It's the Rage / All the Rage (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Handguns come into the lives of 9 individuals in LA somehow connected to each other. Deaths follow.
Starring: Joan Allen, Andre Braugher, Josh Brolin, Jeff Daniels, Robert Forster, Anna Paquin
Director: James D. Stern
When the Sky Falls (2000)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton invades the Irish underworld and attempts to expose the illegitimate activities that she has found. Hampered by the system, a police consort is ineffectual at aiding her despite trying to step outside of the normal bounds. Her husband, who hates her activities and the danger in which she places herself. Nonetheless, he grudgingly admires her persistence and encourages her investigation.
Starring: Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: John Mackenzie
The Notebook (2004)
Drama | Romance | War
A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Joan Allen
Director: Nick Cassavetes
The Contender (2000)
Drama | Thriller
Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for U.S. Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to derail her confirmation.
Starring: Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Sam Elliott, William Petersen
Director: Rod Lurie
Pleasantville (1998)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Pleasantville is a 1950s sitcom enjoying cult status on a contemporary cable channel. David loves it, but his sister Jennifer is too hip. When a mysterious TV repairman gives them a new remote control, the pair are transported into the world of Pleasantville like it or not. They find themselves trapped in an alternate reality where the town exists in black and white–in a white bread world without passion or violence. But the teenagers have also brought an unexpected–and double-edged–gift to Pleasantville: a sense of possibility that spreads like wildfire throughout the town. There can be no turning back once the citizens begin experiencing such strange wonders as sex, art, rain… and ideas.
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Reese Witherspoon
Director: Gary Ross
Room (2015)
Drama
A modern-day story about the boundless love between mother and child; young Jack knows nothing of the world except for the single room in which he was born and raised.
Starring: Brie Larson, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Megan Park, Amanda Brugel, Sean Bridgers
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Room (2015)
Drama
A modern-day story about the boundless love between mother and child; young Jack knows nothing of the world except for the single room in which he was born and raised.
Starring: Brie Larson, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Megan Park, Amanda Brugel, Sean Bridgers
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music | Romance
A 43 year old mother and housewife that's facing divorce is thrust back in time when she tries to plan a high-school reunion. Given the chance to change the course of her life she finds herself making many of the same choices.
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Ethan Frome (1993)
Drama | Romance
In this classic Edith Wharton tale of blazing passion and forbidden desire, Liam Neeson stars as Ethan Frome, a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another (Patricia Arquette). His actions soon lead to a forbidden triangle between one love that is and one that will never be.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen, Tate Donovan, Katharine Houghton, Gil Rood
Director: John Madden
The Crucible (1996)
Drama | History
The setting is 17th century Salem, Massachusetts. A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. But instead of love, Abigail Williams wishes for the death of her former lover's wife. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax!
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Rob Campbell, Jeffrey Jones
Director: Nicholas Hytner
A Good Marriage / Stephen King's a Good Marriage (2014)
Thriller
As a sadistic serial killer is spreading fear across the Northeast, taunting the police as his victims pile up, Darcy Anderson (Joan Allen) and her husband Bob (Anthony LaPaglia) are celebrating another year of a good marriage. But when Darcy unveils a sinister secret about her husband, it threatens their perfect marriage – and lives.
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Joan Allen, Stephen Lang, Anthony LaPaglia, Will Rogers
Director: Peter Askin
A Good Marriage / Stephen King's a Good Marriage (2014)
Thriller
As a sadistic serial killer is spreading fear across the Northeast, taunting the police as his victims pile up, Darcy Anderson (Joan Allen) and her husband Bob (Anthony LaPaglia) are celebrating another year of a good marriage. But when Darcy unveils a sinister secret about her husband, it threatens their perfect marriage – and lives.
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Joan Allen, Stephen Lang, Anthony LaPaglia, Will Rogers
Director: Peter Askin
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Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Biography | Drama
A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne, Max Pomeranc, Robert Stephens
Director: Steven Zaillian
The Upside of Anger (2005)
Comedy | Drama
When her husband unexpectedly disappears, a sharp-witted suburban wife and her daughters juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas and family dynamics.
Starring: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Keri Russell, Alicia Witt, Evan Rachel Wood, Mike Binder
Director: Mike Binder
The Ice Storm (1997)
Drama
1973, suburban Connecticut: middle class families experimenting with casual sex, drink, etc., find their lives out of control.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci, Henry Czerny, Tobey Maguire
Director: Ang Lee
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Biography | Drama
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Mako, Elias Koteas, Christian Slater, Nina Siemaszko
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music | Romance
A 43 year old mother and housewife that's facing divorce is thrust back in time when she tries to plan a high-school reunion. Given the chance to change the course of her life she finds herself making many of the same choices.
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Death Race (2008)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Terminal Island: The very near future. The world's hunger for extreme sports and reality competitions has grown into reality TV bloodlust. Now, the most extreme racing competition has emerged and its contestants are murderous prisoners. Tricked-out cars, caged thugs and smoking-hot navigators combine to create a juggernaut series with bigger ratings than the Super Bowl. The rules of the "Death Race" are simple: Win five events, and you're set free. Lose and you're road kill splashed across the Internet. International action star Jason Statham leads the action-thriller's cast as three-time speedway champion Jensen Ames, an ex-con framed for the murder of his wife. Forced to don the mask of the mythical driver Frankenstein, a "Death Race" crowd favorite who seems impossible to kill, Ames is given an easy choice by Terminal Island's ruthless Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen): Suit up and drive or never see his little girl again. His face hidden by a hideous mask, he must win the insane three-day challenge in order to gain freedom. But to claim the prize, Ames must survive a gauntlet of the most vicious criminals–including nemesis Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson)–in the country's toughest prison. Trained by his coach (Ian McShane) to drive a monster Mustang V8 Fastback outfitted with 2 mounted mini-guns, flamethrowers and napalm, an innocent man must destroy everything in his path to win the most twisted spectator sport on Earth.
Starring: Jason Statham, Tyrese Gibson, Ian McShane, Joan Allen, Natalie Martinez, Jason Clarke
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Manhunter / Red Dragon: The Curse of Hannibal Lecter (1986)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Will Graham is a former FBI agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son. Graham was a 'profiler'; one who profiles criminal's behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the FBI catch an elusive serial killer, known to the press as the 'Tooth Fairy', who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Will has occasional meetings with Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, a charismatic but very dangerous imprisoned serial killer …
Starring: William Petersen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Tom Noonan, Joan Allen
Director: Michael Mann
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
Drama | Family
This heartwarming true story is an U.S. adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Sadly his master departs one day, passes away and never returns to the station. Hachiko faithfully returns to the same spot at the station the very next day, and every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits, Hachiko touches the lives of many who work near and commute through the town square. He teaches the local people love, compassion and above all unyielding loyalty. Today, a bronze statue of Hachiko sits in his waiting spot outside the Shibuya station in Japan as a permanent reminder of his devotion and love.
Starring: Richard Gere, Joan Allen
Director: Lasse Hallström
