Biography: Stephen Rea |

Exhibiting perpetual intensity and the dark, hangdog looks of someone who has been run over by life one too many times, Stephen Rea is one of Ireland's most popular and well-respected actors. Although he has acted in films in diverse genres, Rea is... more
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Cast: Paul Dooley Gina Gershon Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein Audrey Wells Sarah Polley   
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Coming-of-Age 
Length: 104min
Writer Audrey Wells (The Truth About Cats and Dogs) makes her directing debut in Guinevere, which won the screenwriting award at the 1999 ~Sundance Film Festival, where it made its world premiere. The film concerns Harper Sloane, a twenty-something...

Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Abstract Film 
Length: 84min
An elderly Irish man (Dermot Healy) thinks about his life as he sits alone in a shabby room in London. He recalls his childhood along the Western Coast of Ireland, and then his days as a laborer as he moved to London from his native land. With no...

Cast: Neil Jordan   
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Family Drama Childhood Drama 
Length: 115min
Neil Jordan directed this adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about a boy's struggles with violence and mental illness. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a young boy growing up in Dublin in the early 1960s, where his life is dominated by his active...

Cast: Billy Connolly Stephen Rea Timothy Spall Bill Nighy   
Tags: Comedy Road Movie Rock Musical Showbiz Comedy 
Length: 120min
Still Crazy is a film that looks back at the "rock band" era of the 1970s. Brian Gibson, who has directed musical biographies on Josephine Baker and Tina Turner, sets his narrative on a rock group, Strange Fruit, who are attempting a comeback twenty...

Cast: James Caan John Cusack   
Tags: Period Film Drama Family Drama Rural Drama 
Length: 120min
Paul Quinn scripted and made his directorial debut with this period drama about middle-aged schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan), who finds evidence indicating that his real father was an Irish farmer and not a French seaman as he had been told....

Tags: Satire Comedy Showbiz Comedy 
Length: 105min
In this satirical "inside" look at the world of TV scripters, agent Danny (Tom Arnold) gives a 22-episode assignment to depressed, self-destructive writer-producer Brian (Stephen Rea), creatively spent and bereft of ideas. At his weekly poker game,...

Tags: Crime Drama Drama Urban Drama Ensemble Film 
Length: 105min
Exploring concepts of fate and free will, Jerry Ciccoritti's contemplative drama shows the lives of a handful of random people during the 12 hours leading up to a bloody shooting spree in a posh coffee shop. Maggie (Emily Hampshire) is a waitress in...

Cast: Julia Roberts Liam Neeson Alan Rickman   
Tags: Biopic Political Drama Drama 
Length: 132min
The rise and fall of one of the most important and controversial figures in Ireland's struggle for independence is chronicled in this biographical drama. In 1916, the British government ruled Ireland with a firm and cruel hand, as they had for 700...

Cast: Alfred Molina   
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller 
Length: 105min
An IRA volunteer tries to leave his life of violence behind -- only to discover it's waiting for him in America -- in this drama based on a story by leading man Stephen Rea. Dowd (Rea) is a convicted terrorist with the Irish Republican Army who is...

Cast: Heather Locklear   
Tags: Crime Action Thriller 
Length: 90min
Action-veteran Joel Silver produced this taut tale of a female FBI agent who puts her career and life on the line when she falls in love with an enigmatic vigilante assassin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide






























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