Movies by David Morse
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Drive Angry (2011)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner …
Directed by: Patrick Lussier
Career criminal Milton breaks free from hell to pursue the cult that killed his daughter and abducted her baby, racing to save the infant before the group sacrifices her. Milton in turn is…
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Shanghai (2010)
Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, John Cusack, David Morse …
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Four months before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, American Paul (John Cusack) investigates the murder of his close friend in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. During his search, Paul uncovers…
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Treme (2010)
Cast: Khandi Alexander, Rob Brown, Kim Dickens …
Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this multifaceted drama follows the challenges facing the devastated city's frustrated yet determined residents, including trombonist Antoine (Wendell…
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Mother and Child (2009)
Cast: Tatyana Ali, Carla Gallo, Lisa Gay Hamilton …
Directed by: Rodrigo Garcia, Rodrigo García
Fifty-year-old Karen (Annette Bening) regrets giving up her daughter, Elizabeth (Naomi Watts), for adoption; years later, Elizabeth questions her own approach to life. Their stories intersect…
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008)
Cast: David Morse, Marc Macaulay, Sienna Miller …
Directed by: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Stuck in a terrible job, recent college grad Art Bechstein (Jon Foster) struggles to enjoy the last summer of his youth. Things begin to look up when he meets a beguiling couple (Sienna…
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Passengers (2008)
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher …
Directed by: Rodrigo Garcia, Rodrigo García
When therapist Claire Summers starts working with the surviving passengers of a plane crash, she discovers that their individual accounts of the tragedy differ significantly from the…
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The Hurt Locker (2008)
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty …
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow directs this gripping drama (winner of the Best Picture Oscar) following one of the U.S. Army's elite EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) teams operating in the ferocious…
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Disturbia (2007)
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Morse …
Directed by: D.J. Caruso
In this modern retelling of Hitchcock's thriller Rear Window, Kale (Shia LaBeouf), a troubled teen sentenced to house arrest, begins watching his neighbors out of boredom -- only to…
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Hounddog (2007)
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Isabelle Fuhrman, Robin Wright …
Directed by: Deborah Kampmeier
Doe-eyed Dakota Fanning steps away from family fare with this controversial but powerful drama set in rural Alabama, playing a precocious but abused 12-year-old who finds comfort in the music…
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16 Blocks (2006)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse …
Directed by: Richard Donner
Tasked with escorting chatty prosecution witness Eddie Bunker (rapper and seasoned actor Mos Def) from police custody to a nearby courthouse, aging New York City cop Jack Mosley (Bruce…
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Dreamer (2005)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue …
Directed by: John Gatins
Down-and-out horse trainer Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) gets an equally broken-down (but once great) racehorse as severance pay. But it will take the unwavering faith of his daughter (Dakota…
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Nearing Grace (2005)
Cast: Gregory Smith, David Morse, Jordana Brewster …
Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
With 1978 suburban New Jersey as the backdrop, this coming-of-age tale follows gawky teen Henry Nearing (Gregory Smith), who -- after his mother's untimely death -- ponders his future…
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Down in the Valley (2005)
Cast: Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse …
Directed by: David Jacobson
Harlan (Oscar nominee Edward Norton), a swaggering stranger who's convinced he's a cowboy, looks like a knight in shining armor to a rebellious teen named Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood), a…
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The Slaughter Rule (2002)
Cast: Ryan Gosling, David Morse, Clea DuVall …
Directed by: Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith
A dreary Montana winter teaches teenager Roy (Ryan Gosling) how to be a man. First, he loses his father, a possible suicide; then he's cut from his high school football team. So when Gid…
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Double Vision (2002)
Cast: Tony Leung Ka Fai, David Morse, Rene Liu …
Directed by: Kuo-fu Chen
In this thriller, whistle-blower Huang Huo-to (Tony Leung Ka Fai) finds the courage to report corruption in the police department and is punished by being demoted to a job as a foreign…
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Hack (2002)
Cast: Andre Braugher, David Morse, Matthew Borish …
In this TV drama, Philadelphia cop Mike Olshansky quits the force after facing charges of corruption and starts driving a cab for a living. Now free from police bureaucracy, Mike uses his…
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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis …
Directed by: Scott Hicks
An elderly man (Anthony Hopkins) with bad eyesight and a gift for second sight moves into a widower's home as a boarder and befriends the woman's young son (Anton Yelchin), who…
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Diary of a City Priest (2001)
Cast: David Morse, Phillip Goodwin, Ana Reeder …
Directed by: Eugene Martin
In a tough Philadelphia neighborhood, a driven and committed priest (David Morse) tries to make a difference in the life of the community. This "diary" focuses on the struggles of the…
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Bait (2000)
Cast: Jamie Foxx, David Morse, Robert Pastorelli …
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Small-time hustler Alvin Sanders (Jamie Foxx) suddenly finds himself at the center of a tug-of-war between the feds and ruthless criminals after he receives a cryptic message from a cell mate…
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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse …
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Nearly blind Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant who dwells in a mental world of fantastical song and dance, performs a haunting act of deliverance when a neighbor (David Morse) steals the…
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Proof of Life (2000)
Cast: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse …
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Engineer Peter Bowman (David Morse) moves with his wife, Alice (Meg Ryan), to a small Central American country to help build infrastructure, but ends up getting kidnapped by a radical…
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Crazy in Alabama (1999)
