David Strathairn
Actor
David Strathairn is an American film and television actor, best known for his portrayal of journalist Edward R. Murrow in the feature film "Good Night, and Good Luck", for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
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The Devil Has a Name (2019)
An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.
Directed by: Edward James Olmos
Stars: Alfred Molina | David Strathairn | Kate Bosworth | Edward James Olmos | Edward James Olmos
My Dinner With Hervé (2018)
As: Marty Rothstein
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-tothing dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Sacha Gervasi
Stars: Oona Chaplin | Peter Dinklage | Harriet Walter | Jamie Dornan | Mireille Enos
UFO (2018)
As: Franklin Ahls
A college student, who sees a UFO, uses his exceptional math skills to investigate the sighting with his friends while the FBI follows closely behind.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Ryan Eslinger
Stars: Ella Purnell | David Strathairn | Gillian Anderson | Alex Sharp | Brian Wolfman Black Bowman
An Interview with God (2018)
As: The Man
An up-and-coming journalist finds his world and faith increasingly challenged when he's granted the interview of a lifetime – with someone who claims to be God.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Perry Lang
Stars: Charlbi Dean Kriek | David Strathairn | Hill Harper | Brenton Thwaites | Yael Grobglas
Fast Color (2018)
As: Ellis
A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Julia Hart
Stars: Christopher Denham | David Strathairn | Lorraine Toussaint | Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Saniyya Sidney
Darkest Hour (2017)
As: Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)
A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat ...
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Joe Wright
Stars: Gary Oldman | Kristin Scott Thomas | Ronald Pickup | Stephen Dillane | Lily James
American Pastoral (2016)
As: Nathan Zuckerman
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Ewan McGregor
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Peter Riegert | Dakota Fanning | Jennifer Connelly | Rupert Evans
November Criminals (2015)
As: Theo
When Addison investigates the murder of his friend Kevin with the help of Phoebe, they discover that the truth is darker than they had ever imagined.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Sacha Gervasi
Stars: Catherine Keener | David Strathairn | Chloë Grace Moretz | Terry Kinney | Ansel Elgort
Louder Than Bombs (2015)
As: Richard Weissman
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Joachim Trier
Stars: Isabelle Huppert | Jesse Eisenberg | Amy Ryan | Gabriel Byrne | Devin Druid
Oliver's Deal (2015)
As: Nathan
Set against the backdrop of an international finance deal in New York and Peru, Oliver's Deal is an intense political drama which explores how far people will go to get what they want.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Barney Elliott
Stars: Alberto Ammann | Stephen Dorff | David Strathairn | Carlos Bardem | Brooke Langton
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
As: Ty Burley
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: John Madden
Stars: Maggie Smith | Dev Patel | Richard Gere | Bill Nighy | Judi Dench
Godzilla (2014)
As: Admiral William Stenz
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their ...
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Gareth Edwards
Stars: Ken Watanabe | Sally Hawkins | Juliette Binoche | Aaron Taylor-Johnson | Elizabeth Olsen
No God, No Master (2014)
As: William Flynn
A plot to overthrow the United States government is uncovered in New York City in the summer of 1919 when William Flynn, a field agent for the Bureau of Investigation, is sent to investigate a bomb threat that has targeted some of America's most powerful politicians and leaders of commerce, New York millionaire John D. Rockefeller, Sr. among them. Flynn's investigation takes him on a journey into the ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Terry Green
Stars: David Strathairn | Ray Wise | Mike Bacarella | Edoardo Ballerini | Samuel Witwer
Maladies (2014)
As: Delmar
A talented and successful actor retires at a young age due to a perceived mental illness. Now living in a small town with his deranged sister and his best friend, we watch as their Maladies intertwine.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Carter
Stars: Catherine Keener | James Franco | David Strathairn | Alan Cumming | Fallon Goodson
Lincoln@Gettysburg (2013)
As: Narrator
An examination of how President Abraham Lincoln used contemporary telecommunications to his maximum advantage in the American Civil War.
Runtime: 55 min.
