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Women Talking (2022)
Women Talking is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley. It is based on the Canadian 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, and inspired by the gas-facilitated rapes that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia. It features an ensemble cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Je...
Starring: Bob Wells•Leonard Nimoy•Jack Lemmon•Dennis Hopper•Jack Warden•Jack Nicholson
Nomadland (2021)
Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad. David Strathairn also stars in a suppor...
Starring: Maureen Stapleton•Bob Wells•Gene Hackman•Harvey Keitel•Robert De Niro
The French Dispatch (2021)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, or simply The French Dispatch, is a 2021 American anthology comedy drama film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. It features an expansive ensemble cast and follows three different storylines as the...
Starring: Keith Szarabajka•Bob Wells•Bob Balaban•Diane Keaton•John Malkovich•Richard Nixon•Jonny Lee Miller•Anne Archer•Sissy Spacek•Fred Ward
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a 2021 American historical thriller film written, directed and produced by Joel Coen, based on the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. It is the first film directed by one of the Coen brothers without the other's involvement. The film stars Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Corey Hawkins, ...
Starring: Lily Tomlin•Bob Wells•Glenn Morshower•M. Emmet Walsh•F. Murray Abraham•Robert Foxworth•Jeff Goldblum•Denzel Washington
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: Mary Steenburgen•Peter Riegert•James Remar•Blair Brown•Keith Szarabajka•Bob Wells•Peter Gallagher•David Strathairn•Tim Curry•William Petersen
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 crime drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Martin McDonagh and starring Frances McDormand as a Missouri woman who rents three roadside billboards to draw attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder. Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Abbie Cornish, Luc...
Starring: Bob Wells•Tobey Maguire•Jeff Daniels•Sean Penn•Nigel Hawthorne
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Hail, Caesar! is a 2016 period black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. An American-British co-production, the film stars Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and Channing Tatum, with Michael Gambon as the ...
Starring: Bob Wells•Glenn Close•Chris Penn•Courtney B. Vance•Matthew Modine•Jonny Lee Miller•John Getz•Frances McDormand•Samm-Art Williams
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
The Good Dinosaur is a 2015 American computer-animated adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film was directed by Peter Sohn and produced by Denise Ream. The screenplay was written by Meg LeFauve, who also wrote the film's story with Sohn, Bob Peterson, Kelsey Mann, and Erik B...
Starring: Dan Hedaya•Bob Hoskins•Bob Wells•Lee Pace•William Forsythe•John Malkovich•Willem Dafoe•Josh Brolin•Patrick Dempsey
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Moonrise Kingdom is a 2012 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, written by Anderson and Roman Coppola, and starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban, and introducing Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. Largely set on the fictional island of New Penzan...
Starring: Keith Szarabajka•Bob Wells•Fairuza Balk•William Petersen•Keanu Reeves•Jonny Lee Miller•Liam Neeson•Steve Buscemi
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted is a 2012 American computer-animated circus comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and Pacific Data Images and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is the third installment of the Madagascar franchise, the sequel to Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), and was the first film in the series to be release...
Starring: Bob Wells•Frank Welker•Woody Harrelson•Joan Cusack•Bruce Willis•Christian Bale•Ben Stiller•John Mahoney•Patricia Arquette•Nancy Travis
This Must Be the Place (2012)
This Must Be the Place is a 2011 Italian-French-Irish drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello (it) and released in the United States in late 2012. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. The film deals with a middle-aged wealthy rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of f...
Starring: Robert Downey, Jr.•Bob Wells
Promised Land (2012)
Promised Land is a 2012 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt and Hal Holbrook. The screenplay is written by Damon and Krasinski based on a story by Dave Eggers. Promised Land follows two petroleum landmen who visit a rural town in an attempt to buy drilling rights ...
Starring: Bob Wells•Gary Oldman•Sam Rockwell•Brad Pitt
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a 2011 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. The film is the third installment in the Transformers film series and the sequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). The film is directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, J...
