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  • Pleasantville
  • Pleasantville review by A customer from Near Wootton Bassett
    Rated - 5.0 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. ...   Read customer review
  • Dumb and Dumber
  • Dumb and Dumber review by from London
    Rated - 4.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Terms Of Endearment
  • Terms Of Endearment review by Onlylexus from
    Rated - 3.0 stars In terms of love...Parents to their children. 5 July 2011
    ...wards their parents. In this case mom and dad were played by Deborah Winger and Jeff Daniels, who obviously loved their 3 kids very deeply. However, after both having been ...   Read customer review

Jeff Daniels - filmography


  • Paper Man (2010)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Emma Stone,  Lisa Kudrow
    Director: Kieran Mulroney,  Michele Mulroney
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Paper Man is a comedic drama about an unlikely friendship between Richard, a failed middle-aged novelist who has never quite grown up and Abby, a 17-year-old girl whose role in a family tragedy years earlier has stolen away her youth. Richard has moved to a Long Island beach community for the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 40 members
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  • Away We Go on DVD (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 12,896 members
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  • Howl on DVD (2009)
    Starring: James Franco,  Paul Rudd,  Mary-Louise Parker
    Director: Rob Epstein,  Jeffrey Friedman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    James Franco stars as Allen Ginsberg in Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's biopic that blends traditional narrative storytelling with documentary-style footage and vivid animation to paint a compelling portrait of the famed Beat poet. For many historians, the counterculture was conceived the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,357 members
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  • 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 16,505 members
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  • Traitor - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Neal McDonough,  Don Cheadle,  Said Taghmaoui
    Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    TRAITOR is writer/director Jeffrey Nachmanoff's powerful rumination on post-9/11 foreign affairs wrapped up into a taut contemporary spy thriller. Balancing the film's sometimes conflicted ideological heft is Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,353 members
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  • Mama's Boy (2007)
    Starring: Diane Keaton,  Jon Heder,  Jeff Daniels
    Director: Tim Hamilton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mum realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 143 members
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  • The Lookout on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt,  Isla Fisher,  Jeff Daniels
    Director: Scott Frank
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 10,214 members
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  • Infamous on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Daniel Craig,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Douglas McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 9,760 members
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  • RV - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Joanna Levesque,  Cheryl Hines,  Will Arnett
    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. Robin Williams plays Bob Munro, a beaten-down middle manager who feels alienated from the family he works so hard to keep comfortable. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 985 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 15,136 members
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  • Because Of Winn-Dixie (2005)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Anna Sophia Robb,  Cicely Tyson
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A smart, resourceful young girl, Opal thinks people forgot how to share the joy. She's tired of moving from small town to small town with her father (Jeff Daniels), a preacher at the Open Arms Baptist Church; she just wants to find a home and stop being lonely. One night she wishes for a best ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,454 members
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  • The Squid And The Whale on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Laura Linney,  Jesse Eisenberg
    Director: Noah Baumbach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the true childhood experience of director Noah Baumbach and his brother, this quirky, offbeat and hilarious black comedy illustrates the real life struggles of a family splintered by divorce. The Squid and The Whale tells the story of the patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn family who once ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 19,144 members
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  • Imaginary Heroes (2004)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Suzanne Santo,  Emile Hirsch
    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...
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,532 members
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  • I Witness on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Portia De Rossi,  James Spader
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 696 members
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  • Gods And Generals on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Stephen Lang,  Frankie R. Faison
    Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This epic film from writer-director Ron Maxwell chronicles the early events of the American Civil War. It's a prequel to his earlier GETTYSBURG, with some of the same cast, and is part of a planned trilogy. Stephen Lang plays Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, the famous (and deeply religious) Confederate ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,896 member
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  • The Hours - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Nicole Kidman,  Allison Janney
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 50 members
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  • Blood Work on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Jeff Daniels,  Anjelica Huston
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,849 members
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  • The Hours on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Nicole Kidman,  Allison Janney
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 22,813 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 192 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 64 members
