Stephen Collins Movies

A teen (Magda Apanowicz) is torn between becoming a veterinarian and the dream her father (Stephen Collins) has for her: becoming a rodeo star. Her dilemma peaks when her dad puts the family's future on the line by betting on her riding skills. ~ Brie Hearn, All Movie Guide

When season eight began for 7th Heaven, it became the first WB series to remain on the air for so long a time. In this season, the series also expanded beyond its traditional yearly quota of 22 episodes to include a 23rd installment. The previous season climaxed as minister Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) performed the marriage ceremony of his daughter Lucy (Beverley Mitchell) and police officer Kevin Kenkirk (George Stults), and Lucy's older sister Mary (former series regular Jessica Biel, now a "guest star") revealed her own recent marriage to Carlos Rivera (Carlos Ponce). These events spill over into season eight, as does the fallout of a fatal car accident involving Simon Camden (David Gallagher). Also, oldest son Matt Camden (Barry Watson), though no longer a regular character on the series, makes sporadic appearances as he weathers his first year of internship in a big-city emergency room -- not to mention problems in his marriage to fellow med student Sarah (Sarah Danielle Madison). Elsewhere, the relationship between youngest Camden daughter Ruthie (Mackenzie Rosman) and troubled preteen Peter Pietrowski (Scotty Leavenworth) hits a snag when Peter's birth father, Vic (Bryan Callen), comes back into his life -- a plot development that also bodes ill for Peter's mother, Paris (Shannon Kenny), and her current amour, Eric Camden's assistant pastor Chandler Hampton (Jeremy London). The connubial bliss of newlyweds Lucy and Kevin is threatened by the arrival of Kevin's contentious ex-wife, Mindy (Mindy Burbano). And a mysterious stranger named Martin (Tyler Hoechlin) insinuates himself into the Camden household -- and into the heart of Simon's former girlfriend Cecilia (Ashlee Simpson). Even more serious complications are linked with such real-life current events as the war in Iraq and the crisis in Sudan. Season eight ends with a two-parter wherein one couple considers breaking up, another tries to get back together, a third contemplates leaving Glen Oak for good, and yet another member of the Camden household prepares for motherhood. ~ All Movie Guide

Having reached the crucial age of 21, Matt Camden (Barry Watson) has decided to become a gynecologist, as 7th Heaven enters its sixth season on the WB. Still trying to overcome her multitude of personal problems, Matt's sister Mary (Jessica Biel) has moved to Buffalo, where she hopes to wed her erstwhile boyfriend Wilson West (Andrew Keegan); she also intends to become a professional firefighter. Ultimately, however, the still-unmarried Mary returns to Glen Oak, there to attend college with younger sister Lucy (Beverley Mitchell) -- only to rush off to Buffalo again, this time to pursue a career as a flight attendant...not to mention a romance with firefighter trainee Ben Kenkirk (Geoff Stults). In typical 7th Heaven "connect the dots" fashion, Ben happens to be the brother of policeman Kevin Kenkirk (George Stults), who is presently dating Lucy! And back at home with the Camden kids' parents, Eric (Stephen Collins) and Annie (Catherine Hicks), Mary's mercurial former beau Robbie (Adam LaVorgna) has moved into an apartment over the family's garage. Season six comes to an eventful finale as Matt, newly accepted by Columbia University Medical School, prepares to wed his classmate Sarah Glass (Sarah Danielle Madison), a Jewish girl -- a relationship that Matt's minister father, Eric, and Sarah's rabbi father, Richard (Richard Lewis), are compelled to come to terms with after an initial period of discomfort and resistance. ~ All Movie Guide

In this most recent spin on a familiar suspense-movie plot device, the 6-year-old son of wealthy Seattle industrialist Dan Carlin (Stephen Elliott) is kidnapped by a disgruntled ex-employee. Innocently unaware of his plight, the captive boy is locked in a room with his toy teddy bear, which has been booby-trapped with a time bomb. Tension mounts when the kidnapper is accidentally killed, leaving Carlin and a dedicated police detective (Karen Sillas) with less than 24 hours to locate both boy and bomb. As Time Runs Out made its CBS network debut on October 5, 1999. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Season four of 7th Heaven finds 19-year-old Matt (Barry Watson) moving out of the Camden home and into an apartment shared with another minister's son: John Hamilton (Chaz Lamar Shepherd), Matt's lifelong friend, and presently his co-worker at a local hospital. As for Matt's girlfriend, Shauna (Maureen O'Sullivan), she has moved to New York City in the wake of Matt's "infidelity" with Heather (Andrea Ferrell). Meanwhile, Matt's basketball-happy sister, Mary (Jessica Biel), gets into big-time trouble, culminating with the loss of her athletic scholarship and court-ordered counseling; she also enters into a star-crossed romance with another troubled teen named Robbie Palmer (Adam LaVorgna). All the while, younger brother Simon (David Gallagher) has been embroiled in a romance with Deena Stewart (Nicole Cherie Saletta), who has some unpleasant news for the boy by the end of the season. And no, the scriptwriters have not forgotten the older members of the Camden family during the series' fourth season. Father Eric (Stephen Collins) suffers a mild heart attack; mother Annie becomes a political activist, taking up the cause of the mistreated women of Afghanistan (we are, of course, still three years away from the toppling of the Taliban); Eric, Annie, and the congregation of Glen Oaks Community Church receive a disturbing reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust; and Annie's father, Charles (Graham Jarvis), begins exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's disease. ~ All Movie Guide

