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Bill Pullman
William James "Bill" Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American film, television, and stage actor. Pullman made his film debut as the supporting role of Earl Mott in the 1986 film Ruthless People. He has since gone on to star in other films, including Spaceballs, Independence Day, Lost Highway, Casper and Scary Movie 4. He has starred in a number of plays and is also a Jury Member for Filmaka.
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Bill Pullman - news / articles
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Pullman stars in mango mania documentary -
14 July 2011
-Independence Day star Bill Pullman has become a mango expert thanks to a new fruit documentary he is part of.-The actor has been a fan of rare fruits for years and grows them in the orchard at his home in Los Angeles, and when he was approached to appear in documenta
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Pullman not sure if he'll be back as Independence Day president -
17 November 2009
-Movie president Bill Pullman is trying not to think about a rumoured Independence Day sequel - because he fears he won't be a part of it.-
-The actor played President Thomas J. Whitmore in the 1996 blockbuster and accepts the U.S. leader would only have been able to
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Movie wine buff Pullman has no sense of smell -
16 November 2009
-Actor Bill Pullman was an odd choice to play a wine expert in 2008 sleeper hit Bottle Shock - because a theatre accident cost him his sense of smell.-
-The Independence Day star admits he doesn't have a nose for good wine - because he can't tell whether a vintage is
Bill Pullman - what members say
review by A customer from Guildford
One of my favourites 18 March 2005
review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
superb......... 1 March 2007
review by from Uckfield
A Good Story 12 September 2005
Bill Pullman - filmography
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Lola Versus
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Bill Pullman, Zoe Lister-Jones
Director: Daryl Wein
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Greta Gerwig stars in this New York-set romantic comedy. When she is unceremoniously dumped by her long-time boyfriend just three weeks before their wedding, 29-year-old Lola (Gerwig) enlists the help of her friends Henry (Hamish Linklater) and Alice (Zoe Lister-Jones) to help get her life back on ..read more »
 
55%
from 199 members
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Lola Versus - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Greta Gerwig, Bill Pullman, Zoe Lister-Jones
Director: Daryl Wein
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Greta Gerwig stars in this New York-set romantic comedy. When she is unceremoniously dumped by her long-time boyfriend just three weeks before their wedding, 29-year-old Lola (Gerwig) enlists the help of her friends Henry (Hamish Linklater) and Alice (Zoe Lister-Jones) to help get her life back on ..read more »
50%
from 155 members
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Bringing Up Bobby
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Bill Pullman, Marcia Cross
Director: Famke Janssen
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In an effort to escape her murky past and build a better future, Olive (Milla Jovovich), a nomadic European con-artist, and her 10-year-old son Bobby (Spencer List), find themselves living in Oklahoma. Olive enrols him in school, makes him do his homework and tries her hardest to be a good mother, ..read more »
54%
from 24 members
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The Killer Inside Me
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, "The Killer Inside Me" tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small-town deputy sheriff Lou Ford, who has a bunch of problems. Women problems. Law-enforcement problems. And an ever-growing pile of murder victims in his west Texas ..read more »
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from 18,689 members
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The Killer Inside Me - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, "The Killer Inside Me" tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small-town deputy sheriff Lou Ford, who has a bunch of problems. Women problems. Law-enforcement problems. And an ever-growing pile of murder victims in his west Texas ..read more »
58%
from 5,518 members
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Bottle Shock
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor
Director: Randall Miller
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In 1976, a small American winery bested the exalted French wines of the time and sent the wine industry into a tizzy--putting California wines on the map for good. Based on a true story, "Bottle Shock" chronicles the events leading up to the famous "Judgment of Paris" tastings, told through the ..read more »
64%
from 2,135 members
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Phoebe in Wonderland
(2008)
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, Elle Fanning
Director: Daniel Barnz
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"Phoebe in Wonderland" is a whimsical tale of a young girl who can't seem to follow the rules. Perplexed by her inability to get along with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment and comfort from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but anguished mother ..read more »
78%
from 33 members
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You Kill Me
(2007)
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, Ben Kingsley, Bill Pullman
Director: John Dahl
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Comedy starring Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni. Frank Falenczyk (Kingsley) loves his job. He just happens to be a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his Uncle (..read more »
58%
from 5,761 members
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Nobel Son
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy
Director: Randall Miller
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Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PHD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose ..read more »
58%
from 384 members
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Alien Autopsy
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Ant McPartlin, Jimmy Carr
Director: Johnny Campbell
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Comedy based on true events. In 1995 a piece of top-secret military film from Roswell in 1947 that showed the autopsy of an Alien being was broadcast around the globe. The film is brought to the attention of the world by best friends Ray (Declan Donnelly) and Gary (Anthony McPartlin). A media ..read more »
56%
from 27,686 members
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Dear Wendy
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Novella Nelson, Michael Angarano
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
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Drama starring Jamie Bell as Dick, a loner living in a poor US mining town who happens upon a small antique handgun, and finds himself strangely drawn to it. He convinces other young outcasts to join him in a secret club he calls 'The Dandies'. It's a club based on the conflicting ideals of ..read more »
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from 4,780 members
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Revelations
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Natascha McElhone, Michael Massee
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter, David Semel
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The time of miracles is once again at hand in the six-hour epic event, Revelations. Bill Pullman (Independence Day) stars as Harvard professor Dr. Richard Massey, an astrophysicist who's certain that all worldly events can be explained by science. He is challenged by Sister Josepha Montafiore (..read more »
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from 1,090 member
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Ignition
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Peter Kent, Bill Pullman, Lena Olin
Director: Yves Simoneau
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Yves Simoneau's political thriller follows Conor Gallagher (Bill Pullman), a former Marine Corps helicopter pilot, who is assigned to protect Federal Judge Faith Mattis (Lena Olin). Mattis is preparing for the most explosive case of her career involving some of the highest levels of the military, ..read more »
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from 399 members
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The Guilty
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Joanne Whalley, Bill Pullman, Angela Featherstone
Director: Anthony Walker
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Crime thriller starring Bill Pullman as hot shot lawyer Callum Crane. Crane, the company golden boy, thinks he's untouchable. So when he brutally rapes new secretary Sophie (Gabrielle Anwar) in an alcohol-fuelled rage, he believes he can just fire the girl and forget about it. But Sophie won't stay ..read more »
54%
from 258 members
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Titan A.E.
