David Strathairn
Actor
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam LeFevre…
- In his feature debut, writer–director John Sayles demonstrates a wisdom way beyond his years with this ‘do–it–yourself’…
Lovesick (1983)
- Dir. Marshall Brickman
Feat. Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness…
- A psychiatrist who falls in love with a patient is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.
Iceman (1984)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, Josef Sommer…
- Arctic explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who is still alive in this enjoyable piece of sci–fi hokum, with John Lone giving a…
Eight Men Out (1989)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd…
- True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
Sneakers (1992)
- Dir. Phil Alden Robinson
Feat. Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Poitier…
- This reworks the spy–caper genre to dazzling effect as an endearing team of security crackpots attempt to outwit bad egg Ben Kingsley whose…
Passion Fish (1992)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Mary MacDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
- After a debilitating accident, soap–opera super–bitch Mary MacDonnell returns to Louisiana and finds an unlikely soulmate in her black…
Dangerous Woman, A (1994)
- Dir. Steven Gyllenhaal
Feat. Debra Winger, Gabriel Byrne, Barbara Hershey…
- Debra Winger gives her most impressive performance yet as a simple woman whose compulsive honesty wins her few friends. Reminiscent of the plays of…
River Wild, The (1994)
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Meryl Streep, Joseph Mazzello, David Strathairn…
- Troubled marrieds Meryl Streep and David Strathairn embark on a river–rafting holiday with son and dog in tow, but in true DELIVERANCE style,…
Losing Isaiah (1995)
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn…
- Jessica Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned black child a new chance at life, but the birth mother (Halle Berry) has cleaned up her…
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
- Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt…
- After MISERY, this non–supernatural Stephen King adaptation displays yet another facet of Kathy Bates multiple screen personas – here she…