Jeff Daniels
The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016)
The Divergent Series: Allegiant is a 2016 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Robert Schwentke with a screenplay by Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, and Noah Oppenheim, and the third and final film in The Divergent Series. It was set to be the first of two cinematic parts based on the final novel of the Divergent trilogy by Veronic...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Pat O'Brien•Donald O'Connor•Van Johnson•Eva Marie Saint•Shirley MacLaine•Cloris Leachman•Dennis Hopper•Ray Walston•Clint Eastwood
The Martian (2015)
The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. Drew Goddard adapted the screenplay from the 2011 novel The Martian by Andy Weir. The film depicts an astronaut's lone struggle to survive on Mars after being left behind and the efforts of NASA to rescue him and bring him home to Earth. It also stars Jessi...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Maureen Stapleton•Robert Duvall•Don Knotts•Marsha Mason•Cicely Tyson•Martin Sheen•James Olson•Mia Farrow•Norman Mailer
Steve Jobs (2015)
Steve Jobs is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin. A British-American co-production, it was adapted from the 2011 biography by Walter Isaacson and interviews conducted by Sorkin. The film covers 14 years (1984–1998) in the life of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, specifically ahead of three press conf...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Anjelica Huston•Frank Langella•Susan Sarandon
Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
Dumb and Dumber To is a 2014 American buddy comedy film co-written and directed by the Farrelly brothers. It is the third installment in the Dumb and Dumber franchise and a sequel to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber. The film stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprising their roles 20 years after the events of the first film, and also features Rob Rigg...
Starring: Moses Gunn•Jessica Chastain•Kate Mara•Sissy Spacek•Danny Aiello•Melanie Griffith
Looper (2012)
Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action-thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, and produced by Ram Bergman and James D. Stern. It stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. It revolves around "present-day" contract killers called "loopers", hired by criminal syndicates from the future to terminate victims whom ...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Brad Dourif•Nora Dunn•Héctor Elizondo•Betty Buckley•Debra Winger•Joan Plowright•Meryl Streep•Fran Drescher•Edward Herrmann
Paper Man (2010)
Paper Man is a 2009 American independent comedy drama film written and directed by Kieran and Michele Mulroney. The film stars Jeff Daniels as a struggling writer who relies on a childhood imaginary friend to help him with life decisions, Emma Stone as a 17-year-old high school student who befriends him, and Ryan Reynolds as the made up Captain Exc...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Mary Steenburgen•Christopher Lloyd•Bruce McGill•John Wood
State of Play (2009)
State of Play is a 2009 political thriller film directed by Kevin Macdonald. It is based on the 2003 British television serial of the same name.
Starring: Tom Berenger•Jessica Chastain•William H. Macy•Kenneth McMillan•Robin Williams•David Strathairn•Kathleen Turner•James Spader•Wallace Shawn•Mandy Patinkin
Away We Go (2009)
Away We Go is a 2009 American comedy-drama directed by Sam Mendes and written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The film's two leads are John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. It is Mendes's first film without Thomas Newman's collaboration.
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Noah Segan•Dinah Manoff•Dianne Wiest•Demi Moore•Alberta Watson•Glenn Close•Ray Liotta•Kelly McGillis•Roger Rees
The Answer Man (2009)
The Answer Man is a 2009 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Hindman and starring Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham and Lou Taylor Pucci. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film received negative reviews.
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Frances McDormand•Joe Morton•Judith Ivey•Julian Sands•Eric Stoltz•Morgan Freeman•Catherine O'Hara•Ray Wise•Fred Dalton Thompson
Space Chimps (2008)
Space Chimps is a 2008 computer-animated science fiction comedy film directed by Kirk DeMicco, who wrote the screenplay with Rob Moreland. It features the voices of Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Kenan Thompson, Zack Shada, Carlos Alazraqui, Omid Abtahi, Patrick Breen, Jane Lynch, Kath Soucie, and St...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Lisa Banes•Don Cheadle•Jim Carrey•Deborah Rush•Kieran Culkin•Robert Downey Jr.•Elizabeth Perkins•Keanu Reeves•Stephen Lang
Traitor (2008)
Traitor is a 2008 American spy thriller film written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, based on a story by Steve Martin. In the film, a Sudanese-American former US soldier with a background in explosives is the prime suspect in a search by an FBI Special Agent for the bomb-maker in a string of global terror explosions aimed at civilians.