Directed by: Peter Schnall | William Kerr
Stars: David Strathairn | Robert Broski
Lincoln (2012)
As: William Seward
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Sally Field | David Strathairn | James Spader | Daniel Day-Lewis
Love, Marilyn (2012)
As: Himself
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses will embody the legend at various stages in her life.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Liz Garbus
Stars: Lindsay Lohan | Uma Thurman | Evan Rachel Wood | Elizabeth Banks | Ben Foster
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
As: Noah Vosen
New CIA operative, Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Stars: Edward Norton | Stacy Keach | Scott Glenn | Jeremy Renner | Rachel Weisz
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
As: John Dos Passos
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Runtime: 155 min.
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Connie Nielsen | Nicole Kidman | Clive Owen | Robert Duvall | Rodrigo Santoro
The Tempest (2010)
As: King Alonso
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Julie Taymor
Stars: Helen Mirren | Felicity Jones | David Strathairn | Reeve Carney | Tom Conti
Howl (2010)
As: Ralph McIntosh
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Rob Epstein | Jeffrey Friedman
Stars: Treat Williams | Mary-Louise Parker | James Franco | Jon Hamm | Jeff Daniels
The Whistleblower (2010)
As: Peter Ward
Based on the experiences of Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) who discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Larysa Kondracki
Stars: Monica Bellucci | Vanessa Redgrave | Nikolaj Lie Kaas | David Strathairn | Rachel Weisz
Temple Grandin (2010)
As: Professor Carlock
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Mick Jackson
Stars: David Strathairn | Catherine O'Hara | Julia Ormond | Claire Danes | Melissa Farman
Cold Souls (2009)
As: Dr. Flintstein
Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of "Uncle Vanya." Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. Giamatti enlists their service -- only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Sophie Barthes
Stars: Paul Giamatti | Katheryn Winnick | Emily Watson | David Strathairn | Dina Korzun
The Uninvited (2009)
As: Steven
Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Charles Guard | Thomas Guard
Stars: Elizabeth Banks | David Strathairn | Arielle Kebbel | Emily Browning | Maya Massar
The People Speak (2009)
As: Himself
A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Chris Moore | Howard Zinn
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Viggo Mortensen | Rosario Dawson | Marisa Tomei | Sean Penn
Trumbo (2008)
As: Himself
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Peter Askin
Stars: Paul Giamatti | Liam Neeson | Michael Douglas | Joan Allen | Dalton Trumbo
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
As: Arthur Spiderwick
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Mark Waters
Stars: Andrew McCarthy | Nick Nolte | Mary-Louise Parker | Freddie Highmore | Sarah Bolger
Matters of Life and Death (2007)
As: Mr. Jennings
Three siblings struggle to maintain control of their lives after the unexpected death of their parents thrusts them into an uncertain world of adulthood
Runtime: 28 min.
Directed by: Joseph Mazzello
Stars: Joseph Mazzello | David Strathairn | Rachael Leigh Cook | Daniel Gillies | Nick Heyman
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
As: Noah Vosen
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Matt Damon | Scott Glenn | Paddy Considine | David Strathairn | Julia Stiles
Racing Daylight (2007)
As: Henry / Harry
Sadie thinks she's going insane. Edmund is sure he's being haunted. And Henry, well Henry's just racing daylight.
Runtime: 83 min.
