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Pleasantville

Pleasantville (1998) more movies like this

directed by Gary Ross
featuring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh

Gary Ross, Oscar nominated for his Dave and Big screenplays, made his directorial debut with this comedy. The cheerful '50s TV sitcom "Pleasantville" is revived in the '90s for a loyal cable audience. One devoted fan is shy suburban teen David Wagner (Tobey Maguire), who has an almost obsessive interest in the series. Living with his divorced ...

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Sling Blade

Sling Blade (1996) more movies like this

directed by Billy Bob Thornton
featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday

Sling Blade marked the directorial debut of country singer turned actor Billy Bob Thornton, who also authored the script (expanding George Hickenlooper's acclaimed short Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade) and stars in the picture. Thornton plays Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man who spent most of his life in a mental institution. When Karl was a ...

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Tequila Sunrise

Tequila Sunrise (1988) more movies like this

directed by Robert Towne
featuring Daniel Zacapa, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J.T. Walsh

For his first directorial project in six years, Robert Towne selected a timeworn romantic-triangle yarn, injecting the material with subtlety and conviction. Tequila Sunrise stars Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell as two lifelong friends who, in true James Cagney-Pat O'Brien fashion, grow up on the opposite sides of the law. One is a retired drug dealer ...

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Narrow Margin

Narrow Margin (1990) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hyams
featuring Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking, J.T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh

Narrow Margin directed by Peter Hyams and loosely based on the classic film noir of the same title, tells the story of a resourceful District Attorney who must return a witness to San Francisco alive so she can testify in a trial. Carol (Anne Archer) is in the bathroom of the hotel room of her blind date when he is murdered by mobsters for ...

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House of Games

House of Games (1987) more movies like this

directed by David Mamet
featuring Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh

In his directorial debut, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet creates a stylish cinematic puzzle of games within games, as con men are joined by a psychologist in creating the perfect caper. Dr. Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse), the writer of psychological self-help books, meets Mike (Joe Mantegna) as she attempts to help a patient who ...

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The Grifters

The Grifters (1990) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Frears
featuring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh

Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is a simple, two-bit con, whose life is ...

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Crazy People

Crazy People (1990) more movies like this

directed by Tony Bill
featuring Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah, Paul Reiser, Mercedes Ruehl, J.T. Walsh

Dudley Moore stars as Emory Lesson, an advertising genius whose finds himself committed to an insane asylum in Tony Bill's Crazy People. Emory becomes tired with creating phony ad campaigns and decides to create his own campaigns that tell the brutal truth. Since sex sells, Emory designs an explicit ad campaign consisting of unadorned sexuality. ...

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Hoffa

Hoffa (1992) more movies like this

directed by Danny DeVito
featuring Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly

Danny DeVito tries hard to give his biopic Hoffa an epic scope, yet he just misses the mark. Starring Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa, the film traces the life, career and mysterious disappearance of the labor leader. Hoffa follows the rise of the controversial figure through his early work during the Great Depression as founder of the Teamsters ...

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Needful Things

Needful Things (1993) more movies like this

directed by Fraser C. Heston
featuring Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Amanda Plummer, J.T. Walsh

Satan opens an antique shop in a small town and lures the residents into evil actions in this supernatural chiller. Based on a novel by the prolific Stephen King, the film bears many of the author's trademarks, such as the New England setting and the focus on regular people tempted by the forces of supernatural evil. Here, the enticements toward ...

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Sniper

Sniper (1992) more movies like this

directed by Luis Llosa
featuring Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young, Ken Radley

In this fast-paced military thriller, Tom Berenger is Thomas Beckett, a tough, grizzled, U.S. Marine Corps veteran sharpshooter who goes through target-spotter partners faster than bullets on his ultra-dangerous missions. The National Security Council secretly assigns Beckett to assassinate a Panamanian rebel bankrolled by a drug cartel in his bid ...

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The Last Seduction (1994) more movies like this

directed by John Dahl
featuring Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman, J.T. Walsh, Bill Nunn

Director John Dahl's The Last Seduction is an updated film noir centering around a seductive, cheerfully lethal femme fatale. Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) talks her gullible, easily manipulated, doctor-husband Clay (Bill Pullman) into pulling off a $700,000 drug deal to pay off his gambling debts. But while Clay is in the shower, Bridget ...

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Things Change (1988) more movies like this

directed by David Mamet
featuring J.T. Walsh, Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky, J.J. Johnston, Ricky Jay

Perhaps it was his collaborator Shel Silverstein who said to screenwriter David Mamet "Lighten up. Do a comedy." Whatever the case, Things Change was a welcome change of pace for Mamet, both as scenarist and director. Don Ameche also goes against his usual grain by playing a downtrodden Chicago shoeshine boy (if one can call an 80-year-old a "boy" ...

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Breakdown (1997) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Mostow
featuring Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey, Jack Noseworthy

In this suspense thriller, a man discovers the unexpected danger of trusting a good Samaritan. Jeff Taylor (Kurt Russell) and his wife Amy (Kathleen Quinlan) are driving through the New Mexico desert en route to California when an incident with a lunatic driver causes their jeep to break down in the middle of nowhere. Jeff is trying to fix the ...