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Miloš Forman•Winona Ryder•Joan Allen•Tate Donovan•Josh Mostel•Dana Delany•Bruce Willis•J. T. Walsh
The Lookout (2007)
The Lookout is a 2007 American crime film written and directed by Scott Frank, in his directorial debut, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Bruce McGill, and Isla Fisher.
Starring: Jason Bateman•Jessica Chastain•Grant Heslov•Sean Bean•Nora Dunn•Teri Hatcher•Sandra Bullock•Laila Robins•William Baldwin•Michael Richards
RV (2006)
RV is a 2006 road comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick, written by Geoff Rodkey, and starring Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, and Josh Hutcherson. It follows a beverage company executive and his dysfunctional family who rent an RV for a road trip fr...
Starring: Harley Jane Kozak•Jessica Chastain•Reese Witherspoon•Kieran Culkin•Matt Damon•Ben Affleck•Joely Richardson•Josh Hamilton•Terry Kinney
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Because of Winn-Dixie is a 2005 American family comedy-drama film based on Kate DiCamillo's 2000 novel of the same name, with the screenplay written by Joan Singleton, produced by Trevor Albert and directed by Wayne Wang. It was produced by Walden Media and released by 20th Century Fox. It stars AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Luke Ben...
Starring: Anna Paquin•Carla Gugino•Jessica Chastain•Alan Cumming•Robin Wright Penn•Laura Linney•Russell Crowe•Kate Winslet•Naomi Watts•Charlize Theron
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in 1986. The film is named after the giant squid and sperm whale diorama housed at the American Museum of Na...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Matt Ross•Maryann Plunkett•Lisa Kudrow•Elizabeth Hurley•Neal McDonough•Kenan Thompson•Tobey Maguire•Guy Pearce•Harland Williams
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2005 historical drama film about American television news directed by George Clooney, with the movie starring David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., and Frank Langella as well as Clooney himself. The film was co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, and it portrays the conflict between ve...
Starring: Viola Davis•Kath Soucie•Jessica Chastain•Hallie Kate Eisenberg•Melanie Lynskey•Lauren Graham•Will Arnett•Patrick Warburton•Piper Perabo•Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Goodbye Girl (2004)
The Goodbye Girl is a 2004 American television comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Neil Simon, based on Simon's screenplay to the 1977 film of the same name. It stars Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton. It aired on TNT on January 16, 2004. Like the original film, it follows an actor who lives in an apartment along with his friend'...
Starring: Maya Rudolph•Jessica Chastain•Steven McCarthy•Ryan Reynolds•Paul Dano•Wanda De Jesus•Jesse Eisenberg•Rachel McAdams•Paul Schneider•Matthew Goode
Gods and Generals (2003)
Gods and Generals is a 2003 American epic war drama film written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. It is an adaptation of the 1996 novel of the same name by Jeffrey Shaara and prequel to Maxwell's 1993 film Gettysburg. Most of the film was personally financed by media mogul Ted Turner. The film follows the story of Stonewall Jackson from the begin...
Starring: Cheryl Hines•Jessica Chastain•Zoë Kravitz
Blood Work (2002)
Blood Work is a 2002 American mystery thriller film starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also producer. It co-stars Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston. It is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Michael Connelly.
