Jeff Daniels

Guest Artist (2019)

As: Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris, a legendary but troubled playwright, comes to a small Michigan town at Christmastime to mount his latest play. Greeting the cynical New Yorker is a young, aspiring writer who challenges his literary hero to be the icon he’d hoped for. Harris wants no part of Michigan or its small-town theater, and he has no interest in being the young man’s hero. As soon as he arrives, Harris makes plans ...

Runtime: 75 min.

Directed by: Timothy Busfield

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Richard McWilliams | Erika Slezak | Thomas Macias | McKara Bechler

The Emperor's Newest Clothes (2018)

As: The Emperor

Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale gets a colorful, music-filled makeover in the whimsical special. Filled with bold animation, catchy musical numbers and valuable lessons, this enchanting twist on a beloved tale chronicles the story of an Emperor whose blinding vanity makes him an easy target for two phony tailors.

Runtime: 26 min.

Directed by: Simón Wilches

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Alan Alda | Tim Heidecker | John Early | Matt Hobby

The Russian Five (2018)

As: Himself

The story of the five Russian hockey stars who helped propel the Detroit Red Wings to two Stanley Cup championships and created one of the most memorable chapters in Motor City sports history.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Joshua Riehl

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Wayne Gretzky | Jim Devellano | Sergei Fedorov | Viacheslav Fetisov

The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

As: William J. Donovan

Major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Ben Lewin

Stars: Mark Strong | Guy Pearce | Jeff Daniels | Sienna Miller | Paul Rudd

Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (2017)

Directed by: Alex Gibney | Blair Foster

Stars: Johnny Depp | Jeff Daniels | Jann Wenner | Cameron Crowe | Annie Leibovitz

Allegiant (2016)

As: David

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Robert Schwentke

Stars: Miles Teller | Zoë Kravitz | Naomi Watts | Theo James | Shailene Woodley

Ares III: Refocused (2016)

As: Teddy Sanders

This is a faux-documentary about the rescue of Mark Watney, featuring some of the actors from the movie in-character in 'talking head' interview segments.

Runtime: 17 min.

Stars: Sean Bean | Matt Damon | Kate Mara | Jessica Chastain | Jeff Daniels

Steve Jobs (2015)

As: John Sculley

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

Runtime: 122 min.

Directed by: Danny Boyle

Stars: Kate Winslet | Jeff Daniels | Michael Fassbender | Seth Rogen | Katherine Waterston

The Martian (2015)

As: Teddy Sanders

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

Runtime: 144 min.

Directed by: Ridley Scott

Stars: Matt Damon | Kristen Wiig | Jessica Chastain | Jeff Daniels | Michael Peña

Dumb and Dumber To (2014)

As: Harry Dunne

20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.

Runtime: 109 min.

Directed by: Bobby Farrelly | Peter Farrelly

Stars: Jim Carrey | Jeff Daniels | Brady Bluhm | Kathleen Turner | Rachel Melvin

Looper (2012)

As: Abe

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for ...

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Rian Johnson

Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Paul Dano | Bruce Willis | Emily Blunt | Noah Segan

Howl (2010)

As: Professor David Kirk

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

Paper Man (2009)

As: Richard Dunn

A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his imaginary Superhero friend.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Kieran Mulroney | Michele Mulroney

Stars: Emma Stone | Kieran Culkin | Ryan Reynolds | Jeff Daniels | Lisa Kudrow

Away We Go (2009)

As: Jerry Farlander

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Veronica expecting their first child, Burt’s parents decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Sam Mendes

Stars: Maya Rudolph | John Krasinski | Carmen Ejogo | Catherine O'Hara | Jeff Daniels

State of Play (2009)

As: Senator George Fergus

Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

Runtime: 127 min.

