Jeff Daniels

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Terms of Endearment (1983): Dir. James L. Brooks
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Jack Nicholson, Debra Winger…; Classic family saga of loss and reconciliation with Shirley Maclaine and Jack Nicholson, who both won Oscars, as did the film.
Purple Rose of Cairo (1985): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello; Exceptional comic fantasy about a depression–era housewife (Mia Farrow) whose solace in the movies blossoms into a romance with a screen…
Something Wild (1986): Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta; The then–hip Melanie Griffith takes conservative Jeff Daniels on a crash course in carefree living and kinky sex. But the fun turns to terror…
Arachnophobia (1990): Dir. Frank Marshall
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman…; A rare breed of poisonous spider begin to bump off members of an idyllic rural community. Enjoyable 'monster' movie with deft humour finding its way…
Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael (1991): Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Frances Fisher…; Fun vehicle for Winona Ryder. Her patented awkward teen is one of the townfolk who eagerly await the homecoming of their prized celebrity, Roxy…
Timescape (1991): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Jeff Daniels; Jeff Daniels sets about rescuing his town from catastrophe when he learns the secret of an alien tourist party on his front doorstep. Engaging…
Gettysburg (1993): Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen; A truly epic screen version of the three–day American Civil War battle of 1863. The director's decade–long obsession is rich in military…
Dumb and Dumber (1995): Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly…; One of Jim Carrey's funniest comic vehicles yet, a road movie of sorts in which two halfwits attempt to return a suitcase full of cash to its…
Fly Away Home (1996): Dir. Carroll Ballard
Feat. Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels; Hutt girl Anna Paquin gets blessed with a role that many a Hollywood brat would kill for! After adopting a flock of baby geese, she sets about…
101 Dalmatians (1996): Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson…; Ambitious live–action remake of Disney's own animated hit sends both dog and breeder into panic mode when fiendish designer Cruella De Vil…
Trial and Error (1997): Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Michael Ritchie, Charlize Theron…; Big city lawyer Jeff Daniels and his actor buddy Michael Ritchie (from TV's Seinfeld) wind up having to swap identities to defend a case against a…
Pleasantville (1998): Dir. Gary Ross
Feat. Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy…; A pair of nineties teenagers are beamed into a starched black and white 50s TV show, where their modern 'freedoms' gradually liberate/corrupt the…
My Favourite Martian (1999): Dir. Donald Petrie
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd; Family sci–fi comedy based on the US 60s TV series, with Jeff Daniels as the ordinary Joe who harbours a stranded extra–terrestrial…
Crossing, The (1999): Dir. Robert Harmon
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Roger Rees, Sebastian Roche; Acclaimed telemovie recreation of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware during the American War of Independence. Jeff Daniels lives up to the…
It's the Rage (1999): Dir. James D. Stern
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Gary Sinise…; This caustic, precocious black comedy/satire of America's obsession with guns is a roundelay of violent and volatile confrontations that eventually…
Cheaters (2000): Dir. John Stockwell
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, Paul Sorvino; Solid cable–movie based on the alarming true story of a state schoolteacher (Jeff Daniels) who encouraged his team of underachievers to cheat…
Blood Work (2002): Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Daniels; FBI–profiler Clint Eastwood is coaxed out of retirement when he learns of the background of the heart transplant he has just undergone after a…
Hours, The (2002): Dir. Stephen Daldry
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore…; Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer–prize winning novel is brought to the screen with excellent performances, and though simplified and not for all…
Gods and Generals (2002): Dir. Ronald F. Maxwell
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall…; Prequel to GETTYSBURG, this American Civil War drama follows the career of Confederate general 'Stonewall' Jackson. Filled with the same epic…
Super Sucker (2002): Dir. Jeff Daniels
Feat. Jeff Daniels; Jeff Daniels writes, directs and stars in a tale about competing door–to–door vacuum cleaner salesmen who must fight it out for the…