Starring: Sharon Wilkins•Emily Holmes•Jessica Chastain•Ross Benjamin
The Crossing (2000)
The Crossing is a 2000 American television historical drama film about George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton. Directed by Robert Harmon and adapted by Howard Fast from his novel of the same name, the film stars Jeff Daniels as George Washington. Also appearing are Roger Rees as Hugh Mercer, Sebastian Roché as ...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Octavia Spencer•Harry Lennix•Jess Harnell
My Favorite Martian (1999)
My Favorite Martian is a 1999 American science-fiction comedy film starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn, Wayne Knight and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name which Walston starred in. A Mickey Mouse Works short, Pluto Gets The Paper: Spaceship, was shown in theaters w...
Starring: Saïd Taghmaoui•Wally Wingert•Seth Rogen•Jessica Chastain•Jane Lynch•Hunter Parrish
Pleasantville (1998)
Pleasantville is a 1998 American teen fantasy comedy-drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Gary Ross. It stars Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J. T. Walsh, and Reese Witherspoon, with Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Marley Shelton and Jane Kaczmarek in supporting roles. The story centers on two siblings who wind up tra...
Starring: Elle Fanning•Lara Grice•Jessica Chastain•Chiwetel Ejiofor•Isla Fisher•Kat Dennings•Tom Kenny
Trial and Error (1997)
Trial and Error is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn and starring Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels and Charlize Theron. The film's plot concerns an attorney and his actor friend, who takes his place in court to defend his boss's hopelessly guilty relative.
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Josh Hutcherson•Morgan Kelly
101 Dalmatians (1996)
101 Dalmatians is a 1996 American adventure comedy film, which is a live action adaptation of Walt Disney’s 1961 animated film of almost the same name, itself an adaptation of Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Directed by Stephen Herek and co-produced by John Hughes and Ricardo Mestres, it stars Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joe...
Starring: Carmen Ejogo•Jessica Chastain•Dave Matthews•Marca Price
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
2 Days in the Valley is a 1996 American neo noir crime comedy film written and directed by John Herzfeld. The film stars Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Peter Horton, Marsha Mason, Paul Mazursky, James Spader, Eric Stoltz, and Charlize Theron.
Starring: Luke Benward•David Huband•Kristin Chenoweth•Jessica Chastain•Archie Panjabi•Lou Taylor Pucci•Morgan Kelly
Fly Away Home (1996)
Fly Away Home is a 1996 family drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film stars Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, and Dana Delany. Fly Away Home was released on September 13, 1996, by Columbia Pictures.
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Halley Feiffer•Greta Kline•Maryann Plunkett
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly, who cowrote the screenplay with Bobby Farrelly and Bennett Yellin. It is the first installment in the Dumb and Dumber franchise. Starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, it tells the story of Lloyd Christmas (Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Daniels), two dumb but well-meaning fr...
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Kate Mara•Tony Hale
Speed (1994)
Speed is a 1994 American action film directed by Jan de Bont in his feature film directorial debut. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, and Jeff Daniels. Its premise revolves around a bus that is rigged by a terrorist to explode if its speed falls below 50 miles per hour.
Starring: Joanna "JoJo" Levesque•Jessica Chastain•Maggie Q•Emily Blunt•Sebastian Stan
Gettysburg (1993)
Gettysburg is a 1993 American epic war film about the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. Written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, the film was adapted from the 1974 historical novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. It features an ensemble cast, including Tom Berenger as James Longstreet, Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlain, Martin...
Starring: Michael Fassbender•Kristen Wiig•Jessica Chastain•Zoë Kravitz
Rain Without Thunder (1992)
Rain Without Thunder is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Gary O. Bennett and starring Betty Buckley and Jeff Daniels. The film is set fifty years in the future from the time of production. Although the Planned Parenthood v. Casey case is not mentioned by name, the decision took place in the same year as the film was made and many ch...
Starring: Emma Stone•Jessica Chastain
There Goes the Neighborhood (1992)
There Goes the Neighborhood, released as Paydirt in most foreign countries, is a 1992 comedy film directed by Bill Phillips. The film tells a story of a dying prisoner who whispers the location of hidden loot to the facility's psychologist Willis Embry, and, separately, three prison escapees, who all head to New Jersey to find it.
