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Laura Linney
Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and once for the BAFTA Award.
Linney was born in New York...
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Absolute Power
Absolute Power (1997) political thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel of the same name written by David Baldacci. It was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film...
Kinsey
Kinsey is a 2004 biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Kinsey (played by Liam Neeson), a pioneer in the area of sexologic research. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the first...
Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown...
Mystic River
Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian Helgeland...
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P.S.
p.s. is a 2004 drama film directed by Dylan Kidd. The screenplay by Kidd and Helen Schulman is based on Schulman's 2001 novel P.S. I Love You So Damn Much.
What would you do for a second chance?
Thirty-nine-year old divorcée Louise Harrington works...
Primal Fear
Primal Fear is a 1996 motion picture directed by Gregory Hoblit which tells the story of a defense attorney, Martin Vail (Richard Gere), who defends an altar boy, Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop. The...
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a 2005 horror/courtroom drama film directed by Scott Derrickson. It is generally accepted that the film is based on the story of Anneliese Michel, which is stated at the end credits. However it bears little resemblance...
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The Life of David Gale
The Life of David Gale (2003) is an American drama film directed by Alan Parker and written by Charles Randolph.
Kevin Spacey stars as the titular college professor, an active opponent of capital punishment who is accused of raping a student, and...
The Squid and the Whale
The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 dramatic film written and directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in the 1980s. The film is named...
The Truman Show
The Truman Show is a 1998 comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. The cast includes Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone. The film chronicles the life of...
You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me is a 2000 movie, starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, it tells the story of Sammy, a single mother living in a small town and her complicated...
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Man of the Year
Man of the Year is a 2006 American comedy/drama film directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robin Williams in the lead role. In addition to Williams, the film features Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black, and Jeff Goldblum.
In the film,...
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The Mothman Prophecies
The Mothman Prophecies is a 2002 film directed by Mark Pellington, adapted from the 1975 book of the same name by parapsychologist and Fortean John Keel. The film stars Richard Gere as John Klein, a reporter who researches the legend of the Mothman....
Jindabyne
Jindabyne is a 2006 Australian drama film adapted from the Raymond Carver short story, So Much Water So Close to Home, by award-winning director Ray Lawrence and starring an ensemble cast including Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Deborra-Lee Furness,...
The Nanny Diaries
The Nanny Diaries is a 2007 comedy-drama film, based on the novel The Nanny Diaries, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, it stars Scarlett Johansson, Alicia Keys, Paul Giamatti and...
Tales of the City
Tales of the City is a 1993 television miniseries based on the first of the Tales of the City series of novels by Armistead Maupin.
To date, the first three books in the sequence have been adapted into television miniseries; the first, Tales of the...
The City of Your Final Destination
The City of Your Final Destination is a first Merchant Ivory Film without late producer Ismail Merchant and also composer Richard Robbins. It is directed by James Ivory and with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
The film is based on Peter...
Maze
Maze is a 2000 romance film about a New York painter and sculptor—Lyle Maze (Rob Morrow)—with Tourette syndrome (TS) and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), who falls in love with Callie (Laura Linney), the pregnant girlfriend of Maze’s best friend...
Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons is a 2006 British dramedy film written and directed by Jeremy Brock. The plot focuses on the relationship between a shy teenaged boy and an aging eccentric actress.
Seventeen-year-old Ben Marshall is the sensitive, poetry-writing son...
Congo
Congo is a 1995 film, based on the 1980 novel Congo by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Grant Heslov and Joe Don...
Breach
Breach is a 2007 American docudrama directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay by Ray, Adam Mazer, and William Rotko is based on the true story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia for more than two...
The Savages
The Savages is a 2007 American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
After drifting apart emotionally over the years, two single...
The Hottest State
The Hottest State (2006) is a film directed and written by Ethan Hawke, based on Hawke's 1997 novel of the same name. The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2006. The film was scheduled for a limited theater release in the...
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature.
The title derives from...
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth is a 2000 film version of Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth. The film was written and directed by Terence Davies and starred Gillian Anderson.
It is New York City, 1905, and we are introduced to Miss Lily Bart, a young,...
A Simple Twist of Fate
A Simple Twist of Fate is a 1994 American drama film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The screenplay by Steve Martin is loosely based on the 1861 novel Silas Marner by George Eliot.
When high school music teacher Michael McCann discovers his wife is...
The Other Man
The Other Man tells the story of a man who discovers his late wife had a lover for many years. When he comes to terms with this news he travels to Italy in search of the other man.
The Other Man is due to be filmed late fall 2007 on location in...
Running Mates
Running Mates is a 2000 American political comedy/drama television film directed by Ron Lagomarsino and starring Tom Selleck. The film follows the presidential election campaign of James Pryce, a Democratic Party presidential candidate, who has a...
Wild Iris
Wild Iris (2001) is a drama film starring Laura Linney, Gena Rowlands, Emile Hirsch and Fred Ward. Co - Starrings are Miguel Sandoval, Scott Gibson, Amy Stewart and Lee Tergesen.
Laura Linney won an Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a miniseries...
