Biography: James Spader |

Often noted for his comment that he enjoys working in all of his films -- as long as he doesn't have to see any of them -- actor James Spader may have missed out on seeing a few good performances in some pretty memorable films. Though descended... more
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Cast: Herbert Ross John Cusack Richard Widmark   
Tags: Political Drama Drama 
Length: 111min
John Cusack and James Spader play against type in Kevin Wade's morality play, directed by Herbert Ross. Spader plays Tim Gerrity, a well-heeled WASP blueblood, who has dedicated his life to justice and public service. Engaged to Diana Stiles (Imogene...

Cast: Curtis Hanson Rob Lowe   
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 105min
Successful LA marketing analyst Michael Boll (James Spader) seemingly has it all-except a sense of self-confidence. Enigmatic drifter Alex (Rob Lowe) enters Michael's life and immediately begins to exert a negative influence. As Michael's self-esteem...

Tags: Romance Comedy Sex Comedy Teen Movie Romantic Comedy 
Length: 92min
A teen sex comedy derived from the arch debut novel of author Martin Amis by debut director Damian Harris (son of actor Richard Harris). Dexter Fletcher stars as Charles Highway, a 19-year-old computer nerd in London who has created a program that...

Cast: Susan Sarandon Kathy Bates   
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama 
Length: 103min
Screenwriters Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent adapted the novel by Glenn Savan into this intelligent comedy-drama about a May-December omance where the woman is the senior partner. James Spader is Max Baron, a 27-year-old St. Louis advertising executive...

Cast: Estelle Getty   
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Comedy Fantasy Romance 
Length: 90min
In Mannequin, a lame attempt to revive the style and panache of fantasy-tinged omantic comedies of the '30s and '40s, Andrew McCarthy stars as a department store window-dresser who discovers that one of his mannequins (Kim Cattrall) is actually a...

sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Cast: James Spader Steven Soderbergh   
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama Erotic Drama 
Length: 99min
Steven Soderbergh kickstarted the independent film movement of the 1990s with this landmark drama about the tangled relationships among four people and a video camera. John (Peter Gallagher) is an unscrupulous, self-centered yuppie lawyer with a...

Tags: Drama Teen Movie Reunion Films 
Length: 98min
This drama about affluent Los Angeles teens is taken from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Clay (Andrew McCarthy) is a college freshman who returns home during Christmas break. Clay's old flame Blair (Jamie Gertz) is now more interested in her new beau...

Cast: Robert Downey, Jr.   
Tags: Teen Movie Drama 
Length: 113min
This routine film catalogues what happens to a teen's life when he is wrenched from an easy existence in affluent, East Coast suburbia and dropped into the lean, mean streets of a downscale L.A. suburb. James Spader is Morgan Hiller, displaced with...

Tags: Slasher Film Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 97min
The "Jack" who's "back" in this contemporary chiller is none other than Jack the Ripper. The scene is Los Angeles: the time is August of 1988, exactly 100 years after the Ripper's original reign of terror in Whitechapel. When several LA prostitutes...

Cast: Harold Ramis   
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy Domestic Comedy 
Length: 103min
Management consultant Diane Keaton has no time in her life for anything except her high-profile job. All this changes when she inherits a 14-month-old infant from a pair of recently deceased-and very distant-relatives. Intending to put the child up...




























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