Starring: Olivia Thirlby•Jessica Chastain•Noah Segan
The Butcher's Wife (1991)
The Butcher's Wife is a 1991 American romantic comedy film, directed by Terry Hughes and starring Demi Moore and Jeff Daniels.
Starring: Mozhan Marnò•Jessica Chastain•Nick Gomez•Thomas Roy•Max Antisell
Love Hurts (1991)
Love Hurts is a 1990 American comedy-drama film co-produced and directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Jeff Daniels, Cynthia Sikes, Cloris Leachman, Judith Ivey and John Mahoney.
Starring: Donald Glover•Jessica Chastain•Miles Teller
Arachnophobia (1990)
Arachnophobia is a 1990 American horror comedy film directed by Frank Marshall in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Don Jakoby and Wesley Strick. Starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman, the film follows a small California town that becomes invaded by an aggressive and dangerous spider species. Its title refers to the fear of spiders.
Starring: Jessica Chastain•Shailene Woodley•Ansel Elgort•Rachel Melvin
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Winona Ryder and Jeff Daniels.
Starring: Jessica Chastain•James Cagney•Pat O'Brien•Donald O'Connor
Checking Out (1989)
Checking Out is a 1988 American comedy film, directed by David Leland and starring Jeff Daniels.
Starring: Van Johnson•Jessica Chastain
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
The House on Carroll Street is a 1988 American neo-noir film directed by Peter Yates, and starring Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, and Jessica Tandy. Set in 1950s New York City, it follows a photojournalist who, blacklisted after refusing to disclose names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, stumbles upon a plot to smugg...
Starring: Shirley MacLaine•Jessica Chastain•Jack Nicholson
Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
Sweet Hearts Dance is a 1988 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Greenwald. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson centers on two small town couples, one married for several years and the other at the beginning of their relationship.
Starring: Maureen Stapleton•James Olson•Jessica Chastain•Mia Farrow
Heartburn (1986)
Heartburn is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. The screenplay, written by Nora Ephron, is based on her novel of the same name, a semi-biographical account of her marriage to Carl Bernstein.
Starring: Dianne Wiest•Susan Sarandon•Moses Gunn•Don Johnson•Jessica Chastain•John Lithgow
Something Wild (1986)
Something Wild is a 1986 American action comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme, written by E. Max Frye, and starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels and Ray Liotta. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film has some elements of a road movie combined with screwball comedy.
Starring: Sissy Spacek•Jessica Chastain•Melanie Griffith
Marie (1985)
Marie is a 1985 American biographical film starring Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, former head of the Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles, who was removed from office in 1977 after refusing to release prisoners on whose behalf bribes had been paid to aides to Governor Ray Blanton. Ragghianti, a single mother and political appointee, was hound...
Starring: Stockard Channing•Jessica Chastain•Brad Dourif•Danny DeVito•Debra Winger•Meryl Streep
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 American fantasy romantic comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, and Danny Aiello. Inspired by the films Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Hellzapoppin' (1941) and Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is the tale of a film character named Tom Baxter who...
Starring: Fran Drescher•Edward Herrmann•David Huband•Melanie Mayron•John Wood•Jessica Chastain•Kenneth McMillan•Mandy Patinkin
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American family comedy-drama film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel of the same name. It stars Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway (Ma...
Starring: Dinah Manoff•Dianne Wiest•Ray Liotta•Kelly McGillis•Morgan Freeman•Jessica Chastain
Ragtime (1981)
Ragtime is a 1981 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. The film is set in and around turn-of-the-century New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film stars James Cagney, Mary Steenburgen, H...
Starring: Fred Dalton Thompson•Keith Szarabajka•Lisa Banes•Deborah Rush•Elizabeth Perkins•Miloš Forman•Winona Ryder•Laila Robins•Mozhan Marnò•Kenneth McMillan