Movies by Liev Schreiber
As part of the cast:
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Movie 43 (2012)
Cast: Emma Stone, Elizabeth Banks, Gerard Butler …
Directed by: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr …
An eye-popping cast stars in this sketch-comedy pastiche, the new millennium's take on classics such as The Kentucky Fried Movie. Stars from Kate Winslet to Justin Long to Richard Gere…
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Robot and Frank (2012)
Cast: Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden …
Directed by: Jake Schreier
Retired cat burglar Frank worries his adult children, who present him with a robot caretaker to look after his house and keep him company. Realizing that his new companion would make the…
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Secrets of the Dead: China's Terracotta Warriors (2011)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Putting 8,000 clay soldiers in historical context, this installment of "Secrets of the Dead" explores the origins of the famed terracotta warriors that were created -- in the span of only two…
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Secrets of the Dead: Lost in the Amazon (2011)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Peter von Puttkamer
PBS's acclaimed documentary series "Secrets of the Dead" sets out to find the fabled "Lost City of Z," charting Col. Percy Fawcett's final expedition into the Amazon in 1925 that…
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Secrets of the Dead: World's Biggest Bomb (2011)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
In 1951, the world's largest hydrogen bomb was detonated at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. This documentary investigation of the blast's fallout (both literal and otherwise)…
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Goon (2011)
Cast: Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill …
Directed by: Michael Dowse
When he's seen dispatching a rude opposing hockey player in the stands, Doug Glatt is hired by a rival team ... for his fighting skills. It seems the new team's star is gun-shy…
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Repo Men (2010)
Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik
In the world of this sci-fi thriller set in the not-too-distant future, artificial organs are readily available to anybody with a credit card. But what happens if a buyer falls delinquent on…
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Salt (2010)
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor …
Directed by: Phillip Noyce
After she's accused of being a Russian sleeper spy, rogue CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) goes on the run, using every tactic, accent and disguise she knows to elude her pursuers,…
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Every Day (2010)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Brian Dennehy …
Directed by: Richard Levine
Ned is fed up with his unfulfilling work as a writer on a flawed television show and his stagnant marriage to wife Jeannie. Just when he thinks life can't get worse, his teenage son…
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Secrets of the Dead: Japanese SuperSub (2010)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Eric Stange
Delve deep into World War II history to explore Japan's I-401 aircraft carrier submarine, a mysterious vessel that featured cutting-edge design specifications intended to help it attack…
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Secrets of the Dead: Deadliest Battle (2010)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Brian J. McDonnell
With the aid of eye-opening archival footage, eyewitness accounts and long-buried documents, this penetrating edition of the PBS series looks at Germany's infamous 1941 invasion of the…
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Secrets of the Dead: Lost Ships of Rome (2010)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
The popular PBS series about ancient mysteries returns with a compelling examination of five strangely intact sunken ships near the isolated island of Ventotene, where Emperor Augustus…
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: Gavin Hood
This action-packed prequel to the popular X-Men films explores Marvel Comics character Wolverine's (Hugh Jackman) past and the events that influenced the mutant before the Weapon X…
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Taking Woodstock (2009)
Cast: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert …
Directed by: Ang Lee
A twentysomething man finds his life forever changed in the summer of 1969 when he offers up his parents' motel in the Catskills as a home base for Woodstock organizers and then helps…
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Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times (2009)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Camilla Chandler Frost, Marilyn "Missy" De Young …
Directed by: Peter Jones, Mark Catalena
For generations Harrison Gray Otis and the Chandler family used their newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, to wield great power over the City of Angels. This documentary chronicles the secretive…
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Last Extinction: Nova (2009)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, James Kennett, Paul Mayewski …
This "Nova" episode travels back in time to the last Ice Age to solve one of the great mysteries of paleontology: What happened to the mammoths? These mighty beasts suddenly died off about…
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Secrets of the Dead: Michelangelo Revealed (2009)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Antonio Forcellino
Directed by: Fabrizio Ruggirello
Though the Catholic Church commissioned many of Michelangelo's greatest works, his association with the church was more complex than his legacy suggests. This hourlong documentary…
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Elbert Hubbard: An American Original (2009)
Cast: Elbert Hubbard, Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Paul Lamont
This public television documentary examines the passionate life and career of Elbert Hubbard, a businessman who in 1895 established a socially progressive community of arts and crafts-style…
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Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre (2009)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Debra Bayne, Alex Chamberlen …
Directed by: Victoria Pitt
The chain of terrorist attacks that battered Mumbai, India, over several days in November 2008 -- replayed through the eyes of those taken hostage -- is the focus of this episode of…
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Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed (2008)
Cast: Joe Louis, Maya Angelou, Joe Louis Barrow Jr. …
