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Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins
Born to show-biz parents in California, Tim was raised in New York City. He started film work in TV movies in 1983. He is best-known for one of LOVEFiLM's all-time favourites Shawshank Redemption, The Hudsucker Proxy and The Player.


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Tim Robbins - news / articles


  • Jumanji 2 to star Robbins - 25 June 2004
    Tim Robbins looks to have joined the cast of the second film in the "Jumanji" series.-"Zathura" is based on Chris van Allsburg sequel to "Jumanji" -written 20 years after the original. - -"Jumanji" was turned into a film in 199

Tim Robbins - what members say


  • Nothing To Lose
  • Nothing To Lose review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5 stars A real must see! 7 July 2004
    ...real favourite. A hilarious film, lots of laugh-out-loud comedy. The scene with Tim Robbins 'dancing' by the car will have you in stitches. The two actors work well toget...  
  • The Player
  • The Player review by Nobbylamp from London, England
    Rated - 4 stars Excellent movie 23 July 2004
    ...or star spotting as there are many cameo performances. Terrific performance by Tim Robbins playing a two faced producer who's being blackmailed by a writer. Some great di...  
  • Dead Man Walking
  • Dead Man Walking review by from London
    Rated - 5 stars A moving, sensitive and balanced film 26 January 2004
    ...ld-fashioned Christian advisor and the parents of the victimes (two teenagers). Tim Robbins treats everyone with the respect they deserve and doesn't fall into the trap of...  

