"original's plot but criticized that there was no element of surprise. Rooney wrote that ""in comparison to other teen classics retooled for the stage, like ""Mean Girls"", """" or """", the show rarely steps out from the shadow of its screen source with anything new to offer."" Clueless (musical) Clueless is a 2018 jukebox musical based on the 1995 film of the same name written by Amy Heckerling. It is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel ""Emma"", updating the setting to modern-day Beverly Hills. The musical premiered Off Broadway in November 20th, 2018, with an official opening on December"
"The Babysitter (1995 film) The Babysitter is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Guy Ferland and starring Alicia Silverstone based on the eponymous short story by Robert Coover in his collection ""Pricksongs and Descants"" (1969). The film was released direct-to-video in October 1995. Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a beautiful teenager who is hired to babysit the children of Harry Tucker (J. T. Walsh) and his wife, Dolly Tucker (Lee Garlington), while they attend a party hosted by their friends, Bill Holsten (George Segal) and his wife, Bernice Holsten (Lois Chiles). Harry often fantasizes about Jennifer, while Dolly misinterprets Bill's"
"Babysitter"" received negative reviews; as of December 2018, it holds a 17% ""rotten"" rating on review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. The Babysitter (1995 film) The Babysitter is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Guy Ferland and starring Alicia Silverstone based on the eponymous short story by Robert Coover in his collection ""Pricksongs and Descants"" (1969). The film was released direct-to-video in October 1995. Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a beautiful teenager who is hired to babysit the children of Harry Tucker (J. T. Walsh) and his wife, Dolly Tucker (Lee Garlington), while they attend a party hosted by their friends,"
"Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 50% based on reviews from 16 critics. Vamps (film) Vamps is a 2012 American comedy horror film directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter. It was released on November 2, 2012. Stacy (Krysten Ritter) and Goody (Alicia Silverstone), are two socialite vampires living the good life in New York City. Goody was turned in 1841 by the vampire stem Ciccerus (Sigourney Weaver). She struggled with her life as a vampire until Stacy was turned by Ciccerus sometime during the early 1990s. Goody was able to teach"
"Emma (1996 theatrical film) Emma is a 1996 period film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam. The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in early-19th-century England. When her governess, Miss Taylor, gets married and goes to live with her new husband, Mr Weston, Emma proudly takes the credit for having brought the"
"Jane Austen's most endearing character, the disastrously self-assured matchmaker Emma Woodhouse. A fine cast, speedy pacing and playful direction make this a solid contender for the Austen sweepstakes."" Emma (1996 theatrical film) Emma is a 1996 period film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam. The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in"
"Vamps (film) Vamps is a 2012 American comedy horror film directed by Amy Heckerling, starring Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter. It was released on November 2, 2012. Stacy (Krysten Ritter) and Goody (Alicia Silverstone), are two socialite vampires living the good life in New York City. Goody was turned in 1841 by the vampire stem Ciccerus (Sigourney Weaver). She struggled with her life as a vampire until Stacy was turned by Ciccerus sometime during the early 1990s. Goody was able to teach Stacy how to use her new abilities, like sustaining themselves on rat blood, but keeps her actual age"
"also won Best Female Performance and Most Desirable Female at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards, plus awards from Blockbuster Entertainment Award, Kids' Choice Awards, National Board of Review, and an American Comedy Award for her performance in the film. Silverstone had other three film releases in 1995—""Le Nouveau monde"", ""Hideaway"" and ""The Babysitter"". The French drama about Americans ""Le Nouveau monde"" saw her play the love interest of a French boy. In the film adaptation of the novel by Dean Koontz, ""Hideaway"", she took on the role of the daughter of a man who dies in a car accident and"
"in ""The Atlantic"" on the 20th anniversary of its release, arguing that the film served as ""a turning point"" for ""pro-feminist masculinity"" in Austen adaptations. Sense and Sensibility (film) Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 American period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They are forced to"
