Movies starring Jeff Daniels

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2 Days in the Valley

If this is what it's really like to spend a couple days in the San Fernando Valley during the hottest time of the year, then, like W.C. Fields, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. Actually, for a movie that's so precise about time (one of the char...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: 1996-09-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller/Comedy
Director: John Herzfeld
Cast: Danny Aiello, Eric Stoltz, James Spader, ...
Allegiant

Allegiant exemplifies what happens when a book or movie exists solely for the purposes of placating fans and maintaining a revenue stream. Craft and originality are swapped out for familiarity and sameness. Plot turns into a regurgitation of not only...

Run Time: 2:01
U.S. Release Date: 2016-03-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Zoe Kravitz, ...
Answer Man, The

The Answer Man is one of those modestly diverting motion pictures that's as sweet as cotton candy - and as insubstantial. "Forgettable" is the best term for something like this. It's not painful to sit through but it's unlikely anyone is going to...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: John Hindman
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Lou Taylor Pucci, ...
Away We Go

It may be fair to consider Away We Go as Sam Mendes' penance for Revolutionary Road. The director's late-2008 Winslet/DiCaprio reunion was an immersion in bile - an acidic trip underneath the placid exterior of mid-20th century suburbia to a rot t...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 2009-06-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: John Krasinski, Melanie Lynskey, Chris Messina, ...
Blood Work

Once, in seemingly another lifetime, the name "Clint Eastwood" was synonymous with Spaghetti Westerns and the Man With No Name. In the '70s and '80s, he was Dirty Harry, the tough cop with a quotable one-liner for seemingly any situation. More re...

Run Time: 1:49
U.S. Release Date: 2002-08-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels, ...
Dumb and Dumber

Sometimes, a movie just can't live up to its advertising campaign (or its name, for that matter). Dumb and Dumber is one such case. Take the newspaper ad, for example, filled with all those fake, witty quotes. That's rather clever (although not o...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: 1994-12-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Peter Farrelly
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, ...
Dumb and Dumber To

What propels filmmakers to make a sequel to a 20-year old film? Is it nostalgia for the brand of comedy that characterized the original? Is it desperation on everyone's part to revive flagging careers? Or is it Hollywood's acceptance that recogniz...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Peter & Bobby Farrelly
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rachel Melvin, ...
Fly Away Home

Let me say up front that I have never been especially fond of Canadian geese. Sure, they're cute when they're young, but they are long past the adorable stage when they first take to the air. Now that I've made that admission, you might be surpri...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: 1996-09-13
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Carroll Ballard
Cast: > Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, Dana Delany, ...
Gettysburg

Gettysburg, Ronald F. Maxwell's re-telling of four hot days during the summer of 1863 (based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara), is a spectacle that gathers power and momentum with every scene. Originally slat...

Run Time: 4:14
U.S. Release Date: 1993-10-08
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: WAR
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Cast: Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, ...
Good Night, and Good Luck

"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...

Run Time: 1:33
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, ...