Biography: Rod Lurie |

Joining the ranks of movie critics-turned-directors, Rod Lurie earned his Hollywood stripes by guiding Joan Allen and Jeff Bridges to Oscar nominations in only his second feature, The Contender (2000). Lurie seemed to be destined for an entirely... more
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Cast: James Woods   
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Director Rod Lurie boldly tackles a reimagining of Sam Peckinpah's classic 1971 home-invasion hriller with this Screen Gems production. James Marsden stars as a writer who moves with his wife (Kate Bosworth) to a backwoods Southern town, where they...

Cast: Matt Dillon Kate Beckinsale   
Tags: Political Drama Drama 
Length: 107min
A tense political drama ripped straight from the headlines, Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth tells the tale of a Washington, D.C. reporter who is targeted by the government after refusing to reveal her source for a story that identified an undercover...

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson Alan Alda Mike Medavoy Josh Hartnett   
Tags: Drama Sports Drama Inspirational Drama 
Length: 113min
Director and co-screenwriter (along with Chris Gerolmo, Allison Burnett, and Michael Bortman) Rod Lurie tells the uplifting tale of a sports writer who almost lost it all before stumbling into the story of a lifetime in this uplifting sports-themed...

Cast: Robert Redford Jerry Goldsmith Delroy Lindo James Gandolfini Mark Ruffalo   
Tags: Thriller Prison Film Action Thriller 
Length: 131min
Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court-martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the...

Cast: Joan Allen Jeff Bridges Sam Elliott Christian Slater Gary Oldman   
Tags: Message Movie Drama Political Drama 
Length: 126min
The hard-ball gamesmanship and casual character assassination of American politics sets the stage for this thriller from writer and director Rod Lurie. When the Vice President of the United States unexpectedly dies, all eyes in Washington D.C. are on...

Cast: Sheryl Lee Ralph Timothy Hutton   
Tags: Thriller Paranoid Thriller Political Thriller 
Length: 101min
The world finds itself on the brink of nuclear disaster, with the balance point a small diner in Colorado, in the suspenseful political thriller Deterrence. In the year 2008, U.S. President Walter Emerson (Kevin Pollak), who recently took office after...

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