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Fracture

Fracture (2007) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Hoblit
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz

A structural engineer (Anthony Hopkins) and an ambitious young district attorney (Ryan Gosling) become locked in a deadly battle of wits when the former is found innocent in the attempted murder of his wife in director Gregory Hoblit's tense tale of courtroom mind games. Ted Crawford (Hopkins) is an engineer who lives with his wife Jennifer ...

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We Are Marshall

We Are Marshall (2006) more movies like this

directed by McG
featuring Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn, Ian McShane

A true story of tragedy, hope, and resilience comes to the screen in this sports drama. Huntington, WV, is home to Marshall University, a school where college football is a way of life. Huntington is also a town that learned to deal with tragedy in the fall of 1970 when Marshall's "Thundering Herd" boarded an airliner to return home after a ...

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Twisted

Twisted (2004) more movies like this

directed by Philip Kaufman
featuring Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn, Russell Wong

Philip Kaufman directs the detective thriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction of the man who raised her as his daughter, police Commissioner Mills (Samuel L. Jackson). While ...

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Memphis Belle

Memphis Belle (1990) more movies like this

directed by Michael Caton-Jones
featuring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, David Strathairn

Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclaimed documentary about the real-life events depicted in the film. The ensemble cast is composed of ten young actors portraying the crew of the World War II B-17 bomber "Memphis Belle," anticipating ...

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L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential (1997) more movies like this

directed by Curtis Hanson
featuring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito

Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour. Dudley Smith (James Cromwell) is the head of the ...

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Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out (1988) more movies like this

directed by John Sayles
featuring John Cusack, Clifton James, David Strathairn, Christopher Lloyd, D.B. Sweeney, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner

Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal shows how athletes of another era were a different ...

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Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) more movies like this

directed by George Clooney
featuring David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella

George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, in this fact-based drama, which was Clooney's second feature film as a director. In 1953, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) was one of the best-known newsmen on television as host of both the talk show Person to Person and the pioneering ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) more movies like this

directed by Michael Hoffman
featuring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Christian Bale, Dominic West, David Strathairn, Sophie Marceau

With William Shakespeare now a hot commodity at the box office (and his body of work conveniently out of copyright), the usual trickle of film adaptations of the Bard's work is becoming a small flood, and director Michael Hoffman has assembled a cast of leading stage and screen actors for this whimsical film version of one of Shakespeare's most ...

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Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne (1995) more movies like this

directed by Taylor Hackford
featuring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Strathairn

A daughter who has come to imagine the worst about her mother learns the facts are quite different -- and more shocking than she ever imagined -- in this adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel. Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) has spent nearly a quarter of a century looking after a mean-spirited woman named Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) on a ...

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Sneakers

Sneakers (1992) more movies like this

directed by Phil Alden Robinson
featuring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, David Strathairn

In this tech-thriller from director Phil Alden Robinson, a group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop (Robert Redford), are hired by the government to steal a black box, containing a code-breaking machine, from the mathematician who invented the device. The government is able to persuade Martin to take the job by convincing him ...

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Simon Birch (1998) more movies like this

directed by Mark Steven Johnson
featuring Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn

This comedy-drama features a narration by Jim Carrey, looking back to childhood in a manner similar to the narration on TV's The Wonder Years. The film is the directorial debut of writer Mark Steven Johnson, scripter of Grumpy Old Men and its sequel. Johnson adapted only a small portion of John Irving's 600-page novel A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989 ...

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The River Wild (1994) more movies like this

directed by Curtis Hanson
featuring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, John C. Reilly

In a change-of-pace role designed to prove that she could carry high-concept genre films as well as character-driven dramas, Meryl Streep headlined this fast-paced adventure as Gail, a whitewater rafting guide. For a vacation, Gail is accompanying her son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and workaholic husband Tom (David Strathairn) on a river trip. Gail ...

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O Pioneers! (1991) more movies like this

directed by Glenn Jordan
featuring Jessica Lange, David Strathairn, Heather Graham, Josh Hamilton, Anne Heche

Based on the Willa Cather novel, this Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm stars Jessica Lange as Alexandra Bergson, a single woman who inherits her family farm, much to the dismay of her siblings. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Limbo (1999) more movies like this

directed by John Sayles
featuring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, Kris Kristofferson, Casey Siemaszko, Kathryn Grody, Rita Taggart, Michael Laskin

Writer/director John Sayles once again takes his audience to a place they may never have been before (this time both psychologically and geographically). Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn) lives in Juneau, Alaska, where his life has been stuck in neutral for about 25 years. When he was young, Joe was involved in an accident on a fishing boat that ...

