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Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce
Born 5 Oct 1967, in Ely, Cambridgeshire

Wise words: "I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things."


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Guy Pearce - news / articles


  • Smaller productions are decent, says Pearce - 3 April 2007
    Former Neighbours star Guy Pearce has told a movie website how he tends to choose smaller productions to act in as they are "decent" and "don't seem to have a lot of pressure on them".-Quint of Ain't It Cool News interviewed the actor, who achiev

Guy Pearce - what members say


  • L.A. Confidential
  • L.A. Confidential review by A customer from Hull
    Rated - 4 stars As good as the book 20 September 2003
    ...scar. It was far from the best performance in the movie. That also brings me to Guy Pearce. Maybe it's because I'm supposed to dislike his character but I just found him ...  
  • Adventures Of Priscilla, The - Queen Of The Desert
  • Adventures Of Priscilla, The - Queen Of The Desert review by A customer from Tyne and Wear, England
    Rated - 5 stars Stamp of approval 24 August 2004
    ...Being a huge fan of Guy Pearce I, naturally, wanted to see this film. However, I found myself more drawn towards the performances of the film's other two co-stars. Tere...  
  • Ravenous
  • Ravenous review by A customer from Milton Keynes
    Rated - 5 stars Deeply dark and unfortunately overlooked 2 July 2004
    ... flourish or announcement. But seeing that it contained Robert Carlisle and Guy Pearce (who'd recently managed a great performance in Memento)I thought I'd give it a ...  

Guy Pearce - 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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  • Bedtime Stories on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Adam Sandler,  Keri Russell,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The life of Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman, is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids' ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 14,653 members
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  • Bedtime Stories - BLU-RAY Version (2008)
    Starring: Adam Sandler,  Keri Russell,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The life of Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handyman, is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it's the kids' ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,330 members
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  • Death Defying Acts on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones,  Guy Pearce,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Gillian Armstrong
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: £3.49
    Celebrated director Gillian Armstrong (MY BRILLIANT CAREER, LITTLE WOMEN) helms this film about Harry Houdini's romance with a con woman. In his attempts to contact his dead mother, the magician (Guy Pearce) meets a beautiful psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who isn't all she appears.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,373 members
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  • The Hurt Locker (2008)
    Starring: Jeremy Renner,  Anthony Mackie,  Brian Geraghty
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 330 members
    Due for release on 28th December 2009
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  • Proposition, The - BLU-RAY Version (2006)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Ray Winstone,  Danny Huston
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Australian director John Hillcoat first teamed up with singer Nick Cave on 1988's disturbing GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD, for which Cave co-authored the screenplay and took a memorably brief acting role. The two reconvene for 2006's THE PROPOSITION, with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 479 members
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  • The Proposition on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Tom Budge,  Emily Watson
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 9,654 members
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  • The Hard Word on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Rachel Griffiths,  Joel Edgerton
    Director: Scott Roberts
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this action-comedy directed by Scott Roberts, a trio of Melbourne prison rats work with a crime boss on the outside, trying to pull off one last scheme to satisfy the man so he'll spring them from jail. The Twentyman brothers consist of leader Dale (Guy Pearce), ex-butcher Mal (Damien Richardson)..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,340 member
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  • The Time Machine (2002)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Mark Addy,  Phyllida Law
    Director: Simon Wells
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This adaptation of the classic sci-fi adventure tale by H.G. Wells, directed by Simon Wells (the great-grandson of the author), stars Guy Pearce as Alex Hartdegen, an absent-minded New York professor preoccupied with what passes for technology at the turn of the 20th century. However, the one thing ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 6,428 members
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  • Memento on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Carrie-Anne Moss,  Joe Pantoliano
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MEMENTO, the second feature by writer-director Christopher Nolan (FOLLOWING), is an intricately constructed film noir that masterfully inverts time to comment on the foggy relationship between memory and truth. MEMENTO tells the story of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a former insurance investigator ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 59,580 members
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  • Ravenous on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Robert Carlyle,  David Arquette
    Director: Antonia Bird
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A cowardly American soldier (Guy Pearce) is stationed at an isolated military outpost with a bunch of misfits in Sierra Nevada following the Mexican-American War in 1847. When a dazed survivor (Robert Carlyle) of an unfortunate mountain expedition shows up at the outpost, it isn't long before he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,742 members
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  • L.A. Confidential on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Kevin Spacey,  Russell Crowe,  Kim Basinger
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Curtis Hanson captures the duality of 1950s Los Angeles in this striking film noir adaptation of James Ellroy's novel. The City of Angels might be sunny, inviting, and glamorous to the rest of the world, but it's also filled with corrupt cops, elegant hookers, murder cover-ups, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 50,542 members
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  • Snowy River - The McGregor Saga
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Pino Amenta,  Tim Burstall
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    SNOWY RIVER, the Australian TV series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "Man from Snowy River," takes place in the late 19th century in a small mountain town outside of Melbourne. The program follows the dramatic story of Matt McGregor and his family as it plays out in the course of this charming, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 7 members
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  • Flynn on DVD
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Steven Berkoff,  Claudia Karvan
    Director: Frank Howson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Pearce (from L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) plays everyone's favourite swashbuckler Errol Flynn in his early years. This biopic details Flynn's life, from his youth in Australia to his early adventures in Hollywood up until his trial for murder at age 21.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 62 members
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Guy Pearce - watch online


  • Death Defying Acts to Watch Now (2009)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones,  Guy Pearce,  Timothy Spall
    Director: Gillian Armstrong
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 96 minutes
    When famous escape artist Harry Houdini arrives in Edinburgh and offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can contact his mother from beyond the grave, a beautiful but deceptive psychic and her young ?sidekick' daughter take the challenge. As Houdini spends time with this mysterious woman, he is ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 3 members
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Guy Pearce facts

5 most recent films

Traitor - 3.5 stars
The Road - 4.5 stars
Bedtime Stories - 3.5 stars
Traitor - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Bedtime Stories - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Hurt Locker - 4.0 stars
L.A. Confidential - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Memento - 4.0 stars
Adventures Of Priscilla, The - Queen Of The Desert - 4.0 stars
L.A. Confidential - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Hunting - 1.5 stars
A Slipping Down Life - 2.0 stars
Snowy River - The McGregor Saga - 2.5 stars
First Snow - 3.5 stars
Hurt Locker, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Keri Russell - 3 times - show films
Richard Griffiths - 3 times - show films
Joe Pantoliano - 3 times - show films
Jonathan Pryce - 3 times - show films
Russell Brand - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Adam Shankman - 3 times - show films
John Hillcoat - 3 times - show films
Christopher Nolan - 3 times - show films
Curtis Hanson - 2 times - show films
Gillian Armstrong - 2 times - show films