John Cusack

John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American actor. Cusack began acting in films during the 1980s, starring in coming-of-age dramedies such as Sixteen Candles (1984), Better Off Dead (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and Say Anything... (1989). In the 1990s, he then started appearing in independent films and had leading men roles in Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Max (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). Cusack has been nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe for his role starring in High Fidelity. He won the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Maps to the Stars. He is a son of filmmaker Dick Cusack and the younger brother of actresses Joan and Ann Cusack. In 2012, Cusack was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Cusack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

FunnyCharmingEnjoyableFun

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Craig is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steve Pink
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Lizzy Caplan  •  Rob Corddry  •  Craig Robinson

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Craig is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steve Pink
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Lizzy Caplan  •  Rob Corddry  •  Craig Robinson

The Factory (2012)

An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Morgan O'Neill
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Jennifer Carpenter  •  Mae Whitman  •  Dallas Roberts

An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Morgan O'Neill
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Jennifer Carpenter  •  Mae Whitman  •  Dallas Roberts

Summerhood (2008)

The coming of age summer-camp saga of four best friends who hate each other.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jacob Medjuck  •  Tony Dean Smith
CAST:  Lucian Maisel  •  John Cusack  •  Reva Timbers  •  Scott Beaudin

The coming of age summer-camp saga of four best friends who hate each other.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jacob Medjuck  •  Tony Dean Smith
CAST:  Lucian Maisel  •  John Cusack  •  Reva Timbers  •  Scott Beaudin

Elvis Stories (1989)

Elvis Stories is a short movie directed by Ben Stiller and starring John Cusack and Ben Stiller  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ben Stiller
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Mike Myers  •  Jeremy Piven  •  Amy Stiller

Elvis Stories is a short movie directed by Ben Stiller and starring John Cusack and Ben Stiller  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ben Stiller
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Mike Myers  •  Jeremy Piven  •  Amy Stiller

2012 (2009)

Disturbing

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Amanda Peet  •  Chiwetel Ejiofor  •  Thandiwe Newton

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roland Emmerich
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Amanda Peet  •  Chiwetel Ejiofor  •  Thandiwe Newton

Floundering (1994)

A disaffected and increasingly disturbed young man journeys through post-riot Los Angeles.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter McCarthy
CAST:  James Le Gros  •  John Cusack  •  Shaka  •  Ethan Hawke

A disaffected and increasingly disturbed young man journeys through post-riot Los Angeles.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter McCarthy
CAST:  James Le Gros  •  John Cusack  •  Shaka  •  Ethan Hawke

Shanghai (2010)

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikael Håfström
CAST:  Jeffrey Dean Morgan  •  John Cusack  •  David Morse  •  Ken Watanabe

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikael Håfström
CAST:  Jeffrey Dean Morgan  •  John Cusack  •  David Morse  •  Ken Watanabe

This Is My Father (1999)

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Quinn
CAST:  Aidan Quinn  •  James Caan  •  Stephen Rea  •  John Cusack

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Quinn
CAST:  Aidan Quinn  •  James Caan  •  Stephen Rea  •  John Cusack

The Road to Wellville (1994)

An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alan Parker
CAST:  Anthony Hopkins  •  Bridget Fonda  •  Matthew Broderick  •  John Cusack

An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alan Parker
CAST:  Anthony Hopkins  •  Bridget Fonda  •  Matthew Broderick  •  John Cusack

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)

As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julien Temple
CAST:  Bono  •  Joe Strummer  •  Steve Buscemi  •  Terry Chimes

As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julien Temple
CAST:  Bono  •  Joe Strummer  •  Steve Buscemi  •  Terry Chimes

Martian Child (2007)

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menno Meyjes
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Bobby Coleman  •  Amanda Peet  •  Joan Cusack

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Menno Meyjes
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Bobby Coleman  •  Amanda Peet  •  Joan Cusack

Con Air (1997)

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon West
CAST:  Nicolas Cage  •  John Cusack  •  John Malkovich  •  Ving Rhames

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon West
CAST:  Nicolas Cage  •  John Cusack  •  John Malkovich  •  Ving Rhames

Igor (2008)

A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tony Leondis
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Myleene Klass  •  Robin Walsh  •  Matt McKenna

A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tony Leondis
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Myleene Klass  •  Robin Walsh  •  Matt McKenna

Roadside Prophets (1992)

Sid and Nancy screenplay author Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with this tale of a factory worker name Joe (X front man John Doe) who hits the road on his Harley to scatter the ashes of a co-worker. Joined by wannabe biker Sam (Adam Horovitz of the Beastie ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abbe Wool
CAST:  John Doe  •  Adam Horovitz  •  David Carradine  •  Jennifer Balgobin

Sid and Nancy screenplay author Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with this tale of a factory worker name Joe (X front man John Doe) who hits the road on his Harley to scatter the ashes of a co-worker. Joined by wannabe biker Sam (Adam Horovitz of the Beastie ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Abbe Wool
CAST:  John Doe  •  Adam Horovitz  •  David Carradine  •  Jennifer Balgobin

Hot Pursuit (1987)

Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Lisberger
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Robert Loggia  •  Jerry Stiller  •  Wendy Gazelle

Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steven Lisberger
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Robert Loggia  •  Jerry Stiller  •  Wendy Gazelle

Maps to the Stars (2014)

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Cronenberg
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Robert Pattinson  •  Julianne Moore  •  Evan Bird

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Cronenberg
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Robert Pattinson  •  Julianne Moore  •  Evan Bird

1408 (2007)

SuspensefulMysteriousScaryAdventurous

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikael Håfström
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Samuel L. Jackson  •  Mary McCormack  •  Jasmine Jessica Anthony

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikael Håfström
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Samuel L. Jackson  •  Mary McCormack  •  Jasmine Jessica Anthony

Grace Is Gone (2007)

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother's fate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jim Strouse
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Alessandro Nivola  •  Doug Dearth  •  Gracie Bednarczyk

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother's fate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jim Strouse
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Alessandro Nivola  •  Doug Dearth  •  Gracie Bednarczyk

War, Inc. (2008)

War Inc. is set in the future, when the fictional desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over the whole country. Brand Hauser, a hit man who ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joshua Seftel
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Hilary Duff  •  Marisa Tomei  •  Joan Cusack

War Inc. is set in the future, when the fictional desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over the whole country. Brand Hauser, a hit man who ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joshua Seftel
CAST:  John Cusack  •  Hilary Duff  •  Marisa Tomei  •  Joan Cusack

Drive Hard (2014)

A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brian Trenchard-Smith
CAST:  Thomas Jane  •  John Cusack  •  Zoe Ventoura  •  Damien Garvey

A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brian Trenchard-Smith
CAST:  Thomas Jane  •  John Cusack  •  Zoe Ventoura  •  Damien Garvey
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