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J.K. Simmons - news / articles


  • Spider-Man star Simmons to lead aged Hangover cast - 13 July 2011
    -Spider-Man and Juno star J.K. Simmons is set to lead the cast of a new The Hangover-esque movie for seniors.-The actor, who played newspaper boss J. Jonah Jameson in all three of Tobey Maguire's webslinger movies, will play a method actor who moves into a residential

J.K. Simmons - what members say


  • Spider-Man 3
  • Spider-Man 3 review by A customer from Belfast, N.Ireland
    Rated - 1.0 stars A real disappointment 7 May 2007
    ...lthough James Franco did a decent turn as Green Goblin Jr. Thank God for J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson and Bruce Campbell's cameo to provide some intentionally fu...   Read customer review
  • Thank You For Smoking
  • Thank You For Smoking review by Northernsky from Halifax West Yorks
    Rated - 4.0 stars Entertaining satire that lights up the screen 1 July 2007
    ...he gorgeous Maria Bello as a lobbyist for the alcohol companies. Best of all is J.K. Simmons( Who played JJ Jameson , Peter Parkers boss in 'Spiderman') who is again volubl...   Read customer review
  • Juno
  • Juno review by FlyingSam from Melton Mowbray
    Rated - 5.0 stars Prozac on Film 19 February 2008
    ... particular Michael Cera is excellent as the sweet-natured but nerdy Paulie and J.K. Simmons, as Juno’s father also deserves a mention. Also worth mentioning is the excell...   Read customer review

