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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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Sarandon and Robbins part ways -
24 December 2009
-Hollywood power couple Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins have split after 23 years together.-
-The actors began dating in 1988 after meeting on the set of Bull Durham.-
- They never married but went on to have two children, sons Jack Henry, 20, and Miles Guthrie, 17.-
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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
review by A customer from London
A real must see! 7 July 2004
review by Nobbylamp from London, England
Excellent movie 23 July 2004
review by from London
A moving, sensitive and balanced film 26 January 2004
Tim Robbins - filmography
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Green Lantern - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Temuera Morrison
Director: Martin Campbell
Certificate: 
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Superhero action film based on the DC comic strip. The Green Lantern Corps is an intergalactic brotherhood of warriors with otherworldly powers whose job it is to uphold peace and justice throughout the universe. With the advent of a deadly and powerful new enemy called Parallax, it is up to Green ..read more »
 
62%
from 11,202 members
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Green Lantern
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard
Director: Martin Campbell
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In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers.
But ..read more »
62%
from 26,700 members
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Revenge of the Electric Car
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Danny DeVito, Jon Favreau
Director: Chris Paine
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In 2006, thousands of new electric cars were purposely destroyed by the same car companies that built them. Today, less than 5 years later, the electric car is backÂ… with a vengeance. In "Revenge of the Electric Car," director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, ..read more »
61%
from 120 members
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The City of Ember
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Gil Kenan
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Family sci-fi adventure starring Bill Murray and Tim Robbins. The City of Ember is an underground city built to last 200 years to house humankind following an unspecified disaster. However, the 200-year mark has been and gone and the city is running low on food and energy. The technological ..read more »
63%
from 16,519 members
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Noise
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Hurt
Director: Henry Bean
Certificate: 
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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 »
51%
from 562 members
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The Lucky Ones
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Pena
Director: Neil Burger
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After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancée. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever, an older ..read more »
64%
from 4,080 members
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The City Of Ember - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan
Director: Gil Kenan
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Family sci-fi adventure starring Bill Murray and Tim Robbins. The City of Ember is an underground city built to last 200 years to house humankind following an unspecified disaster. However, the 200-year mark has been and gone and the city is running low on food and energy. The technological ..read more »
64%
from 969 members
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Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jack Black, Meat Loaf, Ben Stiller
Director: Liam Lynch
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Comedy starring Jack Black (School of Rock, King Kong) in his other capacity as one half of hard-rockin spoof band, Tenacious D. This is the story of how the band Tenacious D came into being; Jack Black, a green Midwestern newcomer to California, comes across Kyle Gass playing guitar on the beach ..read more »
61%
from 25,016 members
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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 »
66%
from 7,823 members
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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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from 42 members
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War Of The Worlds
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Big-budget adaptation of the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, directed by Steven Spielberg. Divorced father of two Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is looking after his children - uncommunicative Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and precocious Rachel (Dakota Fanning) - while his ex-wife Mary (Miranda ..read more »
60%
from 100,875 members
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Zathura
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo
Director: Jon Favreau
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Family adventure starring Jonah Bobo and Josh Hutcherson as two brothers, Danny and Walter. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage to cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they find that the game has apparently flung them, their ..read more »
61%
from 23,403 members
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Weapons Of Mass Deception
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, David Marr
Director: Danny Schechter
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There were two wars in Iraq - a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the latter was not. Until now... Independent filmmaker, Emmy-award winning TV journalist, author and media critic, Danny Schechter turns the cameras on the role of the media. His new film, WMD, is an ..read more »
60%
from 1,774 member
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Mystic River - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Laura Linney, Laurence Fishburne, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Clint Eastwood directs this gritty Academy Award-winning drama based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. Set in the Irish community of Boston, it tells the story of three childhood friends who have drifted apart over the years owing to a violent and disturbing experience they shared as children, and are ..read more »
73%
from 2,649 members
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Code 46
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Samantha Morton, Tim Robbins, Om Puri
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Sci-fi romance directed by Michael Winterbottom. In a Brave New World-style dystopian near future, family man William (Tim Robbins) is a government investigator sent to get to the bottom of a counterfeiting ring which is producing fake 'papelles' - the compulsory travel permits issued to the elite ..read more »
47%
from 11,289 members
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Mystic River
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Laura Linney, Laurence Fishburne, Laurence Fishburne
Director: Clint Eastwood
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When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum, Dave Boyle and Sean Devine spent their days playing stickball on the street, the way most boys did in their blue-collar neighborhood of East Buckingham. Nothing much out of the ordinary ever happened, until a moment'..read more »
67%
from 68,659 members
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The Truth About Charlie
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Ted Levine, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Robbins
Director: Jonathan Demme
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Jonathan Demme's re-working of the 1963 film 'Charade' is set in Paris and features several cameos from French cinema. After her recent marriage to Parisian art-dealer Charlie Lambert (Stephen Dillane), Regina Lambert (Thandie Newton) decides to go away by herself to think things through, where she ..read more »
44%
from 1,281 member
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Human Nature
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Robert Forster, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto
Director: Michel Gondry
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Lila, a young woman with a severe hormonal condition, is forced to hide her malady and eventually leave society for the solitude she finds in nature. While in the forest she writes novels that become wildly successful. Once famous, she returns to society and starts looking for a man. With the help ..read more »
52%
from 4,500 members
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Last Party 2000
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Rosie O'Donnell, Jesse Jackson, Tim Robbins
Director: Rebecca Chaiklin, Donovan Leitch
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Philip Seymour Hoffman presents this exploration of the state of democracy in America, chronicling the (sensational) 2000 presidential elections; and whilst delving into the machine of American politics he interviews out-spoken celebrities such as Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.
