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Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck (born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt; August 15, 1972) is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He became known in the mid 1990s after his involvement in the film Mallrats (1995), and later played the lead role in Chasing Amy in 1997. Affleck has since become an Academy Award...
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Armageddon
Armageddon is a 1998 disaster/science fiction-action film about a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers who are sent by NASA to stop an Asteroid on a collision course with Earth. It was directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and...
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- A.J. Frost
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Boiler Room
Boiler Room is a 2000 U.S. drama, written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Tom Everett Scott, Ron Rifkin and Jamie Kennedy.
The film takes a look at the world of ...
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Changing Lanes
Changing Lanes is a 2002 drama-thriller film directed by Roger Michell.
A successful New York attorney, Gavin Banek, is in a rush to file a power of appointment, which will prove a dead man signed his foundation over to Banek's law firm. He has a...
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- Gavin Banek
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Chasing Amy
Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It is the third film in the View Askewniverse series. The film focuses on two comic book artists: Holden McNeil (Ben Affleck), a heterosexual male, and Alyssa Jones ...
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- Holden McNeil
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Daredevil
Daredevil is a 2003 American superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film stars Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who fights for justice in the courtroom and...
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Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused is a 1993 coming of age film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The movie's large ensemble cast featured a number of future stars, including Matthew McConaughey, Jason London, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser,...
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- Fred O'Bannion
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Dogma
Dogma is a 1999 American adventure-comedy-fantasy film, written and directed by Kevin Smith; he also co-stars in the film along with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris...
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Forces of Nature
Forces of Nature is a 1999 romantic comedy film, directed by Bronwen Hughes, and starring Ben Affleck, and Sandra Bullock.
Ben Holmes (Affleck) is a 'blurb' writer — responsible for writing the short introductions on the sleeves of hardcover books....
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- Ben Holmes
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Gigli
Gigli (pronounced jee-lee) is a film released in 2003 which was written and directed by Martin Brest, starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Lainie Kazan. Its title is an homage to Nick Gigli, a minor character from...
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- Larry Gigli
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Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written (with help from Van Sant) by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who both star in the film.
The movie tells the story of Will Hunting, a prodigy hoodlum from South Boston who works...
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- Chuckie Sullivan
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Hollywoodland
Hollywoodland is a 2006 biopic/docudrama directed by TV alum Allen Coulter (his feature directorial debut) about a down-on-his-luck detective, Louis Simo (Adrien Brody), investigating the suspicious death of actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), the...
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- George Reeves
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Jersey Girl
Jersey Girl is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It stars Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler and George Carlin. At $35 million it was Smith's biggest-budget project to date ($10 million of which was Ben Affleck's salary, $4...
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- Ollie Trinke
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Joseph: King of Dreams
Joseph: King of Dreams is a DreamWorks direct-to-video animated film based on the story of Joseph in chapters 37-50 of the Book of Genesis in the Bible.
The movie tells of the events shared in the book of Genesis and before the book of Exodus and...
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Mallrats
Mallrats is a 1995 film written and directed by Kevin Smith. It is the second to be set in Smith's "View Askewniverse" series of interlocking films set mostly in New Jersey, although the movie was filmed in the Eden Prairie Center, which is located...
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- Shannon Hamilton
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Paycheck
Paycheck is a 2003 film adaptation of the short story of the same name by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. The film was directed by John Woo and stars Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman and Aaron Eckhart. Paul Giamatti and Colm Feore also appear. It was...
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- Michael Jennings
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a 2001 war film directed by Michael Bay. It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King,...
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- Capt. Rafe McCawley
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Reindeer Games
Reindeer Games (also known as Deception) is a 2000 movie, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, and Charlize Theron. It was Frankenheimer's final theatrically released film but received poor reviews.
Nick and Rudy are...
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School Ties
School Ties is a 1992 film directed by Robert Mandel that launched the acting careers of Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Chris O'Donnell and Cole Hauser. Randall Batinkoff and Anthony Rapp also appear in the film.
Brendan Fraser plays the...
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- Chesty Smith
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Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 romantic comedy film. The film was directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard. Stoppard's first major success was with the Shakespeare-influenced play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are...
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- Ned Alleyn
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The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 American action film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and based on a book of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was originally filmed in 1999, starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman and was released by Paramount Pictures...
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Bounce
Bounce is a 2000 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, and directed by Don Roos.
Advertising executive Buddy (Affleck), has just signed an airline in Chicago as a big client, but is ironically delayed at the airport waiting for a flight to...
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- Buddy Amaral
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Push, Nevada
Push, Nevada is an American mystery television series set in the fictional town of Push, Nevada. It premiered on September 17, 2002 on the ABC network, and ran for 6 episodes before it became one of the first shows to be cancelled during the Fall...
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The Third Wheel
The Third Wheel is a 2002 film directed by Jordan Brady. The plot of the movie revolves around a first date between the clumsy and shy Stanley (Luke Wilson) and the gorgeous Diana (Denise Richards) as their date is interrupted by a homeless man Phil...
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Phantoms
Phantoms is the 1998 film adaptation of Dean Koontz's 1983 novel Phantoms. The screenplay was written by the author. The film takes place in the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado, where something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up...
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- Sheriff Bryce Hammond
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Glory Daze
Glory Daze is an independent film starring Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, and French Stewart. It had a limited release in 1996.
The film deals with five friends who share a house (called "El Rancho") while attending art school at UC Santa Cruz. Now they...
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Clerks II
Clerks II is the sequel to Kevin Smith's 1994 film Clerks, and his sixth feature film to be set in the View Askewniverse. The film was released on July 21, 2006; it screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and won the Audience...
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- Gawking Guy
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Smokin' Aces
Smokin' Aces is a 2006 action film, written and directed by Joe Carnahan, set in Lake Tahoe, and primarily shot at MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa (renamed the "Nomad Casino" in the film). It marks Carnahan's third feature, following Blood, Guts,...
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- Jack Dupree
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a 2001 film written by, directed by, and starring Kevin Smith, the fifth to be set in his View Askewniverse, a growing collection of characters and settings that developed out of his cult favorite Clerks. It focuses...
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- Holden McNeil
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200 Cigarettes
200 Cigarettes is a 1999 comedy-drama film that features an ensemble cast. The film also features paintings by Sally Davies.
The film follows various plot arcs all occurring on New Year's Eve of 1981. The central character is Monica (Plimpton), who...
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Man About Town
Man About Town is a comedy-drama film produced by Sunlight Productions and independently presented by Media 8 Entertainment in 2006. It was written and directed by Mike Binder and stars Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn, John Cleese, Bai Ling, and Jerry O...
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- Jack Giamoro
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Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas is a 2004 comedy film, directed by Mike Mitchell and starring Ben Affleck. Despite being a Christmas movie, DreamWorks SKG released the movie towards the end of October. This was due to it being advanced from December 2003 to...
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- Drew Latham
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State of Play
State of Play is a 2009 American political thriller. It is a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed six-part British television serial of the same name, which first aired on BBC One in 2003. The plot of the six-hour serial was condensed to a...
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- Stephen Collins
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He's Just Not That Into You
A group of interconnected, Baltimore-based twenty- and thirtysomethings navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sex--and...
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Extract
Extract is a 2009 United States comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge. Extract stars Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, J.K. Simmons, and Ben Affleck. Judge also makes an uncredited appearance as 'Jim', a union organizer. The official release date...
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