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  • My Favourite Martian on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Michael Lerner,  Christopher Lloyd
    Director: Donald Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The 1960s television series is updated for the 1990s in this computer-effects heavy family effort. Television reporter Tim O' Hara (Daniels) thinks he has the story of the century when he stumbles across a real-life Martian (Lloyd). While trying to gain evidence of the landing, however, the alien ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 496 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,312 members
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  • Trial And Error on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Michael Richards,  Jeff Daniels,  Charlize Theron
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Richard has arranged a bachelor party for his friend Charles but only days before the wedding Charles has to leave town and go to a small desert town in order to deal with a family legal matter. Richard, however, decides to take the party to his friend and proceeds to get him extremely drunk. The ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 164 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,218 members
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  • 101 Dalmatians on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  Jeff Daniels,  Joely Richardson
    Director: Stephen Herek
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7,832 members
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  • Speed - Blu-ray (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 3,082 members
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  • Dumb and Dumber on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Jeff Daniels,  Lauren Holly
    Director: Peter Farrelly,  Bobby Farrelly
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Lowbrow buffoonery hit commercial highs with 1994's DUMB AND DUMBER. When best friends and aspiring pet groomers Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey, in a star-making role) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) get fired, Lloyd convinces Harry to travel to Colorado to search for his dream woman-Mary Swanson (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 17,222 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 26,713 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,226 members
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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.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 28 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
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 479 members
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  • Arachnophobia on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  John Goodman,  Julian Sands
    Director: Frank Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Referring to the fear of spiders, Arachnophobia features a particularly deadly species of spider that manages to make its way from the Venezuelan rain forest to a small California town, thanks to the many oversights of entomologist Julian Sands. Yuppie doctor Jeff Daniels, fed up with the dangers ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 6,107 members
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  • Checking Out on DVD (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.....
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 24 members
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  • The House On Carroll Street on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Kelly McGillis,  Jeff Daniels,  Mandy Patinkin
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument beign conducted largely in German ina neighbouring house, the more so since one of those ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 138 members
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  • Something Wild on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Melanie Griffith,  Ray Liotta
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels star in this quirky road movie from director Jonathan Demme (MARRIED TO THE MOB, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). Charlie Driggs (Daniels) is a timid New York investment broker who lets himself be abducted during his lunch hour by an attractive nut named Lulu (Griffith). ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,137 member
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 961 members
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  • The Purple Rose Of Cairo on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Van Johnson,  Milo O'Shea,  Michael Tucker
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Lonely Depression-era waitress Cecilia (Farrow) is hopelessly addicted to Hollywood movies. Spellbound by her new favorite, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Cecilia is astonished when the leading man (Daniels) suddenly walks off the screen to meet her. Wooed by his charm, Cecilia finds herself falling for ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,440 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 121 members
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  • Terms Of Endearment on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  Debra Winger,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: James L. Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    TERMS OF ENDEARMENT is a deeply observed drama about the intimate relationship between a mother and daughter, based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger are at their absolute best, with terrific support from Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. James L. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 5,805 members
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  • Daft As A Brush
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 250 members
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Jeff Daniels facts

5 most recent films

Looper - 3.0 stars
Paper Man - 3.5 stars
Away We Go - 3.5 stars
Howl - 3.0 stars
The Answer Man - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Speed - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Dumb and Dumber - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Fly Away Home - 3.5 stars
Gettysburg - 3.5 stars
Pleasantville - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Plumm Summer - 0.5 stars
Checking Out - 2.0 stars
The Answer Man - 3.0 stars
Grand Tour: Disaster in Time - 3.0 stars
Looper - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sandra Bullock - 6 times - show films
Alex Borstein - 5 times - show films
Alan Ruck - 4 times - show films
Carlos Carrasco - 4 times - show films
Joe Morton - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jan De Bont - 4 times - show films
Peter Farrelly - 3 times - show films
Bobby Farrelly - 3 times - show films
George Clooney - 3 times - show films
Jeffrey Nachmanoff - 3 times - show films