Joan Allen
Actor
Room Upstairs, The (1987)
- Dir. Stuart Margolin
Feat. Stockard Channing, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Waterston…
- The life of a lonely and isolated woman is transformed when she
turns her childhood home into a boarding house filled with eclectic characters.
Tucker: a Man and His Dream (1988)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau…
- Jeff Bridges portrays Preston Tucker, who dreamed of building the car of the future, but was crushed by the big three auto–makers in the 1940s.
In Country (1989)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen
- Drama about a High School graduate from Kentucky who throws herself into a rigorous investigation of the life of her father, who died in the Vietnam…
Nixon (1995)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Ed Harris…
- With almost Shakespearian gravitas, Anthony Hopkins portrays a flawed but fully–rounded Richard Nixon. Instead of the anticipated whitewash,…
Face Off (1997)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
- Dir. John Woo melds modern action technology with old–fashioned Mission Impossible–style intrigue.
Good guy John Travolta and bad guy…
Ice Storm, The (1997)
- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen…
- 70's familial dysfunction observed through a 90's prism, Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver are among the adults having mid–life trauma in the…
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…
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…
Contender, The (2000)
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges…
- Strongly performed political thriller centred around the confirmation of Vice–Presidential candidate Joan Allen, whose enemies try every trick…
When The Sky Falls (2000)
- Dir. John Mackenzie
Feat. Joan Allen, Pete Postlethwaite, Patrick Bergin
- A gritty suspense with Joan Allen portraying Irish journalist Vernoica Guerin who risked her life to take down Dublin's criminal underworld and bring…