Movies by John Cusack
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The Raven (2012)
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve …
Directed by: James McTeigue
After discovering that a string of baffling murders seems to be inspired by the macabre short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore cop Emmett Fields turns to the brilliant-but-boozy author…
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The Paperboy (2012)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo …
Directed by: Lee Daniels
Convinced by a death row inmate's female pen pal that the convict is innocent, a reporter and his brother investigate and discover a case marred by deceit, seduction and betrayal.…
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The Factory (2011)
Cast: John Cusack, Jennifer Carpenter, Ksenia Solo …
Directed by: Morgan O'Neill
John Cusack stars as Mike Fletcher, a policeman consumed with capturing a serial killer who's been abducting and slaying his victims with impunity. But when Fletcher's teen daughter…
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Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011)
Cast: Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Antonio Banderas …
Directed by: Robert B. Weide
Iconic and influential director-writer-comedian Woody Allen granted unprecedented access for this in-depth profile of his award-winning career and controversial personal life. Highlights…
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Shanghai (2010)
Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, John Cusack, David Morse …
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Four months before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, an American operative is investigating the murder of a close friend in Japanese-occupied Shanghai -- and uncovers a web of conspiracy…
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Cast: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson …
Directed by: Steve Pink
Fueled by energy drinks, vodka and nostalgia for their younger, wilder days, a group of aging best friends travels back in time to 1986, where they get the chance to relive the best year of…
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2012 (2009)
Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
When volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters suddenly threaten to destroy the world, a divorced father desperately attempts to save his family -- unaware that a conspiracy is afoot…
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War, Inc. (2008)
Cast: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei …
Directed by: Joshua Seftel
In this outrageous satire, a hit man is paid by a private corporation to masquerade as a trade-show director and take out a Middle East oil minister. But not all goes according to plan when a…
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Igor (2008)
Cast: John Cusack, Eddie Izzard, Steve Buscemi …
Directed by: Anthony Leondis
Igor (voiced by John Cusack) is a brilliant young scientist sidelined by a physical deformity. Despite his position as a lowly assistant to mad Dr. Glickenstein (John Cleese), Igor dreams of…
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Summerhood (2008)
Cast: John Cusack, Raquel Alessi, Lucian Maisel …
Directed by: Jacob Medjuck, Tony Dean Smith
While stumbling through a series of madcap adventures with fellow summer camp misfits Reckless (Scott Beaudin), Toast (David Gibson McLean) and Grandpa (Jesse Camacho), tiny preteen Fetus…
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Martian Child (2007)
Cast: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet …
Directed by: Menno Meyjes
A recently widowed sci-fi writer adopts a 6-year-old boy to quell his loneliness. The catch? The kid claims to be from Mars. Dad's dubious at first, but an odd series of events prompts…
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1408: Theatrical Version (2007)
Cast: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Shalhoub …
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Writer and paranormal debunker Mike Enslin is determined to demystify the ghostly events in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, even though a hotel clerk warns him against it. But Enslin believes…
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Grace Is Gone (2007)
Cast: John Cusack, Alessandro Nivola, Mary Kay Place …
Directed by: James C. Strouse
Director James C. Strouse's indie drama stars John Cusack as Stanley Phillips, an ex-military man trying to find the courage to break some devastating news to his two daughters: Their…
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1408: Unrated Version (2007)
Cast: Tony Shalhoub, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack …
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
In this thriller based on a story by Stephen King, writer and paranormal debunker Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is determined to demystify the ghostly events of room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel,…
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The Contract (2006)
Cast: John Cusack, Morgan Freeman, Jamie Anderson …
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
While vacationing with his teenage son in the wilderness, Ray Keene discovers that a hired killer and his team of assassins are tracking the duo's every move. Can Keene take down a…
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2006)
Cast: Joe Strummer, Bono, Steve Buscemi …
Directed by: Julien Temple
Joe Strummer, the late lead singer of the legendary punk-rock band the Clash, narrates this music-lover's documentary of his own life courtesy of collected interviews and tapes from his…
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2006)
Cast: Gary Busey, John Cusack, Johnny Depp …
Directed by: Tom Thurman
Director Tom Thurman's penetrating portrait of Hunter S. Thompson provides a glimpse into the life of the renowned "gonzo" journalist, a counterculture hero who rubbed elbows with some…
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Besieged Fortress (2006)
Cast: Benoit Allemane, John Cusack
Directed by: Philippe Calderon
With all the action of an epic Hollywood disaster movie, this depiction of what happens when a flood spells trouble for a mighty termite colony in the African savannah is captured through…
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Must Love Dogs (2005)
Cast: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins …
Directed by: Gary David Goldberg
Divorcée Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) isn't ready for romance. But when her sister (Elizabeth Perkins) signs her up for an online dating service, love-seeking mates come calling. While…
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The Ice Harvest (2005)
Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen …
Directed by: Harold Ramis
Unethical dim-bulb attorney Charlie Arglist embezzles $2 million from a mobster. Not content with the cash, the sleazy lawyer plans to skip town with pretty club owner Renata Crest -- until…
