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Red Corner review by TrevorBevan from Gloucestershire

Guilty until proven innocent 13 May 2004
...he People’s Republic of China, the cinematography is outstanding. The director, Jon Avnet captures all the atmosphere of intrigue, fear and terror of a state controlled ... Read customer review

88 Minutes review by Robinski from

108 Minutes You'll Wish You had Back 28 December 2011
...lf-hearted and there is no sense of threat whatsoever. The majority of Director Jon Avnet’s work has been in television, but the top TV offer moved on some time ago from... Read customer review

Jon Avnet - filmography

Justified - Season 2 (3 discs) on DVD (2010)
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter
Director: Jon Avnet, Peter Werner, Michael Watkins
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Timothy Olyphant 'Damages' and 'Deadwood' stars as a United States Marshal in modern-day Western hero. Marshall Raylan Givens is exiled to his hometown of Harlan County, Kentucky after the shooting of a Miami drug cartel hit man raises questions over his renegade style of law enforcement. Raylan's ..read more »

85% from 843 members

Righteous Kill on DVD (2008)
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Donnie Wahlberg
Director: Jon Avnet
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Watch now: £2.49
Two veteran New York City detectives (De Niro and Pacino) work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

61% from 30,725 members

Righteous Kill - Blu-ray (2008)
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Donnie Wahlberg
Director: Jon Avnet
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Watch now: £2.49
Two veteran New York City detectives (De Niro and Pacino) work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

60% from 5,946 members

88 Minutes on DVD (2008)
Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski
Director: Jon Avnet
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Watch now: Unavailable
In 88 MINUTES, Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a Seattle-based college professor and forensic psychiatrist, is informed by an enigmatic caller that he has exactly that amount of time to live. The threat is linked to Gramm's role in putting a convicted serial killer (Neal McDonough) behind bars nearly a ..read more »

62% from 18,099 members

The Starter Wife (2007)
Starring: Debra Messing, Joe Mantegna, Judy Davis
Director: Jon Avnet
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Based on the novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer and directed by Jon Avnet (UP CLOSE & PERSONAL), THE STARTER WIFE portrays the soul-searching journey of a woman who reevaluates her priorities after her divorce. Molly Kagan (Debra Messing) has been married to Hollywood film mogul Kenny (Peter Jacobson) ..read more »

60% from 21 members
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Boomtown - Series 1 - Episodes 1 To 9 (5 discs) on DVD (2003)
Starring: Donnie Wahlberg, Mykelti Williamson, Neal McDonough
Director: Tucker Gates, Peter Werner, Jon Avnet
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Set in current-day Los Angeles; each episode of BOOMTOWN features a different criminal case which, in Rashomon fashion, is shown repeatedly but from everybody's point-of-view: the police, medical staff, TV reporters and the criminals. This, of course, leads to differing views of what has happened ..read more »

70% from 731 members

Uprising on DVD (2001)
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer
Director: Jon Avnet
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After Germany invades Poland in 1939, the Nazis decree that 350,000 Warsaw Jews be forcibly moved into an area known as the Warsaw Ghetto. Idealistic teacher Mordechai (Hank Azaria) decides the Jews must rise up against the Nazis and creates the Jewish Fighting Organisation (JFO). Determined to ..read more »

66% from 533 members

Red Corner on DVD (1997)
Starring: Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford
Director: Jon Avnet
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A high-powered American attorney (Richard Gere) finds the rules of order are different in a Chinese courtroom when he is arrested and falsely accused of murdering a young model. Discovering that the rule of thumb is guilty before proven innocent, he realises that he must convince his court-..read more »

62% from 696 members

Up Close And Personal on DVD (1996)
Starring: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing
Director: Jon Avnet
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In this network news romance, a beautiful neophyte reporter rises through the ranks to become a national star with the help of a veteran newscaster. "Suggested" by Alanna Nash's 1988 biography of newswoman Jessica Savitch, "Golden Girl." Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Song ("Because You ..read more »

63% from 2,687 members

The War (1994)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Kevin Costner, Mare Winningham
Director: Jon Avnet
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The nostalgic tale of a close-knit family and their remarkable Mississippi summer of 1970. Son Stu is determined to build the ultimate tree-house... his father Stephen is equally determined to rebuild his and his family's life after the trauma of Vietnam.

63% from 351 members
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Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop... on DVD (1991)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson
Director: Jon Avnet
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A woman learns the value of friendship as she hears the story of two women and how their friendship shaped their lives in this warm comedy-drama. Evelyn Couch (Kathy Bates) is an emotionally repressed housewife with a habit of drowning her sorrows in candy bars. Her husband Ed (Gailard Sartain) ..read more »

74% from 9,203 members

Jon Avnet facts

5 most recent films

Justified - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
Righteous Kill - 3.0 stars
Righteous Kill - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
88 Minutes - 3.0 stars
The Starter Wife - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Justified - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe - 3.5 stars
Boomtown - Series 1 - Episodes 1 To 9 - 3.5 stars
Uprising - 3.5 stars
Up Close And Personal - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Starter Wife - 3.0 stars
Righteous Kill - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Righteous Kill - 3.0 stars
88 Minutes - 3.0 stars
Red Corner - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Al Pacino - 5 times - show films
Donnie Wahlberg - 4 times - show films
Leelee Sobieski - 4 times - show films
Brian Dennehy - 3 times - show films
John Leguizamo - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Werner - 10 times - show films
Tucker Gates - 6 times - show films
Michael Watkins - 4 times - show films