Movies by Dermot Mulroney
As part of the cast:
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Big Miracle (2012)
Cast: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski, Kristen Bell …
Directed by: Ken Kwapis
After small-town Alaska journalist Adam Carlson writes about three whales trapped in the Arctic Circle, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. team up to rescue them in this tale inspired by true events.…
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The Grey (2012)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Joe Carnahan
After narrowly surviving a deadly plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness, a band of oil riggers must fend for their lives in the ice and snow. But thanks to wolves that view their presence as…
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Beyond (2012)
Cast: Jon Voight, Teri Polo, Julian Morris …
Directed by: Josef Rusnak
When a police detective obsessed with child abductions investigates the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl, he clashes with a mysterious radio psychic who claims to have visions of the missing girl.
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The Family Tree (2011)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Chi McBride …
Directed by: Vivi Friedman
Finnish director Vivi Friedman makes her feature-film debut with this dark comedy about wife and mother Bunnie Burnett, who loses her memory and conveniently forgets all of her problems --…
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J. Edgar (2011)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer …
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this riveting biopic as J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime FBI director as notorious for his overzealous methods of law enforcement as for the rumors regarding his…
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Inhale (2010)
Cast: Mia Stallard, Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger …
Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur
In a desperate move to save his daughter's life, a New Mexico district attorney (Dermot Mulroney) crosses the border to look into an illegal lung transplant. But upon arrival, he learns…
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Flash of Genius (2008)
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Marc Abraham
In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for…
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Emily Watson, Gretchen Mol …
Directed by: Mick Jackson
During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry (Dermot Mulroney) delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline (Emily Watson). But when Henry realizes his wife (Gretchen Mol) is also…
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Jolene (2008)
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Dermot Mulroney, Chazz Palminteri …
Directed by: Dan Ireland
Based on a short story by celebrated novelist E.L. Doctorow, this character study tracks the itinerant exploits of the titular character (Jessica Chastain) as she sets off on an aimless,…
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Gracie (2007)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Elisabeth Shue, Andrew Shue …
Directed by: Davis Guggenheim
After a tragedy, 15-year-old Gracie (Carly Schroeder) channels her grief by fighting to get girls into varsity soccer in this inspiring drama. Despite her passion and resolve, she's…
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Georgia Rule (2007)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman …
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Fed up with the antics of her unruly daughter, Rachel (Lindsay Lohan), exasperated Lilly (Felicity Huffman) takes her to Idaho to live with her flinty, no-nonsense grandmother, Georgia (Jane…
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Dante's Inferno (2007)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, James Cromwell, Scott Adsit …
Directed by: Sean Meredith
After a night of debauchery, Dante (voiced by Dermot Mulroney) awakens in an unfamiliar part of town, where he encounters the Roman poet Virgil (James Cromwell) … who promptly leads the…
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Griffin & Phoenix (2006)
Cast: Amanda Peet, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Paulson …
Directed by: Ed Stone
Divorced, disconnected from his kids and living in a gloomy bachelor's pad, Griffin is already down when diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Resigned, he enrolls in a class about accepting…
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The Wedding Date (2005)
Cast: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams …
Directed by: Clare Kilner
Single girl Kat (Debra Messing) can't stomach the idea of attending her sister's (Amy Adams) faraway London wedding, where her ex-boyfriend (Jeremy Sheffield), who had ceremoniously…
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Must Love Dogs (2005)
Cast: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins …
Directed by: Gary David Goldberg
Divorcée Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) isn't ready for romance. But when her sister (Elizabeth Perkins) signs her up for an online dating service, love-seeking mates come calling.…
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The Family Stone (2005)
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker …
Directed by: Thomas Bezucha
Although their relationship works in the city, things begin to fall apart for buttoned-up Manhattanites Everett (Dermot Mulroney) and Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) when they visit the…
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Undertow (2004)
