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James Caan

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James Caan - what members say


  • A Bridge Too Far
  • A Bridge Too Far review by A customer from Bristol, England.
    Rated - 4 stars Excellent, though too long. 22 March 2004
    ...is gripping. The film is too long though and you feel maybe subplots involving James Caan (searching for a fallen comrade) and Sean Connery (being stuck in an attic!) co...  
  • The Way Of The Gun
  • The Way Of The Gun review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5 stars Underrated gem! 3 February 2004
    ...h 'The Wild Bunch. Del Toro is, as always, outstanding, and fellow cast members James Caan, Ryan Phillipe, et al, hold their own admirably in this hard hitting picture. ...  
  • Rollerball
  • Rollerball review by DrMikey from North Staffs
    Rated - 5 stars Time will tell.. 24 April 2004
    ...ot this to see it on DVD, having seen it a dozen times on video, so I'm biased. James Caan is superbly understated, and the whole film wombles along at a slow pace, refle...  

James Caan - filmography


  • Elf on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Will Ferrell,  James Caan,  Bob Newhart
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Will Ferrell makes yet another memorable splash on the big screen in Jon Favreau's sweet and hilarious Christmas fable. Ferrell is Buddy, an innocent figure who was raised as an elf in the North Pole by his adoptive father, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). When Buddy discovers that he's actually a human ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 27,186 members
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  • Elf - BLU-RAY Version (2003)
    Starring: Will Ferrell,  James Caan,  Bob Newhart
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Will Ferrell makes yet another memorable splash on the big screen in Jon Favreau's sweet and hilarious Christmas fable. Ferrell is Buddy, an innocent figure who was raised as an elf in the North Pole by his adoptive father, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). When Buddy discovers that he's actually a human ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 475 members
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  • The Yards on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Charlize Theron,  Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director James Gray's second film is a dark and atmospheric exploration of the corruption that lies underneath both the surface of a New York City railway manufacturing company and the family that runs it. Mark Wahlberg turns in an impressive and quietly intense performance as Leo, a 24-year-old ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,602 member
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  • Poodle Springs on DVD (1998)
    Starring: James Caan,  Dina Meyer,  David Keith
    Director: Bob Rafelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A cynical detective of the 60s town of Poodle Springs and newly married to the daughter of a multi millionaire, finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue. When he discovers plans to move the Nevada state border, he realises just what his wealthy father-in-law is up to...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 99 members
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  • This Is My Father on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John Cusack,  James Caan,  Aidan Quinn
    Director: Paul Quinn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Caan portrays a disillusioned Chicago high-school teacher who decides to make a pilgrimage to Ireland to learn the truth about his father, whom he never met. He takes along his troubled nephew, who spends his days falling in love with a local school girl. The film shifts between the present and the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 281 members
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  • Bottle Rocket on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Luke Wilson,  Owen C. Wilson,  James Caan
    Director: Wes Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The debut feature film for director Wes Anderson and actors Luke and Owen Wilson, BOTTLE ROCKET is a kind-hearted yet quirky tale about three friends who fashion themselves into modern-day robbers. After leaving his voluntary confinement in a mental home, Anthony (Luke Wilson) joins his friends ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 9,199 members
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  • Flesh And Bone on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Meg Ryan,  James Caan
    Director: Steve Kloves
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Arlis Sweeny (Quaid) leads a life as simple and unchanging as his native West Texas plains. He stocks vending machines, moving from town to town and from one familiar lover to another. Kay Davies (Ryan) also calls the road her home. Running from a broken marriage, she doesn't know where she's ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 277 members
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  • For The Boys on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Bette Midler,  James Caan,  George Segal
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this ambitious musical saga, unknown USO singer Dixie Leonard (Bette Midler) is teamed up with one of America's beloved song-and-dance men--Eddie Sparks (James Caan)--in England during World War II, beginning a 50-year partnership of music, laughter, and tears. Eddie is a seductive comedian and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 646 members
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  • Misery on DVD (1990)
    Starring: James Caan,  Kathy Bates,  Frances Sternhagen
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Romance author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) longs to be rid of Misery, his plucky heroine of seven novels. She has delivered him fame and fortune and recognition beyond the average writer's dreams, but she is also interminably linked to him. Determined to escape an eternal role as pulp novelist, he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 16,482 members
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  • Alien Nation on DVD (1988)
    Starring: James Caan,  Mandy Patinkin,  Terence Stamp
    Director: Graham Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    LIEN NATION is set in Los Angeles at a time when aliens have come to live among us. They've learned the new language and tried to fit in, but there is something about them we don't know. Two detectives, one human, the other alien, put aside their mutual distrust and uncover a murder and something ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,475 member
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  • Thief on DVD (1981)
    Starring: James Caan,  Tuesday Weld,  Willie Nelson
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After 11 years in prison, an ageing master safecracker (James Caan) decides to pull one more job before retiring to a quiet, peaceful life. However, the mob finds him much too valuable and refuses to let him retire, keeping him trapped in the life he so desperately wants to leave behind. An ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 833 members
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  • Silent Movie on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Marty Feldman,  Marcel Marceau,  Paul Newman
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The film 'Silent Movie' is director Mel Brooks's comic tribute to the golden days of the silent screen. A movie within a movie, 'Silent Movie' stars Brooks as Mel Funn, a filmmaker who has seen better days for one thing, he's just come out of a bout with the bottle. When his best friends (Marty ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 640 members
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  • Rollerball on DVD (1975)
    Starring: James Caan,  John Houseman,  Maud Adams
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the year 2018, Jonathan E is a superstar of a sport called Rollerball, which is a combination of rugby, roller derby, hockey and motorcycle racing. Rollerball is a sport run by the Energy Corporation, one of many such conglomerates running the planet in a time when countries and individual ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,884 member
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  • El Dorado on DVD (1966)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Robert Mitchum,  James Caan
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In the town of El Dorado, wealthy landowner Bart Jason (Ed Asner) is embroiled in a struggle with the MacDonald family, who own a large amount of land just outside town lines. Jason hires gunman Cole Thornton (John Wayne) to scare the MacDonalds in hope that they'll back down. Cole is pleased to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,484 member
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  • The Glory Guys on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Senta Berger,  Harve Presnell,  Tom Tryon
    Director: Arnold Laven
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Renowned for its authentic depiction of frontier life, The Glory Guys follows the lives and loves of a group of young cavalry men, from their initial recruitment and training, to eventually being lead towards their tragic fate by a sadistic, war mongering General. Ordered to decimate anything ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16 members
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  • New York, I Love You
    Starring: Carlos Acosta,  Eva Amurri,  Kevin Bacon
    Director: Yvan Attal,  Allen Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come to life in "New York, I Love You" - a collaboration of storytelling from some of today's most imaginative filmmakers and featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 3 members
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James Caan - watch online