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Identity (2003)
Cast: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet …
Directed by: James Mangold
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on…
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Runaway Jury (2003)
Cast: John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: Gary Fleder
In this drama based on John Grisham's best-selling novel, Nick Easter (John Cusack) gets himself on the jury of a landmark case against a gun manufacturer and, as the foreman, tries to…
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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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Max (2002)
Cast: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski …
Directed by: Menno Meyjes
Menno Meyjes directs this fictionalized account of the troubled relationship between a young German painter -- the yet-to-be-notorious Adolf Hitler -- and Max Rothman, a Jewish art teacher…
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America's Sweethearts (2001)
Cast: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones …
Directed by: Joe Roth
Gwen and Eddie are a separated movie-star couple who "make nice" for the cameras at a press junket promoting their new movie together. Meanwhile, Gwen's sister harbors a crush on the…
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Serendipity (2001)
Cast: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Molly Shannon …
Directed by: Peter Chelsom
Though strangers Sara Thomas and Jonathan Trager are already in relationships, they realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter -- but they soon part company. Years later,…
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High Fidelity (2000)
Cast: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso …
Directed by: Stephen Frears
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure…
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Pushing Tin (1999)
Cast: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett …
Directed by: Mike Newell
Welcome to the fast-paced, superhyped world of air traffic control! Nick Falzone (John Cusack) and Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) are thrill-seeking adrenaline cases who live to compete…
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The Jack Bull (1999)
Cast: John Cusack, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones …
Directed by: John Badham
John Cusack stars as honest Wyoming horse rancher Myrl Redding, who sacrifices it all in a quest for justice. When a land baron (L.Q. Jones) erects a tollgate to keep Redding's horses…
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Being John Malkovich (1999)
Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener …
Directed by: Spike Jonze
When puppeteer Craig Schwartz discovers a portal into John Malkovich's brain, he decides to sell 15-minute excursions into the esteemed actor's mind. But soon, Craig's wife…
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Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Cast: Angus Macfadyen, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack …
Directed by: Tim Robbins
In the 1930s, as labor strikes erupt across the country, New York City launches a dramatic cultural revolution of its own. Orson Welles (Angus Macfadyen) stages the controversial titular play…
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This Is My Father (1998)
Cast: James Caan, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea …
Directed by: Paul Quinn
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya…
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The Thin Red Line (1998)
Cast: Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, George Clooney …
Directed by: Terrence Malick
In director Terrence Malick's lyrical and beautiful retelling of James Jones's novel about the 1942 battle for Guadalcanal, the men of C-Company become a tight-knit group as they…
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Hellcab (1998)
Cast: Paul Dillon, John Cusack, Tim Gamble …
Directed by: Mary Cybulski, John Tintori
In this slice-of-life indie, a cab driver (Paul Dillon) is about to encounter what may be the toughest -- and oddest -- day of his life. With every fare he picks up, including a rape victim…
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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Cast: Aaron Ingram, John Cusack, Dan Aykroyd …
Directed by: George Armitage
Freelance assassin Martin Blank faces a crisis of conscience as he heads home for his high school reunion and tries to sort out his feelings for his former sweetheart -- all while trying to…
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Con Air (1997)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich …
Directed by: Simon West
Newly released from prison, ex-con Cameron Poe finds himself on a transport plane that's been hijacked by some of the most dangerous inmates in America. Cameron just wants to reunite…
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
Cast: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Alison Eastwood …
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
When magazine writer John Kelso (John Cusack) travels to Savannah, Ga., to cover a chichi party thrown by urbane antiques dealer Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey), he is pulled into his…
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Anastasia (1997)
Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Meg Ryan, John Cusack …
Directed by: Gary Goldman, Don Bluth
Anya grows up in an orphanage and has no idea that's she really Anastasia, the long-lost daughter of Russia's last czar. Neither do the two con men who try to convince her to…
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Directors: Rob Reiner (1997)
Cast: Annette Bening, Billy Crystal, John Cusack …
Part of the series profiling some of Hollywood's most powerful helmsmen, this 1997 documentary looks at Rob Reiner, who grew up in showbiz and carved out a brilliant career as an actor…
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City Hall (1996)
Cast: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda …
Directed by: Harold Becker
This sprawling tale wends its way from New York City's crime-ridden streets to the halls of power after a police shootout leaves innocent people dead. The probe to understand what…
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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Cast: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly …
Directed by: Woody Allen
A hack 1920s playwright uses a mobster to finance his newest play. But when the gangster's bodyguard starts rewriting the play to make it more believable, he shows more talent than the…
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The Road to Wellville (1994)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick …
Directed by: Alan Parker
Based on T. Coraghessan Boyle's best-selling novel satirizing late-19th century health fads. Will and Eleanor Lightbody (Matthew Broderick and Bridget Fonda), guests at cereal mogul Dr.…
