Biography: Robert Zemeckis |

American director Robert Zemeckis studied filmmaking at Northern Illinois University, and then got his start with a job with the film editing department at WMAQ-TV, Chicago's NBC flagship station. After commercial work, Zemeckis and his friend and... more
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Cast: Robert Zemeckis   
Tags: Animated Musical Fantasy 
Length: min
Robert Zemeckis (The Polar Express) helms this remake of the 1968 animated classic Yellow Submarine, which will use motion capture technology. This version, like the original, tells of The Beatles' attempts to save the fantasy world of Pepperland from...

Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Holiday Film 
Length: 96min
Writer/director Robert Zemeckis adapts Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale -A Christmas Carol as a star vehicle for Jim Carrey in this performance capture/Disney Digital 3-D animated film for all ages. Carrey will not only take on the role of...

Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama 
Length: 143min
An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a Federal Express engineer who devotes most of his life to his troubleshooting...

Cast: Jodie Foster   
Tags: Science Fiction Psychological Sci-Fi 
Length: 153min
The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned...

Cast: Anthony Hopkins   
Tags: Fantasy Fantasy Adventure 
Length: 114min
Inspired by the epic Old English poem of the same name, director Robert Zemeckis's digitally rendered film follows the Scandinavian hero Beowulf (Ray Winstone) as he fights to protect the Danes from a ferocious beast named Grendel (Crispin Glover)....

Cast: Harrison Ford Michelle Pfeiffer   
Tags: Haunted House Film Supernatural Thriller Thriller 
Length: 126min
In this supernatural thriller, a woman believes that a visitor from another dimension is trying to guide her into a sinister mystery. Feeling lonely after her daughter leaves home for college, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) begins to sense that something...

Cast: Tom Hanks   
Tags: Period Film Americana Comedy Drama 
Length: 142min
"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life,...

Tags: Children's Fantasy Family Holiday Film 
Length: 100min
Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on children's author Chris Van Allsburg's modern holiday classic of the same name, The Polar Express revolves around Billy (Hayden McFarland), who longs to believe in Santa Claus but finds it quite difficult to do...

Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Cast: Steven Spielberg Michael J. Fox Mary Steenburgen   
Tags: Sci-Fi Comedy Science Fiction Hybrid Western 
Length: 118min
The final installment in the Back to the Future trilogy picks up where the second film left off, but it casts off the dizzying time travel of the first two films for mostly routine comedy set in the Old West. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) receives a...

Cast: Meryl Streep Bruce Willis   
Tags: Comedy Fantasy Black Comedy Fantasy Comedy 
Length: 105min
High-concept director Robert Zemeckis applies his usual polish -- helped by an equally adept cast -- for this surprisingly gruesome and extremely funny black comedy. The film begins with narcissistic actress Madeline (Meryl Streep) stealing the latest...
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