Movies by Alan Rudolph
As part of the cast:
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
Cast: Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, Jacqueline Bisset …
Directed by: Xan Cassavetes
Founded in 1974 and based in Los Angeles, the Z Channel was the nation's first pay-cable station, preceding HBO or Showtime. At its pinnacle in the early 1980s, it served only 100,000…
As a director:
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The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Cast: Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Dr. Dave Hurst (Campbell Scott) shares two homes, three children and a dental practice with his wife, Dana (Hope Davis). One evening, backstage at Dana's theater production, the…
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Intimate Affairs (2001)
Cast: Alan Cumming, Nick Nolte, Robin Tunney …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
In 1920s Cambridge, Mass., a group of intellectuals, led by the principled Edgar (Dermot Mulroney), probe the science of sex. But the presence of two tempting stenographers (Robin Tunney and…
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Trixie (2000)
Cast: Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney, Nick Nolte …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Director Alan Rudolph spins a wholly unpredictable comedic whodunit here with Emily Watson as naïve, eccentric Trixie Zurbo, a sort-of detective who seizes her opportunity to become a…
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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte, Albert Finney …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
It would seem that Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) has it made: He's a millionaire car salesman in a town where everyone loves him. Despite these killer advantages, Dwayne thinks his life…
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Afterglow (1997)
Cast: Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Producer Robert Altman and director Alan Rudolph team up for this stylish dramedy about couples on the verge of complete fallout. Lucky (Nick Nolte) is a plumber married to an ex-movie star…
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Jennifer Jason Leigh portrays writer Dorothy Parker -- one of the Prohibition era's wittiest and most tragic intellects -- through her triumphs and trials as a fixture of…
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Equinox (1992)
Cast: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph writes and directs this atmospheric tale about a young woman named Beverly Franks (Lara Flynn Boyle), who discovers an unopened letter that leads her to explore the lives of…
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Mortal Thoughts (1991)
Cast: Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Cynthia Kellogg (Demi Moore) walks into a police station with some disturbing things to get off her chest: Her best friend, Joyce (Glenne Headly), has murdered her abusive husband (Bruce…
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Love at Large (1990)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
A beautiful woman (Anne Archer) hires lunkheaded private eye Harry Dobbs (Tom Berenger) to tail her mysterious lover. But Harry ends up following the wrong guy, a bigamist who oscillates…
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The Moderns (1988)
Cast: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Wallace Shawn …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Writer-director Alan Rudolph turns his eye on 1926 Paris for this elegant, wry film. Keith Carradine and Linda Fiorentino star as Nick and Rachel, former lovers who reunite amid the…
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Made in Heaven (1987)
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
In this ethereal drama that toys with standard notions of love and mortality, Mike Shea (Timothy Hutton) -- en route to California to start a new life -- has a fatal accident and ascends to…
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Songwriter (1984)
Cast: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Nashville singer-songwriter Doc (Willie Nelson) discovers that he's bound to a shady contract with devious record exec Rodeo Rocky (Richard C. Sarafian). Desperate to get out of the…
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Choose Me (1984)
Cast: Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Smooth-talking mental patient Mickey (Keith Carradine) frequents a local bar after escaping from his ward and unwittingly brings together several lost souls in this romantic comedy marked by…
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Roadie (1980)
Cast: Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Art Carney …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Rocker Meat Loaf is Travis W. Redfish, a farm boy with a penchant for wondrous electric engineering that he parlays into the title of "World's Greatest Roadie." Along the way, he falls…
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Johnny Legend's Deadly Doubles: 3: Barn of the Naked Dead / Halloween in Hell (1974)
Cast: Johnny Legend, Andrew Prine, Manuella Theiss …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
You'll find plenty of chills and thrills in this double feature that starts with Barn of the Naked Dead, in which a deranged circus ringmaster, Andre (Andrew Prine), kidnaps three…
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The Barn of the Naked Dead (1974)
Cast: Andrew Prine, Manuela Thiess, Sherry Alberoni …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
When their car breaks down in the desert, three Vegas-bound showgirls find themselves bumming a ride from a guy (Andrew Prine) who seems normal enough. But they have no idea what they've…