Quinn Cummings Movies
Supporting actress Quinn Cummings has spent the bulk of her career on television as a guest star and series regular, but she has also appeared in a few feature films, notably The Goodbye Girl (1977), where her performance earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination. On television, she may best be remembered for playing Annie Cooper in nighttime sudser Family (1976-1980 -- Cummings joined the show in 1978). In 1980, Cummings appeared in a made-for-TV thriller and then didn't make another film until the 1989 feature Listen to Me. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1977
This grim made-for-TV domestic drama examines the terrible effects caused by spousal abuse. The story centers on the mental and physical battering endured by a wife at the hands of her troubled husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1989
- PG13
A college debate team heads to Washington to argue the abortion issue in front of the Supreme Court. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, (more)
- 1976
In this made-for-television thriller, a beautiful young woman is driving home on the freeway late one night and inadvertently witnesses the murder of a police officer. Soon afterward, she finds herself pursued by the crazed killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1980
The Babysitter is sweet-faced Stephanie Zimbalist, who is hired as housekeeper by married couple Patty Duke Astin and William Shatner. As she takes care of the couple's daughter (Quinn Cummings), Zimbalist slowly, subtly poisons the child's mind against her parents. She then sets about to seduce Shatner, fully intending to ruin his relationship with Astin. While not as horrific as the similar theatrical feature The Hand That Rock the Cradle (1992), The Babysitter is unsettling enough to give married viewers pause before hiring their own nannies. John Houseman does a "special guest star" stint in this made-for-TV melodrama, which first aired November 28, 1980. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Marsha Mason is known as "The Goodbye Girl" because of all the live-in boyfriends who have said ta-ta to her in the past few years. A former Broadway chorus dancer, the divorced Mason lives in the Manhattan apartment of her latest lost love with her daughter Quinn Cummings. Enter arrogant actor Richard Dreyfuss, who has subleased the apartment from Mason's former boyfriend and moves in bag and baggage in the middle of the night. Dreyfuss and Mason spend the next few weeks getting in each other's way and fighting like cats and dogs. The wind is taken out of Dreyfuss' sails when he opens in a production of Richard III, which has been sabotaged by the director (Paul Benjamin), who insists that Dreyfuss portrays Richard as a hip-swinging homosexual. The play closes after one performance, and the once-overconfident Dreyfuss goes on a self-pitying drunken binge. Touched by his vulnerability, Mason begins falling in love with Dreyfuss despite her lousy track record with men. Richard Dreyfuss became the youngest ever "Best Actor" Oscar winner as a result of his performance. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, (more)
