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  • Up
  • Up review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 5 stars superb.................................. 2 June 2009
    ...showcased at the Cannes film festival and is superb. Up features the voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson and Jordan Nagai. Up is a computer-animated...  

Edward Asner - filmography


  • Gigantic on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Paul Dano,  Zooey Deschanel,  John Goodman
    Director: Matt Aselton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gigantic is a funny, oddly romantic love story about the unanticipated anxiety that comes when two crazy people unexpectedly collide. Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano) is a 28 year-old salesman at a high-end Swedish mattress company. The afterthought child to elderly parents (Ed Asner, Jane Alexander)..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 377 members
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  • Up (2009)
    Starring: Edward Asner,  Christopher Plummer,  Jordan Nagai
    Director: Pete Docter,  Bob Peterson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In this "coming of old age" story, a seventysomething hero, alongside his clueless wilderness ranger sidekick, travels the globe, fighting beasts and villains, and eating dinner at 3:30 in the afternoon.
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 676 members
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  • The Christmas Card (2006)
    Starring: Edward Asner,  Peter Jason,  John Newton
    Director: Stephen Bridgewater
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    While on duty in Afghanistan, Captain Cullen (John Newton) receives a Christmas card from his hometown in California that lifts his low spirits. Months later, he is propelled on an inspirational journey to find the card's sender, Faith (Alice Evans), in this touching made-for-TV movie.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 10 members
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  • Sleeping Dogs Lie on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Brad Wilk,  Edward Asner,  Maynard James Keenan
    Director: Stuart Lessner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jeff Hannon stumbles upon what he believes to be a 30-year-old murder in a small Texas town. Haunted by ceaseless nightmares, Jeff drives to Bueford, Texas to enlist the local authorities to help solve the murder mystery and hopefully put an end to the visions that horrify him. Hannon's own fate ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 145 members
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  • Elf on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Will Ferrell,  James Caan,  Bob Newhart
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Will Ferrell makes yet another memorable splash on the big screen in Jon Favreau's sweet and hilarious Christmas fable. Ferrell is Buddy, an innocent figure who was raised as an elf in the North Pole by his adoptive father, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). When Buddy discovers that he's actually a human ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 27,124 members
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  • Elf - BLU-RAY Version (2003)
    Starring: Will Ferrell,  James Caan,  Bob Newhart
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Will Ferrell makes yet another memorable splash on the big screen in Jon Favreau's sweet and hilarious Christmas fable. Ferrell is Buddy, an innocent figure who was raised as an elf in the North Pole by his adoptive father, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). When Buddy discovers that he's actually a human ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 473 members
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  • The Animal on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Rob Schneider,  Edward Asner,  Cloris Leachman
    Director: Luke Greenfield
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Marvin Mange (Rob Schneider) has only one dream in life--to become a police officer, like his father. Unfortunately, Marvin's natural clumsiness and lack of self-esteem have made him the laughing stock of his police coworkers. All of that changes after a freak car accident, and a mad scientist's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 4,264 members
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  • Hard Rain on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Christian Slater,  Randy Quaid
    Director: Mikael Salomon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rising flood waters imperil the residents of a Midwestern town, but to a gang of thieves, the disaster is an opportunity--to waltz off with the contents of a bank vault abandoned by the evacuated townspeople. Something they didn't count on is armed truck driver Christian Slater, called upon to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,484 members
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  • Payback on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Mary Tyler Moore,  Edward Asner,  Dennis Arndt
    Director: Ken Cameron
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Only Kathryn Stillman has the courage to testify against Brian Kaleen, a cop who breaks every law and uses violence and cruelty to get his own way. With the FBI and Internal Affairs unable to help Kathryn knows that only she can bring this nightmare to an end. Based on a true story.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 97 members
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  • JFK (1991)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Sissy Spacek,  Tommy Lee Jones
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oliver Stone's self-proclaimed 'countermyth', JFK mocks the doubtful veracity of the Warren Commission's findings on the Kennedy assassination and summarizes some of the myriad theories that have been proposed in its stead. Focusing on the investigation by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 14,030 members
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  • Gus (1976)
    Starring: Don Knotts,  Edward Asner,  Tim Conway
    Director: Vincent McEveety
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Wholesome family fun is found in this Disney comedy about an inept, last-place football team, the California Atoms, which is turned around with the help of their new star player...a football-kicking mule! The villainous competition then attempts kidnapping of "Gus" leading to slapstick results.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 33% from 11 members
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  • El Dorado on DVD (1966)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Robert Mitchum,  James Caan
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In the town of El Dorado, wealthy landowner Bart Jason (Ed Asner) is embroiled in a struggle with the MacDonald family, who own a large amount of land just outside town lines. Jason hires gunman Cole Thornton (John Wayne) to scare the MacDonalds in hope that they'll back down. Cole is pleased to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,477 member
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Edward Asner - watch online


  • Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Jared Padalecki,  Marcia Gay Harden,  Peter O'Toole
    Director: Michael Campus
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 100 minutes
    This touching and inspirational film tells the early true-life story of renowned "Painter of Light," Thomas Kinkade. Returning home from college one Christmas, young artist Thomas Kinkade is dismayed to learn that attempts to promote local tourism have failed and his mother is dangerously close to ..read more »
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Edward Asner facts

5 most recent films

Gigantic - 2.5 stars
Up - 4.5 stars
Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage - 3.0 stars
The Good Doctor - 1.5 stars
The Christmas Card - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Up - 4.5 stars
Roots - Original Series - 25th Anniversary Edition - 4.0 stars
El Dorado - 3.5 stars
Elf - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
JFK - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Happy Birthday, Oscar Wilde - 3 stars
Anatomy Of An Illness - 1.5 stars
The Good Doctor - 1.5 stars
Gus - 2.0 stars
The Christmas Card - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Laurie Metcalf - 3 times - show films
Kevin Bacon - 3 times - show films
Sally Kirkland - 3 times - show films
Sissy Spacek - 3 times - show films
Walter Matthau - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Oliver Stone - 3 times - show films
Jon Favreau - 2 times - show films
Michael Campus - 2 times - show films
David Greene - 2 times - show films
Howard Hawks - 1 times - show films