J.K. Simmons - filmography


  • The Words (2012)
    Starring: Olivia Wilde,  Bradley Cooper,  Zoe Saldana
    Director: Brian Klugman,  Lee Sternthal
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Rory Jansen, a struggling writer, aspires to be the next great literary voice. When he discovers a lost manuscript in a weathered attaché case, he realizes he possesses something extraordinary that he desperately wishes he had created. Rory decides to pass the work off as his own and finally ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 24 members
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  • Contraband - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: J.K. Simmons,  Lukas Haas,  Giovanni Ribisi
    Director: Baltasar Kormakur
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mark Wahlberg stars in this action thriller set in the cut-throat world of international smuggling. Once a professional criminal specialising in contraband goods and counterfeit money, Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) left his life of crime behind a long time ago and is now happily settled into family ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,145 members
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  • Contraband on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Kate Beckinsale,  Mark Wahlberg,  Ben Foster
    Director: Baltasar Kormakur
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Chris Farraday abandoned his life of crime long ago, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best -- running contraband -- to settle Andy's debt. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,551 members
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  • An Invisible Sign (2011)
    Starring: Jessica Alba,  Bailee Madison,  J.K. Simmons
    Director: Marilyn Agrelo
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Young Mona idolizes her father, a brilliant mathematician. When he suddenly demonstrates signs of mental illness, Mona begins to obsess about numbers, using them to interpret an unpredictable and threatening world. Now an adult (Jessica Alba), Mona's old superstitions and compulsive behaviors ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 19 members
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  • Crazy on the Outside (2010)
    Starring: Tim Allen,  Sigourney Weaver,  Ray Liotta
    Director: Tim Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Comedy directed by and starring Tim Allen. When Tommy (Allen) is released on probation following a three-year sentence prison sentence, he finds readjusting to life in the outside world far from easy. Under the watchful eye of his sister, Vicky (Sigourney Weaver), and his parole officer, Angela (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 23 members
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  • Jennifer's Body - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Megan Fox,  Amanda Seyfried,  Johnny Simmons
    Director: Karyn Kusama
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When small town high-school student Jennifer is possessed by a hungry demon, she transitions from being "high-school evil" -- gorgeous (and doesn't she know it), stuck up and ultra-attitudinal -- to the real deal: evil/evil. The glittering beauty becomes a pale and sickly creature jonesing for a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3,608 members
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  • I Love You, Man - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Paul Rudd,  Joe Lo Truglio,  J.K. Simmons
    Director: John Hamburg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy directed by John Hamburg. After becoming engaged to Zooey (Rashida Jones), the woman of his dreams, estate agent Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) realises to his horror that he has no male friend close enough to be his best man at the wedding. Peter embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,452 members
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  • New In Town - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Mike O'Brien,  Frances Conroy,  J.K. Simmons
    Director: Jonas Elmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Romantic comedy starring Renee Zellwegger and Harry Connick Jr. Lucy Hill (Zellwegger) is a high-powered businesswoman living a luxury life in Miami. When she is sent to a small town in icy Minnesota to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant, the adjustment process takes a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 805 members
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  • Jennifer's Body on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Megan Fox,  Amanda Seyfried,  Johnny Simmons
    Director: Karyn Kusama
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When small town high-school student Jennifer is possessed by a hungry demon, she transitions from being "high-school evil" -- gorgeous (and doesn't she know it), stuck up and ultra-attitudinal -- to the real deal: evil/evil. The glittering beauty becomes a pale and sickly creature jonesing for a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 14,628 members
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  • New in Town on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Renee Zellweger,  Harry Connick Jr.,  Nathan Fillion
    Director: Jonas Elmer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Renee Zellweger plays Lucy Hill, a high-powered professional who ends up as the proverbial fish out of water when she is sent from her luxurious Miami lifestyle to folksy Minnesota on work. The locals don't quite meet her with open arms and the weather is just as welcoming but she eventually finds ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 16,955 members
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  • I Love You, Man on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jason Segel,  Paul Rudd,  Jaime Pressly
    Director: John Hamburg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent, who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers to his dismay that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his best man. Peter immediately embarks on a series of bizarre and awkward 'man-dates' to find such a friend, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 27,488 members
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  • The Way Of War on DVD (2008)
    Starring: J.K. Simmons,  Jaclyn DeSantis,  John Terry
    Director: John Carter
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Thriller starring Cuba Gooding Jr as David Wolfe, a paramilitary soldier assigned a mission to assassinate a notorious terrorist in the Middle East. When Wolfe discovers that some of the highest ranking members of the presidential cabinet are involved in a huge conspiracy, he defies his orders and ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 210 members
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  • Juno - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: J.K. Simmons,  Rainn Wilson,  Ellen Page
    Director: Jason Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Upbeat coming-of-age story about a smart teenage girl who has to face life full on when she falls pregnant. When Juno (Ellen Page), a teenager with all the answers, finds out she's pregnant to her classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera), she soon realises she has to ask for help from family and friends. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 10,213 members
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  • Rendition - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: J.K. Simmons,  Rosie Malek-Yonan,  Aramis Knight
    Director: Gavin Hood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tense political thriller spanning two continents. Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal), a CIA analyst working in North Africa, starts to question his assignment when he witnesses the brutal interrogation of an Egyptian-American by secret North African police. When Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwalley), ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,914 members
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  • Postal on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Zack Ward,  Vince Desiderio,  Verne Troyer
    Director: Uwe Boll
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    "Postal" follows two days in the life of the Postal Dude, in the regrettably named town of Paradise. Just when he thinks he has hit rock bottom, things get worse. Sharing a trailer with his ever-expanding wife, Bitch, Dude is in a bad way. After a humiliating job interview and a nearly lethal trip ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 1,001 member
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  • Juno on DVD (2007)
    Starring: J.K. Simmons,  Rainn Wilson,  Ellen Page
    Director: Jason Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Upbeat coming-of-age story about a smart teenage girl who has to face life full on when she falls pregnant. When Juno (Ellen Page), a teenager with all the answers, finds out she's pregnant to her classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera), she soon realises she has to ask for help from family and friends. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 106,350 members
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  • Thank You For Smoking on DVD (2005)
    Starring: William H. Macy,  Katie Holmes,  J.K. Simmons
    Director: Jason Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, makes his living defending the rights of smokers and cigarette makers in today's neo-puritanical culture. Confronted by health zealots out to ban tobacco and an opportunistic senator who wants to put poison labels on cigarette packs, Nick goes on a PR ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 43,246 members
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  • The Ladykillers (2004)
    Starring: Tzi Ma,  J.K. Simmons,  Irma P. Hall
    Director: Ethan Coen,  Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Coen brothers' remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy classic starring Alec Guiness, displaced from the English suburbs of the original to the American Southern Bible Belt. Tom Hanks stars as Professor Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, a charming and loquacious Southern professor with dubious credentials who ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 30,042 members
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  • For Love Of The Game on DVD (1999)
    Starring: J.K. Simmons,  Brian Cox,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Sam Raimi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Baseball pitcher Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner), star of the Detroit Tigers, is told that his team is due to be sold just prior to the final game of the season. At the same time, Billy's girlfriend Jane (Kelly Preston) announces that she is leaving him for a job in London. As Billy prepares for his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 947 members
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  • Pom Poko on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Shigeru Izumiya,  Akira Fukuzawa,  Yuriko Ishida
    Director: Isao Takahata
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Acclaimed Japanese animated feature from Studio Ghibli. deep in the forest, a group of magical shape-shifting raccoons live happily together. But when human construction workers arrive to build new homes for an expanding Tokyo, the raccoons decide to fight back. Disguising themselves as humans, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,595 members
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J.K. Simmons facts

5 most recent films

Dark Skies - 3.0 stars
The Words - 3.0 stars
Contraband - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Contraband - 3.5 stars
An Invisible Sign - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Closer - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
Numb3rs - Season 5 - 4.0 stars
Numb3rs - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
The Closer - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Juno - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

An Invisible Sign - 2.5 stars
Crazy on the Outside - 3.0 stars
First Snow - 3.0 stars
Dark Skies - 3.0 stars
The Words - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Rainn Wilson - 14 times - show films
Sabrina Lloyd - 12 times - show films
Neil Patrick Harris - 12 times - show films
CCH Pounder - 12 times - show films
Judd Hirsch - 12 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Dennis Smith - 7 times - show films
Alex Zakrzewski - 7 times - show films
Ralph Hemecker - 7 times - show films
Michael M. Robin - 6 times - show films
Jason Reitman - 6 times - show films