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  • Russo opens up about great sex scenes - 3 May 2011
    -Actress Rene Russo has revealed all about her two great movie love scenes, insisting Michael Keaton "broke the ice" with a joke and Pierce Brosnan was "the perfect gentleman".-The stunning Major League star has 'bedded' a number of leading men on the big screen, bu


  • Russo grateful for Hopkins' foul-mouthed advice - 3 May 2011
    -Sir Anthony Hopkins helped co-star Rene Russo calm her nerves before a pivotal scene in new action film Thor by swearing at her.-The actress reveals the great Brit could tell she was far from confident about the scene in which she has to appear devastated after lea


  • Russo joins Hemsworth & Hopkins in Thor - 18 December 2009
    -Rene Russo has signed on to play Thor's mum in Kenneth Branagh's blockbuster movie adaptation of the Marvel comic book story.- -Russo will portray Frigga opposite Chris Hemsworth, as Thor, and Anthony Hopkins, who will portray her husband Odin.- - Natalie Portman

Rene Russo - what members say


  • Outbreak
  • Outbreak review by A customer from Reading, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Unforgettable, undeniable brilliance! 17 July 2004
    ...e you mapping out your route to the nearest hospital for weeks. Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and the ever magnificant Morgan Freeman, turn ...   Read customer review
  • Get Shorty
  • Get Shorty review by A customer from Bedford, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars A surprising classic 20 September 2003
    ...a producer of major motion pictures (read B horror flicks). His lover is Karen (Rene Russo). His meetings give Palmer the 'movie bug.' Already a huge movie fan, Palmer...   Read customer review
  • The Thomas Crown Affair
  • The Thomas Crown Affair review by A customer from Notting Hill, London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Pierce Brosnan's best film 17 September 2003
    ...t ten years, it's actually better than the original. Pierce Brosnan is superb, Rene Russo is sexy as as hell and the intrigue and plot keeps you guessing. Plus an excel...   Read customer review