"is satisfactory."" The Surrogate (1995 film) The Surrogate is a 1995 television film drama directed by Jan Egleson and Raymond Hartung and aired on ABC. The film had a limited VHS release in the United Kingdom in April 1996. It has also been released on video in Asia. The film centers around the young and talented student Amy (Alyssa Milano), who replies on an innocent advertisement for a rental place. Here, she meets Stuart and Joan Quinn. After she rents the place, she creates a good relationship with the family. After a lot of hesitation, the family asks her to"
"Amanda and the Alien Amanda and the Alien (or Alien Love in the UK) is a 1995 made-for-cable science-fiction comedy movie directed by Jon Kroll and starring Nicole Eggert as Amanda Patterson. It premiered on Showtime on August 20, 1995. Amanda, an employee at an upscale clothing store, is leading a relatively lonely and unremarkable life. All this changes when an alien that's been held at a secret military installation escapes by taking over the body of one of the base employees. Amanda finds the fugitive alien and decides to help it hide from the government agents chasing it, a"
"The Surrogate (1995 film) The Surrogate is a 1995 television film drama directed by Jan Egleson and Raymond Hartung and aired on ABC. The film had a limited VHS release in the United Kingdom in April 1996. It has also been released on video in Asia. The film centers around the young and talented student Amy (Alyssa Milano), who replies on an innocent advertisement for a rental place. Here, she meets Stuart and Joan Quinn. After she rents the place, she creates a good relationship with the family. After a lot of hesitation, the family asks her to be the"
"of 52% based on 23 reviews, and an average rating of 6.2/10. Carrington (film) Carrington is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932), who was known simply as ""Carrington"". The screenplay is based on biographies of writer and critic Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) by Michael Holroyd. The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. The film is divided into 6 chapters. The"
"Emma (1996 TV film) Jane Austen's Emma is an adaptation of the 1815 novel of the same name. It was adapted for the British television network ITV in 1996, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and dramatised by Andrew Davies, the same year as Miramax's film adaptation of ""Emma"" starring Gwyneth Paltrow. This production of ""Emma"" stars Kate Beckinsale as the title character, and also features Samantha Morton as Harriet Smith and Mark Strong as Mr. Knightley. Davies had recently adapted another Austen novel as the successful 1995 television serial ""Pride and Prejudice"" for BBC when he proposed to adapt the novel"
"seemingly easy task, as the alien must change host bodies every few days. It is based upon the short story of the same name written by Robert Silverberg. The ""New York Daily News"" criticized Eggert's acting and wrote that the film ""wastes so much time deciding whether it wants to steal from 'Life-force,' 'Starman,' 'Species' or 'Earth Girls Are Easy' that it goes nowhere fast."" Amanda and the Alien Amanda and the Alien (or Alien Love in the UK) is a 1995 made-for-cable science-fiction comedy movie directed by Jon Kroll and starring Nicole Eggert as Amanda Patterson. It premiered on"
"Billington in ""The Guardian"", 25 January 1995): a house interior, promenade and snowbound seascape, which won Don the Design award in the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards in 1995. The Winter Guest The Winter Guest is a 1997 film directed by Alan Rickman in his debut as a director, which stars Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson. Set in Scotland on one wintry day, the film focuses on eight people; a mother and daughter, Elspeth (Phyllida Law) and Frances (Emma Thompson); two young boys skipping school, Sam (Douglas Murphy) and Tom (Sean Biggerstaff); two old women who frequently attend strangers' funerals, Chloe"
"Carrington (film) Carrington is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932), who was known simply as ""Carrington"". The screenplay is based on biographies of writer and critic Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) by Michael Holroyd. The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. The film is divided into 6 chapters. The score of the film was composed by Michael Nyman. It was primarily"
