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James Foley - what members say

Confidence review by from London

Weighing up the pro's and con's 26 October 2004
...ng(Dustin Hoffman) gives to con-artist Jake Vig(Edward Burns). Perhaps director James Foley should have heeded the warning too, because if there's one thing 'Confidence' i... Read customer review

The Gun - Complete Series review by Savage from London, England

Not a success 20 June 2007
...ly looks like someone doing a parody. Two good ones, though: Daniel Stern in James Foley's episode about an actor stopping a gas station robbery and becoming a hero in ... Read customer review

Perfect Stranger review by ValleyJohn from Biggleswade

Perfect Stranger 30 November 2007
...come about due to lazy or inexperienced film making . Lets face it , Director James Foley has has made 15 films and has hardly set Hollywood alight . Apart from the terr... Read customer review

James Foley - filmography

Perfect Stranger on DVD (2006)
Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: James Foley
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A journalist (Berry) goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill (Willis) as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

60% from 21,427 members

Perfect Stranger - Blu-ray (2006)
Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: James Foley
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A journalist (Berry) goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill (Willis) as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

59% from 1,707 member

The Gun - Complete Series (3 discs) on DVD (2004)
Starring: James Gandolfini, Daryl Hannah, Randy Quaid
Director: Robert Altman, Ted Demme, James Foley
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This acclaimed anthology series of six one-hour episodes follows the path of a handgun and the impact that it has on the lives of those that it encounters.

45% from 210 members

Confidence on DVD (2003)
Starring: Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy Garcia
Director: James Foley
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Ed Burns gives arguably the best performance of his career in James Foley's fast-moving CONFIDENCE. Foley, who directed David Mamet's GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, has learned much from his mentor, making a who's-conning-whom film worthy of the master of the genre. Burns plays Jake Vig, the leader of a ..read more »

59% from 14,837 members

The Frightening on DVD (2001)
Starring: Matt Twining, Brinke Stevens, James Foley
Director: David DeCoteau, David Decoteau
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To all her friends in school Corey is a normal teenager - but beneath the surface an evil past is lurking. Strange events start taking place including disappearances and gruesome deaths of fellow students...

39% from 132 members

The Corruptor on DVD (1999)
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Mark Wahlberg, Byron Mann
Director: James Foley
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Fat is Nick Chen, a severe New York Chinatown cop who is having a tough time keeping peace on the streets after a turf war breaks out between the triads and a street gang. Wahlberg is Danny Wallace, another cop brought in to help with the peacekeeping effort. When he realizes that Chen's ties to ..read more »

59% from 1,134 member

Fear on DVD (1996)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, Alyssa Milano
Director: James Foley
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A pretty teenager meets and falls in love with a charming, mysterious young man at an all-night rave party in Seattle. When she stops seeing him after discovering he's cheating on her with her best friend, he snaps, vowing vengeance against her and her family. A tense thriller.

61% from 2,883 members

The Chamber on DVD (1996)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Chris O'Donnell, Faye Dunaway
Director: James Foley
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An idealistic young lawyer, Adam Hall (O'Donnell) travels to Mississippi to plea for the life of an inmate scheduled to die in the gas chamber in four weeks. The condemned man, an unrepentant bigot, happens to be the attorney's estranged grandfather Sam Cayhall (Hackman). This suspenseful thriller ..read more »

62% from 1,441 member

Two Bits on DVD (1995)
Starring: Jerry Barone, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Al Pacino
Director: James Foley
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This sweet and nostalgia-drenched drama, set in Depression-era South Philadelphia, follows one 12-year-old boy's coming of age.

52% from 148 members

Glengarry Glen Ross on DVD (1992)
Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin
Director: James Foley
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David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales ..read more »

69% from 11,342 members

After Dark My Sweet (1990)
Starring: Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani, Rachel Ward
Director: James Foley
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When an ex-mental patient drifts into town, it gives a disgraced ex-cop the perfect opportunity to kidnap the young boy of a wealthy family, and have a stranger take the rap.

54% from 28 members
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Who's That Girl on DVD (1987)
Starring: Madonna, Haviland Morris, John McMartin
Director: James Foley
Certificate:
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Upon her release a streetwise parolee, innocent of the crime for which she was jailed, is to be driven to the bus station by a strait-laced attorney. But she has other ideas, and the poor attorney must face the fact that his world is about to dissolve into chaos...

57% from 1,033 member

The Stepfather on DVD (1987)
Starring: Terry O'Quinn, Shelley Hack, Jill Schoelen
Director: Joseph Ruben, James Foley, John Dahl
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This is the chilling tale of a congenial family man whose engaging smile and staid demeanor insidiously mask a deep-seated dementia. His obsessive desire to live the ideal family life ultimately leads to the family's very destruction.

63% from 988 members

At Close Range on DVD (1986)
Starring: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Christopher Penn
Director: James Foley
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A drama about the intense relationship between a young man and his long-lost father, a small-time hood and leader of a rural crime ring. Their stormy reunion culminates in disillusion, violence and murder.

61% from 979 members

James Foley facts

5 most recent films

Perfect Stranger - 3.0 stars
Perfect Stranger - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Gun - Complete Series - 2.5 stars
Confidence - 3.0 stars
The Frightening - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Glengarry Glen Ross - 3.5 stars
The Stepfather - 3.0 stars
The Chamber - 3.0 stars
Fear - 3.0 stars
At Close Range - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

After Dark My Sweet - 2.5 stars
The Frightening - 2.0 stars
The Gun - Complete Series - 2.5 stars
Two Bits - 2.5 stars
Who's That Girl - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Al Pacino - 5 times - show films
Bruce Altman - 4 times - show films
Alec Baldwin - 4 times - show films
Kevin Spacey - 4 times - show films
Ed Harris - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Altman - 4 times - show films
Ted Demme - 4 times - show films
Joseph Ruben - 2 times - show films
John Dahl - 2 times - show films
David Decoteau - 1 times - show films