Movies starring Virginia Madsen

Dune (1984)

137 mins     Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi      

Dune: David Lynch's highly visual extravaganze about warring families and a very valuable spice...

Electric Dreams (1985)

95 mins     Comedy, Drama, Musical      

Movie Review - Electric Dreams (1985) Virginia Madsen stars as Madeline who finds herself with 3 admirers, a fellow musician, her neighbour below him and her neighbour's high tech computer system known as Edgar...

Victim of Love (1991)

88 mins     Drama, Thriller, TV Movie      

Victim of Love: JoBeth Williams stars as a psychiatrist in a love triangle when she falls in love only to find out the man is a patient's mysterious ex...

Love Kills (1991)

88 mins     Crime, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie      

"Love Kills"... a few minutes of an afternoon or evening if you really have nothing better to do but you are likely to remember little about it once it is over....

Candyman (1992)

99 mins     Horror, Thriller      

Candyman (1992) Virginia Madsen stars as Helen who is researching the legend of hook handed killer the Candyman (Tony Todd)...

Linda (1993)

82 mins     Crime, Thriller, TV Movie      

Sometimes I have to remind myself that because I watch many more movies than the average person I become more alert to things in them that some people might miss. The trouble is that when I spot them it is impossible for me t...

The Prophecy (1995)

98 mins     Fantasy, Horror, Thriller      

"The Prophecy" is one of those movies which entertain because it has an interesting idea and features some good performances, most notably from Christopher Walken whose quirky version of the Angel Gabriel is a highlight. But ...

The Rainmaker (1997)

135 mins     Crime, Drama, Thriller      

Its been a long time since I read John Grisham's "The Rainmaker" and having recently watched Francis Ford Coppola's big screen adaptation I honestly couldn't remember enough to say whether it's a faithful adaptation. But it i...

The Haunting (1999)

113 mins     Fantasy, Horror, Mystery      

I tell you what else is getting shorter, my ability to suffer movies which seem like they should be good but end up depressingly dull. And yes "The Haunting" was for me a depressing dull movie which feels like the director sa...

Just Ask My Children (2001)

91 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

I watch a lot of made for TV movies, especially those based on true stories and whilst I think as a genre made for TV movies have a bad rep I will admit that many are extremely ordinary. But trust me if you watch "Just Ask My...

Tempted (2003)

104 mins     Drama, Romance, TV Movie      

"Tempted" which is also known as "Returning Lily" is one of those movies I put in the box labelled "Entertaining... But". What that means is that we have an enjoyable movie which features the beautiful Virginia Madsen, the hu...

Sideways (2004)

126 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

If I was to tell you that "Sideways" is a road trip movie would you start to have preconceptions of what it would be like, comedy cliches of car break downs, run ins with trouble and so on. Well on one hand you would sort of ...

Brave New Girl (2004)

90 mins     Drama, Musical, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Brave New Girl (2004) Lindsey Haun stars as Holly Lovell, a young girl from Texas trying to make it at music school whilst her mum, Wanda (Virginia Madsen), tries to build a new life for herself...

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)

72 mins     Animation, Comedy, Family      

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005) The Little family are vacationing by the lake which can only mean adventure and trouble for little Stuart...

The Number 23 (2007)

101 mins     Drama, Mystery, Thriller      

For a thriller to work it must hook me, it must deliver something which grabs my attention and keeps it till the end. Now "The Number 23" hooked me when it brought to the fore the significance of the number 23 but it soon los...

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

92 mins     Drama, Horror, Thriller      

I am going to state the obvious here but it is important, here in the UK "The Haunting in Connecticut" received a 15 certificate which means that this is a horror movie which won't be trying to make you cringe with the violen...

Red Riding Hood (2011)

100 mins     Fantasy, Horror, Mystery      

I have learned many things from watching movies and of those explains why I would prefer to watch older movies than modern ones. The reason is quite simple, almost every time I watch a big screen movie made from within the la...

The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)

109 mins     Comedy, Drama      

"The Magic of Belle Isle" makes me wonder whether a studio picked up the sort of story which gets made for TV and rather than selling it on decided to try and make it with some big screen stars. The trouble is that when you t...

Burning Bodhi (2015)

93 mins     Drama      

Burning Bodhi (2015) the death of a friend brings a group of high school friends back to town for the funeral leading to old issues and emotions as well as some new ones to be stirred up...