Biography: Viola Davis |
A graduate of the Juilliard School, Viola Davis built an exceptional background in theater productions and has continued to perform on-stage throughout her television and film career. Making her feature-film debut in 1996 as a nurse in The Substance... more
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Cast: Meryl Streep
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 104min
When the principal (Meryl Streep) of a Bronx Catholic High School accuses a popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia, a young nun caught in between the feuding pair becomes hopelessly swept up in the ensuing controversy. 1964, St....
Cast: Richard Gere Scott Glenn Christopher Meloni
Tags: Romance Melodrama Romantic Drama
Length: 97min
Adapted from author Nicholas Sparks' popular omance novel, director George C. Wolfe's Nights in Rodanthe tells the tale of a doctor (Richard Gere) en route to reconcile with his estranged son when his benevolent mission is sidelined upon checking...
Cast: Carrie-Anne Moss Shia LaBeouf
Tags: Paranoid Thriller Teen Movie Thriller
Length: 104min
Salton Sea director D.J. Caruso travels from the shore to the suburbs for this suspenseful tale of a high-school senior who suspects that his neighbor is a notorious serial killer. Kale (Shia LaBeouf) is a high-school senior who has yet to come to...
Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)
Cast: Stephen McHattie
Tags: Thriller Police Detective Film
Length: 87min
The fourth installment of the Jesse Stone series finds restless New England police chief Stone (Tom Selleck) fighting boredom by attempting to solve a twelve year-old cold case involving a murdered bank teller. Jesse Stone is a transplanted L.A. cop...
Cast: Isabella Rossellini
Tags: Family Drama Drama Social Problem Film
Length: 81min
Tonya Neely (Viola Davis) is a neighborhood activist on the south side of Chicago, trying to get her community to rally to tear down Eden Court, the dangerous housing project where she lives. After a family tragedy, she sent her youngest daughter,...
Cast: Jim Sheridan
Tags: Urban Drama Drama Musical Drama
Length: 118min
Hip-hop star 50 Cent makes his movie debut in this hard-edged urban drama inspired by the rapper's own life. Marcus (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, aka 50 Cent) grew up in a tough New York neighborhood and was left to fend for himself after the death of...
Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005)
Cast: Viola Davis Jane Adams
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 91min
A tough cop must deal with some ugly crimes in a small New England town in this made-for-TV mystery. Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is the thick-skinned chief of police in the small town of Paradise, MA; while Stone has a good heart, he's not the sort of...
Cast: Steven Soderbergh James Cameron George Clooney Jeremy Davies
Tags: Science Fiction Psychological Sci-Fi
Length: 99min
A therapist travels to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts traumatized by mysterious entities -- and ends up having to deal with an entity of his own -- in this second film version of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical sci-fi novel....
Cast: Dennis Quaid Julianne Moore Todd Haynes
Tags: Marriage Drama Period Film Drama Melodrama
Length: 107min
Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome...
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