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  • Reilly humiliated by Aniston sex scene - 14 June 2010
    -Actor John C. Reilly was left red-faced on the set of romantic comedy The Good Girl when he had to simulate sex with a clearly-uncomfortable Jennifer Aniston.- -The pair star as husband and wife in the 2002 film and one scene sees the odd movie couple get intimate in t


  • Reilly desperate to play Sinatra's role in Guys & Dolls remake - 12 June 2010
    to get ugly in Hollywood if Guy Ritchie gets the greenlight to start work on movie musical remake Guys & Dolls - Walk Hard star John C. Reilly has threatened anyone who steals the role of Nathan Detroit from him with physical violence.- -That means Justin Timberlake sho


  • Reilly was 'scared witless' by Halloween movie - 18 October 2009
    -Actor John C. Reilly was scarred for life as a child when his mother took him to see gruesome slasher movie Halloween on the scariest night of the year (31Oct).- -The Boogie Nights actor recalls how he and his younger brother were taken to see the 1978 horror film, abo

John C. Reilly - what members say


  • Step Brothers
  • Step Brothers review by vidmonster from Glasgow
    Rated - 2.0 stars A Moral Centre Needed 30 August 2008
    ...s is an original movie starring two of hollywoods best actors. Will Ferrel and John C. Reilly revel in their roles of playing 40-year olds who are still big babies. Thefilm...   Read customer review
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin review by ShoutOut from
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Mother's Love Is Unconditional? 20 April 2012
    ...wn away by the acting of the main cast- Tilda Swinton who plays Eva the mother, John C. Reilly who plays Franklin the father, Ezra Miller who plays Kevin the son (i'll defina...   Read customer review

