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Paul Dano
Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor and producer. He has appeared in films such as L.I.E. (2001), The Girl Next Door (2004), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and There Will Be Blood (2007).
Dano was born in New York, NY. He spent the first few years of his childhood in New York...
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Taking Woodstock
Taking Woodstock is a 2009 American comedy-drama film about the Woodstock Festival of 1969 directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay by James Schamus is based on the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life by Elliot Tiber...
L.I.E.
L.I.E. is a 2001 independent film about a relationship between Howie, a 15-year-old boy, and a pederast known as 'Big John'. The title is an acronym for the Long Island Expressway. The film was directed by Michael Cuesta who has said that the film...
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama-adventure film, and the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. It stars Greg Kinnear,...
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The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next Door is a 2004 teen film starring Elisha Cuthbert and Emile Hirsch, directed by Luke Greenfield, about an honors student's pining love for the girl next door, who, as he finds out later, is a former porn star.
Ambitious Westport High...
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American drama film directed, written and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil! (1927). It tells the story of a silver-miner-turned-oil-man on a ruthless quest...
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation is a 2006 American/British drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The screenplay was written by Linklater and Eric Schlosser, loosely based on the latter's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name.
At the core of the...
Taking Lives
Taking Lives is a 2004 psychological thriller film starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. The film was marketed with the tagline "He would kill to be you."
The original music score was composed by Philip Glass and the main title's theme was...
The King
The King is a 2005 co-produced UK and American drama film about a troubled man, recently discharged from the Navy, who goes to Corpus Christi, Texas, in search of the father he's never met.
The film is deeply rooted in a Southern Gothic style and...
Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name. It combines live action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery ...
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Too Young to Be a Dad
Too Young To Be A Dad is a made-for-television movie that aired in May 2002 on Lifetime.
The film deals with the story of 15-year-old honor student Matt Freeman. The film opens with Matt at his high school during a candle lighting honors ceremony....
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
The Ballad of Jack and Rose is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller, and starring her husband Daniel Day-Lewis; it also stars Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Paul Dano, Ryan McDonald, Jason Lee, Jena Malone, and Beau Bridges....
The Emperor's Club
The Emperor's Club is a 2002 film that tells the story of a prep school teacher and his students. Based on Ethan Canin's short story "The Palace Thief," the film is directed by Michael Hoffman and stars Kevin Kline. The movie is set at a fictional...
Gigantic
Gigantic is a 2009 independent comedy film directed by Matt Aselton and starring Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Edward Asner and Jane Alexander. The script, written by Aselton and his college friend Adam Nagata, tells of Brian (Dano), a...
17 Photos of Isabel
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is an upcoming film adaptation of Ayelet Waldman's novel, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.
The Extra Man
The Extra Man is an upcoming comedy film based on a novel by Jonathan Ames. The film is directed and written by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini and stars Kevin Kline and Paul Dano.
A failed playwright Henry (Kline) develops an odd mentor...
The Good Heart
The Good Heart is a drama film slated for release in 2008. It will be directed by Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari and star Ryan Gosling and Tom Waits. It will be a joint Icelandic-U.S. production. Filming is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2007.
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Knight & Day
Knight & Day, formerly titled Wichita, is an upcoming action comedy film. It stars Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Maggie Grace. It will be the first time Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have worked on a film together since the 2001 cult-classic , Vanilla...
Light and the Sufferer
Light and the Sufferer is an American science-fiction film starring Paul Dano, Paz de la Huerta, Michael Esper, Paul D'Amato and directed by Christopher Peditto.
Two brothers try to leave New York City for a new life in California only to find their...
