Movies by Tom Bower
As part of the cast:
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I Melt With You (2011)
Cast: Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe …
Directed by: Mark Pellington
Old college buddies Richard, Ron, Tim and Jonathan get together one weekend to reminisce about their glory days. As they leave their adult responsibilities behind, they lose control, lured…
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The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Cast: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba …
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
West Texas Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is harboring a dark secret. Though the small town's residents think he's a bit dense, Ford is, in fact, afflicted with a "sickness" that turns the…
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Black Limousine (2010)
Cast: David Arquette, Bijou Phillips, Nicholas Bishop …
Directed by: Carl Colpaert
A desperate Hollywood composer in a downward spiral of depression and addiction meets the potentially perfect woman at Alcoholics Anonymous. But is she simply a distraction from the painful…
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer …
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Corrupt Detective Terence McDonaugh -- whose bad habits include painkillers, reckless sports gambling and accepting sexual bribes -- investigates the murder of five Senegalese illegal…
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Crazy Heart (2009)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell …
Directed by: Scott Cooper
When reporter Jean Craddock (Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal) interviews Bad Blake (Oscar winner Jeff Bridges) -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the…
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For Sale by Owner (2009)
Cast: Scott Cooper, Rachel Nichols, Skeet Ulrich …
Directed by: Robert J. Wilson
Will Custis (Scott Cooper) makes his living as an architect, preserving and restoring America's historic buildings, but his latest project threatens to become an obsession, even as it…
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Appaloosa (2008)
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Ed Harris …
Directed by: Ed Harris
When a malicious, land-hungry rancher has the marshal and deputy of Appaloosa killed, two gunmen blow into town to restore law and order. But the stakes are raised even higher when a…
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Familiar Strangers (2008)
Cast: Shawn Hatosy, Nikki Reed, Tom Bower …
Directed by: Zackary Adler
Fresh off the mild success of his first book, Brian Worthington (Shawn Hatosy) makes a rare return to his childhood home for Thanksgiving, where old tensions, a dying dog, a possible romance…
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Gospel Hill (2008)
Cast: Angela Bassett, Danny Glover, Julia Stiles …
Directed by: Giancarlo Esposito
In a small Southern town, the longstanding residents of the Gospel Hill neighborhood are being forced out of their homes to make way for a pricey housing development, pushing race relations…
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Flannel Pajamas (2006)
Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Justin Kirk, Rebecca Schull …
Directed by: Jeff Lipsky
Love is in the details in this independent romantic drama directed by Jeff Lipsky, who reveals an honesty about relationships that rarely gets much screen time. After being introduced by…
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Brothers of the Head (2006)
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway …
Directed by: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
In the 1970s, a music promoter discovers conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe (Luke and Harry Treadaway) and grooms them into a freakish rock act. Gifted with enough talent and drive to parlay…
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Undoing (2006)
Cast: Sung Kang, Kelly Hu, Tom Bower …
Directed by: Chris Chan Lee
Set in Los Angeles's Koreatown, director Chris Chan Lee's stylish neo-noir follows a small-time hood named Samuel (Sung Kang) who returns to his hometown to avenge the murder of his…
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Valley of the Heart's Delight (2006)
Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Bruce McGill, Diana Scarwid …
Directed by: Tim Boxell
Loosely based on the true story of a 1933 kidnapping in San Jose, Calif., this fictionalized version of events follows a dogged reporter (Gabriel Mann) as he fights to prevent the lynching of…
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The Amateurs (2005)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Isaiah Washington, Tim Blake Nelson …
Directed by: Michael Traeger
Divorced and depressed, Andy Sargentee hatches a plan to produce an adult movie and get rich. But the production is plagued by a host of problems, not the least of which is a leading man who…
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In the Land of Milk and Money (2004)
Cast: Christopher Coulson, Kim Gillingham, Tom Bower …
Directed by: Susan Emshwiller
Fear grips idyllic suburbia as a syndrome turns loving moms into cold killers in this outrageous social comedy. Laurie Shallot (Kim Gillingham) and Peter Cochran (Christopher Coulson) have…
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The Badge (2002)
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Patricia Arquette, Sela Ward …
Directed by: Robby Henson
