Movies with Jeff Daniels

Looper

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Jon Eyez, Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Garret Dillahunt, Piper Perabo, Noah Segan

Directors: Rian Johnson

Country: USA, China

Year: 2012

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def

In the year 2042, a man working for a group of killers called "Loopers" (they work for the mob and kill people who are sent blindfolded back in time from the year 2072 by their bosses) recognizes a victim as himself. He hesitates resulting in the escape of his older self.

 

Terms of Endearment

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Shirley MacLaine, John Lithgow, Debra Winger, Norman Bennett

Directors: James L. Brooks

Country: USA

Year: 1983

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

Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways.

 

The Answer Man aka Arlen Faber

Genres: Romance, Comedy

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Nora Dunn, Lou Taylor Pucci, Kat Dennings, Olivia Thirlby, Lauren Graham, Annie Corley

Directors: John Hindman

Country: USA

Year: 2009

Everyone wants to meet Arlen Faber, the world famous author of the best-selling spiritual book "Me and God", but crotchety, disgruntled Arlen simply wants to be left alone - and so far he's been successful in keeping his identity a secret. But all that changes when troubled bookstore owner Kris Lucas discovers his home address and barters books for Arlen's words of wisdom, and a back injury leads the reclusive writer to begin dating chiropractor and overprotective single mother Elizabeth. As Arlen's relationships with his newfound friends begin to grow, he must come to terms with his past and the realization that he doesn't hold all the answe...

 

Gods and Generals

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Starring: Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall, Mira Sorvino, Kevin Conway, Mark Aldrich, George Allen

Directors: Ronald F. Maxwell

Country: USA

Year: 2003

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

Gods and Generals follows the rise and fall of legendary war hero "Stonewall Jackson". The prequel to the 1993 hit Gettysburg.

 

Gettysburg

Genres: Drama, History, War

Starring: Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Royce D. Applegate, Richard Jordan, William Morgan Sheppard, Martin Sheen

Directors: Ronald F. Maxwell

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod

The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon the novel 'The Killer Angels'.

 

Fly Away Home

Genres: Adventure, Family, Drama

Starring: Jeff Daniels, David Hemblen, Anna Paquin, Jeremy Ratchford, Terry Kinney, Ken James, Michael J. Reynolds

Directors: Carroll Ballard

Country: USA

Year: 1996

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

Amy is a young teenager when she loses her mother to a car accident. Because of it, she moves in with her father. Amy finds her new life absolutely miserable, until she finds abandoned goose eggs from when the developers tore up the forest behind her home. They soon hatch and Amy becomes their "mother" and takes care of them. Winter quickly arrives, and the geese must go south. But who will show them the way? It is up to Amy and her father to make sure that the young geese find their way, and with the assistance of her father's invention, they do just that.

 

Something Wild

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Buzz Kilman, Ray Liotta, Melanie Griffith, Robert Ridgely, Tracey Walter, Charles Napier

Directors: Jonathan Demme

Country: USA

Year: 1986

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

The uneventful life of business-man Charles Driggs suddenly changes when he meets the wild and sexy Lulu. When he accepts her offer to drive him back to his office, she instead takes him out of town and on a trip, leaving behind his old life. Posing as a married couple, Charles and Audrey (which turns out to be Lulu's real name) visit her mother and her highschool reunion. At this reunion they meet Audrey's violent ex-husband Ray, who's just released from jail. When Ray makes it clear that he wants Audrey back, that's when the real trouble begins.

 

Speed

Genres: Action, Thriller

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Dennis Hopper, Alan Ruck, Carlos Carrasco, Keanu Reeves, Glenn Plummer, Beth Grant

Directors: Jan de Bont

Country: USA

Year: 1994

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

In a downtown highrise building in L.A., a psychopathic bomber & extortionist rigs an elevator full of people to plummet into the basement if his $3-million demand is not met. When SWAT Officers Jack Traven & Harry Temple foil the bomber's plan and rescue the hostages, the bomber retaliates. First he blows up a city bus, then contacts Traven to warn him that a second bus has a bomb attached to it. Once that bus hits 50mph, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it will explode. The bomber also warns Jack that if any attempt at rescue is made, the bomb will also explode. Jack races down the freeway and manages to board the bus. When an accid...

 

The Crossing

Genres: Drama, History, War

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Roger Rees, Karl Pruner, Steven McCarthy, Nigel Bennett, David Ferry, Jonathan Watton

Directors: Robert Harmon

Country: USA

Year: 2000

In 1776, less than six months after the Declaraton of Independence, the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, was on the brink of utter defeat. Low on men, cannons and supplies, Washington decides to risk everything on one last desperately daring attack on the town of Trenton where over 1000 of the feared Hessian mercenaries are garrisoned. However to do that, the army must cross the Delaware to a seemingly hopeless battle that would turn out to be more successful than Washington ever dreamed of.