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Red Rock West (1993) more movies like this

directed by John Dahl
featuring Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, J.T. Walsh, Timothy Carhart, Dwight Yoakam

John Dahl directed and co-wrote (along with his brother Rick Dahl) this quirky and energetic film noir that, after a well-received screening at the Toronto Film Festival, was consigned to oblivion before resurfacing on cable television. When the owner of a San Francisco movie theater, who was a big fan of the film, arranged for a theatrical ...

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Defenseless (1991) more movies like this

directed by Martin Campbell
featuring Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, Kellie Overbey

In this suspense drama, a lawyer finds out more than she wanted to know about her friends and lovers. T.K. Katwuller (Barbara Hershey) is a lawyer with a firm command of her career but an unstable hold on her private life; she's more single than she'd like to be, and she's become romantically involved with one of her clients, Steven Seldes (J.T. ...

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Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1993) more movies like this

directed by George Hickenlooper
featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, J.T. Walsh

A disturbed man looks back at his past as he faces an uncertain future in this dramatic short subject. Teresa (Molly Ringwald), a young journalist, is sent on assignment to a state-run mental hospital, where she is to interview Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton), soon to be released after spending 25 years in the facility. While Jerry Woolrich ...

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The Babysitter (1995) more movies like this

directed by Guy Ferland
featuring Alicia Silverstone, Jeremy London, J.T. Walsh, Lee Garlington, Nicky Katt

A nubile young babysitter (Alicia Silverstone) has no idea that she is the center of a maelstrom of male sexual fantasies. Based on a disturbing short story by Robert Coover, the drama presents a non-linear account of a perfectly mundane event. Having a social engagement, a couple calls for their babysitter. She arrives, they go out, her boyfriend ...

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The Big Picture (1989) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Guest
featuring Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael McKean

Another "get even with Hollywood" satire in the tradition of SOB and Movers and Shakers, The Big Picture is an elongated inside joke complete with un-billed celebrity cameos. In this first feature-film directorial effort by actor/writer Christopher Guest, Kevin Bacon plays a "boy wonder" director whose willingness to compromise his ideals allows ...

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Silent Fall (1994) more movies like this

directed by Bruce Beresford
featuring Richard Dreyfuss, John Lithgow, Linda Hamilton, J.T. Walsh, Ben Faulkner

This by-the-numbers psychodrama about a child psychologist trying to discern the truth behind a pair of murders stars Richard Dreyfuss as Dr. Jake Rainer, a child psychologist living in an upscale community. Rainer retired when a patient committed suicide, but the local sheriff (J.T. Walsh) calls him to the scene of a double murder. In a lavish ...

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Blue Chips (1994) more movies like this

directed by William Friedkin
featuring Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J.T. Walsh, Ed O'Neill, Alfre Woodard

Blue Chips examines greed, cheating, and "winning at all costs" in the world of college basketball. Nick Nolte plays the stressed-out coach on the verge of his first losing season, who hits the road in search of new players not already signed by a bigger school. He finds three prospects: a precision Chicago shooter (Anfernee Hardaway), a giant ...

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Iron Maze (1991) more movies like this

directed by Hiroaki Yoshida
featuring Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, Hiroaki Murakami, J.T. Walsh, Gabriel Damon

Iron Maze updates the Akira Kurosawa Rashomon tale and works it into a story involving the Japanese corporate takeover of a Pennsylvania steel mill. When Junich Sugita (Hiroaki Murakami), the son of a Japanese businessman, is found beaten to death in the steel mill just purchased by the father, the film examines four different points of view as ...

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Wired (1989) more movies like this

directed by Larry Peerce
featuring Michael Chiklis, Ray Sharkey, J.T. Walsh, Patti D'Arbanville, Lucinda Jenney

This film, loosely-based on the book by Bob Woodward, follows the career of comedian John Belushi (Michael Chiklis) as his spirit is guided through the past by the Angel Velasquez (Ray Sharkey). Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Hope (1997) more movies like this

directed by Goldie Hawn
featuring Jena Malone, Christine Lahti, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey D. Sams, J.T. Walsh

Goldie Hawn garnered favorable reviews with her TV-movie directorial debut, a family drama set against the backdrop of racism in the American South of the early '60s. While in 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis generates fears among adults, 12-year-old Lilly Kate Burns (Jena Malone) dreams of a career as a dancer. The problem is how to escape her ...

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Gang in Blue (1996) more movies like this

directed by Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles
featuring Mario Van Peebles, Josh Brolin, J.T. Walsh, Stephen Lang, Cynda Williams

In this highly-charged police drama, Officer Michael Rhoades is becoming increasingly disturbed by the amount of white-on-black violence that has been escalating in his quiet town. He is especially disturbed that much of that interracial brutality is coming from the police. Rhoades calls they FBI but lacks sufficient hard evidence to warrant their ...

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Persons Unknown (1996) more movies like this

directed by George Hickenlooper
featuring Joe Mantegna, Kelly Lynch, J.T. Walsh, Jon Favreau, Naomi Watts

This tightly woven, fast-paced thriller begins when Amanda (Kelly Lynch), a sexy gal on in-line skates, trips because alcoholic ex-cop/security expert Jim Holland (Joe Mantegna) bumps into her. Something between the two clicks and they spend the night together. Jim has no idea that he has just been victimized until one of his less-than-savory ...

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