Buffalo Girls 1995  TV, 180 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Rod Hardy
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Sam Elliott, Gabriel Byrne, Peter Coyote, Tracey Walter, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Jack Palance, Charlayne Woodard, John Diehl, Liev Schreiber, Russell Means
Calamity Jane (Anjelica Huston) falls in love with Wild Bill Hickok (Sam Elliott), but he is gunned down, leaving Calamity pregnant. She is then befriended by whorehouse madam Dora DuFran (Melanie Griffith) and gives her infant up for adoption to an English couple. What is a girl to do? Calamity Jane joins Buffalo Bill Cody's (Peter Coyote) Wild West Show, which just happens to be traveling to England where she might meet her daughter.
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The Daytrippers 1996  R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Greg Mottola
Cast: Hope Davis, Pat McNamara, Anne Meara, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott, Marcia Gay Harden, Stanley Tucci, Stephanie Venditto, Marc Grapey
Eliza (Hope Davis) discovers a love note that she thinks shows her husband Louis (Stanley Tucci) has been unfaithful. A chain of events results in Eliza's family cramming into the family station wagon and heading off to show Louis the incriminating note. The trip with its participants interacting in close proximity is the focus of this comedy.
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Defiance 2008 R, 137 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner, Mark Feuerstein, Tomas Arana, Jodhi May, Kate Fahy, Iddo Goldberg, Iben Hjejle, Martin Hancock, Jacek Koman, Ravil Isyanov, George MacKay
During World War II, the Belarus home of the Jewish Bielski brothers–Zus (Liev Schreiber), Asael (Jamie Bell), and Tuvia (Daniel Craig)–is destroyed, but they find refuge in the dense woods where they had played as children. With great effort, they manage to survive, and then other refugees join them and accept their commune lifestyle while the brothers convince the refugees to rebel against the Nazis who are slaughtering the Jews in Europe. Now, winter settles in, and they try to keep their faith alive.
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Everything Is Illuminated 2005 PG-13, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Liev Schreiber
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Jana Hrabetova, Stepan Samudovsky, Oleksandr Choroshko, Gil Kazimirov, Zuzana Hodkova, Ljubomir Dezera
Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a Jewish American who loves to collect family memorabilia but is missing links from his grandfather's life. To solve the problem, Jonathan takes a trip to the Ukraine to meet the woman who took care of his grandfather and hid him from the Nazis during World War II. Upon arrival, he is met by young Alex (Eugene Hutz) and Alex's grandfather (Boris Leskin), and together they head out on a journey of discoveries.
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 Hamlet 2000 R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Diane Venora, Bill Murray, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Karl Geary, Paula Malcomson, Steve Zahn, Dechen Thurman, Rome Neal, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Bartel, Casey Affleck
This Shakespeare classic is updated. The year is 2000 and set in hi-tech corporate America at the multinational conglomerate Denwick Corporation in Manhattan. Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) is struggling as a young filmmaker in New York City trying to gain control in his deceased father's company while also dealing with his mother Gertrude's (Diane Venora) marriage to her brother-in-law Claudius (Kyle MacLachlan). His father's Ghost (Sam Shepard) appears and wants Hamlet to be kind to Gertrude but to get revenge against Claudius who killed him. Once again, Shakespeare's drama proves timeless.
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 The Hurricane 1999  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Denzel Washington, Deborah Kara Unger, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya, Debbi Morgan, Clancy Brown, David Paymer, Rod Steiger, Harris Yulin, Badja Djola, Vincent Pastore, Al Waxman, David Lansbury
Denzel Washington excels in his portrayal of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter–a boxer sent to prison on trumped-up murder charges in 1966. Carter remained in prison until 1986 when the efforts of a Brooklyn-born teenager, Lesra Martin (Vicellous Reon Shannon), spurred another investigation leading to Carter's release. Washington received an Academy Award nomination.
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 Jakob the Liar 1999  PG-13, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Peter Kassovitz
Cast: Robin Williams, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Eva Igo, Istvan Balint, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Bob Balaban, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter, Mark Margolis, Liev Schreiber
Set during World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland, this is the story of Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) who tells lies about fictitious news bulletins, which he claims show the Allies winning. The fabrications bring renewed hope to his fellow Jews who have been on the verge of suicide.
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 Kate & Leopold 2001 PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer, Natasha Lyonne, Bradley Whitford, Philip Bosco, Paxton Whitehead, Spalding Gray, Charlotte Ayanna
Stressed-out marketing executive Kate (Meg Ryan) meets her true love, Leopold (Hugh Jackman)–never mind that he has arrived into the present from the Victorian era of 1878! A good comedy about time travel.
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 Love in the Time of Cholera 2007 R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, John Leguizamo, Hector Elizondo, Fernanda Montenegro, Liev Schreiber, Laura Harring, Angie Cepeda, Marcela Mar, Juan Angel
Based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1998 novel, this story is set in Colombia where Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) dies falling out of a mango tree. The day of the funeral, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) arrives and delivers a message to the widow, Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), informing her that he has been in love with her for the past 51 years. The film then flashes back to their long-ago, ill-fated courtship and continues through their lives over the last half-century.
