Biography: Jim Sheridan |
Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan emulated his stage-director father by working in Dublin-based children's theater, then with the "alternate theater" Project Art Centre, an organization Sheridan co-founded. He left the Centre over a dispute concerning a... more
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Cast: Natalie Portman Sam Shepard
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Jim Sheridan helms this remake of Susanne Bier's 2004 war melodrama, this time with Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal taking the lead roles of two brothers torn between war and love in this Relativity Media production. Maguire stars as a soldier who's...
Cast: Jim Sheridan
Tags: Musical Drama Drama Urban Drama
Length: 118min
Hip-hop star 50 Cent makes his movie debut in this hard-edged urban drama inspired by the rapper's own life. Marcus (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, aka 50 Cent) grew up in a tough New York neighborhood and was left to fend for himself after the death of...
Cast: Samantha Morton Djimon Hounsou
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 103min
After chronicling various chapters of Irish history in such films as In the Name of the Father and The Field, writer/director Jim Sheridan turns his lens upon his own family's experiences immigrating to the United States in the aptly titled In...
Cast: Emily Watson Brian Cox
Tags: Drama Political Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 154min
Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) directed this drama about a Belfast boxer, filmed with Dublin locations substituting for Belfast. Released after his 14-year prison sentence for IRA activities, 32-year-old Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis)...
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Cast: Emma Thompson
Tags: Political Drama Docudrama Courtroom Drama Drama
Length: 127min
The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in...
Cast: John Hurt Richard Harris Sean Bean
Tags: Drama Rural Drama
Length: 113min
Richard Harris was nominated for several awards (including the Oscar and Golden Globe) for his performance in The Field. The time is the mid-1930s; the place, western Ireland. For many years rugged individualist Bull McCabe (Harris) has been...
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis
Tags: Medical Drama Biopic Drama
Length: 103min
An alternative to the general run of "triumph over the odds" iopics, My Left Foot is the true story of Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown. Paralyzed from birth, Brown (played by Hugh O'Conor as child and Daniel Day-Lewis as an adult) is...
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