Bob Balaban
Isle of Dogs (2018)
Isle of Dogs is a 2018 animated film written, produced, and directed by Wes Anderson. A U.S.–German co-production, Isle of Dogs was produced by Indian Paintbrush and Anderson's own American Empirical Pictures, in association with Studio Babelsberg. The film is set in the fictional Japanese city of Megasaki, where Mayor Kenji Kobayashi has banished ...
Starring: Orson Welles•Jean Dujardin•Viveca Lindfors•Paul Newman•Dana Elcar•Paula Prentiss•Jerry Orbach•Alan Bates•Maggie Smith•Roy Scheider
The Monuments Men (2014)
The Monuments Men is a 2014 war film directed by George Clooney and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov. The film stars an ensemble cast including Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett.
Starring: Jean Dujardin•Dana Elcar•Alan Arkin•Reni Santoni•Jon Voight•Martin Sheen•Harvey Keitel•Bob Newhart
Recount (2008)
Recount is a 2008 political drama television film about Florida's vote recount during the 2000 United States presidential election. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Jay Roach, the television film stars Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, and Tom Wilkinson. It premiered on HBO on May 25,...
Starring: William Schallert•Richard Benjamin•Jean Dujardin•John McMartin•Marshall Bell•Bob Balaban•Marcia Jean Kurtz•Lawrence Pressman•Kristoffer Tabori•Carol Arthur
No Reservations (2007)
No Reservations is a 2007 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Scott Hicks and starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, and Abigail Breslin. The screenplay by Carol Fuchs is an adaptation of an original script by Sandra Nettelbeck, which served as the basis for the 2001 German film Mostly Martha, and revolves around a hard-edged che...
Starring: Rich Little•Jean Dujardin•Sally Field•Ed Begley Jr.•Richard Dreyfuss•Colleen Camp•Teri Garr•Lindsay Crouse•Melinda Dillon•Fred Willard
Lady in the Water (2006)
Lady in the Water is a 2006 American fantasy psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who produced with Sam Mercer. The film features the starring cast of Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard with Bob Balaban, Jeffrey Wright, Sarita Choudhury, Freddy Rodriguez, Bill Irwin and Jared Harris in supporting roles. Produce...
Starring: Jean Dujardin•Jeff Goldblum•François Truffaut•Melanie Mayron•Christopher Guest•Bruce McGill•Treat Williams•Helen Mirren•Wilford Brimley
For Your Consideration (2006)
For Your Consideration is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Christopher Guest. It was co-written by Guest and Eugene Levy, and both also star in the film. The film's title is a phrase used in trade advertisements to promote films for honors such as the Academy Awards. The plot revolves around a group of three actors who learn that their perfo...
Starring: Jean Dujardin•Bill Murray•Michael J. Fox•Patricia Clarkson•Kathy Bates•Kevin Spacey•Catherine Keener•Peter Jurasik•Michael McKean•John Getz
Capote (2005)
Capote is a 2005 biographical drama film about American novelist Truman Capote directed by Bennett Miller, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role. The film primarily follows the events during the writing of Capote's 1965 nonfiction book In Cold Blood. The film was based on Gerald Clarke's 1988 biography Capote. It was released Septem...
Starring: Jean Dujardin•Olivia d'Abo•Harry Shearer•Catherine O'Hara•Fisher Stevens•John Goodman•Daniel Roebuck•Kristin Scott Thomas•Phil Hartman•Chris Cooper
A Mighty Wind (2003)
A Mighty Wind is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. Co-written, directed, and composed by Christopher Guest, the film is widely acknowledged to reference folk music producer Harold Leventhal as the inspiration for t...
Starring: Jean Dujardin•Patricia Clarkson•Kathy Bates•Kevin Spacey•Catherine Keener•Peter Jurasik
Gosford Park (2001)
Gosford Park is a 2001 satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. It was influenced by Jean Renoir's French classic La Règle du jeu.
Starring: Ed Begley, Jr.•Michael Gambon•Jean Dujardin•C. Ernst Harth•Matt Damon•Parker Posey•Denis Leary
The Late Shift (1996)
The Late Shift is a 1996 American made-for-television biographical film directed by Betty Thomas, and written by George Armitage and New York Times media reporter Bill Carter. Released by HBO Pictures and produced in conjunction with Northern Lights Entertainment, the film premiered on HBO on February 24, 1996.
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones•Jean Dujardin•Freddy Rodriguez•Liev Schreiber•Marshall Bell•Jeffrey Wright•Edward Norton•George Clooney•Jared Harris•Clive Owen
Greedy (1994)
Greedy is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and starring Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis, Olivia d'Abo, Phil Hartman, Ed Begley Jr., and Colleen Camp. It tells the story of an aging wheelchair-using scrap metal tycoon whose younger relatives compete to get the inheritance wh...
Starring: Bruce Greenwood•Jean Dujardin•Cate Blanchett•Paul Giamatti•Arija Bareikis•Jennifer Coolidge•Hugh Bonneville•Sarita Choudhury
2010 (1984)
2010: The Year We Make Contact is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams. It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 sequel novel, 2010: Odyssey Two. The film stars Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban and John Lithgow, along with K...
Starring: Abigail Breslin•Fulvio Cecere•Jean Dujardin•R.D. Reid•C. Ernst Harth
Absence of Malice (1981)
Absence of Malice is a 1981 American drama neo noir thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Wilford Brimley, Melinda Dillon and Bob Balaban.
Starring: Jane Lynch•Jean Dujardin•Celia Weston•Clifton Collins Jr.•Jenny Wade
Prince of the City (1981)
Prince of the City is a 1981 American neo-noir crime drama film directed and co-written by Sidney Lumet. The film follows Daniel Ciello, an officer of the New York Police Department who chooses, for idealistic reasons, to expose corruption in the force. Ciello, played by Treat Williams, was based on the NYPD narcotics detective Robert Leuci.
Starring: Cindy Cheung•Jean Dujardin•Orson Welles•Jeffrey Wright•Viveca Lindfors•Eli Wallach•Paula Prentiss
Girlfriends (1978)
Girlfriends is a 1978 comedy-drama film produced and directed by Claudia Weill and written by Vicki Polon. The film stars Melanie Mayron as Susan Weinblatt, a Jewish photographer who experiences loneliness once her roommate Anne moves out of their apartment in New York City. It was the first American independent film to be funded with grants, altho...
Starring: Charles Grodin•Alan Arkin•Jean Dujardin•Jon Voight•Michael J. Fox
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It is the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with a UFO.
Starring: Jean Dujardin•Martin Sheen•Bob Newhart•Clifton Collins Jr.•Richard Benjamin
Making It (1971)
Making It is a 1971 comedy-drama film directed by John Erman and written by Peter Bart and James Leigh. It stars Kristoffer Tabori, Bob Balaban, Lawrence Pressman, Joyce Van Patten, Marlyn Mason, and a number of character actors familiar to TV audiences of the 1970s. Adapted from Leigh's 1965 novel What Can You Do?, the film follows several months ...
Starring: Jean Dujardin•Buck Henry•Kristoffer Tabori
Catch-22 (1970)
Catch-22 is a 1970 American satirical black comedy war film adapted from the 1961 novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. In creating a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" of Heller's satirical anti-war novel set at a fictional Mediterranean base during World War II, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry worked on th...
Starring: Carol Arthur•Richard Dreyfuss•Teri Garr•Lindsay Crouse•François Truffaut•Melanie Mayron•Lane Smith•James Tolkan•Lee Richardson•Jean Dujardin