Joel Schumacher

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Incredible Shrinking Woman, The (1981): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty…; Fitfully amusing comedy mines the considerable talents of Lily Tomlin in the role of a housewife accidentally shrunk by her husband. Considerably…
D.C. Cab (1983): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Mr T, Max Gail, Gary Busey…; Low–octane comedy about a group of hapless cabbies struggling to keep their ailing company afloat. Mr. T and a pre–brain injury Gary…
St. Elmo's Fire (1985): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy…; The definitive 'Brat Pack' movie – seven graduates find the big wide world and the urge to pair off has consequences on their friendship as a…
Lost Boys, The (1987): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Corey Haim…; Keifer Sutherland leads a pack of teen vampires who have a taste for fashion as well as that red liquidy stuff. A dynamic, stylish horror with a…
Cousins (1989): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young…; Superior remake of COUSIN COUSINE with Danson and Rossellini pretending to be lovers to avenge their unfaithful partners.
Flatliners (1990): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon…; Young medical students experiment with their own deaths amid splendid gothic architecture. An intriguing premise is blown up to biblical proportions…
Dying Young (1991): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio…; Chuckle as stilettoed ignoramus Julia Roberts nurtures a rich and handsome cancer patient with whom she falls in lurve.
Falling Down (1993): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey…; Powerhouse black comedy in which Michael Douglas finally turns in a noteworthy performance. Striking back for the oppressed WASP male, he blows his…
Client, The (1994): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Brad Renfro, Tommy Lee Jones…; The best adaptation yet of a John Grisham legal–eagle novel. Susan Sarandon embraces the character–driven story that is mercifully free…
Batman Forever (1995): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris O'Donnell…; A new director and a new Batman (Val Kilmer) line up for this lucrative threequel. Its relentless onslaught of action has a rather numbing effect,…
Time to Kill, A (1996): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock…; A blue–eyed lawyer comes to the defence of a black man (Samuel L. Jackson) who murdered his daughter's rapists in the Deep South. This…
Batman and Robin (1997): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Arnold Schwarzenegger…; It's George Clooney's turn in the batsuit, with Chris O'Donnell, Arnold, Uma and Alicia all able to indulge the designer fetish–wear, too. A…
8mm (1998): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini…; First Hollywood effort at generating thrills from the dubious (and probably mythical) subculture of 'snuff movies', where actors are deliberately…
Flawless (2000): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman; After suffering a stroke that leaves him part–paralyzed, an arch–conservative, retired security guard (Robert De Niro) agrees to let a…
Tigerland (2001): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Colin Farrell, Clifton Collins Jr., Matthew Davis…; The dir. of recent Hollywood gloss forsakes stars for a gritty, admired character piece set in a Vietnam War–bootcamp in Louisiana, 1971.…
Bad Company (2002): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock; CIA–spook Anthony Hopkins recruits the street–smart twin (Chris Rock) of his recently–dead partner to help on a mission to track…
Phone Booth (2002): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes…; A lean, claustrophobic and entertaining thriller with the cute gimmick of a single location and played out in real time – Colin Farrell plays a…
Veronica Guerin (2003): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Brenda Fricker; Playing an Irish journalist determined to uncover the drug–networks of Ireland, Blanchett gives a rounded portrait of a headstrong…
Phantom of the Opera, The (2004): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Gerard Butler, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson…; An opulently kitschy version of the amazingly successful Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, in which the shadowy, disfigured 'phantom' (Butler) tries to…
Number 23, The (2007): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman…; Enigmatic, strangely engrossing rabbit hole thriller for Jim Carrey, about a seemingly innocuous detective novel that mysteriously mirrors his…
Trespass (2011): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn…; A bloated Nic Cage cashes in yet another paycheck in this hysterically straight–faced thriller from serial hack Joel Schumacher. Sympathy is…

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Joel Schumacher

Filmography (All Films)