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  • Pleasantville
  • Pleasantville review by A customer from Near Wootton Bassett
    Rated - 5 stars Wonderful film on two levels 9 June 2005
    ...y takes over and violence follows. The scene in the town hall with (I think) Jeff Daniels preaching to the town is almost a watered down version of a right wing rally. ...  
  • Dumb And Dumber
  • Dumb And Dumber review by from London
    Rated - 4 stars The Farrelly's Best 3 June 2004
    ...ey managed to get a great comedic performance from typically, a dramatic actor, Jeff Daniels, I'll never know. This was also the movie that catapulted Jim Carrey into star...  
  • Fly Away Home
  • Fly Away Home review by BobbyShaftoe from Cheshire
    Rated - 5 stars If you are male and value your dignity, do not watch this film with company 10 March 2009
    ... any evening is good for me except thursdays and fridays). Her dad is played by Jeff Daniels, who is an eccentric inventor, who we know will find his paternal instinct and ...  

Jeff Daniels - filmography


  • Traitor on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Don Cheadle,  Guy Pearce,  Neal McDonough
    Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations Officer, Samir Horn. A mysterious figure with a web of connections to suspect organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,174 members
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  • The Lookout on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt,  Isla Fisher,  Jeff Daniels
    Director: Scott Frank
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 8,302 members
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  • RV on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Cheryl Hines,  Jeff Daniels
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A family film for the Instant Messenger age, RV takes a humorous look at a mostly functional suburban family's attempt to get away from it all on a rare vacation. The always hilarious Robin Williams plays Bob Munro, a beaten-down middle manager who feels alienated from the family he works so hard ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 13,795 members
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  • Infamous on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Daniel Craig,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Douglas McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    1959 Manhattan was a party, and none of the glitterati glittered brighter than Truman Capote. Then he saw a story in The New York Times: "Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain," and the party ended for Capote. He plunged into the murder case that inspired his great "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 7,473 members
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  • Good Night And Good Luck on DVD (2005)
    Starring: David Strathairn,  George Clooney,  Robert Downey Jr
    Director: George Clooney
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    With GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, George Clooney delivers a riveting account of a crucial chapter in 20th Century American history and, in the process, firmly establishes himself as a major force behind the camera as well. The crisply paced, tautly scripted docudrama recounts the events of the mid-..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 34,925 members
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  • I Witness on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  James Spader,  Portia de Rossi
    Director: Rowdy Herrington
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rhodes, an American human rights activist, arrives at a small Mexican border town to help oversee union elections at a factory owned by a United States company. He soon discovers that things have been happening around the town with people disappearing or being shot in a tunnel across the border in ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 681 members
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  • Imaginary Heroes on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Emile Hirsch,  Jeff Daniels
    Director: Daniel Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Teenaged son Tim views his life as a bad dream. His father Ben tunes out and treats his wife and children like strangers. His mother Sandy sharpens her tongue with sarcasm and dulls her senses with pot while struggling to conceal a secret that threatens to ruin them all...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,344 members
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  • The Hours on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Allison Janney,  Meryl Streep
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, THE HOURS employs Virginia Woolf's classic novel and central character, MRS. DALLOWAY, as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning three different eras, during one day, the film focuses on the parallel lives of three women joined in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 20,237 members
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  • Blood Work on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Jeff Daniels,  Anjelica Huston
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    BLOOD WORK, starring Clint Eastwood as retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb, is a mystery thriller about a serial killer whose latest victim was the organ donor responsible for McCaleb's recent heart transplant. When the victim's sister, Graciella (Wanda de Jesus), delivers this strange news to him and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,229 members
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  • Cheaters on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Jena Malone,  Paul Sorvino
    Director: John Stockwell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jeff Daniels (SPEED, ARACHNOPHOBIA) plays a teacher in an inner city Chicago high school whose students get a chance to compete in an academic decathlon. When his students win against a better-funded school, Daniels is pleased as punch... until he finds out they cheated. The resulting media feeding ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 181 members
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  • It's The Rage on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Joan Allen,  Andre Braugher,  James Brolin
    Director: James D. Stern
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Stern's directorial debut explores issues of violence in American society through three intricately connected stories concerning the ubiquitousness of hand guns. Seven strangers (Allen, Daniels, Sinise, Braugher, Forster, Schwimmer, Brolin, Paquin, Ribisi), must confront deep currents of rage, fear ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 57 members
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  • Pleasantville on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Tobey Maguire,  Joan Allen,  Reese Witherspoon
    Director: Gary Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Two modern American teenagers are sucked into their television set and end up living in a black-and-white fifties sitcom. Bewildered by their new world's naivete and innocence, they slowly start to add color and spice to the town's life. Eventually, however, they begin to question their influence, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 6,203 members
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  • Fly Away Home on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Anna Paquin,  Dana Delany
    Director: Carroll Ballard
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Forced to move in with her eccentric father after the tragic death of her mother, a 13-year-old girl (Anna Paquin) finds a sense of purpose when she discovers a nest of abandoned goose eggs. After nurturing them to hatching stage and becoming their surrogate "Mother Goose," she and her father (Jeff ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,829 member
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  • 101 Dalmatians on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  Jeff Daniels,  Joely Richardson
    Director: Stephen Herek
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Slapstick kingpin John Hughes translates the classic animated children's tale into a campy live-action slugfest. The fur-loving, sadistic Cruella De Vil (Close, at her most outrageous) pants after the pelts of the titular puppies, hoping to sew them into a fabulous coat, but the dogs outsmart her ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 6,778 members
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  • Speed on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Dennis Hopper,  Sandra Bullock
    Director: Jan De Bont
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A mad bomber with a vendetta against a young cop plants a bomb on a bus in L.A. The hero, with the help of a beautiful passenger, must diffuse the explosive device which is set to detonate if the bus slows to under 50 miles per hour. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Film Editing. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 23,702 members
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  • Gettysburg on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Jeff Daniels,  Martin Sheen
    Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    GETTYSBURG captures in vivid detail one of the most famous battles of the Civil War, in which more than 50,000 American lives were lost. Covering three days of brutal military campaigns, the film re-creates the world in which Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Lewis Armistead, and others made their ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,785 member
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  • Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1992)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Ariana Richards,  Emilia Crow
    Director: David Twohy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Science-fiction, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Daniels stars as "the boy who cried aliens" when his quaint New England town is visited by time-traveling "disaster groupies" who get their kicks playing spectator to mankind's greatest tragedies.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 26 members
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  • The Butcher's Wife on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Demi Moore,  Jeff Daniels,  George Dzundza
    Director: Terry Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Marina (Demi Moore) is a romantic smalltown psychic who believes her true love will come from the sea. He turns out to be the first man that she sees ashore--butcher Leo (George Dzundza)--and she sets off for New York with him. When she arrives in Greenwich Village, she begins to use her psychic ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 376 members
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  • Checking Out (1988)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Melanie Mayron,  Michael Tucker
    Director: David Leland
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Ray's friend dies in mid-joke Ray is convinced that he's going to be next. As he rushes madly from doctor to doctor seeking a cure, his wife begins to wish that he really would drop down dead.....
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 8th February 2010
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  • Heartburn on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Meryl Streep,  Maureen Stapleton
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel chronicling the breakup of her marriage to investigative journalist Carl Bernstein (ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN) is adapted for the big screen by director Mike Nichols and solidly acted by Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. Rachel Samstat (Streep) is Ephron's stand-in,..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 729 members
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  • Marie - A True Story (1985)
    Starring: Sissy Spacek,  Jeff Daniels,  Keith Szarabajka
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on an actual event, "MARIE" is the story of a young woman who, a victim of domestic violence, escaped her husband, put herself through school and raised her chronically ill child. She got into politics and eventually became the appointed Head of the State Parole Board of Tennessee. She ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 101 members
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  • Away We Go (2009)
    Starring: John Krasinski,  Maya Rudolph,  Jeff Daniels
    Director: Sam Mendes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 99 members
    Due for release on 1st February 2010
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  • Daft As A Brush on DVD
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Matt Letscher,  Harve Presnell
    Director: Jeff Daniels
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    DAFT AS A BRUSH is a smutty tongue-in-cheek comedy written by, starring and directed by Jeff Daniels. Fred Barlow (Daniels) is a door-to-door salesman peddling the "Super Sucker Home Cleaning System" which is a high-powered vacuum cleaner, which coincidentally has other more intimate uses. Anyway, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 39% from 247 members
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Jeff Daniels - watch online


