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Oliver Platt
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Oliver Platt - filmography
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Martian Child
on DVD (2007)
Starring: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Amanda Peet
Director: Menno Meyjes
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Based on an award-winning short story by sci-fi luminary David Gerrold, Martian Child sees John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts who claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignore some sage ...
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Casanova
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
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For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova is about to meet his match when the alluring Francesca does the one thing the notorious lover of women never thought possible - refuse him. Through disguises, subterfuges and wit, Casanova manages to get closer and closer to Francesca... but ...
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The Ice Harvest
on DVD (2005)
Starring: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen
Director: Harlod Ramis
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In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) have just successfully embezzled $...
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Kinsey
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Bill Condon
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Liam Neeson gives a bravura performance as the title character in KINSEY, which details the controversial and dramatic rise of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey. Raised in a sexually repressed household with a preacher father (John Lithgow) who believes the zipper is the devil's work, young Kinsey ...
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Huff - Season 1
(4 discs)
on DVD (2004)
Starring: Hank Azaria, Paget Brewster, Anton Yelchin
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Set in Portland, Oregon, Huff centers on the life of 40-something good-guy psychiatrist Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) suffering from a midlife crisis. Huff's world includes his lovely but complicated wife, Beth (Paget Brewster), a teenage son named Byrd (Anton Yelchin) who is mature ...
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Pieces Of April
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt
Director: Peter Hedges
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Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges' PIECES OF APRIL. Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement. To reconnect with her mother Joy (Patricia Clarkson), and father Jim (Oliver Platt), she invites them ...
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Hope Springs
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Heather Graham
Director: Mark Herman
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Based on the novel 'New Cardiff' by Charles Webb, this is the story of British artist, Colin Ware who is heartbroken after receiving a invitation to the wedding of Vera, the love of his life. Colin moves to a little town in New England called Hope in order to deal with his grief and soon he falls ...
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Liberty Stands Still
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Wesley Snipes, Oliver Platt
Director: Kari Skogland
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Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), heiress and co-president of America's largest gun manufacturer is on the way to meet her lover at a theater. While passing through a public park, a series of events finds her chained to a hotdog car, the long-range laser sight of a gun aimed at her chest. The ...
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Don't Say A Word
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy
Director: Gary Fleder
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When psychiatrist Nathan Conrad discovers that his daughter has been kidnapped, the only way he can get her back is to pry critical information from the mind of a seriously disturbed teenager (Brittany Murphy) with a secret stuck deep in a blocked memory. The Conrads are the prototypical happy ...
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Gun Shy
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock
Director: Eric Blakeney
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Writer-director Eric Blakeney tells the darkly comic tale of Charlie Mayough (Liam Neeson), an undercover DEA agent who narrowly escapes death at the hands of mobsters. He only wants to retire, but reluctantly agrees to close this last case. His stress leads him to group therapy, where he befriends ...
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Ready to Rumble
(2000)
Starring: David Arquette, Oliver Platt
Director: Brian Robbins
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Gordie and Sean (David Arquette and Scott Caan), two best friends in Wyoming, go to see their favorite WCW wrestler at the local arena, but are shocked to discover that this is the night the evil promoter has picked for him to lose his belt. Determined to restore Jimmy 'The King' King (Oliver Platt)...
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Three To Tango
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Neve Campbell, Matthew Perry, Dylan McDermott
Director: Damon Santostefano
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Oscar Novak (Perry), an architect who is desperate to receive a ninety million dollar commission from a wealthy Chicago businessman, Charles Newman (McDermott), agrees to help him out with a personal problem. Newman, mistakenly convinced that Oscar is gay, asks him to spy on his mistress, Amy (...
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Simon Birch
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Joseph Mazzello, Oliver Platt, Ian Michael Smith
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
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Simon is the smallest kid in town but has always known that he was born to do something big while, at the same time, his best friend Joe is searching for the identity of his father. Together these two share the ups and downs that will forever bind them together.
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Bicentennial Man
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz
Director: Chris Columbus
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Andrew Martin (Williams) is a household android whose intended function is thrown for a loop when he begins to feel genuine human emotions. Over the next two centuries the resulting dealings with his adopted family and new acquaintances provide the film with ample opportunities to raise important ...
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Lake Placid
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt
Director: Steve Miner
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ALLY McBEAL creator David E. Kelley wrote and produced this smalltown horror comedy with equal parts laughs and gore. When scientists studying beavers in a Maine lake are killed by something mysterious in the water, an investigation reveals a very large crocodile with an insatiable appetite. The ...
