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  • Toback reteams with Bugsy director for Gotti film - 9 May 2011
    -Oscar-nominated screenwriter James Toback has signed on to rewrite John Travolta's new Gotti family biopic with director Barry Levinson.-The filmmaker and the writer teamed up on Bugsy in 1991; Toback is also the acclaimed director of When Will I Be Loved and documen

James Toback - what members say


  • When Will I Be Loved?
  • When Will I Be Loved? review by from South London, England
    Rated - 1.0 stars emmanuelle number 27 8 June 2006
    ...rt and end of the film,in some awful and un-attractive, shower scenes. Director James Toback really should have called upon Robert downey jnr,to save this pathetic film, as...   Read customer review
  • Tyson - The Movie
  • Tyson - The Movie review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Tyson- Open and revealing! 21 October 2008
    ...o villified and this film seeks to explore the man behind the stories. Director James Toback presents his friend talking about all aspects of his life from his troubled you...   Read customer review

James Toback - filmography


  • Tyson - The Movie on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Mike Tyson
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    "Tyson" is acclaimed indie director James Toback's stylistically inventive portrait of a mesmerizing Mike Tyson. Toback allows Tyson to reveal himself without inhibition and with eloquence and a pervasive vulnerability. Through a mixture of original interviews and archival footage and photographs, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,722 members
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  • Tyson - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Mike Tyson
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    No-holds-barred documentary about the life of former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. Mixing archive footage with extensive interviews with Tyson, the film tracks his life from his days as a teenage thief and drug dealer in Brooklyn to his crowning as undisputed champion, his dramatic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,294 member
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  • When Will I Be Loved? on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Brandon Sommers,  Ashley Shelton,  Mike T
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Vera is a beautiful, capricious young woman exploring the limits of her sexual and intellectual power. She picks up men on the street, videotapes her romps with a female lover, and has sexually frank discussions with her potential employer. The daughter of wealthy, indulgent parents, she seems to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 2,200 members
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  • Black And White on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Ben Stiller,  Method Man
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    When high school hipster Charlie and her friends start hanging out with Harlem's aspiring rap artist Rich Bower and his group, the American Cream Team, each faction starts to ponder the other's true motivation. Fascinated by this collision of cultures, documentary filmmaker and former rich girl ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 952 members
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  • Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
    Starring: Natasha Gregson Wagner,  Heather Graham,  Robert Downey Jr.
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    They're as different as they are beautiful, but Carla and Lou have more in common than meets the eye. Each thinks she has the world's greatest boyfriend - until they both realise they are talking about the same guy! Sparks fly when girls discover Blake's deception and team up to confront their ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 192 members
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  • Bugsy on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Harvey Keitel,  Warren Beatty
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Warren Beatty stars in the life story of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, the Hollywood-obsessed, hot-tempered gangster who dreamt of a desert gambling paradise that would one day become Las Vegas. When Bugsy embarks on an affair with beautiful starlet Virginia 'The Flamingo' Hill (Annette Bening), the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,103 member
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  • Fingers (1978)
    Starring: Harvey Keitel,  Tisa Farrow,  Jim Brown
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan shark father and his mentally disturbed Jewish concert pianist mother.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 9 members
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James Toback facts

5 most recent films

Tyson - The Movie - 3.5 stars
Tyson - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Outsider - A Film About James Toback - 3.0 stars
When Will I Be Loved? - 2.0 stars
Harvard Man - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Tyson - The Movie - 3.5 stars
Tyson - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Bugsy - 3.0 stars
The Pick-Up Artist - 3.0 stars
Two Girls and a Guy - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Fingers - 3.0 stars
The Outsider - A Film About James Toback - 3.0 stars
When Will I Be Loved? - 2.0 stars
Black And White - 2.0 stars
Harvard Man - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mike Tyson - 12 times - show films
Robert Downey Jr. - 8 times - show films
Neve Campbell - 7 times - show films
Harvey Keitel - 5 times - show films
Ashley Shelton - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Nicholas Jarecki - 2 times - show films
Barry Levinson - 1 times - show films
Barry Levinson - 1 times - show films