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Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix ( born October 28, 1974), formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is a film actor, musician, and occasional rapper. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he lived for the first 4 years of his childhood. His family then moved to the continental United States, where he was raised. Among the many places in which he lived, because of his family's frequent moving, were Mexico and various countries in South America. Phoenix is from a family of performers which includes his older brother, the late River Phoenix.
Phoenix has ventured behind the camera, directing music videos as well as producing movies and television shows, and has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk The Line. He is also known for his work as a social activist, particularly as an advocate for animal rights. On October 27, 2008, he announced his retirement from film in order to focus on his rapping career.
Joaquin has made a triumphant return to acting in Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Ma Ster'.
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Joaquin Phoenix regrets Oscars comments -
9 November 2012
-Joaquin Phoenix regrets his recent dismissal of the Academy Awards as "the stupidest thing in the whole world", insisting his comments don't reflect his real views on the Hollywood prizegiving.-The actor has twice been nominated for an Oscar, for his films Gladiator and
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Joaquin Phoenix wracked with anxiety working with Seymour Hoffman -
24 October 2012
-Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix feared he would be fired every day he worked on new drama The Master because he was wracked with nerves whenever he had a scene with his "genius" co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman.-The Walk the Line actor plays Freddie Quell, a troubled, alcoh
Joaquin Phoenix - what members say
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Tense thriller 18 February 2004
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Not your average costume drama! 30 December 2004
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2 March 2004
Joaquin Phoenix - filmography
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The Master
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Amy Adams, Rami Malek, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs this Academy Award-nominated drama about a US Navy veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who seeks salvation in the company of a charismatic cult leader. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Freddie Quell, a troubled drifter who arrives home to post-WWII ..read more »
 
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The Master - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Amy Adams, Rami Malek, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Paul Thomas Anderson writes and directs this Academy Award-nominated drama about a US Navy veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who seeks salvation in the company of a charismatic cult leader. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Freddie Quell, a troubled drifter who arrives home to post-WWII ..read more »
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I'm Still Here
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix
Director: Casey Affleck
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I'M STILL HERE is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, I'M STILL HERE follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a ..read more »
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I'm Still Here - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix
Director: Casey Affleck
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Faux documentary following a year in the life of award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix. Beginning in autumn 2008, the film focuses on Phoenix's decision to move away from the acting world into music, more specifically hip hop, and follows the star's transition into this new industry, which includes ..read more »
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Two Lovers - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: John Ortiz, Isabella Rossellini, Nick Gillie
Director: James Gray
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Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow star in this New York-set romantic drama. Aspiring photographer and lonely introvert Leonard (Phoenix) has moved back into his parents' home following a recent heartbreak. His concerned parents try to set him up with Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), the sweet and caring ..read more »
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Two Lovers
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw
Director: James Gray
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A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor (Phoenix) torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.
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Reservation Road
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Mark Ruffalo, Sean Curley
Director: Terry George
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A tale of anger, revenge, and great courage, the film follows two fathers as their families and lives converge. On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello--beautifully, ..read more »
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from 4,642 members
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We Own The Night - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Alex Veadov, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes
Director: James Gray
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Thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Duvall and Mark Wahlberg. Bobby Green (Phoenix) has forsaken his name to escape his family and their tradition in law enforcement to pursue his ambitions as a Brooklyn nightclub owner. As he turns a blind eye to the drug dealing all around him, he comes ..read more »
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from 134 members
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Walk The Line - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Dan Beene, Shelby Lynn, San
Director: James Mangold
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Drama following the life of the legendary 'Man in Black', Johnny Cash. The movie begins in 1955, when a tough, skinny guitar-slinger who called himself J.R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) walks into the soon-to-be-famous Sun Studios in Memphis. It was a moment that would have an indelible effect on ..read more »
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from 1,331 member
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Walk The Line
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Dan Beene, Shelby Lynn, Sandra Ellis-Lafferty
Director: James Mangold
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Drama following the life of the legendary 'Man in Black', Johnny Cash. The movie begins in 1955, when a tough, skinny guitar-slinger who called himself J.R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) walks into the soon-to-be-famous Sun Studios in Memphis. It was a moment that would have an indelible effect on ..read more »
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from 82,819 members
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I'm Still Here
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson
Director: Lauren Lazin
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Documentary based around a montage of archival film, personal photos and text, drawings and readings from the real-life diaries of young people who witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust first-hand. Joaquin Phoenix, Elijah Wood and Kate Hudson are among the actors who read from the journals.
