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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


  • A Time To Kill
  • A Time To Kill review by from Notting Hill
    Rated - 3 stars great cast 15 September 2003
    ...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...  
  • The Lost Boys
  • The Lost Boys review by from Worcestershire, UK
    Rated - 4 stars This Film made Vampires Cool! 13 July 2004
    ...res! The film is a heady mix of horror, comedy and pop video expertly woven by Joel Schumacher who includes some plot twists to bamboozle Van helsing himself! The acting is g...  
  • Falling Down
  • Falling Down review by A customer from The Best of the West Country
    Rated - 4 stars One of My Personal Top Ten 24 May 2006
    ...Gosh. Falling Down. The Joel Schumacher epic. You describe it? Wait, don't - too many people miss the point of this film entirely... I've seen multiple reviews suggesting t...  

Joel Schumacher - filmography


  • Creek (2009)
    Starring: Dominic Purcell,  Henry Cavill,  Michael Fassbender
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 1936, the Wollners--a German family living in rural Town Creek, Maryland--are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar, Professor Ricard Wirth. In need of money, they accept Wirth into their home. Wirth's grand occult project seals the Wollners off from the rest of the world and ..read more »
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  • Number 23, The - BLU-RAY Version (2007)
    Starring: Virginia Madsen,  Danny Huston,  Jim Carrey
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 24 members
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  • The Phantom Of The Opera on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Gerard Butler,  Emmy Rossum,  Patrick Wilson
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 27,776 members
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  • Bad Company on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Chris Rock,  Peter Stormare
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,610 members
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  • Tigerland on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Colin Farrell,  Matthew Davis,  Shea Whigham
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,977 members
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  • 8MM on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Joaquin Phoenix,  James Gandolfini
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 6,454 members
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  • Batman And Robin on DVD (1997)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Uma Thurman
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Caped Crusader returns to battle the abominable Mr. Freeze and green-thumbed Poison Ivy. To save his ailing wife, Dr. Victor Fries turns to a life of crime after a hideous accident makes him unable to tolerate even moderate temperatures, while Dr. Pamela Isley falls victim to mutated plant DNA ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 11,946 members
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  • Batman Forever on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Val Kilmer,  Tommy Lee Jones,  Jim Carrey
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    As two new forces of evil--Two-Face, formerly known as District Attorney Harvey Dent until a courtroom accident left him disfigured by chance and fueled by vengeance, and the Riddler, who was previously Edward Nygma, an overlooked employee of Wayne Enterprises before his transformation into the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 12,011 members
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  • Cousins on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Isabella Rossellini,  Sean Young
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a pair of cousins-by-marriage (Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini) meet at a family wedding and discover that their own spouses (William Petersen and Sean Young) are carrying on with each other, they decide to pretend to have an affair to get back at them. Their good-natured plan takes on ..read more »
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  • The Lost Boys on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Corey Feldman,  Jami Gertz,  Corey Haim
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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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Joel Schumacher facts

5 most recent films

Creek - 1.5 stars
Number 23, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
The Number 23 - 3.0 stars
The Phantom Of The Opera - 3.0 stars
Phantom Of The Opera, The - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Lost Boys, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Time To Kill, A - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Falling Down - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
The Lost Boys - 3.5 stars
A Time To Kill - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Creek - 1.5 stars
Number 23, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Phantom Of The Opera, The - HD DVD Version - 3.0 stars
Batman And Robin - BLU-RAY Version - 2.0 stars
Batman And Robin - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kiefer Sutherland - 6 times - show films
Pat Hingle - 5 times - show films
Jim Carrey - 5 times - show films
Chris O'Donnell - 5 times - show films
Michael Gough - 5 times - show films