Billy Bob Thornton

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One False Move (1990): Dir. Carl Franklin
Feat. Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Billy Bob Thornton; Naive county sheriff Bill Paxton gets a chance at the big–time when two vicious criminals sweep through his sleepy town. Things lighten up…
Sling Blade (1997): Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter, Dwight Yoakam; Billy Bob Thornton performs a truly impressive writer–director–actor hat–trick for his remarkable tale about an asylum inmate…
Winner, The (1997): Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Vincent D'Onofrio, Rebecca De Mornay, Frank Whaley…; Punk director Alex Cox about breaks even with this stageplay custom fitted for the screen. The action revolves around Las Vegas 'winner' Vincent…
Apostle, The (1997): Dir. Robert Duvall
Feat. Robert Duvall, Miranda Richardson, Billy Bob Thornton; Labour of love – in the best possible sense – for Robert Duvall (as Actor/Writer/Director), raising hellfire as a repentant…
Primary Colors (1998): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton…; In charting the rise of a controversial Southern Governor through the US Democratic primary campaign, John Travolta rises admirably to his most…
Armageddon (1998): Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Billy Bob Thornton…; After the tragedy of DEEP IMPACT, we get to witness the end of the world again, this time Jerry Bruckheimer–style (CON AIR, THE ROCK). That…
Homegrown (1998): Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Kelly Lynch, Hank Azaria…; Billy Bob Thornton heads a trio of inept drug dealers in a modest, though deft comedy of marijuana capers. Seeking to offload their crop when the…
A Simple Plan (1998): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda; A simple premise – three smalltown guys stumble across $4,000,000 in an undiscovered plane–crash and decide to keep it – out of…
Pushing Tin (1999): Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett…; The title is Air Traffic Controller jargon for getting all the jumbo–jets landing on time, and typifies the haywire humour of this workplace…
Daddy and Them (1999): Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Laura Dern, Kelly Preston…; Low–key, quirky and casually paced, dir. Thornton's tribute to his roots unfolds as an Arkansas clan draw together to support their imprisoned…
All the Pretty Horses (2000): Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Penelope Cruz, Matt Damon, Henry Thomas…; Serious–minded adaptation of Cormac McCarthey’s neo–western novel, the epic journey of 1950s cowboy Matt Damon across the Texan border…
Bandits (2001): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett…; Genuine wit is visited upon this comedy–drama built around the unlikely character alliance of successful bank–robbers Bruce Willis and…
Man Who Wasn't There, The (2001): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini…; The Coen Brothers chalk up another film in love with film, an attractive but slender paean to 1950s pulp melodramas, with its nostalgia–soaked…
Monster's Ball (2001): Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger…; A surprising success of 2001 after Halle Berry won the Best Actress Oscar, this compelling race–drama is harrowing, angst–ridden and…
Levity (2003): Dir. Ed Solomon
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter…; A bleak study of the post–prison world of paroled killer Billy Bob Thornten, who is haunted by the spectre of his teenage victim as he attempts…
Intolerable Cruelty (2003): Dir. Joel Coen
Feat. George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Bob Thornton…; Another sophisticated comedy from the Coen Brothers, here certifying George Clooney as a leading man with dab comic timing, opposite a smouldering,…
Love Actually (2003): Dir. Richard Curtis
Feat. Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson…; Golden–boy comedy writer Richard Curtis assumes directing duties for the first time but mislays the Midas touch he gained from penning “Four…
Bad Santa (2003): Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham…; Gleefully soiling St. Nick's reputation, Billy Bob Thornton dons the red fat–suit as a department store Santa with a penchant for cigarettes,…
Alamo, The (2004): Dir. John Lee Hancock
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric…; Big–budget recasting of the fabled 'Battle of the Alamo' in 1836 between Texan (US) and Mexican forces, which marked a turning point in…
Friday Night Lights (2004): Dir. Peter Berg
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez…; A strong drama set in a small Texas town, where high school football (like rugby in New Zealand) is treated with near–religious…
Bad News Bears (2005): Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Marcia Gay Harden, Greg Kinnear; Billy Bob Thornton stars as the loutish coach of a losing baseball team in this soft–shoe remake of the 1976 Walter Matthau classic, following…
Ice Harvest, The (2005): Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen…; A chilled–out study in sleaze and crime with partners John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton contriving a way to lift $2 million from a Mob client…
School For Scoundrels (2007): Dir. Todd Phillips
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder, Michael Clarke Duncan…; Jon Heder changes gears slightly from his breakout NAPOLEON DYNAMITE schtick for this screwball comedy as a young hapless chap who enrolls in a charm…
Astronaut Farmer, The (2007): Dir. Michael Polish
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern…; Billy Bob Thornton plays a little guy with a big dream – an ex–NASA employee who builds his own space–rocket – in this warm…
Eagle Eye (2008): Dir. D. J. Caruso
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson…; Derivative but entertaining cyber–thriller in which a young man and single mother get framed as terrorists and find themselves unexpectedly…
Informers, The (2008): Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger…; Another tale of hedonism in the eighties from screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis (AMERICAN PSYCHO), following a group of lost causes who fill their…
Smell of Success, The (2009): Dir. Michael Polish
Feat. Billy Bob Thornton, Tea Leoni, Mark Polish…; Another quirky character study from dir. Polish this time set amongst the world of manure salesmen, as Billy Bob and Leoni struggle to keep her late…
Faster (2010): Dir. George Tillman Jr.
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino…; Pedal–to–the–metal revenge thriller rarely lets up in its high paced offering, pitting The Rock against a number of grimy…
Puss in Boots (2011): Dir. Chris Miller
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis…; Slinky fairytale spin–off of SHREK finds the titular swashbuckling Spaniard on a whole new steal–stealing adventure. Despite slick…
Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012): Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick…; Flavoursome southern drama set during the Vietnam war is about two families from different countries whose cultures clash.

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