Movies starring Stanley Tucci
The Hunger Games comes charging out of the gate with a daunting task: fill the chasm in the fangirl cinematic franchise machine created by the completion of the Harry Potter saga and the impending end to all things Twilight. The Hunger Games cycle ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-03-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Gary Ross
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Lennie Kravitz, Elizabeth Banks, ...
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (full title: Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody) is as generic a musical bio-pic as one is likely to find. A by-the-numbers, slightly fictionalized chronicle of the rise and fall of pop singer Whitney Houston (...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-02-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Cast: Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders, ...
Jack the Giant Slayer is an enjoyable fantasy/adventure whose magic is partially undermined by marginal 3-D. Once again, the ugliest aspects of this format rear their heads: dim and fuzzy images, lackluster colors, and poor definition. Everything i...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-03-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ewan McGregor, ...
When I was three years old and my playmates were happily watching Sesame Street and cartoons, I would sit in front of the television and gaze at the force of nature that was Julia Child (I also liked Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet). Her larger...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, ...
Maybe there's some truth to the assertion that Alice Sebold's novel is unfilmable. After all, if a visionary like Peter Jackson, who crafted a nearly perfect cinematic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, can't do it, who can? Perhaps the issue i...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, ...
Lucky Number Slevin is a fascinating case study of what might result if Quentin Tarantino directed a script written for Alfred Hitchcock. From a screenwriting perspective, this is pure suspense, with twists that would appeal to The Master, includi...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-04-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Paul McGuigan
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Stanley Tucci, Ben Kingsley, ...
Long ago, the concept of "money" was devised as a means by which commerce could be simplified - after all, it's easier to carry around some kind of marker than cows or cattle or bags of grain. As society has evolved, however, so has the way in whic...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: J.C. Chandor
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, ...
Tom Hanks as a cold-blooded hit man? Say it ain't so, Forrest! Over the course of his illustrious career, which is well into its third decade, Hanks has played a cross-dresser, a man infatuated by a mermaid, the manager of a women's baseball te...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-07-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman, ...
Robots is every bit as visually engaging as the best of the Pixar (or Dreamworks) digitally animated fare. The landscapes are stunning, the characters are intricately formed, there's plenty of break-neck action, and Robin Williams provides a helpi...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-03-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Cast: (voices) Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Coolidge, ...
Shall We Dance? is a remake of the 1997 Japanese feature by the same name. Penned and directed by Masayuki Suo, that film was an unexpected pleasure - a feel-good feature that wasn't weighed down by the unnecessarily cloying melodrama and manipula...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-10-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Peter Chelsom
Cast: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, ...