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In the Gloaming (1997) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Reeve
featuring Glenn Close, Robert Sean Leonard, David Strathairn, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg

Actor Christopher Reeve made his directorial debut with this dramatic made-for-cable movie about the effects of AIDS on a family. Robert Sean Leonard stars as Danny, a son who returns home to his parents to be with them in the final days of his battle against AIDS. The stress of the situation brings out the tensions and anxieties that the family ...

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A Map of the World (1999) more movies like this

directed by Scott Elliott
featuring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Ron Lea, Arliss Howard

In this contemporary drama, Sigourney Weaver plays a woman out of her element and at the end of her rope. Alice Goodwin is a wife and mother who finds that the pressures of her life are starting to become more than she can bear. Alice works part-time as a school nurse while her husband Howard (David Strathairn) runs the family farm; they both look ...

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The Miracle Worker (2000) more movies like this

directed by Nadia Tass
featuring Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Alison Elliott, David Strathairn, Lucas Black

Originally telecast November 12, 2000, on ABC, The Miracle Worker was the third film version of the classic biographical play by William Gibson. Following in the footsteps of Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert as the young Helen Keller is Hallie Kate Eisenberg, who skyrocketed to TV fame in 2000 as star of a series of well-circulated cola commercials. ...

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Lost in Yonkers (1993) more movies like this

directed by Martha Coolidge
featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth, Brad Stoll, Mike Damus, David Strathairn

An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, semi-autobiographical stage play by popular dramatist Neil Simon, this comedy-drama focuses on the difficulties faced by two young brothers forced to live with a group of eccentric relatives. Arty (Mike Damus) and Jay (Brad Stoll) are young teenagers when their their widower father heads South to seek ...

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Blue Car (2003) more movies like this

directed by Karen Moncrieff
featuring Agnes Bruckner, David Strathairn, Margaret Colin, Frances Fisher, Regan Arnold

The coming-of-age drama Blue Car is the directorial debut feature from actress Karen Moncrieff. Played by newcomer Agnes Bruckner, quiet high school student Meg lives in an apartment complex where she takes care of her troubled little sister, Lily (Regan Arnold), while her emotionally unavailable mom (Margaret Colin) is busy at work or school. ...

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Steel Toes (2007) more movies like this

directed by David Gow, Mark Adam
featuring David Strathairn, Andrew Walker, Marina Orsini, Ivan Smith

Academy award nominee David Strathairn stars in co-directors David Gow and Mark Adam's fiery tale of a Jewish, court appointed lawyer assigned the task of defending a murderous neo-Nazi skinhead. David Dunkleman (Strathairn) is a Jewish liberal humanist and a lawyer who works for the court system. Mike Downey (Andrew Walker) is a fierce member of ...

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Losing Isaiah (1995) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
featuring Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Daisy Eagan

Two women of dramatically different social, economic, and ethnic circumstances find themselves locked into a bitter child custody dispute in this emotionally powerful drama. Khailia Richards (Halle Berry) is a poor and drug-addicted single mother who, while stumbling out of a crack house one night, accidentally leaves her infant son Isaiah in a ...

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Missing in America (2005) more movies like this

directed by Gabrielle Savage Dockterman
featuring Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, David Strathairn, Ron Perlman, Zoë Weizenbaum

A reclusive Vietnam veteran finds his quiet life thrown into chaos upon receiving an unexpected visitor in this tale of friendship and healing starring Danny Glover, Linda Hamilton, and Ron Perlman. Though 35 years have passed since Jake (Glover) returned to American soil after fighting in the Vietnam war, the horrors of the battlefield still ...

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Iceman (1984) more movies like this

directed by Fred Schepisi
featuring Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn

We first see Asian cave dweller John Lone as he wanders around what seems to be his natural habitat of some 10,000 years ago. Soon we learn that Lone is in a controlled environment in a scientific lab--and that his frozen body was recently discovered during an expedition to the North Pole (hence the nickname "Iceman"). Scientists Lindsay Crouse ...

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Passion Fish (1992) more movies like this

directed by John Sayles
featuring Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Nora Dunn

With his trademark emphasis on character development and dialogue, writer/director John Sayles tells the story of May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell), a New York soap opera actress left paralyzed by a car accident. As the film opens, she lies in a hospital bed, confused and scared, watching her own show on TV and shrieking, "That was supposed to be ...

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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) more movies like this

directed by Paul Greengrass
featuring Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Albert Finney

Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) races to solve the mystery of his past while being hunted by members of the very organization he was hired into as director Paul Greengrass brings author Robert Ludlum's popular character back to the big screen for his third feature outing. David Strathairn, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, and Paddy Considine co-star. Jason ...

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