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  • Elliott slams church over The Golden Compass sequels - 15 December 2009
    -American actor Sam Elliott has accused the Roman Catholic Church of scaring Hollywood producers into shelving the two planned sequels to hit movie The Golden Compass.- -The film, which starred Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, was the first of author Philip Pullman's

Sam Elliott - what members say


  • Barnyard
  • Barnyard review by A customer from Milton Keynes :-)
    Rated - 3.0 stars A good film ruined 30 March 2007
    ...Daisy the Cow (pregnant newcomer) - Courteney Cox Ben the Cow (Otis' father) - Sam Elliott Well the boys ain't cows people - they're BULLS and they DON'T HAVE UDDERS ...   Read customer review
  • The Golden Compass
  • The Golden Compass review by A customer from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Magic is back this Christmas 10 December 2007
    ...ets a host of characters, from Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby (perfectly played by Sam Elliott), the witch Serafina Pekkala, to the giant talking polar bear Iorek Byrnison. ...   Read customer review

Sam Elliott - filmography


  • The Big Bang on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Sienna Guillory,  Autumn Reeser
    Director: Tony Krantz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding.... Read More... As Detective Cruz sets out to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 180 members
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  • The Big Bang - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Sienna Guillory,  Autumn Reeser
    Director: Tony Krantz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Late one night, Los Angeles private investigator, Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas) gets a visit from a recently paroled Russian boxer with an intriguing job offer: find Lexie, his missing girlfriend and the 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she's hiding.... Read More... As Detective Cruz sets out to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 197 members
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  • Marmaduke on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Emma Stone,  George Lopez
    Director: Tom Dey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A suburban family moves to a new neighbourhood with their large yet lovable Great Dane, who has a tendency to wreak havoc in his own oblivious way. Big screen adaptation of the comic strip "Marmaduke".
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,032 members
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  • Marmaduke - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Emma Stone,  George Lopez
    Director: Tom Dey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A suburban family moves to a new neighborhood with their large yet lovable Great Dane, who has a tendency to wreak havoc in his own oblivious way. Big screen adaptation of the comic strip "Marmaduke".
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 67 members
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  • Did You Hear About the Morgans? on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Sarah Jessica Parker,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Marc Lawrence
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A bickering New York couple on the verge of divorce attempt to salvage their marriage after witnessing a murder and being relocated to Wyoming under the Witness Protection Plan. Meryl and Paul Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) have all the money a couple could want -- it's love they're ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 23,756 members
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  • Ghost Rider - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Donal Logue,  Gibson Nolte,  Peter Fonda
    Director: Mark Steven Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The prophetically named Johnny Blaze and his father perform death-defying stunts in a carnival, but the real danger to his dad's life is the cancer growing within his dying body. To save him, Johnny makes a deal with Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda, EASY RIDER) and sacrifices his soul. When his father ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 4,309 members
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  • Barnyard on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Kevin James,  Courteney Cox,  Danny Glover
    Director: Steve Oedekerk
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    What really happens on the farm when the farmer isn't looking? In director Steve Oedekerk's (KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST, ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS) computer-generated animation feature, the farm animals can do everything humans do. They talk, walk upright, buy human contraband from a 'grey ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 13,646 members
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  • The Alibi on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Steve Coogan,  Rebecca Romijn,  Jerry O'Connell
    Director: Matt Checkowski,  Kurt Mattila
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steve Coogan (ALAN PARTRIDGE - KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE) stars as Ray, a businessman who runs an alibi agency for men having extra-marital affairs. Upon accepting a new case, Ray becomes embroiled in a particularly murky plot; one that will require the intervention of a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,133 members
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  • Thank You For Smoking on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Aaron Eckhart,  Maria Bello,  Cameron Bright
    Director: Jason Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Nick Taylor (Aaron Eckhart) is a sexy, charismatic spin doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protest America's right to smoke - even if it kills him - while still remaining a role model to his 12-year-old son. When he incurs the wrath of a New England senator (William H. Macy) bent on snuffing ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 41,919 members