Stars: Melissa Leo | David Strathairn | Le Clanché du Rand | Jason Downs
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
As: Arnie
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Wong Kar-wai
Stars: Natalie Portman | Jude Law | David Strathairn | Rachel Weisz | Norah Jones
Fracture (2007)
As: DA Joe Lobruto
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Stars: Rosamund Pike | David Strathairn | Anthony Hopkins | Embeth Davidtz | Ryan Gosling
We Are Marshall (2006)
As: President Dedmon
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: McG
Stars: Anthony Mackie | Ian McShane | David Strathairn | Matthew McConaughey | Matthew Fox
The Sensation Of Sight (2006)
As: Finn
This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective English teacher entering a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy, as he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Aaron J. Wiederspahn
Stars: Cassidy Hinkle | David Strathairn | Jane Adams | Ian Somerhalder | Daniel Gillies
Heavens Fall (2006)
As: Judge James Horton
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Terry Green
Stars: Anthony Mackie | Timothy Hutton | Bill Sage | David Strathairn | Azura Skye
The Shovel (2006)
As: Paul Mullin
When weekender Paul Mullin discovers his neighbor digging a hole in the middle of the night, he writes it off as simply a bizarre encounter. Until the neighbor... and his cheating wife... disappear. Worried he’s stumbled upon more than he’s bargained for, he calls on the local sheriff to help unearth the truth. And finds out that, in a small town, some secrets are better left buried.
Runtime: 15 min.
Directed by: Nick Childs
Stars: Neal Huff | David Strathairn | Tim Guinee | Glenn Fleshler | James Peelor
Steel Toes (2006)
Steel Toes is a provocative exploration of the inescapable and insidious presence of racial and religious intolerance in our society.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Mark Adams | David Gow
Stars: David Strathairn | Marina Orsini | Ivana Shein | Andrew W. Walker
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
As: Edward R. Murrow
The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: George Clooney
Stars: David Strathairn | Jeff Daniels | Rose Abdoo | Alex Borstein | Dianne Reeves
The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
As: Estes Kefauver
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into an erotic icon who continues to enthrall fans to this day.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Mary Harron
Stars: Chris Bauer | David Strathairn | Jared Harris | Gretchen Mol | Sarah Paulson
Missing in America (2005)
As: Henry R. Hocknell Jr.
A haunted Vietnam veteran, living in exile in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, is faced with a life-changing decision after he is visited by a former platoon member and his young Amerasian daughter.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Gabrielle Savage Dockterman | Victor Landrie | Gordon MacDonald
Stars: Danny Glover | Linda Hamilton | Ron Perlman | David Strathairn | Zoe Weizenbaum
Twisted (2004)
As: Dr. Melvin Frank
Recently promoted and transferred to the homicide division, Inspector Jessica Shepard feels pressure to prove herself -- and what better way than by solving San Francisco's latest murder? However, as Shepard and her partner, Mike Delmarco, soon discover, the victim shared a romantic connection to her. As more of Shepard's ex-lovers turn up dead, her mind starts to become unstable, and she begins to ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | David Strathairn | Ashley Judd | Russell Wong | Andy García
Lathe of Heaven (2002)
As: Mannie
In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for his own gain. The 2002 adaptation discards a significant portion of the original plot, some essential characters, and much of the philosophical underpinnings of the book and the original PBS production. Ursula K. Le Guin disapproved of the A&E production, ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Philip Haas
Stars: Lukas Haas | David Strathairn | Lisa Bonet | Sheila McCarthy | Belinda Hum
Blue Car (2002)
As: Auster
Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her English teacher, Mr. Auster. But what started out as a mentoring relationship begins to get a bit more complex.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Karen Moncrieff
Stars: David Strathairn | Agnes Bruckner | Frances Fisher | Margaret Colin | A.J. Buckley
Speakeasy (2002)
As: Bruce Hickman
Two men become unlikely friends after a minor traffic accident.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Brendan Murphy
Stars: Nicky Katt | Christopher McDonald | Lake Bell | David Strathairn | Stacy Edwards
Relative Evil (2001)
As: Dr. Charlie
Relative Evil (aka Ball in the House) - When JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home from rehab, he is greeted by a conniving family who are plotting to cash in on a life insurance policy before his 18th birthday
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Tanya Wexler
Stars: Jennifer Tilly | Jonathan Tucker | Ethan Embry | David Strathairn | Dan Moran
The Victim (2001)
As: Mark Zingerline
She's the bar floozy, he's the stranger. She tries to pick him up but for some reason, he's not game.
Runtime: 12 min.
