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Billy Bob Thornton

Born 4 Aug 1955, in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Wise words: "Life is a carnival. It’s a circus and we’re all performers. Every day is interesting. Some days are better than others and we just try to get by, we try to make the performance that night."


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Billy Bob Thornton - news / articles


  • Thornton eyes Jolie collaboration - 1 February 2009
    -Angelina Jolie could soon be reunited with her ex-husband onscreen, if Billy Bob Thornton gets his way.- -The former couple married in 2000 after meeting on the set of 1999 movie, Pushing Tin. They adopted seven-year-old son Maddox together, before divorcing in 2003.- -Jol


  • Billy Bob Thornton joins cast of Eagle Eye - 8 November 2007
    Monster's Ball star Billy Bob Thornton is to appear opposite Shia LaBeouf and Rosario Dawson in a new thriller entitled Eagle Eye.-The Hollywood Reporter said today that Thornton, whose credits include Pushing Tin and The Man Who Wasn't There, will star in the movie and be

Billy Bob Thornton - what members say


  • Armageddon
  • Armageddon review by A customer from Hereford, England
    Rated - 5 stars Prepare for floods of tears 22 February 2008
    ...it's the acting that wins it for me. Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Steve Buscemi and Billy Bob Thornton were all top-class in this film. Ben Affleck, who I'm not usually a fan of, eve...  
  • The Man Who Wasn't There
  • The Man Who Wasn't There review by A customer from Inglewood
    Rated - 4 stars Very well shot 24 May 2005
    ...ely to be picked up by those unfamiliar with noir films like Double Indemnity. Billy Bob Thornton is perfect for the main role as the lonely barber, and Frances McDormand and Sc...  
  • Pushing Tin
  • Pushing Tin review by from Ulllllster!
    Rated - 5 stars really good, very under-rated 11 February 2004
    ...ing to the fantastic ending! cusack is superb as the paranoid Nick Falzone, but Billy Bob Thornton steals the show as the cool, so-laid-back-hes-nearly-falling- over Russell Bell...  