John C. Reilly - filmography


  • The Dictator - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen,  Megan Fox,  Anna Faris
    Director: Larry Charles
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Sacha Baron Cohen re-teams with director Larry Charles on their newest slice of satire with this Paramount Pictures release concerning a foreign dictator and a goat herder (both played by Cohen) as they make their way across America. Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, and Jason Mantzoukas head up the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 14 members
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  • Carnage (2011)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Kate Winslet,  Christoph Waltz
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the acclaimed play ‘God of Carnage’ by Yasmina Reza, and directed by legendary auteur Roman Polanski, Carnage pits power couple Nancy (Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce, The Reader) and Alan Cowan (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz (Water for Elephants, Inglourious ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 232 members
    Due for release on 18th June 2012
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  • Carnage - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Kate Winslet,  Christoph Waltz
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the acclaimed play ‘God of Carnage’ by Yasmina Reza, and directed by legendary auteur Roman Polanski, Carnage pits power couple Nancy (Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce, The Reader) and Alan Cowan (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz (Water for Elephants, Inglourious ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 42 members
    Due for release on 18th June 2012
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  • Cedar Rapids on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  John C. Reilly,  Alia Shawkat
    Director: Miguel Arteta
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tim Lippe (Helms) was the guy people always thought would go places but then he just ... didn't. He's been living in über-sleepy Brown Valley, Wisconsin his whole life, still "pre-engaged" to his 7th grade teacher Millie Vanderhei (Weaver), while selling insurance to protect other people's dreams. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,268 members
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  • Cedar Rapids - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  John C. Reilly,  Alia Shawkat
    Director: Miguel Arteta
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A childlike insurance salesman discovers his inner grown-up in this comedy from director Miguel Arteta and producer Alexander Payne. Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) sells insurance for a living. He's passionate about his career, so when the top salesman at the company dies on the eve of a big industry ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 28 members
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  • Cyrus on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jonah Hill,  Catherine Keener,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Jay Duplass,  Mark Duplass
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With his social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, down on his luck divorcée John (John C.Reilly) finally meets the woman of his dreams, Molly (Marissa Tomei), only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Cyrus (Jonah Hill) will go to any lengths to protect ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 8,520 members
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  • 9 - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Jennifer Connelly,  Martin Landau
    Director: Shane Acker
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Academy Award-nominated for his groundbreaking animated short of the same name, filmmaker Shane Acker makes his feature directorial debut with this expanded version of his acclaimed post-apocalyptic fable. In a world parallel to our own, the worst has happened, and humanity is in danger of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 201 members
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  • 9 (2009)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Jennifer Connelly,  Martin Landau
    Director: Shane Acker
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Academy Award-nominated for his groundbreaking animated short of the same name, filmmaker Shane Acker makes his feature directorial debut with this expanded version of his acclaimed post-apocalyptic fable. In a world parallel to our own, the worst has happened, and humanity is in danger of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 629 members
    Not available for rental
  • Cyrus - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Jonah Hill,  Catherine Keener,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Jay Duplass,  Mark Duplass
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With his social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, down on his luck divorcée John (John C.Reilly) finally meets the woman of his dreams, Molly (Marissa Tomei), only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Cyrus (Jonah Hill) will go to any lengths to protect ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 77 members
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  • Step Brothers on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Will Ferrell,  John C. Reilly,  Mary Steenburgen
    Director: Adam McKay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old, lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 39,792 members
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  • The Promotion on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Seann William Scott,  John C. Reilly,  Gil Bellows
    Director: Steve Conrad
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Living the American Dream, happily married Doug Stauber’s professional ambitions are about to be realised when his boss at the Chicago supermarket chain where he works assures him he's a shoo-in to manage a new neighbourhood store... Enter Richard Wehlner. He wants the job too. He has a better ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 640 members
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  • Step Brothers - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Will Ferrell,  John C. Reilly,  Mary Steenburgen
    Director: Adam McKay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old, lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 8,486 members
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  • Walk Hard -The Dewey Cox Story on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Kristen Wiig,  Jenna Fischer,  Tim Meadows
    Director: Jake Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Somewhere between pitch-perfect parodies from Christopher Guest and Co. (such as THIS IS SPINAL TAP and A MIGHTY WIND) and slapstick spoofs (such as AIRPLANE and NAKED GUN) resides the farcical biopic WALK HARD - THE DEWEY COX STORY. Taking the critically lauded Johnny Cash biopic WALK THE LINE as ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 6,613 members
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  • Dark Water - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Jennifer Connelly,  John C. Reilly,  Pete Postlethwaite
    Director: Walter Salles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Based on a story by Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki and a film by Hideo Nakata (THE RING), DARK WATER is a thrilling exercise in psychological terror. Jennifer Connelly stars as Dahlia, a troubled woman who is battling her husband, Kyle (Dougray Scott), for custody of their young daughter, Ceci (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 732 members
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  • Dark Water on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jennifer Connelly,  John C. Reilly,  Pete Postlethwaite
    Director: Walter Salles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Based on a story by Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki and a film by Hideo Nakata (THE RING), DARK WATER is a thrilling exercise in psychological terror. Jennifer Connelly stars as Dahlia, a troubled woman who is battling her husband, Kyle (Dougray Scott), for custody of their young daughter, Ceci (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 23,662 members
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  • The Aviator on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Cate Blanchett,  Kate Beckinsale
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR is a lavish spectacle of a motion picture that harks back to Hollywood's Golden Era in telling the story of Howard Hughes, one of 20th-century America's most pioneering and influential figures. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric billionaire, Scorsese's biopic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 76,909 members
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  • Gangs Of New York on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Daniel Day-Lewis,  Cameron Diaz
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon. Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon--once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 44,370 members
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  • The Hours - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Nicole Kidman,  Allison Janney
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, THE HOURS employs Virginia Woolf's classic novel and central character, MRS. DALLOWAY, as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning three different eras, during one day, the film focuses on the parallel lives of three women joined in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 50 members
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  • Chicago on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 23,984 members
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  • Chicago - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,081 member
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  • The Good Girl (2002)
    Starring: Jennifer Aniston,  Jake Gyllenhaal,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Miguel Arteta
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    THE GOOD GIRL, directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Mike White, stars Jennifer Aniston as Justine, a sullen 30-year-old woman stuck in a dead-end job at the Retail Rodeo department store. In addition to her mind-numbing occupation, Justine also has to contend with her dim-witted husband Phil (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 10,597 members
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  • The Hours on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Nicole Kidman,  Allison Janney
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham, THE HOURS employs Virginia Woolf's classic novel and central character, MRS. DALLOWAY, as its foundation and inspiration. Spanning three different eras, during one day, the film focuses on the parallel lives of three women joined in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 22,813 members