 

Pleasantville

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Drama

Starring: Jeff Daniels, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Reese Witherspoon, Tobey Maguire, Denise Dowse, Jane Kaczmarek

Directors: Gary Ross

Country: USA

Year: 1998

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

A brother and sister from the 1990s are sucked into their television set and suddenly find themselves trapped in a 1950s style television show. Here they have loving parents, old fashioned values, and an overwhelming amount of innocence and naivete. Not sure how to get home, they integrate themselves into this "backwards" society and slowly bring some color to this black and white world. But as innocence fades, the two teens begin to wonder if their 90s outlook is really to be preferred.

 

Checking Out

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Ian Wolfe, Melanie Mayron, Allan Rich, Ann Magnuson, John Durbin, Michael Tucker

Directors: David Leland

Country: UK

Year: 1989

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

Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. His life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria, until he finally learns that all he has to fear is fear itself.

 

Paper Man

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Kieran Culkin, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Hunter Parrish, Lisa Kudrow, Arabella Field

Directors: Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney

Country: USA

Year: 2009

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

A washed-up writer forms an unlikely friendship with a teenager from Long Island.

 

Howl

Genres: Drama, Animation

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Jon Hamm, James Franco, Alessandro Nivola, Treat Williams, David Strathairn, Bob Balaban

Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Country: USA

Year: 2010

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

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

 

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Graham Beckel, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jeff Daniels, Robin Thomas, Frances Fisher, Winona Ryder, Laila Robins

Directors: Jim Abrahams

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1990

Although Roxy left town more than fifteen years ago, her memory has never faded. Her expected return starts to impact a number of lives, including that of her ex-husband Denton Webb. But it is Dinky, the adopted daughter of the Bossettis and ignored by most of her classsmates as a strange loner, who may be most changed. She is convinced she is Roxie's secret child.

 

2 Days in the Valley

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Eric Stoltz, Louise Fletcher, Charlize Theron, Austin Pendleton, Marsha Mason, Keith Carradine

Directors: John Herzfeld

Country: USA

Year: 1996

John Herzfeld deftly welds together a multitude of subplots-- a loser hitman and a cool assassin involved in an insurance scam; a washed-up director, turned suicidal, if only he had someone to care for his beloved dog; a snooty art dealer, wracked by kidney stones, cared for by his devoted assistant; a grungy deranged vice cop, now partnered with a fresh-faced rookie; and two beautiful and jealous women entangled in their deadly scheme--into a spoof of the crime thriller genre.

 

Heartburn

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Jack Nicholson, Richard Masur, Kenneth Welsh, Steven Hill

Directors: Mike Nichols

Country: USA

Year: 1986

Rachel and Mark are both Washington journalists. They meet at a wedding and not long after they get married themselves. Very soon they have a daughter, Annie. But one day Rachel learns that Mark was having an affair during her pregnancy.

 

I Witness

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Clifton Collins Jr., Wade Williams, James Spader, Portia de Rossi, Jordi Caballero, Mark Carlton

Directors: Rowdy Herrington

Country: Germany, USA

Year: 2003

Jim Rhodes is a human rights worker in Tijuana for a few days to make sure that union elections are fair at a maquiladora owned by a U.S. corporation. In quick succession, the police assault the strikers, the bodies of 27 peasants turn up in an abandoned tunnel that has caved in, and two U.S. teen bikers are missing. As Rhodes pokes around and speculates on connections among these events, he's beaten up, warned off by a drug dealer's attorney, and given varying degrees of help by the U.S. State Department rep, the U.S. Trade rep, and an honest local cop. It's always about money, but whose is at stake and how cheap is Rhodes's life?

 

Dumb & Dumber

Genres: Comedy, Adventure

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Mike Starr, Jim Carrey, Lauren Holly, Karen Duffy, Teri Garr, Rob Moran

Directors: Peter Farrelly

Country: USA

Year: 1994

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

Harry and Lloyd are two brainless losers who try to return a suitcase full of money to its pretty owner. After a journey full of accidents they arrive in snowy Aspen, Colorado and try to find her. But will they succeed?

 

Away We Go

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, John Krasinski, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan, Carmen Ejogo

Directors: Sam Mendes

Country: USA, UK

Year: 2009

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

Mid-thirtysomethings Burt Farlander and Verona De Tessant are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together, despite questioning their potential parenting abilities. They are happy that they made the decision to move close to Burt's parents, Jerry and Gloria Farlander, as they want to share the experience with the baby's grandparents. Verona's own parents died over ten years earlier, a situation about which she doesn't like to discuss. In Verona's sixth month, she and Burt learn that Jerry and Gloria are moving to Antwerpen, Bel...

 

101 Dalmatians

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family

Starring: Jeff Daniels, John Shrapnel, Glenn Close, Hugh Laurie, Joan Plowright, Joely Richardson, Tim McInnerny

Directors: Stephen Herek

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Fashion designer Anita and computer-game writer Roger meet, fall in love and marry along with their dalmatians Perdita and Pongo. But the proud dogs' puppies are kidnapped by Anita's boss Cruella De Vil, who is stealing young dalmatians to make the coat she has set her heart on. Enlisting the help of the British animal kingdom, Pongo and Perdita set out to find and rescue all ninety-nine pups from their fearsome captors, Jasper and Horace.