A USA original movie, this drama centers on a woman faced with a series of life-altering surprises. First her niece and nephew come to live with her, forever. Then she falls in love and her new beau moves in. The makeshift family decides that New York City life is too much for them and so they move into the countryside. Just when it looks like the little group may finally come together, the woman discovers that she is pregnant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this drama, a career woman is forced to re-evaluate her fast-track life after her sister's young children come to live with her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Three women plot revenge on their two-timing husbands in this comedy. Brenda (Bette Midler), Elise (Goldie Hawn), and Annie (Diane Keaton) were close friends in college, but 27 years after graduation they've lost touch with each other, and it's not until a mutual friend of the three commits suicide that they meet at the funeral for the first time in years. It seems that their friend grew despondent after her husband left her for a younger woman, and all three find themselves in similar situations. Elise is an actress who finds herself out of work now that she's seen the shady side of 40, and her husband and producer Bill (Victor Garber) is demanding a divorce (and half of her fortune). Brenda helped her husband Morton (Dan Hedaya) open a profitable chain of discount electronics stores, but now that his commercials have made him a minor celebrity, he's taken up with a much younger (and thinner) woman. Annie has allowed her husband Aaron (Stephen Collins) to use her as a doormat throughout their marriage, and she's at a loss now that he's leaving her. After comparing notes, Brenda, Elise, and Annie decide that it's time to do something about their problems, and they hatch an elaborate blackmail scheme that will win them control of their ex-husband's businesses and allow them to do something positive with the money they helped earn. Heather Locklear and Ivana Trump both make cameo appearances. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

One of the most atypical weekly series to emerge from the Aaron Spelling TV factory, 7th Heaven, created by Spelling and Brenda Hampton, has eschewed the sex-and-sin shenanigans of such series as Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place in favor of honest, three-dimensional family values, with generous doses of warmth, heart, humor, and pathos. There can be no doubt that this fundamentally wholesome program has struck a universal chord. The series has not only been lavishly praised by critics, honored by such organizations as the Parents Television Council, the Academy of Religious Broadcasting, and the Anti-Defamation League, and given innumerable industry awards, but it is also one of the most successful offerings of the WB network; indeed, it was the first WB series to run more than seven seasons, and during four of those seasons, it was the network's highest-rated show. Set in the suburban L.A. community of Glen Oak, the series revolves around the Camden family, headed by Eric Camden (Stephen Collins), pastor of the town's Community Church, and Eric's homemaker wife, Annie (Catherine Hicks). In the tradition of The Waltons, loyal 7th Heaven viewers have enjoyed the rare privilege of watching the Camden children grow up before their very eyes. When the series debuted on August 26, 1996, handsome and personable Matt Camden (Barry Watson) was 17 years old; basketball-playing Mary Camden (Jessica Biel) was 13 going on 14; intellectual, inquisitive Lucy Camden (Beverley Mitchell) was 12; happy-go-lucky Simon Camden (David Gallagher) was ten; and precocious Ruthie Camden (Mackenzie Rosman) was five. By the time the series entered its eighth season, the three oldest Camden kids were married and pursuing careers, while the two youngest were seasoned veterans of the school dating scene. (Two more Camden youngsters, twin boys Sam and David, were born halfway through the 1998-1999 season). All of the Camdens, parents included, have had more than their share of setbacks and tragedies (some of them absolutely devastating) as the series has rolled forward, but somehow all of the members of the clan, from patriarch Eric on down, have been able to recover, rally, and persevere with the help and support of their family and friends -- not to mention their inner faith. And unlike so many other TV series which traffic in personal interrelationships, the characters in 7th Heaven are very much a part of the "real" world. During its lengthy WB run, the series has exposed its principals to a wide variety of contemporary issues: teen suicide, racial prejudice, substance abuse, drunken driving, homelessness, negative peer pressure, teen pregnancy, Alzheimer's disease, the Holocaust, the war in Iraq, and the crisis in the Sudan. Eminently suitable for viewers of all ages, but never a mere sop to the "kiddie" trade nor a placebo for the clean-up-TV brigades, 7th Heaven has been and will likely always remain the jewel in the WB crown. ~ All Movie Guide

In this suspenseful drama, a babysitter learns that she may be marked for murder by her best employer, a man whose wife was recently killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This made-for-TV drama tells the story of a woman's struggle with ethics versus family loyalty. Faye Dunaway stars as Karen Billingsley, an upper-class family woman and mother who suspects that her son (Cameron Bancroft) was involved in a vicious rape. Her search for the truth takes its toll on her marriage to husband Roger (Stephen Collins) and puts her stable family-life to the test. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide

When a San Diego socialite is convicted of murdering her ex-husband and his new bride, truth is stranger than fiction as she hires a public relations firm in an effort to keep the media in her corner. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide