Movies by Jeff Daniels
As part of the cast:
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Looper (2012)
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt …
Directed by: Rian Johnson
In this sci-fi mindbender, a mob hit man who kills people sent from the future finds himself in a curious predicament when he discovers that one of his targets is his future self, shipped…
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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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State of Play (2009)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams …
Directed by: Kevin MacDonald
When his mistress is found dead, Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) tries desperately to protect his name and career. As journalists Cal (Russell Crowe) and Della (Rachel McAdams)…
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The Answer Man (2009)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Lou Taylor Pucci …
Directed by: John Hindman
Reclusive author Arlen Faber, who's intentionally been out of the spotlight since he penned an inspirational self-help book two decades ago, finds himself in need of spiritual healing in…
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Away We Go (2009)
Cast: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Allison Janney …
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Buoyed by the news that they are expecting their first baby, Burt and Verona embark on a journey to locate the perfect place on the planet to raise their child. But their quest inevitably…
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Paper Man (2009)
Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone …
Directed by: Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney
Through special friendships with a teenage girl, Abby (Emma Stone), and an imaginary superhero named Captain Excellent (Ryan Reynolds), frustrated novelist Richard (Jeff Daniels) experiences…
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America's Classic Ballparks (2009)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Ted Williams, Ernie Banks …
Directed by: Bob Hercules
Actor Jeff Daniels narrates this documentary that explores the nostalgic wonders of four beloved baseball stadiums from yesteryear: Fenway Park in Boston, Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and…
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Traitor (2008)
Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Neal McDonough …
Directed by: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Tenacious FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) is assigned to pursue Samir Horn (Don Cheadle), an ex-Special Ops soldier who betrayed his country and joined the Al Nathir terrorist…
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Space Chimps (2008)
Cast: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: Kirk De Micco
Playful circus chimp Ham III -- grandson of the first simian astronaut -- finds himself knee-deep in an intergalactic revolution when NASA drafts him to recover a missing probe. Can Ham and…
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Mama's Boy (2007)
Cast: Jon Heder, Diane Keaton, Anna Faris …
Directed by: Tim Hamilton
Coddled slacker Jeffrey Mannus is 29 years old and still lives with his mother. But when Mom falls in love with a charming motivational speaker, Jeffrey realizes he may be losing his hold on…
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The Lookout (2007)
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode …
Directed by: Scott Frank
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Chris Pratt, a down-and-out janitor with memory problems recruited by bank robbers planning a heist. The ensemble cast includes Jeff Daniels as a blind man who…
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A Plumm Summer (2007)
Cast: Henry Winkler, Jeff Daniels, William Baldwin …
Directed by: Caroline Zelder
Based on a true story, this family film set in late-1960s Montana tells the tale of the Plumm boys (Owen Pearce and Chris Massoglia), two young brothers from a hardscrabble background who set…
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RV (2006)
Cast: Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, JoJo …
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the Munro family prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. But spending two weeks…
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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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Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
Cast: AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson …
Directed by: Wayne Wang
An inseparable bond develops between a lonely 10-year-old girl (AnnaSophia Robb) and an orphaned dog, Winn-Dixie (named for the supermarket where she found him), who helps her make friends in…
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The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg …
Directed by: Noah Baumbach
This insightful indie drama looks at the crumbling marriage between a self-centered novelist -- whose career is waning -- and his up-and-coming writer wife. Meanwhile, the warring…
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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 Goodbye Girl (2004)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Patricia Heaton, Hallie Kate Eisenberg …
Directed by: Richard Benjamin
A Hollywood classic is updated in this faithful remake of Neil Simon's comedy. Up-and-coming actor Elliott (Jeff Daniels) comes to New York armed with a sublease agreement for an…
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Imaginary Heroes (2004)
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: Dan Harris
The seemingly stable Travis family crumbles when one of the children kills himself in this wrenching drama about long-buried secrets and lies, and ties that bind too tightly. Soon after the…
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
Cast: Jon Voight, Steven Grayhm, Ellen Burstyn …
Directed by: Lloyd Kramer
Based on best-selling author Mitch Albom's book, this moving TV drama centers on Eddie (Steven Grayhm and Jon Voight), who dies at the age of 83, uncertain that he was able to save a…
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Gods and Generals (2003)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall …
Directed by: Ronald F. Maxwell
Director-producer Ron Maxwell mines America's history in this epic movie chronicling the Civil War's beginnings in 1861 to the tragic Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 and the…
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I Witness (2003)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia de Rossi …
Directed by: Rowdy Herrington
Jeff Daniels stars in this gripping drama as James Rhodes, whose job is to investigate human rights violations. Sent to Mexico to ensure that an election to pick union representatives at a…
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Blood Work (2002)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston …
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Retired FBI director Terry McCaleb, feeble from a recent heart transplant, is hired by Graciela Rivers to investigate the death of her sister, Gloria -- who is, coincidentally, the donor of…
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The Hours (2002)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman …
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
This gripping drama follows the parallel lives of three 20th-century women: incomparable writer Virginia Woolf, an unsatisfied 1950s housewife and a modern-day book editor who's losing…
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Super Sucker (2002)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell …
Directed by: Jeff Daniels
Rival door-to-door vacuum-cleaner distributors Fred Barlow (Jeff Daniels) and Winslow Schnaebelt (Harve Presnell) battle for territory and survival in a "winner takes all" contest. When…
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Cheaters (2000)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Paul Sorvino, Jena Malone …
Directed by: John Stockwell
Intent on winning an invitation to a state academic competition, the students of Steinmetz High commit long hours to studying for the regional qualifying event. After the team barely makes…
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Escanaba in da Moonlight (2000)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, Joey Albright …
Directed by: Jeff Daniels
Writer-director Jeff Daniels also stars in this offbeat comedy about a family of hunting enthusiasts in backwoods Michigan. The pressure is on for 43-year-old Rueben: If he doesn't bag a…
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Chasing Sleep (2000)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl, Gil Bellows …
Directed by: Michael Walker
College professor Ed Saxon (Jeff Daniels) desperately seeks the truth about his wife's disappearance, but his chronic insomnia leads to debilitating hallucinations and soon he's…
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The Crossing (2000)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Roger Rees, David Ferry …
Directed by: Robert Harmon
Jeff Daniels stars in this stirring dramatization of George Washington's surprise attack on the British Army's German mercenaries at Trenton during the American Revolution, based on…
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My Favorite Martian: The Movie (1999)
Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Hurley, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels) takes in an alien with plans to exploit him, but has second thoughts after the alien wins his trust in this comedy based on the 1960s sitcom. Hunted by…
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It's the Rage (1999)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Gary Sinise, David Schwimmer …
Directed by: Jim Stern
Guns can manipulate, shock, kill and confer supreme power on their users. These attributes become all too real for a group of gun-toting individuals, including an estranged couple (Joan Allen…
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Pleasantville (1998)
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy …
Directed by: Gary Ross
David and his sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville." But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's…
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Trial & Error (1997)
Cast: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron …
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Michael Richards (Kramer of TV's "Seinfeld") makes his starring debut as struggling actor Richard Rietti, who gets his big break in an unexpected venue: the courtroom. When his lawyer…
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Trial and Error (1997)
Cast: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron …
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
When a surprise bachelor party leaves lawyer (and groom-to-be) Charlie Tuttle unfit to stand up in court the next day, he gets his best friend -- a not-so-great actor -- to fill in for him in…
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101 Dalmatians (1996)
Cast: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson …
Directed by: Stephen Herek
In this live-action version of the beloved Disney classic, Dalmatians Pongo and Perdy and their human owners, Roger and Anita (Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson), are overjoyed by the arrival…
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Fly Away Home (1996)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany …
Directed by: Carroll Ballard
When 13-year-old Amy adopts a flock of orphaned Canada geese, she sets out to teach them survival skills. Before long, Amy and her inventor dad take to the skies in a homemade aircraft to…
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2 Days in the Valley (1996)
Cast: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: John Herzfeld
The lives of several strange characters intersect in John Herzfeld's quirky crime comedy. A depressed has-been director (Paul Mazursky), an arrogant art dealer and his long-suffering…
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Speed (1994)
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper …
Directed by: Jan De Bont
Finding out there's a bomb on your bus (which will explode if the driver goes slower than 50 miles per hour, no less) is never a good thing -- but if your demolitions-expert-in-shining…
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Dumb and Dumber: Unrated (1994)
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly …
Directed by: Peter Farrelly
Full of scatological humor, this unrated comic romp stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels as the dim-bulb title characters who get more than they bargained for when they try to return a briefcase…
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Gettysburg (1993)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: Ronald F. Maxwell
The fiercest battle fought on American soil comes to the screen in a realistic production that painstakingly re-creates the events of three fateful days in July 1863 -- from the actual battle…
