Robert Zemeckis
Director, Actor
Used Cars (1980)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jack Warden, Kurt Russell
- Two sibling used car dealers (both played by Jack Warden) take their rivalry and sales gimmicks to a bad–taste extreme. Good script elevates…
Romancing the Stone (1985)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas
- Witty, fast–paced adventure through the South American jungle with Turner and Douglas well cast as made–for–each–other…
Back to the Future Trilogy (1985-1990)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox
- A quality sci–fi comedy/adventure series perfectly suited to the youthful charm of Michael J. Fox. The classy original, where he is sent back…
Back to the Future (1985)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson…
- A bona fide 80s classic, this original sci–fi comedy/adventure has a perfectly cast Michael J. Fox sent back to the '50s to have his mother…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1989)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy…
- A staggering blend of live–action and brillaint animation conjures up a believable world where people and cartoons…
Back to the Future 2 (1989)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson…
- Second part of the trilogy has Marty McFly catapulted into 2020 and back again into a dark alternate reality. With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd,…
Tales from the Crypt (1990)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis, Walter Hill, Richard Donner
Feat. Miguel Ferrer, Roy Brocksmith
- Three gruesome anecdotes featuring; an out–of–work executioner who turns vigilante, an adulterous housewife who gets a sharp Christmas…
Back to the Future 3 (1990)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen…
- Fun conclusion to the trilogy sends Marty McFly back to the wild west to resolve the havoc he created in part 2.
Death Becomes Her (1992)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn
- Streep, Willis and Hawn turn in spot–on performances for this hilarious send–up of Tinseltown's obsession with youth. The zany plot…
Forrest Gump (1994)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Mykeltin Williamson
- Oscar–winning box–office monster has suffered heavily from over–exposure, but one cannot dispute its effectiveness as a nutshell of…
Contact (1997)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jodie Foster, Jena Malone, Matthew McConaughey…
- The E.T.s phone Earth in this lavish adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel, with scientists retrieving alien radio signals from Somewhere Out There. …
What Lies Beneath (2000)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford
- Affluent couple Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford have their watertight marriage spring a leak when the neighbours start acting suspiciously and…
Cast Away (2000)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Tom Hanks
- Tom Hanks commits to his craft once again, here as a cocky, time–obsessed Fed–Ex courier who suffers the irony of having to subsist…
Polar Express, The (2004)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Tom Hanks
- Expertly animating the childrens' book by Chris Van Allsburg, this makes a Christmas Eve excursion into mythical childhood fantasies of Santa Claus…
Beowulf (2007)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins…
- Originally earmarked for 3D IMAX cinemas, this groundbreaking animation brings to screen the Old English epic of hero Beowulf (Winstone) and his…
A Christmas Carol (2009)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jim Carrey, Daryl Sabara, Gary Oldman…
- The sure hand of dir. Robert Zemeckis guides this lavish CGI–animated retelling of Dickens' classic about a Victorian–era miser taken on…
Flight (2012)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly…
- Denzel Washington plays a lauded pilot whose heroic landing of a crippled airliner is called into question when a history of alcoholism and substance…
Walk, The (2015)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon…
- The daredevil exploits of French high–wire artist Philippe Petit featured in MAN ON WIRE are re–told by Robert Zemeckis, who duly amps up…
Allied (2016)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan…
- Old–fashioned wartime romance between an intelligence officer and a French resistance fighter in 1942, which develops into a satisfying…
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger…
- Robert Zemeckis' dramatization of events depicted in the 2010 documentary, MARWENCOL, with Steve Carrell as Mark Hogancamp, a man struggling with…
Witches, The (2020)
- Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci…
- Robert Zemeckis' re–imagining of Roald Dahl’s beloved story that tells the darkly humorous yet heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who,…