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  • Sea Of Love
  • Sea Of Love review by from Winchester
    Rated - 3 stars Not as good as I remembered 23 February 2005
    ...Although Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin are both favourites, this isn't one of the best for either - Barkin particularly is weak. John Goodman is yet again miscast (Big Lebows...  
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5 stars superb.................. 17 October 2007
    ...formances from Kirsten Dunst, as the pretty, but poor, girl who would be Queen, Ellen Barkin, as her trailer trash mum, Allison Janney, as their supportive and endearing ne...  
  • The Big Easy
  • The Big Easy review by from Winchester
    Rated - 5 stars Brilliant 17 February 2005
    ...ometimes a little stylised, but somehow it all works and fits together nicely. Ellen Barkin is convincingly gauche and somehow all the more sexy for that. Great fun! ...  

Ellen Barkin - filmography


  • Ocean's Thirteen on DVD (2007)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Brad Pitt,  Matt Damon
    Director: Steven Soderbergh
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After their old chum Reuben Tischkoff (Gould) is double-crossed in a business deal and hospitalized, Danny Ocean (Clooney) reconvenes his charming gang of thieves and heads to Las Vegas to gain revenge on the man who put Ruben at death’s door: shark-like hotelier, Willy Bank (Pacino). Their plan is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 57,445 members
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  • Palindromes on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ellen Barkin,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  Valerie Shusterov
    Director: Todd Solondz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    12 year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a mum. She does all she can to make this happen, but her plans are thwarted by her sensible parents. She runs away, still determined to get pregnant, but instead finds herself lost in another world, one filled with all sorts of strange possibilities...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 5,952 members
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  • She Hate Me on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Anthony Mackie,  Kerry Washington,  Ellen Barkin
    Director: Spike Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Well-known for his ability to combine political and social issues with a poignant story, Spike Lee writes, directs, and produces SHE HATE ME. John Henry Jack Armstrong (Anthony Mackie), an executive at a pharmaceutical company, blows the whistle on the company's CEO over an ethics issue, and is ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,860 member
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  • Animal Attraction on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ashley Judd,  Hugh Jackman,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Tony Goldwyn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After a series of ill-fated relationships, Jane (Ashley Judd) has finally met Mr. Right, Ray (Greg Kinnear)--he's emotionally available, and not afraid of commitment. Six weeks into their blissful courtship, he asks her to move in with him, and they start looking at apartments. But little by little ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,977 member
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  • Mercy (2000)
    Starring: Ellen Barkin,  Wendy Crewson,  Peta Wilson
    Director: Damian Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Detective Catherine Palmer investigates a series of sexually gruesome serial murders and becomes embroiled in a world of lesbianism and bondage after she becomes obsessed with one of the victims' paramours.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 16 members
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  • The Fan on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Wesley Snipes,  Ellen Barkin
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Quick-tempered Gil Renard (Robert De Niro) has an ex-wife who hates him, a son who fears him, and a job that he's about to lose. The only thing that this down-on-his-luck knife salesman can count on is baseball. He's a loyal, die hard fan, specifically when it comes to his favorite player, Bobby ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,182 members
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  • Bad Company (1995)
    Starring: Ellen Barkin,  Laurence Fishburne,  Frank Langella
    Director: Damian Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Laurence Fishburne ('The Matrix'/ 'TINA - What's Love Got To Do With It') is Nelson Crowe, an undercover Government agent with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm There he teams up with Margaret Wells (Ellen Barkin - 'The Big Easy'), a master spy and seductive ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 35 members
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  • Wild Bill on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Ellen Barkin,  John Hurt
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Walter Hill's WILD BILL is a film biography of legendary outlaw James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (Jeff Bridges). The story covers the major events that shaped the gunman's life, including his work as a Kansas lawman, his stint in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, and his part-time ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,036 member
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  • This Boy's Life (1993)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ellen Barkin,  Leonardo DiCaprio
    Director: Michael Caton-Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A film based on Tobias Wolff's much-praised autobiography about his troubled youth.Caroline Wolff, divorced and with no job prospects, takes her son Toby on an aimless journey across 1950s America. They stop for a while in several towns, where Caroline gets involved with different men, but they ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,668 members
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  • Man Trouble on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Ellen Barkin,  Harry Dean Stanton
    Director: Bob Rafelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MAN TROUBLE, the fifth collaboration between Jack Nicholson and director Bob Rafelson, is a comical thriller. Nicholson plays Harry Bliss, who runs a guard dog service and is going through counselling with his wife, Adele(Lauren Tom). A serial killer is on the loose in Los Angeles, and when the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 183 members
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  • Into The West (1992)
    Starring: Gabriel Byrne,  Ellen Barkin,  Ruaidhri Conroy
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After his wife's death, an alcoholic father, who once lived a gypsy-like existence as part of a people known as the travellers, retires with his two sons to a dreary Dublin tenement. But the atmosphere brightens considerably when the children's grandfather, who remains a traveller and does not ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 545 members
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  • Sea Of Love on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Ellen Barkin,  John Goodman
    Director: Harold Becker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Two detectives, one from New York, the other from Long Island join forces to track down a bizarre serial killer. Convinced of a beautiful suspect's innocence, the New York detective starts an affair with her, despite hard evidence linking her to the murders.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,333 members
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  • Johnny Handsome on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Mickey Rourke,  Ellen Barkin,  Lance Henriksen
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A small-time criminal with a disfigured face takes the rap of a soured robbery. In jail, he receives a new face and is granted parole. He begins an honest life, but his old partners show up to spoil his plans, except he has plans too - of revenge.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 354 members
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  • Blood Money on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Andy Garcia,  Ellen Barkin,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Jerry Schatzberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is the story of Clinton and Nadine. Clinton is a small time bird smuggler who gets caught up in a twisted web of danger and deception. Nadine's an ex-hooker who is inexorably pulled in with him. So what could arms traffickers possibly want from them?
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 122 members
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  • The Big Easy on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Dennis Quaid,  Ellen Barkin,  Ned Beatty
    Director: Jim McBride
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this steamy, spicy mystery a prosecutor is sent to New Orleans to investigate police corruption. All the evidence points to a Cajun detective she falls in love with immediately, and though the trial forces him temporarily off the squad it doesn't stop him from investigating the case or from ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,442 member
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  • Down By Law on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Chris Parker,  Tom Waits,  Leila Gastil
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A disc jockey, a pimp, and an Italian tourist end up in the same jail cell in this comedy from acclaimed director Jim Jarmusch. Eventually, the trio escapes into the wilds of Louisiana, with no refuge in sight. As the three harmless fugitives, Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni each deliver ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,015 members
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Ellen Barkin facts

5 most recent films

Happy Tears - 2.5 stars
Ocean's Thirteen - 3.5 stars
Ocean's Thirteen - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Ocean's Thirteen - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Palindromes - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Into The West - 3.5 stars
Down By Law - 3.5 stars
This Boy's Life - 3.5 stars
Ocean's Thirteen - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Ocean's Thirteen - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Mercy - 2.0 stars
Brooklyn's Finest - 2.5 stars
Happy Tears - 2.5 stars
Bad Company - 2.5 stars
Mad Dog Time - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Andy Garcia - 4 times - show films
Don Cheadle - 4 times - show films
Al Pacino - 3 times - show films
Bernie Mac - 3 times - show films
George Clooney - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Steven Soderbergh - 3 times - show films
Damian Harris - 2 times - show films
Walter Hill - 2 times - show films
Blake Edwards - 1 times - show films
Tony Scott - 1 times - show films