The Holdovers (2023)
Comedy | Drama
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley
Director: Alexander Payne
Election (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Mark Harelik, Phil Reeves
Director: Alexander Payne
Downsizing (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.
Starring: Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Christoph Waltz, Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Alexander Payne
Downsizing (2017)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.
Starring: Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis, Christoph Waltz, Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris
Director: Alexander Payne
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About Schmidt (2002)
Comedy | Drama
Upon retirement, a man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, June Squibb, Howard Hesseman
Director: Alexander Payne
Film Independent Spirit Awards 2014 (TV 2014)
Awards
The 2014 Independent Spirit Awards announced its nominees on November 27, 2013. The winners will be announced on March 1, 2014.
Starring: Alexander Payne, Patton Oswalt, John Ridley, Nat Sanders, Ryan Coogler, Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Bob Nelson, Sean Bobbitt, Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Steve McQueen, Lupita Nyong'o
Nebraska (2013)
Adventure | Drama
A father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and has scores to settle. Told with deadpan humor and a unique visual style, it's ultimately the story of a son trying to penetrate his impenetrable father.
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk, Missy Doty
Director: Alexander Payne
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
The Descendants (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, living in Hawaii, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident. The event makes him try to re-connect with his daughters while he wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Starring: George Clooney, Judy Greer, Matthew Lillard
Director: Alexander Payne
