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Barry Levinson
Director 84 years old

Barry Levinson

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Levinson won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). His other best-known works are Diner (1982), The Natural (1984), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bugsy (1991),... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

21 titles
The Bay

The Bay

Barry Levinson 2012 1h 25m 5.2

Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told—until now.

You Don't Know Jack

You Don't Know Jack

Barry Levinson 2010 2h 14m 7.3

Jack Kervorkian is one of the most polarizing figures in modern US history, a man whose passionate belief that people have the right to die has brought him both praise and vilification.

What Just Happened

What Just Happened

Barry Levinson 2008 1h 44m 5.9

Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

Man of the Year

Man of the Year

Barry Levinson 2006 1h 55m 5.9

A comedian who hosts a news satire program decides to run for president, and a computerized voting machine malfunction gets him elected.

Envy

Envy

Barry Levinson 2004 1h 39m 4.8

A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.

Bandits

Bandits

Barry Levinson 2001 2h 3m 6.7

Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.

An Everlasting Piece

An Everlasting Piece

Barry Levinson 2000 1h 43m

Colin (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic and George (Brian O'Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper (Billy Connolly), to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls

Liberty Heights

Liberty Heights

Barry Levinson 1999 2h 7m 5.0

Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955.

Sphere

Sphere

Barry Levinson 1998 2h 14m 6.6

The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, smart and logical, and the perfect choice to learn more about the spacecraft.

Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog

Barry Levinson 1997 1h 37m 7.0

Wag The Dog is strongly emotional political satire about the manipulation of media and the political circumstances of the ages. During a presidential race the President has an affair with a school teacher and to avoid media exploitation the Presidents advisor helps him to stage a fake war in Albania.

Sleepers

Sleepers

Barry Levinson 1996 2h 27m 7.7

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes. A moving drama from director Barry Levinson.

Disclosure

Disclosure

Barry Levinson 1994 2h 8m 5.7

Cadre dans une firme spécialisée en réalité virtuelle, un père de famille est accusé par sa patronne de harcèlement sexuel. Il réussit à se disculper, mais l'affaire rebondit lorsqu'il découvre que l'accusation visait à masquer d'importantes manipulations techniques dans la firme.

Toys

Toys

Barry Levinson 1992 2h 2m 5.2

Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.

Bugsy

Bugsy

Barry Levinson 1991 2h 16m 6.3

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home.

Avalon

Avalon

Barry Levinson 1990 2h 6m

Avalon is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical series of four "Baltimore Films": Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in the early 1950s and explores the themes of Jewish assimilation into American life.

Rain Man

Rain Man

Barry Levinson 1988 2h 14m 7.8

The sensible drama about the reunification of two very different brothers and their struggle to stay together. Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar for best actor for his memorable performance as the autistic Raymond.

Tin Men

Tin Men

Barry Levinson 1987 1h 52m 5.5

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.

Good Morning, Vietnam

Good Morning, Vietnam

Barry Levinson 1987 2h 1m 7.2

Barry Levinson illustrates the everyday life of radio reporter, Adrian Cronauer, in this dramatic comedy. During the Vietnam War in Saigon Adrian, played by a convincing Robin Williams, reports with his funny provocations to the troops which soon makes him unpopular with his boss. “Good morning Vietnam!”

Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes

Barry Levinson 1985 1h 49m 7.1

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.

The Natural

The Natural

Barry Levinson 1984 2h 17m 7.8
Diner

Diner

Barry Levinson 1982 1h 50m 5.5

Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.

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