Movies by Gary Farmer
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A Bird of the Air (2011)
Cast: Rachel Nichols, Jackson Hurst, Linda Emond …
Directed by: Margaret Whitton
Lyman patrols the highway assisting stranded motorists and saving the occasional animal. His life takes a turn for the weird when he meets a chatty parrot that bears strange messages and…
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Good Neighbors (2010)
Cast: Jay Baruchel, Scott Speedman, Emily Hampshire …
Directed by: Jacob Tierney
In an apartment complex nestled in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood, everyone is nervous with a serial killer on the loose. Meanwhile, waitress Louise (Emily Hampshire)…
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The Timekeeper (2009)
Cast: Brittney Irvin, Craig Olejnik, Roy Dupuis …
Directed by: Louis Bélanger
When his father dies, Martin Bishop (Craig Olejnik) gets a job building the Canadian railroad in the mid-1960s. As timekeeper, he's responsible for ensuring the crew stays on pace to lay…
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Easy Money: Season 1 (2008)
Cast: Laurie Metcalf, Jay R. Ferguson, Jeff Hephner …
Laurie Metcalf ("Roseanne") stars as morally repugnant yet likable Bobette Buffkin, the matriarch of a family of high-interest loan sharks that includes eldest son Cooper (Jay R. Ferguson),…
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California Indian (2007)
Cast: Gil Birmingham, Timothy Andrew Ramos, Gary Farmer …
Directed by: Timothy Andrew Ramos
When his mother falls into a coma, Nick Thomas (writer-director Timothy Andrew Ramos) -- a Pomo Indian who's found success far from the reservation he grew up on -- is forced to return…
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All Hat (2007)
Cast: Luke Kirby, Noam Jenkins, Rachael Leigh Cook …
Directed by: Leonard Farlinger
Newly paroled ex-con Ray Dokes's plans to stay out of trouble are foiled when he returns home to find himself squaring off with a greedy developer. With the aid of a young jockey and an…
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Disappearances (2006)
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, William Sanderson, Luis Guzmán …
Directed by: Jay Craven
Desperate to save his farm, Quebec Bill (Kris Kristofferson) sees dollar signs in exploiting Prohibition laws. The grizzled cattleman hatches a whiskey-smuggling scheme and, accompanied by…
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Evergreen (2004)
Cast: Mary Kay Place, Noah Fleiss, Gary Farmer …
Directed by: Enid Zentelis
Every day, 14-year-old Henri (Addie Land) contends with poverty, living in a run-down shack on the outskirts of town with her mother (Cara Seymour) and grandmother (Lynn Cohen). Then one day,…
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The Republic of Love (2004)
Cast: Kate Lynch, Kate Kelton, Sunday Muse …
Directed by: Deepa Mehta
Based on the novel by Carol Shields, this comedy charts the relationship of the unlikeliest of couples, Tom and Fay (Bruce Greenwood and Emilia Fox). He's a thrice-divorced talk show…
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The Big Empty (2003)
Cast: Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort …
Directed by: Steve Anderson
Struggling actor John Person (Jon Favreau) is hopelessly mired in debt. But things start to look up -- or do they? -- when a strange man (Bud Cort) extends an offer that could solve all his…
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Twist (2003)
Cast: Nick Stahl, Joshua Close, Joshua Close …
Directed by: Jacob Tierney
Director Jacob Tierney takes inspiration from the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist in this modern-day drama about gay street life in Toronto. The innocent Oliver (Joshua Close) is drawn…
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Skins (2002)
Cast: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer …
Directed by: Chris Eyre
Lakota Sioux tribal police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge (Eric Schweig) struggles to rescue his older brother, Mogie (Graham Greene), a former football star who returned from Vietnam a cripple…
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Adaptation. (2002)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper …
Directed by: Spike Jonze
In this offbeat indie tale, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman battles immense feelings of insecurity and impotence as he struggles to adapt The Orchid Thief -- a book about a mercurial…
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Angels Don't Sleep Here (2002)
Cast: Dana Ashbrook, Kelly Rutherford, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Paul Cade
Forensic pathologist Michael (Dana Ashbrook) returns to his hometown to investigate his twin brother's disappearance years earlier. But soon, brotherly love turns to shock as he realizes…
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The Score (2001)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando …
Directed by: Frank Oz, Robert De Niro
