Movies by David Strathairn
As part of the cast:
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The Bourne Legacy (2012)
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton …
Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Following the Jason Bourne debacle, the CIA finds itself dealing with a familiar threat when another estranged operative surfaces. Jeremy Renner stars alongside Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz…
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Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, David Strathairn …
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
When literary genius Ernest Hemingway met pioneering war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, the sparks flew -- and continued to fly during their fiery roller coaster marriage as they hobnobbed…
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Lincoln (2012)
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Director Steven Spielberg takes on the towering legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his stewardship of the Union during the Civil War years. The biographical saga also reveals the…
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The Tempest (2010)
Cast: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Reeve Carney …
Directed by: Julie Taymor
After years stranded on a deserted island, exiled duchess and sorceress Prospera (Helen Mirren) exacts vengeance on her enemies, whose passing vessel she has shipwrecked. What she…
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Howl (2010)
Cast: James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm …
Directed by: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
James Franco steps into the shoes of famed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in this star-studded biopic centered around Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and the widely publicized obscenity trial that…
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Temple Grandin (2010)
Cast: Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara, Julia Ormond …
Directed by: Mick Jackson
Emmy winner Claire Danes stars as Temple Grandin, a brilliant young woman coping with the stigma of autism at a time when it was misunderstood. With the support of her loving family, Temple…
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The Whistleblower (2010)
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci …
Directed by: Larysa Kondracki
Sent to Bosnia in the aftermath of civil war, an American policewoman uncovers evidence that U.N. peacekeepers are complicit in sex-trafficking. But when she brings her findings to light, she…
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The Uninvited (2009)
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, Emily Browning …
Directed by: Charles Guard, Thomas Guard
Committed to a mental hospital after her mother's tragic death, grieving teenager Anna (Emily Browning) discovers upon her release that her father (David Strathairn) plans to marry his…
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American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2009)
Cast: David Strathairn
Directed by: David Grubin
This gripping documentary explores J. Robert Oppenheimer's legacy as a brilliant scientist who was hailed as a hero for his work on the Manhattan Project and later vilified by…
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Sarah Bolger …
Directed by: Mark Waters
When city-raised twins Jared and Simon move to a tumbledown country mansion with their mother and sister, it's quite an adjustment -- especially after they uncover a magical and…
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Cold Souls (2008)
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun …
Directed by: Sophie Barthes
Paul Giamatti stars as himself, an actor in the throes of anxiety over an upcoming performance -- until he gives his soul to a mysterious company that promises to freeze and store it until he…
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Fracture (2007)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn …
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
A man who allegedly attempted to murder his wife gets locked in a battle of wits with a young assistant district attorney. After the man is freed on a technicality, the D.A. sets out on an…
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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Cast: Matt Damon, Paddy Considine, Joan Allen …
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon returns as trained assassin Jason Bourne in this third film based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling novels. This time around, Bourne travels the globe on a quest to reconstruct…
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My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Cast: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn …
Directed by: Kar Wai Wong
After getting dumped by her two-timing boyfriend, a brokenhearted New Yorker impulsively leaves the city behind to embark on a cross-country odyssey, during which she encounters an assortment…
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Trumbo (2007)
Cast: Dalton Trumbo, Michael Douglas, Donald Sutherland …
Directed by: Peter Askin
After failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, successful screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted in Hollywood. This documentary details Trumbo's…
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Racing Daylight (2007)
Cast: David Strathairn, Melissa Leo, Leclanche Durand …
Directed by: Nicole Quinn
After returning to the family farm to take care of her comatose grandmother (Leclanche Durand), Sadie Stokes (Melissa Leo) sees the ghost of a Civil War soldier (David Strathairn) in the…
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We Are Marshall (2006)
Cast: Matthew Fox, Matthew McConaughey, David Strathairn …
Directed by: McG
After a plane crash takes the lives of most of Marshall University's football team, new coach Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) must rally the surviving players and a grieving community…
