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Fred Schepisi

Fred Schepisi


Filmography

Fred Schepisi - filmography


  • It Runs In The Family on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Kirk Douglas,  Rory Culkin
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Three generations of Hollywood's Douglas clan star in this family comedy that mirrors the ups and downs of the famous family's real lives. Following in the footsteps of ON GOLDEN POND Michael Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas appear onscreen together as a dysfunctional father and son struggling ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,077 member
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  • Last Orders on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Bob Hoskins,  Tom Courtenay
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Fred Schepisi's adaptation of Graham Swift's prize-winning novel is a quietly graceful portrait of four working-class Brits, bound by years of friendship, that unites some of England's finest actors in a powerful and deeply moving ensemble production. Michael Caine stars as Jack Dodd, the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,795 members
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  • Fierce Creatures on DVD (1997)
    Starring: John Cleese,  Jamie Lee Curtis,  Kevin Kline
    Director: Robert Young,  Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This reunion of the cast of A FISH CALLED WANDA is not a sequel, but features the trademark humor of John Cleese, Kevin Kline, and Jamie Lee Curtis, including Kline's genius double performance as an aging media mogul and his buffoon of a son. A riotous and scatterbrained story of frantic English ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,617 members
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  • I.Q. (1995)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  Tim Robbins,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    On a sunny afternoon in Princeton, New Jersey, of the 1950s, love strikes in the oddest way: Albert Einstein's niece Catherine (Meg Ryan), and her uptight fiance James (Stephen Fry), stop at a gas station for car repairs, and when dim-witted grease monkey Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) appears, he falls ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,555 members
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  • The Russia House on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer ignite the screen in this enchanting adaptation of John Le Carre's suspenseful espionage drama. Connery portrays Barley Blair -- a lonely, middle aged, hard-drinking, London publisher -- who has a love for all things Russian. While in Russia, Barley captures the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 997 members
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  • A Cry In The Dark on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Sam Neill,  Nick Tate
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Meryl Streep and Sam Neill star in this documentary style film adaptation of the true story of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, an Australian couple who lived the nightmare of losing their infant daughter during a family camping trip. When Lindy (Streep) spies a dingo nearby, authorities launch a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,218 member
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  • Roxanne on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  Daryl Hannah,  Rick Rossovich
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Small-town fire chief C.D. Bales (Steve Martin, in a wonderfully skillful verbal and physical performance) is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary nose. Astronomer Roxanne Kowalski (Daryl Hannah) has just come to his town of Nelson, Washington in order to get away from the city and to get a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 8,160 members
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  • Iceman on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Timothy Hutton,  John Lone,  Lindsay Crouse
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A team of Artic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Stanley Shephard (Hutton) wants to befriend the Iceman (Lone) and learn about the man's past; Dr. Diane Brady (Crouse) and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 39 members
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  • The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
    Starring: Tommy Lewis,  Freddy Reynolds,  Ray Barrett
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on a novel by Thomas Keneally, which was in turn inspired by actual events, this drama is a shocking indictment of the racism inflicted on the indigenous people of Australia. Jimmie (Tommy Lewis) is a half-white, half-aborigine young man raised by a Methodist minister. Feeling outcast among ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 3 members
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  • Devil's Playground (1976)
    Starring: Simon Burke,  Michael David,  John Diedrich
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Award-winning Australian drama set in a Catholic boys' boarding school where the students' awakening sexual interests and the thwarted feelings of the priests who run the school threaten to explode.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 10 members
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Fred Schepisi facts

5 most recent films

The Eye of the Storm - 3 stars
Empire Falls - 2.5 stars
It Runs In The Family - 2.5 stars
Last Orders - 3.0 stars
Fierce Creatures - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Cry In The Dark - 3.0 stars
Last Orders - 3.0 stars
The Russia House - 3.0 stars
Roxanne - 3.0 stars
Fierce Creatures - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Eye of the Storm - 3 stars
Empire Falls - 2.5 stars
Iceman - 3.0 stars
Devil's Playground - 4.0 stars
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - 4.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Brid Brennan - 2 times - show films
James Fox - 2 times - show films
David Threlfall - 2 times - show films
Michael Kitchen - 2 times - show films
Bob Hoskins - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Young - 1 times - show films