Movies starring Laura Linney
With Mystic River, Clint Eastwood has rebounded nicely from the failure of his mediocre previous effort, Blood Work. Absent from the screen but behind the camera for the first time since Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Eastwood concentrat...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-10-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, ...
Tone is the most noteworthy aspect of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's The Nanny Diaries. In adapting the best-selling 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, the husband-and-wife team behind American Splendor have tried to keep ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-08-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Nicholas Reese Art, ...
One of the most unfortunate aspects of a courtroom thriller is the tendency to degenerate into preposterous melodrama. It's as if the basic situation of having a person on trial for their life isn't inherently powerful enough. As a result, cheap...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-04-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney, ...
The Savages is being described in some corners as a "dark comedy," but such a designation does a great disservice to Tamara Jenkins' picture. This is not a comedy but a drama. To the extent that there is humor, it emerges from the uncomfortable s...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco
The foundation of any good family drama is interesting characters, and The Squid and the Whale is replete with them. Movies about divorce and dysfunctional families are so commonplace that it's difficult to avoid slipping into clichés yet, as a re...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-10-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, ...
Most of those who elect to see Sully, Clint Eastwood’s re-enactment of the 2009 ditching of a commercial airliner in the Hudson River, will remember the incident involving U.S. Airways Flight 1549 from news reports. For several days following t...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-09-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Scenes of peril, profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, ...
Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is the star of the most popular show in the history of television. For 10,909 days, it has been on the air, using 5000 cameras to show every moment in every day of the life of one man. The public loves it -- there ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-06-05
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, ...