Biography: Tom Waits |
Gravel-voiced, versatile singer/songwriter Tom Waits has composed and played music in a variety of films, ranging from Francis Ford Coppola's One From the Heart (1982) to Jean-Luc Godard's First Name: Carmen (1983). On or off camera, Waits has been a... more
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Cast: Johnny Depp Jude Law Christopher Plummer Terry Gilliam
Tags: Fantasy
Length: 122min
Set in the present day, director Terry Gilliam's fantastical morality tale follows the traveling show of the mysterious Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) -- a man who once won a bet with the Devil himself, and possesses the unique ability to guide...
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Cast: Patrick Fugit
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Black Comedy
Length: 91min
Relegated to a forlorn afterlife of unsmiling lost souls and melancholy drifters as a result of committing suicide in the mortal realm, a heartbroken young man sets out to find the girl who inspired his final act of self-destruction after learning...
Cast: Shelley Duvall
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Biography
Length: min
Tom Waits narrates this documentary about Manitoba filmmaker Guy Maddin (Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, Archangel), seen directing Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. Stills, clips, and home movies are combined with talking-head interviews with...
Cast: Robert Altman Jack Lemmon Lily Tomlin Tim Robbins Jennifer Jason Leigh Buck Henry Frances McDormand Julianne Moore
Tags: Drama Urban Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 184min
Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when...
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale (1989)
Length: 95min
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) may be no good to anyone, but he's not particularly mean about it. After all, he left his girlfriend behind because the men from the casino were after him for stealing money, not her. He flees to England and becomes part...
Cast: Rip Torn Keith Carradine
Tags: Comedy Caper Crime Comedy
Length: 94min
The leader of a group of misfits (Keith Carradine), his girlfriend (Sally Kirkland) and a hit man (Tom Waits!) hatch a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewels across the Mexican/American border by means of implanting them in a racehorse surgically. ~...
Tags: Vocal Music Music Concerts
Length: 87min
You've seen gravelly-voice actor/singer Tom Waits in meaty dramatic roles in such films as The Fisher King (1989), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). And you've heard his compositions on the soundtracks of films...
Tags: Road Movie Comedy Drama Comedy of Errors Musical Drama
Length: 90min
After promising a rock star he would find a particular guitar-maker to procure his valuable products, a musician takes a road trip in search of the legend. On his way, he meets various people who have--at one time or another-- been involved with the...
Cast: Jim Jarmusch Roberto Benigni
Tags: Road Movie Buddy Film Comedy
Length: 107min
Jim Jarmusch follows his groundbreaking Stranger Than Paradise with another rambling, character-driven film with a twisted sense of humor. Set in a seedy New Orleans summer, Down By Law details the meeting of three unlikely convicts and their just as...
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