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  • Contact review by from Vega
    Rated - 5 stars I Agree - some spoilers below 2 June 2004
    ...erritt are the leads I suppose but it is the glue of John Hurt, Davis Morse and James Woods that hold it together for me. Stand out moments for me are the opening galac...  
  • The General's Daughter
  • The General's Daughter review by from London
    Rated - 3 stars Average thriller with above average performances 12 July 2005
    ...tself out to be. Enjoyable performances all round (particularly from my beloved James Woods, as always) keep the plot ticking along nicely. A sound choice for an evening's...  
  • Salvador
  • Salvador review by from London. England
    Rated - 4 stars Shocking Truths. 28 July 2004
    ... This film starts to make you understand what asylum refugees are running from. James Woods is himself as always. Fantastic. Belushi - same. Definately add to your lis...  

James Woods - filmography


  • Big Fat Important Movie on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Kevin Farley,  Kelsey Grammer,  Leslie Nielsen
    Director: David Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From David Zucker, the director of The Naked Gun and Airplane!, comes a bare-knuckle comedy where no one is safe from the onslaught of lunacy! When obnoxious Hollywood director Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) organises a "Ban the 4th of July" campaign, his efforts are upended by a gang of spirits ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 67 members
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  • End Game on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr.,  James Woods,  Angie Harmon
    Director: Andy Cheng
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The secret service agent in charge of the president's safety blames himself and his team for failing to stop his assassination. He quits his post only to become obsessed with solving the crime. A tenacious reporter aids him in his quest. Together they follow a perilous path of intrigue, unravelling ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 9,780 members
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  • John Q. on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Kimberly Elise,  James Woods
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) is struggling through a recession trying to provide for his son Mikey (Daniel E. Smith) and his waitress wife (Kimberly Elise). Mikey collapses at a Little League game and is rushed to a hospital. The situation is bleak. Only a heart transplant will save Mikey'..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,456 members
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  • John Q. - BLU-RAY Version (2002)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Kimberly Elise,  James Woods
    Director: Nick Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Q. Archibald (Denzel Washington) is struggling through a recession trying to provide for his son Mikey (Daniel E. Smith) and his waitress wife (Kimberly Elise). Mikey collapses at a Little League game and is rushed to a hospital. The situation is bleak. Only a heart transplant will save Mikey'..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 76 members
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  • Stuart Little 2 on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Nathan Lane,  Geena Davis
    Director: Rob Minkoff
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Lovable talking mouse Stuart Little (voiced by Michael J. Fox) lives with his human family in a quaint brownstone near Central Park in an idyllic New York City. In this sequel to the 1999 blockbuster, Stuart deals with growing pains. His mother (Geena Davis) is overprotective of her fearless ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,332 members
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  • Riding In Cars With Boys on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Drew Barrymore,  Sara Gilbert,  Steve Zahn
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Beverly (Drew Barrymore) loves boys, but she knows her limits--nothing below the waist (her own), if she doesn't know the boy. Ray (Steve Zahn), however, a sweet-natured but shiftless young man is the exception to her rule and shortly after meeting him she ends up pregnant--at age fifteen. At the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,032 members
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  • Race To Space on DVD (2001)
    Starring: James Woods,  Annabeth Gish,  Alex D. Linz
    Director: Sean McNamara
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    NASA scientist Wilhelm Von Huber (James Woods) moves to Florida with dreams of his young son, Billy (Alex Linz), following in his footsteps. Billy, meanwhile, idolizes astronaut Alan Shepard, and gets one step closer to space when he is hired by Dr. Donni McGuiness (Annabeth Gish) to help train ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 149 members
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  • Uprising on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Leelee Sobieski,  Hank Azaria,  David Schwimmer
    Director: Jon Avnet
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After Germany invades Poland in 1939, the Nazis decree that 350,000 Warsaw Jews be forcibly moved into an area known as the Warsaw Ghetto. Idealistic teacher Mordechai (Hank Azaria) decides the Jews must rise up against the Nazis and creates the Jewish Fighting Organisation (JFO). Determined to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 480 members
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  • Scary Movie 2 on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Anna Faris,  Regina Hall,  Shawn Wayans
    Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The Wayans brothers scored a surprise monster hit with SCARY MOVIE, and in the advertising for that film they promised "no sequel." So here it is, SCARY MOVIE 2, featuring the return of Shawn and Marlon Wayans as well as Anna Faris and Regina Hall in addition to some new faces added to the gross-..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 9,706 members
