Shannon Tweed Movies
The Standard Operating Procedure of those anonymous young lovelies chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month is to make an extremely brief flurry of au naturel movie appearances before rapidly fading into the sunset. Such was not the case of very blonde, very buxom Shannon Tweed. After being anointed Playmate of the Month and Playmate of the Year, the Canadian-born Tweed was able to sustain her film career for nearly two decades. Her come-hither looks, cascading blonde hair, and divine figure admittedly contributed to her durability, but her strongest suit was her genuine acting ability and willingness to poke fun at her image. The actress offered a comedy performance worthy of a Colbert or Lombard as the fetchingly undraped star of the Apocalypse Now spoof Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1990), while she was consistently superior to her material (and most of her co-stars, female and male) in the Night Eyes and Indecent Behavior films of the 1980s and 1990s. Somewhat more modestly garbed in her television appearances, Tweed has been a regular on the daytime soaper Days of Our Lives, the nighttime serial Falcon Crest (1981-1982 season only, as Diana Hunter), and the raunchy cable-TV sitcom First and Ten. In 1991, she starred as air-service proprietor Sally "Slick" Monroe on the diverting Canadian TV adventure weekly Fly By Night, which ran in rerun form on CBS until 1993. The sister of actress Tracy Tweed, Shannon Tweed has two children with Kiss musician Gene Simmons. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2002
Small-town insurance adjustor Macbeth (Cary Elwes) is swindled into signing over a one-million-dollar policy to trailer park harlot Sally (Mary Steenburgen), who then hires a seductive hit woman, Jupiter (Elaine Hendrix), to kill him. But the ruthless Jupiter, who specializes in slaying cheating husbands, falls for hapless, poetry-reciting Macbeth, so Sally goes to Plan B. Before long, the entire town of deeply disturbed eccentrics is involved. ~ Buzz McClain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cary Elwes
- 2001
In the concluding half of Frasier's ninth-season opener, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) continues mulling over the past loves of his life as he tries to choose between his current amours Claire (Patricia Clarkson) and Lana (Jean Smart). In a surrealistic climax, virtually all of Frasier's women from past episodes (most of them played by the actresses who originated the roles) converge upon him -- including his late mother. Originally telecast as a one hour-special (and moved from September 18, 2001, to September 25 due to network coverage of the 9/11 tragedy), this episode has since been reedited as two half-hours for syndication. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1999
Rivalry and jealousy mix in this tale of two men who love and fight for the same woman. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1997
When a troupe of sexy gymnasts are kidnapped and taken to the title island by a vengeful drug cartel, it's up to commando leader Mike McBride (Hulk Hogan) to rescue them. The excitement in this fast-paced actioner begins when McBride and the Navy SEALS he commands are assigned to capture a drug lord in his country. During the operation, one of McBride's men betrays him and McBride is nearly killed. Still, he, fellow SEAL Leroy (Carl Weathers) and buxom drug-enforcement officer Ashley (Shannon Tweed) manage to complete their mission. McBride and company then set off for vengeance against the traitor, who in turn retaliates by kidnapping a team of gymnasts and taking them to his impregnable lair on a remote Caribbean island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hulk Hogan, Carl Weathers, (more)
- 1997
This sequel to the made-for-TV movie Assault on Devil's Island reuintes Mike McBride (Hulk Hogan), Roy Brown (Carl Weathers), and Hunter Wiley (Shannon Tweed) as they do battle with international terrorists. One of the villians manages to inject Mike with a dangerous toxin, and his partners find themselves in a race against time to discover the antidote. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hulk Hogan, Carl Weathers, (more)
- 1997
Brian (Steven Weber) is dating Emily (Shannon Tweed), who is slightly older than he. At the same time, Brian's ex, Casey (Amy Yasbeck), is dating Shawn (Christopher Wiehl), who is slightly younger than she. Thing of it is, Emily is Casey's mother! And in a separate development, Joe (Tim Daly) and Roy (David Schramm) struggle to overcome their childhood fear of clowns. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
When Sharon (Shannon Tweed) foils a robbery attempt at an art gallery, she gets more adventure than she bargained for. Suddenly she's thrown into a plot hatched by a terrorist (Lance Henriksen) to auction off a supply of Nazi nerve gas in this tense action thriller. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shannon Tweed, Lance Henriksen, (more)
- 1995
