Movies with David Paymer

Quiz Show

Genres: Drama, History

Starring: Paul Guilfoyle, Christopher McDonald, Mira Sorvino, Allan Rich, John Turturro, Griffin Dunne, Ralph Fiennes

Directors: Robert Redford

Country: USA

Year: 1994

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def

An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel, a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.

 

School of Life

Genres: Comedy, Family, Drama

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Alexander Pollock, Andrew Robb, Chris Gauthier, David Paymer, Paul Jarrett, Kate Vernon

Directors: William Dear

Country: USA, Canada

Year: 2005

Available Quality: Hi Def

A new teacher squares off against his crusty competitor for a teacher of the year award.

 

Twixt

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Starring: Bruce Dern, Val Kilmer, Ben Chaplin, David Paymer, Elle Fanning, Ryan Simpkins, Don Novello

Directors: Francis Ford Coppola

Country: USA

Year: 2012

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def

A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.

 

No Holds Barred

Genres: Action

Starring: Bill Henderson, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Mark Pellegrino, Charles Levin, Kurt Fuller, Joan Severance, David Paymer

Directors: Thomas J. Wright

Country: USA

Year: 1989

Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for. Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his network. Rip refuses and goes back to his normal life. Still looking for a way to raise ratings, Brell initiates a show called "The Battle of the Tough Guys", a violent brawling competition. A mysterious man, Zeus, wins the competition. This gets Brell to use him as an angle to get at Rip.

 

The Five-Year Engagement

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Rhys Ifans, Jason Segel, Chris Pratt, Jim Piddock, Alison Brie, David Paymer, Chris Parnell

Directors: Nicholas Stoller

Country: USA

Year: 2012

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def

A comedy that charts the ups and downs of an engaged couple's relationship.

 

In Good Company

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Philip Baker Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Dennis Quaid, Clark Gregg, Colleen Camp, Frankie Faison, Marg Helgenberger

Directors: Paul Weitz

Country: USA

Year: 2004

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Dan Foreman is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate takeover. His new boss, Carter Duryea, is half his age--a business school prodigy who preaches corporate synergy. While Dan develops clients through handshake deals and relationships, Carter cross-promotes the magazine with the cell phone division and Krispity Krunch, an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters, Alex, age 18, and Jana, age 16, and is shocked when his wife tells him she's pregnant with a new chi...

 

Alex & Emma

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, Rob Reiner, Lobo Sebastian, Jordan Lund, Sophie Marceau, David Paymer

Directors: Rob Reiner

Country: USA

Year: 2003

A romantic comedy: Alex is an author whose writer's block and gambling debts have landed him in a jam. In order get loan sharks off his back, he must finish his novel in 30 days or wind up dead. To help him complete his manuscript he hires stenographer Emma. As Alex begins to dictate his tale of a romantic love triangle to the charming yet somewhat opinionated stenographer, Emma challenges his ideas at every turn. Her unsolicited yet intriguing input begins to inadvertently influence Alex and his story and soon real life begins to imitate art.

 

City Slickers

Genres: Comedy, Western

Starring: Josh Mostel, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Bill Henderson, Phill Lewis, Jeffrey Tambor, Jack Palance

Directors: Ron Underwood

Country: USA

Year: 1991

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.

 

Mumford

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Kevin Tighe, Dana Ivey, Zooey Deschanel, Alfre Woodard, Jane Adams, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jason Lee

Directors: Lawrence Kasdan

Country: USA

Year: 1999

A man gives up his job with the IRS and relocates to a small town named Mumford of which he takes the name and passes it off as his own by being a psychologist. While as a psychologist, Mumford decides to give his patients no holds barred advice which changes his life and that of his patients and the residents.

 

Get Shorty

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Jon Gries, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, Danny DeVito, Miguel Sandoval, Jacob Vargas, Dennis Farina

Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld

Country: USA

Year: 1995

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.

 

The Hurricane

Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography

Starring: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Dan Hedaya, Harris Yulin, Debbi Morgan, John Hannah, Clancy Brown

Directors: Norman Jewison

Country: USA

Year: 1999

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. However, what Hurricane and his friends ...

 

Focus

Genres: Romance, Drama

Starring: William H. Macy, Kenneth Welsh, Arlene Meadows, Meat Loaf, Kevin Jubinville, David Paymer, Laura Dern

Directors: Neal Slavin

Country: USA

Year: 2001

In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant in a struggle for dignity and survival.

