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  • The West
  • The West review by dodrade from Strabane
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Documentary Masterpiece 6 June 2010
    ... I was to quibble, i'd say the Pony Express and Geronimo are not mentioned, and Peter Coyote's narration, whilst perfectly acceptable, cannot match David McCullough's sonor...   Read customer review

Peter Coyote - filmography


  • The Gundown on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Sheree J. Wilson,  William Shockley,  Allison Gordon
    Director: Dustin Rikert
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Western following gunslinger Cole Brandt (Andrew W. Walker) in the Arizona desert in 1889. Journeying through various towns hoping to exact his revenge on the men who killed his family five years ago, Brandt comes across the lawless Dead River where owner of The Majestic Saloon, Thomas Morgan (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 263 members
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  • The Single Woman (2009)
    Starring: Judd Nelson,  Patricia Arquette,  Margot Kidder
    Director: Kamala Lopez
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A Single Woman is a distinct, lively portrait of Jeannette Rankin (the first American woman elected to Congress; also a suffragette, peace activist and reformer) that takes us from her childhood in 1880's Montana, to her last television interview in 1972. Deliciously political, occasionally ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 5 members
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  • Doctor Dolittle 4 - Tail To The Chief on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Malcolm Stewart,  Kyla Pratt,  Peter Coyote
    Director: Craig Shapiro
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy sequel starring Kyla Pratt. Maya Dolittle (Pratt) is a vet who has the incredible ability to verbally communicate with animals. When President Sterling (Peter Coyote)'s pet dog, Daisy (voice of Jennifer Coolidge), begins misbehaving, he requests the help of Maya, who is more than willing to help.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 251 members
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  • Hope and Redemption - The Lena Baker Story on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tichina Arnold,  Beverly Todd,  Michael Rooker
    Director: Ralph Wilcox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A chronicle of the life, trial, and execution of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery. Sixty years after her death, Baker was pardoned posthumously by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 427 members
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  • $5 a Day on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Christopher Walken,  Alessandro Nivola,  Sharon Stone
    Director: Nigel Cole
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Former conman Ritchie (Alessandro Nivola) wants nothing to do with his father Nat (Christopher Walken) - the man that trained him and ultimately landed him in jail. But when he finds out his father is dying, a reluctant Ritchie joins him on a road-trip. As they visit old friends (including an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 345 members
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  • All Roads Lead Home on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Peter Coyote,  Jason London,  Vivien Cardone
    Director: Dennis Fallon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Twelve-year-old Belle loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father Cody struggles to raise his daughter. Her rebellious behavior forces Cody to send Belle to her grandfather's farm to live with him. Belle learns that on a farm, it is the survival of the fittest, but she cannot handle the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 102 members
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  • Behind Enemy Lines 2 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Nicholas Gonzalez,  Peter Coyote,  Matt Bushell
    Director: James Dodson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Action packed sequel starring Bruce McGill, Keith David and Peter Coyote. North Korea is flexing its nuclear muscle, and it's up to a team of US Navy Seals to prevent a catastrophe. Everything is going to plan, but when the mission is aborted after the troops have already deployed, four American ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 7,299 members
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  • Deepwater (2005)
    Starring: Lucas Black,  Mia Maestro,  Peter Coyote
    Director: David S. Marfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Thriller about a young man who gets more than he bargained for when he saves a stranger's life. Nat Banyon (Lucas Black) is flat broke and on his way to find farm work in Wyoming when he saves the life of a mysterious older man named Finch (Peter Coyote). His actions are rewarded with a job ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 112 members
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  • The Great Role (2004)
    Starring: Stéphane Freiss,  Stephane Freiss,  Bérénice Bejo
    Director: Steve Suissa
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his friends try out for the role of Shylock. Thinking he has finally been cast in an important film role after years of obscurity, Maurice rushes home ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 20% from 2 members
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  • The Hebrew Hammer on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Adam Goldberg,  Adam Goldberg,  Judy Greer
    Director: Jonathan Kesselman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The Hebrew Hammer stars Adam Goldberg in the title role of this holiday farce as a handsome Orthodox stud and man of action who is called upon to save Hanukkah. When Santa Claus' evil son Damian (Dick) is pushed over the edge by his father's liberal policies, he murders the Christian patriarch and, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 172 members
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  • Purpose (2002)
    Starring: John Light,  Hal Holbrook,  Paul Reiser
    Director: Alan Ari Lazar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Elias (John Light) dreams of changing the world through technology. He eventually manages to launch Digital Dreams but just as quickly as his first million is made he begins to lose sight of his good intentions. Caught in a spiral of deceit Elias is threatened with the loss of everything he ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 30% from 8 members
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  • Femme Fatale (2002)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Gregg Henry,  Eriq Ebouaney
