Phoebe Cates
10 titles
Filmography
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Drop Dead Fred
(1991)When a young woman returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend to escape from recent traumas.

Bodies, Rest & Motion
(1993)After being dumped for the open road, a woman is encouraged to begin an affair with an idealistic house painter, just as her ex suddenly returns.

Private School
(1983)Chris (Phoebe Cates) and Jim (Matthew Modine) have just fallen in love, but it’s going to take creativity and a lot of pranks to get around the rules of their respective same-sex schools!

Baby Sister
(1983)A beautiful, emotionally immature teenager drops out of high school and plots to take her older sister’s live-in boyfriend for herself instead.

Gremlins
(1984)When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
(1990)A designer and his wife try to stop hundreds of gremlins from taking over New York.

Princess Caraboo
(1994)In the 1800’s, a mysterious, strangely dressed woman, who speaks no English, is arrested in the countryside and taken in by British aristocrats.

Bright Lights, Big City
(1988)When his mother dies, and his marriage fails, an aspiring writer is seduced by Manhattan’s dazzling nightlife and the oblivion of alcohol and drugs.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
(1982)Academy Award®-winner Sean Penn leads an all-star cast (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Ray Walston) in this hilarious portrayal of a group of southern California high school students and their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Amy Heckerling's (Clueless) directorial debut brings to life first-time screenwriter Cameron Crowe's (Almost Famous) insider's view of teenage American life in the 1980's. Featuring decade-defining music from The Go-Go's, Oingo Boingo and The Cars, plus film debuts of future stars Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards, Fast Times at Ridgemont High remains as fresh and funny today as it was a generation ago when it defined the outrageous and bold teen comedy genre.

Heart of Dixie
(1989)Based on a novel by Anne Rivers Siddons, this film takes place at an Alabama college in the turbulent 1950s, when the old South collided with the new.