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Sydney Pollack
Producer 1934 - 2008

Sydney Pollack

Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. During his forty-year career, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person produced

19 titles
Margaret

Margaret

Kenneth Lonergan 2011 2h 30m 6.5

A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.

The Reader

The Reader

Stephen Daldry 2008 2h 4m 7.4

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton

Tony Gilroy 2007 2h 7.1

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.

Breaking and Entering

Breaking and Entering

Anthony Minghella 2006 2h 9m 6.0

Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain

Anthony Minghella 2003 2h 34m 6.9

Cold Mountain is the film adaptation of the novel by the same name from Charles Frazier. A star-studded film taking place in North Carolina during the Civil War. The film portrays civilian life during the war from the perspective of a woman who has been left behind as the men fight.

Random Hearts

Random Hearts

Sydney Pollack 1999 2h 13m 4.5
Sliding Doors

Sliding Doors

Peter Howitt 1998 1h 39m 6.8

A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.

Sabrina

Sabrina

Sydney Pollack 1995 2h 7m 6.5

Un conte de fées moderne où une jeune fille timide et effacée, fille du chauffeur d'une famille richissime, va non seulement séduire le cadet de la famille mais aussi l'aîné, pourtant farouchement hostile à la gente féminine.

The Firm

The Firm

Sydney Pollack 1993 2h 34m 6.7

The first filmed novel from best selling author John Grisham would become a worldwide success. Director Sydney Pollack made it happen with help from a high class cast in this thriller of a film.

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.

Havana

Havana

Sydney Pollack 1990 2h 24m 6.0

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wife of a Communist revolutionary.

Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City

James Bridges 1988 1h 47m 4.5

A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope is the cousin of one of his drinking partners, can she pull him through it ?

Out of Africa

Out of Africa

Sydney Pollack 1985 2h 41m 6.9

Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.

Songwriter

Songwriter

Alan Rudolph 1984 1h 34m

Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc's singer-wife, Honey Carder, has thrown him out of the house.

Tootsie

Tootsie

Sydney Pollack 1982 1h 56m 7.6

Desperate, he took a female role and became a star. If only he could tell the woman he loves.

Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice

Sydney Pollack 1981 1h 56m 6.3

Suppose you picked up this morning's newspaper and your life was a front page headline... And everything they said was accurate... But none of it was true. The D.A., Feds and the police set her up to write the story that explodes his world. Now he's going to write the book on getting even.

Bobby Deerfield

Bobby Deerfield

Sydney Pollack 1977 2h 4m

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.

Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor

Sydney Pollack 1975 1h 57m 7.8

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

The Yakuza

The Yakuza

Sydney Pollack 1974 1h 52m 8.7

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

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