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  • Brolin feared new film was too risque for Streisand - 11 August 2009
    -Veteran actor James Brolin was so uncomfortable with the risque language littered throughout his new comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, he refused to tell his wife Barbra Streisand about the part he was filming.- -Brolin stars alongside Jeremy Piven and Ving Rha

James Brolin - what members say


  • Capricorn One - Blu-ray
  • Capricorn One - Blu-ray review by BigDukeSix from Balfron
    Rated - 5.0 stars A 70's Classic 13 March 2008
    ... sequences in movie history.The best of 70's acting talent are in the movie too,James Brolin,Elliot Gould,Hal Holbrook,Sam Waterson,Karen Black and even Kojak.Rent this and...   Read customer review
  • Last Chance Harvey
  • Last Chance Harvey review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 5.0 stars superb....................... 5 June 2009
    ... of work, she informs him that she has chosen to have her stepfather (played by James Brolin) walk her down the aisle. What happens next ? watch this great film to find ou...   Read customer review

James Brolin - filmography


  • Last Chance Harvey on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Emma Thompson,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Joel Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16,665 members
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  • Nailed (2009)
    Starring: Jessica Biel,  Jake Gyllenhaal,  James Marsden
    Director: David O. Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC, where sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 7 members
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  • Bitter / Sweet on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Kip Pardue,  James Brolin,  Napakpapha Nakprasitte
    Director: Jeff Hare
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Renowned coffee expert Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss sends him to Thailand to inspect an exotic crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok PR executive who has long-since given up on the prospects of finding love. As a favour ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 338 members
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  • The Hunting Party on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Richard Gere,  Terrence Howard,  Jesse Eisenberg
    Director: Richard Shepard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A young journalist (Eisenberg), a seasoned cameraman (Howard) and a discredited journalist (Gere) embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy when they are mistaken as a CIA hit squad and their target decides to come after them.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 8,476 members
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  • The Alibi on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Steve Coogan,  Rebecca Romijn,  Jerry O'Connell
    Director: Matt Checkowski,  Kurt Mattila
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steve Coogan (ALAN PARTRIDGE - KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE) stars as Ray, a businessman who runs an alibi agency for men having extra-marital affairs. Upon accepting a new case, Ray becomes embroiled in a particularly murky plot; one that will require the intervention of a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,106 members
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  • Master Of Disguise on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Dana Carvey,  James Brolin,  Jennifer Esposito
    Director: Perry Andelin Blake
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The hilarious Dana Carvey showcases his dazzling impersonation skills in MASTER OF DISGUISE, a comedy about an innocent man who discovers that he has a rare, though mildly annoying, gift. Carvey is Pistachio Disguisey, a waiter who is plagued by the bad habit of impersonating the people he serves. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 373 members
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  • A Guy Thing on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Julia Stiles,  Jason Lee,  James Brolin
    Director: Chris Koch
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Paul (Jason Lee) is about to marry Karen (Selma Blair), by all accounts the perfect woman. Yet at his 'bachelor party,' he finds himself smitten by a clumsy Tiki-girl, Becky (Julia Stiles), and wakes up hung over the next morning only to find her in his bed. Guilt-stricken by the situation, he ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 5,270 members
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  • Catch Me If You Can on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leonardo DiCaprio,  Christopher Walken
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Frank W. Abagnale's autobiography CATCH ME IF YOU CAN follows the cat-and-mouse chase of Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) and FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) as Abagnale travels the world passing forged checks and assuming false identities. Covering the time period ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 56,968 members
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  • It's The Rage on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Joan Allen,  Andre Braugher,  James Brolin
    Director: James D. Stern
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Stern's directorial debut explores issues of violence in American society through three intricately connected stories concerning the ubiquitousness of hand guns. Seven strangers (Allen, Daniels, Sinise, Braugher, Forster, Schwimmer, Brolin, Paquin, Ribisi), must confront deep currents of rage, fear ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 63 members