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Floundering (1994)
Cast: James LeGros, Shaka, Zander Schloss …
Directed by: Peter McCarthy
John (James LeGros) lives in beautiful Venice Beach, but finds little to appreciate in his surroundings. His life is full of strange pals, sweaty sex, gangsters, bureaucrats, fanatics and…
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Money for Nothing (1993)
Cast: John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen …
Directed by: Ramon Menendez
When unemployed longshoreman Joe Coyle (John Cusack) stumbles upon $1.2 million, he finds nothing but trouble as he attracts the attention of cops during an during an indiscriminate spending…
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Map of the Human Heart (1993)
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie, Anne Parillaud …
Directed by: Vincent Ward
Told in flashback, this epic drama about love, friendship and race traces a romantic triangle across the decades. When a white Inuit boy named Avik contracts tuberculosis, Walter -- a…
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The Player (1992)
Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Director Robert Altman's wickedly funny masterpiece about a slick Hollywood studio executive named Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) -- a hotshot whose life is falling apart -- is packed with…
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Bob Roberts (1992)
Cast: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman …
Directed by: Tim Robbins
Taking aim at political skullduggery, false populism and press manipulation, this caustic mockumentary stars Tim Robbins as the titular Bob Roberts, a folk-singing right-winger trying to…
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Roadside Prophets (1992)
Cast: John Doe, Timothy Leary, Arlo Guthrie …
Directed by: Abbe Wool
Sid and Nancy screenplay author Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with this tale of a factory worker name Joe (X front man John Doe) who hits the road on his Harley to scatter the ashes…
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True Colors (1991)
Cast: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
In this absorbing morality play, two law-school roommates fulfill their ambitions by taking different paths, as one accepts a job at the Department of Justice, while the other enters the…
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The Grifters (1990)
Cast: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening …
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Roy Dillon's (John Cusack) life is turned upside down when a con job goes bad. His estranged mother, Lilly (Anjelica Huston), who happens to be on the lam, reunites with her son to…
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Say Anything (1989)
Cast: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney …
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
A budding romance between noble underachiever Lloyd and beautiful high school valedictorian Diane is threatened when Diane's father has a few things to say about the relationship and his…
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Fat Man & Little Boy (1989)
Cast: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia …
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Helming the Manhattan Project, flinty Gen. Leslie R. Groves clashes with head scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer as they race to build the first nuclear bomb. With the deadline looming,…
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Nobody's Fool / Fat Man & Little Boy (1989)
Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis …
Directed by: Roland Joffé, Robert Benton
Paul Newman turns in a pair of memorable performances in this double feature, playing Sully Sullivan, an emotionally immature construction worker, and Leslie Groves, the powerful Army general…
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Tapeheads (1988)
Cast: John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Mary Crosby …
Directed by: Bill Fishman
Recently fired security guards Ivan (John Cusack) and Josh (Tim Robbins) are sure they've found their calling: starting a production company to make music videos -- including one for a…
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Eight Men Out (1988)
Cast: John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn …
Directed by: John Sayles
John Cusack and D.B. Sweeney star as disgruntled Chicago White Sox players who agree to lose the World Series for a big payoff in John Sayles's adaptation of Eliot Asinof's account…
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Hot Pursuit (1987)
Cast: John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Jerry Stiller …
Directed by: Steven Lisberger
John Cusack stars as Dan, a plucky-but-unlucky prep school kid whose plans to join his girlfriend, Lori, on a Caribbean cruise go haywire when he misses the flight. To catch up, he'll…
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One Crazy Summer (1986)
Cast: John Cusack, Demi Moore, Curtis Armstrong …
Directed by: Savage Steve Holland
Budding cartoonist Hoops (John Cusack) just finished high school, but still needs to turn in a project for acceptance into art school. So he goes to Nantucket with his pal, George (Joel…
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The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Cast: Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise …
Directed by: Jeremy Paul Kagan, Jeremy Kagan
Set during the Great Depression, this inspirational story chronicles a young girl's journey to find her father and her never-waning faith that they'll be reunited. Meredith…
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Better Off Dead (1985)
Cast: John Cusack, Curtis Armstrong, Amanda Wyss …
Directed by: Savage Steve Holland
After his girlfriend (Amanda Wyss) ditches him for a boorish ski jock (Aaron Dozier), Lane Meyer (John Cusack) decides that suicide is the only answer. But his increasingly inept attempts to…
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The Sure Thing (1985)
Cast: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards …
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Free-spirited Ivy League freshman "Gib" Gibson (John Cusack) makes plans to visit his friend in California over winter break, with the promise of a hot babe awaiting his arrival. But…
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Sixteen Candles (1984)
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Anthony Michael Hall …
Directed by: John Hughes
Sam Baker's (Molly Ringwald) 16th birthday should be perfect and memorable, but her whole family is so preoccupied with her older sister's (Blanche Baker) wedding that they…
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Class (1983)
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy …
Directed by: Lewis John Carlino
Taking his geeky prep school roommate, Jonathan Ogner (Andrew McCarthy), under his worldly wing, Skip Burroughs (Rob Lowe) packs him off to lose his virginity in Chicago -- where Jonathan…