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Jeff Daniels
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Jeff Daniels - what members say
review by A customer from Near Wootton Bassett
Wonderful film on two levels 9 June 2005
review by from London
The Farrelly's Best 3 June 2004
review by Onlylexus from
In terms of love...Parents to their children. 5 July 2011
Jeff Daniels - filmography
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Paper Man
(2010)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone, Lisa Kudrow
Director: Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney
Certificate: 
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 »
 
67%
from 40 members
Currently unavailable
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Away We Go
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels
Director: Sam Mendes
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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 »
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
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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 »
59%
from 2,357 members
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Traitor
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Neal McDonough
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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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 »
67%
from 16,505 members
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Traitor - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Neal McDonough, Don Cheadle, Said Taghmaoui
Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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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 »
68%
from 4,353 members
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Mama's Boy
(2007)
Starring: Diane Keaton, Jon Heder, Jeff Daniels
Director: Tim Hamilton
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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.
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:
Watch now: £2.49
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.
62%
from 10,214 members
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Infamous
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Daniel Craig, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: Douglas McGrath
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
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 »
64%
from 9,760 members
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RV - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Joanna Levesque, Cheryl Hines, Will Arnett
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Certificate: 
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 »
61%
from 985 members
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RV
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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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 »
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: 
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 »
62%
from 2,454 members
Not currently released
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The Squid And The Whale
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg
Director: Noah Baumbach
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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 »
66%
from 19,144 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:
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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 »
67%
from 40,957 members
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Imaginary Heroes
(2004)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Suzanne Santo, Emile Hirsch
Director: Daniel Harris
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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...
56%
from 2,532 members
Not currently released
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I Witness
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Portia De Rossi, James Spader
Director: Rowdy Herrington
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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 »
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: 
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 »
60%
from 1,896 member
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The Hours - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Allison Janney
Director: Stephen Daldry
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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 »
71%
from 50 members
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Blood Work
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston
Director: Clint Eastwood
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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 »
62%
from 2,849 members
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The Hours
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Allison Janney
Director: Stephen Daldry
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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 »
63%
from 22,813 members
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Chasing Sleep
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl, Gil Bellows
Director: Michael Walker
Certificate:
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A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
46%
from 77 members
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Cheaters
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, Paul Sorvino
Director: John Stockwell
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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 »
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
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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 »
41%
from 64 members
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My Favourite Martian
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Donald Petrie
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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 »
58%
from 496 members
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Pleasantville
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon
Director: Gary Ross
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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 »
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
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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 »
53%
from 164 members
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Fly Away Home
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany
Director: Carroll Ballard
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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 »
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:
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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 »
62%
from 7,832 members
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Speed - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock
Director: Jan De Bont
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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 »
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:
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 »
69%
from 17,222 members
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Speed
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock
Director: Jan De Bont
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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 »
69%
from 26,713 members
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Gettysburg
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
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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 »
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
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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.
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
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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 »
57%
from 479 members
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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
(1991)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Thomas Wilson Brown
Director: Jim Abrahams
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The small town of Clyde, Ohio is buzzing with excitement when it is said that the famous Roxy Carmichael is leaving her luxurious Hollywood life to return to her old hometown. Her return causes upheaval in the lives of family-man Denton Webb (Jeff Daniels), her old boyfriend, and an angst-ridden ..read more »
61%
from 185 members
Not available for rental
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Arachnophobia
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julian Sands
Director: Frank Marshall
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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 »
63%
from 6,107 members
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Checking Out
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker
Director: David Leland
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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.....
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
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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 »
55%
from 138 members
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Something Wild
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta
Director: Jonathan Demme
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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 »
60%
from 1,137 member
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Heartburn
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Maureen Stapleton
Director: Mike Nichols
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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 »
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
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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 »
67%
from 3,440 members
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Marie - A True Story
(1985)
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka
Director: Roger Donaldson
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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 »
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
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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 »
64%
from 5,805 members
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Daft As A Brush
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Matt Letscher, Harve Presnell
Director: Jeff Daniels
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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 »
39%
from 250 members
Not currently released
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Jeff Daniels facts
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...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.
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