Biography: Alan Alda |

The son of actor Robert Alda, Alan Alda grew up around vaudeville and burlesque comedians, soaking up as many jokes and routines as was humanly possible. Robert Alda hoped that his son would become a doctor, but the boy's urge to perform won out.... more
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Tags: Political Drama Drama 
Length: 107min
A tense political drama ripped straight from the headlines, Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth tells the tale of a Washington, D.C. reporter who is targeted by the government after refusing to reveal her source for a story that identified an undercover...

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson   
Tags: Sports Drama Drama Inspirational Drama 
Length: 113min
Director and co-screenwriter (along with Chris Gerolmo, Allison Burnett, and Michael Bortman) Rod Lurie tells the uplifting tale of a sports writer who almost lost it all before stumbling into the story of a lifetime in this uplifting sports-themed...

Cast: Matthew Broderick Dylan Baker   
Tags: Road Movie Comedy 
Length: 87min
Author Sherwood Kiraly pens the screenplay adaptation of his own comedic novel concerning a man (Matthew Broderick) who gets amnesia after suffering a blow to the head and the road trip he embarks on with his Alzheimer’s-afflicted uncle (Alan Alda)...

Tags: Family Drama Drama Period Film 
Length: 120min
Alan Alda stars in this period drama as Willie Walters, a talent agent booking acts into nightclubs in the 1940s. Willie would like his son Stuey (Steven Webber) to join him in his business, but Stuey isn't so sure that's the path he wants to take in...

Cast: Martin Scorsese Alec Baldwin Leonardo DiCaprio   
Tags: Period Film Drama Biopic 
Length: 166min
Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale iopic documenting the life and loves one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. The Aviator follows Hughes (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) as the twentysomething...

Cast: Alan Alda   
Tags: Thriller Political Thriller 
Length: 107min
A police detective finds that looking into a murder is anything but routine when one of the suspects is the President of the United States. When the nude and bloodied corpse of an attractive woman is found in a bathroom at the White House, Harlan...

Cast: Stan Brakhage   
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 
Length: 70min
It is estimated that 80 of all films released during the silent era have been lost forever, with no prints in existence today (a larger percentage of paintings from the Renaissance have survived), while some films from as little as 15 to 20 years ago...

Tags: Courtroom Drama Prison Film Drama 
Length: 110min
Noted filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, who made a name for herself by directing a series of socially minded films about racism and oppression -- including Sugar Cane Alley and A Dry White Season -- continues in the same vein with this gritty courtroom drama...

Cast: Dustin Hoffman John Travolta Costa-Gavras   
Tags: Drama Message Movie Political Drama 
Length: 114min
Investigative TV journalist Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) suffers setbacks and winds up filing routine reports from Madeline, California. Max and his eager intern Laurie (Mia Kirshner) are doing a story at the local Museum of Natural History when a...

The Object of My Affection (1998)
Tags: Urban Comedy Gay & Lesbian Films Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy 
Length: 112min
Nicholas Hytner (The Crucible) directed this Wendy Wasserstein screenplay, adapted from Stephen McCauley's novel, about the romantic mismatch of a gay man and a young pregnant woman. When literary agent Sidney Miller (Alan Alda) and his wife Constance...




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