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Ladder 49
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: John Travolta, Balthazar Getty, Jacinda Barrett
Director: Jay Russell
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Action drama about how extraordinary heroes emerge out of ordinary lives. While trying to rescue a trapped civilian, firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) finds himself trapped and surrounded by flames. Outside Fire Chief Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), battles to get his friend out alive. As ..read more »
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from 31,223 members
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Hotel Rwanda
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Sophie Okonedo, Desmond Dube, Don Cheadle
Director: Terry George
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Harrowing drama set during the Rwandan conflict of the 1990s. The Rwandan conflict of the 1990s marked one of the bloodiest chapters in recent African history. Over the course of 100 days, almost one million people were killed. The streets of the capital city of Kigali ran red with rivers of blood, ..read more »
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from 88,524 members
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The Village
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Atmospheric psychological thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Covington is a small rural Pennsylvanian village locked into an unusual pact: beyond the village boundaries lurk terrifying creatures, but these creatures have agreed to stay outwith the villagers' territory so long as the villagers ..read more »
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from 62,340 members
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Ladder 49 - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: John Travolta, Balthazar Getty, Jacinda Barrett
Director: Jay Russell
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Action drama about how extraordinary heroes emerge out of ordinary lives. While trying to rescue a trapped civilian, firefighter Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) finds himself trapped and surrounded by flames. Outside Fire Chief Mike Kennedy (John Travolta), battles to get his friend out alive. As ..read more »
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from 898 members
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Brother Bear
(2003)
Starring: Dave Thomas, D.B. Sweeney, Jason Raize
Director: Rob Walker, Aaron Blaise
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Driven by the emotional and joyous rhythms of five great new songs from Academy-Award® winner Phil Collins, "Brother Bear" is Disney's exciting new animated holiday adventure. Set against the majestic natural splendor of the Great American Northwest, the film tells the story of a boy named Kenai, ..read more »
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from 16,784 members
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It's All About Love
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sean Penn, Douglas Henshall, Margo Martindale
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
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Unusual sci-fi romance from Danish director Thomas Vintenberg, set in a near-future world teetering on the brink of environmental collapse: children are dying on the streets in New York from an unexplained illness; the weather has become unpredictable to the point where snowstorms are a regular ..read more »
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from 3,960 members
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Signs
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mel Gibson, Cherry Jones
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Reverend Graham Hess discovers a five hundred foot crop circle on his farmland which creates a media frenzy. Hess and his family tries to determine what the crop circle means...
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Buffalo Soldiers
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Anna Paquin, Leon, Scott Glenn
Director: Gregor Jordan
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Gregor Jordan's film takes place in Germany during the last days of the Cold War. Stuck on duty as Batallion Clerk at a US Army base in West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ray Elwood (Joaquin Phoenix) maintains a lucrative sideline in blackmarket trade under the nose of his superiors - ..read more »
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from 15,944 members
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Gladiator - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Russell Crowe, Connie Nielsen
Director: Ridley Scott
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Drawing its inspiration from Anthony Mann's 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964) and Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (1960), Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning take on the Roman epic lavishes the genre with the very latest in computer-generated effects technology. After the death of Emperor Marcus ..read more »
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Quills
(2000)
Starring: Stephen Moyer, Kate Winslet, Kate Winslet
Director: Philip Kaufman
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Imprisoned in the Charenton asylum near Paris, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) continues to produce his notorious erotic writings. When he finishes his latest novel, 'Justine', the young chambermaid Madeleine (Kate Winslet) smuggles it out to be published. The authorities are shocked by the ..read more »
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from 7,115 members
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The Yards
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Steve Lawrence, James Caan, Faye Dunaway
Director: James Gray