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Dangerous Beauty
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Oliver Platt
Director: Marshall Herskovitz
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The sensuous true story of the woman who defied convention in 16th-century Venice. Catherine McCormack plays Veronica Franco who, under the knowing tutelage of her mother, becomes a courtesan to the rich and powerful. She'll pay a price. Veronica may have to turn away forever from the nobleman she ...
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Bulworth
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle
Director: Warren Beatty
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A surprisingly entertaining political comedy that features a funny and magnetic Beatty as the discouraged politician Bulworth, who has organized his own assassination but, after a three day bender of not sleeping, decides that he wants to live after all. He begins to tell the complete truth at all ...
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Doctor Dolittle
on DVD (1998)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt
Director: Betty Thomas
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Three features. In 'Doctor Dolittle', a remake of the 1967 Richard Fleischer film of the same name, an animal doctor whose patients bark, squeal, and meow finds that he can suddenly understand his patients, which upsets the practice. Eddie Murphy updates the role as a San Francisco doctor who as a ...
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The Impostors
(1998)
Starring: Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Walker Jones
Director: Stanley Tucci
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Con artists and struggling actors Tucci and Platt, after insulting stage star Molina, find themselves as stowaways on a cruise ship, among whose passengers is the same Molina. For the rest of the voyage, they are forced into a series of impersonations - from crew members to wealthy passengers to ...
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A Time To Kill
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In a small southern town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. ...
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Executive Decision
on DVD (1996)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo
Director: Stuart Baird
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A ruthless terrorist group are holding hostage the passengers on board a 747 airliner. Using an experimental docking aircraft, an elite team must make an air-to-air transfer to save four hundred lives in a gripping do-or-die mission.
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Funny Bones
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt, Lee Evans
Director: Peter Chelsom
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A young comic actor returns to his home town when his act bombs in Las Vegas. He meets up with the seemingly dim Jack Parker who helps him uncover some family secrets to form the basis of a new comedy routine.
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The Infiltrator
(1995)
Starring: Oliver Platt, Arliss Howard, Tony Haygarth
Director: John Mackenzie
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An American journalist on assignment in Germany uncovers a neo-Nazi group linked to Nazi survivors of World War II. He goes undercover to expose the group and its leaders, who have been in hiding for nearly fifty years. Based on Yaron Svoray and Nick Taylor's "In Hitler's Shadow," a true story.
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The Three Musketeers
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell
Director: Stephen Herek
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The Musketeers, 16th Century defenders of the French monarch, have just been disbanded by the duplicitous Cardinal Richelieu. Now only three of them remain--Athos, Prothos and Aramis--to stand in the way of Richelieu who's plotting to overthrow the young King and assume the throne. Barely post-...
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Indecent Proposal
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson
Director: Adrian Lyne
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Longtime sweethearts David (Woody Harrelson), an architect, and Diana (Demi Moore), a real estate agent, find themselves on hard times when financial troubles bring them to the verge of losing their house, which David designed. Taking their last $5,000, they go to Vegas in hopes of multiplying ...
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The Temp
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway
Director: Tom Holland
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Peter Derns (Timothy Hutton), a recently divorced junior executive at a successful cookie company, decides to hire a temp when things at the office get too hairy. Enter Kris (Lara Flynn Boyle), the new secretary who seems to do no wrong. Peter is extremely grateful when Kris rescues him from some ...
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Benny And Joon
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
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Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson), a mentally disturbed young woman, lives with her older (and over-protective) brother, Benny (Aidan Quinn). He puts up with the untenable situation because of his love for her and his dislike of institutions. Just when their relationship reaches a point where things ...
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Beethoven
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt
Director: Brian Levant
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A St. Bernard puppy 'adopts' a new home after escaping from dog thieves. The Newton family just haven't realised the trouble that 185 pounds of dog can get into....
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Midnight Sting
on DVD (1992)
Starring: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Director Michael Ritchie turns in another crowd-pleasing sports picture with DIGGSTOWN, featuring James Woods as Gabriel Caine, a con artist who has just been released from prison. Based on a tip by his cellmate, Wolf Forrester (Randall "Tex" Cobb), Caine heads for Diggstown, Georgia, a small town ...
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Flatliners
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Director: Joel Schumacher
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A tense thriller in which hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death ...
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Flatliners - BLU-RAY Version
(1990)
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Director: Joel Schumacher
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A tense thriller in which hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death ...
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great cast 15 September 2003
...ock, Kevin Spacey, Samuel L. Jackson, Ashley Judd, Donald & Keifer Sutherland & Oliver Platt) that makes this courtroom thriller a meaningful meditation on law and racial p...
superb......... 1 March 2007
