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Matthew Broderick - news / articles


  • Broadway bosses defend Broderick play director - 31 October 2009
    -Theatre bosses in charge of Matthew Broderick's new Broadway show have denied they are planning to sack the director after a shambolic preview performance.- -The Ferris Bueller's Day Off star is playing the lead role in The Starry Messenger, about a middle-aged astronomer


  • Broderick snubs small screen role - 15 March 2009
    -Theatre star Matthew Broderick has turned down a string of big money offers to star in TV shows - because he refuses to swap his New York home for Los Angeles.- -The Producers star's wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, became a fashionable feminist icon in long-running hit TV ser


  • Broderick avoids long stints onstage - 14 March 2009
    -Matthew Broderick hates performing in long-running Broadway shows - because his social life vanishes while he is onstage.- -The Ferris Bueller's Day Off star - currently preparing for his part in upcoming New York stage show The Philanthropist - admits he is prone to fluf

Matthew Broderick - what members say


  • The Cable Guy
  • The Cable Guy review by Cornetto from Lancaster, Lancashire, UK
    Rated - 1 stars The Cable Guy. 17 April 2007
    ...it off before it had finished. I was disappointed as I really like Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick and Ben Stiller, and I've watched many films that in comparison have been outst...  
  • Glory
  • Glory review by from Colchester, England
    Rated - 4 stars Mostly, Glorious! 29 November 2004
    ...long by a fantastic cast and great historical reconstruction. It's great to see Matthew Broderick in one of his best roles, but the most memorable performance comes from Denzel ...  
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off review by from grimsby
    Rated - 4 stars classic 4 September 2005
    ...ith some of the things ferris did when you were younger. well acted by a young Matthew Broderick and great cheesy eighties music - a must rent! ...  

Matthew Broderick - filmography


  • Diminished Capacity on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Alan Alda,  Virginia Madsen
    Director: Terry Kinney
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    How much is a good memory worth? That's the question that faces newspaper editor Cooper after a debilitating concussion takes him from the political pages to comic strip detail. Looking for answers, he travels home to Missouri where his now senile Uncle Rollie is on the verge of losing his home. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 254 members
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  • Then She Found Me on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Helen Hunt,  Bette Midler,  Colin Firth
    Director: Helen Hunt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Following the separation from her husband and the death of her adopted mother, schoolteacher April Epner is contacted by her apparent birth mother, who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,790 members
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  • Strangers With Candy on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Justin Theroux,  Matthew Broderick,  Allison Janney
    Director: Paul Dinello
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jerri Blank is fresh out of jail and she decides to start a new life as an over-age high school student. With Jerri's dad in a coma, she decides she has to excel in school in a desperate bid to awaken him, although Principal Blackman and science teacher Mr. Noblet frequently throw curveballs in her ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 904 members
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  • The Producers on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Nathan Lane,  Matthew Broderick,  Uma Thurman
    Director: Susan Stroman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This remake of Mel Brooks' 1968 film features Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in the roles that they originated in the smash Broadway adaptation of the original film. Broadway producer Max Bialystock (Lane) is famous for his spectacular opening night flops. Leopold Bloom (Broderick) is an uptight ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 22,859 members
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  • Good Boy! on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Liam Aiken,  Molly Shannon,  Kevin Nealon
    Director: John Hoffman
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Ten year-old dog walker Owen (Liam Aiken) takes a trip to the pound and picks out an adorable, pensive mutt he decides to call "Hubble." What Liam doesn't know is that Hubble has just arrived from Sirius (The Dog Star) for the purpose of checking up on the canine colonisation that began thousands ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,654 member
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  • Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata (2003)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Ernie Sabella,  Nathan Lane
    Director: Bradley Raymond
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Timon and Pumbaa tell their story in this brand new Lion King film. Not only do we find out how Timon and Pumbaa met and what they got up to before they met Simba but we also get to see the start of Simba's story from his best friends point of view.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 7,210 members
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  • You Can Count On Me on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Amy Ryan,  Laura Linney,  Rory Culkin
    Director: Kenneth Lonergan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in a small town in upstate New York, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME looks at a brother and sister who grew up together as orphans but now face life with very different perspectives. Sammy (Laura Linney) works at the local bank. Most of her attention goes into raising her 8-year-old son, Rudy (Rory Culkin),..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,120 members
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  • Godzilla on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Jean Reno,  Maria Pittillo
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nuclear testing once again awakens a green behemoth. However, this large iguana-like creature seems to be unrelated to its Japanese counterpart. The lizard proceeds to demolish large portions of New York as the US military attempts to destroy it. Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno star.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 10,138 members
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  • Lion King II, The: Simba's Pride (1998)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Moira Kelly,  Neve Campbell
    Director: Darrell Rooney
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. This may be due to the title being deleted or on a limited release. We will continue to rent this title as soon as stock becomes available. The circle of life continues with a brand new story which finds Kiara, Simba's headstrong ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,244 members
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  • The Cable Guy on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Matthew Broderick,  George Segal
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When a young urbanite calls to order cable TV for his apartment he gets much more than he bargained for, as the demented title character arrives and proceeds to insinuate his way into the beleaguered customer's life. Raised by television as a child and starved for human contact, the "cable guy" is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 8,390 members
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  • The Freshman on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Marlon Brando,  Matthew Broderick,  Bruno Kirby
    Director: Andrew Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    THE FRESHMAN is a wry and winsome film about Clark, a freshman film student (Matthew Broderick) in New York City, who is made an offer he can't refuse by a Mafia don (Marlon Brando) who is the spitting image of Don Corleone. As Clark weighs the romance against the danger of his association, he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 701 members
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  • Glory - BLU-RAY Version (1989)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Denzel Washington,  Cary Elwes
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    GLORY recounts the bravery of a group of Civil War soldiers often overlooked by history--the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts, a troop of free black men who fought to help win liberty for their enslaved brothers. Based on the historical novels ONE GALLANT RUSH by Peter Burchand and LAY THIS LAUREL by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 211 members
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  • Glory on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Denzel Washington,  Cary Elwes
    Director: Edward Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    GLORY recounts the bravery of a group of Civil War soldiers often overlooked by history--the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts, a troop of free black men who fought to help win liberty for their enslaved brothers. Based on the historical novels ONE GALLANT RUSH by Peter Burchand and LAY THIS LAUREL by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 4,001 members
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  • Biloxi Blues on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Christopher Walken,  Matt Mulhern,  Matthew Broderick
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the second of Neil Simon's semiautobiographical trilogy (with BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BROADWAY BOUND), Matthew Broderick plays Simon's alter ego, Eugene Jerome. This time Eugene is in army basic training during World War II, and his general dissatisfaction with military life is exacerbated by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 605 members
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  • Project X (1987)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Helen Hunt
    Director: Jonathan Kaplan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Project X is a top-secret government undertaking involving trained chimpanzees. Grounded pilot Matthew Broderick, assigned to teach the chimps how to operate a flight simulator, discovers that his charges are to be subjected to high levels of radiation to test potential human endurance. Risking a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 39 members
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  • On Valentine's Day on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Richard Jenkins,  Carol Goodheart
    Director: Ken Harrison
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Horton Foote's tale of the Robedaux family fortunes from 1914 to 1918. The family run the gamut of emotional upheaval through unwanted pregnancy, forced marriage, forbidden love and the devastation of World War One.
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 21% from 6 members
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  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Mia Sara,  Alan Ruck
    Director: John Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 22,752 members
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  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off - BLU-RAY Version (1986)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Mia Sara,  Alan Ruck
    Director: John Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 81% from 73 members
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  • 1918 on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Belinda Jackson,  William Converse Roberts
    Director: Ken Harrison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    It's 1918, the height of United States involvement in World War I - Liberty Bonds are sold, German immigrants are suspected as traitors or saboteurs, young men everywhere succumb to the patriotism and propaganda and enlist. In a small Texas town, Horace Robedaux feels the pressure - he doesn't want ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 7 members
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  • Wargames on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Ally Sheedy,  Dabney Coleman
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In director John Badham's WARGAMES, Matthew Broderick stars as David Lightman, a young hacker who accidentally logs on to the Department of Defense's network. Thinking that he's found a cool new computer game manufacturer, David plays checkers, chess, and other more intriguing games like Global ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,287 members
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  • The Last Shot on DVD
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Alec Baldwin,  Toni Collette
    Director: Jeff Nathanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Alec Baldwin and Matthew Broderick make a fine comedy team in this true story which plays like a combination of THE PRODUCERS and THE SOPRANOS. FBI mob-buster Joe Devine (Baldwin) is sent to Rhode Island to get the goods on Teamster racketeer Tommy Sanz (Tony Shalhoub). In order to do so, he sets ..read more »
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Matthew Broderick - watch online


