Movies starring Ally Sheedy

The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981)

100 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

The classroom is ripe for drama, there have been movies about teachers inspiring troubled kids, there are dramas about teachers having inappropriate relationships with students as well as students having crushes on teachers a...

WarGames (1983)

114 mins     Drama, Thriller      

WarGames: Matthew Broderick stars as David Lightman the computer geek who inadvertently almost starts WWIII when he unintentionally hacks into the government's new computer system thinking it is a system belonging to a games ...

Oxford Blues (1984)

97 mins     Comedy, Drama, Sport      

I watched "Oxford Blues" for the first time towards the end of the 80s and even then it felt like an old movie, which may not be such a surprise as it is an uncredited remake of "A Yank at Oxford" a movie from 1938. I say it ...

St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

110 mins     Drama, Romance      

If someone asked me to pick one movie which typified growing up in the 80's, I would have to pick "St Elmo's Fire" as one of the best movies from that decade. Although the storyline is pretty simple and is basically a coming ...

The Breakfast Club (1985)

94 mins     Comedy, Drama, Teen      

John Hughes wrote so many great movies in his time, directing a few as well such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Uncle Buck" but probably his most popular is "The Breakfast Club". The tale of 5 very different students who ...

Short Circuit (1986)

98 mins     Comedy, Sci-Fi      

Released back in 1986, Short Circuit is a family movie about an AWOL robot with the name of Johnny 5. Although it is classified as a sci-fi, the film is more focused on the comedy side of things, as Johnny 5 learns all about ...

Fear (1990)

90 mins     Mystery, Thriller      

I feared the worse and whilst my fears didn't come to fruition "Fear", the 1990 movie by that name, was by no means the great movie some had suggested it would be. In fact what could have been a really creepy movie ended up i...

Ultimate Betrayal (1994)

96 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Ultimate Betrayal (1994) true story movie about adult sisters who take their father to court over the child abuse they suffered as children...

Family Rescue (1997)

96 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Family Rescue (1997) (aka: Country Justice) George C. Scott stars as Clayton who has raised his granddaughter, Emma (Rachael Leigh Cook). He loves her so much that when she ends up having a baby, having been ra...

The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002)

100 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

I have a general fascination with TV movies especially those based on true stories and as such over the years have come to understand various things. Firstly it is hard to balance being a factual dramatization of the story an...

Just a Dream (2002)

96 mins     Drama      

The simplest way to describe "Just a Dream" is to say it is a coming of age movie one which focuses on a summer in a young boy's life when he starts to grow up and get an understanding for the real world. We watch as he makes...

Client Seduction (2014)

90 mins     Crime, Thriller, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Client Seduction (2014) (aka: Not With My Daughter) Ally Sheedy stars as Melissa Eco, the go to lawyer for the rich and guilty, who to prove to her daughter she isn't a money grabber takes on a charity case. Bu...