoopi Goldberg. The film contains two main stories that eventually intertwine: the...
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jumpin' Jack Flash is a 1986 comedy-thriller film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane, John Wood, Annie Potts, and Jonathan Pryce. The film was directed by Penny Marshall in her theatrical film directorial debut.
The film was one...
Eddie
Eddie is a 1996 sports film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Frank Langella. It was a moderate success grossing $31,387,164 in the US.
The film was directed by Steve Rash.
The New York Knicks are an also-ran in the NBA, filled with players who either...
The Pagemaster
The Pagemaster, an adventure/fantasy film starring Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd, produced by Turner Pictures and released by 20th Century Fox on November 23, 1994. The film was written for the screen by David Casci, based on a 6-page pitch...
The Long Walk Home
The Long Walk Home was a 1990 film released starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg.
The film is set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, during the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, and features Goldberg as Odessa Cotter, an African-American maid,...
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol (1997) is an animated film version of the book of the same name by Charles Dickens. It features eight new songs and an all-star voice line-up including Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner and Michael York.
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Fatal Beauty
Fatal Beauty is a 1987 action film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sam Elliott, directed by Tom Holland. The screenplay was written by Hilary Henkin and Dean Riesner. The original music score was composed by Harold Faltermeyer. The film was marketed...
Good Fences
Good Fences, starring Whoopi Goldberg , Danny Glover and Ryan Michelle Bathe, is a made-for-TV movie that debuted in 2003. It is about the stresses of prejudice on an upwardly mobile black family in 1970s Connecticut. Danny Glover plays the...
Bogus
Bogus is a 1996 fantasy film directed by Norman Jewison, written by Alvin Sargent, and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu and Haley Joel Osment. It features magic tricks with magician Whit Haydn as consultant. It did poorly at the box office...
The Magic Roundabout
The Magic Roundabout, (released in France as Pollux, le manège enchanté and a North American version as Doogal), is a film based on the television series of the same name. The film was released on February 11, 2005 in the United Kingdom and France,...
Boys on the Side
Boys on the Side is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross (his last film before his death six years later). It stars Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Mary-Louise Parker as three friends on a cross-country road trip. The screenplay was...
Star Trek Nemesis
Star Trek Nemesis is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Stuart Baird, written by John Logan (from a story developed by Logan, Brent Spiner, and producer Rick Berman), and with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith. It is the tenth feature film in...
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The Deep End of the Ocean
The Deep End of the Ocean is a 1999 film adaption of the book written by Jacquelyn Mitchard, which stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams with Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson and Ryan Merriman in his first feature film role. The plot tells a...
If I Had Known I Was a Genius
If I Had Known I Was a Genius is a film directed by Dominique Wirtschafter and written by Markus Redmond (who also stars in the film). The film premiered January 23, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Michael (Markus Redmond) is an African...
Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come is a 2001 comedy-drama film, written by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones, and directed by Doug McHenry. This film stars LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Anthony Anderson and Whoopi Goldberg.
Kingdom Come is a story of an...
Moonlight and Valentino
Moonlight and Valentino is a 1995 American dramedy film directed by David Anspaugh. The screenplay by Ellen Simon is based on her semi-autobiographical play of the same title staged at Duke University six years earlier.
Rebecca Lott is a...
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie is an NBC television film produced by Jim Henson Television in 2002, starring Jim Henson's Muppets.
The plot of the movie revolves around the old Muppet Theatre (the place where The Muppet Show was and still...
Theodore Rex
Theodore Rex, also known as T. Rex, is a 1996 buddy cop/science fiction/family film starring Whoopi Goldberg. Though originally intended for theatrical release, the film went direct-to-video, and consequently became the most expensive direct-to...
Call Me Claus
Call Me Claus is a 2001 TV movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. The movie involves Santa Claus (Nigel Hawthorne) who needs a replacement Santa after serving his 200 year reign. He decides on Lucy Collins (Whoopi Goldberg), an eccentric, grouchy shopping...
Blizzard
A young girl, who's best friend moves away near Christmas, is told a tale by her aunt of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
Racing Stripes
Racing Stripes is a 2005 adventure/comedy movie, directed by Frederik Du Chau the director of Quest for Camelot. It is similar in the style to the 1995 movie Babe, in that the protagonist is a talking animal who lives on a farm and succeeds at an...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie is a 1998 animated film based on the Christmas song of the same name by Robert May.
This was the first theatrical feature from GoodTimes Entertainment, long known as a home video company. It received a...
Pinocchio 3000
Pinocchio 3000 (or P3K, Pinocchio the Robot) is a French/French Canadian/Spanish computer-animated film by Christal Films. Like A.I., it is a futuristic science fiction interpretation of the classic tale Pinocchio where Pinocchio is a robot brought...
My Past is My Own
My Past is My Own is a made-for-television movie which aired as a CBS Schoolbreak Special on January 24, 1989. The film is centered around a sit-in in the early 1960s at a racially segregated lunch counter in the Southern United States. Whoopi...
Destination Anywhere: The Film
Destination Anywhere: The Film is a feature film short inspired by and featuring music from and inspired by the themes on Jon Bon Jovi's second solo record Destination Anywhere. The film stars Jon Bon Jovi and Demi Moore as a young couple struggling...
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 is an upcoming 2010 computer-animated 3-D film being produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the third installment in the Toy Story series and is scheduled for release on June 18, 2010, in the...
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Showboy
Showboy is a 2002 film and mockumentary that was produced by star Jason Buchtel, directed by stars Christian Taylor and Lindy Heymann, written by and starring the three. It has cameos by Whoopi Goldberg, Siegfried & Roy, Alan Ball and the cast of...
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (the onscreen title is simply Burn Hollywood Burn) was made in 1997 and released in 1998. It was regarded as one of the worst films of all time, and scooped five awards (including Worst Picture) at the 1998...