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Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1992)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Ariana Richards, Emilia Crow …
Directed by: David Twohy
When an odd group of travelers checks into his country inn, small-town widower Ben Wilson (Jeff Daniels) discovers that they're tourists from the future who visit the past to enjoy…
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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (1992)
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Jeff Daniels, Maria Conchita Alonso …
Directed by: Alastair Reid
Brian Dennehy stars as power-hungry Jackie Presser in HBO's biopic of the controversial labor leader. The story follows Presser as he succeeds Jimmy Hoffa as Teamsters union president…
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Rain Without Thunder (1992)
Cast: Carolyn McCormick, Katharine Crost, Ali Thomas …
Directed by: Gary Bennett
This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a…
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There Goes The Neighborhood (1992)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Hector Elizondo …
Directed by: Bill Phillips
An all-star cast heads this slapstick comedy that follows befuddled psychologist Willis Embry (Jeff Daniels), who learns from a dying prisoner where he hid his millions of dollars in stolen…
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The Butcher's Wife (1991)
Cast: Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza …
Directed by: Terry Hughes
Greenwich Village butcher Leo Lemke (George Dzundza) returns from a North Carolina fishing trip with his clairvoyant new wife, Marina (Demi Moore). Soon, she's inspiring hardened…
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Arachnophobia (1990)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman …
Directed by: Frank Marshall
When Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels) moves to a small California town, people start dropping dead all around him -- and the killer just might be a rare arachnid imported in a coffin from…
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Winona Ryder, Laila Robins …
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Celebrity Roxy Carmichael is rumored to be visiting her sleepy home town of Clyde, Ohio. As the residents eagerly prepare for her return, Roxy's old boyfriend reexamines the past, while…
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Checking Out (1989)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker …
Directed by: David Leland
Ray Macklin (Jeff Daniels) has never spent much time thinking about his mortality -- that is, until his best friend dies in the middle of telling a joke. Suddenly, Ray's become a…
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Homeless (1989)
Cast: Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels, Kyndra Joy Casper …
Directed by: Lee Grant
After their apartment burns down, Mike and Zan Cooper (Jeff Daniels and Christine Lahti) move with their two children into the home of Mike's brother, but tension between the families…
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Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
Cast: Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: Robert Greenwald
Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Perkins and Don Johnson (cast against type in a warm and empathetic role) star in this unassuming tale of two boyhood friends whose romantic lives take…
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The House on Carroll Street (1988)
Cast: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin …
Directed by: Peter Yates
Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis), a Life Magazine photography editor, is fired for refusing to name names in a House Un-American Activities Committee hearing. Undaunted by the McCarthy…
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Radio Days (1987)
Cast: Mia Farrow, Julie Kavner, Dianne Wiest …
Directed by: Woody Allen
Director Woody Allen's Oscar-nominated comedy set in 1940s Brooklyn draws heavily on his youth -- a time when radio was king. Through vignettes woven together by music from the era, the…
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Something Wild (1986)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
The boring life of businessman Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) suddenly changes when free-spirited Audrey (Melanie Griffith) "kidnaps" him for a weekend trip. They pose as a married couple,…
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Heartburn (1986)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
New York writer Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep) falls in love with political columnist Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson), and the two marry despite her reservations. The wedded bliss comes to an end…
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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Cast: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello …
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stuck in a dead-end job and saddled with an abusive husband, Cecilia depends on the movies for her escape. She sees one picture, The Purple Rose of Cairo, so often that the film's star…
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson …
Directed by: James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks directs this Academy Award-winning drama that follows widowed Aurora (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), through the years as they support each other…
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Fifth of July (1982)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Richard Thomas, Swoosie Kurtz …
In this adaptation of Lanford Wilson's play, disabled veteran Ken (Richard Thomas) and his lover Jed (Jeff Daniels) open their home to friends for Independence Day weekend. Over the next…
As a director:
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Super Sucker (2002)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell …
Directed by: Jeff Daniels
Rival door-to-door vacuum-cleaner distributors Fred Barlow (Jeff Daniels) and Winslow Schnaebelt (Harve Presnell) battle for territory and survival in a "winner takes all" contest. When…
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Escanaba in da Moonlight (2000)
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, Joey Albright …
Directed by: Jeff Daniels
Writer-director Jeff Daniels also stars in this offbeat comedy about a family of hunting enthusiasts in backwoods Michigan. The pressure is on for 43-year-old Rueben: If he doesn't bag a…