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  • Cumming to play Spider-Man villain - 29 June 2009
    -Scottish actor Alan Cumming has been confirmed as Norm Osborn/The Green Goblin in Julie Taymor's ambitious new Spider-Man musical.- -The actor will play the villain of SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway next February (10), opposite Evan Rachel Wood, who will po

Alan Cumming - what members say


  • Romy And Michele's High School Reunion
  • Romy And Michele's High School Reunion review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 16 November 2005
    ...ud, and the girls find themselves mocked again, by everyone except Sandy Frink (Alan Cumming), a nerd millionaire with a lingering crush on Michelle. Kudrow reprised the ro...  
  • Josie And The Pussycats
  • Josie And The Pussycats review by A customer from East Lothian, Scotland
    Rated - 3 stars Not too terrible 19 July 2004
    ...t loud at some of the jokes. I think the best thing about the film has to be Alan Cumming's performance as the sleazy band manager, it is so blatantly over the top it's ...  
  • X-Men 2
  • X-Men 2 review by A customer from mutant high
    Rated - 5 stars wolverine, wolverine 25 February 2004
    ...this film is even better than the first. wolverine is again brilliant and Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler is amazing. a stroke of genius casting him. this is a great film. th...  

Alan Cumming - filmography


  • Sweet Land on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Elizabeth Reaser,  Tim Guinee,  Lois Smith
    Director: Ali Selim
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When mail-order bride Inge arrives in Minnesota in 1920 to marry a young Norwegian farmer named Olaf, her German heritage and lack of official immigration papers makes her an object of suspicion in the small town, and she and Olaf are forbidden to marry. Alone and adrift, Inge goes to live with the ..read more »
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  • Tin Man (2 discs) on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Neal McDonough,  Kathleen Robertson,  Alan Cumming
    Director: Nick Willing
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Small-town waitress DG has always felt like an outsider and experienced strange, recurring visions of a magical storm. However, dreams soon become reality when the evil witch Azkadellia transports DG and her parents to the Outer Zone. This sci-fi miniseries offers an alternative take on the classic ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,278 members
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  • Gray Matters on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Molly Shannon,  Alan Cumming,  Bridget Moynahan
    Director: Sue Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Gray (Heather Graham) and Sam (Thomas Cavanagh) are inseparable. They live together, take ballroom dancing classes, and jog in the park together. They'd make a very attractive couple were it not for the fact that they're brother and sister. In a bright and beautiful version of Manhattan, where ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 2,923 members
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  • Ghost Writer on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Alan Cumming,  David Boreanaz,  Anne Heche
    Director: Alan Cumming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Jonathan Vandermark, is a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and without a penny to his name. When one man, Sebastian enters his life and takes advantage of John's charity, his life and afterlife will be changed forever.
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 1,790 member
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  • E18hteen on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Ian McKellen,  Thea Gill,  Alan Cumming
    Director: Richard Bell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Pip is a young street kid trying to deal with life in the big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives a tape of his grandfather's World War II memoirs which awakens the ghosts of a long lost time and place. His grandfather graphically narrates the story of the day he turned eighteen, fleeing ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 143 members
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  • X-Men 2 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Patrick Stewart,  Ian McKellen
    Director: Bryan Singer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The X-Men led by Professor Xavier once again return to save the world from a group of mutant creatures. Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President, Stryker sets out to capture the pupils at the school for the 'gifted' and Magneto has escaped from his cell and is out to reek havoc...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 49,844 members
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  • Nicholas Nickleby on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Charlie Hunnam,  Stella Gonet,  Romola Garai
    Director: Douglas McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An adaptation of one of Charles Dicken's best-loved stories. Nicholas Nickleby becomes the head of his family after the untimely death of his father and discovers that due to his father's bad investments the family has been left with no money. Nicholas has to turn to his wealthy uncle for ..read more »
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  • Spy Kids on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Robert Patrick,  Alexa Vega
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When the notorious husband-and-wife spy team, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino), is kidnapped by the children's show host Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming), the two Cortez children are the only ones who have the right skills and the insider know-how to help. Together Carmen ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 7,465 members
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  • Annie on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Kathy Bates,  Alicia Morton,  Audra McDonald
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Two features. ANNIE, a re-make of the classic tale of the orphan Annie who has lived all her life in a home run by Miss Hannigan, a cruel woman. The billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, decides to look after an orphan for two weeks over Christmas, and guess who comes to stay... Plus OLIVER TWIST.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,640 member
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  • Spiceworld The Movie on DVD (1997)
    Starring: The Spice Girls,  Richard E. Grant,  Roger Moore
    Director: Bob Spiers
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    One of the reasons that the Spice Girls remain so much fun is that in the great British tradition, they don't take themselves too seriously. Like The Beatles before them, the girls are more than happy to take pot-shots at their own manufactured image, something that Spiceworld: The Movie revels in. ..read more »
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  • Buddy on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Rene Russo,  Robbie Coltrane,  Alan Cumming
    Director: Caroline Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A gentle, family-oriented dramatization of the autobiography ("Animals Are My Hobby") of daffy Gertrude Lintz (Rene Russo,) a softhearted, softheaded 1920s New York socialite who transformed her upstate mansion into a personal menagerie containing cats, dogs, birds, chimps, and the titular baby ..read more »
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  • Emma on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow,  Toni Collette,  Alan Cumming
    Director: Douglas McGrath
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Douglas McGrath's film is an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's 1816 novel about Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), a well-to-do young woman whose kindhearted attempts at matchmaking mask her own lack of romantic attachment. She takes it upon herself to find the perfect man for her friend ..read more »
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  • GoldenEye on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Sean Bean,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Armed with his license to kill, James Bond (Agent 007) races to Russia in search of the stolen access codes for GoldenEye, an awesome space weapon that can fire a devastating electromagnetic pulse toward the Earth. However, Bond is up against an enemy who anticipates his every move: Alec Trevelyan, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 22,651 members
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  • Bernard and the Genie (1991)
    Starring: Lenny Henry,  John Gabriel,  Alan Cumming
    Director: Paul Weiland
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A genie (Lenny Henry) is punished by an evil wizard by being confined to a lamp somewhere in Arabia. 2000 years later in England Bernard Bottle (Alan Cumming) an Art dealer, who has just been sacked by his nasty and greedy boss (Rowan Atkinson) and then discovered his girlfriend has gone off with ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 86 members
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  • Full Grown Men
    Starring: Matt McGrath,  Judah Friedlander,  Alan Cumming
    Director: David Munro
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set in a stylized yet familiar landscape of Americana, Munro's whimsical cautionary tale follows Alby Cutrera, a 35-year-old husband and father who longs for the days of his carefree boyhood when his only occupation was playing with his action figures. Desperate to escape the confines of adulthood ..read more »
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  • Dare
    Starring: Emmy Rossum,  Zach Gilford,  Ashley Springer
    Director: Adam Salky
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In high school, what kind of person did you dare to be: risk-taking and lustful, melancholy and confused or simply safe and over-achieving? Dare follows three teenagers through their last semester of school: Alexa, the smart, good girl who longs to break out of her shell; Ben, the lonely outsider ..read more »
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Alan Cumming - watch online