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Steel Toes (2006)
Cast: David Strathairn, Andrew W. Walker, Marina Orsini …
Directed by: David Gow, Mark Adams
This intense crime drama stars Oscar nominee David Strathairn as liberal Jewish attorney Danny Dunckelman, who's appointed by the court to defend Mike Downey (Andrew W. Walker), a…
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Heavens Fall (2006)
Cast: Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski …
Directed by: Terry Green
Inspired by the true events surrounding the "Scottsboro Nine," this compelling drama follows the plight of nine young black men, unjustly sentenced to death in the spring of 1931, following…
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The Sensation of Sight (2006)
Cast: David Strathairn, Ian Somerhalder, Daniel Gillies …
Directed by: Aaron J. Wiederspahn
Blaming himself for a tragedy involving one of his students, English teacher Finn (David Strathairn) leaves his job and family, moves into a boarding house and sells encyclopedias…
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Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
Cast: David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney …
Directed by: George Clooney
George Clooney's Oscar-nominated docudrama pits veteran television newsman Edward R. Murrow against a determined Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his single-minded crusade to quell the threat of…
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The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris …
Directed by: Mary Harron
Provocative filmmaker Mary Harron delivers an intimate biopic about 1950s pinup girl Bettie Page, who whetted many a male appetite with her raven locks and sadomasochistic poses before…
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Missing In America (2005)
Cast: Danny Glover, Ron Perlman, Linda Hamilton …
Directed by: Gabrielle Savage Dockterman
After hiding out in the woods for 35 years, an emotionally damaged Vietnam vet takes in the young daughter of an Army buddy. Life will never be the same for grumpy recluse Jake (Danny Glover)…
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American Masters: Willa Cather: The Road Is All (2005)
Cast: David Strathairn, Marcia Gay Harden
Through vintage photos, interviews and reenactments of the abiding novels that illuminate her spirit, this entry in the "American Masters" series spotlights writer Willa Cather, who penned…
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Twisted (2004)
Cast: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia …
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Police office Jessica Shepard is more dedicated to enforcing the law than most of her colleagues, since she feels she has a lot to make up for: Her father moonlighted as a serial killer.
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Relative Evil (2004)
Cast: Dan Moran, David Strathairn, Deirdre O' Connell …
Directed by: Tanya Wexler
In this disturbing tale, recovering addict JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home from rehab only to find that he was better off in the clinic. Sober and ready for a fresh new start, JJ discovers…
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Paradise (2004)
Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Strathairn, Kirk Acevedo …
Directed by: Frank Pierson
This touching drama examines the illogical reasons behind the decision of Bobby Paradise (David Strathairn), a supremely logical man, to set aside his scientific work as an astronaut and…
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Lathe of Heaven (2002)
Cast: James Caan, Lukas Haas, Lisa Bonet …
Directed by: Philip Haas
The saying "dreams come true" is terrifyingly accurate for young George Orr (Lukas Haas), whose nighttime visions reshape reality. When his effort to bottle up his dreams through drugs ends…
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Blue Car (2002)
Cast: David Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin …
Directed by: Karen Moncrieff
When her English teacher, Mr. Auster, becomes interested in her poetry and offers to help her with her writing, troubled teen Meg turns to his attentions like a flower to the sun. She…
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Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (2002)
Cast: William Hurt, Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn …
Directed by: Lawrence Schiller
Chronicling three decades in the life of notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen (William Hurt), this eye-opening telefilm follows his gradual implosion as financial debt and career frustrations…
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Speakeasy (2002)
Cast: David Strathairn, Nicky Katt, Stacy Edwards …
Directed by: Brendan Murphy
Although Bruce Hickman (David Strathairn) and Frank Marnikov (Nicky Katt) meet after their involvement in a minor traffic accident, their relationship develops into a lasting friendship.…
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The Miracle Worker (2000)
Cast: Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Alison Elliott, David Strathairn …
Directed by: Nadia Tass
Unable to see, hear or speak since early childhood, young Helen Keller (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) lives in an isolated world of shadowy silence. That is, until determined teacher Anne Sullivan…
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Harrison's Flowers (2000)
Cast: Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Elias Koteas …
Directed by: Elie Chouraqui
Andie MacDowell stars as Sarah, a happily married photo editor for &NFi;Newsweek&NFi_; whose Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist husband, Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn), is having…
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Freedom Song (2000)
