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  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? review by from Northern Ireland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Surreal and funny 7 June 2004
    ...ney perfectly inhabits the verbally over-developed Everett and John Tuturro and Tim Blake Nelson complement him perfectly. The music is spot on giving precisely the right atmos...   Read customer review
  • Eye Of God
  • Eye Of God review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 3.0 stars God gets grit in his eye! 29 August 2008
    ...The first time film for writer/ Director Tim Blake Nelson, this film was made with a lot of love but contains a lot of heartache. Excellent performances from Martha Plimpton...   Read customer review
  • The Good Girl
  • The Good Girl review by A customer from kent
    Rated - 2.0 stars Dissapionting and lacking any depth 16 June 2005
    .... And starring in a movie alongside good quality actors such as John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson and the superb Zooey Deschanel only highlights Aniston?s one dimensional acting...   Read customer review

Tim Blake Nelson - filmography


  • Big Miracle (2012)
    Starring: Kristen Bell,  Drew Barrymore,  John Krasinski
    Director: Ken Kwapis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a family of grey whales becomes trapped in the Arctic Circle, a Greenpeace volunteer and a small-town reporter go to extraordinary lengths to save the majestic creatures in this romantic adventure inspired by actual events. Alaskan newsman Adam Carlson (John Krasinski) has grown weary of ..read more »
    5 stars out of 5 95% from 9 members
    Not available for rental
  • The Big Year - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Jack Black,  Jim Parsons
    Director: David Frankel
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Three fanatical bird watchers (Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Jack Black) compete to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4 members
    Not available for rental
  • Detachment (2011)
    Starring: Christina Hendricks,  Adrien Brody,  James Caan
    Director: Tony Kaye
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
    Due for release on 30th April 2012
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  • Detachment - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Christina Hendricks,  Adrien Brody,  James Caan
    Director: Tony Kaye
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A unique and stylized portrait of the American education system seen through the eyes of substitute teacher Henry Barthes. Henry wanders in and out of students' lives, imparting knowledge where he can in the short time he has with them. Then a new assignment places him at a failing public school ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
    Due for release on 30th April 2012
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  • The Big Year (2011)
    Starring: Owen Wilson,  Jack Black,  Jim Parsons
    Director: David Frankel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Three fanatical bird watchers (Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Jack Black) compete to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 13 members
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  • American Violet (2009)
    Starring: Nicole Beharie,  Alfre Woodard,  Charles Dutton
    Director: Tim Disney
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on real events and set in small town Texas in the year 2000, American Violet tells the story of Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year old African-American mother of four who is swept up in a drug raid and falsely accused based on the uncorroborated testimony of a single informant. Despite ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)
    Starring: Steve Buscemi,  Romany Malco,  Sarah Silverman
    Director: Hue Rhodes
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    After a run of bad luck, John, a compulsive gambler, runs away from Las Vegas and toward a normal job and life. Taking a position in an auto insurance company in Albuquerque, he tries to get ahead in the straight world, amid the ever-present temptations of scratch-off lotto tickets. When his boss ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 7 members
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  • Leaves of Grass on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Edward Norton,  Richard Dreyfuss,  Susan Sarandon
    Director: Tim Blake Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £3.49
    When Ivy League classics professor Bill Kincaid receives news of the murder of his estranged identical twin brother, Brady in a pot deal gone bad, he leaves the world of North-eastern academia to travel back to his home state of Oklahoma. Upon arrival, he finds that reports of his brother's death ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,251 member
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  • The Incredible Hulk - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Tim Roth,  Liv Tyler,  William Hurt
    Director: Louis Leterrier
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Hailing more from the pulp-melancholic spirit of the 1978-1982 Hulk television series than its 2003 predecessor did, THE INCREDIBLE HULK wordlessly tells the entire gamma ray-afflicted origin story of scientist Bruce Banner's alter-ego within its first two-and-a-half minutes. This credit sequence ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 8,255 members
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  • The Incredible Hulk on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Edward Norton,  Liv Tyler,  Tim Roth
    Director: Louis Leterrier
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Oscar nominee Edward Norton bulks up to play the green-skinned comic book hero in THE INCREDIBLE HULK. In this instalment, Bruce Banner (Norton) searches for a cure for his transformation, but he must face a frightening foe: the Abomination (Tim Roth). Liv Tyler stars as Banner's love interest, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 43,759 members
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  • Bee Movie on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jerry Seinfeld,  Renee Zellweger,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Simon J. Smith,  Steve Hickner
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Barry B. Benson (Seinfeld), a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa (Zellweger), a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 38,197 members
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  • Bee Movie - HD (2007)
    Starring: Jerry Seinfeld,  Renee Zellweger,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Steve Hickner,  Simon J. Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    After a nine year hiatus, comedy maestro Jerry Seinfeld (SEINFELD) returns to our screens with the sweet-natured comedy BEE MOVIE. In it, he voices Barry B. Benson, a young bee who refuses to accept his fate as just another faceless worker in a colony of millions. Despite being warned never to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 59 members
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  • Fido on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Carrie-Anne Moss,  Billy Connolly,  Dylan Baker
    Director: Andrew Currie
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50's, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbour, and rotting zombies carry the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,549 members
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  • Come Early Morning on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Ashley Judd,  Diane Ladd,  Jeffrey Donovan
