James Toback

Harvard Man (2001)

Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Errors Crime Drama Coming-of-Age Sports Drama 

Length: 97min

Director and screenwriter James Toback used his own experiences as a college student in the 1960s as the basis for this drama about a present-day student athlete who's bitten off more than he can chew. Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier) is a college...

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Black and White (1999)

Cast: Ben Stiller Robert Downey, Jr. Ron Silver   

Tags: Crime Drama Drama Ensemble Film Urban Drama 

Length: 98min

The inner workings of the New York hip-hop scene, and the fascination of white observers with rap music and hip-hop culture, set the stage for this drama written and directed by James Toback. Rich Bower (Power) is a mover and shaker in the world of...

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The Outsider (2005)

Cast: Woody Allen   

Tags: Biography Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History Media Studies 

Length: 83min

Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 hriller When Will I be...

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When Will I Be Loved (2004)

Tags: Drama Erotic Drama 

Length: 90min

Directed by James Toback, the erotic drama When Will I Be Loved? revolves around Vera, the debutante girlfriend (Neve Campbell) of a fast-talking hustler (Frederick Weller) who is on the verge of making millions through a big-money gambling venture....

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The Big Bang (1990)

Cast: James Toback Don Simpson   

Tags: Spirituality & Philosophy Philosophy 

Length: 81min

In this documentary, director and screenwriter James Toback asks a wildly divergent group of people to ponder some basic philosophical questions for his camera -- How did the world begin? How did we get here? What's the purpose of life? What do we...

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Two Girls and a Guy (1997)

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Ensemble Film 

Length: 84min

In this darkly comic tale of love and infidelity, Carla (Heather Graham) and Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) are both waiting outside an brownstone in Soho and happen to strike up a conversation. It seems both of them are waiting to meet their respective...

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The Pick-Up Artist (1987)

Cast: Danny Aiello Warren Beatty Mildred Dunnock   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance 

Length: 81min

With this rote but well-cast romantic comedy, writer-director James Toback began his long association with actor Robert Downey, Jr. The latter stars as Jack Jericho, a grade school teacher and smooth operator who zealously polishes his cliched pick-up...

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Love and Money (1982)

Cast: King Vidor   

Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller Drama 

Length: 90min

James Toback wrote and directed this typically intense and idiosyncratic satiric thriller. Byron Levin (Ray Sharkey) is an investment planner who has grown tired of his job and is bored by his relationship with his girlfriend Vicky (Susan Heldfond)....

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Exposed (1983)

Cast: Harvey Keitel   

Tags: Action Erotic Thriller Thriller 

Length: 100min

Exposed is the film in which concert violinist Rudolf Nureyev grabs his bow and "plays" the lissome body of Nastassja Kinski. This may well stand as the silliest bit of erotica in screen history, but in the context of the film it's a model of...

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