Biography: Cary Elwes |
The handsome blonde actor Cary Elwes (pronounced El-Ways) was born in London to a portrait painter and an interior designer. He moved to the U.S. to study at Sarah Lawrence College, but made his film debut in the U.K. with the coming-of-age drama
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)
Cast: Robert Zemeckis Gary Oldman Bob Hoskins Jim Carrey
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Holiday Film
Length: 96min
Writer/director Robert Zemeckis adapts Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale -A Christmas Carol as a star vehicle for Jim Carrey in this performance capture/Disney Digital 3-D animated film for all ages. Carrey will not only take on the role of...
Cast: Jane Fonda Garry Marshall
Tags: Comedy Drama Melodrama Family Drama
Length: 113min
Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan star in director Garry Marshall's tale of a rebellious young woman who is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother when her frustrated mother fails to find a means of curbing her unruly behavior....
Cast: Timothy Hutton Michael Ironside
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 90min
Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this hriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku, and Michael Ironside. When Rochester,...
National Lampoon's Pucked (2006)
Cast: Arthur Hiller
Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy
Length: 86min
Credit cards and women on skates prove to be a dangerous mixture in this comedy. Frank Hopper (Jon Bon Jovi) is a former lawyer whose career has hit the skids, and he currently lives off the largesse of his more successful sister, Leona (Nora Dunn)....
Length: 105min
This quirky comedy stars Cary Elwes as Erik Naybor, a motivational speaker and life coach who keeps his family on their toes with a rigorous schedule of physical exercises and psychological techniques. He seems on top of his game, not to mention his...
Cast: Cary Elwes Sally Kirkland
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 97min
Ned (Jeremy Renner of Dahmer) is a proud member of the Aryan Brotherhood who has been admitted to a mental institution for his involvement in a racially motivated murder. Dr. Magnuson (Cary Elwes) and Johnny (Ethan Suplee) have trouble keeping Ned in...
Cast: Danny Glover
Tags: Sadistic Horror Horror
Length: 100min
The directorial debut from filmmaker James Wan, this psychological thriller comes from the first screenplay by actor Leigh Whannell, who also stars. Whannell plays Adam, one of two men chained up in a mysterious chamber. The other, Dr. Gordon (Cary...
Cast: Christopher Lee Jon Voight Ben Gazzara
Tags: Religious Drama Drama Biopic
Length: 240min
One of several dramatized tributes to the late pontiff to be telecast in 2005, the two-part CBS iopic Pope John Paul II is a remake of a popular Italian miniseries, and was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. The film begins with the attempted...
Cast: Eric Idle Anne Hathaway Hugh Dancy
Tags: Comedy Romantic Fantasy Teen Movie Fantasy Comedy Fantasy
Length: 101min
Adapted from author Gail Carson Levine's award-winning children's book of the same name, the Miramax-financed modern fantasy Ella Enchanted is directed by Tommy O'Haver and stars The Princess Diaries alumna Anne Hathaway. Ella (Hathaway) lives in a...
Tags: Black Comedy Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 88min
Small-town insurance adjustor Macbeth (Cary Elwes) is swindled into signing over a one-million-dollar policy to trailer park harlot Sally (Mary Steenburgen), who then hires a seductive hit woman, Jupiter (Elaine Hendrix), to kill him. But the ruthless...
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