Directed by: Doug Magee
Stars: Adam LeFevre | David Strathairn | Patti LuPone | Marc Bolton
A Good Baby (2000)
As: Truman Lester
A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Katherine Dieckmann
Stars: David Strathairn | Cara Seymour | Henry Thomas
The Miracle Worker (2000)
As: Captain Keller
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan (Alison Elliott) leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Nadia Tass
Stars: David Strathairn | Alison Elliott | Lucas Black | Hallie Kate Eisenberg | Kate Greenhouse
Harrison's Flowers (2000)
As: Harrison Lloyd
Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his ...
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Élie Chouraqui
Stars: Brendan Gleeson | Elias Koteas | Adrien Brody | Andie MacDowell | David Strathairn
A Map of the World (1999)
As: Howard Goodwin
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Scott Elliott
Stars: Chloë Sevigny | Julianne Moore | David Strathairn | Sigourney Weaver | Sara Rue
Limbo (1999)
As: 'Jumpin' Joe Gastineau
Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: Kris Kristofferson | David Strathairn | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Vanessa Martinez
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
As: Theseus
Shakespeare's comedy about two couples in love with the wrong partners, and how they are finally brought together rightly, thanks in part to the bungling work of Puck. It is completely in the language of the Bard, with Pfeiffer as the Fairy Queen and Kline as the one turned into her evening's lover with donkey ears.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Kevin Kline | Michelle Pfeiffer | Calista Flockhart | Rupert Everett
Bad Manners (1998)
As: Wes Westlund
Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who helped Matt to make some discovery in his science. Wes suspects Kim of stealing 50 dollars from him and that starts tension, intrigues, mistrust.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Kaufer
Stars: David Strathairn | Saul Rubinek | Bonnie Bedelia | Julie Harris | Caroleen Feeney
The Giraffe (1998)
As: Charles Kaminski
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Dani Levy
Stars: Maria Schrader | David Strathairn | Dani Levy | Nicole Heesters | Lukas Ammann
Simon Birch (1998)
As: Rev. Russell
Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way for a reason and highly believes in God. Together, Joe and Simon go on a journey of trust and friendship to find the answers to many things. Their friendship is put ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Mark Steven Johnson
Stars: Oliver Platt | Joseph Mazzello | David Strathairn | Ashley Judd | Ian Michael Smith
With Friends Like These... (1998)
Four small-time two-bit character actors, all close friends, are competing for same important part in the next Martin Scorsese mob film.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Philip Frank Messina
Stars: Bill Murray | Jon Tenney | Adam Arkin | David Strathairn | Robert Costanzo
Evidence of Blood (1998)
As: Jackson Kinley
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Andrew Mondshein
Stars: Jackie Burroughs | David Strathairn | Mary McDonnell | Sean McCann | Chris Wiggins
The Climb (1998)
As: Earl Himes
Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty cracks about cowards. An old radio tower on a nearby hill is about to be torn down, and Danny decides to climb it to prove his courage. Help comes from an aging neighbor, Old Man Langer, a former construction foreman who's dying of cancer and wants Danny ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Bob Swaim
Stars: John Hurt | Stephen McHattie | David Strathairn | Seth Smith | Gregory Smith
L.A. Confidential (1997)
As: Pierce Patchett
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Stars: Kevin Spacey | James Cromwell | Guy Pearce | Danny DeVito | Kim Basinger
In the Gloaming (1997)
As: Martin
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Runtime: 67 min.
Directed by: Christopher Reeve
Stars: Whoopi Goldberg | David Strathairn | Bridget Fonda | Robert Sean Leonard | Glenn Close
Song of Hiawatha (1997)
This adaptation of an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of Hiawatha (Litefoot), a brave Native American Indian, and his love for the beautiful Minehaha (Irene Bedard)
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Jeffrey Shore
Stars: Graham Greene | Russell Means | Irene Bedard | Sheila Tousey | Litefoot
Beyond the Call (1996)
As: Russel Gates
Russell Gates (David Strahairn) is a Vietnam vet on death row for killing a policeman. His childhood sweetheart, Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek), is stunned to learn this and does not believe he could commit such a crime. She writes to him much to the dismay of her husband Keith and becomes obsessed with the case, exploring every avenue that may still be open to the doomed man. The trips to the prison ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Tony Bill
Stars: Janet Wright | David Strathairn | Arliss Howard | Sissy Spacek | Lindsay Murrell
Home for the Holidays (1995)
As: Russell Terziak
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Jodie Foster
Stars: Robert Downey Jr. | Charles Durning | Claire Danes | Anne Bancroft | Holly Hunter
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
As: Joe St. George
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns ...
