Movies by Hope Davis
As part of the cast:
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Disconnect (2012)
Cast: Jason Bateman, Andrea Riseborough, Frank Grillo …
Directed by: Henry Alex Rubin
This drama about the thrills and perils of seeking fulfillment online focuses on a male escort, an outcast schoolboy and a married couple in trouble. Each of the characters is fated to find…
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The Family Tree (2011)
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis, Chi McBride …
Directed by: Vivi Friedman
Finnish director Vivi Friedman makes her feature-film debut with this dark comedy about wife and mother Bunnie Burnett, who loses her memory and conveniently forgets all of her problems --…
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Real Steel (2011)
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Kevin Durand …
Directed by: Shawn Levy
In a future world where flesh-and-blood boxers have been replaced by towering mechanized fighters, pugilist-turned-promoter Charlie Kenton reconnects with his estranged son, Max, to convert a…
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Mildred Pierce (2011)
Cast: Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, Evan Rachel Wood …
Directed by: Todd Haynes
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, this HBO miniseries follows the turbulent life of Mildred Pierce, a fiercely independent single mom who works hard to win her daughter's love…
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The Special Relationship (2010)
Cast: Michael Sheen, Dennis Quaid, Hope Davis …
Directed by: Richard Loncraine
Screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Deal, The Queen) delivers a third film centered on the career of British Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) with this political drama chronicling…
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The Lodger (2009)
Cast: Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker …
Directed by: David Ondaatje
When a serial killer starts bumping off working girls in grisly ways, a disturbed landlady is sure one of her tenants is involved in the killings. Meanwhile, a detective under suspicion finds…
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton …
Directed by: Charlie Kaufman
After his painter wife (Catherine Keener) leaves him and takes their daughter to Berlin, theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) stages an autobiographical play in a massive…
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A Summer in Genoa (2008)
Cast: Colin Firth, Perla Haney-Jardine, Willa Holland …
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
After his wife's tragic death, Joe (Colin Firth) moves his two daughters to Genoa for a fresh start. The romantic Italian town has its effects on the girls, as teenager Kelly (Willa…
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Charlie Bartlett (2007)
Cast: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis …
Directed by: Jon Poll
This comedy follows the exploits of Charlie Bartlett, a miserable high school student who finds a novel way to fit in with his classmates: by pretending to be the school psychiatrist,…
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The Nines (2007)
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis …
Directed by: John August
Three stories converge in this indie thriller. In "The Prisoner," an actor is under house arrest; in "Reality Television," a TV producer struggles to launch a new series; and in "Knowing," a…
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Infamous (2006)
Cast: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig …
Directed by: Douglas McGrath
Director Douglas McGrath's biographical drama stars Toby Jones as iconoclastic writer Truman Capote, whose literary investigation into the grisly murders of a rural Kansas family has…
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The Hoax (2006)
Cast: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden …
Directed by: Lasse Hallström
After billing his authorized "autobiography" of eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes as the 20th century's most important book, writer Clifford Irving begins to believe his own hype. But…
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Six Degrees: Season 1 (2006)
Cast: Jay Hernandez, Bridget Moynahan, Erika Christensen …
Directed by: Mary Harron, David Semel, Juan Campanella …
Based on the familiar premise that only six people separate any one of us, this drama focuses on six New Yorkers -- among them a grieving single mother (Hope Davis) and a successful publicist…
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Duma (2005)
Cast: Hope Davis, Campbell Scott, Eamonn Walker …
Directed by: Carroll Ballard
When young Xan (Alexander Michaeletos) befriends an orphaned cheetah named Duma, he commits a pure act of selfless love and traverses the southern region of Africa, just so he can help his…
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Proof (2005)
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal …
Directed by: John Madden
As a devoted daughter comes to terms with the death of her father -- a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental instability -- she's forced to face her own dark fears.…
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The Matador (2005)
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Dylan Baker, Hope Davis …
Directed by: Richard Shepard
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman constantly on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and strikes up a friendship with a mysterious…
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The Weather Man (2005)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis …
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz gets one step closer to fame and fortune when he's invited to try out for a spot on a popular national morning show. All he has to do is pull himself…
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American Splendor (2003)
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Harvey Pekar …
Directed by: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Paul Giamatti stars as Harvey Pekar, a working-class file clerk who found an outlet for his creativity by chronicling the minutia of his life in Cleveland, Ohio, in a comic book series called…
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About Schmidt (2002)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Alexander Payne
When insurance actuary Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) retires and his wife dies, he looks for life's meaning on a road trip to his daughter's (Hope Davis) upcoming wedding to a…
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The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Cast: Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
When an emotionally repressed dentist thinks he sees his wife cheating on him with another man, his jealousy flares up -- in the form of a dyspeptic alter ego personified by an unsatisfied patient.
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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis …
Directed by: Scott Hicks
An elderly man (Anthony Hopkins) with bad eyesight and a gift for second sight moves into a widower's home as a boarder and befriends the woman's young son (Anton Yelchin), who…
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Final (2001)
Cast: Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie …
Directed by: Campbell Scott
Bill awakens in a psychiatric ward, exhausted by the paradoxical images inundating his psyche -- and unsure whether he's insane or has been subjected to an experiment gone awry, as he suspects.
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Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
Cast: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis …
Directed by: Stanley Tucci
A writer for The New Yorker befriends an eccentric who claims he's penning an oral history of the world that's 11 times longer than the Bible. Despite the man's behavior, the…
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Arlington Road (1999)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack …
Directed by: Mark Pellington
Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes a backseat when a…
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Mumford (1999)
Cast: Ted Danson, Loren Dean, Hope Davis …
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
A shrink who makes you think, Mumford (Loren Dean) is a small-town psychologist with an unconventional therapeutic technique that works like a tonic on townspeople such as Hope Davis, Mary…
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The Impostors (1998)
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Lili Taylor …
Directed by: Stanley Tucci
To elude the wrath of overbearing Broadway star Sir Jeremy Burtom (Alfred Molina), two struggling actors (Oliver Platt and director Stanley Tucci) are forced into a madcap succession of…
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Next Stop Wonderland (1998)
Cast: Hope Davis, Alan Gelfant, Jon Benjamin …
Directed by: Brad Anderson
When Erin is dumped, her mother places personal ads on her behalf. Erin reluctantly goes out with a string of men, but a lonely plumber keeps crossing her path. If the two could only meet,…
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The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Cast: Noah Wyle, Arija Bareikis, Blythe Danner …
Directed by: Bart Freundlich
Warren (Noah Wyle) returns home after a three-year absence and soon falls into the rhythms of his childhood: bickering with his siblings, hanging out with his stoner buddies and avoiding his…
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Mr. Wrong (1996)
Cast: Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack …
Directed by: Nick Castle
Sweet love goes sour in this romantic comedy romp! Martha (Ellen DeGeneres) won't get married until she finds the perfect man. When she meets the handsome and wealthy Whitman Crawford…
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The Daytrippers (1995)
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Pat McNamara …
Directed by: Greg Mottola
New Yorker Eliza D'Amico (Hope Davis) drags along her mother, father, sister, and sister's boyfriend to Manhattan to confront her husband, Louis (Stanley Tucci), who she thinks is…
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Run for Cover (1995)
Cast: Tom Dunne, Adam West, Viveca Lindfors …
Directed by: Richard Haines
Former KGB agents have infiltrated the United States, and New York is suddenly under siege. Only one man can foil the agents' plan to take over the city: a renegade Desert Storm hero…
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Flatliners (1990)
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon …
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
In this star-studded supernatural thriller, a group of medical students (Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt and William Baldwin) use their acquired skills to try and…