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from 904 members
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Mission To Mars
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Kim Delaney, Connie Nielsen, Don Cheadle
Director: Brian De Palma
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It is the year 2020 and NASA has just performed its first manned landing on Mars. But when the crew head out to explore a mysterious mountain in the Cydonia region they are hit by disaster and communciations with NASA control soon breakdown. A second mission - lead by Woody Blake (Tim Robbins) and ..read more »
58%
from 4,757 members
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Cradle Will Rock
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Joan Cusack, Ruben Blades, Emily Watson
Director: Tim Robbins
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The true story of how Orson Welles and the Federal Theatre Project tried to stage Marc Blitzstein's socialist musical 'The Cradle Will Rock', only to have the theatre closed down by their political opponents shortly before the opening night - an act of censorship which left Welles and his ..read more »
61%
from 532 members
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Arlington Road
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Joan Cusack, Mason Gamble, Tim Robbins
Director: Mark Pellington
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History professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) lives with his ten-year-old son Grant (Spencer Clark) and is trying to come to terms with the death of his wife two years earlier. Life seems to be improving when they befriend the Langs, a family new to the neighbourhood. But the father of the ..read more »
69%
from 9,355 members
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Nothing To Lose
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Martin Lawrence, John McGinley, Kelly Preston
Director: Steve Oedekerk
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Advertising executive Nick Beam (Tim Robbins) receives a shock when he returns home early and thinks he sees his wife in bed with his boss. He drives away in a daze, and when criminal T. Paul (Martin Lawrence) attempts to car-jack him, Nick effectively kidnaps him. After the pair rob a gas station, ..read more »
70%
from 3,136 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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Tim Robbins directs this true story of Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), a nun who communicates with prisoners on Death Row. When she corresponds with Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), a man condemned for killing a young couple, helping him to mount an appeal of innocence, she encounters someone ..read more »
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from 11,444 members
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I.Q.
(1995)
Starring: Lou Jacobi, Roger Berlind, Tony Shalhoub
Director: Fred Schepisi
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In the mid-1950s, famous scientist Albert Einstein (Walter Matthau) is at the height of his powers. When his highly intelligent niece, Catherine Boyd (Meg Ryan), becomes engaged to uncaring psychologist James Morland (Stephen Fry), Einstein decides to engineer a romance between her and Ed Walters (..read more »
57%
from 2,594 members
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Dead Man Walking - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky
Director: Tim Robbins
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Tim Robbins directs this true story of Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), a nun who communicates with prisoners on Death Row. When she corresponds with Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), a man condemned for killing a young couple, helping him to mount an appeal of innocence, she encounters someone ..read more »
76%
from 23 members
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The Shawshank Redemption
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: James Whitmore, Morgan Freeman, Mark Rolston
Director: Frank Darabont
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In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis Red Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most ..read more »
88%
from 127,529 members
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Pret A Porter
(1994)
Starring: Sally Kellerman, Sophia Loren, Jean
Director: Robert Altman
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This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual Pret-a-Porter fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and ..read more »
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from 1,627 member
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Short Cuts
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Matthew Modine, Tom Waits
Director: Robert Altman
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Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls ..read more »
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from 4,920 members
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Bob Roberts
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Giancarlo Esposito
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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from 1,417 member
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The Player
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Steve J, Rene Auberjonois
Director: Robert Altman
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Movie executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is receiving death threats from an anonymous screenwriter. Deducing that the letters are coming from rejected hopeful David Kahane (Vincent D'Onofrio), Griffin sets up an 'accidental' meeting with the writer and, during an argument, kills him. While the ..read more »
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from 6,118 members
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Jacob's Ladder - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Danny Aiello, Tim Robbins, Macaulay Culkin
Director: Adrian Lyne
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Divorced Vietnam veteran turned postman Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is disturbed when he begins to be plagued by bizarre and violent hallucinations, both of the family he has abandoned and a bloody battle he could not previously remember. So strong are the images that the line between past and ..read more »
69%
from 971 members
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Jacob's Ladder
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Danny Aiello, Tim Robbins, Macaulay Culkin
Director: Adrian Lyne
