Returning for its third season on The WB, this engrossing series has proven itself to be much more than the average family drama.

CBS has released an official description of the upcoming telefilm, which is set to debut during the 2004-05 season: "THE DEAD WILL TELL, a new television movie inspired by the readings of famed psychic James Van Praagh ("Living With The Dead," Talking to Heaven), starring Anne Heche ("John Q"), Academy Award nominee Kathleen Quinlan ("Apollo 13"), Jonathan LaPaglia ("The District") and Academy Award nominee Chris Sarandon ("Dog Day Afternoon"),

Heche is poised for SEXUAL LIFE, an independent feature to be directed by Ken Kwapis that follows the various intertwined relationships of a group of adults.

Anne Heche is hired to play with Nicole Kidman in "Birth", a drama about the life of a 35 years old woman, Anna (Kidman) , who meet a 10 years old boy, David, who is in love with her and convinced he is the reincarnation of her dead husband. Drawn to remember her past, Anna begins to question the choices she's made, much to the concern and consternation of her fiancé and her family. Anne Heche would star as a close friend of Kidman's character.

Gracie Thompson's (Kristen Bell) life has been riddled with chaos and the pain of handling her out-of-control, substance-abusing mother (Anne Heche) while trying to fill in as a parent to her three siblings. But Gracie won't be daunted - not by pity, not by her crazed mom or oblivious grandmother (Diane Ladd), not by the medical difficulties plaguing her and her siblings, and not by the heartlessness of the court system. Nothing will stop her from keeping her three brothers safe and under the same roof. This inspiring movie, based on actual events, demonstrates the true meaning of family. Watch it with your loved ones

-Hospital administrator
This cautionary story centers on a man whose nine-year-old son is in desperate need of a life-saving transplant. When he discovers that his medical insurance won't cover the costs of the surgery and alternative government aid is unavailable, John Q. Archibald (Washington) takes a hospital emergency room hostage in a last-ditch attempt to save his child. Produced by Mark Burg, the film is written by James Kearns.

In season IV, episodes 9 to 15, Anne is playing a Tourette's Syndrome sufferer. John Cage (Peter MacNicol) takes on a new client (guest star Anne Heche) accused of running over her ex-boyfriend and killing him.

-Christine's character's psychiatrist
Based on the selling novel, set in the mid 1980's before the prevalence of anti-depressants, it follows a young working class woman's (Christina Ricci) bout with depression during her first year at Harvard. The film explores this generation's struggle to navigate the effect of divorce, drugs, sex, and an overbearing mother (Jessica Lange).

Pleading her self-defence, the Marine officer Mary Jane O' Malley (Anne Heche) goes on trial for the premeditated murder of Major Nelson Gray, a hero of war. But the proofs which could clear her, disappears the ones after the others and it becomes increasingly clear that the American Navy already returned its verdict: better is to preserve the honor of a hero than to return justice to a woman--

Beyond Suspicion is a little too thoughtful to be accurately called a thriller, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Jeff Goldblum plays insurance salesman John Nolan, who is passively content in his yuppie lifestyle until one night when he's caught in the middle of a robbery. Augie, a store clerk, is killed, and Nolan becomes so obsessed in finding a little meaning in Augie's death that he begins to gradually take over what would have been his life. But of course, all lives are complicated, and Augie's life as an ex-con was doubly so. Goldblum gives one of his trademark quirky performances, and it works well here, as he captures Nolan's discomfort in his own skin. Though not the edge-of-your-seat suspense movie its title might suggest it is, Beyond Suspicion is an interesting, patient, and thoughtful film that takes care to flesh out even minor characters.

The church investigates a series of miracles in which a dead woman seems to appear.

Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl trapped by circumstances in a relationship that she doesn't want to end but cannot seem to move forward. On an impulse, she makes a choice which will change her life forever. Anne Heche is Marion Crane

Two friends must decide whether to return to Malaysia to prevent a third friend from being executed for possessing drugs. Anne plays a lawyer attempting to convince the two friends to return. Well written, beautifully photographed, well directed, well acted -- and a tour de force performance by Anne. The only things not looking good are Malaysian justice, and Jada Pinkett's role.

