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Robert Zemeckis - what members say


  • Cast Away
  • Cast Away review by Matthew David Ridley from North Yorkshire, England
    Rated - 5 stars Cast Away 25 February 2008
    ...Tom Hanks reunites with Back to the Future and Forrest Gump director, Robert Zemeckis for this touching desert island drama. Significant moments like making fire, the creation...  
  • Forrest Gump
  • Forrest Gump review by A customer from Worcestershire
    Rated - 5 stars Box of Chocolates 21 September 2003
    ...t and present with a wonderful irony. Whether you can credit a director such as Robert Zemeckis with this viewpoint is questionable, but it certainly seems open to interpretat...  
  • Used Cars
  • Used Cars review by lincoln64 from Manchester
    Rated - 4 stars Classic Used Cars 5 August 2005
    ... think his first role? This film was also written and directed by Bob Gale and 'Robert Zemeckis' who also made the brilliant Back to the Future trilogy! The humour is more wil...  

Robert Zemeckis - filmography


  • Polar Express, The - HD DVD Version (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: U
    Director Robert Zemeckis revolutionised the art of animated film in 1998's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT by dropping cartoon characters into the same frame with flesh-and-blood actors. In THE POLAR EXPRESS, live action and animation have merged seamlessly, resulting in sparkling super-realism - a ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (68%)
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  • Polar Express, The - BLU-RAY Version (2004)
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: U
    Director Robert Zemeckis revolutionised the art of animated film in 1998's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT by dropping cartoon characters into the same frame with flesh-and-blood actors. In THE POLAR EXPRESS, live action and animation have merged seamlessly, resulting in sparkling super-realism - a ...
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  • Polar Express on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: U
    Director Robert Zemeckis revolutionised the art of animated film in 1998's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT by dropping cartoon characters into the same frame with flesh-and-blood actors. In THE POLAR EXPRESS, live action and animation have merged seamlessly, resulting in sparkling super-realism. A landmark ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (69%)
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  • Cast Away (2 discs) on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 12
    Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moment's notice, exhorting the company's employees to speed things up--"never turn your back on the clock." When he's suddenly called away for business on Christmas night, his tolerant longtime ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (69%)
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  • Contact on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Matthew McConaughey,  James Woods
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: PG
    Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft that will presumably survive the passage from ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (69%)
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  • Forrest Gump (2 discs) on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sam Anderson,  Sally Field
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 12
    The title character leads viewers through an accidental travelogue of American social history from the early 1960s through the present in this revisionist fable. Vietnam, desegregation, Watergate and more are presented from the perspective of Hanks' lovably slow-witted character as he finds himself ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (77%)
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  • Death Becomes Her on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Meryl Streep,  Goldie Hawn
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: PG
    Madeline is gaining more wrinkles than screen roles. Her friend, Helen, loses her fiance to Madeline and subsequently doubles her weight. Finally, there's Madeline's husband, Ernest, a plastic surgeon who spends his nights drunk and cursing the day he met his wife. Enter a beautiful enchantress who ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (65%)
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  • Back To The Future (2 discs) on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Crispin Glover,  Lea Thompson
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: PG
    Features the popular film trilogy BACK TO THE FUTURE, BACK TO THE FUTURE - PART 2 and BACK TO THE FUTURE - PART 3. The first adventure sees a Californian teenager become the innocent victim of a local crackpot's invention - a time machine made from a DeLorean car. He finds himself in his hometown ...
    Rate this: 4.0 (79%)
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  • Used Cars on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  Gerrit Graham,  Frank McRae
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 15
    Jack Warden stars as Luke and Roy L. Fuchs--feuding used car-selling twin brothers who square off in an outrageous, all-out attempt to put each other out of business. Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell), Luke's star salesman, is doing all the lying and cheating that he can in the name of the cause, but only ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (53%)
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Robert Zemeckis - downloads


  • Beowulf for Download (2007)
    Starring: Angelina Jolie,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 12
    Buy from: £13.99
    Run time: 114 minutes
    Director Robert Zemeckis ('The Polar Express') and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman (the 'Sandman' series) team up for this highly anticipated, performance-capture adaptation of the Old English epic poem. When the young warrior Beowulf (Ray Winstone) travels to a neighboring kingdom and slays the ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (65%)
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  • Contact for Download (1997)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Matthew McConaughey,  James Woods
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: PG
    Rent from: £2.99
    Run time: 144 minutes
    Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft that will presumably survive the passage from ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (67%)
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  • Polar Express for Download
    Starring: Nona Gaye,  Brenda King,  Peter Scolari
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: U
    Buy from: £9.99
    Run time: 96 minutes
    Director Robert Zemeckis revolutionised the art of animated film in 1998's 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' by dropping cartoon characters into the same frame with flesh-and-blood actors. In 'The Polar Express', live action and animation have merged seamlessly, resulting in sparkling super-realism. A ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (66%)
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Robert Zemeckis facts

5 most recent films


A Christmas Carol - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Polar Express, The - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


Back To The Future - 4.0 stars
Forrest Gump - 3.5 stars
Back To The Future Part 2 - 3.5 stars
Back To The Future Part 3 - 3.5 stars
Polar Express, The - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


A Christmas Carol - 3.0 stars
Used Cars - 2.5 stars
Beowulf - 3.0 stars
Death Becomes Her - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Tom Hanks - 6 times - show films
Crispin Glover - 6 times - show films
Christopher Lloyd - 5 times - show films
Michael J. Fox - 4 times - show films
Ray Winstone - 4 times - show films