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  • Top 10 Joaquin Phoenix - 11 August 2009
    me_copy p{ margin-bottom:0; } .fleft{ width:600px; float:left; } - - - - -Parenthood (1989)- -Way before Joaquin Phoenix made a name for himself as an established actor or even begun rapping to the beat of his own allegedly crazed drum, he was gett


  • Gray slams Phoenix's rap career - 28 March 2009
    -Two Lovers director James Gray has hit out at the film's star Joaquin Phoenix - insisting the actor is "making a fool of himself" by launching a rap career.- -Phoenix recently announced he has quit acting in order to become a hip-hop-star and has since made a string of


  • Wacky Joaquin Phoenix - 26 March 2009
    - -Good news! Joaquin Phoenix hasn’t lost his mind. He isn’t hooked on hard drugs (as far as we know). And he isn’t about to give up acting for hip-hop. -He’s only joking. -That’s my conclusion after belatedly watching the starR

Joaquin Phoenix - what members say


  • 8MM
  • 8MM review by from London
    Rated - 2 stars Tense thriller 18 February 2004
    .... 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...  
  • Quills
  • Quills review by from Midlands, UK
    Rated - 5 stars Not your average costume drama! 30 December 2004
    ...f evil doctor Michael Caine. The supporting cast inclusing Kate Winslet and Joaquin Phoenix are as gorgeous as the revolution-era sets, and their doomed love affair very c...  
  • Signs
  • Signs review by from TELFORD
    Rated - 5 stars 2 March 2004
    ... family. Things go awry when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), awake early one morning to find the dogs barking and the children-Bo, and her...  

Joaquin Phoenix - filmography


  • Two Lovers on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Vinessa Shaw
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £3.49
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3,028 members
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  • Two Lovers - BLU-RAY Version (2009)
    Starring: Bob Ari,  Moni Moshonov,  Vinessa Shaw
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £3.49
    In this drama, a photographer named Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) is given the tough choice of choosing between two blonde beauties. His neighbour Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) is also in the midst of an affair with a married man, while family friend Sandra (Vinessa Shaw, GARDEN PARTY) reveals she may be ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 318 members
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  • We Own the Night on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  Eva Mendes,  Mark Wahlberg
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    New York 1988, Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has changed his name to conceal his family connection to a long line of distinguished New York cops in order to pursue ambitions as a Brooklyn nightclub owner. As he turns a blind eye to the drug dealers around him, he comes face to face with the family ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 30,429 members
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  • Walk The Line - BLU-RAY Version (2005)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  Reese Witherspoon,  Robert Patrick
    Director: James Mangold
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Primarily the story of the love that grew between country stars Johnny Cash and June Carter during the early years of Cash's career, WALK THE LINE is the result of intense collaboration between director James Mangold, co-writer Gill Dennis, Johnny Cash, and June Carter Cash. Though both Cashes died ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 69 members
    Due for release on 9th November 2009
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  • Ladder 49 on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  John Travolta,  Jacinda Barrett
    Director: Jay Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Joaquin Phoenix is great in this saga of Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison, whose life starts flashing before his eyes when he becomes trapped in a blazing high rise. Flashbacks chronicle his memories of being a rookie at his Baltimore fire company. He remembers fighting his first fire, bonding ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 29,599 members
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  • Signs on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  Mel Gibson,  Cherry Jones
    Director: M. Night Shyamalan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are changing the lives of the Hess family. Things go awry when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his brother, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 22,403 members
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  • Buffalo Soldiers on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Scott Glenn,  Ed Harris,  Elizabeth McGovern
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joaquin Phoenix stars in this dark service comedy as Ray Elwood, an Army clerk stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Part of a company made up almost entirely of ex-convicts and school dropouts, Elwood takes advantage of his daft commanding officer, Col. Berman (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 14,631 members
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  • Quills on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kate Winslet,  Michael Caine,  Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the award-winning play by Doug Wright, this erotic and fantastical drama reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in Charenton Asylum for the last 10 years of his life. QUILLS is a Gothic period piece from director Philip ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,861 members
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  • Gladiator - BLU-RAY Version (2000)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Joaquin Phoenix,  Oliver Reed
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN) transports Hollywood to second-century Rome in this rousing historical epic that proudly harkens back to such films as BEN-HUR and SPARTACUS. Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who leads the troops in conquering Germania for the empire. When an aging ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 425 members
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  • Gladiator on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Joaquin Phoenix,  Oliver Reed
    Director: Ridley Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ridley Scott (BLADE RUNNER, ALIEN) transports Hollywood to second-century Rome in this rousing historical epic that proudly harkens back to such films as BEN-HUR and SPARTACUS. Russell Crowe plays Maximus, a Roman general who leads the troops in conquering Germania for the empire. When an aging ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 66,504 members
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  • The Yards on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Charlize Theron,  Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director James Gray's second film is a dark and atmospheric exploration of the corruption that lies underneath both the surface of a New York City railway manufacturing company and the family that runs it. Mark Wahlberg turns in an impressive and quietly intense performance as Leo, a 24-year-old ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,598 member
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  • 8MM on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Joaquin Phoenix,  James Gandolfini
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Two features. In '8MM' Cage plays Tom Welles, a straight-laced surveillance specialist. His innocent, naive world begins to unravel when he is hired by the widow of an industrialist to investigate what she has shockingly discovered in her late husband's safe. It appears to be a snuff film of a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 6,454 members
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  • U-Turn on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Jennifer Lopez,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Oliver Stone shelved his social conscience while making this vicious nest-of-vipers noir. Sean Penn stars as Bobby Cooper, a gambler on the run who is forced to lay up in a desolate Arizona whistlestop with car trouble. Desperate and broke, he receives an offer from the middle-aged Jake McKenna (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,014 members
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  • To Die For (1995)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Matt Dillon,  Joaquin Phoenix
    Director: Gus Van Sant
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A cable-TV weather girl who'll do anything to become a celebrity seduces a high school student and convinces him to kill her go-nowhere husband in this black comedy. Gus Van Sant's sly satire on America's tabloid mentality is loosely adapted from Joyce Maynard's chronicle of the real-life tale of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,468 members
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Joaquin Phoenix - watch online


  • Two Lovers to Watch Now (2009)
    Starring: Joaquin Phoenix,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Vinessa Shaw
    Director: James Gray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 111 minutes
    Leonard is an attractive but troubled young man living with his parents in suburban Brooklyn when two women enter his life. The lovely but ordinary daughter of his father's new business partner and his beautiful but volatile neighbour trapped in a destructive affair, whose passion helps to reignite ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 9 members
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Joaquin Phoenix facts

5 most recent films

Two Lovers - 2.5 stars
Two Lovers - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Reservation Road - 3.0 stars
We Own the Night - 3.5 stars
We Own The Night - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Gladiator - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
Hotel Rwanda - 4.0 stars
Gladiator - 4.0 stars
Walk The Line - 3.5 stars
Walk The Line - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

To Die For - 3.0 stars
It's All About Love - 2.0 stars
Two Lovers - 2.5 stars
Two Lovers - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
The Yards - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Andy Garcia - 7 times - show films
Russell Crowe - 7 times - show films
Martin Landau - 7 times - show films
Tomas Arana - 7 times - show films
Richard Harris - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ridley Scott - 7 times - show films
none - 7 times - show films
James Gray - 6 times - show films
M. Night Shyamalan - 3 times - show films
Gus Van Sant - 3 times - show films