 

Payback

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Mel Gibson, Lucy Liu, John Glover, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Jack Conley

Directors: Brian Helgeland

Country: USA

Year: 1999

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

What was supposed to be a routine robbery turns into a double cross when Porter's wife and his best friend shoot him and leave him for dead. But things take a turn for the bizarre when Porter recuperates seeking revenge for the money he was swiped out of. Only to learn that the money is now in the hands of a crime organization. He's determined to get the money back and his many encounters include his less than likeable ex-partner, a sniveling crook, two corrupt cops, a brutal dominatrix, and one very lethal crime boss. INCLUDE:ONE DVD: full movie Payback - Director's CutTWO DVD: full movie Payback - Theatrical Cut.

 

Bait

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Jamie Kennedy, Mike Epps, Tia Texada, Kirk Acevedo, Nestor Serrano, David Morse, Doug Hutchison

Directors: Antoine Fuqua

Country: USA, Australia, Canada

Year: 2000

In New York, Alvin Sanders is a small-time thief who's just been hauled in for stealing a bunch of prawns (shrimp) from a local restaurant. He ends up in a cell with John Jaster, one half of a high-tech criminal team that's just stolen $42,000,000 worth of gold from the Federal Reserve. Realizing that he could die at any moment from his worsening heart condition, Jaster tells Alvin to relay a cryptic message to his wife about the whereabouts of the hidden gold. Alvin doesn't know exactly what the message means, and Edgar Clenteen, the U.S. Treasury investigator working the case, hopes it will lead to the gold or Jaster's partner Bristol, but ...

 

Nixon

Genres: Drama, Biography

Starring: E.G. Marshall, J.T. Walsh, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Anthony Hopkins

Directors: Oliver Stone

Country: USA

Year: 1995

Available Quality: iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and envied John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election, followed by the loss of the 1962 California gubernatorial race, seem to signal the end of his career. Yet, although wholly lacking in charisma, Nixon remains a brilliant political operator, sei...

 

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Anthony Heald, Laura Linney, William H. Macy, Dan Hedaya, Laurence Fishburne, Robert Stephens

Directors: Steven Zaillian

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Washington Square in New York City, he quickly makes friends with a hustler named Vinnie who teaches him speed chess. Josh's parents hire a renowned chess coach, Bruce, who teaches Josh the usefulness of measured planning. Along the way Josh becomes tired of Bruce's system and chess in general and purposely throws a match, leaving the prospects of winning a national championship in serious jeopardy.

 

Crazy People

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Alan North, Daryl Hannah, Paul Bates, Bill Smitrovich, J.T. Walsh, Paul Reiser, David Paymer

Directors: Tony Bill, Barry L. Young

Country: USA

Year: 1990

Emory works in advertising, and is beginning to crack-up. His latest idea is honesty, e.g. "Volvos, Yes they are boxy, but they're safe". This doesn't go down too well with the boss, so Emory is sent to a psychiatric hospital to 'recover'. Meanwhile, back at the office, Emory's work is accidentally sent to the printers. His ads are a huge success. But now Emory has fallen for Kathy (another patient) and so doesn't want to leave.

 

City Hall

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Starring: Al Pacino, Lindsay Duncan, Richard Schiff, Nestor Serrano, Mel Winkler, Bridget Fonda, John Cusack

Directors: Harold Becker

Country: USA

Year: 1996

A young boy dies from a stray bullet during a shootout between a cop and mob family member who had previously been supiciously given probabtion, only to break its terms. New York's Deputy Mayor, Kevin Calhoun starts digging for information.

 

The American President

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Wendie Malick, Anna Deavere Smith, Beau Billingslea, Annette Bening, Michael J. Fox, Michael Douglas, Gail Strickland

Directors: Rob Reiner

Country: USA

Year: 1995

Andrew Shephard is approaching the end of his first term as President of the United States. He's a widower with a young daughter and has proved to be popular with the public. His election seems assured. That is until he meets Sydney Helen Wade a paid political activist working for an environmental lobby group. He's immediately smitten with her and after several amusing attempts, finally manage to go on a date (which happens to be a State dinner for the visiting President of France). His relationship with Wade opens the door for his prime political opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, to launch an attack on the President's character, something he cou...

 

Unforgettable

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Christopher McDonald, Duncan Fraser, Kim Cattrall, Ray Liotta, Kim Coates, Peter Coyote

Directors: John Dahl

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Unsuccessfully framed for his wife's murder, Dr. David Krane attempts to find the real culprit by utilizing a new drug that allows him to experience the memories of other people first-hand. As he gets closer to the truth, the injections begin to take their toll on his life. Additionally, a history of alcoholism, a career crisis, and the involvement of police officers in the murder all conspire to prevent Dr. Crane from learning what really happened. The challenge, then, is for the doctor to overcome these obstacles before his time runs out.