David Strathairn

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Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980): Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre…; In his feature debut, writer–director John Sayles demonstrates a wisdom way beyond his years with this ‘do–it–yourself’…
Lovesick (1983): Dir. Marshall Brickman
Feat. Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness…; A psychiatrist who falls in love with a patient is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.
Iceman (1984): Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, Josef Sommer…; Arctic explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive in this enjoyable piece of sci–fi hokum, with John Lone giving a…
Eight Men Out (1989): Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd…; True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
Sneakers (1992): Dir. Phil Alden Robinson
Feat. Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Poitier…; This reworks the spy–caper genre to dazzling effect as an endearing team of security crackpots attempt to outwit bad egg Ben Kingsley whose…
Passion Fish (1992): Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Mary MacDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn; After a debilitating accident, soap–opera super–bitch Mary MacDonnell returns to Louisiana and finds an unlikely soulmate in her black…
Dangerous Woman, A (1994): Dir. Steven Gyllenhaal
Feat. Debra Winger, Gabriel Byrne, Barbara Hershey…; Debra Winger gives her most impressive performance yet as a simple woman whose compulsive honesty wins her few friends. Reminiscent of the plays of…
River Wild, The (1994): Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Meryl Streep, Joseph Mazzello, David Strathairn…; Troubled marrieds Meryl Streep and David Strathairn embark on a river–rafting holiday with son and dog in tow, but in true DELIVERANCE style,…
Losing Isaiah (1995): Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn…; Jessica Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned black child a new chance at life, but the birth mother (Halle Berry) has cleaned up her…
Dolores Claiborne (1995): Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt…; After MISERY, this non–supernatural Stephen King adaptation displays yet another facet of Kathy Bates multiple screen personas – here she…
L.A. Confidential (1997): Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey…; Slam–bang adaptation preserves the lacerating edge of James Ellroy's crime novel while polishing up the sheen of 50s Hollywood. Antipodean boys…
Limbo (1999): Dir. John Sayles
Feat. David Strathairn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio; John Sayles, the doyen of American independents, succeeds all Johnny–Come–Lately's with an arresting, multi–layered fable that…
A Map of the World (1999): Dir. Scott Elliot
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn…; A somewhat overlooked drama with Weaver giving a tour–de–force performance as a slightly prickly woman, uncomfortable with her life, who…
Harrison's Flowers (2000): Dir. Elie Chouraqui
Feat. Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Adrien Brody…; Andie MacDowell searches for her photojournalist husband (David Strathairn), presumed dead in the 1991 Serbian siege of Vukovar, with the aid of…
Blue Car (2002): Dir. Karen Moncrieff
Feat. Agnes Bruckner, David Strathairn; A rites–of–passage drama of distinction, this is realistic and affecting in its account of a high–school student whose flair for…
Relative Evil (Ball in the House) (2002): Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Jonathan Tucker, Jennifer Tilly, David Strathairn…; Deceptively marketed as a kind of "wicked stepmother" thriller, this is instead a well–constructed, paranoid black comedy about a teenage…
Twisted (2004): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia…; Judd plays a detective hunting a serial killer on the San Francisco waterfront in this overly shadowy thriller. It's chief distinction occurs when…
Good Night, and Good Luck (2004): Dir. George Clooney
Feat. George Clooney, Robert Downey Jnr., Patricia Clarkson…; An astutely–judged freezeframe of an important symbolic moment in 20th century American history, when CBS television presenter Edward Murrow…
Missing In America (2005): Dir. Gabrielle Savage Dockterman
Feat. Danny Glover, David Strathairn, Ron Perlman…; Set around a "bush vet", a reclusive Vietnam veteran (Glover) who lives in the lonely pine forests of Washington State, this solid drama takes an…
Notorious Bettie Page, The (2005): Dir. Mary Harron
Feat. Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn…; Perfectly–cast and perfectly shaped, Gretchen Mol busts out as the 'notorious' Bettie Page, giving body and soul to the pin–up queen’s…
We Are Marshall (2006): Dir. McG
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, David Strathairn…; Sport biopic centered around the 1970 plane crash that killed much of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team and their coaches and…
Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007): Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Édgar Ramírez…; Quality white–knuckle thrills–and–spills flick concludes the Bourne trilogy – and our super–spook hero’s (Damon)…
Fracture (2007): Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn…; A you–know–whodunnit legal psychodrama with Anthony Hopkins as a wealthy businessman who shoots his wife dead, then plays a cruel (if…
My Blueberry Nights (2007): Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn…; Urban romantic Wong Kar–wai transposes the style and erstwhile longing of his Hong Kong mood pieces to the United States, with songbird Norah…
Spiderwick Chronicles, The (2008): Dir. Mark Waters
Feat. Freddie Highmore, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger…; Enchanting fantasia in the Gothic tradition, centred around three children (including Freddie Highmore as twins!) who move into a dilapidated mansion…
Uninvited, The (2009): Dir. Charles Guard, Thomas Guard
Feat. Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn…; Not–as–bad–as–you'd–think American remake of Korean chiller A TALE OF TWO SISTERS focuses on two sisters who discover…
Cold Souls (2009): Dir. Sophie Barthes
Feat. Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, Lauren Ambrose…; A existentialist tragi–comedy in which Paul Giamatti plays himself, a New York actor in crisis, who literally has his soul extracted, only to…
Howl (2010): Dir. Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Feat. James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm…; A fitting celebration and account of the making and hostile reception of Allen Ginsberg's famously controversial poem, with James Franco superb as…
Tempest, The (2010): Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou…; Julie Taymor takes on The Bard once more with distinctly eye–popping results, and in a further deviation gives Helen Mirren the role of…
Temple Grandin (2010): Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Claire Danes, Catherine O'Hara, Julia Ormond…; Claire Danes sensitively portrays the life of a revered animal doctor whose revolutionary practices for the humane handling of livestock on farms…

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