Movies starring Richard Jenkins
After watching the Coen Brothers spend years mowing their way through genres and upending conventions, one question comes to mind: Is there anything these guys can't do. Common wisdom suggests "no" and, after winning Oscars early this year for No...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, ...
Note: The Cabin in the Woods works best if left unspoiled. Its impact relies not on a single unexpected twist but upon the cumulative impact of little unanticipated actions and incidents. It's virtually impossible to write anything coherent without...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-04-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Drew Goddard
Cast: Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Chris Hemsworth, ...
Dear John delivers pretty much what one would expect from an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel: a high-profile downer of a Harlequin romance. There's a market for this sort of movie, which lays it on thick and does everything possible to make ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-02-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, ...
Eat Pray Love is a muddle of a film - an overlong bore that either mistakenly thinks it's something more than a humdrum romance or has incorporated a variety of pretentions as window-dressing. In either case, the movie's quasi-preachy attitude eff...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-08-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ryan Murphy
Cast: Julia Roberts, Billy Crudup, Viola Davis, ...
Different parts of the female anatomy fascinate various men. Some are drawn to legs, others to breasts, and others to hips. But Tony, one of the many characters to join the bizarre cross-country trek chronicled in Flirting with Disaster, is an ar...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-03-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Ben Stiller, Josh Brolin, Richard Jenkins, ...
Suddenly, it seems that every romantic comedy is using the "best friend" branch of the formula. There are no doubt sociological reasons for this perhaps having something to do with the increasing popularity of the "friend with benefits" (a.k.a. "fu...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-07-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, ...
Have you ever gone through the painful experience of watching someone who was once good at something try to recapture their past glory? It can be in sports, acting, writing, or any number of vocations. That's the dubious opportunity Fun with Dick...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, ...
In 1998, Bobby and Peter Farrelly pushed the raunchy comedy envelope with their breakout hit, There's Something about Mary. Since then, two things have changed: the Farrelly Brothers have become softer (Exhibit A: their PG-13 2005 romantic comedy, ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-02-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Cast: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, ...
For whatever reason, the Coen Brothers' comedies (such as Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, and The Big Lebowski) have always garnered less critical attention than the filmmakers' more serious fare (such as Blood Simple, Barton Fink, and Fargo)...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-10-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, ...
Jack Reacher has the distinction of being little more than it initially appears to be: a clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movie that offers little more than every other clumsily condensed mystery/thriller novel made into a movi...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, ...