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  • Home Alone bully lands villain role in Alexander Payne film - 4 October 2012
    ther in the Home Alone movies is set to return to movie acting after signing on to play the villain in The Descendants director Alexander Payne's next movie Nebraska.-Devin Ratray played Buzz McCallister in the first and second Home Alone films in the early 1990s - and t


  • Payne to receive Golden Eddie award - 6 February 2012
    -The Descendants director Alexander Payne is set to be feted with a top honour at the 2012 American Cinema Editors' Eddie Awards.-The Oscar nominee will be presented with the Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year Award at the event, which will be held in Los Angeles on 18 F

Alexander Payne - what members say


  • Election
  • Election review by from lancashire
    Rated - 4.0 stars A clever & entertaining satire 9 June 2005
    ...an high school through the focus of an student election. Its a compliment to Alexander Payne`s direction that none of the characters ends up being truly likeable. Whilst...   Read customer review
  • Sideways
  • Sideways review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars A real treat 29 January 2005
    ...-discovery for a pair of mismatched buddies in 'Sideways', the latest film from Alexander Payne and unquestionably one of the finest American films of the year Paul Giamatt...   Read customer review
  • The Descendants
  • The Descendants review by Nootlin from
    Rated - 3.5 stars Hawaii Five Stars? More like three and a half. 13 February 2012
    ...ynopsis on which to build a comedy, The Descendants although very much still an Alexander Payne film, is something of a departure from his more comedic 'dramedies' like Electi...   Read customer review

Alexander Payne - filmography


  • Nebraska
  • Nebraska (2013)
    Starring: Bruce Dern,  Will Forte,  June Squibb
    Director: Alexander Payne
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
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  • Cedar Rapids - Blu-ray
  • Cedar Rapids - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Stephen Root,  Kurtwood Smith,  Rob Corddry
    Director: Miguel Arteta
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Miguel Arteta directs this fish-out-of-water comedy set in the American Mid-West. Ed Helms stars as amiable insurance salesman Tim Lippe, whose life and career have been going pretty much nowhere for the majority of his 34 years. However, when he leaves his sleepy small-town existence behind to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 46 members
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  • Hung - Series 1
  • Hung - Series 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Thomas Jane,  Jane Adams,  Eddie Jemison
    Director: Alexander Payne,  Craig Zisk,  Scott Ellis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    At first glance, Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane, The Punisher) seems like an ordinary divorced dad who’s trying to make ends meet. But Ray’s got one extraordinary, God-given gift. Call it his “winning tool” that sets him apart from other underpaid high-school teachers. With a little help from an unlikely ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 833 members
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  • King of California
  • King of California on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Evan Rachel Wood,  Michael Doulgas,  Willis Burks Ii
    Director: Mike Cahill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Comedy about a father and daughter on a hunt for buried treasure. After spending several years in a mental institution, Charlie (Michael Douglas) is sent home to his 16-year old daughter Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood). Since being abandoned by her mother, Miranda has managed to survive by quitting ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,878 members
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  • Sideways
  • Sideways (2005)
    Starring: Paul Giamatti,  Thomas Haden Church,  Virginia Madsen
    Director: Alexander Payne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy drama which follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), an unsuccessful novelist, and Jack (Thomas Haden Church), an equally unsuccessful actor who is about to get married. They decide to take a trip to California in an attempt to sow their wild oats. There they explore the nature of their failures and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 69,309 members
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  • About Schmidt
  • About Schmidt (2002)
    Starring: June Squibb,  Kathy Bates,  Dermot Mulroney
    Director: Alexander Payne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Recently retired insurance actuary Warren Schimdt (Jack Nicholson) is struggling to adjust to his newfound freedom and finds his wife Helen extremely irritating. When she suddenly dies, Warren discovers some letters indicating that she once had an affair with his friend Ray and was therefore also ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 23,457 members
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  • Election
  • Election on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Phil Reeves,  Mark Harelik,  Jessica Campbell
    Director: Alexander Payne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this satirical comedy, a hotly contested high school election becomes a metaphor for the current state of American politics. Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) is a popular and well-respected instructor at George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, Nebraska, but lately he's been unhappy in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 9,925 members
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  • Election - Blu-ray
  • Election - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Phil Reeves,  Mark Harelik,  Jessica Campbell
    Director: Alexander Payne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Merciless social satire starring Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick, a Straight A pupil who is determined to become student president of Carver High School. Her teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) feels that democracy would best be served if she faced some opposition, and convinces popular but ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 666 members
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Alexander Payne facts

5 most recent films

Nebraska - 3 stars
The Descendants - 3.5 stars
The Descendants - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cedar Rapids - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Hung - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Jurassic Park Trilogy - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Marc Jacobs And Louis Vuitton - 4.0 stars
Sideways - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Descendants - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Hung - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Nebraska - 3 stars
Citizen Ruth - 3.0 stars
Cedar Rapids - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
About Schmidt - 3.0 stars
King of California - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Anne Heche - 7 times - show films
Eddie Jemison - 6 times - show films
Jane Adams - 6 times - show films
Thomas Jane - 6 times - show films
Charlie Saxton - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Scott Ellis - 6 times - show films
Craig Zisk - 6 times - show films
Loïc Prigent - 1 times - show films
Mike Cahill - 1 times - show films
Miguel Arteta - 1 times - show films

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  3. 04 Oct 2012
    Home Alone bully lands villain role in Alexander Payne film
  4. 06 Feb 2012
    Payne to receive Golden Eddie award
  5. 19 Feb 2012
    The Descendants lands coveted Scripter Award

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