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The Crucible

The Crucible (1996) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Hytner
featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison

When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness of Joseph McCarthy and his spurious crusade against communism. In its 1996 screen adaptation (scripted by Miller), the tone has been adjusted somewhat and plays as a warning against the dangers of political and religious ...

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Paulie

Paulie (1998) more movies like this

directed by John Roberts
featuring Gena Rowlands, Jay Mohr, Tia Texada, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison

In the Babe tradition of talking animatronic animals, this comedy adventure gets underway when animal-research-lab janitor Misha (Tony Shalhoub) expresses concern for a Blue-crown Conure parrot named Paulie (voice of Jay Mohr) caged in a dank basement. Misha settles back as Paulie tells his life story, seen in flashback: When Paulie was owned by ...

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Runaway Jury

Runaway Jury (2003) more movies like this

directed by Gary Fleder
featuring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Jeremy Piven

Three people attempt to bend justice for their own purposes in this drama based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham. After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun, with her lawyer, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), arguing that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the ...

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crazy/beautiful

crazy/beautiful (2001) more movies like this

directed by John Stockwell
featuring Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Bruce Davison, Lucinda Jenney, Taryn Manning

The Romeo and Juliet story has been modernized to a high school setting previously, but this romance from director John Stockwell turns the tale inside out. Jay Hernandez stars as Carlos Nunez, a poor but athletically gifted Latino teenager who endures a two-hour bus ride every day from East L.A. to attend the posh, wealthy Pacific Palisades High ...

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Mame

Mame (1974) more movies like this

directed by Gene Saks
featuring George Chiang, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Kirby Furlong, Bruce Davison

Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical, which featured an electrifying performance by Angela Lansbury. As Patrick Dennis' plucky and resilient Auntie Mame, Ball's low-pitched, growling moan of a voice (a spine-chilling reminder of the sound of Linda Blair's demon-possession in The Exorcist) and her gaudy ...

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Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil (1998) more movies like this

directed by Bryan Singer
featuring Kevin Pollak, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas, Joe Morton, David Schwimmer

Bryan Singer directed this Brandon Boyce adaptation of Stephen King's novella about teenager Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), who discovers Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) living in his California hometown. Fascinated with Dussender's wartime atrocities, Bowden blackmails the former death-camp commandant by promising to keep his identity ...

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The Cure

The Cure (1995) more movies like this

directed by Peter Horton
featuring Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid, Bruce Davison

Erik (Brad Renfro) is a 13-year-old boy whose single mother, Gail (Diana Scarwid), has just moved to a new home in Minnesota. Erik feels like a fish out of water with his Southern accent, and he has trouble making friends until he meets Dexter (Joseph Mazzello), a kid a year or two younger who lives next door. Erik and Dexter get along fine, but ...

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Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us (1985) more movies like this

directed by John Landis
featuring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison

Director John Landis helmed this Cold War farce starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume -- two loser misfits who dwell in the lower ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Convinced despite much evidence to the contrary that they're prime secret agent material, both men keep taking service exams in an effort ...

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The Ladies Club

The Ladies Club (1986) more movies like this

directed by Aram Allen, Janet Greek
featuring Karen Austin, Diana Scarwid, Christine Belford, Bruce Davison, Shera Danese

A rare attempt by a female director to attack the issue of rape from a woman's perspective, this drama is sure to cause varied reactions. A sense of the film's perspective can be garnered from paraphrasing its publicity: "Rapists have two problems and the 'Ladies Club' is about to remove them both." Statistics of the time note that a woman was ...

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Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion (1984) more movies like this

directed by Ken Russell
featuring Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison

Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner) is a cold, workaholic sportswear designer, divorced and dedicated only to her job. Once strapped into that role, Joanna looks for an "out" and finds it by donning a wig and hitting the pavement as a $50/trick hooker named China Blue. Explicit scenes show her at work on her night job, including a long S and M segment ...

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Longtime Companion (1990) more movies like this

directed by Norman Rene
featuring Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Stephen Caffrey, Mark Lamos, Patrick Cassidy, Mary-Louise Parker

At the time of Longtime Companion's release in 1990, the devastating disease of AIDS was seen as a mysterious and deadly scourge, replete with rumors, lies, and panic. As the first narrative film to examine the AIDS epidemic, screenwriter Craig Lucas and director Norman René place the disease in an historical context, dramatizing the impact of the ...

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Dahmer (2002) more movies like this

directed by David Jacobson
featuring Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison, Artel Kayaru, Matt Newton, Dion Basco

A low-key glimpse into the life and crimes of one of history's most notorious serial killers, Dahmer doesn't concern itself with the gruesome nature of its protagonist's horrific crimes, but rather the troubled mind of the man who committed them. Focusing on the later years in the life of Jeffrey Dahmer (Jeremy Renner), David Jacobson's film ...

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Short Cuts (1993) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Tim Robbins, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Anne Archer, Matthew Modine, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls into a coma. Meanwhile, Andy (Lyle Lovett), a baker ...

