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Streep blasts Pollack for unleashing lion in Out of Africa -
30 July 2009
-Meryl Streep has blasted late director Sydney Pollack for unleashing a lion on her while shooting Oscar-winning film Out Of Africa - following years of denials from the filmmaker.-
-Streep was assured the beast would be tethered while she fought it off with a whip, dur
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Sydney Pollack 1934–2008 -
28 May 2008
-Sydney Pollack 1934-2008-
-Sydney Pollack, the American actor and filmmaker, passed away after a battle with cancer, Monday. He was 73.-
-Pollack won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa in 1985, and was nominated on three other
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Sydney Pollack dies at 73 -
28 May 2008
Academy award-winning director Sydney Pollack has died at the age of 73.-The Out of Africa director died of cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, surrounded by his family, his publicist said-Diagnosed with cancer just ten months ago, the director and pro
Sydney Pollack - what members say
Sydney Pollack - filmography
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Made Of Honour
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Michelle Monaghan, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin McKidd
Director: Paul Weiland
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Tom (Patrick Dempsey) loves his life, until he realizes he also loves his best friend Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). But when Hannah gets engaged to a dashing Scotsman and asks Tom to be her maid of honor, Tom faces hostile bridesmaids, bridal showers, and bad hair days, all in an effort to pull off ..read more »
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Michael Clayton
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton
Director: Tony Gilroy
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Arthur Edens (Wilkinson), a lawyer defending an agro-chemical corporation against a class-action suit, is overwhelmed by guilt and cracks up. Michael Clayton (Clooney), his law firm's "fixer", is sent to sort Arthur out, but the corporation deploy even dirtier tricks to solve the problem.
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66%
from 57,683 members
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Sketches Of Frank Gehry
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Charles Arnoldi, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Frank Gehry and Sydney Pollack are two of the best-known names in their respective fields of architecture and filmmaking. In his first documentary, Academy Award-winning director Pollack turns his camera on to his long-time friend Gehry, one of the world's most celebrated architects and creator of ..read more »
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Changing Lanes
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Affleck, Sydney Pollack
Director: Roger Michell
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Two cars collide on the FDR expressway. Their drivers--two seemingly opposite men--are Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a young white partner in a powerful law firm, and Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a meek working class black man. At the scene of this fender bender Gavin, who is busy trying to make ..read more »
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Random Hearts
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Charles S. Dutton
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Dutch Van Den Broeck is a sergeant in the Washington DC police department and Kay Chandler a New Hampshire congresswoman. Both of their careers and their marriages depend on trust - or so they thought until they are thrown together when Dutch's wife and Kay's husband perish in a plane crash. Their ..read more »
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from 706 members
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Eyes Wide Shut
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's final film is a mature, highly intelligent, thrilling masterpiece of sexual obsession and marital (in)fidelity. Tom Cruise stars as Bill Harford, a doctor who becomes obsessed with a sexual fantasy that his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confesses to him. Although the fantasy (..read more »
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from 12,525 members
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A Civil Action
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Stephen Fry
Director: Steve Zaillain
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Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious young lawyer, is confronted with the litigation of a lifetime in this unbelievable real-life story. Several families in the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts, have suffered the tragic losses of their children to the rare cancer known as leukemia. After having their ..read more »
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from 1,219 member
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Sabrina
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond in this remake of the 1954 Billy Wilder romantic comedy. Ford and Greg Kinnear portray a pair of brothers who are both potential heirs to the Larrabee family fortune. David, a dashing playboy, and Linus, a sensible stodgy businessman, both end ..read more »
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from 4,040 members
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The Firm
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of ..read more »
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from 14,966 members
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Firm, The - BLU-RAY Version
(1993)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of ..read more »
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from 21 members
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Death Becomes Her
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Madeline is gaining more wrinkles than screen roles. Her friend, Helen, loses her fiance to Madeline and subsequently doubles her weight. Finally, there's Madeline's husband, Ernest, a plastic surgeon who spends his nights drunk and cursing the day he met his wife. Enter a beautiful enchantress who ..read more »
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from 6,751 members
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Husbands And Wives
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Blythe Danner
Director: Woody Allen
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Gabe and Judy Roth (Woody Allen and Mia Farrow), a long-married couple, find their relationship starting to crumble when their best friends, Jack and Sally (Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis), announce that they are separating. Allen's use of a hand-held camera and jump-cuts adds immediacy to a ..read more »
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from 3,461 members
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Havana
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Poker player Jack Weil plans a trip to Havana to play the gambling tables. What he doesn't know is that he'll fall for the wife of a revolutionary.