Rene Russo - filmography


  • Thor - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Chris Hemsworth,  Anthony Hopkins,  Natalie Portman
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Kenneth Branagh (HENRY V) and I AM LEGEND scribe Mark Protosevich bring Marvel Comics strongman Thor (played by STAR TREK'S Chris Hemsworth) to the big screen in this big-budget adventure that chronicles the mystical roots of the Asgardian god. Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Jaimie ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 13,264 members
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  • Two For The Money on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Matthew McConaughey,  Armand Assante
    Director: D.J. Caruso
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After suffering a career-ending injury, a former college football star aligns himself with one of the most reknown bookies in the sports-gambling business. Abrams takes on Lang as his protege, moving him to Manhattan and allowing him to grow used to the lavish lifestyle. But, the seemingly perfect ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 11,206 members
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  • Two For The Money - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Matthew McConaughey,  Armand Assante
    Director: D.J. Caruso
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    TWO FOR THE MONEY, featuring Al Pacino, Rene Russo, and Matthew McConaughey, provides a most unexpected twist in its thrilling tale of high rolling bookie cons and sports gamblers. Brandon Lang (McConaughey) stars as a college football great permanently downed by an irreparable injury. However, he ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 13 members
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  • Yours, Mine And Ours on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Rene Russo,  Linda Hunt
    Director: Raja Gosnell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on a film from 1968 (that starred Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda), this is a family comedy about two large families who come together to create total chaos. Helen (Renee Russo) is the free-spirited mother of ten, including six adopted children. Meanwhile, Admiral Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 8,222 members
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  • Roast Of Denis Leary on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Denis Leary,  Jeff Garlin,  Sonya Rose Atkinson
    Director: John Fortenberry
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Acerbic funnyman Denis Leary gets a taste of his own medicine when Comedy Central hosts a celebrity roast in his honour. Dishing out the insults are Leary's friends and fellow entertainers Gina Gershon, Joe Mantegna, Christopher Walken, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart, and many more. Hosted by Jeff ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 64 members
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  • Big Trouble on DVD (2002)
    Starring: DJ Qualls,  Andy Richter,  Jason Lee
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A bizarre series of events leads to confusion and mayhem when a mysterious suitcase poses a threat to the security of Miami... A group of mis-fits have just forty-five minutes to save the day...
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 617 members
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  • The Thomas Crown Affair on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Rene Russo,  Denis Leary
    Director: John McTiernan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the 1968 film of the same name, THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR offers a peak into the nefarious lives of the rich and famous. Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) is a man with looks, wit, and millions of dollars, yet the only way he can feel truly alive is during the thrill of the heist. When a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 10,293 members
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  • Lethal Weapon 4 on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Danny Glover,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Fourth in the series of uber-successful action films directed by Richard Donner. Gibson and Glover return as Los Angeles detectives who can't seem to get through a day without a shooting, a robbery, or a car chase.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 17,181 members
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  • Buddy on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Rene Russo,  Robbie Coltrane,  Alan Cumming
    Director: Caroline Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A gentle, family-oriented dramatization of the autobiography ("Animals Are My Hobby") of daffy Gertrude Lintz (Rene Russo,) a softhearted, softheaded 1920s New York socialite who transformed her upstate mansion into a personal menagerie containing cats, dogs, birds, chimps, and the titular baby ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 218 members
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  • Tin Cup on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Rene Russo,  Don Johnson
    Director: Ron Shelton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    A lackadaisical one-time golf pro, now operating a run-down driving range in Texas, gets his competitive juices flowing again when a slick former colleague shows up and asks him to be his--gasp!--caddie. Not only will the washed-up hacker not deign to be a caddie, he falls for and ultimately ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,987 members
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  • Outbreak on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Rene Russo,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    In director Wolfgang Petersen's fast-paced, intelligently written thriller, Dustin Hoffman plays Col. Sam Daniels, an expert on infectious diseases who is called in to study the outbreak of a deadly illness in Zaire. He finds a virus that spreads so quickly it could wipe out an entire nation in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 9,696 members
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  • Get Shorty on DVD (1995)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Gene Hackman,  Rene Russo
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 13,410 members
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  • Get Shorty - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Gene Hackman,  Rene Russo
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    This slick adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1990 novel features John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who's been sent to L.A. to collect on a bad debt from trash movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), the maker of the stunning flops "Grotesque" and "Slime People." But this is Harry's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 6 members
    Not available for rental
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  • In The Line Of Fire on DVD (1993)
    Starring: John Malkovich,  Rene Russo,  Dylan McDermott
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances, as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Petersen's taut thriller In the Line of Fire. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 10,037 members
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  • Lethal Weapon 3 on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Joe Pesci,  Alan Scarfe,  Mary Ellen Trainor
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    In the third LETHAL WEAPON film, L.A. police detectives Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) track down an ex-cop who has been smuggling guns out of impound and back to gangs on the street. Days away from retirement, Murtaugh is reluctantly pushed into action by Riggs. The two are joined ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 20,540 members
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  • Freejack on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Mick Jagger,  Emilio Estevez,  Anthony Hopkins
    Director: Geoff Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 2009, the world is polluted, the hole in the Ozone layer and the financial gulf between society's "haves" and "have nots" is so large that the rich must search the past to find healthy young bodies to replace their own. When Furlong, a race car driver, dies and leaves his body intact, he becomes ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 902 members
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  • One Good Cop (1991)
    Starring: Michael Keaton,  Rene Russo,  Anthony La Paglia
    Director: Heywood Gould
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two cops, Artie and Steve are investigating a drugs ring. When Steve is murdered, Artie and his wife become the legal guardians of Steve's children. As the case continues Artie's family become the next targets...
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 219 members
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Rene Russo facts

5 most recent films

Thor - 3.5 stars
Thor - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Two For The Money - 3.0 stars
Two For The Money - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Yours, Mine And Ours - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lethal Weapon Collection - 1 - 4 Boxset - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
In The Line Of Fire - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Thor - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Thomas Crown Affair - 3.5 stars
Thor - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Get Shorty - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Two For The Money - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle - 2.5 stars
Buddy - 2.5 stars
Freejack - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mel Gibson - 6 times - show films
Danny Glover - 5 times - show films
Joe Pesci - 5 times - show films
John Mahoney - 4 times - show films
John Malkovich - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Barry Sonnenfeld - 6 times - show films
Wolfgang Petersen - 5 times - show films
Richard Donner - 5 times - show films
D.J. Caruso - 2 times - show films
Kenneth Branagh - 2 times - show films