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Alan J. Pakula



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  • Devil's Own on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Brad Pitt,  Margaret Colin
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,465 members
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  • Devil's Own - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Brad Pitt,  Margaret Colin
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 586 members
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  • The Pelican Brief - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Denzel Washington,  Sam Shepard
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Julia Roberts (ERIN BROCKOVICH) stars in THE PELICAN BRIEF as sharp law student Darby Shaw whose querying mind gets her into trouble. A faithful adaptation of John Grisham's (THE FIRM) best-selling novel, this taut thriller follows the travails that beset Shaw when her theory on the cause of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 666 members
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  • The Pelican Brief on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Denzel Washington,  Sam Shepard
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 8,935 members
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  • Presumed Innocent on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Greta Scacchi,  Raul Julia
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    PRESUMED INNOCENT, like most of director Alan J. Pakula's films is also a complex character study. Based on a best-selling novel by Scott Turrow, the courtroom murder mystery tells the story of prosecutor Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) who is accused of murdering his former mistress, the beautiful ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,301 members
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  • Sophie's Choice on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Peter MacNicol,  David Wohl
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,050 members
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  • Rollover (1981)
    Starring: Jane Fonda,  Kris Kristofferson,  Hume Cronyn
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A political-romantic thriller by Alan J. Pakula and replete with favorite themes of large-scale conspiracy and paranoia, ROLLOVER is perfectly in tune with the director's previous work, although this time set in the world of international high finance. Jane Fonda, who appeared in Pakula's KLUTE as ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 10 members
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  • Comes A Horseman on DVD (1978)
    Starring: James Caan,  Jane Fonda,  Jason Robards
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Lavishly photographed, COMES A HORSEMAN is a dramatic Western set in the post-World War II new West. Jane Fonda stars as Ella, a stubborn rancher who will not surrender her land to the local land baron (Jason Robards). Robards yearns for the good old days when land owners were kings and the past ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 112 members
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  • All The President's Men on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Dustin Hoffman,  Jason Robards
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,628 members
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  • The Parallax View on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Paula Prentiss,  Hume Cronyn
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,020 members
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Alan J. Pakula facts

5 most recent films

Devil's Own - 3.0 stars
Devil's Own - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Pelican Brief - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Pelican Brief - 3.5 stars
Consenting Adults - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Klute - 3.5 stars
All The President's Men - 3.5 stars
Sophie's Choice - 3.5 stars
The Pelican Brief - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Parallax View - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Rollover - 2.5 stars
Comes A Horseman - 3.0 stars
Starting Over - 3.0 stars
Consenting Adults - 3.0 stars
Devil's Own - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Hume Cronyn - 6 times - show films
Jason Robards - 5 times - show films
Jane Alexander - 4 times - show films
Jack Warden - 4 times - show films
Robert Redford - 4 times - show films