Movies with screenplay written by Dave Eggers
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...
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, ...
Thematically, James Ponsoldt’s The Circle (based on the novel by Dave Eggers) takes its cues from George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Grand aspirations, to be sure, and ones that are never truly met. From its beginn...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-04-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: James Ponsoldt
Cast: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, ...
Where the Wild Things Are may be the first family film in recent memory to rely not on narrative or character development but on ideas and the director's vision. The result is an involving experience for all but the most fidgety children and an op...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-16
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener; voices: James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, ...