Biography: Philip Baker Hall |
Primarily a supporting and character actor, Philip Baker Hall has also played the occasional lead on stage, screen, and television. Hall made his film debut playing a priest in Cowards (1970). He then appeared in three television series during the... more
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Cast: Matthew Broderick
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Slice of Life
Length: 89min
A pessimistic pothead struggles with his own cynicism after his Senegalese roommate is stricken ill and an insensitive municipal employee inadvertently exacerbates an already desperate situation. Ben Singer (Matthew Broderick) wanted to be a...
Cast: Pierce Brosnan
Tags: Odd Couple Film Crime Comedy Black Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 97min
A chance meeting between two middle-aged men leads one into a life of crime in this offbeat comedy. Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) is an American businessman whose life has been going through a sour patch after he and his wife, Carolyn (Hope Davis), lost...
Cast: Ben Kingsley Luke Wilson Dennis Farina John Dahl
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 92min
John Dahl's mob comedy You Kill Me stars Ben Kingsley as Frank Falenczyk, an alcoholic mob hitman who is ordered into AA by his boss (Philip Baker Hall). In order to clean up, he goes to San Francisco and successfully starts tw12-stepping with the...
Cast: Philip Baker Hall
Tags: Road Movie Comedy Drama Animal Picture
Length: 98min
An aging societal outcast and a motherless duck set out to find shelter and meaning in a future where people are separated by as many degrees as they are connected. The year is 2009, and the last public park in Los Angeles has been closed to the...
Cast: Nicole Kidman Lars von Trier John Hurt James Caan Lauren Bacall Jeremy Davies Ben Gazzara
Tags: Period Film Art Film Drama Melodrama
Length: 177min
Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier's Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set and features narration by John Hurt. On the run from a group of gangsters, Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the small...
Cast: Morgan Freeman Jennifer Aniston Catherine Bell
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Heavenly Comedy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 101min
After a bad day at work, a man suddenly gets a new job -- as the world's new Heavenly Father -- in this comedy. Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is a television reporter working in Buffalo, NY, who has been growing increasingly dissatisfied with his...
Cast: Gary Sinise
Tags: Drama Coming-of-Age Sports Drama
Length: 111min
A boy learns more than he expects when he tries to improve his golf game in this drama. Timmy Price (Mason Gamble) is a 12-year-old boy who has begun to display a precocious talent for golf. Hoping to hone his son's interest in the game, Timmy's...
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 90min
A retired architect returns to work at the behest of unlikely patrons in this low-key drama. Richard and Kate Banks (Jack Conley and Rebecca Staab) are a well-to-do couple who want to buy a home in Southern California. While house-hunting, Kate...
Tags: True Crime Thriller Psychological Thriller Docudrama
Length: 92min
A determined California detective attempts to crack one of the most mysterious cases in modern crime as the tale of the fearsome Zodiac Killer comes to the screen in director Alexander Bulkley's cinematic account of the crimes that rocked San...
Tags: Comedy Black Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 90min
Playwright, performer, and drag queen Charles Busch appears in the leading role as aging pop star Angela Arden in the darkly comic melodrama Die Mommie Die. Based on Busch's own play, this film marks the directorial debut of Mark Rucker. In 1967,...
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