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from 376 members
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Out Of Africa
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Adapted from Isak Dinesen's novel, OUT OF AFRICA, this film plaintively tells the story of two troubled adults who meet and fall in love in the African wilderness. Karen Blixen-Flecke (Meryl Streep) is a modern woman, caught in the shortcomings of a practical marriage. Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) ..read more »
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Tootsie
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
Director: Sydney Pollack
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When theatrical mastermind Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself blacklisted by just about every producer in the acting business, he decides to thwart the entertainment industry by disguising himself as an older woman and auditioning for a daytime soap opera. Dorsey arrives for the audition ..read more »
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from 7,805 members
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Absence Of Malice
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Paul Newman as Michael Gallagher, the innocent son of a long-dead Mafia boss who suddenly finds that he is the subject of a criminal investigation. Eventually he discovers that the press's source is intentionally pressuring him and hoping that he'll leak insider information ..read more »
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The Electric Horseman
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this star showcase in which Robert Redford appears as Sonny Steele, a fading alcoholic ex-world champion rodeo cowboy who rides away from a Las Vegas casino atop a multimillion-dollar racehorse. Jane Fonda plays Alice Martin, the relentless broadcast journalist who follows ..read more »
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The Yakuza
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directed this action drama in which a Yakuza boss has kidnapped the daughter of a shipping executive named George Tanner, believing that he has cheated him in a gun deal. Tanner (Brian Keith) enlists the aid of his old army buddy, Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum), to go to Japan and ..read more »
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The Way We Were
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in this sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand won an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Katie Morosky, a Jewish student radical who falls in love ..read more »
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Jeremiah Johnson
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Allyn McLerie
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this notable picturesque film in which a solitary man named Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) battles ruthless Indians, who use him as the target of a long-awaited vendetta, and the merciless elements of nature, in search of peace. Set in the mid-19th century, after the Civil ..read more »
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They Shoot Horses Don't They?
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this drama that studies the limits of devotion and endurance. The intricately interwoven plot centers on a marathon dance contest that takes place in the 1930s. The poverty-stricken participants struggle to find themselves and survive during the hard times of the depression, ..read more »
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Castle Keep
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk, Patrick O'Neal
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this dramatic allegory about an American military squadron seeking refuge in a castle in the Ardennes Forest during the final days of World War II. When the soldiers get a little too comfortable in their new environment, they spark a conflict with its owner over the castle ..read more »
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The Scalphunters
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this amiable comic Western in which fur trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is returning from a successful expedition only to find himself ambushed by a small group of Indians. The Indians force Joe to trade his pelts for Joseph, an educated runaway slave, played brilliantly by ..read more »
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from 307 members
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This Property Is Condemned
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Kate Reid
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this steamy melodrama co-scripted by Francis Ford Coppola from a play by Southern Gothic maestro Tennessee Williams. Robert Redford stars as Owen Legate, a handsome railroad official who comes to Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, to shut down the local rail yard and lay off ..read more »
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from 273 members
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Changing Lanes
to Watch Now
(2002)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette
Director: Roger Michell
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Run time: 99 minutes
Late for court, an attorney weaves in and out of traffic. In a different lane, a father whose right to see his children rests on getting to court on time. A minor accident will turn these two strangers into beasts.
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from 51 members
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Sabrina
to Watch Now
(1995)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Run time: 127 minutes
A remake of a 1954 Billy Wilder romance, this updated version of the play Sabrina Fair was directed by Sydney Pollack. Julia Ormond stars as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of a kindly chauffeur (John Wood) at the Long Island estate of the upper crust Larrabee family. Sabrina has grown up enchanted ..read more »
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Sydney Pollack facts
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Rocky Robby Redford 8 February 2007
...es of American Natives, occasionally killing them too.
Well shot by Director Sydney Pollack and D of P Duke Callaghan in some pretty inhospitable spots up to 600 miles apa...
Malicious Attorney 8 May 2008
