Vinessa Shaw at Thanksgiving time. She then landed parts in a handful of television roles. She played a considerably large role in Disney's 1993 Halloween family film "Hocus Pocus" alongside Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, and a young Thora Birch. Shaw completed roles in various independent films for the remainder of the 1990s. In 1998, she enrolled at Barnard College in New York City, but dropped out to continue pursuing acting. Shaw was attending the college when she was approached by Stanley Kubrick for her role in "Eyes Wide Shut", playing an HIV-positive prostitute who is encountered by
Sarah Jessica Parker made a modest US$39 million in the US, but became a cult film due to strong DVD sales and large television following. In 1993, she also starred as a police diver opposite Bruce Willis in the film "Striking Distance", and in 1994, she appeared opposite Johnny Depp in the critically acclaimed biographical drama "Ed Wood" as the titular character's girlfriend, Dolores Fuller. She headlined the romantic comedy "Miami Rhapsody" (1995), playing woman who has some misgivings about her fiancée and starred in the off-Broadway play "Sylvia", alongside future husband Matthew Broderick. In 1996, she appeared in another Tim Burton-directed movie,