"his performance. Excess Baggage (1997 film) Excess Baggage is a 1997 American crime-comedy film written by Max D. Adams, Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais, and directed by Marco Brambilla about a neglected young woman who stages her own kidnapping to get her father's attention, only to be actually kidnapped by a car thief. The film stars Alicia Silverstone (who was also an uncredited producer), Benicio del Toro, and Christopher Walken. Emily Hope (Alicia Silverstone) stages her own kidnapping to get the attention of her father. She puts herself into the trunk of her own car (a BMW 850i), tapes"
"into the surreal. A wave of Austen adaptations began to appear around 1995, starting with Emma Thompson's adaptation of ""Sense and Sensibility"" for Columbia Pictures, a fusion production directed by Ang Lee. This star-studded film departed from the novel in many ways, but it became a commercial and critical success, and was nominated for numerous awards, including seven Oscars. The BBC produced two adaptations in 1995: ""Persuasion"" and Andrew Davies's six-episode television drama, ""Pride and Prejudice"". Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, Davies's production ignited ""Darcymania"" in Britain. Critics praised its smart departures from the novel as well as its"
"Sense and Sensibility (film) Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 American period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman play their respective suitors. The film was released on December 13, 1995, in the United"
"It was released directly to video instead of in theaters. True Crime (1996 film) True Crime is a 1996 film directed and written by Pat Verducci and starring Alicia Silverstone and Kevin Dillon. Mary Giordano (Alicia Silverstone) is a bright, intelligent student who attends a Catholic school in Burlingame, California. She is about to graduate in a few weeks. She is addicted to mystery novels and detective magazines, hence the title of the movie; this inspires her to do her own detective work, as she has aspirations of becoming a police officer herself. When she starts snooping around on the"
"Theatre, and continued her television career with appearances in ""Peak Practice"" and in an episode of ""Cracker"". At the time, she had a regular role in the first two series of Kay Mellor's successful ""Band of Gold"" (1995–96). Further television roles followed, including parts in period dramas such as ""Emma"" and ""Jane Eyre"". ""Emma"" was a film adaptation of the novel of the same name published in 1815 about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The movie received largely positive reviews from critics and was broadcast in late 1996 on ITV, garnering an estimated 12 million viewers. In"
"writes that he sent several letters to the Japanese CEO of the parent company of Universal/MCA, which had the rights to the film, requesting that his name be removed. ""Hideaway"" made $12,201,255 in the US box office, less than the estimated budget of $15 million. Hideaway (film) Hideaway is a 1995 American horror film directed by Brett Leonard. It is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Dean Koontz, and stars Jeff Goldblum, Alicia Silverstone, Christine Lahti, Jeremy Sisto, Alfred Molina and Rae Dawn Chong. In the film, Goldblum plays a man who dies in a car"
"that Americans cannot embrace in its entirety. From 1995 a large number of Austen adaptations began to appear, with Ang Lee's film of ""Sense and Sensibility"", for which screenwriter and star Emma Thompson won an Academy Award, and the BBC's immensely popular TV mini-series ""Pride and Prejudice"", starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. A 2005 British production of ""Pride and Prejudice"", directed by Joe Wright and starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, was followed in 2007 by ITV's ""Mansfield Park"", ""Northanger Abbey"" and ""Persuasion"", and in 2016 by ""Love & Friendship"", a film version of ""Lady Susan"" that borrowed the"
"which many clowns gather to celebrate the life of Joseph Grimaldi. The film was met with negative reviews, earning a 14% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews. Although it was Porizkova's best-known film appearance, her role as Nina in ""Her Alibi"" earned her a 1990 Golden Raspberry nomination for Worst Actress. Her Alibi Her Alibi is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Bruce Beresford, written by Charlie Peters and starring Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels and James Farentino. Phil Blackwood (Selleck) is an American mystery novelist who comes across a dazzling Romanian murder suspect"
