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Matthew McConaughey
Matthew David McConaughey; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. After a series of minor roles in the early 1990s (including his breakout role in Dazed and Confused, director Richard Linklater's second feature film), he appeared in films such as A Time to Kill, Contact, U-571, Sahara, and We...
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The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a 2009 American romantic comedy film whose plot is based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Mark Waters directed a script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Filming spanned February 19, 2008 to July 2008 in Boston,...
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A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill is a 1996 film adaptation of John Grisham's 1989 legal thriller novel of the same name. Directed by Joel Schumacher, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Kiefer...
Amistad
Amistad is a 1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true story of a slave mutiny that took place aboard a ship of the same name in 1839, and the legal battle that followed. It shows how, even though the case was won at the federal...
Contact
Contact is a 1997 science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Both Sagan and wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film adaptation of Contact. Jodie Foster portrays the...
Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused is a 1993 coming of age film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The film'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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Failure to Launch
Failure to Launch is a 2006 American romantic comedy film loosely based on the French film Tanguy. In the movie a 30-something child lives in the home of his parents and show no interest in leaving the comfortable life his parents, especially his...
Frailty
Frailty is a 2001 psychological thriller film, directed by, and starring Bill Paxton, and co-starring Matthew McConaughey. This film is the directorial debut for Paxton. The plot focuses on the strange relationship two young boys have with their...
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 romantic comedy film, directed by Donald Petrie, and starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It based on a short cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.
Andie Anderson (Kate...
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Larger Than Life
Larger Than Life is a 1996 comedy film starring Bill Murray.
Jack Corcoran is a motivational speaker for the masses in mini-malls and rented halls across the country. Jack's advice is: if life isn't all that you expected, put aside all those wouldas...
Lone Star
Lone Star (1996) is an American mystery film written and directed by John Sayles and set in a small town in Texas. It features Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey and deals with a sheriff's investigation into who...
Reign of Fire
Reign of Fire is a 2002 action/science fiction film directed by Rob Bowman and starring Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, and Gerard Butler. It takes place in the year 2020 in England, after dragons have reawakened. The film...
Sahara
Sahara is a 2005 action/adventure film directed by Breck Eisner and loosely based on the best-selling book of the same name by Clive Cussler.
Though it opened at number one in the US box office, grossing $18 million on its first weekend, Sahara is...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (also known as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4 or The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is a 1994 film sequel to Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III and quasi-remake of the original Texas...
The Wedding Planner
The Wedding Planner is a 2001 romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.
Lopez plays a San Francisco wedding planner, Maria 'Mary' Fiore. She is too consumed with planning others' events to worry about her own personal life...
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Two for the Money
Two for the Money is a 2005 film directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino, and Rene Russo. The movie is about the world of sports gambling.
Brandon Lang (McConaughey), a former college football star who, after sustaining...
U-571
U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry. In the film, a World War II German submarine is boarded in...
We Are Marshall
We Are Marshall is a 2006 American drama film directed by McG about the aftermath of the 1970 plane crash that killed nearly all of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team; the rebuilding of the program; and the healing that the...
Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I. is a yet-to-be released American film adaptation of the 1980s TV series of Magnum, P.I. directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. It is expected to be released in 2009.
In January 2007, it was reported that Matthew McConaughey will play...
The Newton Boys
The Newton Boys is a 1998 drama film based on the true story of the Newton Gang, a family of bank robbers from Uvalde, Texas. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Dwight Yoakam. It was filmed in...
EdTV
EDtv is a comedy film directed by Ron Howard released in 1999. An adaptation of the French Canadian movie Louis 19, le roi des ondes (1994), it stars Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Martin Landau, Rob Reiner,...
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing is a 2001 American drama film directed by Jill Sprecher. The screenplay by Sprecher and her sister Karen focuses on five seemingly disparate individuals in search of happiness whose paths intersect in ways that...
Tiptoes
Tiptoes is a 2003 film starring Kate Beckinsale, Matthew McConaughey, and Gary Oldman.
Carol (Beckinsale) — a talented painter and independent woman — falls in love with Steven (McConaughey) without knowing much about him other than he's the perfect...
Boys on the Side
Boys on the Side is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross (his last film before his death six years later). It stars Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Barrymore and Mary-Louise Parker as three friends on a cross-country road trip. The screenplay was...
My Boyfriend's Back
My Boyfriend's Back is a 1993 comedy film.
The film is about a teenage boy, Johnny Dingle, who dies but comes back from the dead as a zombie after the teenage girl he's in love with, Missy McCloud, promises him a date.
The title is a reference to a...
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...
Angels in the Outfield
Angels in the Outfield (known simply as Angels in some countries) is a 1994 remake of the 1951 film of the same name. The film stars Danny Glover, Tony Danza and Christopher Lloyd, and features appearances from future stars, including Adrien Brody,...
Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 American action satire comedy film directed and produced by Ben Stiller. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey, Jr. as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film. When their frustrated writer and...
Fool's Gold
Fool's Gold is an 2008 adventure/romance film from Warner Bros. Pictures about a married couple who rekindle their romantic life while searching for a lost treasure. The film was directed by Andy Tennant and reunites the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days...
Surfer Dude
Surfer, Dude is a 2008 American comedy film starring Matthew McConaughey in the title role directed by S.R. Bindler.
Surfer, Dude is the story of Steve Addington, a soul-searching surfer who experiences an existential crisis while surfing near his...
Rio
Rio is an is an upcoming computer-animated 3-D film that will be produced by Blue Sky Studios and will be distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is scheduled for release on April 8, 2011. Carlos Saldanha is directing the movie, while Chris Jenkins and...