Sex-flick icon Shannon Tweed appears in this episode as voluptuous pop psychologist Dr. Honey Snow. Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is so smitten by "Dr. Honey" that he agrees to write the introduction for her latest "feel-good" book. But once he returns to Planet Earth, Frasier realizes that he has just endorsed a pile of worthless psychobabble. Will our hero's ethics get in the way of his romantic self-fulfillment...again? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1995
After discovering that their fishing-lodge reservation has been claimed by voluptuous film star Shannon Tweed, Al (Ed O'Neill) and Jefferson (Ted McGinley) are unexpectedly handed an opportunity to capitalize on the situation when Jefferson takes a picture of a nude Sharon in a compromising hot-tub situation--which the boys then proceed to auction off to the tabloids. Elsewhere, Bud (David Faustino) and Kelly (Christina Applegate) help their dog Lucky prepare for a dog-food commercial, but it is Kelly who ends up doing "stupid human tricks". Featured in the cast are Joe Sagal, the brother of series star Katey Sagal (Peg), and former Playboy centerfolds Shae Marks and Donna D'Errico. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1995
To escape his persistent--and dishonest--corporate sponsors, a Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist fakes his own death. It's a clever ruse, but not a particularly healthy one: soon afterward, the missing scientist turns up murdered for real. Typically, the wrong man is accused of the crime, obliging Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to take over investigation of the case herself...while her old friend Lt. Artie Gelber (Herb Edelman) fusses and fumes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1994
Moira Davis (Shannon Tweed) is married to a doctor, Daniel Davis(Joseph Cortese), but their relationship is in bad shape; he has seduced several of his patients and treats Moira with careless cruelty. She has frequent dreams in which she visits a large house; inside she meets a handsome man named Nick (Andrew Stevens), who is always waiting for her in the bedroom where they make love. One day, Moira sees a house just like the one in her dream -- and to her surprise, Nick, the man from her dreams, is waiting inside. Moira and Nick soon fall into a passionate love affair, but when a jealous Daniel intervenes, it's up to Nick to protect Moira. Illicit Dreams reunited Andrew Stevens (who directed as well as starred) and Shannon Tweed, who had previously appeared together in the cable-TV staple Scorned (they'd appear together again in Scorned 2). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1994
In this soft-core thriller features attractive people groping each other, frequently. ShannonTweed and John Laughlin are married, but they are not happy. They live on a very expensive, but remote ranch. Tweed is a powerful businesswoman yet neglectful wife. Poor Laughlin turns to kinky sex to combat her frigidity. A swinging couple suddenly appears at the door claiming their car broke down. They were really hired by Laughlin to warm up his wife. Plenty of fondling ensues, but Tweed remains unmoved. Laughlin starts getting ugly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shannon Tweed, John Laughlin, (more)
- 1994
A sex therapist is forced to turn detective to keep herself out of prison in this steamy thriller. Journalist Shoshona Reed (Elizabeth Sandifer) has a knack for digging up incriminating information -- enough so that she's begun blackmailing a number of people and threatening to run incriminating stories about them if they don't pay up. Shoshona is a client of sex therapist Rebecca Mathis (Shannon Tweed), and when Shoshona is killed, Rebecca becomes a suspect in the murder investigation. To save her own skin, Rebecca begins investigating Shoshona's death, and she discovers that there are a number of people who might have wanted her dead, including Darrell Martine (Chad McQueen), a disturbed ex-convict, and Tom Mueller (Craig Stepp), a businessman with a secret. Indecent Behavior III followed this picture a year later. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1994
Jim Wynorski directs direct-to-video legend Shannon Tweed in the erotic thriller Body Chemistry 4. Tweed plays Dr. Claire Archer, a sex psychologist who hires defense attorney Simon Mitchell to represent her in court against charges of murder. She seduces him and he soon finds himself losing control of his marriage and his career. He soon realizes that this case may cost him his life. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1994
If Ms. Famke Janssen is a Model By Day in this TV movie, what does she do by night? If this were a USA cable movie, perhaps she'd be walking the streets. But since it's network movie, Famke spends her evenings as a masked crimefighter. She runs into trouble with the law when a murderer appropriates her alter ego and costume for a mayhem spree. Sean Young costars in this busted pilot film. Model by Day was first telecast March 21, 1994. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
