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Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly, CBE (born William Connolly, Jr. on 24 November 1942) is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin (The Big One). His first trade, in the early 1960s, was as a welder (specifically a...
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An Everlasting Piece
An Everlasting Piece is a comedy film released in 2000. The movie was directed by Barry Levinson and written by and starring Barry McEvoy. The plot involves two wig salesmen, one Catholic and one Protestant, who live in war torn Belfast, Northern...
Fido
Fido is a Canadian zombie comedy film released in 2006. It was directed by Andrew Currie and written by Robert Chomiak, Andrew Currie, and Dennis Heaton from an original story by Dennis Heaton. It was produced by Lions Gate Entertainment, Anagram...
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (also known as Garfield 2: The Prince and the Paw-per in the UK, Garfield: The Movie 2 or its working title Garfield 2) is a theatrical sequel to the 2004 live-action feature film Garfield: The Movie. This film was...
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is based on the first three novels, The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, in Lemony Snicket's book series. The film stars...
Still Crazy
Still Crazy is a 1998 comedy film about a fictional 1970s rock band named "Strange Fruit", who, after being split up for several decades, are convinced to get back together to perform at a reunion of the same concert venue where they played their...
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 crime thriller film written and directed by Troy Duffy. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Catholic Irish American fraternal twins, Conner and Murphy MacManus, who become vigilantes after killing...
The Impostors
The Impostors is a 1998 farce motion picture written and directed by Stanley Tucci, starring Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, and Billy Connolly.
The film, in which Oliver Platt and Stanley Tucci play a...
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Brown (also released and advertised under the title Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown) is a 1997 British drama film starring Dame Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher and Gerard Butler. It was written by Jeremy Brock and directed by...
The Debt Collector
The Debt Collector is a 1999 thriller, written and directed by Scottish dramatist Anthony Neilson and starring Billy Connolly, Ken Stott and Francesca Annis.
Loosely based on the character of Jimmy Boyle, The Debt Collector explores themes of...
Water
Water is a 1985 comedy film scripted by Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais, directed by Clement, and starring Michael Caine. This HandMade Films production was released in U.S. theatres in April 1986 by Atlantic Releasing.
The story is set in the...
The Man Who Sued God
The Man Who Sued God is a 2001 Australian movie in which Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, an ex-lawyer who sues God because his boat is struck by lightning, and his insurance company refuses to pay, claiming it to be an act of God. By claiming to...
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a 2003 drama film/war film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan.
This film was inspired by a project developed by writer and director Vincent Ward. Ward became...
Open Season
Open Season is a 2006 computer-animated comedy film. The film was directed by Roger Allers, Jill Culton and Anthony Stacchi. It was released on September 29, 2006. The film was produced by Sony Pictures Animation and released by Columbia Pictures....
Beautiful Joe
Beautiful Joe is a 2000 American - British film written and directed by Stephen Metcalfe. It stars Sharon Stone and Billy Connolly, with supporting roles by Ian Holm, Dann Florek, and Gil Bellows.
A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob...
The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day
The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day, also known as The Boondock Saints II is a planned sequel to The Boondock Saints. The film has been in the works since spring of 2002, and has just recently made major progress.In an interview with IGN, Duffy...
Timeline
Timeline is a 2003 science fiction/fantasy film, directed by Richard Donner. It stars Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis, Gerard Butler and Anna Friel. It is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. Jerry...
Muppet Treasure Island
Muppet Treasure Island is the fifth feature film to star The Muppets. It was released in 1996 and directed by Jim Henson's son Brian Henson. It was one of many film adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
Similarly to the earlier...
Just Another Saturday
Just Another Saturday was a TV Movie made by the BBC about the Orange Walk culture. It was directed by John Mackenzie and starred Jon Morrison and Billy Connolly. It was part of the BBCs popular Play For Today series of the mid-1970s.
The film won...
The X Files 2
When a group of women are abducted in the wintry hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced...
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The Bear and the Bow
The Bear and the Bow is an upcoming computer-animated 3-D film being produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is written and directed by Brenda Chapman and features the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson and Julie Walters. It...
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Open Season 2
Open Season 2 is a direct-to-video sequel to the 2006 computer animated film Open Season produced by Sony Pictures Animation, directed by Matthew O'Callaghan, co-directed by Todd Wilderman, and produced by Kirk Bodyfelt and Matthew O'Callaghan. Jane...
Paws
Paws is an independent 1997 Australian family film that was released on 25 September 1997 in Australia and filmed in Sydney, New South Wales.
The film stars 15-year-old guitarist Nathan Cavaleri who has adventures with PC - a talking Jack Russell...
Gabriel & Me
Gabriel and Me is a 2001 film starring Iain Glen, Sean Landless and Billy Connolly as the angel Gabriel. It originated from the British play I Luv You Jimmy Spud. Some outdoor scenes were filmed in North East England including the Roker pier in...
Absolution
Absolution (1978) is a thriller that stars Richard Burton as a priest who teaches at a boy's school and finds one of his favorite students is playing a nasty practical joke on him. He sets out to investigate the prank and stumbles upon a pupil's...
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is an upcoming live-action adventure film directed by Rob Letterman and based on the 18th century novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. The film will star Jack Black as the title character Lemuil Gulliver with Catherine Tate...
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Wisdom
A DVD documentary companion to the Wisdom photography book by Andrew Zuckerman.
Inspired by the idea that wisdom is the greatest gift one generation can give to another, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman interviewed,...
Inspired by the idea that wisdom is the greatest gift one generation can give to another, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman interviewed,...
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Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is the sequel to the 1999 film The Boondock Saints. The director of the original film, Troy Duffy, returned to film the sequel, which sees the return of Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Irish brothers...