    Director: Joey Lauren Adams
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Lucy (Ashley Judd) is a 30-something woman who keeps waking up with a stiff hangover and a guy she doesn't even want to look at. If coming to grips with why she keeps repeating this pattern isn't enough, Lucy also learns through her grandmother, that her father, a man who has nothing to say to her, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 239 members
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  • The Moguls on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Tim Blake Nelson,  Joe Pantoliano
    Director: Michael Traeger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in Butterface Fields - small town USA - it's the kind of place where everybody knows your name and what you ate for breakfast. For its residents life is simple, relaxed and easy- going until Andy Sargentee (Jeff Bridges), one of Butterface's more avant-garde residents, comes up with a 'get rich ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,620 member
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  • Syriana on DVD (2005)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Amanda Peet,  Matt Damon
    Director: Stephen Gaghan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for TRAFFIC, makes his directorial debut with SYRIANA, an espionage thriller set in the Middle East. George Clooney stars as Bob Barnes, a longtime CIA agent preparing to slow down his life and spend more time with his teenage son (Max Minghella)...read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 62,235 members
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  • Syriana - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Amanda Peet,  Matt Damon
    Director: Stephen Gaghan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for TRAFFIC, makes his directorial debut with SYRIANA, an espionage thriller set in the Middle East. George Clooney stars as Bob Barnes, a long-time CIA agent preparing to slow down his life and spend more time with his teenage son (Max Minghella)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,117 members
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  • Syriana - HD (2005)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Amanda Peet,  Matt Damon
    Director: Stephen Gaghan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Stephen Gaghan, who won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for TRAFFIC, makes his directorial debut with SYRIANA, an espionage thriller set in the Middle East. George Clooney stars as Bob Barnes, a long-time CIA agent preparing to slow down his life and spend more time with his teenage son (Max Minghella)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 509 members
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  • Holes on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jon Voight,  Sigourney Weaver,  Patricia Arquette
    Director: Andrew Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Louis Sachar's acclaimed teen adventure novel comes to dazzling life with this wildly entertaining adaptation. Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf) is an unassuming adolescent whose family has been cursed for generations. One day, after Stanley is falsely accused of stealing a pair of shoes, he is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 14,088 members
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  • Cherish (2002)
    Starring: Brad Hunt,  Robin Tunney,  Liz Phair
    Director: Finn Taylor
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Love-starved animator who's confined to house arrest for a crime that she didn't commit. She must find the perp without leaving the premises.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 34 members
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  • The Good Girl (2002)
    Starring: Jennifer Aniston,  Jake Gyllenhaal,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Miguel Arteta
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    THE GOOD GIRL, directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Mike White, stars Jennifer Aniston as Justine, a sullen 30-year-old woman stuck in a dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo department store. In addition to her mind-numbing occupation, Justine also has to contend with her dim-witted husband Phil (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 10,565 members
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  • The Grey Zone on DVD (2001)
    Starring: David Arquette,  Velizar Binev,  David Chandler
    Director: Tim Blake Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the real-life events and featuring a first-rate ensemble cast, this compelling and harrowing film chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take place at Auschwitz.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,259 members
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  • O - Feature on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mekhi Phifer,  Josh Hartnett,  Martin Sheen
    Director: Tim Blake Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Tim Blake Nelson sets Shakespeare's "Othello" in a modern day private high school and the result is a dark, somber teen tragedy. Mekhi Phifer (CLOCKERS) stars as Odin James, an African American star basketball player at the otherwise all-white school. The coach of the team (Martin Sheen) ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,935 member
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  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? on DVD (2000)
    Starring: George Clooney,  John Turturro,  Tim Blake Nelson
    Director: Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In the Depression-era deep South, three escapees from a Mississippi prison chain gang: Everett Ulysses McGill, sweet and simple Delmar, and the perpetually angry Pete, embark on the adventure of a lifetime as they set out to pursue their freedom and return to their homes. With nothing to lose and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 34,340 members
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  • Eye Of God on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Martha Plimpton,  Hal Holbrook,  Nick Stahl
    Director: Tim Blake Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Martha Plimpton gives a strong performance as an Oklahoma diner waitress who weds the born-again prison inmate (Kevin Anderson) with whom she's been corresponding, but she soon finds that his ostensible piety masks a cruel, domineering nature that leads inevitably to horrific violence. This deeply ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 92 members
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Tim Blake Nelson facts

5 most recent films

Big Miracle - 5.0 stars
The Big Year - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Detachment - 3.0 stars
Detachment - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Big Year - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 3.5 stars
The Incredible Hulk - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Bee Movie - 3.5 stars
Holes - 3.5 stars
The Incredible Hulk - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Saint John of Las Vegas - 2.0 stars
The Big Year - 2.5 stars
Detachment - 3.0 stars
Detachment - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
American Violet - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

George Clooney - 8 times - show films
John Goodman - 8 times - show films
Ty Burrell - 6 times - show films
William Hurt - 6 times - show films
Edward Norton - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stephen Gaghan - 4 times - show films
Joel Coen - 4 times - show films
Steve Hickner - 4 times - show films
Simon J. Smith - 4 times - show films
Tony Kaye - 2 times - show films