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  • The Perfect Storm - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Diane Lane,  Karen Allen
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Based on the engrossing nonfiction work by Sebastian Junger about the Andrea Gail--a commercial swordfishing boat that was lost at sea in October 1991--Wolfgang Petersen's THE PERFECT STORM brings the pages to life. The movie features a big-name cast (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg) playing the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,496 member
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  • The Perfect Storm on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Diane Lane,  Karen Allen
    Director: Wolfgang Petersen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Based on the engrossing non-fiction work by Sebastian Junger about the Andrea Gail-a commercial sword-fishing boat that was lost at sea in October 1991-Wolfgang Petersen's THE PERFECT STORM brings the pages to life. The movie features a big-name cast (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg) playing the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 10,556 members
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  • For Love Of The Game on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Kelly Preston,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Sam Raimi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Sam Raimi follows up his 1998 hit A SIMPLE PLAN with a movie that completes Kevin Costner's unofficial trilogy of baseball films. Told almost entirely in flashback, the film concerns an already legendary 40-year-old pitcher, Billy Chapel (Costner), pitching the last game of his career that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 904 members
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  • The Thin Red Line - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Adrien Brody,  James Caviezel
    Director: Terrence Malick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Terrence Malick returns to Hollywood after a two-decade hiatus with this adaptation of the classic WWII novel by James Jones. The story follows the efforts of an army platoon to capture the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean, which will have a major effect on the outcome ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 115 members
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  • The Thin Red Line on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Adrien Brody,  James Caviezel
    Director: Terrence Malick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Terrence Malick returns to Hollywood after a two-decade hiatus with this adaptation of the classic WWII novel by James Jones. The story follows the efforts of an army platoon to capture the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean, which will have a major effect on the outcome ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 13,606 members
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  • Nightwatch on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John C. Reilly,  Ewan McGregor,  Alix Koromzay
    Director: Ole Bornedal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    While choking down his new job as the night watchman in a creepy, eerily lit morgue, a squeamish law student (Ewan McGregor) finds himself targeted as a suspect in the serial killings of prostitutes. The film is long on style, with solid technical execution of the requisite alone-with-corpses ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,844 member
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  • Boogie Nights - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Burt Reynolds,  Julianne Moore
    Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    It's Los Angeles, 1977, and adult film director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) meets Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), a well-endowed dishwasher in a nightclub. Jack recruits Eddie to be his newest star and Eddie, hungry for fame, quickly agrees, changing his name to Dirk Diggler. Soon Dirk is the hottest ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 964 members
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  • Hard Eight on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  John C. Reilly,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sydney (Philip Baker Hall), a mysterious professional gambler, befriends John (John C. Reilly), a young man in trouble, and teaches him the ways of making a living in the casinos of Reno. John gets involved with Clementine (Gwyneth Paltrow), a pretty waitress who doubles as a prostitute, and Jimmy (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,382 member
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  • Boogie Nights on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Burt Reynolds,  Julianne Moore
    Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    While set within the milieu of the Los Angeles adult film industry, Boogie Nights is less a film about pornography than the serio-comic story of a group of misfits, losers, and lost souls who are embraced by Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a director who makes adult films, exotic motion pictures. In ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 16,840 members
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  • Boys on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Winona Ryder,  Lukas Haas,  John C. Reilly
    Director: Stacy Cochran
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Baker Jr.(Haas), a bored and awkward prep school senior, is jolted awake when he finds beautiful twentysomething Patty Vare (Ryder) lying unconscious near the academy. It soon becomes clear that she's harboring a terrible secret, involving her and a famous pitcher--who now happens to be ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 184 members
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  • Dolores Claiborne on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Kathy Bates,  Jennifer Jason Leigh,  David Strathairn
    Director: Taylor Hackford
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Eighteen years ago, the abusive husband of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) died under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled an accident despite the suspicions of police detective John Mackey. Now the elderly woman she has nursed for many years has also died-with Dolores found standing over ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,821 members
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  • The River Wild on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  David Strathairn,  Joseph Mazzello
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Gail (Meryl Streep), a former river guide, plans a white-water rafting trip to celebrate her son Roarke's (Joseph Mazzello) birthday and patch up her troubled marriage to her workaholic husband Tom (David Strathairn). As the family begins their river adventure, they meet Wade (Kevin Bacon), a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,292 members
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  • Days Of Thunder - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Nicole Kidman,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) is a young, cocky hotshot with little stock car driving experience and a lot of raw talent. Trickle's uncanny ability to make all the right moves on the racetrack wins him the backing of Tim Dolan (Randy Quaid), who wants to put him in a car. Eventually he wins the support ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 743 members
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  • Days Of Thunder on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Nicole Kidman,  Robert Duvall
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) is a young, cocky hotshot with little stock car driving experience and a lot of raw talent. Trickle's uncanny ability to make all the right moves on the racetrack wins him the backing of Tim Dolan (Randy Quaid), who wants to put him in a car. Eventually he wins the support ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 8,908 members
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  • Casualties Of War on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Sean Penn,  Dan Harvey
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Casualties of War was based on a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang. This, in turn, was inspired by a true incident which illustrated the dehumanizing aspects of the Vietnam experience. Michael J. Fox plays Eriksson, a member of an American squadron stationed in the deepest jungles of Southeast Asia...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 3,436 members
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  • Casualties Of War - Blu-ray (1989)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Sean Penn,  Dan Harvey
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After being denied the chance to go to a nearby village to visit a prostitute before starting a reconnaissance mission, a tough, embittered American sergeant (Sean Penn) involves the four men of his patrol in the kidnapping of a young Vietnamese woman. The impending gang rape and murder of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 79 members
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  • The Settlement on DVD
    Starring: Kelly McGillis,  John C. Reilly,  William Fichtner
    Director: Mark Steilen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jerry and Pat are a pair of con men who make money by buying life insurance policies off of the terminally ill. Unfortunately, business has been bad due to a number of clients who have outlived expectations. When the pair meet Barbara (McGillis), a beautiful and ill woman, the three of them and the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 43% from 39 members
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John C. Reilly facts

5 most recent films

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie - 2.5 stars
The Dictator - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Dictator - 3.5 stars
We Need to Talk About Kevin - 3.5 stars
Terri - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Thin Red Line - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Boogie Nights - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - 3.5 stars
Gangs Of New York - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Casualties Of War - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Settlement - 2.5 stars
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie - 2.5 stars
The Extra Man - 3.0 stars
Terri - 3.5 stars
The Hours - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tim Heidecker - 15 times - show films
Eric Wareheim - 15 times - show films
Leonardo DiCaprio - 7 times - show films
Mark Wahlberg - 6 times - show films
Nicole Kidman - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Eric Wareheim - 28 times - show films
Tim Heidecker - 28 times - show films
Jonathan Krisel - 20 times - show films
Martin Scorsese - 9 times - show films
Rob Marshall - 5 times - show films