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Edward Zwick
Producer 73 years old

Edward Zwick

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker and film producer noted for his sprawling war films. He has been described as a "throwback to an earlier era, an extremely cerebral director whose movies consistently feature fully rounded characters, difficult... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person produced

15 titles
Woman Walks Ahead

Woman Walks Ahead

Susanna White 2017 1h 43m

Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.

Pawn Sacrifice

Pawn Sacrifice

Edward Zwick 2015 1h 55m 5.7

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Cut Bank

Cut Bank

Matt Shakman 2014 1h 34m 6.0

25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...

Love & Other Drugs

Love & Other Drugs

Edward Zwick 2010 1h 52m 5.8

In 1990s Pittsburgh, a medicine peddler starts a relationship with a young woman suffering from Parkinson's disease.

Defiance

Defiance

Edward Zwick 2008 2h 17m 6.7

During World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland. Based on a true story.

Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond

Edward Zwick 2006 2h 23m 7.8

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai

Edward Zwick 2003 2h 34m 7.4

Adventure drama starring Tom Cruise as a disillusioned civil war veteran named Captain Nathan Algren. The depressive Algren is reluctantly a misson from the Japanese Emperor to kill a rebellious Samurai. Yet he is so fascinated by the knowledge and life of the Samurai that he cannot go on with his mission.

Abandon

Abandon

Stephen Gaghan 2002 1h 39m 4.3

A senior at an elite college, already under severe pressure to complete her thesis and land a prestigious job, must confront the sudden reappearance of her old boyfriend, after his two year, unexplained absence...

I Am Sam

I Am Sam

Jessie Nelson 2001 2h 12m 7.5

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away.

Traffic

Traffic

Steven Soderbergh 2000 2h 27m 7.7

The movie takes a broad approach to the war on drugs in the USA. It shows the corruption in both Mexico and the USA. Both on a personnal scale as on larger scale. The movie has a lot of storylines, which are tied together slowly.

The Siege

The Siege

Edward Zwick 1998 1h 56m 5.6

The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law.

Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love

John Madden 1998 2h 4m 6.9

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty

Marshall Herskovitz 1998 1h 51m 6.0

Prevented from marrying her nobleman lover because of her commoner status, Veronica Franco is left with two choices: join a convent or become a courtesan. Following in mother's footsteps, she chooses the latter. Sn 16th-century Venice, follow Franco as she rises to power and fearlessly fights off accusations of witchcraft.

Legends of the Fall

Legends of the Fall

Edward Zwick 1994 2h 13m 7.1

An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.

Family

Family

1976 49m

Family is an American television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980. Creative control of the show was split among executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols. A total of 86 episodes were produced.

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