Movies by Sydney Pollack
As part of the cast:
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Made of Honor (2008)
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd …
Directed by: Paul Weiland
Happy-go-lucky playboy Tom (Patrick Dempsey) finally decides to propose to his best friend, Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), when she returns from a trip. But when she gets home, she announces…
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Michael Clayton (2007)
Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton …
Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Screenwriter Tony Gilroy delivers a finely tuned directorial debut with this dramatic thriller about burned-out corporate lawyer Michael Clayton (George Clooney), a man who's built his…
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Avenue Montaigne (2007)
Cast: Albert Dupontel, Laura Morante, Claude Brasseur …
Directed by: Danielle Thompson
Spirited young Jessica (Cécile De France), newly arrived in Paris from the provinces, lands a job as a waitress at a café, where the eccentric customers need her for counsel more…
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The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman (2005)
Cast: Robert Evans, Suzanne Pleshette, Alan Ladd Jr. …
Directed by: Barry Avrich
For more than half a century, MCA president Lew Wasserman controlled Hollywood; this documentary reveals the story behind the movie mogul's rags-to-riches career, from his mafia ties to…
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Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005)
Cast: Michael Ovitz, Sydney Pollack, Frank O. Gehry …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
In this intimate documentary, Sydney Pollack explores the signature style of architect Frank Gehry, whose famous works include the Fish in Barcelona, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los…
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Boffo!: Tinseltown's Bombs & Blockbusters (2005)
Cast: Peter Bart, Steven Spielberg, Charlize Theron …
Directed by: Bill Couturié
With a zillion things that can go wrong (and often do), the line separating blockbusters from bombs in Hollywood is thin indeed. A bevy of industry heavies sheds light on the elements that…
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One Six Right: The Romance of Flying (2005)
Cast: Sydney Pollack, Lorenzo Lamas, Hal Fishman …
Directed by: Brian Terwilliger
This documentary tells the history of the busiest airport for general aviation, California's Van Nuys Airport. Featuring interviews with flight enthusiasts Sydney Pollack, Tony Bill and…
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Dream Jets (2004)
Cast: Sydney Pollack, Carly Simon, John Travolta …
This thrilling documentary examines rich and famous people's fascination with flight. Enter the world of private jets favored by musicians, actors, Hollywood moguls, athletes and…
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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Cast: Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin, Julie Christie …
Directed by: Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese
This documentary explores American cinema in the 1970s, a decade often described as the best years in film. What results is an ode to the art form, one that pays homage to the "auteurs" that…
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Changing Lanes (2002)
Cast: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Kim Staunton …
Directed by: Roger Michell
Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson star in this intense drama about an egocentric attorney and a recovering alcoholic salesman whose lives dangerously collide when their cars crash on a New…
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Fidel (2002)
Cast: Fidel Castro, Muhammad Ali, Vlasta Vrana …
Directed by: Estela Bravo
This documentary by director Estela Bravo takes a look at the political and social impact the immensely powerful Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has had on the world during the 40-plus years…
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
Cast: Woody Allen, Alex Cox, Peter Ustinov …
Directed by: Jan Harlan
Stanley Kubrick's frequent collaborator and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan, offers a fascinating inside look at the genius behind such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange,…
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack …
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Director Stanley Kubrick's final film dishes up a chillingly distant examination of carnal desire and obsession ignited by an argument over fidelity between Dr. Bill Hartford (Tom…
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Random Hearts (1999)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Dutch Van Den Broeck's and Kay Chandler's spouses perish in a devastating plane crash. Using his police expertise, Dutch searches for answers, finding more in common between his…
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A Civil Action (1998)
Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kathleen Quinlan …
Directed by: Steven Zaillian
In this drama based on a true story, John Travolta stars as a personal-injury lawyer who sues a major corporation when the drinking water in Woburn, Mass., is found to contain high levels of…
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Independent's Day (1998)
Cast: Steven Soderbergh, Neil LaBute, Robert Redford …
Directed by: Marina Zenovich
At once enlightening, humorous and brutally honest, Marina Zenovich's documentary, which was originally broadcast on the Sundance Channel, explores the world of independent filmmaking by…
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The Player (1992)
Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Director Robert Altman's wickedly funny masterpiece about a slick Hollywood studio executive named Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) -- a hotshot whose life is falling apart -- is packed with…
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Husbands and Wives (1992)
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis …
Directed by: Woody Allen
Director Woody Allen stars with Mia Farrow in his critically acclaimed comedy as a long-married New York couple whose own relationship starts to crumble when their best friends (Sydney…
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Willie Nelson: My Life (1992)
Cast: Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson …
Get a behind-the-scenes look at legendary singer-songwriter Willie Nelson's life and career. Some of Nelson's famous friends -- including Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon…
