Biography: Bob Balaban |

Playing a succession of bespectacled, soft-spoken, yet vaguely superior characters, Bob Balaban carved himself a niche as a reliable character actor in the last quarter of the 20th century, while also getting the occasional opportunity to write and... more
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Cast: David Strathairn Jeff Daniels   
Tags: Drama 
Length: min
The 1957 obscenity trial surrounding one of the Beat Generation's most acclaimed poets, Allen Ginsberg, is set to go in front of cameras with James Franco in the lead for Werc Werk Works and Telling Pictures. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman handle...

Cast: Laura Dern Kevin Spacey John Hurt Sydney Pollack   
Tags: Docudrama Political Drama Drama 
Length: 116min
Kevin Spacey and Bob Balaban headline Austin Powers director Jay Roach's all-star docudrama examining the events surrounding the most controversial presidential election in United States history. The highest office in the country is up for grabs, and...

Cast: Tom Wilkinson Dianne Wiest Peter Bogdanovich   
Tags: Comedy Drama Black Comedy 
Length: 111min
Actor Justin Theroux (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Mulholland Dr.) steps behind the camera for his directorial debut with this irreverent omantic comedy. Billy Crudup is Henry, a cynical children's book writer who holds little more than disdain...

Cast: Susan Sarandon Ralph Fiennes   
Length: 102min
Director Bob Balaban's fictional drama presents a speculative exploration of the relationship shared between wealthy tobacco heiress Doris Duke (Susan Sarandon) and her Irish butler Bernard Lafferty (Ralph Finnes) who, after just six years working as...

Tags: Fantasy Psychological Thriller Supernatural Drama Thriller 
Length: 110min
M. Night Shyamalan writes and directs this self-proclaimed, grown-up "bedtime story" about an apartment building superintendent named Cleveland (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a magical sea-nymph named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who's been transported...

Cast: Christopher Guest Michael McKean   
Tags: Comedy Showbiz Comedy 
Length: 86min
Mockumentary mastermind Christopher Guest turns his satirical eye away from dog shows, small-town theater, and folk music to offer a hilarious take on Hollywood award season in this comedy focusing on trio of actors whose lives are turned upside down...

Cast: Matthew Broderick   
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Drama Marriage Drama 
Length: 91min
Tom Cairns directs the psychological comedy drama Marie and Bruce, adapted from the play by Wallace Shawn. Set over a period of 24 hours, the lack comedy involves the troubled marriage of neurotic New Yorkers Marie (Julianne Moore) and Bruce (Matthew...

Tags: Comedy Mockumentary Reunion Films Musical Comedy 
Length: 92min
The writing and directing team who created Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of...

Cast: Danny Glover Brian Dennehy   
Tags: Prison Film Drama Ensemble Film 
Length: 90min
Adapted by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen from their own off-Broadway play, The Exonerated dramatizes the real-life stories of six innocent citizens who spent anywhere from three to 20 years on death row until DNA testing proved that they had all been...

Cast: Julia Roberts Brad Pitt   
Tags: Road Movie Comedy Crime Romantic Comedy Crime Comedy 
Length: 123min
A clumsy criminal is put in a position where he not only has to save his own skin, but that of his girlfriend in this comedy with strong undercurrents of romance. Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt) is a low-level Mafia "mechanic" whose ineptitude is countered...

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