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  • Cast Away
  • Cast Away review by mdridley 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 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


  • Beowulf - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Anthony Hopkins,  John Malkovich
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Using the same CGI technique as his film THE POLAR EXPRESS, Robert Zemeckis directs this adaptation of Beowulf and Grendel's legendary story. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Ray Winstone voice the epic heroes and villains with a script from Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 702 members
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  • Polar Express, The - BLU-RAY Version (2004)
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 478 members
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  • Polar Express on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 32,674 members
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  • Cast Away on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 22,500 members
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  • Contact on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Matthew McConaughey,  James Woods
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 12,123 members
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  • Forrest Gump on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sam Anderson,  Sally Field
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 74% from 49,488 members
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  • Forrest Gump - BLU-RAY Version (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sally Field,  Gary Sinise
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The story of Forrest Gump, an innocent and childlike man, who found himself present for many of the most memorable events in American history from the 1950s through to the 1970s. Forrest, however, was for the most part, totally oblivious to the significance of his actions... Based on the novel by ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 81% from 167 members
    Due for release on 9th November 2009
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  • Back To The Future on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Crispin Glover,  Lea Thompson
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 48,465 members
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  • Used Cars on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Kurt Russell,  Gerrit Graham,  Frank McRae
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 758 members
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  • Cast Away to Watch Now (2000)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 143 minutes
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 11 members
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  • Forrest Gump to Watch Now (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Robin Wright Penn,  Gary Sinise
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
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    Run time: 142 minutes
    "Life is like a box of chocolates? you never know what you're gonna get." Forrest Gump is the movie triumph that became a phenomenon. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. The winner of six Academy Awards, including ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 81% from 420 members
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Robert Zemeckis facts

5 most recent films

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

5 highest-rated films

Forrest Gump - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Back To The Future - 4.0 stars
Forrest Gump - 4.0 stars
Back To The Future Part 2 - 3.5 stars
Back To The Future Part 3 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

A Christmas Carol - 3.5 stars
Used Cars - 2.5 stars
Beowulf - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robin Wright Penn - 10 times - show films
Tom Hanks - 10 times - show films
Sally Field - 6 times - show films
Gary Sinise - 6 times - show films
Mykelti Williamson - 6 times - show films