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A contemporary film noir about an alluring seductress named Laure Ash. A sultry former jewel thief and con woman trying to live the straight life, Laure is suddenly exposed to the world--and her enemies--by a voyeuristic photographer, Nicholas Bardo, who takes a sudden interest in her. Seen as a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,870 member
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  • A Walk To Remember on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Lauren German,  Shane West,  Daryl Hannah
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When North Carolina high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) takes part in a prank that goes wrong, the school principal punishes him by making him teach underprivileged kids and help out with the drama club's latest production. These tasks bring him into contact with born-again Christian ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 5,721 members
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  • Northfork on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Mark Polish,  Daryl Hannah,  James Woods
    Director: Mark Polish,  Michael Polish
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Twin brothers Mark and Michael Polish ('Twin Falls Idaho', 'Jackpot') direct this unusual and elegaic magical realist drama - filmed entirely in monochromatic colour - which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Set in the mid-1950s, the film is based around Northfork, a small frontier town ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 800 members
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  • Red Letters on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Nastassja Kinski,  Ernie Hudson,  Jeremy Piven
    Director: Bradley Battersby
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Dennis Burke [Jeremy Pixen] is a brilliant college professor with a weakness for unobtainable women and enjoys the thrill of illicit affairs. This dangerous combination leads him to become involved with a convicted murderer [Natassja Kinski] who draws him into deceit and crime. Burke will stop at ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 87 members
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  • Erin Brockovich on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Cherry Jones,  Aaron Eckhart,  Veanne Cox
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In a world where heroes are often in short supply, the story of Erin Brockovich is an inspirational reminder of the power of the human spirit. Her passion, tenacity and steadfast desire to fight for the rights of the underdog defied the odds, her victory made even more sweet by the fact that while ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 21,933 members
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  • Erin Brockovich - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Cherry Jones,  Aaron Eckhart,  Veanne Cox
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) is a brassy, unemployed, twice-divorced single mother. When she is injured in a motor accident and her lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), fails to win her any compensation, her solution is to insist that Ed provides recompense by employing her at his firm. Erin's new ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,568 member
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  • Patch Adams on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Monica Potter,  Daniel London,  Philip Seymour Hoffman
    Director: Tom Shadyac
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This real-life story stars Robin Williams as Patch Adams, a truly unorthodox doctor who clashes with his superiors over the best way to treat patients. For Doctor Adams, the happiness of his patients is paramount and he will go to almost any extreme to keep them laughing. However, this is not ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 5,961 members
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  • Sphere on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Queen Latifah,  Michael Keys Hall
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A mysterious deadly force has been discovered beneath the surface of the Pacific. Psychologist Dr. Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman) is sent by the government to investigate with a specialist team, including Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone), a biochemist, and Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson), a sceptical ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 8,733 members
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  • Route 9 on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Amy Locane,  Richard Riehle,  Scott Coffey
    Director: David Mackay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Made-for-TV crime thriller starring Kyle Maclachlan and Wade Williams as two small-town cops who stumble onto a crime scene on a deserted highway. Apparently a shoot-out has taken place leaving no living witnesses, just a van stuffed with narcotics and a suitcase containing $1.5 million dollars in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 64 members
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  • Unforgettable (1997)
    Starring: Ray Liotta,  Linda Fiorentino,  Peter Coyote
    Director: John Dahl
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ray Liotta is Dr. David Krane, a man accused of brutally murdering his wife in an alcoholic rage. Linda Fiorentino is a scientific researcher who uncovers an unstable, highly-toxic drug that allow the user to relive the memories of another person. Desperate to find the real killer, Krane injects ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 9 members
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  • The West (4 discs) (1996)
    Starring: Pamela Reed,  Michael Potts,  Tony Plana
    Director: Ken Burns
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The entire series by Ken Burns which charts the conquest of the American frontier from 1500-1914. Using photographs, diaries and journals from over 74 different archives, this documentary series tells the story of these first steps in the Western adventure. In 'Empire Upon the Trails', since time ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 945 members
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  • Buffalo Girls on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Jack Palance,  Reba McEntire
