Moriarty played Debra Winger's friend in the romantic comedy "Forget Paris" (1995), followed by the vindictive Carrigan Crittenden in the live action film "Casper". Shortly afterwards she starred with Andrew Dice Clay in the CBS series "Bless This House", which was cancelled after 16 episodes during the 1996 season. That year Moriarty also played Hedy Burress's mother in "Foxfire", the film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel. The next year, she played the alcoholic mother of a successful boxer in "Opposite Corners"; the mother of two sons (one a police officer and the other a crack addict) in "A Brother's Kiss"; a former exotic dancer and Brad Hunt's aunt in "Dream with the Fishes"; Mary Stuart Masterson and Evan Rachel Wood's seriously-ill, alcoholic mother in "Digging to China"; Michael Rapaport's aunt in "Cop Land" and Alyssa Milano's mother in "Hugo Pool".