Joe Louis made his name as a heavyweight champion, but as this documentary reveals, he came to symbolize much more: A segregated America united to watch his rise to success. And as the Nazis…
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Defiance (2008)
Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell …
Directed by: Edward Zwick
This moving historical drama stars Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, one of four Jewish brothers who escape into the forests of Belarus during World War II to lead a band of resistance fighters…
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Chicago 10 (2007)
Cast: Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, David Boateng …
Directed by: Brett Morgen
Blending archival footage with modern animation, this documentary examines the massive protests besetting the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, and the courtroom trial of several activists…
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Nova: Lost Treasures of Tibet (2007)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Liesl Clark
Situated within ancient Buddhist monasteries high in the Himalayas are sacred Tibetan works of art that date back to the 13th century. Years of neglect and bad weather have seriously damaged…
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Surviving the Dust Bowl (2007)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Chana Gazit, David Steward
Liev Schreiber narrates this hourlong documentary that chronicles the stories of the Southern plains farmers who persevered through the terrible eight-year drought and dust storms that…
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Secrets of the Dead: Battle for the Bible (2007)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
This PBS investigative show examines three key figures in the translation and proliferation of the English Bible: 14th-century theologian and reformer John Wycliffe, 16th-century translator…
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Secrets of the Dead: Herculaneum Uncovered (2007)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Two thousand years ago, the prosperous Italian town of Herculaneum was destroyed by superheated volcanic material from nearby Mount Vesuvius. This documentary explains how the disaster…
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Constantine's Sword (2007)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Eli Wallach, Natasha Richardson …
Directed by: Oren Jacoby
Director Oren Jacoby's intriguing documentary examines the history of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church (as exposed in James Carroll's controversial book Constantine's…
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Cast: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt …
Directed by: Mike Newell
A man obsessively in love with the childhood sweetheart who rejected him long ago and married another man remains on the sidelines of her life for the next 50 years, carving out a tortured…
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Operation Filmmaker (2007)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Dwayne Johnson, Elijah Wood …
Directed by: Nina Davenport
After hearing about the struggles of Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed, American actor Liev Schreiber invites him to come to the Czech Republic and work on Schreiber's directorial debut,…
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Sputnik Mania (2007)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Peter Thomas, Sergei Khrushchev …
Directed by: David Hoffman
This documentary chronicles the circumstances surrounding the launch of the Sputnik satellite 50 years ago and how it well might have spawned nuclear world warfare had it not been for the…
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National Geographic: Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (2007)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Liam Owen, Doug Kisgen …
Directed by: Sean MacLeod Phillips
Drawing upon evidence found in excavations from around the world, this stunning animated feature follows the adventures of a dolichorhynchops -- a sea creature also known as a "dolly" -- as…
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The Omen 666 (2006)
Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles …
Directed by: John Moore
Grieving U.S. ambassador Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) brings home another baby to soften the blow when his wife, Katherine (Julia Stiles), loses their first child during labor. But as young…
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The Painted Veil (2006)
Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: John Curran
Shunned by a husband who's more interested in his scientific research than his marriage, Kitty Fane embarks on a quest for fulfillment, igniting a passionate affair with dashing…
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The Ten (2006)
Cast: Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba …
Directed by: David Wain
An all-star cast (including Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Jessica Alba, Oliver Platt, Liev Schreiber, Famke Janssen, Rob Corddry and Gretchen Mol, among others) appears in this collection of 10…
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The Best of Nature: 25 Years (2006)
Cast: James Earl Jones, Liev Schreiber, George Page …
For a quarter-century, this PBS series has celebrated the unparalleled beauty of the natural world and reminded us of our connection to the animal kingdom. Witness goslings hatching upon…
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Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Cast: S. Epatha Merkerson, Marcus Franklin, Mos Def …
Directed by: George C. Wolfe
Playwright Ruben Santiago-Hudson stars in this version of his Obie Award-winning stage drama directed by George C. Wolfe. Rachel "Nanny" Crosby (S. Epatha Merkerson) lives in a house in…
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Mantle (2005)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Billy Crystal, Bob Costas …
Directed by: George Roy
Director George Roy goes beyond the obvious highlights of Mickey Mantle's illustrious career with the New York Yankees -- an 18-year run that included three MVP awards, a Triple Crown…
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Secrets of the Dead: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists (2005)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Filled with archival footage and visits to secret technological hideaways, this documentary tells the tale of the U.S. and Russia's race to capture the Nazi's top scientists and…
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Secrets of the Dead: Voyage of the Courtesans (2005)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Relying on historical reenactments and archival materials, this installment of the "Secrets of the Dead" series recounts the voyage of the Lady Juliana, an 18th century British vessel that…