Tim Robbins - filmography


  • The Lucky Ones on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Rachel McAdams,  Tim Robbins,  Michael Pena
    Director: Neil Burger
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When three very different U.S. soldiers find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America, they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of them has to real family. T.K. Poole, Colee Dunn and Fred Cheever arrive in New York from Germany only to find their connecting flights ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 832 members
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  • The City of Ember on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Tim Robbins,  Saoirse Ronan
    Director: Gil Kenan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing... and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 10,423 members
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  • Noise (2008)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Bridget Moynahan,  William Hurt
    Director: Henry Bean
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    David is a successful lawyer who can't stand the fact that Manhattan is a place where it's too noisy to get a good night's sleep, listen to classical music, or even make love to his wife without disturbance. Every time David hears a car alarm going off, he swings into action. Adopting the guise of "..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 7 members
    Due for release on 25th January 2010
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  • Catch A Fire on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Derek Luke,  Bonnie Mbuli
    Director: Phillip Noyce
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A political thriller that powerfully tells the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke) is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious (..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,912 members
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  • War Of The Worlds on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Justin Chatwin,  Dakota Fanning
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    While Martian war machines appear across the globe, the horror of the assault is depicted through the eyes of one American family who refuse to give up the fight for survival. Steven Spielberg retells H. G. Wells' seminal science fiction classic.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 92,978 members
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  • The Secret Life of Words (2005)
    Starring: Sarah Polley,  Tim Robbins,  Javier Camara
    Director: Isabel Coixet
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns. During the course of her stay she is challenged to conront herself and her life in a way she never expected.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 25 members
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  • Zathura on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Josh Hutcherson,  Jonah Bobo,  Dax Shepard
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Older brother Walter (Josh Hutcherson) and the younger Danny (Jonah Bobo) are constantly at war with one another, bickering over the mediating voice of their long-suffering father (Tim Robbins). When he has to go to the office to replace some papers the boys destroyed in their crossfire, he leaves ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 21,310 members
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  • Code 46 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Samantha Morton,  Om Puri
    Director: Michael Winterbottom
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in Shanghai in the near future, CODE 46 takes place in a world where in-vitro fertilization, embryo splitting, and cloning have become so widespread that the government monitors all pregnancies to avoid incestuous births, whether on purpose or accidental. In Michael Winterbottom's science-..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 10,367 members
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  • Mystic River - BLU-RAY Version (2003)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Tim Robbins,  Kevin Bacon
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In Clint Eastwood's MYSTIC RIVER, a murder mystery in South Boston unites three men who have been friends since childhood. Grippingly powerful performances from the entire cast--Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, and Laura Linney--combined with gritty ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 2 members
    Due for release on 8th February 2010
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  • Human Nature on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Patricia Arquette,  Rhys Ifans
    Director: Michel Gondry
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette), a nature writer with excessive body hair, meets Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins), an obsessive/compulsive scientist attempting to teach mice table manners, the two begin an unlikely romance. On a hiking trip, the new couple encounters a feral young man (Rhys Ifans) ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 4,047 members
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  • Mission To Mars on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Gary Sinise,  Don Cheadle,  Connie Nielsen
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 2020, a group of astronauts headed by Luke Graham (Don Cheadle) set out to be the first humans on Mars. After they've landed, they investigate a strange noise near an unusual rock formation, and an unpredicted storm conjures up a living tunnel of sand that wipes out everyone except Graham. His ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 4,130 members
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  • Arlington Road on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Tim Robbins,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Mark Pellington
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    George Washington University professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) teaches a course in terrorism, but after his wife, an FBI agent, is killed under questionable circumstances, he becomes obsessed with the topic. An all-American family moves in across the street, but Faraday soon suspects that ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,314 members
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  • Dead Man Walking on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Susan Sarandon,  Sean Penn,  Robert Prosky
    Director: Tim Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This acclaimed film traces the relationship between a death-row inmate and the local nun to whom he turns for spiritual guidance in the days leading up to his scheduled execution. Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) has been convicted of the rape and murder of two young lovers and is awaiting execution. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,592 members
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  • I.Q. (1995)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  Tim Robbins,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    On a sunny afternoon in Princeton, New Jersey, of the 1950s, love strikes in the oddest way: Albert Einstein's niece Catherine (Meg Ryan), and her uptight fiance James (Stephen Fry), stop at a gas station for car repairs, and when dim-witted grease monkey Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) appears, he falls ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,391 members
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  • The Shawshank Redemption on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Morgan Freeman,  Robert Gunton
    Director: Frank Darabont
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    City Banker Andy Dufresne is in Shawshank State Prison after receiving a double life sentence for murder. There he meets Red and also forms friendships with the warden and prison guards. Andy soon finds that you either get on with living or you get on with dying. The bonus features stretch over two ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 97,937 members
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  • Pret A Porter on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Tim Robbins,  Kim Basinger
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Altman delivers another sprawling satire with READY TO WEAR, this time focusing his lens on the tightly knit, pretentious fashion industry. After a popular fashion leader dies during the most important industry gathering of the year in Paris, the question that it might have been murder ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,325 member
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  • Short Cuts on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  Tim Robbins,  Madeline Stowe
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a springboard, American maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial, rage, and despair in the lives of several ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,288 members
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  • Bob Roberts on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Giancarlo Esposito,  Alan Rickman
    Director: Tim Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Brilliant political satire about the senatorial campaign of a right-wing candidate. Told in a mockumentary style, a corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,231 member
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  • The Player on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Greta Scacchi,  Whoopi Goldberg
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating blend of real life and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,715 members
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  • Jacob's Ladder on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Elizabeth Pena,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Adrian Lyne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER moves in time and space between Vietnam and New York with hallucinatory force. Something bad happened on the Mekong Delta, on October 6, 1971, and it is still affecting war veteran Jacob (Tim Robbins) in Brooklyn as he attempts to live a normal life with coworker and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,714 members
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  • Jacob's Ladder - BLU-RAY Version (1990)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Elizabeth Pena,  Danny Aiello
    Director: Adrian Lyne
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER moves in time and space between Vietnam and New York with hallucinatory force. Something bad happened on the Mekong Delta, on October 6, 1971, and it is still affecting war veteran Jacob (Tim Robbins) in Brooklyn as he attempts to live a normal life with coworker and ..read more »
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    Due for release on 1st March 2010
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  • Erik The Viking on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Terry Jones,  John Cleese,  Tim Robbins
    Director: Terry Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tim Robbins stars as Erik the Viking, a thoughtful man in a violent time who does not enjoy killing and raping like the rest of his people. When he accidentally kills a woman while defending her, he reevaluates his life and goes off in search of the Horn Resounding, which has the power to bring him ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,273 member
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  • Tapeheads on DVD (1989)
    Starring: 'Weird Al' Yankovic,  Tim Robbins,  John Cusack
    Director: Bill Fishman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    John Cusack and Tim Robbins star in this comedy as Ivan and Josh, a pair of dim witted security guards who love music videos and lose their jobs after throwing a party while they're supposed to be working. Having no immediate job prospects, the two decide to form their own music video production ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 409 members
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  • Bull Durham on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Susan Sarandon,  Tim Robbins
    Director: Ron Shelton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The Durham Bulls are in a slump and have spent a hefty sum of money acquiring an untested young pitcher in the hopes of reversing their standings. Crash Davis, a 12-year veteran ballplayer who has spent most of his time bumming around as a minor league catcher, is assigned to mature the rookie ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,566 members
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  • Miss Firecracker on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Holly Hunter,  Mary Steenburgen,  Tim Robbins
    Director: Thomas Schlamme
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Orphaned as a child, Carnelle has grown up in the shadow of her beautiful cousin, a proper southern belle and past Miss Firecracker. Carnelle sets her sights on the current crown and devises a scheme to enter and win the contest.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 140 members
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  • Five Corners on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Tim Robbins,  Todd Graff
    Director: Tony Bill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Bronx, 1964. Linda is beautiful tough and terrified. The psychotic rapist she helped convict and jail is out, and looking for her. She and two eccentric friends are soon plunged into a shattering ordeal of urban cat and mouse that will cut a path of death and destruction across the ashes.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 63 members
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  • Top Gun - HD DVD Version (1986)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Kelly McGillis,  Anthony Edwards
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Cocky, undisciplined Maverick (Tom Cruise) flies by instinct and breaks all of the rules at the Navy fighter pilot academy with his best friend and co-pilot Goose (Anthony Edwards). Along the way, Maverick romances the civilian astrophysics instructor (Kelly McGillis) who is initially put off by ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 547 members
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  • Howard the Duck on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Lea Thompson,  Tim Robbins,  Jeffrey Jone
    Director: Willard Huyck
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sassy, wise-cracking human sized duck Howard is going about his day to day life on his home planet, when an experiment involving a laser beam on far flung planet Earth drags him halfway across the cosmos to Cleveland, USA. Howard is understandably unsettled, but soon makes close friends with singer ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,077 member
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  • Top Gun on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Kelly McGillis,  Anthony Edwards
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cocky, undisciplined Maverick (Tom Cruise) flies by instinct and breaks all of the rules at the Navy fighter pilot academy with his best friend and co-pilot Goose (Anthony Edwards). Along the way, Maverick romances the civilian astrophysics instructor (Kelly McGillis) who is initially put off by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 31,826 members
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  • Toy Soldiers on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jason Miller,  Cleavon Little,  Terri Garber
    Director: David Fisher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Seven American college students are captured and held for ransom by a Central American government. When the United States refuses to pay their ransom, a seasoned soldier of fortune puts together a rag-tag rescue force comprised of a group of daring students. They are the "Toy Soldiers."
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 268 members
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  • The Sure Thing on DVD (1985)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Daphne Zuniga,  Nicolette Sheridan
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When free-spirited but juvenile Walter 'Gib' Gibson (John Cusack) meets studious, uptight Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga) at an unnamed Ivy League college, sparks fly; unfortunately, they are mostly of the disastrous variety as all of Gib's attempts at courtship fall painfully apart. Inevitably, ..read more »
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Tim Robbins - watch online