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Matt Damon, Nathan Lane
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
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Fifteen years after the planet Earth has been destroyed by the dreaded Drej, there emerges a young hero named Cale, the bearer of a genetically-encoded map which shows the way to the Titan, a mysterious spaceship which has long held the promise of a new beginning for the human race. Accompanied by ..read more »
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from 4,644 members
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Spy Games
(1999)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Irene Jacob, Bruno Kirby
Director: Ilkka Jarvi-Laturi
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A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki.
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from 8 members
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Brokedown Palace
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim, Daniel Lapaine
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Alice Marano (Claire Danes) and Darlene Davis (Kate Beckinsale) are childhood friends who graduate from high-school together. They celebrate by holidaying in Thailand, where they meet attractive young Australian backpacker Nick. Darlene sleeps with him, much to Alice's displeasure, but the girls ..read more »
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from 1,880 member
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Lake Placid
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Betty White, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt
Director: Steve Miner
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When a man is eaten alive by a mysterious creature in the beautiful Lake Placid area of New England, New York scientist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) arrives to investigate and, examining the evidence, soon confirms that the creature is a giant crocodile. Teaming up with local game warden Jack Wells (..read more »
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from 5,328 members
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Zero Effect
(1998)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Ryan O'Neal
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Daryl Zero is a hero - but a hilariously dysfunctional one. A loner who's scared to go out socially, he only has his work, and a sharply-honed power of impartial observation, which has sealed his reputation as the world's most effective criminal investigator!
Zero and his fast-talking front man, ..read more »
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from 88 members
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The End Of Violence
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne
Director: Wim Wenders
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Wim Wenders directs this psychological thriller. On the same day that his wife, Paige (Andie MacDowell), walks out on him, horror flick producer Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is abducted by two hitmen. The next day there is no sign of Mike, but the decapitated corpses of the hitmen are discovered under a ..read more »
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from 283 members
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Lost Highway - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Director: David Lynch
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Saxophonist Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) receives a series of videos showing the exterior, then the interior, of the house he shares with his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). Then, after meeting a mysterious man at a party, he receives another tape showing him with Renee's dismembered corpse. Found ..read more »
68%
from 152 members
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Lost Highway
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty
Director: David Lynch
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Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but ..read more »
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from 7,482 members
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Wrong, Mr.
(1996)
Starring: Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack
Director: Nick Castle
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A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince anyone else of his Jekyll/Hyde true nature.
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from 11 members
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Independence Day
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Randy Quaid, Mary McDonnell
Director: Roland Emmerich
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When massive spaceships appear, hovering above planet Earth, the world stands in awe and wonder. This soon turns to terror as the aliens launch an all-out attack, devastating the planet. The survivors, led by American President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman), decide to fight back. The ..read more »
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from 39,821 members
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Casper
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle
Director: Brad Silberling
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Casper is a friendly but lonely young ghost who can't seem to help scaring people. Then, one day, two new visitors show up on the doorstep of his fantastically haunted house, Whipstaff Manor: Kat Harvey and her eccentric dad, Dr. Harvey, a self-styled ghost therapist. Whipstaff's scheming owner, ..read more »
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from 5,986 members
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While You Were Sleeping
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Glynis Johns, Bill Pullman, Sandra Bullock
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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This latter-day romantic screwball comedy stars Sandra Bullock as a love-starved subway toll booth operator, Lucy. Lucy pines for regular customer Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), but the self-absorbed attorney pays her no heed. One day, Peter is beaten by a gang of thugs and tossed onto the ..read more »
69%
from 18,084 members
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The Favor
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Harley Jane Kozak, Ken Wahl
Director: Donald Petrie
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'Thirtysomething'-style comedy in which happily married Kathy becomes obsessed with an old high school boyfriend and bored with her computer boffin husband, determined to find out what her old boyfriend is like in bed now, she despatches her best friend Emily to find out.