Directed by: Kevin Macdonald

Stars: Russell Crowe | Robin Wright | Helen Mirren | Rachel McAdams | Ben Affleck

The Answer Man (2009)

As: Arlen Faber

Twenty years ago, Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) wrote a book about spirituality that became wildly popular. These days, he's a curmudgeonly recluse who only enjoys the company of his chiropractor, Elizabeth (Lauren Graham). As Elizabeth's warmth starts to melt Arlen's cold heart, he comes to realize what love really means.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: John Hindman

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Olivia Thirlby | Lou Taylor Pucci | Lauren Graham | Kat Dennings

Traitor (2008)

As: Carter

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Stars: Alyy Khan | Saïd Taghmaoui | Guy Pearce | Don Cheadle | Neal McDonough

Space Chimps (2008)

As: Zartog (voice)

Three chimps are sent into space to explore the possibility of alien life when an unmanned space shuttle crash lands on an uncharted planet.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: Kirk De Micco

Stars: Patrick Warburton | Cheryl Hines | Kristin Chenoweth | Jeff Daniels | Andy Samberg

Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)

As: Dan Miller

Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Joseph Sargent

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Marlee Matlin | Michael Ormsby | Ed Waterstreet | Phyllis Frelich

Mama's Boy (2007)

As: Mert Rosenbloom

A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mom realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau.

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Tim Hamilton

Stars: Diane Keaton | Eli Wallach | Jon Heder | Anna Faris | Jeff Daniels

The Lookout (2007)

As: Lewis

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Scott Frank

Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Matthew Goode | Jeff Daniels | Isla Fisher | Carla Gugino

A Plumm Summer (2007)

As: Narrator

Based on a true-story - A Plumm Summer tells the remarkable tale of two young brothers, Elliott and Rocky Plumm, who go head-to-head with the FBI in order to crack the "frog-napping" case and get their beloved TV puppet, Froggy Doo back on the air, all the while become local heroes and best friends.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Caroline Zelder

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Chris Massoglia | Henry Winkler | Lisa Guerrero | Owen Pearce

Infamous (2006)

As: Alvin Dewey

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Douglas McGrath

Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow | Toby Jones | Isabella Rossellini | Sigourney Weaver | Sandra Bullock

RV (2006)

As: Travis Gornicke

Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the McNeive family – led by dysfunctional patriarch, Bob – prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. But spending two weeks together in one seriously small space has a way of cramping their style.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld

Stars: Cheryl Hines | Josh Hutcherson | Jeff Daniels | Robin Williams | Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

As: Bernard Berkman

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: Noah Baumbach

Stars: Laura Linney | Jesse Eisenberg | Jeff Daniels | William Baldwin | Owen Kline

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

As: Sig Mickelson

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

Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)

As: Preacher

A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Wayne Wang

Stars: AnnaSophia Robb | Cicely Tyson | Jeff Daniels | Dave Matthews | Eva Marie Saint

The Five People You Meet In Heaven (2004)

As: Blue Man

On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life.

Runtime: 180 min.

Directed by: Lloyd Kramer

Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Steven Grayhm | Jeff Daniels | Jon Voight | Dagmara Domińczyk

Imaginary Heroes (2004)

As: Ben Travis

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Dan Harris

Stars: Michelle Williams | Ryan Donowho | Sigourney Weaver | Jeff Daniels | Emile Hirsch

The Goodbye Girl (2004)

As: Elliot Garfield

Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European movie part. He even sublets their (his) New York apartment to Elliot Garfield, who generously lets her stay, even keeping the master bedroom. Pragmatic pre-teen daughter Lucy soon takes to his charm, but Paula remains determined to hate all actors. Despite the ...

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Richard Benjamin

Stars: Lynda Boyd | Alan Cumming | Jeff Daniels | Patricia Heaton | Hallie Kate Eisenberg

I Witness (2003)

As: James Rhodes

After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Rowdy Herrington

Stars: Wade Williams | Jeff Daniels | James Spader | Portia de Rossi | Clifton Collins Jr.

Gods and Generals (2003)

As: Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point when Jackson is killed accidentally by his own soldiers in May 1863 during his greatest victory.

Runtime: 219 min.