Anne Heche plays a NY editor on vacation who becomes stranded on a tropical island with a grumpy pilot who values a simple life. The warmest performance of her career.The film steals from a half-dozen classics, but works because the two stars do their jobs. Without them, the film wouldn't get two stars.

Not only was Barry Levinson's comedy shot in a relatively fast period of 29 days, the satire of politics and show business feels as if it were made yesterday. There's a fresh spin quite evident here, a nervy satire of a presidential crisis and the people who whitewash the facts. The main players are a mysterious Mr. Fix-It (Robert De Niro), veteran Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman), and a White House aide (Anne Heche). Can the president's molesting of a young girl be buried in the two weeks before an election? A war in Albania just might do the trick. In the good old days, the president would just invade. With modern technology, it's even cleaner. The hungry press looks for any lead, convenient misinformation is created by the latest Hollywood fakery ("all developed by the new James Cameron film") creating images and merchandise all instantly packaged. And it must be real, because it's on TV. David Mamet's script never questions the morals or the absolute secrecy needed to pull this thing off. He and director Barry Levinson have enough truth in the story to make you wonder what is real news and what is just promotion the next time you see CNN. Many of the supporting players impact the story with mere presence: Denis Leary as a quote man, Willie Nelson as a songwriter. The three leads are magnificent. With the similarities between history and this film, Wag will forever linked to the Monica Lewinsky saga.

This is a slasher film with a modicum of class. Anne plays a backwoods, frumpy, somewhat creepy, loner. She looks at home in the part ,as she does in every part she plays. This is not the part you would expect a "star" to play, but it is the part you would expect a professional to play, and she is brilliant.

This offbeat HBO production features a series of 10 short films representing the unpredictable true experiences of those varied, brave souls who dared to test the waters of the New York City subways. Finally, Ted Demme’s MANHATTAN MIRACLE is a hopeful tale about a man who is about to watch a pregnant woman jump in front of an approaching train. At turns humorous, ironic, and poignant, SUBWAY STORIES provides an entertaining glimpse into the unpredictable underbelly of New York City.

A disaster flick where the city everyone loves to hate (especially here in northern California) gets more comeuppance. She plays the female lead opposite Tommy Lee Jones. For what the role is intended to be, she does a bang-up job -- after all, the real star is the lava , the flames, the destruction

Based on a memoir by former undercover cop Joe Pistone (whose daring and unprecedented infiltration of the New York Mob scene earned him a place in the federal witness protection program), Donnie Brasco is like a de- romanticized, de-mythologized version of The Godfather. It offers an uncommonly detailed, privileged glimpse inside the world of organized crime from the perspective of the little guys at the bottom of Mafia hierarchy rather than from the kingpins at the top. Donnie Brasco is not only one of the great modern-day gangster movies to put in the company of The Godfather films and GoodFellas, but it is also one of the great undercover police movies--arguably surpassing Serpico and Prince of the City in richness of character, detail, and moral complexity. Donnie (Johnny Depp, a splendid actor) is practically adopted by Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a gregarious, low-level "made" man who grows to love his young protégé like a son. (Pacino really sinks into this guy's skin and polyester slacks, and creates his freshest, most fully realized character since his 1970s heyday.) As Donnie acclimates himself to Lefty's world, he distances himself from his wife (a terrific Anne Heche) and family for their own protection. Almost imperceptibly his sense of identity slips away from him. Questioning his own confused loyalties, unable to trust anybody else because he himself is an imposter, Donnie loses his way in a murky and treacherous no-man's land. The film is directed by Mike Newell, who also headed up Four Weddings and a Funeral and the gritty, true crime melodrama Dance with a Stranger

Set in a single suburban house, this made-for-cable trilogy examines the evolution of women's right to choose an abortion in three disparate years: 1952, 1974, and 1996. From the pre-"Roe V. Wade" back-alley option, to the mid-'70's struggle between conscience and career, to the hot-button, controversial decision faced in the '90's, the issue is given its due. Anne , who starred in the 3rd segment (1996), will write and direct one of the vignettes that stars Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres in the next part of the trilogy:

PIE IN THE SKY is the saga of a young man, Charlie Dunlap (Josh Charles) whose two life-consuming passions are traffic gridlock and Amy (Anne Heche), a dancer who was once the girl-next-door. Charlie finds out the hard way that life is more like a highway than he could ever imagine, stop and go all the way. Ultimately he learns to throw caution to the wind and follow his dream and, most importantly, to believe in and hold onto his one true love.

