Movies with Bob Balaban
Movies found: 17, viewing from 1 to 17
Moonrise Kingdom
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tommy Nelson, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Bob Balaban
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down -- which might not be such a bad thing.
Rage
Genres: Drama
Year: 2009
Country: USA, UK
Director: Sally Potter
Starring: Steve Buscemi, John Leguizamo, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Bob Balaban, David Oyelowo, Dianne Wiest
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Michelangelo, an unseen schoolboy armed only with a cell phone camera, goes behind the scenes at a New York fashion show during seven days in which an accident on the catwalk turns into a murder investigation, and his interviews with key players become a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis.Fourteen actors, both celebrated stars and exciting emerging talents, play characters who each have a role in the fashion show: from the designer (Simon Abkarian) and his models (supermodel Lily Cole and Jude Law, stunning in drag), the toxic fashion critic (Academy Award winner Judi Dench) the desperate war photographer turned paparazzo (Steve B...
Gosford Park
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Year: 2001
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Charles Dance, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Gambon, Tom Hollander, Bob Balaban
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
When William McCordle is found sitting at his desk with a knife in his chest, few people grieve. He and his wife Sylvia are hosting a weekend shooting party. There are a variety of guest including Sylvia sister and her husband, Lord and Lady Stockbridge; film star Ivor Novello and a Hollywood producer; an aunt who is dependent on McCordle for her allowance; and a variety of business associates all wanting something or other from the man. Downstairs at Gosford Park, there is a beehive of activity, but if truth be told, few among the servants will miss McCordle. Some of the women used to work for him in his factories and he was known to take ad...
The Windmill Movie
Genres: Documentary
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Alexander Olch
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban, Susan Meiselas
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Filmmaker Richard P. Rogers tried for twenty years to make a documentary about his own life. He died in 2001, leaving the project unfinished, until his widow, acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas, commissioned his former student Alexander Olch to make a film out of the pieces. Starting in the Hamptons, in the town of Wainscott, the film weaves Rogers' footage into a journey through childhood memories, a less than encouraging mother, a family background of privilege, and Rogers' persistent, dogged attempts to document his own life. Rogers' friend, actor and writer Wallace Shawn, joins in the process, as the film investigates the differences b...
Best in Show
Genres: Comedy
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Christopher Guest
Starring: Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Colin Cunningham, Jay Brazeau
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The owners (and handlers) of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. A film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly's Taft Hotel, and compete. From Florida come the Flecks: she keeps running into old lovers. A wordless ancient in a wheelchair and his buxom trophy wife who may have a thing for the dog's handler own the two-time defending best in show, a poodle. From the piney woods of N.C. comes a fella who wants to be a ventriloquist. High-strung DINKs feud loudly in front of their Weimaraner. Two outr
Howl
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Jon Hamm, James Franco, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams, David Strathairn, Bob Balaban
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Altered States
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Drama
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Drew Barrymore, William Hurt, Bob Balaban, Evan Richards, Blair Brown, Charles Haid, Jack Murdock
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression.
Ghost World
Year: 2001
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Pat Healy, Scarlett Johansson, Illeana Douglas, Thora Birch, Bob Balaban, Rini Bell
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
This is the story of Enid and Rebecca after they finish the high school. Both have problems to be related with people and they spend their time hanging around and bothering creeps. When they met Seymour who is a social outsider who loves to collect old vinyl records, the life of Enid will change forever.
Greedy
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Ed Begley Jr., Colleen Camp, Michael J. Fox, Siobhan Fallon, Kirk Douglas, Phil Hartman
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Uncle Joe is ageing. He's also a millionaire. That's why his family is trying so very hard to get into his good books. They all want a piece of his empire. Unfortunately Uncle Joe isn't as stupid as his family thinks he is. He can see that his family is only nice to him because they want his money. Along comes Daniel McTeague, a struggling bowler, imported from another city by his family, to put an end to this ridiculous situation. The fight won't be easy, though, because the poor family has a little bit of competition - A beautiful nurse who takes care of Uncle Joe (and no doubt would love to take care of his bank account). Who gets all the ...
