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  • Watchmen: Billy Crudup and Matthew Goode interview - 5 March 2009
    - -In the third and final part of our Watchmen interview, we talked to Billy Crudup and Matthew Goode, AKA Dr Manhattan and Ozymandias. Dr Manhattan is the only one of the Watchmen who has superpowers after an experiment gone wrong turned his alter ego the mild-man

Billy Crudup - what members say


  • Jesus' Son
  • Jesus' Son review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Rambling drug movie with a few brief highs 25 July 2004
    ...This intermittently entertaining film follows FH(Billy Crudup, superb) as he encounters a number of bizarre characters and falls in love with junkie Michelle(Samantha Morto...   Read customer review
  • Big Fish
  • Big Fish review by from ALSTON
    Rated - 3.0 stars 21 June 2004
    ...core, due in large part to the skills of the actors involved, most particularly Billy Crudup whose character, unlike the audience, is not allowed to get swept away by the f...   Read customer review
  • Stage Beauty
  • Stage Beauty review by from Midlands, UK
    Rated - 3.0 stars Identity, insecurity and indecision 5 January 2005
    ...s Charles I in To Kill a King with an excellent performance as King Charles II. Billy Crudup, however, is not quite pretty enough to play Ned - when characters remark on ho...   Read customer review

Billy Crudup - filmography


  • Eat, Pray, Love - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  James Franco,  Billy Crudup
    Director: Ryan Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone,..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 5,801 members
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  • Eat, Pray, Love on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  James Franco,  Billy Crudup
    Director: Ryan Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 27,388 members
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  • Public Enemies (2009)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Christian Bale,  Marion Cotillard
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome 'Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43', director Michael Mann (HEAT, LAST OF THE MOHICANS) has crafted a sprawling historical crime drama that follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,459 members
    Not available for rental
  • Watchmen on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Carla Gugino,  Billy Crudup,  Malin Akerman
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After the success of 300, director Zack Snyder turns to another comic adaptation with WATCHMEN. The smart series from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons centres on a group of masked heroes who find their talents banned in a fictional America. Someone begins to take down the former heroes one by one, and a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 51,586 members
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  • Watchmen - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Carla Gugino,  Billy Crudup,  Malin Akerman
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the graphic novel written by Alan Moore, Watchmen is a complex, multi-layered, mystery adventure which is directed by 300's Zack Snyder and stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode and Patrick Wilson. Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,047 members
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  • Watchmen - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Carla Gugino,  Billy Crudup,  Malin Akerman
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After the success of 300, director Zack Snyder turns to another comic adaptation with WATCHMEN. The smart series from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons centres on a group of masked heroes who find their talents banned in a fictional America. Someone begins to take down the former heroes one by one, and a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 9,033 members
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  • Public Enemies - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Christian Bale,  Marion Cotillard
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome 'Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43', director Michael Mann (HEAT, LAST OF THE MOHICANS) has crafted a sprawling historical crime drama that follows the efforts of top FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Christian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 306 members
    Not available for rental
  • Dedication (2007)
    Starring: Tom Wilkinson,  Billy Crudup,  Christine Taylor
    Director: Justin Theroux
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children's book author who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 37 members
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  • Stage Beauty on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Billy Crudup,  Rupert Everett
    Director: Richard Eyre
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the seventeenth century the roles of women in live theatre are played by men and one of the most famous is Ned Kynaston. When Charles II tires of the same old faces he decides to allow real women on the stage. Overnight Ned becomes a nobody and heads towards suicide until an actress named Maria ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 7,915 members
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  • Big Fish on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Albert Finney,  Billy Crudup
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Edward Bloom has always told tall tales of his life, that charm everyone apart from his son Will. When Will's mother Sandra tries to bring the pair back together, Will must try and learn what parts of his father's epic tales of giants, witches and blizzards are fact and which are fiction.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 47,707 members
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  • Big Fish - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Albert Finney,  Billy Crudup
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Tim Burton's family film BIG FISH, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. These are shown in flashback with Ewan McGregor playing the young Bloom. Wonderful special effects and vibrant ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,576 members
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  • Charlotte Gray on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Cate Blanchett,  Billy Crudup,  Michael Gambon
    Director: Gillian Armstrong