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Tootsie (1982)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Few actors go as far to bag a part as Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), who transforms himself into a woman to prove he can get hired on a soap opera. But Michael has an enviable problem when…
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War Hunt (1962)
Cast: John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman …
Directed by: Denis Sanders
No one is a better soldier than Pvt. Endore (John Saxon) -- at least in his own mind. Stationed in Korea at the end of the war, Endore brings back vital information from his nightly patrols,…
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The Interpreter (2005)
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is a linguist whose job is to translate for her assigned delegate the complex issues facing the United Nations. But her daily challenge turns perilous when she…
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Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005)
Cast: Michael Ovitz, Sydney Pollack, Frank O. Gehry …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
In this intimate documentary, Sydney Pollack explores the signature style of architect Frank Gehry, whose famous works include the Fish in Barcelona, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los…
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Random Hearts (1999)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Dutch Van Den Broeck's and Kay Chandler's spouses perish in a devastating plane crash. Using his police expertise, Dutch searches for answers, finding more in common between his…
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Sabrina (1995)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Chauffeur's daughter Sabrina (Julia Ormond) has spent her whole life worshipping the wealthy Larrabee family from afar -- especially irresponsible younger son David (Greg Kinnear).…
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The Firm (1993)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
When Harvard Law School graduate Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) joins a prestigious firm, he ignores the warning of his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn), who fears the lucrative deal sounds too good to…
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Havana (1990)
Cast: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
High-stakes poker player Jack Weil (Robert Redford) is looking to score big in the final hours of Batista's Cuba, a nation on the brink of a revolt. But Weil lands in dangerous political…
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Out of Africa (1985)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Hoping to forge a better life, Denmark native Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) enters into a marriage of convenience with a womanizing baron. But when the couple moves to Nairobi, Karen falls in…
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Tootsie (1982)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Few actors go as far to bag a part as Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), who transforms himself into a woman to prove he can get hired on a soap opera. But Michael has an enviable problem when…
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Absence of Malice (1981)
Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Sally Fields stars as a novice reporter at a Miami newspaper, who becomes a pawn in the investigation of a liquor distributor suspected of being involved in a mob murder. Tragedy and scandal…
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The Electric Horseman (1979)
Cast: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Willie Nelson …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Former rodeo champion (and current alcoholic) Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) feels he's hit rock bottom when he starts shilling for a breakfast-cereal company. That's why, during an…
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Bobby Deerfield (1977)
Cast: Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
A young Al Pacino had to learn to drive a car to take on the title role in this Sydney Pollack-directed melodrama about Bobby Deerfield, a race-car driver who's as reckless in his…
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Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, John Houseman …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford stars as Joe Turner, a New York-based CIA researcher who returns from lunch to find all his co-workers murdered. In the next 72 hours, everyone Turner trusts will try to kill…
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The Yakuza (1975)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
World War II veteran Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) returns to Japan to rescue the daughter of his employer, George Tanner (Brian Keith), in this tense thriller directed by Sydney Pollack.…
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The Way We Were (1973)
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Sociopolitical opposites attract in director Sydney Pollack's wistful, Oscar-winning tearjerker about an outspoken political crusader named Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) who finds…
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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Cast: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Josh Albee …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
In a quiet performance (he speaks perhaps 30 lines of dialogue in the whole film), loner Robert Redford seeks isolation in the mountains, but he's forced to battle nature's…
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
A Depression-era dance marathon with a large cash prize brings out the worst in its desperate contestants in director Sydney Pollack's powerful drama starring Jane Fonda, Michael…
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Castle Keep (1969)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack directs an all-star cast (Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk, Bruce Dern, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Patrick O'Neal) in an allegorical tale about an American military squad that,…
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The Scalphunters (1968)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Outnumbered by a tribe of gun-toting Kiowa Indians, illiterate trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) reluctantly agrees to trade his furs for educated slave Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis). Bass and Lee…
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This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
When railroad official Owen Legate visits a small Depression-era town to shut down its rail yard, he begins a passionate affair with a local girl. The romance angers her domineering mother…