Movies starring Robert Duvall
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, ...
Two words that come to mind when considering The Judge are generic and predictable. It's also well-intentioned and earnest (perhaps to a fault). There are some good scenes and instances of strong acting but the project as a whole is so familiar tha...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-10-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton, ...
Like most movies concerned to one degree or another with the subject of gambling, Lucky You addresses the themes of obsession and redemption. The film loosely follows the trajectory of an "addiction movie," although it's less grim than pictures of...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, ...
Sometimes, pure technical accuracy isn't enough. Sometimes, artistry has to be taken into account. One such case in point is Barry Levision's The Natural, arguably the best baseball movie ever made. The film works not because it is flawless in i...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/SPORTS
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, ...
In motion pictures, there are essentially three types of satire: a fatuous, silly kind that emphasizes jokes to the exclusion of all else; a lightly comic approach that gently pokes fun at issues while developing a plot and characters; and a vicio...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, ...
In 1992, Walt Disney Pictures, riding a wave of euphoria generated by its recent animated successes, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, tried to do something that was met by critics with skepticism: revive the live-action musical. Filmm...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-04-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Lerner, Robert Duvall, ...
Whatever his faults as a filmmaker may be, Kevin Costner certainly understands the Western. Although Open Range is not on the same level as Dances with Wolves, it's a respectable effort that is only slightly marred by the unnecessarily protracted ...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-08-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: WESTERN
Director: Kevin Costner
Cast: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, ...
The Road is undoubtedly one of the fall's most anticipated offerings, in part because it has been lingering on the horizon of the cinematic landscape for a year. Originally scheduled for a release in late 2008, it was delayed when filmmaker John H...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: John Hillcoat
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, ...
Welcome to Massachusetts, 1666, where Puritans, Indians, and adultery come together in Roland Joffe's overlong, overwrought re-interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic, The Scarlet Letter. Literary purists will be aghast at some of the libe...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-10-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Violence, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, ...
Sling Blade, the directorial debut of actor/writer Billy Bob Thornton (who scripted One False Move and A Family Thing), is a fascinating examination of a damaged man's quest to make restitution for his past crimes. To a lesser extent, it also offe...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-11-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Dwight Yoakam, ...