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    CHARLOTTE GRAY is directed by Gillian Armstrong (MRS. SOFFEL, OSCAR AND LUCINDA) with her signature recipe for success--a love story set in beautiful scenery played by an all-star cast. Here, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) is a Scottish woman in mid-WWII, living with an adventuresome pair of young ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 5,527 members
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  • Almost Famous on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Kate Hudson,  Frances McDormand
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Writer-director Cameron Crowe brings the 1970s music scene to life with his semiautobiographical story of a teen journalist who goes on the road with a rock band. Uncool 15-year-old William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is living every teenager's dream. He's touring with Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11,359 members
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  • Almost Famous - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Kate Hudson,  Frances McDormand
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Writer-director Cameron Crowe brings the 1970s music scene to life with his semiautobiographical story of a teen journalist who goes on the road with a rock band. Uncool 15-year-old William Miller (Patrick Fugit) is living every teenager's dream. He's touring with Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,389 member
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  • Waking The Dead on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Jennifer Connelly,  Molly Parker
    Director: Keith Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) is a promising young congressional candidate who becomes obsessed with the idea that his dead lover, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), is still alive. Because of her involvement with a group called Sanctuary that harbours Chilean dissidents, Sarah is presumably killed in a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,155 member
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  • Jesus' Son on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Holly Hunter,  Denis Leary,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Alison Maclean
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Alison Maclean's exhilarating adaptation of Denis Johnson's acclaimed short story collection is a deeply compassionate portrait of one man's descent into drug addiction, filled with a potent blend of surreal imagery and gritty realism. Remaining true to Johnson's original text, and in keeping with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,912 member
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  • The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Woody Harrelson,  Cole Hauser
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Just after World War II best friends Big Boy Matson (Woody Harrelson) and Pete Calder (Billy Crudup) return home to find half of their town employed by cattle baron Jim Ed Love (Sam Elliott). Hanging on to the mythic ideals of the American West Big Boy and Pete team up with an old time rancher ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3 members
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  • Without Limits (1998)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Donald Sutherland,  Monica Potter
    Director: Robert Towne
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to Oregon University where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 17 members
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  • Princess Mononoke on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Yoji Matsuda,  Yuriko Ishida,  Sumi Shimamoto
    Director: Hayao Miyazaki
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A beautifully realized tale of civilization versus nature, PRINCESS MONONOKE is a true epic by Japan's master animator Hayao Miyazaki. While protecting his village from a rampaging boar-god, the warrior Ashitaka (Billy Crudup) is cursed with a rapidly spreading scar that threatens to end his life. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 19,372 members
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  • Inventing The Abbotts on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Liv Tyler,  Joaquin Phoenix,  Billy Crudup
    Director: Pat O'Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the placid, potboiler-perfect 1950s hamlet of Haley, Illinois, life revolves around the wealthy and powerful Abbott family, which boasts three strapping brunette daughters in addition to its monetary assets. On the other side of the proverbial tracks live two fatherless brothers--one idolises ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,263 member
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  • Sleepers - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Robert De Niro,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tommy, John, Michael, and Shakes are four young teenage punks growing up in the streets of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 97 members
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  • Sleepers on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Robert De Niro,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tommy, John, Michael, and Shakes are four young teenage punks growing up in the streets of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 18,203 members
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Billy Crudup facts

5 most recent films

Eat, Pray, Love - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Eat, Pray, Love - 3.0 stars
Public Enemies - 3.5 stars
Watchmen - 3.0 stars
Watchmen - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Princess Mononoke - 4.0 stars
Almost Famous - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Sleepers - 3.5 stars
Sleepers - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Big Fish - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Dedication - 3.0 stars
Without Limits - 3.5 stars
The Hi-Lo Country - 3.5 stars
Waking The Dead - 2.5 stars
Trust the Man - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Philip Seymour Hoffman - 8 times - show films
Patrick Wilson - 7 times - show films
Matthew Goode - 7 times - show films
Malin Akerman - 7 times - show films
Carla Gugino - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Zack Snyder - 7 times - show films
J.J. Abrams - 5 times - show films
Cameron Crowe - 3 times - show films
Tim Burton - 3 times - show films
Barry Levinson - 2 times - show films