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Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) is fresh out of prison and keen to put his life in order. Returning to the bosom of his family, he manages to get a job with his influential uncle Frank (James Caan), and is also reunited with his best friend Willy (Joaquin Phoenix) and Willy's girlfriend Erica (Charlize ..read more »
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from 2,249 members
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Gladiator
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Russell Crowe, Connie Nielsen
Director: Ridley Scott
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Drawing its inspiration from Anthony Mann's 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' (1964) and Stanley Kubrick's 'Spartacus' (1960), Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning take on the Roman epic lavishes the genre with the very latest in computer-generated effects technology. After the death of Emperor Marcus ..read more »
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from 78,032 members
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8MM
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Catherine Keener, Peter Stormare, Nicolas Cage
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Oscar winner Nicolas Cage stars as Tom Welles, a surveillance expert with an inauspicious home-based business. Whilst he spends the majority of his time on mundane and respectable work, he is still awaiting the case that will secure his professional reputation. His latest case involves a reel of ..read more »
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Return To Paradise
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Jada Pinkett-Smith, David Conrad
Director: Joseph Ruben
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College graduates Sheriff (Vince Vaughn), Tony (David Conrad) and Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix) are on holiday in Malaysia enjoying a hedonistic lifestyle. Sheriff and Tony return to America leaving their supplies of hashish with Lewis, who wants to stay longer in Penang. Two years later Tony and Sheriff ..read more »
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Clay Pigeons
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Gregory Sporleder, Scott Wilson
Director: David Dobkin
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Joaquin Phoenix stars as Clay who watches his best friend kill himself after he finds out that Clay was sleeping with his wife. When Clay tries to end his affair with the wife after this, she proves to be very difficult to get rid of - until Clay befriends demented killer Lester Long (Vince Vaughn),..read more »
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U Turn
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Abraham Benrubi, Sean Penn, Laurie Metcalf
Director: Oliver Stone
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Gambler Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) is en route to Las Vegas to pay off a debt when his car breaks down in the town of Superior, Arizona. Forced to hang around for several hours while the vehicle is fixed, Bobby meets first the seductive Grace McKenna (Jennifer Lopez), then her brutal, older husband, ..read more »
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Inventing The Abbotts
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Billy Crudup, Will Patton, Liv Tyler
Director: Pat O'Connor
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In Fifties Illinois, the working class Holt brothers, Doug (Joaquin Phoenix) and Jacey (Billy Crudup), lust after the socially superior Abbott daughters. Jacey resents the rumours that his widowed mother, Helen (Kathy Baker), had an affair with Lloyd Abbott (Will Patton). Jacey begins an affair ..read more »
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To Die For
(1995)
Starring: Wayne Knight, Kurtwood Smith, Alison Folland
Director: Gus Van Sant
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A small town girl (Nicole Kidman) has an ambition to become a national TV personality, but her dream becomes an obsession after she talks her way into working as a weather girl at the local TV station. She wants to make a documentary about the local kids, but her meeting with a rebellious teenager ..read more »
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To Die For
(1994)
Starring: Tony Slattery, Casey Affleck, Caroline Munro
Director: Peter Litten, Gus Van Sant
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A small town girl (Nicole Kidman) has an ambition to become a national TV personality, but her dream becomes an obsession after she talks her way into working as a weather girl at the local TV station. She wants to make a documentary about the local kids, but her meeting with a rebellious teenager ..read more »
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Space Camp
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Tate Donovan, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston
Director: Harry Winer
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Five teenagers go to NASA Summer Camp to learn what it's like to be an astronaut. By accident, they and their instructor (Kate Capshaw) are launched into space and they must work out how to get back to Earth.
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Murder She Wrote - Series 1
(6 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Martin Landau, Leslie Nieslen
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All 21 episodes from the first series of the American television detective series, starring Angela Lansbury as the mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, who always finds herself with real-life murders to solve when touring to promote her books. In this series, Jessica tries to clear her niece's fiancé's ..read more »
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Joaquin Phoenix facts
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.... What makes this a better than average film is the acting of Nicholas Cage and Joaquin Phoenix. Cage excels at playing these multi-faceted characters with a light and dark si...
