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Kidman & Cage to Trespass with Schumacher -
18 June 2010
-Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman are set to re-team with their former boss Joel Schumacher for new thriller Trespass.-
-The actors have both worked with the moviemaker before - Kidman starred in Schumacher's Batman Forever, while Cage was directed by the auteur in 8MM.-
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Carrey and Schumacher reunited -
22 September 2005
Director Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey are expected to join forces for a new movie entitled The Number 23.-It will be the first time the pair have worked together since Batman Forever a decade ago, a film which featured the likes of Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Nicole K
Joel Schumacher - what members say
review by from Notting Hill
great cast 15 September 2003
review by from Worcestershire, UK
This Film made Vampires Cool! 13 July 2004
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One of My Personal Top Ten 24 May 2006
Joel Schumacher - filmography
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Trespass
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn
Director: Joel Schumacher
Certificate: 
Watch now: £3.49
NICOLAS CAGE (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Kick-Ass) and NICOLE KIDMAN (Moulin Rouge!) star in the fast paced thriller Trespass. A family are taken hostage by a group of brutal intruders seeking a big score, but no ones playing by the rules. A taut cat and mouse tale that will keep ..read more »
 
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from 2,474 members
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Trespass - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Watch now: £3.49
A wealthy family fights back against a gang of ruthless criminals during a violent home invasion in this relentless nail-biter from director Joel Schumacher (8MM, PHONE BOOTH). Powerful businessman Kyle (Nicolas Cage), lives in a private community with his gorgeous wife, Sarah (Nicole Kidman), and ..read more »
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from 1,223 member
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Twelve
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Emma Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Chace Crawford
Director: Joel Schumacher
Certificate:
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A privileged, drug-dealing high school dropout heads down a collision course with tragedy after his cousin is slain in Harlem and his best friend is arrested as the prime suspect in the killing. Inspired by author Nick McDonell's critically acclaimed novel, Joel Schumacher's gritty inner-city drama ..read more »
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from 1,389 member
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Blood Creek
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Dominic Purcell, Henry Cavill, Michael Fassbender
Director: Joel Schumacher
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A family's involvement with the Nazis comes back to haunt them after 70 years in this thriller from director Joel Schumacher. Dominic Purcell (PRISON BREAK) and Henry Cavill (THE TUDORS) star as brothers united by a search for vengeance.
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from 1,240 member
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The Number 23 - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Jim Carrey
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In Joel Schumacher's psychological thriller THE NUMBER 23, Jim Carrey takes on another dramatic role. Carrey's character is similar to his roles in THE TRUMAN SHOW and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND: he portrays an average man thrust into quite extraordinary situations after a series of ..read more »
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from 863 members
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The Phantom Of The Opera
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, these moody set devices--and countless others--make every ..read more »
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from 29,665 members
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The Phantom Of The Opera
(2004)
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, these moody set devices--and countless others--make every ..read more »
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from 73 members
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Veronica Guerin
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Gerard McSorley
Director: Joel Schumacher
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The true story of the assassinated Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin. Veronica was the crime reporter for the Sunday Independant investigating the criminal underworld in Ireland when she was gunned down in 1996.
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from 11,408 members
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Phone Booth - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Joel Schumacher (8 MM, FALLING DOWN) directs this suspense drama set in New York City's Times Square. A wannabe hotshot entertainment publicist who's more intent on posturing for his unpaid assistant than he is in actually working, Stu Shepherd (Colin Farrell) ducks into a phone booth to make his ..read more »
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from 3,368 members
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Phone Booth
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Joel Schumacher (8 MM, FALLING DOWN) directs this suspense drama set in New York City's Times Square. A wannabe hotshot entertainment publicist who's more intent on posturing for his unpaid assistant than he is in actually working, Stu Shepherd (Colin Farrell) ducks into a phone booth to make his ..read more »
63%
from 39,860 members
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Bad Company
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock join up in the action-packed buddy movie BAD COMPANY. When CIA undercover operative Kevin Pope is killed during tense negotiations for a nuclear weapon, agent Gaylord Oakes (Hopkins) recruits the man's twin brother, Jake Hayes (Rock), to take his place and prevent the ..read more »
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from 6,070 members
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Tigerland
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Shea Whigham
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Set in 1971, when America was a nation divided over the escalating violence and bloodshed of the Vietnam War, TIGERLAND begins when thousands of young soldiers had already lost their lives to the war, and thousands more were preparing to enter combat. In Fort Polk, Louisiana, a group of young ..read more »
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from 5,730 members
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Tigerland - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Shea Whigham
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Set in 1971, when America was a nation divided over the escalating violence and bloodshed of the Vietnam War, TIGERLAND begins when thousands of young soldiers had already lost their lives to the war, and thousands more were preparing to enter combat. In Fort Polk, Louisiana, a group of young ..read more »
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from 21 members
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8MM
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chris Bauer, Joaquin Phoenix
Director: Joel Schumacher
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Two features. In '8MM' Cage plays Tom Welles, a straight-laced surveillance specialist. His innocent, naive world begins to unravel when he is hired by the widow of an industrialist to investigate what she has shockingly discovered in her late husband's safe. It appears to be a snuff film of a ..read more »
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from 7,643 members
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Flawless
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Walter Koontz (De Niro) - once a hero cop, now a security guard - lives in a rundown Hell's kitchen tenement. One fateful night, after hearing the cries of a neighbour in trouble, his attempt to help turns into a nightmare when he suffers a stroke. Paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak ..read more »
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from 2,040 members
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Batman And Robin
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman
Director: Joel Schumacher
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This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two super-villains, and a ..read more »
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from 12,977 members
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A Time To Kill
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In a small southern town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. ..read more »
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from 8,707 members
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Batman Forever - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Gotham City is once again under siege, this time by the mind-controlling Riddler and the diabolical Harvey Two-Face. The Caped Crusader cleans up with the help of his new side-kick Robin in this effects-laden thrill ride.