Directed by: Ronald F. Maxwell

Stars: C. Thomas Howell | Stephen Lang | Jeff Daniels | Robert Duvall | Kevin Conway

The Hours (2002)

As: Louis Waters

"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Stephen Daldry

Stars: Miranda Richardson | Nicole Kidman | Julianne Moore | Stephen Dillane | Meryl Streep

Blood Work (2002)

As: Jasper 'Buddy' Noone

Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Stars: Tina Lifford | Anjelica Huston | Jeff Daniels | Wanda De Jesus | Clint Eastwood

Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)

As: Rueben Soady

A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Jeff Daniels

Stars: Harve Presnell | Jeff Daniels | Randall Godwin | Joey Albright | Wayne David Parker

Chasing Sleep (2000)

As: Ed Saxon

A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: Michael Walker

Stars: Gil Bellows | Jeff Daniels | Ben Shenkman | Molly Price | Emily Bergl

Cheaters (2000)

As: Dr. Gerard Plecki

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: John Stockwell

Stars: Luke Edwards | Jeff Daniels | Paul Sorvino | Jena Malone | Blake Heron

The Crossing (2000)

As: Gen. George Washington

A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.

Runtime: 89 min.

Directed by: Robert Harmon

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Sebastian Roché | Roger Rees | Steven McCarthy | John Henry Canavan

All the Rage (1999)

As: Warren Harding

A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: James D. Stern

Stars: Bokeem Woodbine | Andre Braugher | Robert Forster | Jeff Daniels | Joan Allen

My Favorite Martian (1999)

As: Tim O'Hara

News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Donald Petrie

Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Christopher Lloyd | Wallace Shawn | Jeff Daniels | Daryl Hannah

Pleasantville (1998)

As: Bill Johnson

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Gary Ross

Stars: William H. Macy | Jeff Daniels | Tobey Maguire | Reese Witherspoon | Joan Allen

Trial and Error (1997)

As: Charles 'Charlie' Tuttle

An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Lynn

Stars: Austin Pendleton | Charlize Theron | Jeff Daniels | Michael Richards | Jessica Steen

101 Dalmatians (1996)

As: Roger

The Live action adaptation of a Disney Classic. When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Stephen Herek

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Joely Richardson | Glenn Close | Joan Plowright | Hugh Laurie

Fly Away Home (1996)

As: Thomas 'Tom' Alden

Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest is torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South...

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Carroll Ballard

Stars: Dana Delany | Anna Paquin | Jeff Daniels | Terry Kinney | Holter Graham

2 Days in the Valley (1996)

As: Alvin Strayer

In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the story of two hit men, a mistress, a nurse, a vindictive ex-wife, a wealthy art dealer and his lovelorn assistant, a suicidal writer and his dog, and a ...

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: John Herzfeld

Stars: Danny Aiello | Charlize Theron | Jeff Daniels | Teri Hatcher | Greg Cruttwell

Redwood Curtain (1995)

As: Lyman Fellers

Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: John Korty

Stars: Catherine Hicks | Jeff Daniels | John Lithgow | Debra Monk | Lea Salonga

Dumb and Dumber (1994)

As: Harry Dunne

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Peter Farrelly | Bobby Farrelly

Stars: Lauren Holly | Jim Carrey | Jeff Daniels | Mike Starr | Teri Garr

Speed (1994)

As: Harold 'Harry' Temple

Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven is up against bomb expert Howard Payne, who's after major ransom money. First it's a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it's a rigged bus--if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that's still not the end.

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Jan de Bont

Stars: Keanu Reeves | Sandra Bullock | Jeff Daniels | Dennis Hopper | Joe Morton

Gettysburg (1993)

As: Col. Joshua Chamberlain

Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge, the fate of "one nation, indivisible" hangs in the balance.

Runtime: 271 min.

