Movies by John Carroll Lynch
As part of the cast:
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Lay the Favorite (2012)
Cast: Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones …
Directed by: Stephen Frears
When Florida stripper Beth becomes a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, she joins forces with professional sports gambler Dink to work the system and rake in the cash. But when Dink's jealous…
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Body of Proof (2011)
Cast: Dana Delany, Nicholas Bishop, Windell Middlebrooks …
Dana Delany stars as Megan Hunt, a medical examiner whose unorthodox methods help her crack even the toughest cases that the Philadelphia police bring to her. However, Hunt isn't as…
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Shutter Island (2010)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
When Teddy Daniels -- a World War II veteran turned U.S. marshal -- probes the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, his efforts are compromised by his…
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Sympathy for Delicious (2010)
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Christopher Thornton, Orlando Bloom …
Directed by: Mark Ruffalo
Struggling for survival on the rough streets of Los Angeles, newly paralyzed DJ "Delicious" Dean O'Dwyer gains the supernatural ability to heal the sick. But he uses the gift to…
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Hesher (2010)
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Devin Brochu …
Directed by: Spencer Susser
Struggling to accept the death of his mother, T.J. (Devin Brochu) befriends Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a twentysomething misfit who becomes both a mentor and a bad influence on the lost…
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Body of Proof (2010)
Cast: Dana Delany, Nicholas Bishop, Windell Middlebrooks …
Directed by: Nelson McCormick
In the wake of a severe car accident that cut short her career as a neurosurgeon, Dr. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) establishes herself as a top medical examiner who solves perplexing murders by…
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Love Happens (2009)
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler …
Directed by: Brandon Camp
After unexpectedly falling for quirky hotel florist Eloise Chandler, widower and self-help guru Burke Ryan begins to realize that he hasn't come to grips with his wife's death three…
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Zodiac (2007)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr. …
Directed by: David Fincher
David Fincher's chilling drama based on actual events in the 1960s and '70s recounts the infamous actions of a cryptic killer who stalked the streets of San Francisco in an…
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Full of It (2007)
Cast: Ryan Pinkston, Kate Mara, Teri Polo …
Directed by: Christian Charles
In a fateful spin on the old adage "Be careful what you wish for," habitual liar Sam Leonard (Ryan Pinkston) is forced to live out every lie he tells. Teenage misfit Sam desperately wants to…
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K-Ville: Season 1 (2007)
Cast: Anthony Anderson, Cole Hauser, Maximiliano Hernández …
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, chaos still rules the streets of New Orleans. Brash police veteran Marlin Boulet (Anthony Anderson) has no problem bending the rules if it means catching a…
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Cast: Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny …
Directed by: Susanne Bier
Attempting to piece her life back together after losing her husband (David Duchovny) in a tragic incident, grieving widow Audrey (Halle Berry) turns to an unlikely ally: her husband's…
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Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole …
Directed by: Petter Naess
This romantic drama follows the love affair of two people with Asperger's Syndrome -- a subtle form of autism -- as Donald (Josh Hartnett), an emotionally dysfunctional mathematical…
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)
Cast: Penny Marshall, Victoria Burrows, Paul Jerome …
Directed by: Albert Brooks
Funnyman Albert Brooks plays a comedian sent by the U.S. State Department to India and Pakistan to find out exactly what makes Muslims laugh -- all with an eye toward helping everyone get…
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Catch That Kid (2004)
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Corbin Bleu, Max Thieriot …
Directed by: Bart Freundlich
Three specialists in their fields -- a rock climber, a computer genius and a mechanical wiz -- take on the nearly impossible task of robbing one of the world's most impenetrable banks in…
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Gothika (2003)
Cast: Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been…
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The Good Girl (2002)
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly …
Directed by: Miguel Arteta
Justine (Jennifer Aniston) longs to start a family, but she and her loving husband (John C. Reilly) seem unable to conceive. So when the frustrated "good girl" meets a creative, passionate…
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Bug (2002)
Cast: John Carroll Lynch, Brian Cox, Jamie Kennedy …
Directed by: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi
Screenwriters Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay co-directed this deeply imaginative film, which begins when a boy squashes the eponymous bug. The child is told that he's performed a horrendous…
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Live from Baghdad (2002)
Cast: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard …
Directed by: Mick Jackson
Based on a nonfiction book of the same name, Live from Baghdad explores how CNN producers Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton), Igrid Formanek (Helena Bonham Carter) and their crew brushed aside…
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No Strings Attached (2002)
Cast: Michael McKean, Vincent Spano, Traci Lind …
Directed by: Josef Rusnak
An investigative reporter (Vincent Spano) risks losing his career, his girlfriend and his life when he engages in a sexually charged relationship with a woman (Cheryl Pollak) who, unbeknownst…
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Bubble Boy (2001)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Marley Shelton, Swoosie Kurtz …
Directed by: Blair Hayes
In this wry, immunodeficient take on The Graduate, Jake Gyllenhaal is Jimmy, the titular plasticized shut-in who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe (Marley Shelton). But…
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The Next Best Thing (2000)
Cast: Rupert Everett, Madonna, Benjamin Bratt …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Abbie and Robert are single friends who never let sex get between them -- it's never been an issue, as he's gay. But one night, a little too much wine leads to an unexpected tryst.…
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Late Last Night (1999)
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Steven Weber, Bobby Edner …
Directed by: Steven Brill
A wild night on the town provides the antidote for marital misery in this hilarious comedy. Having just been left by his wife, Dan (Emilio Estevez) is now hitting the Los Angeles clubs in an…
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Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz …
Directed by: Mick Jackson
When Mitch Albom (Hank Azaria) learns his beloved professor, Morrie Schwartz (Jack Lemmon), is dying with Lou Gehrig's Disease, he reconnects with his mentor and learns from him all over…
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Freak Weather (1999)
Cast: Jacqueline McKenzie, Jacob Chase, Aida Turturro …
Directed by: Mary Kuryla
Selfish and despicable Penny (Jacqueline McKenzie) and her son (Jacob Chase) have just been booted out of Penny's boyfriend's apartment. And for the next 48 hours, the dispossessed…
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Restaurant (1998)
Cast: Adrien Brody, Elise Neal, David Moscow …
Directed by: Eric Bross
Staffers at a chic bistro in Hoboken, N.J., strive to preserve harmony at work and to find contentment as their creative ambitions, multiethnic friendships and love lives unravel in director…
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The Naked Man (1998)
Cast: Michael Rapaport, Michael Jeter, John Carroll Lynch …
Directed by: J. Todd Anderson
This offbeat comedy follows the strange path of Dr. Edward Blis, a chiropractor and part-time wrestler who takes his wrestling persona -- the Naked Man -- to absurd new heights when he swears…
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Volcano (1997)
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann …
Directed by: Mick Jackson
Earthquakes look like child's play compared with what Mother Nature is throwing at Tinseltown this time. A volcano erupts and threatens to engulf downtown Los Angeles. But fear not: a…
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Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
Cast: Michael Biehn, Mark Edward Anderson, Adrian Paul …
Directed by: Stephen Milburn Anderson
On a covert mission to destroy a pivotal North Korean nuclear power plant, a tough but inexperienced squad of female Rangers sneaks across enemy lines, engages in intense firefights and…
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Fargo (1996)
Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi …
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Police chief Marge Gunderson -- a serious sleuth who's sharper than her folksy accent suggests -- is hot on the trail of a Minneapolis car dealer conspiring with two kidnappers to snatch…