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Seamless (2005)
Cast: Vera Wang, Isaac Mizrahi, Anna Wintour …
Directed by: Douglas Keeve
A decade after making his documentary Unzipped -- which followed flamboyant designer Isaac Mizrahi -- fashion photographer Douglas Keeve again trains his lens on the world of haute couture,…
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Dare to Dream (2005)
Cast: Brandi Chastain, Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy …
In the late 1980s, women's soccer was barely a blip on the radar of American sports. Then came five players, young women of exceptional skill and charisma. This documentary follows the…
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
In this remake of the 1962 political thriller, Capt. Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) and Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) are taken captive during the first Persian Gulf War and…
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Broadway: The Golden Age (2004)
Cast: Bea Arthur, Alec Baldwin, Marlon Brando …
Directed by: Rick McKay
When director Rick McKay travels the world researching the golden age of stage, he realizes that while masterpieces in film and literature can live on through restoration and reprints, the…
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Reverse of the Curse of the Bambino (2004)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
The 2004 World Series finally saw "The Curse of the Bambino" lifted as the Boston Red Sox rose to a well-earned victory -- to the overwhelming delight and relief of their legions of fans.…
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Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story (2003)
Cast: Jamel Aroui, Lotfi Dziri, Jeffrey Gibson …
Directed by: Tilman Remme
Russell Crowe fails to make an appearance in this searing documentary, but it's arresting moviemaking nonetheless as viewers journey through Roman history to a time when gladiators…
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Spinning Boris (2003)
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
When advisors to Russian president Boris Yeltsin need help raising the leader's approval ratings, who else should they turn to but three consultants from the United States -- George…
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Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi (2003)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Robert Sean Leonard
Directed by: Pamela Mason Wagner
Pamela Mason Wagner produced this in-depth look at the life of Saint Francis, whose legacy lives on in the hearts of countless Catholics. Set in his native Umbria, Italy, the film details the…
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone …
Directed by: Christian Duguay
This sweeping TV biopic of Hitler (Robert Carlyle) recounts the dictator's early years, including his Austrian boyhood and his time as a struggling artist in Vienna, and ends with his…
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The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Why are three missing Russian nuclear scientists holed up in the Ukraine, communicating with neo-Nazis? CIA agent Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) digs up more information than the U.S. government is…
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A Brilliant Madness: American Experience (2002)
Cast: John Nash, Alicia Nash, Sylvia Nasar …
Directed by: Mark Samels
In this edition of the PBS series, John Nash -- often called one of the most remarkable mathematicians in history -- tells his version of the strange, tragic and inspiring events that took…
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Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior / President: American Experience (2002)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Adriana Bosch, Elizabeth Deane
Ulysses S. Grant was one of America's most paradoxical leaders. The greatest hero of the Civil War, Grant was a brilliant military strategist who rose from obscurity to George…
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Galileo's Battle for the Heavens (2002)
Cast: Simon Callow, Liev Schreiber
In this illuminating documentary that details Galileo's amazing accomplishments and personal conflicts, narrator Liev Schreiber, historical texts and dramatic reenactments work in…
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Kate & Leopold (2001)
Cast: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: James Mangold
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes…
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Cancer Warrior: Nova (2001)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Judah Folkman
Directed by: Nancy Linde
Join Dr. Judah Folkman as he shares his 40-year quest for a radically new cancer treatment, including the development of the much-touted drug Endostatin. As a young doctor, Dr. Folkman…
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Search for a Safe Cigarette: Nova (2001)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Carl Charlson
Every year, 420,000 Americans die from the effects of cigarette smoke. In Search for a Safe Cigarette, NOVA gains unprecedented access to tobacco research and manufacturing facilities and…
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Scream 3 (2000)
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox …
Directed by: Wes Craven
This installment of the tongue-in-cheek (but still scary) horror trilogy finds Sidney Prescott again battling a crazed killer -- only this time it's on the set of Stab, a…
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Hamlet (2000)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard …
Directed by: Michael Almereyda
The President of the Denmark Corporation has recently been found dead, and his wife has re-married the man suspected of the murder. Nobody is suffering more than her son Hamlet -- who is not…
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A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Cast: Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber …
Directed by: Tony Goldwyn
The same summer that brings a man to the moon and free love to a small farm near Woodstock, N.Y., shakes up the safe, happy life of vacationing housewife Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane), who…
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Jakob the Liar (1999)
Cast: Robin Williams, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Eva Igo …
Directed by: Peter Kassovitz
While detained at Nazi headquarters, Jewish shopkeeper Jakob (Robin Williams) overhears a broadcast about Soviet troop advances. Back in the Warsaw ghetto, Jakob shares the news with his…
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RKO 281 (1999)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith …