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from 1,380 member
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Batman Forever
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Riddle me this, riddle me that, you'll adventure on the wings of bat! Brace for excitement as Val Kilmer (Batman), Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face), Jim Carrey (Riddler), Nicole Kidman (Dr. Chase Meridian) and Chris O'Donnell (Robin) star in the third spectacular film in Warner Bros. Batman series. Joel ..read more »
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from 13,778 members
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The Client
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In this taut legal drama a trailer park kid witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer and is pursued by authorities trying to find out if he knows anything. In an attempt to protect himself, the 11 year-old hires a feisty female attorney who takes up his case and develops a bond with him. Based on the ..read more »
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from 5,146 members
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Falling Down
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin
Director: Joel Schumacher
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A laid-off defence worker, kept from seeing his child on her birthday by a restraining order, looks at the landscape of moral decay in Los Angeles on one hot, congested day and, after being mugged, snaps. What follows is his bitter and pathetic mission of justice, vengeance and vindication that ..read more »
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from 12,911 members
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Falling Down - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Michael Douglas, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin
Director: Joel Schumacher
Certificate:
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A laid-off defense worker, kept from seeing his child on her birthday by a restraining order, looks at the landscape of moral decay in Los Angeles on one hot, congested day and, after being mugged, snaps. What follows is his bitter and pathetic mission of justice, vengeance and vindication that ..read more »
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from 2,045 members
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Dying Young
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott star in this moving love story about the power of inspiration. With little money, a poor education and no luck when it comes to love, Hilary O'Neil (Roberts) answers a wanted ad and finds her whole world suddenly changed. Hired as a caretaker to a seriously ill ..read more »
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from 2,258 members
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Flatliners
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation, ..read more »
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from 10,349 members
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Flatliners - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
Director: Joel Schumacher
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A tense thriller in which hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death ..read more »
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from 1,784 member
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Cousins
(1989)
Starring: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young
Director: Joel Schumacher
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In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy (Isabella Rossellini) and Larry Konzinski (Ted Danson) first meet at a wedding, where Maria's mother and Larry's uncle are tying the knot. However, the new cousins also have ..read more »
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from 301 members
Not currently released
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The Lost Boys
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz, Corey Haim
Director: Joel Schumacher
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One of the better vampire films about two new-in-town brothers who discover a local gang of motorcycle youths are more undead than alive. Younger brother Sam works hard to eradicate the ghoulies but his older brother falls in love with the bunch's lone female - and is gradually becoming a vampire ..read more »
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from 20,636 members
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The Lost Boys - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Corey Feldman, Jami Gertz, Corey Haim
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Watch now: Unavailable
One of the better vampire films about two new-in-town brothers who discover a local gang of motorcycle youths are more undead than alive. Younger brother Sam works hard to eradicate the ghoulies but his older brother falls in love with the bunch's lone female - and is gradually becoming a vampire ..read more »
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from 1,998 member
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St. Elmo's Fire
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Mare Winningham, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favourite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) and Leslie (Ally Sheedy) are career-minded and heading towards marriage. Virginal Wendy (Mare Winningham) only has eyes for ..read more »
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from 6,269 members
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St. Elmo's Fire - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Mare Winningham, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Seven friends, fresh out of Georgetown University, cope with the fears and realities of adulthood while drinking at their favourite hangout, St. Elmo's. Alex (Judd Nelson) and Leslie (Ally Sheedy) are career-minded and heading towards marriage. Virginal Wendy (Mare Winningham) only has eyes for ..read more »
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from 387 members
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Joel Schumacher facts
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...Director Joel Schumacher has given the screen version of John Grisham's first novel an A-list Hollywood cast (Mathew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Samuel L. Jacks...
