Tom McCarthy
Thomas Joseph McCarthy (born 1966) is an American actor, writer, and film director who has appeared in several movies, including Meet the Parents and Good Night, and Good Luck, and television shows such as The Wire, Boston Public, Law & Order, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame... Read full bio →
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Pixels
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
Little Fockers
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back.
Jack Goes Boating
A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.
Fair Game
Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq
The Lovely Bones
Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Mammoth
While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid's family struggles to deal with her absence.
Duplicity
Two romantically engaged corporate spies (Owen and Roberts) team up to manipulate a corporate race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and enable them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.
2012
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists and governments. '2012' is an epic adventure about global cataclysm, and the epic struggle to survive.
Baby Mama
Would you put your eggs...in this basket? A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
Year of the Dog
A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
Michael Clayton
Michael Clayton is working for a large law firm. He does the dirty work. When a client gets into trouble for driving through after a car accident he looks after it and makes sure it is settled before it goes to trial. He gets into trouble as one of the top lawyer of the firm looses it and starts working with the opponents of his clients.
Flags of Our Fathers
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
All the King's Men
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren.
Syriana
The complicated political thriller tells the narrowing tale of the oil industry. A CIA agent, an impecunious Pakistani, an expert engineer, and an Arabish Emir; all of who’s lives are tied to this black gold tell each of their oil trading stories.
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Taking place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950's America, a chronicle of the real-life conflict between television news man Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee.
The Last Shot
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.
The Wire
Serie televisiva. Il potere sociale ed economico del commercio di stupefacenti negli Stati Uniti contemporanei.
The Guru
Bored with Bollywood movies but fascinated with their Hollywood counterparts from his youth, Ram dreams to become a singer and actor in America, the country where dreams are made. He is encouraged when his American-based close friend, Vijay Rao, comes for visit, and brags about driving a Mercedes and living in a penthouse.
Meet the Parents
Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.
Conspiracy Theory
New York City cab driver Jerry Fletcher, who moonlights as a conspiracy theorist, puts his own life in danger when crooked government officials set out to silence him. An attorney named Alice Sutton might be able to help him. But first she'll have to unravel a mysterious murder that could be connected to Fletcher's theory.