Five People You Meet in Heaven, The (2004): Dir. Lloyd Kramer
Feat. Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels…; An 'afterlife' drama in which five people highlight the key moments of an elderly man's life after he dies trying to save a young accident…
Because Of Winn-Dixie (2004): Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Eva Marie Saint, Cicely Tyson; Solid and old–fashioned family movie based on the lauded novel by Kate DiCamillo, in which a lonely girl befriends a small, mischievous dog in…
Imaginary Heroes (2004): Dir. Dan Harris
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels; Heartfelt and competent drama charts the fragmentation of a suburban American family after the unexpected suicide of the eldest son, a…
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…
Squid and the Whale, The (2005): Dir. Noah Baumbach
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg…; Two brothers negotiate the ebb and flow of adolescence following their parents' divorce in a 'family dysfunction' drama of special distinction,…
RV (Runaway Vacation) (2006): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cherly Hines…; Amusing recyled family–disaster comedy with Robin Williams behind the wheel of a lumbering bus–wagon (or 'RV') and determined to make his…
Infamous (2006): Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig…; Beaten to the punch, this second take on Truman Capote’s infamy suffers inevitably from de–ja vu, yet has plenty new to offer as an alternate…
I Witness (2007): Dir. Rowdy Herrington
Feat. Portia de Rossi, Jeff Daniels, James Spader…; When the bodies of 27 Mexican factory workers are found in an underpass, an American human rights activist gets embroiled in Tijuana's political and…
Lookout, The (2007): Dir. Scott Frank
Feat. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Isla Fisher…; It–boy Joseph Gordon–Levitt elevates this small–town crime thriller as an impaired bank janitor who is coerced into acting as an…
Mama's Boy (2007): Dir. Tim Hamilton
Feat. Jon Heder, Diane Keaton, Jeff Daniels…; Antic comedy stars Jon Heder as a spoiled 29–year–old man–child hellbent on sabotaging his mother's (Keaton) budding relationship…
Traitor (2008): Dir. Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Feat. Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Said Taghmaoui…; Don Cheadle stars as a Semtex racketeer selling to the highest bidder – be he CIA or Jihadist – and finds himself a pawn on the twin…
Away We Go (2009): Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Catherine O'Hara…; An ersatz hipster road movie that follows a 30–something expectant couple as they travel across America looking for the perfect place to start…
Answer Man, The (2009): Dir. John Hindman
Feat. Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Lou Taylor Pucci…; Misanthropic self–help author Daniels finds his curmudgeonly nature challenged when his paths cross with single mother Graham and recovering…
Newsroom, The (TV Series) (2012): Feat. Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher, Jr.…; HBO and Aaron Sorkin team up for this quick–thinking workplace drama set behind the scenes at a fictional cable news network. Ambitious for…
Dumb and Dumber To (2014): Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Feat. Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle…; Much derided sequel has Carrey and Daniels re–uniting togo on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for…
Martian, The (2015): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig…; Ridley Scott adapts the acclaimed novel by Andy Weir as an unabashed crowd–pleaser about an astronaut who is left behind after a manned mission…
Steve Jobs (2015): Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen…; Another dynamic biopic of a digital revolutionary from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (THE SOCIAL NETWORK), this time portraying the late founder of Apple…
Allegiant (2016): Dir. Robert Schwentke
Feat. Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels…; Third in the Divergent series sees Shailene Woodley's Tris trying frantically to escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally…
Looming Tower, The (TV Mini-Series) (2018): Feat. Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Bill Camp; Mini–series exploring the rivalry between the FBI and the CIA in the lead up to 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan. Based on Lawrence Wright's…
Adam (2020): Dir. Michael Uppendahl
Feat. Aaron Paul, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger…; Drama with Aaron Paul playing a hardworking mortgage broker whose life changes dramatically after a catastrophic accident leaves him a quadriplegic.…

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