"Elisa Donovan Elisa Donovan (born Lisa Adaline Donovan; February 3, 1971) is an American actress, writer, and producer. She is most recognized as the character Amber from the 1995 film ""Clueless"", in which she starred opposite Alicia Silverstone. She would reprise the role for the 1996-99 TV series of the same name, with Rachel Blanchard taking over Silverstone's role. She also starred in six films in the acclaimed ""The Dog Who Saved"" saga. Elisa was born Lisa Adaline Donovan in Poughkeepsie, New York, the daughter of Charlotte and Jack Donovan, who was a business executive. She later changed her first"
"True Crime (1996 film) True Crime is a 1996 film directed and written by Pat Verducci and starring Alicia Silverstone and Kevin Dillon. Mary Giordano (Alicia Silverstone) is a bright, intelligent student who attends a Catholic school in Burlingame, California. She is about to graduate in a few weeks. She is addicted to mystery novels and detective magazines, hence the title of the movie; this inspires her to do her own detective work, as she has aspirations of becoming a police officer herself. When she starts snooping around on the case of murdered teenage girls, it gets her into difficulty"
"modest US$40.1 million worldwide, it emerged as Silverstone's most widely-seen film since ""Beauty Shop"" (2005). In the psychological thriller ""The Killing of a Sacred Deer"", directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and co-starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, Silverstone took on the role of a widow and the mother of a mysterious boy who befriends his late father's cardiac surgeon. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film Festival and was an arthouse success. Casting director Francine Maisler choose Silverstone after seeing her star in a previous play; her two-scene appearance was filmed in one day, and she"
"Jumanji Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy adventure film directed by Joe Johnston. It is an adaptation of the 1981 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. The film was written by Van Allsburg, Greg Taylor, Jonathan Hensleigh, and Jim Strain and stars Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Jonathan Hyde, Bebe Neuwirth, and David Alan Grier. The story centers on 12-year-old Alan Parrish, who becomes trapped in a supernatural board game while playing with his best friend Sarah Whittle in 1969. Twenty-six years later, in 1995, siblings Judy and Peter Shepherd find the game,"
"Excess Baggage (1997 film) Excess Baggage is a 1997 American crime-comedy film written by Max D. Adams, Dick Clement, and Ian La Frenais, and directed by Marco Brambilla about a neglected young woman who stages her own kidnapping to get her father's attention, only to be actually kidnapped by a car thief. The film stars Alicia Silverstone (who was also an uncredited producer), Benicio del Toro, and Christopher Walken. Emily Hope (Alicia Silverstone) stages her own kidnapping to get the attention of her father. She puts herself into the trunk of her own car (a BMW 850i), tapes her legs"
"is treated quite differently in the two versions: ""Silent Worship"" is featured in the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel ""Emma"", where it is sung by Gwyneth Paltrow (as Emma) and Ewan McGregor (as Frank Churchill). Although Somervell's 1928 English adaptation of the 1728 Handel aria was done more than a century after Austen's 1815 novel, the original Italian aria was recorded in Jane Austen's own handwritten songbooks. In the film, Somervell's piano introduction to the song is shortened. <poem>Did you not hear My Lady Go down the garden singing? Blackbird and thrush were silent To hear the alleys"
"California and an audio recording of the original telecast. On December 8, 2016 — fifty years to the day after the original telecast — a re-assembled version of the play was shown on TCM. A second television adaptation was broadcast on ABC on December 16, 1973, starring Katharine Hepburn as Amanda, Sam Waterston as Tom, Michael Moriarty as Jim, and Joanna Miles as Laura. It was directed by Anthony Harvey. (Tom's initial soliloquy is cut from this version; it opens with him walking alone in an alley, sitting on a rampart to read the newspaper and having his sister's and"
"films of all time. Silverstone won a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress, but received a Blimp Award at the Kid's Choice Awards for the role. Also in 1997, the first movie by Silverstone's production company, ""Excess Baggage"", was released. In the crime-comedy, she played a neglected young woman who stages her own kidnapping to get her father's attention, only to be actually kidnapped by a car thief. The film only grossed US$14.5 million in North America, and received mediocre reviews from critics; Roger Ebert mentioned that she was ""no better than OK"" as he felt that she was miscast."