Cast: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black …
Directed by: Antonio Banderas
Young Peejoe sees his quiet life in rural Alabama turned upside-down one troubled summer in the 1960s. Peejoe's eccentric Aunt Lucille kills her abusive husband and heads for Hollywood…
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The Green Mile (1999)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse …
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Director Frank Darabont's powerful adaptation of Stephen King's supernatural tale is set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan)…
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A.W.O.L. (1999)
Cast: David Morse, John C. McGinley, Caroline Kristiahn …
Directed by: Jack Swanstrom
An American soldier flies to Cambodia during the height of the Vietnam War, sent by the CIA to sniff out allegations of black magic. But after he's kidnapped and tortured -- and…
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The Negotiator (1998)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse …
Directed by: F. Gary Gray
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson), who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate…
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Contact (1997)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt …
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
When Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) hears a signal being broadcast from outer space, the race is on to interpret humanity's first contact with alien intelligence in this adaptation of…
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Murder Live! (1997)
Cast: Marg Helgenberger, David Morse, Christine Estabrook …
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Consumed with grief and enraged by his daughter's suicide -- which was caused by an inflammatory television talk show segment -- a father (David Morse) takes the show's egomaniacal…
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Extreme Measures (1996)
Cast: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker …
Directed by: Michael Apted
In director Michael Apted's medical thriller, emergency room doctor Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) is haunted by the disappearance of a strange patient's records. Against the advice of his…
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Cast: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima …
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) can't remember anything before the day she woke up eight years ago, injured and two months pregnant. Now a schoolteacher with only vague memories of the…
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The Rock (1996)
Cast: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris …
Directed by: Michael Bay
When a disgruntled ex-Marine seizes Alcatraz prison -- taking hostages and threatening to blanket San Francisco with nerve gas -- the feds send in a strike team led by a chemical-weapons whiz…
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The Crossing Guard (1995)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston …
Directed by: Sean Penn
When Freddy and Mary Gale lose their daughter in a drunk-driving accident, Freddy is bent on revenge and intent on punishing the driver who ruined his life -- telling him he has just three…
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12 Monkeys (1995)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Christopher Plummer …
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
In the year 2035, convict James Cole (Bruce Willis) volunteers reluctantly to be sent back in time by scientists to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the…
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The Langoliers (1995)
Cast: Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, David Morse …
Directed by: Tom Holland
Ten people awake on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to discover that the other passengers, the flight crew and the pilots have disappeared. After a passenger (David Morse) manages to land…
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The Getaway (1994)
Cast: Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Tilly …
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
When master criminal Doc McCoy (Alec Baldwin) finds himself rotting in a Mexican jail, his wife, Carol (Kim Basinger), strikes a deal with crime boss Jack Benyon (James Woods). Once Doc is…
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Magic Kid 2 (1994)
Cast: Howie Mandel, David Morse, Stephen Furst …
Directed by: Stephen Furst
Tired of living life as the star of the hit television show "Ninja Boy," teenager Kevin Ryan (Ted Jan Roberts) decides to quit and rejoin the "normal" world in this sequel to the 1994 family…
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The Good Son (1993)
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson …
Directed by: Joseph Ruben
The title's a contradiction in terms when evil-seed son Henry (Macaulay Culkin) tries to snuff his family members. It doesn't take visiting cousin Mark (Elijah Wood), whose own…
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The Indian Runner (1991)
Cast: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino …
Directed by: Sean Penn
Sean Penn wrote and directs this poignant drama inspired by Bruce Springsteen's song "Highway Patrolman." When small-town deputy sheriff Joe Roberts (David Morse) takes in his troubled…
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Desperate Hours (1990)
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers …
Directed by: Michael Cimino
Director Michael Cimino's thriller centers on a separated couple, Tim (Anthony Hopkins) and Nora (Mimi Rogers), who wind up housing and trying to trap escaped psychotic killer Michael…
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Cross of Fire (1989)
Cast: John Heard, Lloyd Bridges, Mel Harris …
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
"Cross of Fire", an explosive true story of romance, murder and revenge set in the turbulent 1920's, creates a unique event that draws upon the past to comment on the present. John…
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Six Against the Rock (1987)
Cast: David Carradine, Richard Dysart, Richard A. Dysart …
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
This action-adventure film mines the history books for material as it recounts the tale of a daring outbreak from the normally impenetrable -- and inescapable -- island of Alcatraz in the…
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Prototype (1983)
Cast: Christopher Plummer, David Morse, Frances Sternhagen …
Directed by: David Greene
Dr. Carl Forrester (Christopher Plummer) heads a government-backed research lab that's developed a gifted robot named Michael (David Morse), a product five years in the making. The…
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Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Cast: Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
In this family comedy from writer Neil Simon, long-lost father Max Dugan tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Nora, who's struggling with single motherhood. But Max's…
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Inside Moves (1980)
Cast: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Richard Donner
After a failed suicide attempt resulting in a crippled leg, Roary (John Savage) finds comfort, friendship and revelation at -- of all places -- Max's Bar, a local watering hole. There,…