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  • Zemeckis wants Starr and McCartney for Yellow Submarine remake - 8 November 2009
    -Moviemaker Robert Zemeckis wants surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to play themselves in his planned remake of the Fab Four's animated classic Yellow Submarine.- -Zemeckis and Disney bosses have brokered a deal that would allow them to rework the 1968 fil

Robert Zemeckis - what members say


  • Cast Away
  • Cast Away review by mdridley from North Yorkshire, England
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Forrest Gump
  • Forrest Gump review by A customer from Worcestershire
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Back To The Future Part 2
  • Back To The Future Part 2 review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 4.0 stars BTTF Part 2 20 September 2007
    ...The first Back To The Future ended with a sequel-inviting cliffhanger but Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale insist that sequels were never part of the plan in 1985, that it was a j...   Read customer review

Robert Zemeckis - filmography


  • Beowulf - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Anthony Hopkins,  John Malkovich
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    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.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 8,245 members
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  • Beowulf - HD (2007)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Anthony Hopkins,  John Malkovich
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 813 members
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  • The Polar Express - HD (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 127 members
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  • The Polar Express - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,230 member
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  • The Polar Express - 3D Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The ultimare feel good festive film is brought to life in 3D Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara & Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 32 members
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  • The Polar Express on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 36,044 members
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  • Cast Away on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 26,356 members
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  • What Lies Beneath on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Joe Morton
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Zemeckis takes a page right out of Hitchcock and runs with it in the spooky supernatural thriller WHAT LIES BENEATH. Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), seem to have the perfect life: a loving marriage, a daughter just entering college, and a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 11,755 members
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  • Cast Away - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 75% from 23 members
    Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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  • Contact - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Matthew McConaughey,  James Woods
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,045 member
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  • Contact on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Matthew McConaughey,  James Woods
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 13,889 members
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  • Forrest Gump on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sam Anderson,  Sally Field
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 58,521 members
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  • Forrest Gump - Blu-ray (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sally Field,  Gary Sinise
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 2,267 members
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  • Death Becomes Her on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Michelle Johnson,  Ian Ogilvy,  Adam Storke
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: 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 ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 8,262 members
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  • Back To The Future Part 2 on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Elisabeth Shue,  James Tolkan,  Jeffrey Weissman
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A visit by Marty and the Doc to the year 2015 seems to resolve a few problems with the future McFly family. When they return home, they discover someone has tampered with time and Hill Valley, 1985. They must once again get back to 1955 to save the future.....
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 28,060 members
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  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Chris Fleischer,  Christopher Lloyd
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a tale of a man, a woman and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble. It's a world where laughing can be dangerous, romance can be hilarious, and Toons and people live side by side. It's a wonderful place you'll want to visit again and again. The chemistry is magic. The effects ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 20,976 members
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  • Back To The Future on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Thomas F. Wilson,  Claudia Wells,  James Tolkan
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A fast-moving and heart-warming comedy, 'Back To The Future' presents the story of Marty McFly, a teenager from 1985 who commandeers the time-travelling DeLorean invented by Doc Brown, a wacky scientist friend, and is accidentally sent back in time to the 1950s. But the real problems start after he ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 56,248 members
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  • Back To The Future - Blu-ray (1985)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Crispin Glover,  Lea Thompson
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A fast-moving and heart-warming comedy, 'Back To The Future' presents the story of Marty McFly, a teenager from 1985 who commandeers the time-travelling DeLorean invented by Doc Brown, a wacky scientist friend, and is accidentally sent back in time to the 1950s. But the real problems start after he ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 89% from 185 members
    Not available for rental
  • 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 871 members
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Robert Zemeckis facts

5 most recent films

A Christmas Carol - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
A Christmas Carol - 3.5 stars
A Christmas Carol - 3D Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Beowulf - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Back To The Future - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Back to the Future Trilogy - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Forrest Gump - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Back To The Future Part 2 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Back To The Future - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Polar Express - 3D Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cast Away - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Used Cars - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - 3.0 stars
Beowulf - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Hanks - 16 times - show films
Robin Wright Penn - 15 times - show films
Crispin Glover - 9 times - show films
Christopher Lloyd - 8 times - show films
Rebecca Williams - 7 times - show films