Cast: Danny Glover, David Strathairn, Vicellous Reon Shannon …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Unsung citizens risk their lives to bring change at the grassroots level in this drama about the Civil Rights movement. Set in a fictional Mississippi hamlet, the film is based on eyewitness…
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Cast: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci …
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Four star-crossed lovers -- Hermia (Anna Friel), Lysander (Dominic West), Demetrius (Christian Bale) and Helena (Calista Flockhart) -- run into the forest in pursuit of one another in…
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Limbo (1999)
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez …
Directed by: John Sayles
"Surprising, intelligent and richly textured," says Leonard Maltin of director John Sayles' poetic drama. Joe (David Strathairn) is a fishing-boat skipper with a tragic past. Donna (Mary…
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A Map of the World (1999)
Cast: Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver, Arliss Howard …
Directed by: Scott Elliott
Anxious to leave city life behind, Alice Goodwin (Sigourney Weaver) and her husband buy a farm and retreat to a small rural town. There, Alice quickly befriends neighbor Theresa Collins…
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Simon Birch (1998)
Cast: Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd …
Directed by: Mark Johnson
Simon and Joe are best friends, bound by broken families and their misfit status: Simon is a dwarf, and Joe is illegitimate. But the boys face a devastating blow as Simon searches for a…
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The Climb (1998)
Cast: John Hurt, Gregory Smith, David Strathairn …
Directed by: Bob Swaim
In 1959, young Danny Himes (Gregory Smith) becomes fixated on scaling a 203-foot radio tower scheduled for demolition. His motive: to prove his courage and stop the ribbing about his dad,…
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A Good Baby (1998)
Cast: Henry Thomas, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour …
Directed by: Katherine Dieckmann
While hiking the back roads of a North Carolina hamlet, Raymond Toker (Henry Thomas) finds an abandoned baby. Deciding to rear the infant himself when no one in town claims the tyke, Raymond…
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Evidence of Blood (1998)
Cast: David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, Sean McCann …
Directed by: Andrew Mondshein
David Strathairn stars as Jackson Kinley, a successful true crime author who returns to his hometown and is soon drawn into the case of a murder committed 40 years prior -- a crime for which…
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce …
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
In 1950s Los Angeles, three wildly different cops form an uneasy alliance to ferret out deep-seated police corruption. But some people will do anything to land their faces in the pages of…
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In the Gloaming (1997)
Cast: Glenn Close, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg …
Directed by: Christopher Reeve
When Danny learns he's dying from complications of AIDS, he returns to his childhood home to live out the last months of his life with his affluent family. But as Danny seeks solace,…
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The Song of Hiawatha (1997)
Cast: Graham Greene, Litefoot, Irene Bedard …
Directed by: Jeffrey Shore
In this film based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem, a priest (David Strathairn), a French trapper (Michael Rooker) and an American Indian interpreter (Graham Greene) search for…
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Beyond the Call (1996)
Cast: Sissy Spacek, David Strathairn, Arliss Howard …
Directed by: Tony Bill
It's been years since Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek) has seen her high school boyfriend, Russell Cates (David Strathairn). But getting in touch with him is no ordinary trip down memory…
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Cast: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt …
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
This adaptation of the Stephen King novel tells the story of Dolores (Kathy Bates), a Maine housekeeper accused of murdering her elderly employer. This draws her estranged daughter Selena…
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Losing Isaiah (1995)
Cast: Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn …
Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal
After leaving her baby outside a crack house, a drug-addicted woman presumes him to be dead. Devastated, she enters rehab and cleans up her act. When three years later she learns he's…
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The River Wild (1994)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, Joseph Mazzello …
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
What was already a turbulent family vacation turns deadly when a fugitive (Kevin Bacon) and his crew kidnap river rafting guide Gail (Meryl Streep), her husband Tom (David Strathairn) and…
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The Firm (1993)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
When Harvard Law School graduate Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) joins a prestigious firm, he ignores the warning of his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn), who fears the lucrative deal sounds too good to…
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Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, David Strathairn …
Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Richard Dreyfuss and Mercedes Ruehl star in this heartwarming story from Neil Simon that elicits both laughs and tears. In 1942, a widower being hunted by loan sharks decides to leave his two…
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A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Cast: Laurie Metcalf, Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey …
Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal
