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Favorite Kristy McNichol Films

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Baby of the Bride

Director: Bill Bixby
Starring: Rue McClanahan, Ted Shackelford, Kristy McNichol, John Wesley Shipp, Anne Bobby, Conor O'Farrell, Greg Kean, Michelle Joyner, Casey Wallace and Beverley Mitchell

Soon after returning from their honeymoon, John and Margret Hix receive the surprise of their life - at 53, Margret is pregnant! Against her much younger husband's wishes, Margret decides to keep the baby... but she isn't the only one in the family who is expecting. Margret's daughter, Mary, a nun who who has just left a convent, is due just a few months before her mother.

kathy's rating:

7.3

Blinded by the Light

Director: John A. Alonzo
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Jimmy McNichol, Anne Jackson, Michael McGuire, Keith Andes, Phillip R. Allen, Ben Bottoms, Gail Edwards, Steve Burns, Michael LeClair, Sandy McPeak, Jenny O'Hara, Danny McCoy Jr., Sean Roche and David Price

David Bowers is a teenager who runs away from home to join a quasi-religious cult. His sister Janet is determined to find him but almost winds up getting brainwashed by the cult herself.

Based upon a novel by Robin F. Brancato and starring real-life brother and sister Jimmy and Kristy McNichol.

kathy's rating:

6.2

Children of the Bride

Director: Jonathan Sanger
Starring: Rue McClanahan, Patrick Duffy, Kristy McNichol, Jack Coleman, Anne Bobby and Conor O'Farrell

When fiftysomething widow Margret Becker decides to get remarried to a much younger man, her four grown-up children are horrified.

kathy's rating:

6.6

4.8

Dream Lover

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Ben Masters, John McMartin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Joseph Culp, Justin Deas and Paul Shenar

When an intruder breaks into her New York apartment and attacks her, young musician Kathy Garner kills him. Afterwards, she suffers from recurring nightmares in which she relives the event. Kathy seeks help from a sympathetic therapist at a sleep disorder research center but his experiments get dangerously out of hand.

kathy's rating:

6.7

6.2

The End (1978)

Director: Burt Reynolds
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, Kristy McNichol, Strother Martin, David Steinberg, Norman Fell, Myrna Loy, Pat O'Brien, Robby Benson and Carl Reiner

Slapstick black comedy about a man who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.

kathy's rating:

7.4

The Forgotten One

Director: Phillip Badger
Starring: Terry O'Quinn, Kristy McNichol, Blair Parker, Elisabeth Brooks and Michael K. Osborn

A writer moves into a house that is supposedly haunted. Although he is attracted to his pretty next-door neighbor, he finds himself being seduced by the spirit of a woman who had been killed in his house 100 years previously.

kathy's rating:

7.3

Just the Way You Are

Director: Edouard Molinaro
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Michael Ontkean, Kaki Hunter, André Dussollier, Catherine Salviat, Robert Carradine and Alexandra Paul

Susan is a young, beautiful and successful flute player but, because of her physical handicap, a lame leg, she is having difficulties finding Mr. Right. While on tour in France, she decides to spend a few days on a ski resort wearing a fake cast around her lame leg to make sure her handicap goes unnoticed. There she meets Peter, a handsome photographer...

kathy's rating:

7.5

6.5

Little Darlings (1980)

Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Starring: Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol, Armand Assante, Matt Dillon, Nicolas Coster and Cynthia Nixon

Two 15-year old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

kathy's rating:

7.5

Love, Mary

Director: Robert Day
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Matt Clark, David Paymer, Piper Laurie and Rachel Ticotin

A teen, who is always in trouble and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers that she is dyslexic.

kathy's rating:

8.3

6.3

Mother of the Bride

Director: Charles Correll
Starring: Rue McClanahan, Ted Shackelford, Kristy McNichol, Anne Bobby, Conor O'Farrell, Greg Kean, Jeff Yagher, Brett Cullen, Nan Martin, Kristen Cloke, Catherine Bell, Beverley Mitchell, Casey Wallace and Paul Dooley

While fiftysomething Margaret Becker Hix prepares for the upcoming wedding of her daughter, Mary, she also has to deal with her other daughter's romance with a motorcycle enthusiast and a surprise appearance by her ex-husband.

kathy's rating:

9.3

My Old Man

Director: John Erman
Based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Warren Oates, Carol Teitel and Eileen Brennan

Frank Butler is anything but the perfect father, a down at heel racehorse trainer who hits the bottle. So, when he comes back into his daughter's life after 14 years and wants to take her off to his job at the New York Racetrack, her aunt Phoebe is horrified.