Cast: Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: David Gordon Green
After his wife dies, John Munn takes his sons -- juvenile delinquent Chris and recluse Tim -- to rural Georgia. But all their lives take a violent turn when John's ill-intentioned…
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Hair High (2004)
Cast: Eric Gilliland, Sarah Silverman, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Bill Plympton
Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton revives a 1950s legend about a teenage couple murdered on prom night -- who then return from a watery grave to exact their revenge at the following…
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Lovely & Amazing (2002)
Cast: Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer …
Directed by: Nicole Holofcener
Four spirited women tackle everything from relationships to careers in this captivating indie drama, starring Brenda Blethyn as an insecure mother who passed along bits of her neuroses to…
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About Schmidt (2002)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Alexander Payne
When insurance actuary Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) retires and his wife dies, he looks for life's meaning on a road trip to his daughter's (Hope Davis) upcoming wedding to a…
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The Safety of Objects (2001)
Cast: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Jessica Campbell …
Directed by: Rose Troche
Four intersecting tales shed light on the difficult lives of suburbanites. Esther (Glenn Close) nurses her comatose son (Joshua Jackson) while ignoring the rest of the family, and workaholic…
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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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Where the Money Is (2000)
Cast: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Marek Kanievska
Paul Newman proves he's still got prodigious acting chops, playing an aging bank robber who may have one last job in him. Faking a stroke, the incarcerated Newman is transferred to a…
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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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Goodbye Lover (1999)
Cast: Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker …
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Obsessively cheerful Sandra Dunmore (Patricia Arquette) is married to hard-drinking ad executive Jake (Dermot Mulroney) and having a fling with his brother Ben (Don Johnson) in this stylish…
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Box of Moonlight (1997)
Cast: John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener …
Directed by: Tom DiCillo
A trip originally planned for business turns into the healthy unraveling of a middle-aged man's uptight world. When Al Fountain (John Turturro) sees his work contract canceled, he…
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My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Cast: Julia Roberts, Rupert Everett, Cameron Diaz …
Directed by: P.J. Hogan
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael…
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Bastard out of Carolina (1996)
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Glenne Headly …
Directed by: Anjelica Huston
Angelica Huston follows dad John Huston into the field of directing with this adaptation of Dorothy Allison's autobiographical bestseller, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as a single mom…
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The Trigger Effect (1996)
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: David Koepp
When a power failure sends their suburban town into chaos, Matthew (Kyle MacLachlan) and his wife (Elisabeth Shue) stoop to desperate measures to secure medication for their child. On the…
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Heroine of Hell (1996)
Cast: Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Wendy Phillips …
Directed by: Nietzchka Keene
Magda (Catherine Keener) is an artist with issues: men, abandonment and jerks who get off scott-free. While looking to mete out spiritual justice to wrongdoers, Magda discovers that her own…
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Kansas City (1996)
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Blowsy Blondie O'Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is on the hunt for her low-life husband, Jack (Dermot Mulroney), who's been kidnapped by vicious casino kingpin "Seldom Seen" (Harry…
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Copycat (1995)
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, John Rothman, Holly Hunter …
Directed by: Jon Amiel
The hunt for a San Francisco psycho makes unlikely comrades of two women: criminal psychologist Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver), who's survived an attack by another serial killer, and…
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How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Cast: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn …
Directed by: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Based on a novel by Whitney Otto, Jocelyn Moorhouse's directorial debut looks at relationships of all kinds -- romantic, platonic and familial. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder), a graduate…
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Living in Oblivion (1995)
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Tom DiCillo
This clever comedy takes you through one hellaciously funny day in the life of small-time independent filmmaker Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi), who has one goal: to realize his artistic vision…