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Grace of My Heart (1996) more movies like this

directed by Allison Anders
featuring Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz, Bruce Davison, Patsy Kensit

Illeana Douglas delivers a superb performance as Denise Waverly, a fictional singer and songwriter whose life bears more than a passing resemblance to that of real-life pop star Carole King. Edna Buxton, the daughter of a Philadelphia steel tycoon, aspires to a career as a singer, and when against her mother's bidding she sings a sultry version of ...

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Vendetta (1999) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Meyer
featuring Christopher Walken, Clancy Brown, Bruce Davison

Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine ...

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The Triangle (2005) more movies like this

directed by Craig R. Baxley
featuring Eric Stoltz, Sam Neill, Lou Diamond Phillips, Catherine Bell, Bruce Davison, Michael Rodgers

When a series of cargo ships vanish into the open waters of the Bermuda Triangle, a team of determined specialists attempt to uncover the mystery of the planet's most perplexing phenomenon in Storm of the Century and Rose Red director Craig R. Baxley's spooky sci-fi miniseries. Billionaire Eric Benirall's (Sam Neill) ships have gone missing at an ...

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At First Sight (1999) more movies like this

directed by Irwin Winkler
featuring Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber, Bruce Davison

New York architect Amy Benic (Mira Sorvino) meets blind masseur Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer) and falls in love. As she learns his lifelong blindness may be curable through experimental surgery, she convinces him to undergo the operation. Virgil then learns vision may not quite be what he expected. At First Sight is directed by Irwin Winkler and ...

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Short Eyes (1977) more movies like this

directed by Robert M. Young
featuring Bruce Davison, Jose Perez, Nathan George, Don Blakely, Shawn Elliott

"Short eyes" is prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Fitting this odious description is new inmate Bruce Davison, who is arrested and locked up with the scum of the earth. Despite their own depravities, Davison's fellow prisoners consider him the lowest form of human life, and proceed to treat him accordingly, in a series of appalling ...

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The Misfit Brigade (1988) more movies like this

directed by Gordon Hessler
featuring David Carradine, D.W. Moffett, Keith Szarabajka, Bruce Davison, Jay O. Sanders

A motley group of routine German prisoners (including David Patrick Kelly, Jay Sanders and Bruce Davison) are enlisted by a Nazi colonel (David Carradine). The government, desperate for fighting men, promises them freedom if they can destroy a targeted train on the Russian front. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995) more movies like this

directed by Phillip Borsos
featuring Mimi Rogers, Bruce Davison, Jesse Bradford, Tom Bower, Joel Palmer

In this family adventure story, John and Catherine McCormick (Bruce Davison and Mimi Rogers) relocate from Vancouver to the coast of British Columbia, where sailing enthusiast John teaches his sons Angus (Jesse Bradford) and Silas (Joel Palmer) basic seamanship and outdoor survival skills. Angus has rescued a stray Golden Labrador he calls Yellow ...

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The King Is Alive (2001) more movies like this

directed by Kristian Levring
featuring Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Bruce Davison

Shot against the barren sand dunes of Africa's Namib Desert, The King Is Alive is the fourth film to adhere to the stripped-down aesthetic of the Dogma 95 movement, and the first to bear the directorial stamp of the manifesto's co-author Kristian Levring. The improvised, shot-on-digital video production concerns the exploits of almost a dozen ...

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High Risk (1981) more movies like this

directed by Stewart Raffill
featuring James Brolin, Cleavon Little, Bruce Davison, Chick Vennera, Anthony Quinn

Stewart Raffill directs the high-action comedy caper High Risk about a four-man band of theives trying to pull off the perfect crime. Stone (James Brolin), Tony (Chick Venera), Dan (Bruce Davidson), and Rockney (Cleavon Little) hire two inept airplane pilots and plot a major heist. The plan is to rob a mansion in South America belonging to the ...

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Ulzana's Raid (1972) more movies like this

directed by Robert Aldrich
featuring Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke, Richard Jaeckel, Joaquin Martinez

One of the best films by often-underrated director Robert Aldrich, this stark, brutal Western is also an effective allegory of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Set in Arizona during the late 1880s, the film begins with experienced scout McIntosh (Burt Lancaster) and idealistic U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant DeBuin (Bruce Davison) setting out to ...

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8MM 2 (2005) more movies like this

directed by J.S. Cardone
featuring Johnathon Schaech, Lori Heuring, Bruce Davison, Julie Benz

An extortionist threatens to derail the career of a prominent politician by revealing visual proof of his lurid sex life in this sequel to Joel Schumacher's disturbing 1999 hit. In the world of politics David Huxley (Johnathon Schaech) is on the move. A crafty political visionary with lofty goals and an eye towards the future, Huxley's only ...

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Off Season (2001) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Davison
featuring Rory Culkin, Hume Cronyn, Sherilyn Fenn, Bruce Davison, Adam Arkin

In this made-for-cable comedy-drama, a ten-year-old boy (Rory Culkin), who is still coming to terms with the death of his parents, is sent to spend the summer with his aunt (Sherilyn Fenn), who works as a lounge singer at a Florida resort hotel that's seen better days. While living at the hotel, the boy makes the acquaintance of Sam (Hume Cronyn), ...

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