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Oliver Platt

Oliver Platt

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Oliver Platt - what members say


  • A Time To Kill
  • A Time To Kill review by from Notting Hill
    Rated - 3 stars 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...  
  • Funny Bones
  • Funny Bones review by from London
    Rated - 5 stars A great film about comedians, and the best ever about Blackpool 27 October 2004
    ...nny in places, but rather it is about the hard work required to be amusing. Oliver Platt stars as the son of a famous comic (Lewis) who bombs on his Las Vegas debut. Re...  
  • Pieces Of April
  • Pieces Of April review by from East Sussex
    Rated - 4 stars Warm, moving and funny 1 November 2004
    ... sad and moving and feels totally real and painful. 3) Best of all the great Oliver Platt as the father looks across at his terminally ill wife Patricia Clarkson and rea...  

Oliver Platt - filmography


  • Year One - BLU-RAY Version (2009)
    Starring: Jack Black,  Michael Cera,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Harold Ramis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jack Black and Michael Cera headline Harold Ramis's Biblical comedy about a pair of misfit hunter-gatherers who embark on a wild journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primitive village. Zed (Black) and Oh (Cera) may lack in the skills that their chieftain is looking for, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 103 members
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  • Year One on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jack Black,  Michael Cera,  Olivia Wilde
    Director: Harold Ramis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 982 members
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  • Frost/Nixon on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Frank Langella,  Michael Sheen,  Rebecca Hall
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind) brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 20,683 members
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  • Martian Child on DVD (2007)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Joan Cusack,  Amanda Peet
    Director: Menno Meyjes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,499 members
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  • Casanova on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Heath Ledger,  Sienna Miller,  Jeremy Irons
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 22,828 members
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  • Kinsey on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Laura Linney,  Chris O'Donnell
    Director: Bill Condon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The life story of Alfred Kinsey, a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. In 1948, Kinsey irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male." Using the technique ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 14,395 members
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  • Huff - Season 1 (4 discs) on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Hank Azaria,  Paget Brewster,  Anton Yelchin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,732 member
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  • Hope Springs on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Colin Firth,  Minnie Driver,  Heather Graham
    Director: Mark Herman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 7,965 members
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  • Liberty Stands Still on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Linda Fiorentino,  Wesley Snipes,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Kari Skogland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 1,045 member
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  • Gun Shy on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Oliver Platt,  Sandra Bullock
    Director: Eric Blakeney
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 654 members
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  • Ready to Rumble (2000)
    Starring: David Arquette,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Brian Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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)..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 43 members
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  • Lake Placid on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Bridget Fonda,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 4,372 members
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  • Bicentennial Man on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Sam Neill,  Embeth Davidtz
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,386 members
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  • Bulworth on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Halle Berry,  Don Cheadle
    Director: Warren Beatty
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,557 member
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  • Doctor Dolittle on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Ossie Davis,  Oliver Platt
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 7,298 members
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  • The Impostors (1998)
    Starring: Oliver Platt,  Stanley Tucci,  Walker Jones
    Director: Stanley Tucci
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 18 members
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  • The Infiltrator on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Oliver Platt,  Arliss Howard,  Tony Haygarth
    Director: John Mackenzie
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 83 members
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  • The Temp on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Timothy Hutton,  Lara Flynn Boyle,  Faye Dunaway
    Director: Tom Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 128 members
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Oliver Platt - watch online


  • Gun Shy to Watch Now (2000)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  Oliver Platt,  Sandra Bullock
    Director: Eric Blakeney
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 100 minutes
    Charlie is a legendary undercover Dea agent who has been involved in more drug busts than he cares to remember, except that his instinct for danger, cool composure and nerves of steel have failed him. In this, his final assignment, a number of larger than life characters are drawn together in a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2 members
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Oliver Platt facts

5 most recent films

Year One - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
2012 - 3.5 stars
2012 - 3 stars
Year One - 2.5 stars
Frost/Nixon - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Frost/Nixon - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Frost/Nixon - 4.0 stars
Time To Kill, A - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
A Time To Kill - 3.5 stars
2012 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

2012 - 3 stars
Loverboy - 2.5 stars
The Impostors - 3.0 stars
Ready to Rumble - 3.5 stars
The Infiltrator - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kevin Bacon - 5 times - show films
Sandra Bullock - 4 times - show films
John Cusack - 4 times - show films
Ashley Judd - 3 times - show films
Woody Harrelson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joel Schumacher - 4 times - show films
Ron Howard - 2 times - show films
Roland Emmerich - 2 times - show films
Harold Ramis - 2 times - show films
Eric Blakeney - 2 times - show films