43%
from 68 members
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Wyatt Earp
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Epic re-telling of the life of Wyatt Earp from law student, through petty crook to lawman and entrepreneur. The much-filmed Gunfight at the OK Corral is only a minor part of the tale and almost slips by without anyone noticing. Kevin Costner stars as the famous lawman and most feared gunslinger of ..read more »
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from 4,931 members
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Wyatt Earp - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Epic re-telling of the life of Wyatt Earp from law student, through petty crook to lawman and entrepreneur. The much-filmed Gunfight at the OK Corral is only a minor part of the tale and almost slips by without anyone noticing. Kevin Costner stars as the famous lawman and most feared gunslinger of ..read more »
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from 1,026 member
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The Last Seduction
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Walter Addison, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman
Director: John Dahl
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Linda Fiorentino plays the 'femme fatale' in this cynical thriller about a clever and beautiful woman who runs rings around everyone in order to get what she wants. After persuading her doctor husband to sell a batch of pharmaceutical cocaine on the street, she double-crosses him and takes to the ..read more »
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from 4,865 members
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Sommersby
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, Jodie Foster
Director: Jon Amiel
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Celebrated remake of the French hit 'The Return of Martin Guerre' with Richard Gere in the Depardieu role of a man returning from war changed by his experiences. Moving the setting of the original film from 16th Century France to post-civil war Tennessee, Jodie Foster plays the wife who though ..read more »
61%
from 2,097 members
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Sleepless in Seattle
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Rosie O'Donnell, Ross Malinger
Director: Nora Ephron
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Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) has lost his wife to cancer and, left to bring up his son alone, tries to make a new start by moving to Seattle. His son turns him into a radio heartthrob, however, when he makes an on-air appeal to potential partners for his grief-stricken father. Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), ..read more »
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from 25,153 members
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Malice
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Debrah Farentino, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth
Director: Harold Becker
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A college dean and a hospital volunteer are newlyweds restoring their beautiful house in New England. Their quiet lives are disrupted when they take on a mysterious lodger in the shape of a clever surgeon. When the surgeon performs an emergency operation on the wife while drunk, the lives of the ..read more »
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from 2,172 members
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A League Of Their Own
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Janet Jones, Lori Petty, Madonna
Director: Penny Marshall
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The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World War II. The league flourished until after World War II, when, with the men's return, the league was consigned to oblivion. Director ..read more »
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from 4,310 members
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Singles
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: James Le Gros, Bill Pullman, Matt Dillon
Director: Cameron Crowe
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'Singles' follows the love lives of a group of Twentysomethings who all live in the same apartment block in Seattle. Traffic planner Steve embarks on a turbulent relationship with Linda, a commited environmentalist who he meets at a club, while Janet, a coffee shop waitress, attempts to pin down ..read more »
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from 2,994 members
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Liebestraum
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Catherine Hicks, Bill Pullman, Kim Novak
Director: Mike Figgis
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When architectural writer Nick (Kevin Anderson) goes home to visit his dying mother, he runs into a friend who is in charge of demolishing a run-down but beautiful old department store. The writer begins to study the old building, the site of a gruesome murder to which his mother has some ..read more »
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from 179 members
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Sibling Rivalry
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Scott Bakula, Sam Elliott
Director: Carl Reiner
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An unhappily married woman (Kirstie Alley) has sex with a perfect stranger in a hotel room. When the stranger dies of a heart attack, she flees, leaving her wallet. A venetian blinds salesman stumbles into the room and mistakenly thinks he's killed the man. He contacts Alley, who, as if she hasn't ..read more »
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from 250 members
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Brain Dead
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Bud Cort, Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton
Director: Adam Simon
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A psychological horror based on a script by the original writer of 'Twilight Zone' (who incidentally died in 1967) and produced by Roger Corman's daughter Julie. Martin is a mathematician who has corporate secrets hidden within his brain and these secrets need to be revealed. But this means brain ..read more »
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from 493 members
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Spaceballs - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks
Director: Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks spoofs every sci-fi movie from 'Star Wars' and 'Alien' to 'Planet of the Apes' in this interstellar comedy. When Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) is kidnapped by the evil Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis), space adventurer Lone Star (Bill Pullman) and his doglike companion Barf (John Candy) are ..read more »
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from 29 members
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The Serpent And The Rainbow
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson
Director: Wes Craven
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Bill Pullman plays a young anthropologist who is sent to Haiti by an American pharmaceutical company to find the drug used by voodoo priests to revive the dead. Although initially sceptical, he becomes tangled in the web of an alien culture involving blood rites, snakes, tarantulas, scorpions, ..read more »
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from 1,347 member
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Spaceballs
(1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks
Director: Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks spoofs every sci-fi movie from 'Star Wars' and 'Alien' to 'Planet of the Apes' in this interstellar comedy. When Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) is kidnapped by the evil Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis), space adventurer Lone Star (Bill Pullman) and his doglike companion Barf (John Candy) are ..read more »
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...medy. I'm not usually a big fan of Sandra Bullock, but she's good in this, and Bill Pullman is absolutely gorgeous. The pair have such great chemistry. This film won't f...
