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James Woods - what members say
review by from Vega
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Shocking Truths. 28 July 2004
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James Woods - filmography
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Straw Dogs
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: James Marsden, Alexander Skarsgard, Kate Bosworth
Director: Rod Lurie
Certificate: 
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
 
60%
from 1,705 member
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Kung Fu Panda 2 - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Gary Oldman
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Certificate: 
The saga of Po continues in this sequel that finds the newly anointed Dragon Warrior (voice of Jack Black) teaming with The Furious Five to safeguard the Valley of Peace. But when a new adversary launches a treacherous bid to seize control of China and obliterate the martial arts, Po must look back ..read more »
73%
from 4,771 members
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Big Fat Important Movie
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer, Leslie Nielsen
Director: David Zucker
Certificate: 
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 »
34%
from 650 members
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This Girl's Life
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: James Woods, Juliette Marquis, Kip Pardue
Director: Ash
Certificate:
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"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss
49%
from 1,780 member
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Be Cool
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn
Director: F. Gary Gray
Certificate: 
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Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer (John Travolta) tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music exec (Uma Thurman) on the way.
54%
from 32,002 members
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Pretty Persuasion
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, David Wagner, Ron Livingston
Director: Marcos Siega
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Kimberly Joyce is an insanely intelligent, wildly funny, shockingly cruel and sexy-beyond-her-years Beverly Hills teenager who will stop at nothing to become famous. Believing the world is an orchestra and she is the conductor,
Kimberly masterfully manipulates all those around her. She convinces ..read more »
53%
from 5,405 members
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End Game
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Cuba Gooding Jr., Heather Dawn
Director: Andy Cheng
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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 »
55%
from 10,187 members
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John Q.
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Ray Liotta, Eddie Griffin, Shawn Hatosy
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Certificate:
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 »
71%
from 7,930 members
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Stuart Little 2
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: James Woods, Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane
Director: Rob Minkoff
Certificate: 
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 »
62%
from 3,604 members
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Northfork
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Peter Coyote, Anthony Edwards, Daryl Hannah
Director: Mark Polish, Michael Polish
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The Polish Brothers conclude their America's Heartland trilogy (TWIN FALLS IDAHO, JACKPOT) with this mesmerizing, surreal drama. It is 1950s Montana, and in two days the small town of Northfork is about to be buried underwater. While most of the residents are willing to accept a forced relocation ..read more »
53%
from 776 members
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John Q. - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Kimberly Elise, James Woods
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Certificate:
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 »
72%
from 525 members
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Race To Space
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: James Woods, Annabeth Gish, Alex D. Linz
Director: Sean McNamara
Certificate:
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 »
53%
from 163 members
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Uprising
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer
Director: Jon Avnet
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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 »
66%
from 536 members
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Scary Movie 2 - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
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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 »
55%
from 117 members
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Scary Movie 2
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
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 »
59%
from 10,627 members
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Riding in Cars With Boys
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, James Woods
Director: Penny Marshall
Certificate:
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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 »
64%
from 3,874 members
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The Virgin Suicides
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Danny De Vito, Leslie Hayman
Director: Sofia Coppola
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Based on the 1993 novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES tells the dreamlike tale of the Lisbons, a family living in a sheltered 1970s suburbia. When Cecilia (Hannah Hall), the youngest of the five teenage Lisbon daughters, inexplicably commits suicide, the rest of the family--Mr. Lisbon (..read more »
63%
from 14,375 members
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Any Given Sunday
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ann-Margret, Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz
Director: Oliver Stone
Certificate:
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Oliver Stone's hard-hitting look at the adrenaline-fueled world of pro football stars Al Pacino as Miami 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 »
65%
from 8,181 members
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Another Day In Paradise
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Vincent Kartheiser
Director: Larry Clark
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'Another Day in Paradise' follows the exploits of Bobbie, a teenage runaway and thief who is happy making money the hard way -- stealing it by breaking into vending machines. He is approached by the funny and charismatic uncle of a drug buddy, Mel. Mel offers to bring Bobbie into the big-time of ..read more »
56%
from 855 members
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The General's Daughter
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: John Travolta, Madeline Stowe, James Cromwell
Director: Simon West
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When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, the undercover military investigator (Travolta) assigned to the case discovers a shocking labyrinth of murderous sexual obsession and deceit. Based on the novel by Nelson DeMille.
