Biography: Arliss Howard |
American actor Arliss Howard was born in Missouri, but he became well known to moviegoers of 1987 as a Texan named "Cowboy" in Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam picture Full Metal Jacket. Many viewers assumed that this tall, lithe actor made his film debut in... more
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Cast: Brad Pitt
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Supernatural Drama
Length: 108min
A Chicago librarian suffers from a rare genetic disorder that sends him hurtling through time whenever he is under extreme duress; despite the fact that he vanishes at inordinately frequent and lengthy intervals, he attempts to build a stable future...
Cast: Mare Winningham
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Coming-of-Age Rural Drama
Length: 94min
Independent filmmaker Mark Milgard makes his feature debut with the coming-of-age drama Dandelion, filmed on-location in Idaho. TV star Vincent Kartheiser plays Mason Mullich, a quiet sensitive boy living in a small town. His mother, Layla (Mare...
Cast: John Heard
Tags: Drama Courtroom Drama
Length: 91min
A man is called by the military to defend himself against long-ago charges of criminal misconduct in this made-for-cable drama based on a novel by Nelson DeMille. Ben Tyson (Don Johnson) has done well for himself 30 years after his tour of duty in...
Cast: Angie Dickinson
Tags: Drama Marriage Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 111min
Actor Arliss Howard made his debut as a director with this emotional drama adapted from a handful of short stories by Larry Brown. Barlow (Arliss Howard) is a deeply troubled Vietnam veteran who has been chasing a career as a writer, with little...
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 96min
David Mackay directed this drama about the secrets of four friends. Missouri lumberman Derek (Colm Feore) reunites his high school pals -- lawyer George (David Paymer), priest Ivan (Arliss Howard), and police officer Frank (Tony Goldwyn) -- who were...
Cast: Arliss Howard
Tags: Western Revisionist Western Biopic
Length: 94min
Produced for U.S. cable outlet TNT, You Know My Name is based on the colorful true story of Bill Tilghman, who went from Wild West lawman to Hollywood filmmaker to lawman again. Tilghman, played by Sam Elliott, was once an associate of Wyatt Earp and...
Cast: Steven Spielberg Anthony Hopkins John Williams Morgan Freeman
Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama Historical Film Period Film Message Movie
Length: 152min
This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by...
Cast: Maximilian Schell Tony Goldwyn Norman Lloyd Alison Elliott
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 120min
Acclaimed author Willa Cather offers a moving tale of an artist's self-discovery in a semi-autobiographical tale concerning a young woman from rural Colorado who moves to the big city to seek her fortune as a world-famous opera star. Originally aired...
Cast: Jeanne Tripplehorn
Length: 98min
One of the most frequently dramatized of all William Faulkner stories, Old Man is based on a section of Faulkner's 1939 novel ~The Wild Palms. Set during the cataclysmic 1927 Mississippi river flood, the story revolves around the curious relationship...
Cast: Julianne Moore David Strathairn Sigourney Weaver
Tags: Family Drama Melodrama Drama
Length: 125min
In this contemporary drama, Sigourney Weaver plays a woman out of her element and at the end of her rope. Alice Goodwin is a wife and mother who finds that the pressures of her life are starting to become more than she can bear. Alice works part-time...
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