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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
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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
Tim Robbins - filmography
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City Of Ember - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Gil Kenan
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Jeanne DuPrau's first novel in the Book of Ember series brightens the screen in this fantasy from Gil Kenan (MONSTER HOUSE). The City of Ember is in danger of its beautiful lights going out, and a pair of teenagers embarks on a journey to save the town from darkness. CITY OF EMBER stars Bill Murray ..read more »
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City of Ember
(2008)
Starring: Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Gil Kenan
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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 »
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The Lucky Ones
(2008)
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Pena
Director: Neil Burger
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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 »
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Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Colin Hanks, Meat Loaf, Kyle Gass
Director: Liam Lynch
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Jack Black and Kyle Gass’s Tenacious D began life on an amusing yet little-seen TV series about the band, which featured an array of comedy songs and glimpses into the personal lives of this hard-working outfit. But Black and Gass always had ambitions to take the Tenacious D concept further, so ..read more »
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Catch A Fire
on DVD (2006)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli
Director: Phillip Noyce
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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 »
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The Secret Life of Words
(2005)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Camara
Director: Isabel Coixet
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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.
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75%
from 17 members
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War Of The Worlds
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Justin Chatwin, Dakota Fanning
Director: Steven Spielberg
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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.
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61%
from 19,225 members
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Zathura
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard
Director: Jon Favreau
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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 »
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Mystic River
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Three friends, Jimmy, Sean and Dave, reunite after the death of Jimmy's daughter. Sean is a detective assigned to the case and has to deal with Jimmy's rages.
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71%
from 7,803 members
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Code 46
on DVD (2003)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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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 »
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from 693 members
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The Truth About Charlie
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins
Director: Jonathan Demme
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Jonathan Demme's THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE is a swirling romantic suspense thriller, a remake of the 1963 Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn vehicle, CHARADE. Set in Paris, the film stars Thandie Newton as a British ex-pat whose art dealer husband is murdered while she's on vacation. Arriving home, she is ..read more »
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43%
from 1,117 members
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Human Nature
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans
Director: Michel Gondry
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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 »
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58%
from 560 members
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Anti-Trust
on DVD (2001)
Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Ryan Phillippe, Claire Forlani
Director: Peter Howitt
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Stanford grad Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) and his equally talented friend, Teddy (Yee Jee Tso), intend to form an Internet start-up and take the world by storm. That all changes when Milo is courted by deceptively friendly software magnate Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), the immensely wealthy head of ..read more »
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from 211 members
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Mission To Mars
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen
Director: Brian De Palma
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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 »
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from 1,265 members
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Arlington Road
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack
Director: Mark Pellington
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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 »
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Nothing To Lose
on DVD (1997)
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John McGinley
Director: Steve Oedekerk
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After Nick finds his wife in bed with another man his life takes a turn for the worst. He's carjacked by another down and out loser and this unlikely pair, with nothing to lose, team up and take the high road to crime with hilarious results.
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71%
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I.Q.
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tim Robbins, Walter Matthau
Director: Fred Schepisi
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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 »
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59%
from 805 members
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Dead Man Walking
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky
Director: Tim Robbins
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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 »
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73%
from 2,367 members
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The Shawshank Redemption
(2 discs)
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Robert Gunton
Director: Frank Darabont
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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 »
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90%
from 19,610 members
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Pret A Porter
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger
Director: Robert Altman
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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 »
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47%
from 257 members
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Short Cuts
on DVD (1993)
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins, Madeline Stowe
Director: Robert Altman
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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 »
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69%
from 2,019 members
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The Player
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Robert Altman
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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 »
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71%
from 1,611 members
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Bob Roberts
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman
Director: Tim Robbins
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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.
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67%
from 245 members
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Jacob's Ladder
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello
Director: Adrian Lyne
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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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71%
from 1,617 members
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Cadillac Man
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed
Director: Roger Donaldson
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When one car salesman gets the opportunity to redeem himself from all his sleazy sales pitches, financial philandering, and relentless womanizing, he is forced to confront all his demons in one very long afternoon.
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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...
Disappointing 27 March 2004
Excellent movie 23 July 2004