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Stars: Christopher Plummer | David Strathairn | Kathy Bates | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Judy Parfitt
Losing Isaiah (1995)
As: Charles Lewin
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | David Strathairn | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jessica Lange | Halle Berry
The River Wild (1994)
As: Tom Hartman
While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Stars: Kevin Bacon | John C. Reilly | David Strathairn | Benjamin Bratt | Meryl Streep
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
As: Getso
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the shifty Getso. Conflict seems to follow Martha, since she also becomes romantically involved with local fix-it man, Mackey, who is sleeping with Frances as well.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Laurie Metcalf | Barbara Hershey | Gabriel Byrne | Debra Winger
The Firm (1993)
As: Ray McDeere
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - ...
Runtime: 154 min.
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Ed Harris | Jeanne Tripplehorn | Tom Cruise | Gene Hackman | Holly Hunter
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
As: Johnny
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Mercedes Ruehl | Irene Worth | Brad Stoll | Mike Damus
The American Clock (1993)
As: Young Arthur Huntington
This film is based on Arthur Miller's recollection of the events of the 1930's Depression. In the film, John Rubinstein, Mary McDonnell, and Loren Dean are all members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the Stock Market crashes. Dean, a college age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Bob Clark
Stars: David Strathairn | Felton Perry | Mary McDonnell | Darren McGavin | Loren Dean
Passion Fish (1992)
As: Rennie
Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. Then she meets with Chantelle, whose stubbornness matches her own -- if only because Chantelle, herself a recovering cocaine addict, cannot afford to lose this ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: Lenore Banks | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Alfre Woodard | Mary McDonnell | Angela Bassett
Sneakers (1992)
As: Irwin 'Whistler' Emery
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Stars: Robert Redford | David Strathairn | Dan Aykroyd | River Phoenix | Sidney Poitier
Bob Roberts (1992)
As: Mack Laflin
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Tim Robbins
Stars: Tim Robbins | Giancarlo Esposito | David Strathairn | Alan Rickman | James Spader
A League of Their Own (1992)
As: Ira Lowenstein
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) ...
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Penny Marshall
Stars: Tom Hanks | Geena Davis | Jon Lovitz | Lori Petty | Madonna
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (1992)
As: Keith
A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Joan Micklin Silver
Stars: Patricia Kalember | Ben Savage | Griffin Dunne | Dan Futterman | Jenny Lewis
O Pioneers! (1992)
As: Carl Linstrum
A young woman inherits her father's farm after he dies. Over the years, she overcomes challenges and turns it into a success, all the while yearning for her childhood love to return.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan
Stars: Anne Heche | David Strathairn | Reed Diamond | Jessica Lange | Tom Aldredge
City of Hope (1991)
As: Asteroid
This gritty inner-city film by John Sayles follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father (Tony Lo Bianco). Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn (Joe Morton), an ...
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: Chris Cooper | Stephen Mendillo | Joe Morton | Vincent Spano | Tony Lo Bianco
Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991)
As: Doctor Art Kobrine
In 1981, during the assassination attempt on then President Ronald Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot and left paralyzed.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Michael Toshiyuki Uno
Stars: Beau Bridges | Gary Grubbs | David Strathairn | Joan Allen
Memphis Belle (1990)
As: Col. Craig Harriman
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Dresden, a heavily-defended city that invariably causes many Allied casualties
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Stars: Billy Zane | Matthew Modine | Tate Donovan | Eric Stoltz | D. B. Sweeney
Heat Wave (1990)
As: Bill Thomas
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Kevin Hooks
Stars: James Earl Jones | Sally Kirkland | Cicely Tyson | Margaret Avery | Blair Underwood
Day One (1989)
As: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about ...