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  • Hulk - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Jennifer Connelly,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,204 members
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  • Hulk - HD (2003)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Jennifer Connelly,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 537 members
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  • Hulk on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Eric Bana,  Jennifer Connelly,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    THE HULK, adapted by Ang Lee (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) from the Marvel comic book series, stars Eric Bana as Bruce Banner, the tormented scientist whose temper periodically transforms him into a raging green monster. Fellow scientist and Hulk-love-interest Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly), ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 33,010 members
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  • We Were Soldiers on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Madeline Stowe,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Randall Wallace
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1965, 400 American troops faced an ambush by 2,000 enemy troops in the Ia Drang Valley (also known as the Valley of Death), in one of the most gruesome fights of the Vietnam War. WE WERE SOLDIERS is a detailed recreation of this true story--of the strategies, obstacles, and human cost faced by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 11,235 members
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  • Fail Safe on DVD (2000)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Richard Dreyfuss,  Noah Wyle
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This groundbreaking live broadcast television drama, directed by Stephen Frears, features an all-star cast including George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfuss, Don Cheadle, and Harvey Keitel. When a American bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a bomb on Moscow, the crisis must be averted ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,344 member
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  • The Contender on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Gary Oldman,  Joan Allen,  Jeff Bridges
    Director: Rod Lurie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In THE CONTENDER, the sudden death of the vice president of the United States forces U.S. president Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) to pick a replacement. He decides against picking the popular governor of Virginia, Jack Hathaway (William Petersen), and instead makes the radical choice of Senator ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,468 member
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  • The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Woody Harrelson,  Cole Hauser
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Just after World War II best friends Big Boy Matson (Woody Harrelson) and Pete Calder (Billy Crudup) return home to find half of their town employed by cattle baron Jim Ed Love (Sam Elliott). Hanging on to the mythic ideals of the American West Big Boy and Pete team up with an old time rancher ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3 members
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  • Dogwatch on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sam Elliott,  Paul Sorvino,  Esai Morales
    Director: John Langley
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A cop who holds little regard for the low-life of New York, witnesses his partner's death in a bar. He shoots the assailant dead, only to discover that it's another cop. In a panic he dumps the body in the river...
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 81 members
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  • The Final Cut on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Sam Elliott,  Charles Martin Smith,  Anne Ramsey
    Director: Roger Christian
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A maniac bomber has Seattle holding its breath as building after building collapses, claiming many lives. Ex-Bomb Squad officer John Pierce soon comes to a frightening realisation... the explosive devices are booby-trapped to kill disposal teams and the only person with knowledge of such devices ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 349 members
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  • Buffalo Girls on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Anjelica Huston,  Melanie Griffith,  Gabriel Byrne
    Director: Rod Hardy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A rollicking, fictionalised account of the life of Martha Jane Canary, better known as Calamity Jane, as she cuts a wide swathe through the Old West. Based on Larry McMurtry's novel, this story also features Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull and other Western legends. Recieved ten Emmy ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 168 members
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  • Tombstone on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Step,  Kurt Russell,  Val Kilmer
    Director: George Pan Cosmatos
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Arizona, 1879. Legendary Dodge City marshall Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), his wife Mattie and his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton) just rode into Tombstone. These veteran frontiersmen hope to open a small business and settle into a quiet life. But they get more than they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 7,223 members
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  • Conagher on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Sam Elliott,  Katharine Ross
    Director: Reynaldo Villalobos
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A married couple move west with their children, to start a new life but when the husband is shot and killed it leaves the wife alone. She decides to open up her cabin as a stagecoach stop...
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 216 members
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  • Rush on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Jason Patric,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Max Perlich