Ready-to-retire safecracker Nick, flamboyant fence Max and talented but volatile thief Jackie team up to rob the Montreal Customs House. The score could put them all on easy street, but Nick…
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Heater (1999)
Cast: Gary Farmer, Stephen Ouimette, Mauralea Austin …
Directed by: Terrance Odette
Ben (Gary Farmer) and The Man (Stephen Ouimette) are two homeless men braving the bitter cold of Winnipeg's winter with only one possession between them: an electric space heater. But…
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Smoke Signals (1998)
Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard …
Directed by: Chris Eyre
On a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, reservation, nothing ever changes -- until the estranged father of Victor Joseph (Adam Beach) bites the dust in Arizona, and Victor must go collect the…
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North of Fargo (1998)
Cast: Lisa Ryder, Randy Hughson, Christopher Healey …
Directed by: Terry O'Brien
When Joey (Lisa Ryder) and her bumbling cohorts Avery (Christopher Healey) and Creed (James Gatto) kidnap the daughter of celebrity self-help guru Robert Buchanan (Randy Hughson) in a bid to…
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Stolen Heart (1998)
Cast: Lisa Ryder, Randy Hughson, Christopher Healey …
Directed by: Terry O'Brien
Joey (Lisa Ryder) is the head of a kidnapping ring that includes a couple of lowlifes named Avery and Creed. After they abduct the daughter of a celebrity self-help expert, their foolproof…
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Lilies (1996)
Cast: Brent Carver, Marcel Sabourin, Albert Pallascio …
Directed by: John Greyson
Believing he's been called to hear a dying prisoner's final confession, bishop Bilodeau (Marcel Sabourin) walks into a dangerous trap and is forced to confront the truth about his…
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Dead Man (1995)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen …
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Only Jim Jarmusch could direct a Western like this: a poetry-loving American Indian mistakes accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) for the English writer by the same name, while bounty…
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Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1994)
Cast: Billy Zane, William Sadler, John Kassir …
Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson
A wanderer named Brayker has the last of seven keys that hold the power to eliminate evil and protect the world from darkness. The evil Collector, however, possesses the other six, and…
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Henry and Verlin (1994)
Cast: Gary Farmer, Keegan MacIntosh, Nancy Beatty …
Directed by: Gary Ledbetter
Keegan MacIntosh stars as Verlin, a mute boy whose world begins to open up when he's befriended by his mentally challenged Uncle Henry (Gary Farmer). But when Henry is sent to an…
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Sioux City (1994)
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Melinda Dillon …
Directed by: Lou Diamond Phillips
Raised in Beverly Hills by adoptive parents, young Jesse (Lou Diamond Phillips) knows nothing of his ancestors or their customs until an amulet sent by his biological mother compels him to…
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Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty, Miriam Margolyes …
Directed by: Jonathan Wacks
It's been a year since Ed Chilton's mother passed away, and life just isn't the same. Eager to have her back, Ed (Steve Buscemi) turns to a company that, for a large fee,…
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Blown Away (1992)
Cast: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Nicole Eggert …
Directed by: Brenton Spencer
Corey Feldman and Corey Haim play teenage brothers Wes and Rich, who work at a ski lodge to earn money for their college tuitions. Trouble brews when Rich gets involved with sexy 17-year-old…
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The Dark Wind (1991)
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Ward, Gary Farmer …
Directed by: Errol Morris
After a horribly mutilated Navajo Indian is found on Hopi land, Navajo policeman Jim Chee (Lou Diamond Phillips) is plunged into a mystery filled with drug dealers, FBI agents, witchcraft,…
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Sparks: The Price of Passion (1990)
Cast: Victoria Principal, Ted Wass, Hector Elizondo …
Directed by: Richard A. Colla
The mayor of Albuquerque (Victoria Principal) gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center and receives blackmail photos of an overnight fling she had with a…
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Powwow Highway (1989)
Cast: A Martinez, A. Martinez, Gary Farmer …
Directed by: Jonathan Wacks
This offbeat road film, awarded the Filmmaker's Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival, tracks the journey of mellow Philbert Bono (Gary Farmer), a Montana Cheyenne tribe member who has to…