Biography: George Roy Hill |
Not to be confused with early-1930s MGM director George Hill (many historians do mix up the names, even though the earlier Hill died in 1934), American director George Roy Hill started out as a musician. He studied both at Yale and Trinity College... more
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Tags: Americana Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 101min
Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small,...
The World According to Garp (1982)
Cast: Glenn Close John Lithgow Hume Cronyn
Tags: Comedy Drama Tragi-comedy Coming-of-Age
Length: 136min
The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. Robin Williams plays the title character, the son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields...
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Cast: Diane Keaton
Tags: Spy Film Political Thriller Unglamorized Spy Film
Length: 130min
Based on John Le Carré's novel by the same name, this story about Charlie (Diane Keaton) a female double agent working between the Palestinians and Israelis, loses some of the excitement and in-depth characterization engendered by the long novel --...
Cast: Susan Sarandon
Tags: Adventure Period Film Americana Adventure Drama Drama
Length: 108min
Robert Redford plays Waldo Pepper, a former World War I pilot who exaggerates his accomplishments in order to impress the rabble. After a brief rivalry with air-show entrepreneur Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson), Pepper teams with Axel to barnstorm all over...
Tags: Comedy Drama Science Fiction Anti-War Film
Length: 104min
"Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." These opening words of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel make an effective and short summary of a haunting, funny film. For the screen, director George Roy Hill faithfully renders Vonnegut's black anti-war comedy...
Cast: Laurence Olivier George Roy Hill
Tags: Romance Comedy Sophisticated Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 110min
The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman stepfather (Arthur Hill) and her promiscuous mother (Sally Kellerman). Mom is currently enamored with pretentious-filmmaker David...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Tags: Revisionist Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film Buddy Film Western
Length: 110min
Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months. Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) join the Gang...
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Cast: Julie Andrews
Tags: Farce Comedy Musical Musical Comedy
Length: 138min
George Roy Hill directed this original musical set the 1920s that mixes pop standards with new tunes written by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. Julie Andrews, in a role that recalls her Broadway triumph in The Boy Friend, stars as Millie Dillmount,...
Cast: Paul Newman
Tags: Comedy Sports Comedy
Length: 123min
Paul Newman plays Reggie Dunlop, the coach of a pathetic minor-league American hockey team. His career at a standstill and his marriage in tatters, Dunlop has nothing to lose by taking on a new group of players who are one evolutionary step above...
Cast: Robert Redford Ray Walston Charles Durning
Tags: Gangster Film Period Film Buddy Film Crime Comedy Crime
Length: 135min
Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker,...
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