It's High Noon for the new millennium when a small-town sheriff (Billy Bob Thornton) teams up with a stripper (Patricia Arquette) to investigate a transsexual's grisly death -- only…
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The Pennsylvania Miners' Story (2002)
Cast: Graham Beckel, Dylan Bruno, Marisa Ryan …
Directed by: David Frankel
During the summer of 2002, time stopped for nine Pennsylvania coal miners who were trapped inside a mine for more than three days. Miraculously, all survived -- an uplifting ending to a story…
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The Million Dollar Hotel (2001)
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Davies …
Directed by: Wim Wenders
A gang of outcasts and misfits live in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit known as the Million Dollar Hotel. When a billionaire's son (Tim Roth) dies in the hotel, a federal agent (Mel…
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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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Bill's Gun Shop (2001)
Cast: John Ashton, Tom Bower, Victor Rivers …
Directed by: Dean Hyers
Dreaming of becoming a Hollywood action star, all-around nice guy Dillon McCarty (Scott Cooper) gets a job at Bill's Gun Shop and winds up in real danger in this fast-paced drama.…
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Pollock (2000)
Cast: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower …
Directed by: Ed Harris
This riveting biopic follows abstract painter Jackson Pollock -- who's alternately neurotic, misogynistic and brilliant -- from the start of his career through his marriage to fellow…
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A Slipping Down Life (1999)
Cast: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, John Hawkes …
Directed by: Toni Kalem
Rocker Drumstrings Casey's voice is music to the ears of one small-town woman, whose obsession prompts her to carve his name into her forehead during a concert. As the media learns of…
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Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Cast: Danny Glover, Lamont Bentley, Tom Bower …
Directed by: Charles Haid
In this gritty, made-for-cable Western directed by Charles Haid, an all-black cavalry regiment led by Sgt. Washington Wyatt (Danny Glover) must track down an Apache warrior (Harrison Lowe)…
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Georgia (1995)
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levine …
Directed by: Ulu Grosbard
Sadie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has an obsession with her sister, Georgia (Mare Winningham, in an Oscar-nominated performance), that's just as unhealthy as her drug habit. While Georgia is…
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White Man's Burden (1995)
Cast: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch …
Directed by: Desmond Nakano
Factory worker Louis Pinnock (John Travolta) is an honest man, but his life is destroyed when he's unexpectedly fired from his job, beaten by police and evicted from his home. He calls…
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
Cast: Jesse Bradford, Mimi Rogers, Bruce Davison …
Directed by: Phillip Borsos
In this heartwarming family adventure, teenager Angus McCormick (Jesse Bradford) finds and adopts a labrador retriever he names Yellow. During a boating trip with Angus's dad, a violent…
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Relentless 3 (1993)
Cast: Leo Rossi, William Forsythe, Robert Costanzo …
Directed by: James Lemmo
Los Angeles detective Sam Dietz (Leo Rossi) is back and on the trail of another serial killer (William Forsythe) -- a misogynistic psychopath who's been coldly carving up the remains of…
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Raising Cain (1992)
Cast: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer …
Directed by: Brian De Palma
When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now,…
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Love Can Be Murder (1992)
Cast: Jaclyn Smith, Corbin Bernsen, Cliff De Young …
Directed by: Jack Bender
Ghostly clues are the star of this supernatural thriller that features Jaclyn Smith as Elizabeth Bentley, a successful, bored attorney. Propelled by a midlife crisis, she chucks her career…
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Talent for the Game (1991)
Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, John E. Coleman …
Directed by: Robert M. Young
Has-been baseball player and talent scout Virgil Sweet discovers a "natural" in the middle of Idaho. Virgil and his girlfriend take the lad to California and sign him to the major leagues,…
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True Believer (1989)
Cast: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin …
Directed by: Joseph Ruben
Burnt-out civil rights lawyer James Woods's career has devolved into defense for known drug dealers. But he gets a shot at redemption when a starry-eyed legal assistant (Robert Downey…
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Distant Thunder (1988)
Cast: John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane …
Directed by: Rick Rosenthal
Fifteen years after returning from Vietnam to live in self-imposed exile, a war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome vows to search for his son. But the emotional reunion…
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The Lightship (1985)
Cast: Robert Duvall, William Forsythe, Arliss Howard …
Directed by: Jerzy Skolimowski
Director Jerzy Skolimowski's taut thriller finds the captain (Klaus Maria Brandauer) of a Coast Guard lightship under duress when his vessel is invaded by a group of escaped convicts…