The Majestic (2001)
Drama
Set in 1951, an unjustly blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident and loses loses his memory. Due to a remarkable resemblance, the residents of a small town mistake him for a local war hero presumed dead.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Brent Briscoe
Director: Frank Darabont
Lady in the Water (2006)
Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep (Giamatti) rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Best in Show (2000)
Comedy
A colorful array of characters competes at a national dog show.
Starring: Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Will Sasso
Director: Christopher Guest
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.
Starring: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban
Director: Wes Anderson
2010: The Year We Make Contact / 2010 (1984)
Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov will rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. And their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000.
Starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain
Director: Peter Hyams
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Comedy | Drama | War
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. A rather uplifting and slightly humorous film about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.
Starring: Robin Williams, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Bob Balaban, Alan Arkin, Éva Igó, István Bálint
Director: Peter Kassovitz
Altered States (1980)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression.
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Drew Barrymore, John Larroquette
Director: Ken Russell
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