Directed by: Benjamin Ross
High on the success of his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, the prodigiously talented Orson Welles (Liev Schreiber) heads west to pursue a career in movies. An invitation to the California…
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The Hurricane (1999)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Denzel Washington lands a knockout punch as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a prizefighter who -- at the zenith of his boxing career -- finds himself wrongly convicted of a triple homicide and…
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Spring Forward (1999)
Cast: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott …
Directed by: Tom Gilroy
Spring Forward focuses on the friendship between two men who work for the parks department in a small New England town. His first day on the job, Paul (Liev Schreiber), a skittish ex-con…
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Phantoms (1998)
Cast: Ben Affleck, Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan …
Directed by: Joe Chappelle
In this spooky flick based on a Dean Koontz novel, Lisa (Rose McGowan) and Jenny (Joanna Going) arrive in Snowfield, Colorado, for a ski vacation, only to find the town deserted but for a…
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Sphere (1998)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone …
Directed by: Barry Levinson
When a team of scientists (Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson) begins to investigate a giant spacecraft that's come to rest 1,000 feet under the sea, they discover that…
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Twilight (1998)
Cast: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Harry Ross (Paul Newman) is a Hollywood private eye who's living out his golden years in the house of two fading movie stars -- Catherine (Susan Sarandon) and Jack Ames (Gene Hackman).…
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Babe Ruth: The Life Behind the Legend (1998)
Cast: Babe Ruth, Liev Schreiber, Jean Shepherd …
Directed by: Steven Hilliard Stern
Before there was Barry Bonds or Mark McGuire, there was Babe Ruth. Liev Schreiber narrates this made-for-cable documentary that profiles the man many consider to be the greatest baseball…
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Since You've Been Gone (1998)
Cast: Lara Flynn Boyle, Teri Hatcher, David Schwimmer …
Directed by: David Schwimmer
In this made-for-cable ensemble comedy, a hodgepodge of friends, rivals and oddballs gather in Chicago for their 10-year high school reunion, with sanctimonious class president Robert Levitt…
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Scream 2 (1997)
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox …
Directed by: Wes Craven
In the two years since the fateful events in Woodsboro, Gale has written a best-seller, which has been turned into a film. As the movie premiere looms closer, the mysterious deaths begin…
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His & Hers (1997)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Michael Rispoli, Danny Hoch …
Directed by: Hal Salwen
When robustly pregnant Carol (Caroleen Feeney) inadvertently hacks off her husband Glenn's (Liev Schreiber) finger while chopping carrots, she uses the missing digit to extort the truth…
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Big Night (1996)
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Ian Holm …
Directed by: Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
Despite its superb cuisine, an Italian restaurant run by immigrant brothers Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci) is on the verge of bankruptcy. But the siblings risk everything…
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Scream (1996)
Cast: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox …
Directed by: Wes Craven
Horror maven Wes Craven -- paying homage to teen horror classics such as Halloween and Prom Night -- turns the genre on its head with this tale of a murderer who terrorizes hapless high…
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Walking and Talking (1996)
Cast: Amy Braverman, Catherine Keener, Miranda Rhyne …
Directed by: Nicole Holofcener
Amelia (Catherine Keener) and Laura (Anne Heche) have been best friends since the sixth grade. For the first time, their lives are taking different paths: Laura is in love and planning her…
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The Daytrippers (1995)
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Pat McNamara …
Directed by: Greg Mottola
New Yorker Eliza D'Amico (Hope Davis) drags along her mother, father, sister, and sister's boyfriend to Manhattan to confront her husband, Louis (Stanley Tucci), who she thinks is…
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Party Girl (1995)
Cast: Parker Posey, Anthony DeSando, Guillermo Díaz …
Directed by: Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Mary (Parker Posey), a flighty, unemployed, 24-year-old Manhattanite, is trying to get her life in order. But instead of bothering herself with a real job, she throws a series of parties at…
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Buffalo Girls (1995)
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Rod Hardy
This colorful made-for-TV biopic follows maverick cowgirl Calamity Jane (Anjelica Huston) through the closing days of the Wild West -- from her stint as a mule skinner for Gen. Custer to her…
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Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (1995)
Cast: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Michael McKean …
Directed by: John Erman
Two former comedians (Woody Allen and Peter Falk) who were once a red-hot team haven't spoken since they split up decades ago. But a chance to earn $75,000 each by playing bit parts in a…
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Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare (1995)
Cast: Liev Schreiber
Directed by: Molly Thompson
In this revealing DVD, rare photos and newsreels tell the story of Benito Mussolini's life, from his days as a class bully to the creation of the dreaded black shirt brigades. Eyewitness…
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Mixed Nuts (1994)
Cast: Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein …
Directed by: Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron helmed this zany comedy about dysfunctional people, the yuletide and a serial killer at large. Steve Martin stars as Philip, who runs a suicide-prevention hotline staffed by…
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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hütz, Boris Leskin …
Directed by: Liev Schreiber
A young American Jewish man begins an exhausting quest -- aided by a naïve Ukranian translator -- to find the righteous gentile woman who saved his grandfather when his small Ukranian…