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Alan J. Pakula
Filmography
Alan J. Pakula - filmography
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Devil's Own
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Natascha McElhone, Harrison Ford, Ruben Blades
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Senior IRA member Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) arrives in New York on a mission to buy Stinger missiles. Using the alias Rory Devaney, he finds lodgings with NYPD cop Tom O'Meara (Harrison Ford) and his family. Despite liaising with fellow terrorists in New York to secure his deal, Frankie finds ..read more »
 
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Devil's Own - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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THE DEVIL'S OWN, Alan J. Pakula's last film, is a character-driven thriller that confronts suspense and gritty realism head-on. Harrison Ford plays Tom O'Meara, an Irish-American cop in New York who opens his home and family to Francis "Frankie" McGuire (Brad Pitt), whom they believe is a refuge-..read more »
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The Pelican Brief - Blu-ray
(1993)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Adapted from a John Grisham best seller, this film stars Julia Roberts as sharp-witted law student Darby Shaw, who finds herself the target for murder when her thesis determining why two US justices were killed falls into the wrong hands. Supported by Washington-based journalist Gray Grantham (..read more »
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The Pelican Brief
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), ..read more »
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from 9,591 members
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Consenting Adults
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Kevin Spacey, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Suburban couple Richard (Kevin Kline) and Priscilla Parker (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) make friends with their new neighbours Kay (Rebecca Miller) and Eddy (Kevin Spacey). Eddy suggests that Richard is too cautious, and in an attempt to loosen him up introduces him to the world of insurance fraud ..read more »
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Presumed Innocent
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Harrison Ford, David Wohl, Paul Winfield
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Harrison Ford plays Rusty Sabich, an attorney who finds himself charged with murder in this thriller, directed by Alan J. Pakula ('All the President's Men'). The victim (Greta Scacchi) was a colleague of his, with whom he had a brief but intense affair, and the attorney finds himself needing a ..read more »
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Sophie's Choice
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: David Wohl, Peter MacNicol, Kevin Kline
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-..read more »
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On Golden Pond
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda
Director: Mark Rydell
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There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman ..read more »
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from 3,023 members
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Rollover
(1981)
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Jane Fonda, Martha Plimpton
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Drama starring Jane Fonda. The widow of a murdered bank president and a maverick financier must prevent a crisis when Arab nations threaten to pull their funds from U.S. banks, thereby causing a worldwide financial collapse.
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Starting Over
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Comedy drama starring Burt Reynolds. Phil Potter (Reynolds) is a recently divorced man who falls in love with another woman after relocating to Boston and joining a divorced men's therapy group. Marilyn (Jill Clayburgh) is a teacher who is wary of starting a relationship with someone who has just ..read more »
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Comes A Horseman
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Jane Fonda is a Montana ranch owner locked in battle with her cousin (Jason Robards), a cattle baron determined to take her land. She enlists the help of a neighbour (James Caan), and together they struggle to pay off their debts and overcome the advances of big business. A tense, low-key western, ..read more »
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All The President's Men
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jane Alexander, Hal Holbrook
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the ..read more »
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from 12,409 members
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The Parallax View
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Paula Prentiss, Anthony Zerbe, Kelly Thordsen
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his ..read more »
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from 2,174 members
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To Kill A Mockingbird
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Rose, Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
Director: Robert Mulligan
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Gregory Peck gives an Oscar-winning performance as lawyer Atticus Finch in this crime drama adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. In Alabama in the 1930s, Atticus defends a black man accused of raping a young white woman while his children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (..read more »
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