Biography: Robert Benton |
Director and screenwriter Robert Benton may not have achieved the legendary mainstream status associated with his peers Scorsese and Coppola, but this idiosyncratic filmmaker and screenwriter has had more than his share of major successes on the... more
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The Human Stain director Robert Benton focuses his lens on the social circuit in Gibbsville, PA, with this adaptation of John O'Hara's novel concerning a glamorous couple who are the envy of their community until the once-respected husband sets down a...
Cast: Robert Benton
Tags: Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 102min
A group of friends living in suburban Oregon come into contact with a sensual free spirit named Chloe (Alexa Davalos), who changes their outlook on life in the most unexpected of ways in this ensemble drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by author...
Cast: Anthony Hopkins Ed Harris Nicole Kidman
Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 106min
For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the...
Cast: Paul Newman Stockard Channing Gene Hackman
Tags: Mystery Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Detective Film
Length: 94min
The Nobody's Fool (1994) team of Paul Newman, director Robert Benton, and scripter Richard Russo reassembled for this L.A. detective drama, beginning with a Puerto Vallarta prologue showing private eye Harry Ross (Newman) accidentally shot by...
Cast: Dustin Hoffman
Tags: Period Film Gangster Film Crime Coming-of-Age
Length: 107min
In this film version of E. L. Doctorow's -Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the confidence of 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman). Billy is ordered to look after Schultz' new...
Cast: Rip Torn Gwen Verdon Kim Basinger
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Thriller Romantic Comedy
Length: 83min
A woman trying to keep a momentary indiscretion quiet finds herself in more trouble than she ever imagined in this comedy written and directed by Robert Benton. Nadine Hightower (Kim Basinger), who is significantly more beautiful than intelligent, is...
Cast: Bruce Willis
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 110min
Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination (and won citations from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Berlin International Film Festival) for his performance in this well-drawn comedy-drama. Sully (Newman) is a 60-year-old man who emotionally seems...
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama Family Drama
Length: 105min
Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks...
Cast: Jessica Tandy Meryl Streep
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller Romantic Mystery Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Detective Film
Length: 91min
In Still of the Night, a mystery thriller written and directed by Robert Benton, a psychiatrist falls in love with a woman who is suspected of the murder of one of his patients. Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider) is treating a married museum curator. When...
Tags: Family Drama Americana Drama Rural Drama
Length: 113min
Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 (Country and The River were the other two), Places in the Heart is the only one set during the Depression. After her husband is killed, Sally Field is forced to take over the debt-ridden Texas family...
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