  • Good Night and Good Luck to Watch Now (2006)
    Starring: David Strathairn,  George Clooney,  Robert Downey Jr
    Director: George Clooney
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Run time: 93 minutes
    Good Night, And Good Luck takes please during the early days of US broadcast. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television news pioneer Edward E. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, the ground-breaking Murrow, and his dedicated ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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  • The Butcher's Wife to Watch Now (1991)
    Starring: Demi Moore,  Jeff Daniels,  George Dzundza
    Director: Terry Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 100 minutes
    There's Magic In The Air. When Greenwich Village butcher Leo Lemke (George Dzundza) returns from a North Carolina fishing trip, he can't wait to show off his prize catch: his beautiful new wife, a country clairvoyant named Marina (Demi Moore). But the butcher's pride turns to prime concern when he ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 19 members
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Jeff Daniels facts

5 most recent films

The Answer Man - 2.5 stars
Traitor - 3.5 stars
Howl - 2.0 stars
Traitor - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Lookout - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Away We Go - 4.0 stars
Speed - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Fly Away Home - 3.5 stars
Dumb And Dumber - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Gettysburg - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Checking Out - 3 stars
Plumm Summer - 0.5 stars
Chasing Sleep - 1.5 stars
Howl - 2.0 stars
The Answer Man - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alex Borstein - 4 times - show films
David Strathairn - 4 times - show films
Robert Downey Jr - 3 times - show films
Patricia Clarkson - 3 times - show films
Sandra Bullock - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Clooney - 3 times - show films
Jan De Bont - 2 times - show films
Ronald F. Maxwell - 2 times - show films
Jim Abrahams - 2 times - show films
Peter Farrelly - 2 times - show films