The Congress (2013)
Animation | Sci-Fi
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
Starring: Robin Wright, Danny Huston, Harvey Keitel, Paul Giamatti, Jon Hamm, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Director: Ari Folman
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Family | History | Music
Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.
Starring: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Ruth Wilson, B.J. Novak
Director: John Lee Hancock
12 Years a Slave / Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard
Director: Steve McQueen
12 Years a Slave / Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard
Director: Steve McQueen
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Romeo and Juliet / Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Drama | Romance
When the star-crossed lovers of two enemy families meet, forbidden love ensues.
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Ed Westwick, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Paul Giamatti
Director: Carlo Carlei
The Negotiator (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Desperate to clear himself of murder charges, police officer Danny Roman takes a group of government employees hostage and then requests a specific negotiator from another precinct. When that master comes in to defuse the situation and bring Roman in, he learns there may be far more to the situation than anyone realizes, and he may actually have to protect the rogue cop.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, J.T. Walsh, Paul Giamatti, Ron Rifkin
Director: F. Gary Gray
All Is Bright (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Two French Canadian ne'er-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Christmas trees. Easygoing charmer Rene (Paul Rudd) clashes with misanthropic ex-con Dennis (Paul Giamatti), whose wife Rene just stole. Still, this odd couple must make an honest go of it in this fresh buddy comedy co-starring Sally Hawkins, by the director of the indie breakout hit Junebug.
Starring: Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins, Paul Giamatti, Amy Landecker, Peter Hermann, Colman Domingo
Director: Phil Morrison
Turbo (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
A garden snail with dreams of becoming the fastest snail in the world experiences a freak accident that might just allow him to realize his goal.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Luis Guzmán, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins
Director: David Soren
Turbo (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sport
A garden snail with dreams of becoming the fastest snail in the world experiences a freak accident that might just allow him to realize his goal.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Luis Guzmán, Bill Hader, Richard Jenkins
Director: David Soren
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Parkland (2013)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Recounting the chaotic events that occurred in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, Parkland weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital; Dallas' chief of the Secret Service; an unwitting cameraman who captured what became the most watched and examined film in history; the FBI agents who nearly had the gunman within their grasp; the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, left to deal with his shattered family; and JFK's security team, witnesses to both the president's death and Vice President Lyndon Johnson's rise to power over a nation whose innocence was forever altered.
Starring: Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Ron Livingston, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver
Director: Peter Landesman
Pretty Bird (2008)
Comedy
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, David Hornsby, Kristen Wiig, Elizabeth Marvel, Denis O'Hare, Garret Dillahunt
Director: Paul Schneider
Barney's Version (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Barney Panofsky is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. Spanning three decades and two continents, Barney takes us through the different "acts" of his unusual history. There is his first wife, Clara, a flame-haired, flagrantly unfaithful free sprit with whom Barney briefly lives "la vie de Boheme" in Rome. The "Second Mrs. P.," is a wealthy Jewish Princess who shops and talks incessantly, barely noticing that Barney is not listening. And it is at their lavish wedding that Barney meets, and starts pursuing, his third wife, the mother of his two children, and his true love.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Rachelle Lefevre, Scott Speedman, Dustin Hoffman
Director: Richard J. Lewis
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
Big Fat Liar (2002)
Adventure | Comedy | Family
A take on the classic tale 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf', this is the story of a 14-year-old boy named Jason Shephard who lies for the fun of it. He loses an important story assignment entitled 'Big Fat Liar' in movie producer Marty Wolf's limo, which Wolf then turns into a film. When Jason sees a movie preview of his story, he and his best friend Kaylee go to Los Angeles to make Wolf confess to using his story, to clear his name, and to get him out of having to attend summer school. The teen liar then has to match wits with Wolf, who also turns out to be a big liar.
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes, Paul Giamatti
Director: Shawn Levy
John Dies at the End (2012)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. On the street they call it Soy Sauce, and users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't.
Starring: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown, Glynn Turman, Doug Jones, Daniel Roebuck, Fabianne Therese, Jonny Weston, Jimmy Wong
Director: Don Coscarelli
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Sideways (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's final days as a bachelor careens woefully sideways as he and Miles hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair, who share little more than their history and a heady blend of failed potential and fading youth, soon find themselves drowning in wine and women. Emerging from a haze of pinot noir, wistful yearnings and trepidation about the future, the two inevitably collide with reality.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht
Director: Alexander Payne
Cosmopolis (2012)
Drama
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into a odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Jay Baruchel, Kevin Durand, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton, K'Naan, Emily Hampshire
Director: David Cronenberg
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Rock of Ages (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Bryan Cranston, Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Malin Akerman, Mary J. Blige
Director: Adam Shankman
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Donna Murphy, John Henry Cox, Alicia Keys
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Big Momma's House / Big Mama (2000)
Action | Comedy | Crime
FBI agent Malcolm Turner is known best for being a brilliant, master of disguise. Malcolm's latest assignment sends him to small-town Georgia, where he's assigned to trap a brutal bank robber (and a recent prison escapee) who they suspect will be coming down to visit his ex-girlfriend Sherry and her son. Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a larger-than-life southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by Sherry. It's a simple plan, but there's one big problem: Unbeknownst to Sherry, Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine-from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church. In the mean time…
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti
Director: Raja Gosnell
