Movies starring Albert Brooks
Regarding a concussion as a serious brain injury is a relatively recent phenomenon. For many years, “getting your bell rung” (as the expression goes) was something people were expected to shrug off. For sports, the fix was to take a coupl...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Landesman
Cast: Will Smith, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, ...
Most people believe in some form of an afterlife, although the specifics vary from individual to individual. In scripting Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks approached the subject from more of a philosophical than a religious/spiritual perspective...
U.S. Release Date: 1991-03-22
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
Director: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, ...
Perhaps Drive is an action movie for those who don't ordinarily like action movies. It's also an action movie for those who crave them like a drug. Employing unusual camera angles and a unique sense of style, director Nicolas Winding Refn takes us ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-09-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, ...
Thirteen years after Pixar sent a Dory on a hunt for Nemo, now it’s time for a little role-reversal. Finding Dory brings back many of the favorites from the 2003 animated hit, Finding Nemo, for another go-around. And, since it has been a long t...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-06-17
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane
Cast: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, ...
The more things change, the more they stay the same. As we enter the summer of 2003, Walt Disney Pictures reigns supreme as the distributor of the best animated fare. Yet, less than a dozen years after Beauty and the Beast became the first (and t...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-05-30
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Andrew Stanton
Cast: (voices) Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, ...
This certainly isn't the first motion picture to focus on father/daughter bonding, nor will it be the last. But I'll Do Anything has the distinction of being enjoyable and entertaining, while bringing a new twist or two to an old subject. No...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-02-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Nick Nolte, Whittni Wright, Albert Brooks, ...
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is a great title with a great premise for a not so great film. The comedy of Albert Brooks is delicate stuff - self-deprecating one-liners that need the perfect context to generate laughter. Films like Mothe...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Sheetal Sheth, John Carroll Lynch, ...
A Most Violent Year is a throwback - an homage to or recreation of the kinds of movies made by Martin Scorsese and Sidney Lumet during the 1970s. The setting isn't coincidental - J.C. Chandor's film transpires on the mean streets of New York ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-12-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: J.C. Chandor
Cast: Alessandro Nivola, Albert Brooks, David Oyelowo, ...
Beware Opening Night films at film festivals. More often than not, they disappoint. Such is the case with Christine Lahti's My First Mister, which was given the undisputed honor of opening the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. From audience members a...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Christine Lahti
Cast: Albert Brooks, LeeLee Sobieski, Desmond Harrington, ...
In the middle of the summer movie season, when most films are designed with the intelligence of a seven year-old for viewers with the attention span of someone even younger, it's refreshing to find a picture like Out of Sight, which is not only...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-06-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, ...