  • Diminished Capacity to Watch Now (2009)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Alan Alda,  Virginia Madsen
    Director: Terry Kinney
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 86 minutes
    For Cooper (Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller's Day Off), a Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss, life is anything but normal. After being dumped by his live-in girlfriend, he visits his rural hometown to try and convince his aging uncle (Alan Alda) he must go into a home...this is when ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • On Valentines Day to Watch Now (1986)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  William Converse-Roberts,  Hallie Foote
    Director: Ken Harrison
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 107 minutes
    The film follows the life of a young woman who shocks the people of her small southern town by marrying a man from the wrong side of the tracks. They marry on Valentine's Day and take a room in the house of an impoverished family where their lives soon become intertwined with their fellow boarders.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 1 member
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  • 1918 to Watch Now (1985)
    Starring: Belinda Jackson,  Jerry Biggs,  Matthew Broderick
    Director: Ken Harrison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 93 minutes
    It's 1918, the height of United States involvement in World War I - Liberty Bonds are sold, German immigrants are suspected as traitors or saboteurs, young men everywhere succumb to the patriotism and propaganda and enlist. In a small Texas town, Horace Robedaux feels the pressure - he doesn't want ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 2 members
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Matthew Broderick facts

5 most recent films

Diminished Capacity - 2.0 stars
Then She Found Me - 2.5 stars
Tale of Despereaux, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
The Tale of Despereaux - 3.0 stars
Bee Movie - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Torch Song Trilogy - 4.0 stars
Glory - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The West - 3.5 stars
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

On Valentine's Day - 1.0 stars
1918 - 2.0 stars
Infinity - 3.0 stars
Bee Movie - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Project X - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Nathan Lane - 4 times - show films
William Converse-Roberts - 4 times - show films
Uma Thurman - 4 times - show films
Renee Zellweger - 3 times - show films
Richard Jenkins - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ken Harrison - 4 times - show films
Steve Hickner - 3 times - show films
Simon J. Smith - 3 times - show films
John Hughes - 2 times - show films
Roland Emmerich - 2 times - show films