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  • Any Given Sunday on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Cameron Diaz,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oliver Stone's hard-hitting look at the adrenaline-fueled world of pro football stars Al Pacino as Miama Sharks coach Tony D'Amato. Having just lost his star quarterback, Jack Rooney (Dennis Quaid), he's forced to use the erratic Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx) off the bench, hoping he can resuscitate ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 7,046 members
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  • True Crime on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Denis Leary,  James Woods
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In TRUE CRIME, based on Andrew Klavan's novel, Clint Eastwood plays Steve Everett, a capable reporter who's nearly destroyed his career with alcohol and philandering. When he's assigned to do a human interest sidebar on Frank Beechum (Isaiah Washington), who's about to be executed for murder, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,986 member
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  • John Carpenter's Vampires on DVD (1998)
    Starring: James Woods,  Daniel Baldwin,  Sheryl Lee
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Prolific director John Carpenter takes on the vampire genre in his action-horror film VAMPIRES. Bitter, tough-as-nails vampire hunter Jack Crow (James Woods) leads a specialized team, funded by no less than the Vatican, that is dedicated to destroying the race of vampires that inhabit the earth. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,621 members
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  • Contact on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Matthew McConaughey,  James Woods
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft that will presumably survive the passage from ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 12,125 members
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  • Hercules on DVD (1997)
    Starring: James Woods,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Ron Clements,  John Musker
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    HERCULES is a rollicking, tongue-in-cheek Disney film based on the Greek myth. Forget those legendary labours--this teenage Herc is the goofy and lovable adopted scion of mortal parents, toiling on earth to prove himself to Zeus, his Olympian dad. His demi-god gifts score him money, fame, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 8,930 members
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  • Nixon on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Joan Allen,  James Woods
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A surprisingly sympathetic account of the life of Richard Nixon from Oliver Stone, NIXON stars Anthony Hopkins as the former American president. Told out of chronological order, the film traces Nixon's life from his strict Quaker upbringing, through his rise in the Republican party, to his wounding ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,912 members
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  • The Specialist on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Sylvester Stallone,  James Woods
    Director: Luis Llosa
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A Miami woman whose family has been "erased" by a nefarious crime lord hires an ex-CIA explosives expert to gain revenge. His job is made more difficult when he falls for his beautiful client, and when his target hires his equally skilled ex-partner in this tense action-drama.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 6,295 members
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  • The Getaway (1994)
    Starring: Alec Baldwin,  Kim Basinger,  Michael Madsen
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star in the highly charged remake of Sam Peckinpah's classic action-thriller. In a world where dishonour is commonplace, master thief Doc McCoy (Baldwin) is the exception. He lives by a code of ethics and stands by his word. His wife and partner in crime, Carol (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 145 members
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  • Chaplin on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr,  Dan Aykroyd,  Geraldine Chaplin
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sir Richard Attenborough's CHAPLIN is a dramatised depiction of the highs and lows in the life of Charlie Chaplin (Robert Downey, Jr. in a highly acclaimed performance), one of the true comic geniuses of the early silver screen. Presented as the memories of an elderly Chaplin, the narrative opens ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,597 members
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  • The Hard Way on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  James Woods,  Stephen Lang
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Los Angeles glitz meets New York grit in director John Badham's action-packed comedy. In New York's Times Square a billboard looms larger than life for a new Hollywood blockbuster starring Nick Lang (Michael J. Fox), an Indiana Jones-style superstar. The real Nick Lang is holed up in a neighboring ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,723 member
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  • The Boost on DVD (1988)
    Starring: James Woods,  Sean Young,  John Kapelos
    Director: Harold Becker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Lenny Brown is recruited to go to Los Angeles and hustle real estate, he jumps at the opportunity -- especially since it will give him enough money to keep him in cocaine. But when Congress looks into changing the tax laws that got his company rich, a nervous Lenny makes off with the result: ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 132 members
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  • In Love And War on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Jane Alexander,  James Woods
