John Cusack
Actor
Films to Rent
- Must Love Dogs (2005)
- Dir. Gary David Goldberg
Feat. Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins…
- Candyfloss romcom sees a forty–something teacher (Lane) recover from a broken marriage with the help of her large Irish–American family,…
- 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…
- Contract, The (2006)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. John Cusack, Morgan Freeman
- An elusive contract killer is apprehended by a camping father and son, giving way to a remote wilderness thriller of cat and mouse.
Though…
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2006)
- Dir. Tom Thurman
Feat. Gary Busey, John Cusack, Benicio Del Toro…
- Definitive documentary about the life and death of the late, great gonzo himself, Hunter S. Thompson.
Visuals draw heavily on clips, including…
- 1408 (2007)
- Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson
- This good, old–fashioned horror adapts a latter–day Steven King story of the same name.
True to genre, it's about a sceptical,…
- Martian Child (2007)
- Dir. Menno Meyjes
Feat. John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Amanda Peet
- Nicely judged performances from a quality cast lend weight to this rather feathery, maudlin tale of a lonely sci–fi author who adopts an…
- Igor (2008)
- Dir. Anthony Leondis
Feat. John Cusack, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi…
- Gothic animated outing about a hunchbacked lab assistant who wants to become a mad scientist in his own right and win first place at the annual Evil…
- War, Inc. (War Inc.) (2008)
- Dir. Joshua Seftel
Feat. John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei…
- Hit–and–miss satire with Cusack as a weary hitman sent to assassinate an oil minister in a Middle Eastern country occupied by an American…
- 2012 (2009)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Thandiwe Newton…
- Oh the humanity! Doomsday specialist Roland Emmerich renders the disaster movie redundant with this senseless, all–or–nothing…
- Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
- Dir. Steve Pink
Feat. John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke…
- Obnoxious man–child malarkey with a middle–aged John Cusack and his drop–out friends transported back to the past (the…
- Shanghai (2010)
- Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. John Cusack, Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat…
- Lavish Sino–Japanese prestige picture with John Cusack as an American expat ensconced in 40s Shanghai on the eve of the Pearl Harbour attacks.…
- Raven, The (2012)
- Dir. James McTeigue
Feat. John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans…
- Edgar Allan Poe spends his last days chasing a serial killer inspired by his writing in this hokey, but watchable thriller.
- Paperboy, The (2012)
- Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman…
- Sweaty Southern melodrama concerns a pair of journalists recruited by a brassy blonde to fight for a death row inmate she has fallen in love with.
- Butler, The (2013)
- Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey…
- A stagy but sincere history of post–war Black America from the point of view of a White House servant (played by Forest Whitaker). It works as…
- Adult World (2013)
- Dir. Scott Coffey
Feat. Emma Roberts, John Cusack, Evan Peters…
- A struggling college graduate with aspirations of becoming a poet slums it at a small town sex shop in this dry indie comedy.
- Grand Piano (2013)
- Dir. Eugenio Mira
Feat. Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Dee Wallace Stone
- This tantalizing Grand Guignol, styled in the spirit of Italian Giallo and Brian De Palma, finds concert pianist Elijah Wood stalked by an unseen…
- Maps to the Stars (2014)
- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack…
- Director David Cronenberg’s gaudy, lacerating satire of Hollywood vanities, featuring Julianne Moore in a richly–deserved…
- Love & Mercy (Love and Mercy) (2014)
- Dir. Bill Pohlad
Feat. John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks…
- Finely attuned portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys, and his struggles with his emerging psychosis…
- Chi-Raq (2015)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris…
- Brilliant Spike Lee musical transposing the classical Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes into the setting of a Chicago neighbourhood beset by gang…