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Divorced Vietnam veteran turned postman Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is disturbed when he begins to be plagued by bizarre and violent hallucinations, both of the family he has abandoned and a bloody battle he could not previously remember. So strong are the images that the line between past and ..read more »
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from 8,071 members
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Cadillac Man
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Pamela Reed, Annabella Sciorra, Tim Robbins
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Fast-talking car salesman Joey O'Brien (Robin Williams) has a lot on his plate. His job at Turgeon Auto Sales is on the line, his ex-wife wants her alimony, and he is two-timing his girlfriend with a married woman. Things go from bad to worse when the latter's neanderthal husband, Larry (Tim ..read more »
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from 598 members
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Tapeheads
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Sam Moore, King Cotton, Fishbone
Director: Bill Fishman
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Early outing for Tim Robbins and John Cusack who star as two friends who set up a video production company together after losing their jobs as security guards. Their lack of experience leads them at first into taking on any job, including a right-wing, folksinging Presidential hopeful's fundraising ..read more »
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from 546 members
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Erik The Viking
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Terry Jones, Samantha Bond, Eartha Kitt
Director: Terry Jones
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Written by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and starring Tim Robbins as Erik, a viking who tires of the daily grind of sacking and looting. Gathering together a rag-tag band of squabbling warriors, Erik sets out on a journey to Valhalla where he intends to ask the gods to end the violence which ..read more »
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from 1,534 member
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Bull Durham
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl, Tim Robbins
Director: Ron Shelton
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A blend of comedy, drama and romance, Bull Durham follows the intertwining of three lives brought together by the great American pastime. Crash Davis (Kevin Costner, showcasing his Midwestern charm) is a perennial Minor Leaguer assigned to the Durham Bulls, a hapless team with a long tradition of ..read more »
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from 3,002 members
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Five Corners
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: John Turturro, Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster
Director: Tony Bill
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Four old friends meet again when one of them is released from prison in this tale of life in the Bronx during the 1960s. Jodie Foster and Tim Robbins star.
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from 148 members
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Top Gun
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Clarence Gilyard, Rick Rossovich, Val Kilmer
Director: Tony Scott
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Devil-may-care navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent to Miramar Naval Air Station for advanced training. Here he vies with Tom Kasansky (Val Kilmer) for the coveted Top Gun award. When not so occupied, Mitchell carries on a romance with civilian consultant Charlotte Blackwood (Kelly ..read more »
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from 35,711 members
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Top Gun - Blu-ray
(1986)
Starring: Clarence Gilyard, Rick Rossovich, Val Kilmer
Director: Tony Scott
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One of the definitive films of the 1980s, 'Top Gun' is a high-octane, high-concept mixture of slick images, hard action and non-stop music. Tom Cruise plays Maverick, a young fighter pilot enrolled at Naval college, training with the most gifted flyers of his generation, and competing for the ..read more »
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from 3,094 members
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Toy Soldiers
(1986)
Starring: Cleavon Little, Terri Garber, Jason Miller
Director: David Fisher
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It's vacation time for Amy (Terri Garber) and her college friends and they take off in her parent's yacht to relax under the supervision of skipper 'Sarge' Ford (Jason Miller). When an accident happens on board Amy and a few friends decide that they should go inland to get medical help. But when ..read more »
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from 288 members
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Howard the Duck
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jone
Director: Willard Huyck
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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 »
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from 1,723 member
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The Sure Thing
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Viveca Lindfors, John Cusack, Tim Robbins
Director: Rob Reiner
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A romantic comedy from director Rob Reiner, who went on to make 'When Harry Met Sally'. Gib (John Cusack) is promised a devastating woman at a party across the country in Los Angeles. The only problem is that he has to share the car journey with prudish Alison (Daphne Zuniga), a fellow student ..read more »
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from 8,446 members
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Fraternity Vacation
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Sheree Wilson, Tim Robbins, Stephen Geoffreys
Director: James Frawley
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It's summer vacation and Bruce 'Mother' Tucker [Tim Robbins] and Joe Gillespie [Cameron Dye] are off to Palm Springs to chase girls. Their only problem comes in the form of their travelling partner, nerdy Wendell Tvedt. The fun begins when a bet is placed between Bruce and Jo and two other students ..read more »
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Tim Robbins facts
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...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...