  • IQ to Watch Now (1994)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Meg Ryan,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 95 minutes
    Legendary scientist Albert Einstein (played here by Walter Matthau) takes a break from theoretical physics to try to set up his intellectual niece with a handsome auto mechanic in this romantic comedy. The movie's central conceit is that Einstein's brilliance extends to matters of the heart, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 23 members
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  • The Player to Watch Now (1992)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Greta Scacchi,  Fred Ward
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 119 minutes
    Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 34 members
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  • Tapeheads to Watch Now (1989)
    Starring: 'Weird Al' Yankovic,  Tim Robbins,  John Cusack
    Director: Bill Fishman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 89 minutes
    Tim Robbins and John Cusack star as two fun-loving childhood pals who decide to quit their dead-end jobs and become music video makers. The ambitious duo encounter every breed of personality as they make their way us the precarious ladder of fame. Their spirited friendship and hungry dreams keep ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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Tim Robbins facts

5 most recent films

City Of Ember - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Lucky Ones - 3.0 stars
The City of Ember - 3.0 stars
Noise - 2.0 stars
Catch A Fire - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shawshank Redemption, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
The Shawshank Redemption - 4.5 stars
Top Gun - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Top Gun - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Hudsucker Proxy - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Jacob's Ladder - BLU-RAY Version - 3 stars
Noise - 2.0 stars
The Secret Life of Words - 3.5 stars
Mystic River - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
Toy Soldiers - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Meg Ryan - 7 times - show films
Tom Cruise - 6 times - show films
Anthony Edwards - 6 times - show films
Clarence Gilyard - 5 times - show films
Whip Hubley - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tony Scott - 5 times - show films
Robert Altman - 4 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 2 times - show films
Adrian Lyne - 2 times - show films
Clint Eastwood - 2 times - show films