    Director: Lili Fini Zanuck
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jim and Kristen are undercover narcotics officers, partners who become lovers - and addicts - as they infiltrate the local drug scene in order to bring down a suspected drug lord. But as their relationship intensifies and their drug use turns to abuse, the fine line between the good guys and the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 440 members
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  • Sibling Rivalry on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Kirstie Alley,  Bill Pullman,  Carrie Fisher
    Director: Carl Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When Marjorie Turner decides to break out of her dreary existence she does it in a big way. Whilst having sex with a handsome stranger she finds herself in bed with the victim of a fatal heart attack. What else could go wrong?...
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 236 members
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  • Prancer on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Sam Elliott,  Cloris Leachman,  Abe Vigoda
    Director: John Hancock
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A motherless young girl living with her father on a failing farm finds herself inspired by her belief in Santa Claus and his flying reindeer. When she discovers that a real reindeer has fallen into ill health, she nurses it back to its prime, believing it is the actual Prancer, so she can return it ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 297 members
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  • Road House on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Patrick Swayze,  Ben Gazzara,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Rowdy Herrington
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dalton is the best bouncer in the business. He is hired to help clean up a rowdy Missouri roadhouse by the name of 'Double Deuce'. This is a job he can handle with ease, or so he thinks. The 'Double Deuce' has other problems in the shape of the town's kingpin who will kill anyone who gets in his way...
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,336 members
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  • Blue Jean Cop on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Peter Weller,  Patricia Charbonneau,  Sam Elliott
    Director: James Glickenhaus
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Blue Jean Cop A tough Manhattan Legal Aid Attorney is about to move up to a comfortable and well-paid job on Wall Street. His last assignment is to defend a black drugs dealer who has shot dead an undercover cop in Central Park. The dealer insists he fired in self-defence, and the attorney must ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 219 members
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  • Fatal Beauty on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Whoopi Goldberg,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Tom Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Whoopi Goldberg is Detective Rita Rizzoli, a tough, wise-cracking, big city cop, who knows her rugged sense of humour and a little persuasion can be as effective a weapon as her handgun. Sam Elliott plays Mike Marshak, a professional bodyguard whose mysterious connections to a ruthless local ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 558 members
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  • Mask on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Cher,  Eric Stoltz,  Sam Elliott
    Director: Peter Bogdanovich
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is the true story of Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), a personable young man suffering from lionitis, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. The son of freewheeling biker Rusty Dennis (Cher), Rocky is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and cycle buddies, but ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,257 members
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  • The Shadow Riders (1982)
    Starring: Tom Selleck,  Sam Elliott,  Ben Johnson
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on the story by Louis L'Amour of two brothers, a yank and a rebel, who return home from the Civil War to find their sisters have kidnapped by white slavers. They bust their scoundrel of an uncle from jail and set out to rescue them.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • Mission: Impossible - Series 5 (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Peter Graves,  Leonard Nimoy,  Lesley Warren
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Impossible Mission Force head to the home front in series five of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. While previous series pitted these Cold War warriors against international goons, the show's later series increasingly found the crack squad of saboteurs using their gadgets and cunning to foil more native ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 49 members
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Sam Elliott facts

5 most recent films

The Big Bang - 2.5 stars
The Big Bang - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Marmaduke - 3.5 stars
Marmaduke - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Did You Hear About the Morgans? - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Tombstone - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
We Were Soldiers - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Tombstone - 3.5 stars
Mask - 3.5 stars
We Were Soldiers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Shadow Riders - 3.0 stars
The Hi-Lo Country - 3.5 stars
Mission: Impossible - Series 5 - 3.5 stars
Mission: Impossible - Series 6 - 3.5 stars
Dogwatch - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peter Graves - 14 times - show films
Leonard Nimoy - 14 times - show films
Peter Lupus - 14 times - show films
Greg Morris - 14 times - show films
Lesley Warren - 14 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marvin J. Chomsky - 7 times - show films
none - 7 times - show films
Reza Badiyi - 7 times - show films
Paul Krasny - 7 times - show films
Chris Weitz - 3 times - show films