At the center of this engrossing melodrama is a Golden Globe-nominated turn by Debra Winger, who plays a sheltered, slow-witted woman living with her widowed Aunt Frances (Barbara Hershey)…
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A League of Their Own (1992)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna …
Directed by: Penny Marshall
Two small-town sisters join an all-female baseball league formed when World War II brings professional baseball to a standstill. As their team hits the road with its drunken coach, the…
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Passion Fish (1992)
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Lenore Banks …
Directed by: John Sayles
May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell) is a soap opera star who's left paralyzed after a car accident and, left with few other options, returns to her Louisiana home. Her heavy drinking and…
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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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O Pioneers! (1992)
Cast: Jessica Lange, David Strathairn, Tom Aldredge …
Directed by: Glenn Jordan
Alexandra Bergson (Jessica Lange) inherits the family farm and struggles to carve a home and a fortune from the windswept prairie. Along the way, she forfeits her one chance for love, but…
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Sneakers (1992)
Cast: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley …
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his offbeat team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking "black box" from a Soviet-funded genius, they…
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Big Girls Don't Cry ... They Get Even (1992)
Cast: Griffin Dunne, Dan Futterman, Patricia Kalember …
Directed by: Joan Micklin Silver
Teenager Laura Chartoff (Hillary Wolf) is wracked by low self-esteem -- a direct result of being constantly shuffled between her various families, whose members include Laura's…
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Memphis Belle (1990)
Cast: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan …
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
A U.S. bomber plane's crew is ordered to hit a heavily defended German city. Capt. Dearborn (Matthew Modine) leads his men into battle while their commander and a public relations…
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Heat Wave (1990)
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Christopher M. Brown, Blair Underwood …
Directed by: Kevin Hooks
Set in the Watts section of Los Angeles in the summer of 1965, this tense account of racial tensions boiling over boasts a sterling cast, including Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, James Earl…
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Judgment (1990)
Cast: Keith Carradine, Blythe Danner, Jack Warden …
Two parents (Keith Carradine and Blythe Danner) are horrified to discover that their son has been molested by their parish priest (David Strathairn). The devout couple is torn between their…
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Day One (1989)
Cast: Barnard Hughes, Hal Holbrook, Brian Dennehy …
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
This Emmy-winning docudrama chronicles America's development of the atomic bomb, centering on the collaboration and conflict among Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard (Michael Tucker), Gen.…
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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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Matewan (1987)
Cast: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell …
Directed by: John Sayles
Well-intentioned labor leader Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) arrives in Matewan, W. Va., to unionize the the coal mine workers. But his efforts to organize the coal company workers spark one of…
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At Close Range (1986)
Cast: Tracey Walter, Sean Penn, Christopher Walken …
Directed by: James Foley
Reunited with his career criminal father (Christopher Walken) for the first time in years, tough teen Brad Whitewood Jr. (Sean Penn) thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of…
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When Nature Calls (1985)
Cast: David Orange, Barbara Marineau, Nicky Beim …
Directed by: Charles Kaufman
Leave it to the addled brain trust at Troma Studios to concoct a vulgar spoof of Hollywood "nature" films. Greg Van Waspish and his witless family move to the mountains in search of peace and…
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The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Cast: Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James …
Directed by: John Sayles
A humanoid slave from another planet escapes to the mean streets of Harlem. The people of the neighborhood are slowly won over by his technical wizardry and protect him from the two alien…
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Iceman (1984)
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone …
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
When a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal is thawed out of the ice during a scientific expedition and begins to function again, anthropologist Stanley Shepard winds up in a desperate fight to keep…
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Silkwood (1983)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
While working at a nuclear power plant, Karen Silkwood becomes heavily involved in union work, but her evidence of the company's safety violations may never make it to the right people.
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Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
Cast: Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre …
Directed by: John Sayles
In this insightful indie tale, seven close-knit friends reconvene to catch up on one another's lives 10 years after being arrested in Secaucus, N.J., as they were on the way to an…