Search results for "Joan Allen"

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) RT 93% / Audience 91%

Action-packed Fast paced Suspenseful Thrilling

DVD release: Dec 2007

Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper ... (more)

GENRES: Action • Drama • Mystery • Thriller

DIRECTION: Paul Greengrass

CAST: Matt Damon • Julia Stiles • David Strathairn • Scott Glenn

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) RT 81% / Audience 90%

Fast paced Action-packed Intense Powerful

DVD release: Dec 2004

When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been ... (more)

GENRES: Action • Drama • Thriller

DIRECTION: Paul Greengrass

CAST: Matt Damon • Brian Cox • Julia Stiles • Joan Allen

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) RT 100% / Audience 86%

Brilliant Dramatic Gripping Real

DVD release: Jul 2000

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer. (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Steven Zaillian

CAST: Max Pomeranc • Joe Mantegna • Joan Allen • Ben Kingsley

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) RT 84% / Audience 68%

DVD release: Oct 2000

Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a dynamic engineer and an enthusiastic showman who envisions the car of the future. Against mighty odds he ... (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Francis Ford Coppola

CAST: Jeff Bridges • Joan Allen • Martin Landau • Frederic Forrest

Face/Off (1997)

Clever Fun Suspenseful Thrilling

An antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes ... (more)

GENRES: Action • Crime • Science Fiction • Thriller

DIRECTION: John Woo

CAST: John Travolta • Nicolas Cage • Joan Allen • Dominique Swain

In Country (1989) RT 70% / Audience 36%

DVD release: Jul 1999

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. ... (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance

DIRECTION: Norman Jewison

CAST: Bruce Willis • Emily Lloyd • Joan Allen • Kevin Anderson

It's the Rage (1999) RT 27% / Audience 44%

DVD release: Aug 2000

A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. (more)

GENRES: Comedy

DIRECTION: James D. Stern

CAST: Joan Allen • Jeff Daniels • Robert Forster • Andre Braugher

Mad Love (1995)

Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • Romance

DIRECTION: Antonia Bird

CAST: Chris O'Donnell • Drew Barrymore • Matthew Lillard • Richard Chaim

Manhunter (1986) RT 94% / Audience 77%

DVD release: Jan 2001

FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer. (more)

GENRES: Crime • Horror • Thriller

DIRECTION: Michael Mann

CAST: William Petersen • Kim Greist • Dennis Farina • Brian Cox

Nixon (1995)

An all-star cast powers this epic look at American President Richard M. Nixon, a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • History

DIRECTION: Oliver Stone

CAST: Anthony Hopkins • Joan Allen • J. T. Walsh • Paul Sorvino

Pleasantville (1998) RT 84% / Audience 79%

Charming Clever Beautiful Romantic

DVD release: Mar 1999

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where ... (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Fantasy

DIRECTION: Gary Ross

CAST: Tobey Maguire • Reese Witherspoon • William H. Macy • Joan Allen

The Contender (2000)

The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • Thriller

DIRECTION: Rod Lurie

CAST: Gary Oldman • Joan Allen • Jeff Bridges • Christian Slater

The Upside of Anger (2005) RT 74% / Audience 63%

DVD release: Jul 2005

After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and ... (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama

DIRECTION: Mike Binder

CAST: Joan Allen • Kevin Costner • Erika Christensen • Keri Russell

Yes (2005) RT 52% / Audience 74%

DVD release: Nov 2005

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • Romance

DIRECTION: Sally Potter

CAST: Joan Allen • Simon Abkarian • Sam Neill • Shirley Henderson

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) RT 85% / Audience 55%

DVD release: Aug 1998

Peggy Sue faints at a Highschool reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school. (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Fantasy • Romance

DIRECTION: Francis Ford Coppola

CAST: Kathleen Turner • Nicolas Cage • Barry Miller • Catherine Hicks

The Crucible (1996) RT 67% / Audience 66%

DVD release: Jun 2004

Based upon the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (who wrote the screen adaptation), the Salem witch trials in 1692 plunge the Massachusetts Bay colony into chaos. (more)

GENRES: Drama • History

DIRECTION: Nicholas Hytner

CAST: Daniel Day-Lewis • Winona Ryder • Paul Scofield • Joan Allen

Josh and S.A.M. (1993) RT 14% / Audience 49%

DVD release: Apr 1994

Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh ... (more)

GENRES: Action • Adventure • Comedy

DIRECTION: Billy Weber

CAST: Jacob Tierney • Noah Fleiss • Martha Plimpton • Stephen Tobolowsky

A Good Marriage (2014)

After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret? (more)

GENRES: Thriller

DIRECTION: Peter Askin

CAST: Joan Allen • Anthony LaPaglia • Cara Buono • Kristen Connolly

Georgia O'Keeffe (2009) RT Audience 45%

DVD release: Apr 2010

Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. (more)