Starring: Andre Braugher•David Rasche•Catherine Keener•Colin Friels•Billy Bob Thornton•Bob Wells•Matt Damon•Sophie Okonedo•Chris Mulkey•Pete Postlethwaite
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a 2008 romantic comedy film directed by Bharat Nalluri, starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams. The screenplay by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy is based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Winifred Watson.
Starring: Bob Wells•Jennifer Aniston•Jada Pinkett Smith•Anna Paquin•Jon Favreau•Ralph Fiennes•James Gandolfini•Andy Richter•Benicio del Toro
Burn After Reading (2008)
Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy spy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osbourne Cox, whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees. When they mistake the memoirs for classified government documents, they undergo a series of misadventures i...
Starring: Bob Wells•Sophie Okonedo•Johnny Cheah•Adelle Lutz•Amanda Peet•Courtney B. Vance•Jonny Lee Miller•Richard Jenkins•Jason Lee•Liev Schreiber
Friends with Money (2006)
Friends with Money is a 2006 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. It opened the 2006 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2006, and went into limited release in North America on April 7, 2006.
Starring: Bob Wells•Charlize Theron•Jeffrey Wright•Owen Wilson•Jason Isaacs•Edward Norton•Peter Stormare•George Clooney
North Country (2005)
North Country is a 2005 American drama film directed by Niki Caro, starring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Michelle Monaghan, Jeremy Renner, Woody Harrelson, and Sissy Spacek. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Se...
Starring: Scarlett Johansson•Bob Wells•Tobey Maguire•Billy Crudup•Julianna Margulies•Bryan Cranston•Amanda Peet•Patrick Fugit•Kate Hudson•Katie Holmes
Æon Flux (2005)
Æon Flux is a 2005 American science fiction action film based on the animated science fiction action television series of the same name created by Peter Chung, which aired on MTV from 1991 to 1995. It was directed by Karyn Kusama, written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, and produced by Gale Anne Hurd, David Gale, Gary Lucchesi and Greg Goodman. The ...
Starring: Bob Wells•Jason Schwartzman•James Franco•Scott Caan•Patrick Fugit•Tilda Swinton•Cedric the Entertainer•Amy Adams•John Hawkes•Kate Beckinsalee
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Something's Gotta Give is a 2003 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers. It stars Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton as a successful 60-something and 50-something, who find love for each other in later life, despite being complete opposites. Keanu Reeves and Amanda Peet co-star, with Frances McDormand, Paul ...
Starring: Marton Csokas•Peter Dinklage•Bob Wells•Harry Melling•Michelle Monaghan•Simon McBurney
City by the Sea (2002)
City by the Sea is a 2002 American crime drama film starring Robert De Niro, James Franco, Eliza Dushku, Frances McDormand and William Forsythe. It deals with the family problems of a wayward youth and is set against a man trying to break free of his past. It was directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is based on the story of Vincent LaMarca.
Starring: Jonah Hill•Bob Wells•Shirley Henderson•Channing Tatum
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Laurel Canyon is a 2002 American drama film written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko. The film stars Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, Natascha McElhone, and Alessandro Nivola.
Starring: Bob Wells•Rosemarie DeWitt•Amelia Warner
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 American neo-noir crime film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, and James Gandolfini. The film is set in 1949 and tells the story of Ed Crane, a withdrawn barber w...
Starring: Bob Wells•Nikolai Kinski•Paterson Joseph
Almost Famous (2000)
Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, and Patrick Fugit. It tells the story of a teenage journalist, played by Fugit, writing for Rolling Stone magazine in the early 1970s, touring with the fictitious rock band Stillwater, and writing his ...
Starring: Bob Wells•Mathieu Amalric•Lee Pace•Ben Whishaw•J.K. Simmons•Tom Payne•Christina Cole
Wonder Boys (2000)
Wonder Boys is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Steve Kloves. An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, it is based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Michael Chabon. Michael Douglas stars as professor Grady Tripp, a novelist who teaches creative writing at ...
