Untitled - Rosie's talking with producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron about directing a movie based on the life of Harvey Milk, the gay councilman who was murdered in San Francisco in 1978. And that's the way O'Donnell wants her post-TV career to be, concentrating on directing and producing. (10/10/00)

Auntie Claus - based on an as-yet-unreleased children's book, Rosie may star in this for Nickelodeon Films.
Sophie is a little girl in New York whose eccentric aunt disappears each year between Halloween and Valentine's Day. On the eve of her aunt's yearly departure, the curious girl decides to stow away in her aunt's trunk, finds herself at the North Pole and discovers that her aunt is Santa's sister.
The book, by Elise Primavera, will be released this winter by Harcourt Brace. Wendy Finerman will produce the film. Todd Durham is adapting the book, which is expected to garner a lot of attention during the Christmas season. Saks Fifth Avenue has already chosen Auntie Clause as the theme for its holiday window displays. (7/8/99)

Double Wish - Rosie wrote this screen treatment long before she decided to do her talk show. She has finally gotten some interest and is developing it for Walt Disney Pictures.
This modern-day fantasy tale centers around two motherless children who make a wish for someone to enter their lives and help their father take care of them (sound familiar?). The wish comes true in the form of a nanny (Rosie) who shows up on their doorstep. Hardly perfect, the nanny learns from the children as they learn from her and all grow from the friendship.
Cathy Konrad, who produced Beautiful Girls and Wide Awake, will co-produce Double Wish along with Rosie. Disney Production VP Gregg Hoffman is overseeing the project, which is out to writers as an open assignment. (7/8/99)

Totie Fields Movie - under development at ABC-TV
This untitled movie about the late comic is currently being produced by Craig Anderson and written by Susan Rice for ABC-TV. Rosie has been mentioned for the role of Totie Fields. (1997)

Show Business: The Road to Broadway (2007)

This film follows the four high-profile productions that would eventually become Tony nominees for Best Musical of 2004: Wicked, (currently the highest grossing musical of all time), the Rosie O'Donnell/Boy George musical brought from London, Taboo, Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change, and a grown-up puppet show called Avenue Q.

Hedwig and The Angry Inch (2001)
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Rosie has a very small role as herself.

Tarzan (1999)
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This new animated version from Disney opened nationwide June 18, 1999. Rosie does the voice of Tarzan's pal, Terk.
Walt Disney Pictures' animated adventure Tarzan is an innovative and entertaining exploration of the classic tale by Edgar Rice Burroughs. With music by Grammy Awardฎ-winning singer/songwriter Phil Collins, Tarzan is an adventure that traces the story of a human baby who is orphaned in the African jungle and lovingly raised by a family of apes. Tarzan's peaceful and sheltered world is turned upside down by the arrival of a human expedition and the revelation that he is one of them. As he struggles to decide which "family" he belongs with, his dilemma is further complicated by his feelings for a beautiful young woman named Jane (Minnie Driver) and the discovery that a trusted member of his new human "family" is plotting to harm the apes. With an inspired cast of vocal talents and new technological breakthroughs that bring added depth and dimensionality to the jungle settings, Disney's animated version of Tarzan captures the fantasy, excitement, and imagination of this literary favorite as never before.

Sesame Street: Elmopalooza (1998)

Wildly popular Elmo leads his own music festival, celebrating 30 years of Sesame song and laughter. Elmo's all-star lineup includes David Alan Grier, Gloria Estefan, and Rosie O'Donnell. For ages 2-5.

Wide Awake (1998)

Wide Awake finished filming in November 1995 for Miramax and opened nationwide April 1, 1998. It stars Denis Leary, Rosie (as a Catholic nun!), and Robert Loggia. The film is about a 10-year-old boy who searches for God after his grandfather's death.

The Twilight of the Golds (1997)

The Twilight of the Golds, premiered March 22, 1997 on the Showtime Cable network. Based on a 1993 Broadway play, the movie stars Faye Dunaway, Garry Marshall, Brendan Fraser and Jennifer Beals. Plotwise, a scientific discovery forces a close family to make a tough decision. Set in the near future, an expectant mother is told that her child carries the gene determining homosexuality.

Harriet the Spy (1996)

"There are as many ways to live as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look."
"Sometimes a really small lie can be a really big help"

• Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert, July, 1996

beautiful girls (1996)
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"I'm finished speaking to both of you, okay? You're both fucking insane. You wanna know what your problem is? — MTV, Playboy, and Madison fucking Avenue. Yes, let me explain something to you, okay? Girls with big tits have big asses — girls with little tits have little asses — that's the way it goes. God doesn't fuck around — He's a fair guy. He gave the fatties big, beautiful tits and the skinnies little tiny niddlers. It's not my rule; if you don't like it, call Him.

"Oh guys, look what we have here. Look at this, your favorite. Oh, you like that? Yeah, that's nice, right? Well, it doesn't exist, okay? Look at the hair. The hair is long, it's flowing, it's like a river. Well, it's a fuckin' weave, okay? And the tits, please! I could hang my overcoat on them. Tits, by design, were invented to be suckled by babies. Yes, they're purely functional — these are silicon city. And look, my favorite, the shaved pubis — pubic hair being so unruly and all — very key. This is a mockery. This is a sham. This is bullshit.

"Implants, collagen, plastic, capped teeth, the fat sucked out, the hair extended, the nose fixed, the bush shaved . . . these are not real women, alright? They're beauty freaks. And they make all us normal women, with our wrinkles, our puckered boobs, our cellulite, feel somehow inadequate. Well I don't buy it, alright? But you fuckin' mooks, you think if there's a chance in hell that you'll end up with one of these women, you don't give us real women anything approaching a commitment. It's pathetic. I don't know what you think you're gonna do. You're gonna end up 80 years old, drooling in some nursing home. Then you're gonna decide it's time to settle down, get married, have kids. What, are you gonna find a cheerleader?

"Oh, eat me. Look at Paul, with his models on the wall, his dog named Elle MacPherson. He's insane. He's obsessed. You're all obsessed. If you had an ounce of self-esteem, of self-worth, of self-confidence, you would realize that, as trite as it may sound, beauty is truly skin deep. And you know what? If you ever did hook one of those girls, I guarantee you'd be sick of her.

"Get over yourself. No matter how perfect the nipple, how supple the thigh, unless there's some other shit going on in the relationship besides the physical, it's gonna get old, okay? And you guys as a gender have got to get a grip. Otherwise, the future of the human race is in jeopardy."

• The Detroit News, February 9, 1996
• Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert, February 1996

• Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert, October 20, 1995

• The MIT Tech, October 18, 1994
• Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert, October 14, 1994
• Review by Ram Samudrala

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• Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert, May 27, 1994

• Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert, July 23, 1993

• Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert, June 25, 1993

• Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert, July 1, 1992