  • The Gambler to Watch Now (1974)
    Starring: James Caan,  Paul Sorvino,  Lauren Hutton
    Director: Karel Reisz
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 110 minutes
    James Caan portrays a compulsive gambler who can't quit or win. He falls into debt to the mob for $40,000 but seems to relish the thrill of gambling against the long shot. As a professor of literature at a New York University, he is in over his head, until his mother gives him some money which he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • T.R. Baskin to Watch Now (1971)
    Starring: Candice Bergen,  Peter Boyle,  James Caan
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 90 minutes
    Candice Bergen plays the title character, a naive young woman from the countryside who ventures to the bright lights of Chicago in search of an interesting career, true love, and happiness. She ends up working a meaningless job and living in a drab apartment, and she remains lonely as her romantic ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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James Caan facts

5 most recent films

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - 4.0 stars
Las Vegas - Season 5 - 4.0 stars
Las Vegas - Season 4 - 4.5 stars
Gangland - Bullets Over Hollywood - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Godfather Trilogy, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
Las Vegas - Season 4 - 4.5 stars
Las Vegas - Season 5 - 4.0 stars
The Godfather - 4.0 stars
Las Vegas - Season 3 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

10 Hollywood Leading Men - 1.5 stars
Gone With The West - 2.0 stars
New York, I Love You - 2.0 stars
Gangland - Bullets Over Hollywood - 2.5 stars
This Thing Of Ours - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert Duvall - 5 times - show films
Molly Sims - 5 times - show films
Josh Duhamel - 5 times - show films
James Lesure - 4 times - show films
Al Pacino - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Francis Ford Coppola - 5 times - show films
Timothy Busfield - 3 times - show films
Kevin Hooks - 2 times - show films
Andrew Bergman - 2 times - show films
Karel Reisz - 2 times - show films


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