Biography: James Toback |

A stockbroker's son, James Toback holds degrees from both Harvard and Columbia. While an English instructor at CCNY, Toback began submitting articles to various publications, with special emphasis on sports magazines. Assigned to interview football... more
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Tags: Biography Sports & Recreation Sports 
Length: 90min
Assembled from over 30 hours of interviews with the controversial heavyweight champion, director James Toback takes the helm for a feature-length documentary exploring the life and career of self-destructive pugilist Mike Tyson. From his early years...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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)....

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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