She also co-starred with Ed O'Neill in the John Hughes-written comedy "Dutch" (1991), and starred in "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" (1992) as the police detective/love interest of Sylvester Stallone's character. In 1995, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her 1994 live-action short "On Hope," starring Annette O'Toole; the film was Williams's directorial debut. In 1997, she played a domineering lesbian in the independent comedy "Little City" with Jon Bon Jovi, and an hysterical publishing editor in "Just Write" with Jeremy Piven. In 2005, she appeared in the Drew Barrymore-Jimmy Fallon baseball comedy "Fever Pitch".