Dedication
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Director: Justin Theroux
Starring: Martin Freeman, Mandy Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Christine Taylor, Amy Sedaris, Billy Crudup, Bob Balaban
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Henry Roth: obsessive-compulsive, somewhat misanthropic, a writer of children's books. His illustrator and only friend, Rudy, dies after a fabulously successful collaboration on "Marty, the Beaver." Henry is under contract to produce another Marty book for Christmas sales. His publisher, Arthur Planck, assigns penniless, lovelorn illustrator Lucy Reilly to work with Henry. She's sought by her ex-boyfriend Jeremy, who dumped her two years ago but shows up apologetic, having dedicated his new book to her. She and Henry go to a house on the shore to work. Will love bloom amid the rocks, or is Henry a bump on Lucy's road to Jeremy? Rudy's voice, ...
No Reservations
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 2007
Country: USA, Australia
Director: Scott Hicks
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Dearbhla Molloy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Patricia Clarkson, Abigail Breslin, Jenny Wade, Bob Balaban
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In Manhattan, the workaholic Kate is the chef of the 22 Bleecker Restaurant owned by Paula, who sent her to a therapist because she had no other interest in life but cooking and controlling her kitchen. When her only sister dies in a car accident, Kate becomes the guardian of her niece Zoe, who can not overcome the loss of her mother. Paula orders Kate to take a couple of days off to care of Zoe; when Kate returns to the work, she finds that Paula hired the sub-chef Nick without her approval. Nick explains that he is honored to work with Kate, but the jealous Kate does not trust him and believes he wants her position. When Zoe gets close to N...
Three to Tango
Year: 1999
Country: USA, Australia
Director: Damon Santostefano
Starring: Neve Campbell, Deborah Rush, John C. McGinley, Rick Gomez, Matthew Perry, Dylan McDermott, Bob Balaban
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Oscar Novak is an idealistic, young architect on the rise. Boyishly handsome and funny, Oscar and his business partner, Peter Steinberg, have just landed a career-making opportunity-Chicago tycoon Charles Newman has chosen them to compete for the design of a multi-million dollar cultural center. In a ploy for publicity, Newman has pitched Oscar and Peter in a neck-and-neck competition with their arch rivals and former colleagues, the hugely successful (and equally ruthless) Decker and Strauss. Impressed with Oscar's feverish dedication to winning the job, Charles assigns him the additional task of spying on his mistress, Amy, a woman who Char...
For Love or Money
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Saverio Guerra, Michael J. Fox, Debra Monk, Bob Balaban, Fyvush Finkel, Mike Moyer, Daniel Hagen
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Doug Ireland is the concierge of a ritzy hotel in New York. He does what he has to to satisfy the hotel's guests, by getting them what they need; like jewelry, candy mints, and theatre tickets. He also tries to keep the manager from terminating Milton, the bellhop, who was been working at the hotel for more than half a century, who likes to think that the spirit of the hotel's founder is still around. Doug wants to open his own hotel on Roosevelt Island. Now he has saved every cent he could to get an option on an old hotel. Now he has a matter of weeks to develop the hotel or else he will lose it. But to do it he needs at least 3 million doll...
The Mexican
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: David Krumholtz, Julia Roberts, J.K. Simmons, James Gandolfini, Brad Pitt, Bob Balaban, Sherman Augustus
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Jerry Welbach is given two ultimatums. His mob boss wants him to travel to Mexico to get a priceless antique pistol called "The Mexican" or he will suffer the consequences. The other ultimatum comes from his girlfriend Samantha, who wants him to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures that being alive, although in trouble with his girlfriend is the better alternative so he heads south of the border. Finding the pistol is easy but getting it home is a whole other matter. The pistol supposedly carries a curse - a curse Jerry is given every reason to believe, especially when Samantha is held hostage by the gay hit man Leroy to ensure the...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Year: 1977
Country: USA
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban, Lance Henriksen, Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren J. Kemmerling
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in the form of military vehicles that went missing decades ago suddenly appearing in the middle of nowhere. Roy and the agents both follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will ha...
Lady in the Water
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bill Irwin, Jeffrey Wright, Mary Beth Hurt, Bob Balaban, John Boyd, Sarita Choudhury
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The super Cleveland Heep finds a woman swimming in the swimming pool of the condominium during the night; he slips, hits his head on the floor and faints in the water, and she rescues him. He discloses that she is a "Narf" called Story, a character of bedtime stories, that is chased by a "Scrunt" and she needs to return to her Blue World with an eagle. Cleveland convinces the tenants to help and protect Story.
2010
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Mystery
Year: 1984
Country: USA
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Helen Mirren, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Roy Scheider, Keir Dullea, Dana Elcar, Douglas Rain
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman's last transmission... "My God, it's full of stars..."