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  • The Long Goodbye
  • The Long Goodbye review by from UK
    Rated - 4 stars Don't miss this 13 April 2005
    ...t is also excellent, although perhaps there's a little too much screen time for Mark Rydell's psychotic little gangster. Altman directs with his characteristic skill, ...  

Mark Rydell - filmography


  • Hollywood Ending (2002)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Tea Leone,  George Hamilton
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Allen plays an aging film director that is suddenly afflicted with temporary blindness. However, mid way through production on his latest film, he must soldier on without letting his producers know.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 101 members
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  • James Dean (2001)
    Starring: James Franco,  Michael Moriarty,  Valentina Cervi
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The brief, but mythical, life and career of film acting legend James Dean is dramatised in this biographical 2001 feature, originally produced for cable television. Dean is portrayed here as a hard worker and wild man, yet a sensitive lost soul whose own turbulent life mirrored the roles he took on ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 65% from 107 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 644 members
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  • Punchline on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Sally Field,  Tom Hanks,  Kim Greist
    Director: David Seltzer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Lilah Krytsick (Sally Field) is a New Jersey housewife and mother of three who has been told all her life that she is funny. Steven Gold (Tom Hanks) is a failed medical student whose natural comedic talent has allowed him to steal the spotlight at New York comedy club the Gas Station, thus keeping ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 367 members
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  • On Golden Pond on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Henry Fonda,  Jane Fonda
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the play by Ernest Thompson, ON GOLDEN POND tells the deceptively simple tale of one family's summer. The story centres around the bickering but loving relationship between Ethel and Norman Thayer (Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda), an elderly couple who are spending their 48th summer at ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,536 members
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  • The Rose on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Bette Midler,  Alan Bates,  Frederic Forrest
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this authentic, entertaining, and tragic film, Bette Midler plays Rose, a talented but exhausted, alcoholic rock star whose entire life is controlled by her cutthroat manager, Rudge (Alan Bates). Taking a bleak look at the downside of the music industry, THE ROSE chronicles the precipitous fall ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 825 members
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  • The Cowboys on DVD (1972)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Roscoe Lee Browne,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    John Wayne had brawled bare-knuckle gunned down desperadoes, fought jungle wars and piloted the skies. But The Cowboys gave him one of the most juiciest as a leather-tough rancher who, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 greenhorn schoolboys for a cattle drive across 400 treacherous miles. When ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 850 members
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Mark Rydell facts

5 most recent films

Masters Of Science Fiction - 3.0 stars
Hollywood Ending - 3.0 stars
James Dean - 3.0 stars
Intersection - 2.5 stars
For The Boys - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

On Golden Pond - 3.5 stars
For The Boys - 3.5 stars
The Cowboys - 3.5 stars
The Long Goodbye - 3.5 stars
James Dean - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cowboys, The - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Intersection - 2.5 stars
The Reivers - 2.5 stars
Punchline - 2.5 stars
The River - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Wayne - 3 times - show films
Colleen Dewhurst - 3 times - show films
Roscoe Lee Browne - 3 times - show films
Bruce Dern - 3 times - show films
Doug McKeon - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Altman - 1 times - show films
Woody Allen - 1 times - show films
Darnell Martin - 1 times - show films
Jonathan Frakes - 1 times - show films
David Seltzer - 1 times - show films