John Lithgow

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Dealing (1972): Dir. Paul Williams
Feat. John Lithgow, Barbara Hershey, Charles Durning…; Entertaining hippy comedy about a law student who runs a pot scam on the side. A young John Lithgow and Barbara Hershey display cool flares. Written…
Obsession (1975): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow; The director imitates Hitchcock once again, but does it well. This time it's VERTIGO, with an obsessed Cliff Robertson in the Jimmy Stewart role.…
Blow Out (1981): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow; A seemingly ordinary car–crash is found by sound–recordist John Travolta to have sinister overtones when he rewinds his chance taping of…
World According to Garp, The (1982): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Robin Williams, Glenn Close, John Lithgow…; Dazzling adaptation of John Irving's novel about an eccentric's often ill–fated journey through life. Robin Williams is brilliant as Garp, with…
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.
Day After, The (1983): Dir. Nicholas Meyer
Feat. Jason Robards Jr., JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg…; Emmy award–winning cautionary tale of the Reagan era chillingly dramatises the day after (and less successfully – the day 'before') a…
Twilight Zone - The Movie (1983): Dir. John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante
Feat. John Lithgow, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks…; Big–screen homage to the classic 60s TV–series, features four segments of varying (though often effective) creepiness, helmed by…
Footloose (1984): Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Christopher Penn…; Rock'n'roll city kid Kevin Bacon fights for his right to party in the face of small town conservatism in this infectious, under–rated musical…
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Across the Eighth Dimension (1984): Dir. W.D. Richter
Feat. Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin…; This offbeat genre film has been described as a silly movie for smart people. A bored neurosurgeon (Buck) decides to become a rock star and defender…
Mesmerized (1985): Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy…; Jodie Foster plays a young woman in colonial NZ who flees an orphanage but finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to a much older business man…
Harry and the Hendersons (1987): Dir. William Dear
Feat. John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon; On summer camp, a family get more than they bargained for when they bump into an eight foot hairy creature they come to know as Harry.
Ricochet (1991): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Denzel Washington, John Lithgow; High–faluten cop turned D.A. Washington becomes the target of a vengeance mission from a psychopath he incriminated years earlier. Gruesome…
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991): Dir. Hector Babenco
Feat. Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah…; Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Darryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates and Tom Waits endured the two–year location shoot of Peter Matthiessen's…
Raising Cain (1992): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer…; De Palma's tongue–in–cheek return to the psycho–thriller contains many flashy set pieces including an elaborate ten–minute…
Cliffhanger (1993): Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow; Schlock doesn't get any slicker than this romp on the ice–capped Dolomites. The best thing Stallone's done since the original ROCKY, even if…
Princess Caraboo (1994): Dir. Michael Austin
Feat. Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline, Jim Broadbent…; All star cast gather for this whimsical tale of an 'abducted' Indonesian princess who may or may not be conniving her way into 19th Century British…
My Brother's Keeper (1995): Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. John Lithgow; Courageous true story of twin–brother teachers, one of whom required a precarious bone marrow transplant from the other to keep his HIV from…
Third Rock From The Sun (TV Series) (3rd Rock From The Sun) (1996-2001): Feat. John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart…; A group of alien beings take up residence in a typical American sitcom world on suburban Earth – '3rd rock from the sun' – to study the…
Civil Action, A (1999): Dir. Steven Zaillian
Feat. John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy…; Fact–based account of a protracted courtroom duel between two corporations and small–town folk, whose children have been affected by…
Shrek (2001): Dir. Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
Feat. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, John Lithgow…; Flipping the rules of fairy–tales (and especially the Walt Disney incarnations) on their head, the ‘hero’ of this animation is in fact…
Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The (2004): Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson…; An entertaining, if disturbing summary of the turbulent life of British comedian Peter Sellers, with Geoffrey Rush starring as the man who famously…
Kinsey (2004): Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell…; Polished dramatization of the life and work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, who boldly pioneered research into human sexuality in an ultra–conservative…
Dreamgirls (2006): Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy…; Dazzling musical numbers and sassy performances jive in this acclaimed Motown musical charting the rise of fictional girl group, 'The Dreamettes', in…
Leap Year (2010): Dir. Anand Tucker
Feat. Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, John Lithgow…; The effervescent Amy Adams rescues this otherwise tired romantic comedy, moving the earth to propose to her boyfriend in Dublin on February 29th –…
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011): Dir. Rupert Wyatt
Feat. James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow…; A thought–provoking prequel to the PLANET OF THE APES legacy, set during the present day where a genetically–enhanced chimpanzee uses its…
Campaign, The (2012): Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis…; A naive political lackey is handpicked to run against a bumbling North Carolina congressman in this demented satire of the American electoral process.
This is 40 (2012): Dir. Judd Apatow
Feat. Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jason Segel…; Paul Rudd plays a struggling LA music exec whose reached the Big 4–0 in this funny and sometimes brutally honest look at modern relationships…
Interstellar (2014): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain…; Christopher Nolan's space epic has a team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Homesman, The (2014): Dir. Tommy Lee Jones
Feat. Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer…; Tommy Lee Jones helms this pleasurably off–beat western in which three women living on the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer…
Love is Strange (2014): Dir. Ira Sachs
Feat. John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei; Poignant drama with John Lithgow and Alfred Molina starring as a recently married gay couple who are forced to move into separate households after…
Accountant, The (2016): Dir. Gavin O'Connor
Feat. Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons…; Though prone to contrivance, this is high–octane thriller is built around Ben Affleck's unusual character – a math savant, who works…
Miss Sloane (2016): Dir. John Madden
Feat. Jessica Chastain, Michael Stuhlbarg, Gugu Mbatha-Raw…; Political thriller following the exploits of a steely, determined Washington lobbyist (Chastain). With an unparalleled reputation in the high stakes…
Crown, The - Season 1 (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Vanessa Kirby…; The writer of the acclaimed 2006 movie THE QUEEN, Peter Morgan, turns his attention to Elizabeth II's earlier years. Season One covers her marriage…
Beatriz at Dinner (2017): Dir. Miguel Arteta
Feat. John Early, Salma Hayek, John Lithgow…; A holistic healer (Salma Hayeck) is an unplanned guest at a dinner party for members of California's privileged elite, in this Trump–era satire…
Pet Sematary (2019): Dir. Dennis Widmyer, Kevin Kölsch
Feat. Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow; Nothing if not audacious, this updated screen adaptation of the terrifying Stephen King novel takes liberties with the plot to arguably increase the…
Late Night (2019): Dir. Nisha Ganatra
Feat. Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, Max Casella…; Emma Thompson plays a once successful late–night talk show host who fears her popularity is slipping and hires a woman (Mindy Kaling) to…
Bombshell (2019): Dir. Jay Roach
Feat. Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie…; Charlize Theron leads an all–star cast in this scathing biographical drama based on real life events in which a group of female Fox network…

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