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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


  • 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


  • 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


  • Jeremiah Johnson
  • Jeremiah Johnson review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 4.0 stars 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...   Read customer review
  • They Shoot Horses Don't They?
  • They Shoot Horses Don't They? review by Drschrebling from Harrow
    Rated - 4.0 stars Great Movie, poor DVD 29 October 2010
    ...This film is decades ahead of its time. I was drawn to this due to direction by Sydney Pollack. The film is slow paced and moves along steadily rather than urgently, but t...   Read customer review
  • Absence Of Malice
  • Absence Of Malice review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Malicious Attorney 8 May 2008
    ... little dated now but I feel that the quality which we have come to expect from Sydney Pollack as a Director is stil apparent. The District Attorney is under pressure to g...   Read customer review

Sydney Pollack - filmography


  • Made Of Honour on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Michelle Monaghan,  Patrick Dempsey,  Kevin McKidd
    Director: Paul Weiland
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 33,092 members
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  • Michael Clayton on DVD (2007)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Tom Wilkinson,  Tilda Swinton
    Director: Tony Gilroy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 70,337 members
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  • Michael Clayton - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Tom Wilkinson,  Tilda Swinton
    Director: Tony Gilroy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,407 member
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  • Sketches Of Frank Gehry on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Charles Arnoldi,  Barry Diller,  Michael Eisner
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,101 member
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  • The Interpreter - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Sean Penn,  Catherine Keener
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Sidney Pollack's diverse career sees him returning to familiar ground with 'The Interpreter'. Crafted from the same mould that saw Pollack produce the superlative political thriller 'Three Days Of The Condor' (1975), Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn star in a film riddled with subterfuge, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 99 members
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  • Changing Lanes on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Dylan Baker,  Bradley Cooper,  Jennie Dundas
    Director: Roger Michell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 11,264 members
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  • Eyes Wide Shut - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Nicole Kidman,  Madison Eginton
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,530 member
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  • Eyes Wide Shut - HD (1999)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Nicole Kidman,  Madison Eginton
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 214 members
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  • Random Hearts (1999)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Charles S. Dutton
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 841 members
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  • Eyes Wide Shut on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Nicole Kidman,  Madison Eginton
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 14,756 members
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  • A Civil Action on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Robert Duvall,  Stephen Fry
    Director: Steve Zaillain
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,367 member
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  • Sabrina on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Julia Ormond,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,652 members
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  • The Firm on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Terry Kinney,  David Stra,  Tom Cruise
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 16,956 members
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  • The Firm - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jeanne Tripplehorn,  Ed Harris
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 479 members
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  • Death Becomes Her on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Michelle Johnson,  Ian Ogilvy,  Adam Storke
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 8,261 members
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  • Husbands And Wives on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Judy Davis,  Woody Allen,  Mia Farrow
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of Woody Allen's most seemingly biographical films, Husbands and Wives opens with upper-middle class Manhattan couple Sally (Judy Davis) and Jack (Sydney Pollack) announcing to their best friends, the Roths, that they are splitting up. Gabe Roth (Allen) and his wife Judy (Mia Farrow) are taken ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,206 members
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  • Havana on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Lena Olin,  Alan Arkin
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A cynical gambler reluctantly comes to the aid of a mysterious beauty in this interpolation of Casablanca and the real-life Cuban revolution. Big-stakes American gambler Jack Weil (Robert Redford) is comfortable in the anything-goes Havana of 1958. But with Fidel Castro out in the wilderness ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 457 members
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  • Out Of Africa on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Robert Redford,  Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 7,194 members
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  • Tootsie on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Jessica Lange,  Teri Garr
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 9,211 members
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  • Absence Of Malice on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Sally Field,  Bob Balaban
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 558 members
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  • The Electric Horseman on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Jane Fonda,  Valerie Perrine
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A cowboy-turned-huckster unexpectedly finds love as he tries to regain his self-respect in this romantic comedy drama. Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) is a one-time rodeo star whose career as a cowboy has ground to a halt. He makes a good living as a spokesman for Ranch Breakfast, a sugar-coated ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 442 members
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  • The Yakuza on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Ken Takakura,  Brian Keith
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 332 members
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  • The Way We Were on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Patrick O'Neal,  Lois Chiles,  Robert Redford
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 6,239 members
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  • Jeremiah Johnson on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Will Geer,  Allyn McLerie
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Years before Kevin Costner danced with wolves, Robert Redford headed to the mountains to escape civilization in Sydney Pollack's wilderness western. Around 1850, ex-soldier Johnson (Redford) decides that he would rather live alone as a mountain man in Colorado than deal with society's constraints. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,496 member
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  • Castle Keep on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Peter Falk,  Patrick O'Neal
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 329 members
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  • They Shoot Horses Don't They? on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Jane Fonda,  Gig Young,  Michael Sarrazin
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A total of nine Academy Award nominations went to this wildly acclaimed, allegorical drama set amongst the contestants in a marathon dance contest during the Great Depression. Gig Young stars as Rocky, the obnoxious emcee for a dance marathon that offers prize money of $1,500, a small fortune ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,711 member
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  • The Scalphunters on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Shelley Winters,  Telly Savalas
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 342 members
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  • This Property Is Condemned (1966)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Natalie Wood,  Kate Reid
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 320 members
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  • War Hunt on DVD (1962)
    Starring: John Saxon,  Robert Redford,  Charles Aidman
    Director: Denis Sanders
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    No one is a better soldier than Pvt. Raymond Endore (John Saxon), at least in his own mind. Stationed in Korea as the conflict between the United States and the Asian nation is coming to an end, Endore sleeps while his platoon works to gear up for his nightly patrols of the area. These patrols used ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 90 members
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Sydney Pollack facts

5 most recent films

Made Of Honour - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Made Of Honour - 3.5 stars
Michael Clayton - 3.5 stars
Michael Clayton - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Interpreter - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Three Days Of The Condor - 4.0 stars
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Out Of Africa - 3.5 stars
Jeremiah Johnson - 3.5 stars
The Yakuza - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Out Of Africa - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
War Hunt - 2.5 stars
Castle Keep - 2.5 stars
Random Hearts - 2.5 stars
Eyes Wide Shut - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert Redford - 9 times - show films
Tom Cruise - 7 times - show films
Luther Adler - 6 times - show films
Nicole Kidman - 6 times - show films
Jack Carson - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 5 times - show films
Stanley Kubrick - 4 times - show films
Tony Gilroy - 2 times - show films
Paul Weiland - 2 times - show films
Roger Michell - 2 times - show films