Biography: Sam Mendes |

Director Sam Mendes was already a veteran of the Broadway and London stage when he made one of the most auspicious feature film debuts in recent memory with American Beauty, a dark, satirical, and ultimately revelatory vision of suburban discontent.... more
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Tags: Thriller 
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Revolutionary Road's Sam Mendes takes a shot at bringing Garth Ennis' popular -Preacher comic to the big screen with this Columbia Pictures production. The Vertigo series, published from 1995-2000, revolves around a possessed preacher who leads a...

Tags: Drama Sports Drama 
Length: min
In the heart of NYC, a lonely Dutch expatriate finds solace in the world of cricket-playing in this adaptation of Joseph O'Neill's novel. Oprah Winfrey produces alongside Sam Mendes, who's also handling directing duties on the Focus Features...

Cast: Sam Mendes Jeff Daniels Maggie Gyllenhaal   
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy Drama Romantic Comedy Road Movie 
Length: 97min
When slacker thirtysomething couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) discover that his parents are moving overseas, the duo -- who expect their first child in a few months -- set off on a cross-country tour to figure out where they...

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Kathy Bates   
Tags: Period Film Marriage Drama Drama 
Length: 119min
Titanic shipmates Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kate Winslet step onboard for director Sam Mendes' tale of suburban malaise in 1950s-era Connecticut. Adapted from the classic 1961 novel by author Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road tells the tale...

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal Lucas Black   
Tags: War Drama War Drama 
Length: 123min
A young man gets a crash course in the madness of war in this fact-based drama from director Sam Mendes. Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) decides to join the Marines, just like his father and his father before him, and signs on just in time...

Cast: Tom Hanks Paul Newman Jennifer Jason Leigh Jude Law   
Tags: Crime Drama Gangster Film Crime Drama Period Film 
Length: 116min
The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter David Self. Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan, a morally conflicted Depression-era hit man committing...

Cast: Kevin Spacey Chris Cooper   
Tags: Family Drama Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama Tragi-comedy 
Length: 120min
Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of ~Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in ~The Blue Room, made his motion picture debut with this film about the dark side of an American family, and about the nature...

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