Starring: Stephanie Cole•Bob Wells•Olek Krupa•Raymond Ochoa•Stephen Park
Madeline (1998)
Madeline is a 1998 family comedy film adaptation of the children's book series and animated television series of the same name. The film starred newcomer Hatty Jones as the titular character with Frances McDormand and Nigel Hawthorne in supporting roles as Miss Clavel and Lord Covington respectively. The film encompasses the plots of four Madeline ...
Starring: Léa Seydoux•Bob Wells•Claire Foy
Paradise Road (1997)
Paradise Road is a 1997 Australian war film that tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter,, Frances McDormand as the brash Dr. Verstak, Pauline Collins as missionary Marg...
Starring: Jared Gilman•Bob Wells•Bertie Carvel
Fargo (1996)
Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide that takes place after a desperate car salesman hires two criminals to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her wealthy father....
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich•Corey Hawkins•Bob Wells•A. J. Buckley•Jessie Buckley
Primal Fear (1996)
Primal Fear is a 1996 American legal thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit, based on William Diehl's 1993 novel of the same name, and written by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman. It stars Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand and Edward Norton in his film debut. The film revolves around a Chicago defense attorne...
Starring: Linda May•Charlene Swankie•Bob Wells•Alex Hassell•Kathryn Hunter•Jack Lemmon•William Petersen
Beyond Rangoon (1995)
Beyond Rangoon is a 1995 drama film directed by John Boorman about Laura Bowman, an American tourist who vacations in the country of Burma in 1988, the year in which the 8888 Uprising takes place. The film was mostly filmed in Malaysia, and, though a work of fiction, was inspired by real people and real events.
Starring: Bob Wells•Dennis Hopper•Jack Warden•Maureen Stapleton
Palookaville (1995)
Palookaville is a 1995 American crime comedy film directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Epstein. The film is about a trio of burglars and their dysfunctional family of origin. It stars William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo, Adam Trese, and Frances McDormand. The writing is a free interpretation of three short stories by Italo Calvino.
Starring: Bob Wells•Gene Hackman
Short Cuts (1993)
Short Cuts is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. The film has a Los Angeles setting, which is substituted for the Pacific Northwest backdrop of Carver's stories. Short Cuts traces the actions of 22 prin...
Starring: Bruce Davison•Ned Beatty•Anne Archer•Fred Ward•Lily Tomlin•M. Emmet Walsh•Mary Steenburgen•Peter Riegert•Blair Brown•Peter Gallagher
Passed Away (1992)
Passed Away is a 1992 American ensemble comedy film directed and written by Charlie Peters.
Starring: Tim Curry•Larry Drake•Jennifer Jason Leigh•Madeleine Stowe•Jeff Daniels•Bob Wells•Demi Moore•Chris Penn•Patricia Arquette•George Dzundza
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: John Getz•Samm-Art Williams•Dan Hedaya•Bob Hoskins•Bob Wells
Darkman (1990)
Darkman is a 1990 American superhero film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi. Based on a short story Raimi wrote that paid homage to Universal's horror films of the 1930s, the film stars Liam Neeson as scientist Peyton Westlake, who is brutally attacked, disfigured, and left for dead by ruthless mobster Robert Durant, after his girlfriend, attorn...
Starring: William Forsythe•Bob Wells•Willem Dafoe•William Petersen
Chattahoochee (1989)
Chattahoochee is a 1989 American drama film directed by Mick Jackson and starring Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper. The film is based on the real-life experiences of Chris Calhoun, who met screenwriter James Hicks, who then wrote a script based on his internment in a Florida state mental institution. It was turned down by several major studios before ...
Starring: Pamela Reed•Liam Neeson•Bob Wells•Patricia Arquette•Nancy Travis
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. It stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as two FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi, wh...
Starring: Gary Oldman•Bob Wells•Colin Friels
Blood Simple (1984)
Blood Simple is a 1984 American independent neo-noir crime film written, edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh. Its plot follows a Texas bartender who finds himself in the midst of a murder plot when his boss discovers that he is having a love affair with his...
Starring: Johnny Cheah•Adelle Lutz•Bob Wells•Laura Linney•Dan Hedaya