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  • Traffic on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Miguel Ferrer,  Catherine Zeta Jones
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 18,866 members
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  • The Expert on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Jeff Speakman,  James Brolin,  Michael Shaner
    Director: Rick Avery
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Expect No Mercy: Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the "Virtual Arts Academy" in search of another operative, Eric. In this high-tech facility controlled by Warbeck, a new generation of assassins trains for actual killings in a virtual reality arena. Penetrating ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 179 members
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  • Savate on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Olivier Gruner,  James Brolin,  Marc Singer
    Director: Isaac Florentine
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A Texas landowner plotting to take advantage of a group of settlers suddenly finds himself with his hands full when a sympathetic stranger shows up in town with a new fighting style--kickboxing. The Old West will never be the same.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 49 members
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  • Gas Food Lodging (1992)
    Starring: Brooke Adams,  Ione Skye,  Fairuza Balk
    Director: Allison Anders
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could drive her away.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 27 members
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  • Ted And Venus on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Bud Cort,  Woody Harrelson,  Carol Kane
    Director: Bud Cort
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Ted becomes infatuated with a beach babe in 1970s America. But the harder he woos her with erotic poetry, explicit phone calls, and disastrous romantic overtures, the more she rebuffs him...
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 10 members
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  • Bad Jim on DVD (1989)
    Starring: James Brolin,  Richard Roundtree,  John Clark Gable
    Director: Clyde Ware
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When three cowhands, John T. (John Clark Gable), B.D. (James Brolin, Catch Me If You Can, Westworld, Traffic), and July (Richard Roundtree, Brick, Shaft), are offered a magnificent Sorrel stallion in exchange for one of their mangy cowponies, they are naturally suspicious. It all becomes clear, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 9 members
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  • High Risk on DVD (1981)
    Starring: James Brolin,  Anthony Quinn,  Lindsay Wagner
    Director: Stewart Raffill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American country and steal $5 million from the hacienda of an American-born drug dealer who lives there. The four Americans then succeed rather easily in stealing the money, but soon run into trouble trying ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 79 members
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  • The Amityville Horror on DVD (1979)
    Starring: James Brolin,  Margot Kidder,  Rod Steiger
    Director: Stuart Rosenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    For God's sake, GET OUT! was the ad campaign for the 1979 shocker The Amityville Horror. The film was based on the allegedly true story of the luckless Lutz family, who move lock, stock, and barrel into a new home, only to find that it is possessed by the demonic spirits of its previous owners. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,956 members
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  • Capricorn One (1976)
    Starring: Elliott Gould,  James Brolin,  Brenda Vaccaro
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The government attempts to fake a mission to Mars, but when the astronauts learn that part of the scenario includes a 'tragic accident' on the way home, they attempt an escape. A forerunner of the non-stop action suspense movie with terrific aerial stunts and an all-star cast.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,615 member
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  • Capricorn One - Blu-ray (1976)
    Starring: Karen Black,  David Doyle,  Hal Holbrook
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The government attempts to fake a mission to Mars, but when the astronauts learn that part of the scenario includes a 'tragic accident' on the way home, they attempt an escape. A forerunner of the non-stop action suspense movie with terrific aerial stunts and an all-star cast.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 703 members
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James Brolin facts

5 most recent films

Love Wedding Marriage - 2.0 stars
Last Chance Harvey - 3.5 stars
Nailed - 2.5 stars
The Goods - Live Hard, Sell Hard - 3.0 stars
Bitter / Sweet - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Young Riders - Series 1 - Complete - 3.5 stars
Westworld - 3.5 stars
Catch Me If You Can - 3.5 stars
Capricorn One - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Capricorn One - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Cape Town Affair - 1.5 stars
Ted And Venus - 2.0 stars
Love Wedding Marriage - 2.0 stars
Nailed - 2.5 stars
Bad Jim - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Elliott Gould - 3 times - show films
Liane Balaban - 3 times - show films
Tom Hanks - 3 times - show films
O.J. Simpson - 3 times - show films
Richard Schiff - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Hyams - 3 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 3 times - show films
Joel Hopkins - 3 times - show films
Michael Crichton - 3 times - show films
Jeff Hare - 2 times - show films