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  • Stranger Than Paradise
  • Stranger Than Paradise review by from Aylesbury/Bucks/England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Beautiful uncomfortableness... 17 February 2008
    ...so his faithful companion Eddie, played in a great supporting tone and style by Richard Edson. The first segment of the film deals with her in New York. The second one has E...   Read customer review

Richard Edson - filmography


  • Land of Plenty on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Michelle Williams,  Burt Young,  Gloria Stuart
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wim Wenders's emotional LAND OF PLENTY is a powerful exploration of post-9/11 America. John Diehl gives a strong performance as Paul, a Vietnam Vet who is haunted by the events of September 11 and drives the streets of Los Angeles searching for terrorists he is sure are going to strike again. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 875 members
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  • Columbus Day on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  Marg Helgenberger,  Wilmer Valderrama
    Director: Charles Burmeister
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jon (Val Kilmer) has just pulled off the biggest heist of his life and is racing to get rid of the merchandise before he leaves for Florida to retire. If he succeeds he can finally rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife (Marg Helgenberger, CSI's Catherine Willows) and become the father he's ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 657 members
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  • Momma's Man on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Matt Boren,  Ken Jacobs,  Nan Archilesi
    Director: Azazel Jacobs
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    After a holiday visit with his parents, Mikey is headed to the airport to return to his wife and newborn baby. Except he doesn’t board the plane. Instead he returns to his parents’ loft in lower Manhattan, back to his childhood room that has since been converted to storage. Unsure of his own ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 257 members
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  • Snide And Prejudice on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Rene Auberjonois,  Mena Suvari,  Angus MacFadyen
    Director: Philippe Mora
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This unorthodox black comedy from director Philippe Mora see's a doctor attempting to cure the dementia of his patient -- by encouraging him to dress up as Adolf Hitler! Recruiting other patients to act as Hitler's henchmen (Joseph Goebbels et al) and even Eva Braun, the mad doctor's scheme has ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 18 members
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  • Lulu On The Bridge on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Harvey Keitel,  Mira Sorvino,  Willem Dafoe
    Director: Paul Auster
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Writer Paul Auster made his solo directorial debut with this romantic drama about an affair between a middle-aged musician and an aspiring actress. Hit by a stray bullet during a nightclub shooting, jazz saxophonist Izzy Maurer (Harvey Keitel) can no longer play, and he falls into a depression. His ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 134 members
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  • Wedding Bell Blues on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Illeana Douglas,  Paulina Porizkova,  Julie Warner
    Director: Dana Lustig
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Three thirtysomething Angelenas strike out for the Vegas strip in search of disposable husbands, acting under the spurious premise that aging, wisened divorcees are somehow sexier than aging never-marrieds. Moments of pat, cynical female bonding ensue until the three party-hardy ladies match up ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 94 members
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  • The Winner (1996)
    Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio,  Richard Edson,  Sy Richardson
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This darkly comic crime drama examines the plight of the naive title character, a gambler known only as Philip (Vincent D'Onofrio), whose uncanny penchant for winning bets has earned him the title the luckiest man in the history of North America. A rogues' gallery of parasites swarms around him in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 44 members
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  • Strange Days on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ralph Fiennes,  Angela Bassett,  Juliette Lewis
    Director: Kathryn Bigelow
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Set in Los Angeles two days before the end of 1999, Strange Days introduces us to Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), an ex-cop turned sleazy hustler who hawks the newest underground thrill on the black market: a squid, a headpiece that allows one to transmit digital recordings of other people's thoughts, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,755 members
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  • Love, Cheat and Steal (1993)
    Starring: John Lithgow,  Eric Roberts,  Mädchen Amick
    Director: William Curran
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife, stunning, kind and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face (played by Madchen Amick) lies a wicked person who sent her former boyfriend to jail by setting him up. Reno Adams has lost seven years of his life in Jail and wants revenge. After escaping,..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 4 members
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  • Platoon - Blu-ray (1986)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Willem Dafoe,  Tom Berenger
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 134 members
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  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Alan Ruck,  Jennifer Grey,  Charlie Sheen
    Director: John Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his hypochondriac best friend, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 26,152 members
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  • Down By Law on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Chris Parker,  Tom Waits,  Leila Gastil
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jim Jarmusch follows his groundbreaking Stranger Than Paradise with another rambling, character-driven film with a twisted sense of humor. Set in a seedy New Orleans summer, Down By Law details the meeting of three unlikely convicts and their just as unlikely escape. Zack (Tom Waits) is an out-of-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,676 members
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  • Platoon on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  Willem Dafoe,  Tom Berenger
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In PLATOON, Oliver Stone uses his experience as an infantryman in Vietnam to convey the immediacy of guerrilla warfare: the brutal heat of the jungle, the brushes with such wildlife as snakes and leeches, and, most powerfully, the presence of the unseen enemy. Charlie Sheen stars as Chris, a raw ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 34,897 members
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  • Stranger Than Paradise on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Chris Parker,  Leila Gastil,  John Lurie
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An award-winning film consisting of three thirty-minute vignettes which follow a young female immigrant who, together with her cousin and his sidekick, seeks the good life in sunny Florida. A series of hilarious coincidences leads to the unexpected conclusion.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 887 members
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  • Permanent Vacation on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Charlie Spademan,  Jane Fire,  Ruth Bolton
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jim Jarmusch made his directorial debut with this episodic profile of one troubled hipster trying to make sense of his life. Aloysius Parker (Christopher Parker), known to his friends as Allie, is a young man with a damaged family background (his mother is in a mental institution and his father has ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 417 members
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  • Jim Jarmusch Box Set - Vol. 1 (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Chris Parker,  Leila Gastil,  John Lurie
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Includes the following three films: Permanent Vacation (1980): In downtown Manhattan, Allie, a twenty-something guy (Chris Parker) whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 717 members
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Richard Edson facts

5 most recent films

Land of Plenty - 2.5 stars
Columbus Day - 2.5 stars
Momma's Man - 2.5 stars
Snide And Prejudice - 1.5 stars
Lulu On The Bridge - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Platoon - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Platoon - 4.0 stars
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 3.5 stars
Down By Law - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Snide And Prejudice - 1.5 stars
Love, Cheat and Steal - 2.0 stars
The Winner - 2.5 stars
Momma's Man - 2.5 stars
Columbus Day - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charlie Sheen - 6 times - show films
Willem Dafoe - 5 times - show films
Leila Gastil - 4 times - show films
Cecillia Stark - 4 times - show films
Ellen Barkan - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Oliver Stone - 4 times - show films
Jim Jarmusch - 4 times - show films
Wim Wenders - 2 times - show films
Azazel Jacobs - 2 times - show films
William Curran - 2 times - show films