In this broad comedy, two buddies named Frank, with more ambition than sense, are en route to Hollywood in hopes of breaking into the movie business when they accidentally witness a Mafia execution. Before they know it, they're witnesses in a criminal case the FBI is preparing against the Mob, and the two Franks are suddenly being chased by Mafia hit men. The Franks get the "brilliant" idea of disguising themselves as women and posing as make-up artists at an upcoming beauty pageant to avoid being killed -- not knowing that this event is also controlled by the mob. The Naked Truth features M. Emmet Walsh, Erik Estrada, Shannon Tweed, Little Richard and Billy Barty. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
In this low-budget, straight-to-video war drama, a Pentagon advisor working in a South American country suddenly finds his sympathies shifting toward the rebel cause when he realizes that some of the atrocities going on in the conflict-torn country are being perpetrated by his own countrymen in disguise. When he first finds out about the covert activities, he protests, but that only gets him tortured by his men. He then becomes a full-fledged renegade and begins secretly training a guerilla force to fight back. Poorly executed violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1990
Having lost the Championship and two of their best players, John Manzak (John Matuszak) and Johnny Gunn (Christopher Meloni), the California Bulls bind their wounds, grit the teeth they have left, and hope for the best as the sexy, profane HBO football sitcom 1st & Ten begins its seventh and final season. The series' subtitle this year is "In Your Face!," and that pretty much sums up the attitude of the battered gridiron vets under the aegis of tough team coach Ernie Denardo (Reid Shelton) and buxom team owner Kristy Fulbright (Shannon Tweed). New to the team is receiver "Miracle Miles" Coolidge (Keith Amos), who just might have the right stuff to guide the Bulls to another Championship. Without giving anything away, we can observe here that "Miracle Miles" figures prominently in the season's best-remembered episode, involving a surprise cameo from a most unlikely guest star. Episode titles this season include "Opening Night," "Old Dogs, New Tricks," "She's Ba-ack," "Altared States," "Going in Style," "Don't Powderburst My Bubble," "The Squeeze," "Take My Wives Please, "Bull Day Afternoon," "Sex, Bulls, and Videotape," "Irma Za-Greb," "If I Didn't Play Football," "A Roast is a Roast," "Close Encounters of the Third Down," "Flashbacks," and "Championship Game." The director for all but one of the above-mentioned episodes was Peter Bonerz of The Bob Newhart Show fame. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shannon Tweed, Reid Shelton, (more)
- 1989
In exchange for clearing Duell McCall's name, the cowboy's assistance is needed in locating the murderer of the sheriff's wife. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1989
"The Bulls Mean Business' is the new subtitle for 1st & Ten as the raunchy HBO sitcom enters its fifth season. This refers to the fact that the members of the California Bulls football team now all have a financial stake in the franchise. As for sexy team owner Diane Barrows, she has flown the coop (actress Delta Burke left to devote all her time to her other starring sitcom Designing Women). Replacing Diane in the owner's box is the even sexier Kristy Fulbright, played by Shannon Tweed, the famous softcore movie diva. (Given this series' propensity for feminine nudity, it is somewhat disheartening to report that Ms. Tweed remains fully clothed throughout her tenure on the program!) Titles of the season's 14 episodes include "The Bulls Own Up," "The Inmates Buy the Asylum," "Caught in the Draft," "Down and Out in Bulls Stadium," "The Clock Runs Out," "The Dark Side," "Saturday Bloody Saturday," "Injustice for All," "Team Picture,"Out of the Past," "Final Bow," "Duty Calls," "The High and the Mighty," and "The Irreducible Bottom Line." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shannon Tweed, Reid Shelton, (more)
- 1989
Season six of the raunchy HBO football sitcom 1st & Ten is subtitled "Do it Again" -- meaning that the California Bulls are championship-bound again after a three-year dry spell. Sexy team owner Kristy Fulbright (Shannon Tweed) and foul-mouth coach Ernie Denardo (Reid Shelton) have placed their championship homes on their new star player, Vito Del Greco, alias Johnny Gunn -- played by a decidedly pre-Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Christopher Meloni. Episode titles this season include: "The Book According to Zagreb," "The Con," "False Start," "Mind Games," "Love and Marriage," "Clean and Sober," "Blood Money," "Vindication" "Gunn and Bullette," "Heaven Help Me," "Surprise Surprise," "All is Fair in Love and Football," "Earn This One for Ernie," and "Who Stole Johnny Gunn?". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Shannon Tweed, Reid Shelton, (more)
- 1988
A group of women, rape victims all, establish an island community; once settled, they begin inviting their attackers to the island in order to exact revenge on them. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Merete Van Kamp, Robert Lipton, (more)