Billy Bob Thornton - filmography


  • Eagle Eye - BLU-RAY Version (2008)
    Starring: Shia LaBeouf,  Anthony Mackie,  Billy Bob Thornton
    Director: D.J. Caruso
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Riding high on the success of DISTURBIA, director D.J. Caruso and star Shia LaBeouf reteam for the action thriller EAGLE EYE, in which a couple of innocent people get caught up in an elaborate murder plot. After receiving bad news about his brother, Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) rushes home from work, only ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,780 members
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  • The Bad News Bears on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Billy Bob Thornton,  Greg Kinnear,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Billy Bob Thornton delivers a wickedly funny performance in this hilarious hit from the director of School of Rock. Morris Buttermaker (Thorton), former pro ballplayer-turned-exterminator, expects to make some easy money coaching a srtuggling Little League team called the Bears. What he gets is a ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 2,901 members
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  • Love Actually on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Liam Neeson,  Colin Firth
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 74,328 members
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  • Levity on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Billy Bob Thornton,  Holly Hunter
    Director: Ed Solomon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Billy Bob Thornton stars in LEVITY as Manual Jordan, an ex-con recently released from a 21-year jail sentence, who is seeking redemption from Adele Easley (Holly Hunter), the sister of the guy he murdered. His mild manner and passivity make him immune to the new freedoms he'll experience outside of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 3,598 members
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  • Love Actually - BLU-RAY Version (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Liam Neeson,  Colin Firth
    Director: Richard Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 12 members
    Due for release on 26th October 2009
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  • All The Pretty Horses on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Penelope Cruz,  Henry Thomas
    Director: Billy Bob Thornton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Billy Bob Thornton's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES is about John Grady Cole (Matt Damon), a young rancher growing up just after WWII. After his mother sells the family ranch, John convinces his best friend, Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), to accompany him to Mexico, where ranching is still a big part of life...read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,178 member
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  • A Simple Plan on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Bill Paxton,  Billy Bob Thornton,  Bridget Fonda
    Director: Sam Raimi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sam Raimi breaks out of genre films with this tight, effective thriller. When two brothers, Hank (Bill Paxton) and Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton), and their friend Lou (Brent Briscoe), find 4.4 million dollars inside a crashed plane, they believe they've found the financial answer to all their problems...read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,667 member
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  • Armageddon on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Billy Bob Thornton,  Liv Tyler
    Director: Michael Bay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    NASA's executive director discovers that the Earth has only eighteen days before it is obliterated by a meteor the size of Texas. He has only one option - to drop a handful of rougheck oil drillers onto the asteroid and get them to drop a nuclear warhead into its core...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 25,749 members
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  • Primary Colors (1998)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Emma Thompson,  Billy Bob Thornton
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    John Travolta leads an all-star cast (including Oscar winners Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton) on a wild race to the presidency in this savagely funny comedy. Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,242 member
    Due for release on 3rd August 2009
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  • Armageddon - BLU-RAY Version (1998)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Billy Bob Thornton,  Liv Tyler
    Director: Michael Bay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A low earth orbit space station is in the middle of a repair mission with the space shuttle when an unforeseen meteor shower obliterates them both. This sudden event sends fireballs hurtling to Earth and scientists scurrying to telescopes. An amateur astronomer is the first to spy a gigantic ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 501 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 2,899 members
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  • The Winner (1996)
    Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio,  Delroy Lindo,  Frank Whaley
    Director: Alex Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This darkly comic crime drama examines the plight of the naive title character, a gambler known only as Philip (Vincent D'Onofrio), whose uncanny penchant for winning bets has earned him the title the luckiest man in the history of North America. A rogues' gallery of parasites swarms around him in ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 36 members
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  • Dead Man on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Gary Farmer,  Gabriel Byrne
    Director: Jim Jarmusch
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    William Blake (Johnny Depp) set out on an exciting journey to start his life over in a new town with a new job. He never could have prepared himself for what was to come. Through a mysterious chain of events, he becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in a double murder--with him as the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 4,085 members
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  • The Informers
    Starring: Billy Bob Thornton,  Kim Basinger,  Winona Ryder
    Director: Gregor Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Focusing on the Los Angeles of the early 1980s, "The Informers" balances a vast array of characters that represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting all these ..read more »
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  • Eagle Eye on DVD
    Starring: Shia LaBeouf,  Michelle Monaghan,  Rosario Dawson
    Director: D.J. Caruso
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Shia Labeouf reteams with "Disturbia" director D.J. Caruso playing a young slacker whose twin brother has died mysteriously. Rachel finds that her child is missing, and soon the two strangers realize that they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 9,452 members
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Billy Bob Thornton - watch online


  • Eagle Eye to Watch Now (2008)
    Starring: Shia LaBeouf,  Michelle Monaghan,  Rosario Dawson
    Director: D.J. Caruso
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 117 minutes
    Executive Producer Steven Spielberg delivers the ultimate race-against-time thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Shia LaBeouf (Transformers) and Michelle Monaghan (Mission: Impossible III) star as strangers ripped from their ordinary lives when they are "activated" as part or a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 28 members
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Billy Bob Thornton facts

5 most recent films

Eagle Eye - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Mr. Woodcock - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Mr. Woodcock - 2.5 stars
School For Scoundrels - 3.0 stars
The Astronaut Farmer - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

King Of The Hill - Season 3 - 4.0 stars
Sling Blade - 3.5 stars
Eagle Eye - 3.5 stars
Eagle Eye - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Armageddon - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Winner - 2.5 stars
Homegrown - 2.5 stars
Love Actually - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Informers - 4.5 stars
Going Overboard - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Emma Thompson - 3 times - show films
Rosario Dawson - 3 times - show films
John Ritter - 3 times - show films
Kurt Fuller - 3 times - show films
Michelle Monaghan - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

D.J. Caruso - 3 times - show films
Joel Coen - 2 times - show films
Craig Gillespie - 2 times - show films
Richard Curtis - 2 times - show films
Michael Bay - 2 times - show films