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Peter Sarsgaard
John Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is an American film and stage actor. He landed his first feature role in the movie Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the independent films Another Day in Paradise (1995) and Desert Blue (1996). In 1998, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in...
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Orphan
Orphan is a 2009 American horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard and Isabelle Fuhrman. The film centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a person who is hiding a dark secret...
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- John Coleman
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Boys Don't Cry
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American independent drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgendered male who was raped and murdered on December 31, 1993 by his male friends after they found out he had female genitalia. The film...
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- John Lotter
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Empire
Empire is a 2002 Gangster thriller movie starring John Leguizamo and Peter Sarsgaard.
Victor Rosa (Leguizamo) is a drug dealer in New York who sells a specific brand of heroin called "Empire". His area, or "turf", is located in the South Bronx,...
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Flightplan
Flightplan is a 2005 thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, and Sean Bean. It was released in North America on September 23, 2005.
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a propulsion engineer...
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Garden State
Garden State is a film written, directed by, and starring, Zach Braff, with Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard and co-starring Sir Ian Holm. The film centers on Andrew Largeman (Braff), a 26-year-old actor/waiter who returns to his hometown in New...
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Jarhead
Jarhead is a 2005 film based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir of the same name, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Swofford. The title comes from the slang term used to refer to Marines (sometimes by Marines themselves). The film was...
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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...
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- Clyde Martin
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Shattered Glass
Shattered Glass is a 2003 American drama film written and directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay is based on a September 1998 Vanity Fair article by H.G. Bissinger. In it he chronicled the rapid rise of Stephen Glass's journalistic career at the The...
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- Charles 'Chuck' Lane
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Small Tragedy
Small Tragedy is an American film, released in 2007, directed by Craig Lucas and based on his play of the same name. The plot centers around Nathaniel (Tony Goldwyn), a theatrical director, who is in London to head a production of Oedipus rex, and...
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The Dying Gaul
The Dying Gaul is a 2005 American drama film written and directed by Craig Lucas. The screenplay is based on his 1998 off-Broadway play, the title of which was derived from an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture.
In 1995...
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- Robert Sandrich
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The Skeleton Key
The Skeleton Key is a 2005 psychological thriller film starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joy Bryant. The film focuses on a young hospice nurse who acquires a job at a spooky New Orleans plantation home, and becomes...
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- Luke Marshall
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Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love is the title of a sleeper comedic film released in 2002. The film follows Grace Beasley who in the face of her failing marriage, and the death of her favorite pop star, learns the value and limitations of unconditional love, and...
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- Window Washer
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Rendition
Rendition is a 2007 drama film directed by Gavin Hood and starring Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Omar Metwally. It centers on the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary rendition, and is...
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- Alan Smith
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Year of the Dog
Year of the Dog is a 2007 film written and directed by Mike White, and starring Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Tom McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C. Reilly and Peter Sarsgaard. The film describes the process of a woman that goes from having one...
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The Salton Sea
The Salton Sea is a 2002 film starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio directed by D. J. Caruso.
A man (Kilmer) narrates the events of the movie while playing the trumpet in a burning room. He states that previously he was Danny Parker, a speed...
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- Jimmy the Finn
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The Center of the World
The Center of the World is an American film directed by Wayne Wang, digitally shot, released in 2001. It stars Peter Sarsgaard as a Dot-com millionaire who hires a drummer/stripper (Molly Parker) to stay with him in Las Vegas for three days for US...
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- Richard Longman
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's best-selling novel of the same name, which was published in 1988. The screenplay was written by Rawson Marshall Thurber, who also directed. Shooting in Pittsburgh ended in October...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) is a film directed by Randall Wallace. It uses characters from Alexandre Dumas' D'Artagnan Romances, and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of The Vicomte de Bragelonne. It also bears several similarities...
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Desert Blue
Desert Blue is a 1998 American comedy/drama film directed by Morgan J. Freeman and starring Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Peter Sarsgaard, Lee Holmes, Sara Gilbert, and John Heard.
The story centers on a rising...
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- Billy Baxter
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K-19: The Widowmaker
K-19: The Widowmaker is a fact-based fictional movie released on July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine of the same name. The movie was directed by Kathryn Bigelow; the screenplay was written by Christopher...
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- Vadim Radtchinko
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Elegy
Elegy is a 2008 drama directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet and based on a Philip Roth novel, The Dying Animal. The film is set in New York City, but was filmed in Vancouver.
David Kepesh (Ben Kingsley) is a cultural critic and professor....
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- Kenny Kepesh
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In the Electric Mist
In the Electric Mist is a 2009 drama/fantasy film based on the novel In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke. It is directed by Bertrand Tavernier, written by Jerzy Kromolowski & Mary Olson-Kromolowski, and stars Tommy Lee...
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- Elrod Sykes
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An Education
An Education (2009) is a British coming-of-age drama film based on an autobiographical memoir of the same title written by the British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig, with screenplay written by Nick Hornby, and...
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Knight & Day
Knight & Day, formerly titled Wichita, is an upcoming action-comedy film.
Tom Cruise plays a secret agent who goes on a blind date with unlucky-in-love Cameron Diaz, and ends up pulling her into a journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the...
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High Falls
High Falls is a short film by Andrew Zuckerman starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Saarsgard written by Alex Vlack. It is about a married couple and a mutual best friend that go the Hudson Valley over the 4th of July weekend. The husband and wife...
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