His daughter Jo learns to love and understand Frank her father and then accepts his relationship with Marie.

kathy's rating:

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

7.3

5.9

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)

Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill, Sunny Johnson, Don Stroud and Arlen Dean Snyder

A small town stud wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes into jeopardy.

kathy's rating:

6.5

Only When I Laugh (1981)

Director: Glenn Jordan
Based on the play 'The Gingerbread Lady' by Neil Simon
Starring: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett and David Dukes

An alcoholic Broadway actress tries to stay sober and rebuild her life while trying to patch up her relationship with her teenage daughter and deal with the problems of her friends: an overly vain woman who fears the loss of her looks and a gay actor relegated to small roles in third-rate shows.

kathy's rating:

5.8

5.4

The Pirate Movie (1982)

Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Chuck McKinney, Kate Ferguson, Rhonda Burchmore, Catherine Lynch and Garry McDonald

Australian musical romantic comedy. After attending a local pirate festival, an introverted teenage girl dreams that she is the confident, assertive and courageous young heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera 'The Pirates of Penzance'.

kathy's rating:

6.8

Summer of My German Soldier

Director: Michael Tuchner
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Bruce Davison, Esther Rolle; Michael Constantine, Barbara Barrie, James Noble, Robyn Lively, Margaret Hall, Anne Haney, Sonny Shroyer and Michael Tuchner

13 year old Patty Bergen, a Jewish-American girl, befriends and hides Anton Friedrich Reiker, an escaped German prisoner of war, in Jenkinsville, Arkansas during World War II.

kathy's rating:

6.1

Two Moon Junction (1988)

Director: Zalman King
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives, Kristy McNichol, Martin Hewitt, Juanita Moore, Don Galloway, Millie Perkins, Milla Jovovich, Hervé Villechaize and Dabbs Greer

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

kathy's rating:

238

7.7

White Dog (1982)

Director: Samuel Fuller
Based on a story by Romain Gary
Music: Ennio Morricone
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Jameson Parker, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Marshall Thompson, Parley Baer and Lynne Moody

A young actress adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover that the dog has been trained to attack black people on sight.

kathy's rating:

7.3

Women of Valor

Director: Buzz Kulik
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Kristy McNichol, Alberta Watson, Valerie Mahaffey and Terry O'Quinn

World War II drama about the courage and determination shown by a group of U.S. Army nurses who are taken captive by Japanese troops during the invasion of the Philippines and thrown into a PoW camp in Bataan, where they suffer humiliations and hardships at their hands.

kathy's rating:

7.9

4.7

You Can't Hurry Love (1988)

Director: Richard Martini
Starring: David Packer, Bridget Fonda, David Leisure, Scott McGinnis, Anthony Geary, Merete Van Kamp, Charles Grodin, Sally Kellerman, Kristy McNichol, Frank Bonner, Luana Anders, Jake Steinfeld, Judy Balduzzi, Danitza Kingsley, Kimber Sissons and Lu Leonard

A guy who moonlights as a low-budget director of commercials is looking for someone to love, so he pays a dating service and is videotaped on several occasions. The film shows the many women who seduce our hero, including wacky performance artist Rhonda (Kristy McNichol), until he finally finds his true love...

kathy's rating:

A list of my favorite films starring American actress and singer Kristy McNichol.

Listed in alphabetical order.

Christina Ann McNichol (born: 11 September 1962).

A list of my favorite Kristy McNichol TV appearances may be viewed here:
www.listal.com/list/favorite-kristy-mcnichol-television-series