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There Goes My Baby (1994)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Rick Schroder, Jill Schoelen …
Directed by: Floyd Mutrux
It's the mid-1960s, and eight graduating California high school friends confront life with wit and honesty while dealing with the assassination of JFK, the escalation of the war in…
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Bad Girls (1994)
Cast: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Drew Barrymore …
Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan
Cody, Anita, Eileen and Lilly are four tough Wild West women on the run from the law. To make matters worse, as they're getting cash from a bank, a robber takes it. With two Pinkertons…
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The Last Outlaw (1994)
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine …
Directed by: Geoff Murphy
In the Wild West, being an outlaw was a lot less glamorous than the dime novelists made it out to be. In the company of thieves, mutual trust was a commodity in very short supply; it was an…
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Silent Tongue (1994)
Cast: Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates …
Directed by: Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard directs this tale, circa 1873, of a young half-Native American who's kidnapped from her drunken white father by a cowboy named Prescott Roe. Seems Roe wants her for his…
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Point of No Return (1993)
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: John Badham
In this American remake of La Femme Nikita, cop killer Maggie Hayward (Bridget Fonda) is on death row. After the government stages her execution by lethal injection, she wakes up to an…
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Family Pictures (1993)
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Sam Neill, Kyra Sedgwick …
Directed by: Philip Saville
Adapted from Sue Miller's novel, this tale centers on a family forever changed by autism. Lainey and David Eberline (Anjelica Huston and Sam Neill) decide against institutionalizing…
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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Cast: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Aspiring country singer Miranda Presley (Samantha Mathis) follows her dream to Nashville and finds herself falling for two very different men whom she meets at an audition. James Wright…
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Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Cast: Laura San Giacomo, Dermot Mulroney, Robert Knepper …
Directed by: Marc Rocco
Director Marc Rocco's drama looks at a band of addicts and runaways who call the streets of Hollywood home. Living off what they score panhandling, stealing and pimping themselves, they…
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Career Opportunities (1991)
Cast: Frank Whaley, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Bryan Gordon
Jim Dodge (Frank Whaley) can't keep a job. His latest is as a night janitor at a local store, where Dodge spends his time blasting stereos and binging on junk food … until he…
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Longtime Companion (1989)
Cast: Campbell Scott, Mary-Louise Parker, Patrick Cassidy …
Directed by: Norman Rene
This ensemble piece centers on a group of gay men in 1980s New York City whose lives are changed by the puzzling new "gay cancer." The first film to have AIDS as its main subject, Longtime…
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Staying Together (1989)
Cast: Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon …
Directed by: Lee Grant
Brian (Tim Quill), Kit (Dermot Mulroney) and Duncan (Sean Astin) have always expected they'd take over their father's (Jim Haynie) restaurant once he retires. That may be why…
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Survival Quest (1989)
Cast: Lance Henriksen, Catherine Keener, Mark Rolston …
Directed by: Don Coscarelli
Beastmaster director Don Coscarelli presents this tense action drama about a quintet of urbanites (including Catherine Keener and Dermot Mulroney) who head for the Rockies for the ultimate…
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Sunset (1988)
Cast: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell …
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Set in 1927, this Western spoof has outlaw Wyatt Earp (James Garner) acting as an adviser on his own biopic. When Earp hooks up with silent-screen cowboy Tom Mix (Bruce Willis), the pair…
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Young Guns (1988)
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips …
Directed by: Christopher Cain
Rancher John Tunstall hires young gunmen to work on his property while teaching them to read and civilize themselves. When men working for a rival rancher shoot and kill Tunstall, the young…
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Daddy (1987)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, John Karlen, Tess Harper …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
A teenage couple is in over their heads when the girlfriend becomes pregnant in this made-for-TV drama. High school sweethearts Bobby (Dermot Mulroney) and Stacy (Patricia Arquette) learn to…
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Love, Wedding, Marriage (2011)
Cast: Mandy Moore, Kellan Lutz, James Brolin …
Directed by: Dermot Mulroney
When a newly wedded marriage counselor learns that her seemingly happy parents are serious candidates for divorce, she throws all the rules out the window to repair their fractured relationship.