  • Ghost Writer to Watch Now (2007)
    Starring: Alan Cumming,  David Boreanaz,  Anne Heche
    Director: Alan Cumming
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 89 minutes
    When John Vandermark (Alan Cumming, X-MEN, GET CARTER), a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and nothing much else, encounters Sebastian (David Boreanaz, BONES, ANGEL), he is stirred to help him in any way he can. But Vandermark soon grows bitter when his charity is ..read more »
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Alan Cumming facts

5 most recent films

Sweet Land - 2.5 stars
Tin Man - 3.5 stars
Tin Man - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Gray Matters - 2.5 stars
Ghost Writer - 1.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Bernard and the Genie - 4.0 stars
X-Men 2 - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Show Business - The Road To Broadway - 3.5 stars
X-Men 2 - 3.5 stars
The High Life - Series 1 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Full Grown Men - 3 stars
Dare - 3 stars
God, the Devil and Bob - The Complete Series - 3.5 stars
Ghost Writer - 1.5 stars
Company Man - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Famke Janssen - 8 times - show films
Ian McKellen - 6 times - show films
Patrick Stewart - 5 times - show films
James Marsden - 5 times - show films
Halle Berry - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Bryan Singer - 5 times - show films
Douglas McGrath - 3 times - show films
Martin Campbell - 3 times - show films
Jennifer Jason Leigh - 2 times - show films
Nick Willing - 2 times - show films