    Director: Rod Hardy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Emmy-winning, star-studded television movie looking at the legend of Calamity Jane (Anjelica Huston), the hard-living, bull-whip cracking heorine of the American West. She teamed up with some of the great female legends of the West as well as starred in Buffalo Bill's (Peter Coyote) Wild West Show ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 174 members
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  • Kika on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Veronica Forque,  Peter Coyote,  Victoria Abril
    Director: Pedro Almodovar
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Spanish director Pedro Almodovar returns to his recurring framework of offbeat sexuality and death with this colorful comedy. Kika (Veronica Forque) is a Madrid makeup artist who falls in love with Ramon (Alex Casanovas), a dead man whose face Kika is hired to prepare for a funeral. Kika's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,093 members
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  • Bitter Moon on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Victor Banerjee,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A perverse, dark-humored comedy drama, Bitter Moon crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of a kinky cripple Oscar (Peter Coyote) and his beautiful wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Oscar ensnares a proper British man, Nigel (Hugh Grant) on an ocean-liner and makes him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,500 members
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  • Crooked Hearts (1991)
    Starring: Peter Berg,  Vincent D'Onofrio,  Vincent D'Onofrio
    Director: Michael Bortman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A young man finishes college and resumes life with his dysfunctional family. Slowly, long-buried secrets involving their father are uncovered and the animosities between the father and older brother are revealed. As the past is revealed, new tragedies pull the family together at last.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 12 members
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  • Act Of Will on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Judy Parfitt,  Victoria Tennant,  Serena Gordon
    Director: Don Sharp
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three generations of women struggle through fifty turbulent years in this saga of love, death and drama, based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's semi-autobiographical novel. Audra lives an impoverished existence after her mother dies, but is determined that her daughter Christina will have all the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 228 members
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  • Heart Of Midnight on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Frank Stallone,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Brenda Vaccaro
    Director: Matthew Chapman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Carol Rivers (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has only just recovered from a breakdown when she inherits her uncle's old nightclub. She tries to revive it, but every attempt to sort out the club's problems seems to draw her deeper into her uncle's secret world, moving her closer and closer to a discovery ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 148 members
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  • Outrageous Fortune on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Shelley Long,  George Carlin,  Bette Midler
    Director: Arthur Hiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Prissy, refined Lauren (Shelley Long) thinks she has nothing at all in common with loud, brassy Sandy (Bette Midler)... until she discovers that they share the same boyfriend (Peter Coyote)! When their two-timing beau then goes missing, the unlikely duo are forced to reluctantly join forces and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,576 member
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  • Jagged Edge on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  Leigh Taylor-Young,  Jeff Bridges
    Director: Richard Marquand
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this hit thriller, a prosecuting attorney-turned-defense lawyer falls in love with a rich, charming client who's been accused of murdering his wife and her maid with a hunting knife. When an unknown assailant gruesomely slays San Francisco newspaper heiress Paige Forrester (Maria Mayenzet), her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 2,310 members
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  • Slayground on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Mel Smith,  Billie Whitelaw,  Peter Coyote
    Director: Terry Bedford
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in both New York State and England, this crime thriller stars Peter Coyote as Stone, a thief on the run after his attempted robbery of an armoured vehicle went horribly wrong - resulting in the death of a little girl. The girl's father hires a contract killer to track Stone down and avenge his ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 33 members
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  • Southern Comfort on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Franklyn Seales,  T.K. Carter,  Lewis Smith
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Walter Hill's action thriller has been interpreted as an allegory for the Vietnam war. While on an exercise in Louisiana, a group of National Guard members steal some canoes from the local Cajuns. Pursued by the angry locals, one of the men decides to fire at them, albeit with blanks. The Cajuns ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,191 members
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Peter Coyote facts

5 most recent films

The Gundown - 2.5 stars
The Single Woman - 2.5 stars
Doctor Dolittle 4 - Tail To The Chief - 3.5 stars
Hope and Redemption - The Lena Baker Story - 3.0 stars
$5 a Day - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

ET - The Extra-Terrestrial - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Southern Comfort - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The 4400 - The Complete First Season - 3.5 stars
The West - 3.5 stars
ET - The Extra-Terrestrial - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Great Role - 1.0 stars
Out - 1.5 stars
Purpose - 2.0 stars
Slayground - 2.0 stars
Crooked Hearts - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

William Petersen - 7 times - show films
Victor Garber - 7 times - show films
Robert Klein - 7 times - show films
Frances McDormand - 7 times - show films
Martin Landau - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Wes Craven - 7 times - show films
Paul L - 7 times - show films
Joe Dante - 7 times - show films
William Friedkin - 7 times - show films
Ken Burns - 5 times - show films