65%
from 4,348 members
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Any Given Sunday - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Ann-Margret, Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz
Director: Oliver Stone
Certificate:
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Oliver Stone's hard-hitting look at the adrenaline-fueled world of pro football stars Al Pacino as Miami 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 »
70%
from 1,388 member
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True Crime
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Denis Leary, James Woods
Director: Clint Eastwood
Certificate:
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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 »
63%
from 2,587 members
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John Carpenter's Vampires
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Tim Guinee, Thomas Rosales
Director: John Carpenter
Certificate:
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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 »
59%
from 4,558 members
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Hercules
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: James Woods, Danny De Vito, Tate Donovan
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
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Disney's animation team dipped into the rich well of ancient mythology for this musical comedy. The son of Greek gods Zeus (voice of Rip Torn) and Hera (Samantha Eggar), Hercules (voice of Josh Keaton) is stolen as a boy by the minions of Hades (voice of James Woods), lord of the underworld. Forced ..read more »
68%
from 10,746 members
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Contact
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Certificate:
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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 »
67%
from 13,888 members
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Contact - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Certificate:
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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 »
74%
from 1,045 member
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Killer - A Journal of Murder
(1996)
Starring: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Green
Director: Tim Metcalfe
Certificate: 
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that ..read more »
70%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Casino - HD
(1995)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese, one of America's most influential filmmakers, returns to the world of mobsters, greed, and excess that he explored so compellingly in 1990's GOODFELLAS. Set in the 1970s and revelling in the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of ..read more »
79%
from 524 members
Not currently released
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Nixon
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, James Woods
Director: Oliver Stone
Certificate:
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 »
61%
from 3,542 members
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Casino - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese, one of America's most influential filmmakers, returns to the world of mobsters, greed, and excess that he explored so compellingly in 1990's GOODFELLAS. Set in the 1970s and revelling in the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of ..read more »
79%
from 3,376 members
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Casino
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
Director: Martin Scorsese
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The story of a Jewish front man for the Las Vegas Mob and his wife who jinxes the operation. Based on the real-life story of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal and Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro.
75%
from 38,968 members
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The Specialist
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, James Woods
Director: Luis Llosa
Certificate:
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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.
58%
from 7,292 members
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The Getaway
(1994)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen
Director: Roger Donaldson
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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 »
55%
from 189 members
Currently unavailable
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Midnight Sting
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Director Michael Ritchie turns in another crowd-pleasing sports picture with DIGGSTOWN, featuring James Woods as Gabriel Caine, a con artist who has just been released from prison. Based on a tip by his cellmate, Wolf Forrester (Randall "Tex" Cobb), Caine heads for Diggstown, Georgia, a small town ..read more »
71%
from 616 members
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Chaplin
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Richard Attenborough
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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 »
73%
from 4,054 members
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The Hard Way
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Stephen Lang
Director: John Badham
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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 »
64%
from 1,987 member
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Immediate Family
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Glenn Close, James Woods, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Michael (James Woods) and Linda (Glenn Close) Spector are a mature, successful couple who have everything it takes to be parents--except a baby. Enter Lucy (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Sam (Kevin Dillon), a teenage couple who have a baby on the way, but aren't ready to be parents. As Michael and ..read more »
56%
from 124 members
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True Believer
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin
Director: Joseph Ruben
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James Woods stars as a William Kuntsler-style lawyer in this tale of injustice and renewed dignity. In the 1960s, idealistic advocate Eddie Dodd courted controversy by defending outspoken youths and free spirits. Alas, in the 20 years since, he has succumbed to cynicism. Nowadays, perpetually ..read more »
59%
from 170 members
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Cop
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning
Director: James B. Harris
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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.
59%
from 468 members
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The Boost
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos
Director: Harold Becker
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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 »
56%
from 151 members
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Best Seller
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Brian Dennehy, James Woods, Victoria Tennant
Director: John Flynn
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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 »
61%
from 403 members
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In Love And War
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Jane Alexander, James Woods, Haing S. Ngor
Director: Paul Aaron
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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.
36%
from 26 members
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Cat's Eye
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: James Woods, Drew Barrymore, Candy Clark
Director: Lewis Teague
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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 »
60%
from 1,913 member
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Salvador
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: James Woods, James Belushi, John Savage
Director: Oliver Stone
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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 »
68%
from 3,241 members
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Once Upon A Time In America
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern
Director: Sergio Leone
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Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David Noodles Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their ..read more »
73%
from 23,215 members
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Against All Odds
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods
Director: Taylor Hackford
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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....
51%
from 713 members
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Videodrome - Blu-ray
(1982)
Starring: James Woods, Peter Dvorsky, Deborah Harry
Director: David Cronenberg
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Hardcore pornography, sadomasochism, mind control, and living televisions all play crucial roles in Videodrome, one of director David Cronenberg's explorations of dangerous sexuality and technological obsession. The morally questionable hero of the tale is one Max Renn (James Woods), a television ..read more »
72%
from 34 members
Not available for rental
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Videodrome
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: James Woods, Peter Dvorsky, Deborah Harry
Director: David Cronenberg
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Hardcore pornography, sadomasochism, mind control, and living televisions all play crucial roles in Videodrome, one of director David Cronenberg's explorations of dangerous sexuality and technological obsession. The morally questionable hero of the tale is one Max Renn (James Woods), a television ..read more »
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from 5,496 members
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Holocaust
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Meryl Streep, James Woods, Tom Bell
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky
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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 »
67%
from 882 members
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Hickey and Boggs
(1972)
Starring: Michael Moriarty, James Woods, Robert Culp
Director: Robert Culp
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Bill Cosby and Robert Culp are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted 'film noir.' Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.
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My Name Is Bill W.
Starring: James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner
Director: Daniel Petrie
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Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support group that would eventually become Alcoholics Anonymous.
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...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.
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