Directed by: Ronald F. Maxwell

Stars: Tom Berenger | Sam Elliott | Martin Sheen | Stephen Lang | Jeff Daniels

Rain Without Thunder (1993)

As: Jonathan Garson

This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: Gary O. Bennett

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Betty Buckley | Ali Thomas | Iona Morris | Eliza Clark

There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)

As: Willis Embry

There Goes the Neighborhood, released as Paydirt in most foreign countries, is a 1992 comedy film. The film tells a story of a dying prisoner who whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist Willis Embry (Jeff Daniels) who heads to the New Jersey suburbs to find it.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Bill Phillips

Stars: Catherine O'Hara | Jeff Daniels | Rhea Perlman | Judith Ivey | Héctor Elizondo

Timescape (1992)

As: Ben Wilson

Before they can complete renovations on their new inn, Widower (Ben Wilson) and daughter (Hillary) are visited by a woman seeking immediate lodging for her strange group of travellers. Why they won't stay at the hotel in town is just the first of many mysteries surrounding the group that lead Wilson to a startling discovery affecting his family and neighbours.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: David Twohy

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Ariana Richards | Jim Haynie | Emilia Crow | Marilyn Lightstone

The Butcher's Wife (1991)

As: Dr. Alex Tremor

A clairvoyant woman thinks that she's met her future husband because she's seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop in New York city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Terry Hughes

Stars: George Dzundza | Jeff Daniels | Demi Moore | Mary Steenburgen | Frances McDormand

Love Hurts (1990)

As: Paul Weaver

The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.

Runtime: 106 min.

Directed by: Bud Yorkin

Stars: Cloris Leachman | Jeff Daniels | John Mahoney | Judith Ivey | Cynthia Sikes

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)

As: Denton Webb

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, ...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Jim Abrahams

Stars: Laila Robins | Stephen Tobolowsky | Jeff Daniels | Winona Ryder | Dinah Manoff

Arachnophobia (1990)

As: Dr. Ross Jennings

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Frank Marshall

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Julian Sands | Garette Ratliff Henson | Harley Jane Kozak | Marlene Katz

No Place Like Home (1989)

As: Mike Cooper

A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Lee Grant

Stars: Kathy Bates | Jeff Daniels | Christine Lahti | Kyndra Joy Casper | Lantz Landry

Checking Out (1989)

As: Ray Macklin

Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. His life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria, until he finally learns that all he has to fear is fear itself.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: David Leland

Stars: Jeff Daniels | Michael Tucker | Melanie Mayron | Ann Magnuson | Kathleen York

Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)

As: Sam Manners

Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. As they try to adjust to these conflicting emotions they find themselves having to evaluate their own relationship as well.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Robert Greenwald

Stars: Don Johnson | Susan Sarandon | Jeff Daniels | Elizabeth Perkins | Holly Marie Combs

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)

As: Lt. Steve Maryk

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Robert Altman

Stars: Michael Murphy | Peter Gallagher | Jeff Daniels | Eric Bogosian | Brad Davis

The House on Carroll Street (1988)

As: Cochran

Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help ...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Peter Yates

Stars: Kelly McGillis | Jeff Daniels | Jessica Tandy | Mandy Patinkin

Radio Days (1987)

As: Biff Baxter

The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Stars: Woody Allen | Mia Farrow | Jeff Daniels | Todd Field | Larry David

Something Wild (1986)

As: Charles Driggs

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Demme

Stars: Tracey Walter | Ray Liotta | Jeff Daniels | Melanie Griffith | Margaret Colin

Heartburn (1986)

As: Richard

Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Mike Nichols

Stars: Stockard Channing | Jeff Daniels | Maureen Stapleton | Meryl Streep | Jack Nicholson

Marie (1985)

As: Eddie Sisk

A single mother takes a job with the government where she is confronted with corruption.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Stars: Morgan Freeman | Keith Szarabajka | Jeff Daniels | Sissy Spacek | Fred Dalton Thompson

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

As: Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mudane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

Runtime: 82 min.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Stars: Danny Aiello | Mia Farrow | Jeff Daniels | Irving Metzman | Stephanie Farrow

Terms of Endearment (1983)

As: Flap Horton

Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking.

Runtime: 132 min.

Directed by: James L. Brooks

Stars: Shirley MacLaine | Danny DeVito | Jeff Daniels | Jack Nicholson | Debra Winger

Ragtime (1981)

As: P.C. O'Donnel

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Runtime: 155 min.

Directed by: Miloš Forman

Stars: Brad Dourif | Elizabeth McGovern | Moses Gunn | Kenneth McMillan | James Cagney