A single mom (Demi Moore) on jury duty finds more than justice at stake as the mob boss who's on trial hires a seductive heavy to convince her to swing the trial his way--or else

The winsome and underappreciated Catherine Keener plays Amelia, an unattached New York City cutie living uncomfortably in the shadow of her best friend Laura (Anne Heche). But Laura has problems of her own--including professional insecurities and dwindling sexual interest in her nice-guy fiancé. Not by any means a sidesplitting Generation X comedy, Walking and Talking is the sort of film that relies on bittersweet irony to generate sympathy for its characters. Director Nicole Holofcener leans heavily on the intrinsic pathos, alienation, and insecurity of young adulthood, employing the obligatory well-screened answering machines, meaningless telephone relationships, and lonely nights of video rentals to make her point. Without question, Holofcener should have spent more time elaborating the relationship between her characters--we're never sure why they put up with each other, or why any of them became friends in the first place. We're shown the dysfunctional side of these relationships, but never given a reason to understand them as anything other than hopelessly compromised. Nevertheless, the performances (particularly Heche's) are always heartfelt, the writing is bright without resorting to cleverness, and almost every scene strains admirably for meaning and resonance.

Snapping under debt, Alex, a bank loan officer (Heche), is forced into moonlighting as a high class call girl. Her No. 1 client is a psychotic financial racketeer named Bruno (Walken, in one of his craziest performances yet), who all but worships her, yet suspects that she might work for the FBI just the same. He assigns his bodyguard (Bauer) to tail her. Unfortunately, the bodyguard IS a Fed - a vicious one at that - and he uses his power to force Alex into a number of sexually and morally compromising positions while he plans the downfall of his "boss". Meanwhile, Bruno's kind-of-divorced wife (Chen) meets Alex at her bank, and the two instantly fall in love, kicking off a dangerous affair.

His biographical drama tracks the rise and violent fall of Louisiana politician Huey P. Long, whose "Every Man a King" platform and Share-the-Wealth socialist ideals made him as popular as his personal excesses made him unacceptable

Strange things happens to a young Private Eye, till he meets a starving young lady.

Heche plays the unnamed girlfriend of the "bad guy" and shows the evils of not having a passenger-side airbag.

After the boys meet a nice prostitute (Melanie Griffith), one of them thinks she'd be great for his single dad (Ed Harris).

Hardened criminals at a women's prison befriend and protect an innocent inmate who was framed for murder

In 1971, prisoners at Attica State Prison formed an uprising that was heard around the world. Taking the prison, guards, artillery and themselves under control, they demanded their rights as prisoners. Against the Wall is a glorified accounting of this uprising, and worth the viewing.

Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do.

This production stays close to the first half of Mark Twain's novel. Heche plays the undemanding role of the newly-fatherless daughter of a wealthy southern family, who becomes preyed upon by two con men (Jason Robards is one). She befriends Huck and everything turns out OK (it IS a Disney film!)

An Ambush Of Ghosts, a dark, brooding, hallucinatory voyage into the mind of George Bets (Stephen Dorff), a Los Angeles teenager.

Young composer George Gershwin and three very different ladies introduce Indy to the sights and sounds of New York City.

Hallmark Hall of Fame Production of the 1913 novel by Willa Cather. 15 years after a young woman inherits her family's Nebraska homestead, her hard work earns the family a fortune, yet she dreams of the man she loved, who left to make his own way. When he returns he brings conflict and passion into her life.

The continuing story of life in the midwestern town of Bay City, and the love, loss, trials, ans triumph of it's residents, who come from different backgrounds and social circles.