    Director: Paul Aaron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Shot down and taken prisoner early in the Vietnam Conflict, Navy Pilot Jim Stockdale is one of the few who know the truth about the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Knowing an admission would be explosive, Jim has remained silent despite eight nightmarish years of torture and inhuman treatment.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 23 members
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  • Best Seller on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Brian Dennehy,  James Woods,  Victoria Tennant
    Director: John Flynn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop who has supplemented his meager policeman's salary by writing a succession of lurid crime novels, including one based on an episode from his own life. But his imagination fails him after his wife's tragic, premature death from cancer. Lonely, burned-out, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 349 members
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  • Salvador on DVD (1985)
    Starring: James Woods,  James Belushi,  John Savage
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Oliver Stone's first overtly political film, SALVADOR is a passionate protest against the savagery unleashed by fascist thugs in El Salvador during the early 1980s with the complicity of the U.S. government. It stars James Woods as combat photojournalist Richard Boyle, an erratic, cynical character ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,782 members
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  • Cat's Eye on DVD (1985)
    Starring: James Woods,  Drew Barrymore,  Candy Clark
    Director: Lewis Teague
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the macabre imagination of Stephen King comes this trio of terrifying tales. In the first episode, a New York man (James Woods) has trouble giving up cigarettes. He turns to a shady self-help operation whose hotheaded owner (Alan King) outlines a litany of incrementally harsh penalties for ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,664 member
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  • Against All Odds on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Rachel Ward,  James Woods
    Director: Taylor Hackford
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Action, adventure and romance are the key elements in this story of an ex-football player hired to find the erstwhile lover of a powerful man. The quest takes him to the jungles of Mexico where he not only finds the woman and falls in love with her, but becomes involved in murder....
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 571 members
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  • Videodrome on DVD (1982)
    Starring: James Woods,  Peter Dvorsky,  Deborah Harry
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sleazy cable TV programmer Max Renn (Woods) encounters a strange new program known as VIDEODROME. Under its mysterious influence, Max's fantasies seem to come to life as strange things begin to happen and reality is not what it seems. Unmistakable weirdness from cult director Cronenberg.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 4,497 members
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  • The Onion Field on DVD (1979)
    Starring: John Savage,  James Woods,  Ted Danson
    Director: Harold Becker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the best-selling novel by Joseph Wambaugh, which tells the true and tragic story of the kidnapping of two police officers in Los Angeles in the 1960s.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 309 members
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  • Holocaust (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  James Woods,  Tom Bell
    Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An original TV dramatisation of one of the most monstrous crimes in world history the slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis. Dramatically and definitively, the story covers an entire decade, the eventful years from 1935 to 1945. HOLOCAUST focuses on the tragedy and triumph of a single family the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 581 members
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  • Cop on DVD
    Starring: James Woods,  Lesley Ann Warren,  Charles Durning
    Director: James B. Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An explosive detective is driven to catch a serial killer who has already committed fifteen grisly murders. Unfortunately for the detective, the police department wants no part of his offbeat tactics. So he's in this one alone and unrestrained - unfortunately for the killer.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 357 members
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  • 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 »
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James Woods facts

5 most recent films

Big Fat Important Movie - BLU-RAY Version - 2.0 stars
Big Fat Important Movie - 2.0 stars
This Girl's Life - 2.5 stars
End Game - 3.0 stars
Pretty Persuasion - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shark - Season 1 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Casino - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Casino - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Casino - 4.0 stars
Once Upon A Time In America - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Easter Egg Adventure - 1.5 stars
Big Fat Important Movie - BLU-RAY Version - 2.0 stars
Citizen Cohn - 2.0 stars
In Love And War - 2.0 stars
The Gambler - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Joe Pesci - 4 times - show films
Sharon Stone - 4 times - show films
Robert De Niro - 4 times - show films
Burt Young - 3 times - show films
Jon Voight - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Oliver Stone - 4 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 3 times - show films
David Zucker - 2 times - show films
Harold Becker - 2 times - show films
Karel Reisz - 2 times - show films