Movies starring David Strathairn
There is little doubt that the most discussed aspect of writer/director/editor John Sayles' Limbo will be the ending. Unconventional and unexpected, the conclusion will inspire outrage in some movie-goers (a patron at the showing I attended hurled...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-06-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, ...
Crooked cops. The mystery and allure of Hollywood in the '50s. Death, double-crossing, and secret alliances. Paparazzi waiting to get that one breakthrough picture. These are just some of the elements that make Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confiden...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, ...
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana It's astounding that a treatment of a factual incident from five decades ago could have such powerful resonance today. Lessons learned, it seems, are not taken t...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-10-14
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: George Clooney
Cast: David Strathairn, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, ...
One of the many, many smart decisions made by director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner when developing Lincoln was not to make it a traditional bio-pic of the 16th U.S. president. Instead, they confined the main story to a one-month ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, ...
Guillermo del Toro has taken us down some dark paths before, but this is the deepest and darkest he has gone, adapting the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham (which was previously made into a movie in 1947). Set during the Grea...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-12-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, ...
To find Nomadland, all one has to do is locate the place where the documentary intersects with the feature film. Based on the non-fiction book by Jessica Bruder, writer/director/editor Chloe Zhao has added form and texture by presenting this j...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-12-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Chloe Zhao
Cast: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, ...
If nothing else, The Bourne Ultimatum represents the best of 2007's inordinately high number of so-called "threequels." Hopefully, that's not damning with faint praise. The Bourne Ultimatum, the third in the movie trilogy loosely based on Robert...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-08-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION THRILLER
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, ...
Fracture is refreshingly different from the average mystery thriller in that it does not bombard the audience with "shocking" twists and "surprise" turns. This is a good thing, since those kinds of gimmicky plot elements more often than not derail...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-04-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, ...
Thus far, the formula has worked almost flawlessly: combine fantasy with a family friendly approach and the recent result has caused studio heads to smile. The Spiderwick Chronicles is the latest in what could be considered "starter" fantasy tales...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Mark Waters
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Mary-Louise Parker, ...
The Notorious Bettie Page is one good looking movie about one good looking dame. It tells of the career of '50s pin-up queen Bettie Page (Gretchen Mol), who was the object of countless masturbatory fantasies in the pre-Playboy era. Despite being a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-04-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mary Harron
Cast: Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, ...