Runtime: 141 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Brian Dennehy | David Strathairn | Michael Tucker | Hume Cronyn | Richard Dysart
Eight Men Out (1988)
As: Eddie Cicotte
The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to ever win a pennent. The team is bitter at their penny pincher owner, Charles Comiskey, and at their own teammates. Gamblers take advantage of this opportunity to offer some players $ to throw the series (Most of the players didn't get as much as promised.) But Buck Weaver and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson turn back at the last minute to try ...
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: Christopher Lloyd | John Cusack | Charlie Sheen | Clifton James | D. B. Sweeney
Call Me (1988)
As: Sam
A journalist receives an obscene phonecall that she mistakes for her boyfriend. She then agrees to meet with the caller at a bar, but instead of meeting the boyfriend, she witnesses a murder.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Sollace Mitchell
Stars: Steve Buscemi | Stephen McHattie | Sam Freed | Patricia Charbonneau | Boyd Gaines
Stars And Bars (1988)
As: Charlie
Henderson Dores (Daniel Day Lewis), a New York based art dealer from England, travels to Georgia to persuade patriarch, Harry Dean Stanton, to sell a Monet previously thought lost.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
Stars: Kent Broadhurst | Harry Dean Stanton | Joan Cusack | Maury Chaykin | Daniel Day-Lewis
Matewan (1987)
As: Police Chief Sid Hatfield
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: James Earl Jones | Chris Cooper | David Strathairn | Mary McDonnell | Will Oldham
Broken Vows (1987)
As: Stuart Chase
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes his faith to its very foundation. Intrigued by the dying man's mention of "Nim," and fascinated by the man's saintly demeanor, Father Joseph's curiosity is redoubled when a beautiful young woman enters his church to question the young priest about the ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jud Taylor
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones | M. Emmet Walsh | Frances Fisher | Annette O'Toole | Milo O'Shea
At Close Range (1986)
As: Tony Pine
Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... and ultimately, murder.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: James Foley
Stars: Christopher Walken | Mary Stuart Masterson | Chris Penn | Sean Penn | Millie Perkins
When Nature Calls (1985)
As: Weejun
When construction worker Greg becomes fed-up with his foreman and the "city life", he takes his wife and kids on a wilderness adventure.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Charles Kaufman
Stars: David Strathairn | David Orange | Barbara Marineau | Tina Marie Staiano | Nicky Beim
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
As: Man In Black
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: Ginny Yang | Joe Morton | Rosanna Carter | Ray Ramirez | Yves Rene
Iceman (1984)
As: Dr. Singe
An anthropologist is brought to an arctic base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who has been frozen in a block of ice for 40,000 years. After thawing the body to perform an autopsy, scientists discover to their amazement a real possibility to revive him and their attempt to resuscitate the "iceman" proves successful.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Timothy Hutton | Josef Sommer | David Strathairn | Lindsay Crouse | John Lone
Silkwood (1983)
As: Wesley
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Kurt Russell | Craig T. Nelson | Fred Ward | Cher | Meryl Streep
Lovesick (1983)
As: Marvin Zuckerman
Forget about accountants who want to fly, professors whose brains are being zapped by aliens and bored housewives passing the time. The one all-consuming problem Manhattan psychiatrist Saul Benjamin has is himself! Saul (Dudley Moore) and Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients, are in love. The situation could get him bounced from his profession but for lovers of romantic comedy, ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Marshall Brickman
Stars: Christine Baranski | Alec Guinness | Elizabeth McGovern | Dudley Moore | John Huston
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983)
This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now married. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Mirra Bank | Ellen Hovde | Muffie Meyer
Stars: Ellen Barkin | Kevin Bacon | David Strathairn | Maria Tucci
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980)
As: Ron
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: Adam LeFevre | Gordon Clapp | Maggie Renzi | Bruce MacDonald | Maggie Cousineau