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Alan J. Pakula
Director 1928 - 1998

Alan J. Pakula

New York City, New York, USA

Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Best Director for All the President's Men (1976) and Best Adapted Screenplay for... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

13 titles
The Devil's Own

The Devil's Own

Alan J. Pakula 1997 1h 47m 6.3

A New York cop on a collision course with the IRA's deadliest assassin

The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief

Alan J. Pakula 1993 2h 21m 6.5

Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI...

Consenting Adults

Consenting Adults

Alan J. Pakula 1992 1h 39m 6.0

Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.

Presumed Innocent

Presumed Innocent

Alan J. Pakula 1990 2h 7m 6.5

Life takes a nasty twist for D.A. Rusty Sabich when the woman he has been romantically involved with is murdered. He is assigned to investigate the case, but is soon charged with the murder.

Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice

Alan J. Pakula 1982 2h 31m 7.5

Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps who has found a reason to live in Nathan a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stengo the movies narrator a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.

Rollover

Rollover

Alan J. Pakula 1981 1h 56m

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Starting Over

Starting Over

Alan J. Pakula 1979 1h 45m 7.0

After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

Comes a Horseman

Comes a Horseman

Alan J. Pakula 1978 1h 58m 6.0

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage...they eventually find love.

All the President's Men

All the President's Men

Alan J. Pakula 1976 2h 18m 8.0

All the President’s Men is a political thriller from director Alan J. Pakula based on the Watergate scandal and starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.

The Parallax View

The Parallax View

Alan J. Pakula 1974 1h 42m 6.7

The story concerns a reporter's dangerous investigation into an obscure organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose primary, but not ostensible, enterprise is political assassination.

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

Alan J. Pakula 1973 1h 50m

While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Walter, the aimless young son of a doctor, makes the acquaintance of proper, middle-aged, clumsy and secretive Lila. He falls in love with her, but she is resistant.

Klute

Klute

Alan J. Pakula 1971 1h 54m 8.0

In Klute two different worlds meet: The introverted moralistic detective named Klute, and the over-twisted prostitute Bree. Jane Fonda won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1971 for her portrait of Bree.

The Sterile Cuckoo

The Sterile Cuckoo

Alan J. Pakula 1969 1h 47m

Uptight college freshman Jerry Payne finds a carefree friend in zany Pookie. After an awkward meeting on the bus, Pookie quickly works her way into Jerry's life. She makes an unannounced visit to Jerry's campus, and before long annoyance turns to affection, and friendship turns to romance.

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