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Mad Love 1995 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Antonia Bird
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Chris O'Donnell, Joan Allen, Jude Ciccolella, Matthew Lillard, Robert Nadir, Kevin Dunn, Liev Schreiber, Richard Chaim, Amy Sakasitz
Good boy Matt (Chris O'Donnell) meets and falls in love with wild and crazy Casey (Drew Barrymore) and runs away with her when her parents plan to send her to a sanitarium.
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 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Kimberly Elise, Vera Farmiga, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Sakina Jaffrey, Ted Levine, Miguel Ferrer, Bruno Ganz, Simon McBurney, Pablo Schreiber, Dorian Missick, Anthony Mackie
In this updated version of "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), Gulf War veteran Captain Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) is still in the Army, but his squad sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), left the Army a hero and is now running for Vice President. Marco is having nightmares over what happened to their platoon while under the leadership of Shaw and tries to contact him. But, a big player in Shaw's campaign is his mother, Eleanor (Meryl Streep), who is determined to keep Marco away from her son. She wants him to be Vice President–no matter what!
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Mixed Nuts 1994 PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Anthony LaPaglia, Juliette Lewis, Rob Reiner, Adam Sandler, Rita Wilson, Liev Schreiber, Garry Shandling
Steve Martin plays the person in charge of a suicide-prevention hotline, and his phones are HOT. Everyone, from a homicidal Santa to a very pregnant woman to a serial killer calls Martin's just-about-as-crazy staff.
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 The Omen 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama
Director: John Moore
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Pete Postlethwaite, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Amy Huck, Bohumil Svarc, Carlo Sabatini, Reggie Austin, Predrag Bjelac, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Tomas Wooler
In this remake of the 1976 film by the same name, Robert and Katherine Thorne (Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles) adopt Damien who was born the same day that Katherine lost a baby during labor. Katherine was not told of the loss and believes that Damien is her natural-born son. The family moves to a large estate in London, and it does not take long for ghastly events to take over their lives. Could Damien be the devil incarnate?
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The Painted Veil 2006 PG-13, 125 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: John Curran
Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Diana Rigg, Toby Jones, Anthony Wong, Marie-Laure Descoureaux, Xia Yu, Alan David, Catherine An, Juliet Howland, Maggie Steed
W. Somerset Maugham's novel is brought to the screen with Naomi Watts playing the frivolous, upper-class Kitty who marries the middle-class doctor, Walter Fane (Edward Norton). When the couple moves to Shanghai and Walter immerses himself in his cholera research, spoiled Kitty begins an affair with diplomat Charlie Townsend (Liev Schreiber). Walter discovers the affair and threatens Kitty with divorce if she doesn't move with him to a remote village in China that is ravaged by cholera. Kitty joins Walter on the expedition and, in the harsh environment, gains a social conscience and finds a purpose in their lives.
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Phantoms 1998  R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Joe Chappelle
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Joanna Going, Rose McGowan, Ben Affleck, Liev Schreiber, Clifton Powell, Nicky Katt, Edmund Wyson
In the tiny town of Snowfield, Calif., 150 people are found dead–some decapitated, others marbleized–and 350 are missing. Sounds like this could be a good horror show? Well, forget that idea when the perpetrator turns up as a mutant butterfly that enters the bodies of its victims. Bad, bad, bad!!
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 Ransom 1996 R, 121 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo, Liev Schreiber, Lili Taylor, Paul(2) Guilfoyle, Jose Zuniga
This loose remake of the 1956 Glenn Ford vehicle is about Tom Mullen's (Mel Gibson) dilemma when his son, Sean (Brawley Nolte), is kidnapped. Going against the wishes of his wife, Kate (Rene Russo), and the FBI, Mullen hatches his own plot to get the boy out of the clutches of kidnapper Jimmy Shaker (Gary Sinise).
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RKO 281 1999 R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Benjamin Ross
Cast: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider, Liam Cunningham, David Suchet, Fiona Shaw, Anastasia Hille
Project 281 was RKO's name for the production of "Citizen Kane," which would become largely regarded as the greatest film ever made. Liev Schreiber plays Orson Welles, director of the film, and James Cromwell is William Randolph Hearst, upon whom the film is based. This is the story of that production and the attempts of Hearst to stop the release of the film, which shows him in a poor light. Some good performances in this HBO-produced film.
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 Scream 1996 R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Drama / Thriller
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: David Arquette, Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Liev Schreiber, Rose McGowan, Joseph Whipp, W. Earl Brown, Lawrence Hecht, Wes Craven, David Booth, Kevin Patrick Walls
Scream is a horror film about actors making a horror film that will entertain fans of that genre–especially with the behind-the-scenes commentary by Wes Craven. Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is having problems dealing with her mother's brutal murder one year ago, and now her friend Casey (Drew Barrymore) has also been killed. The list of suspects is long, but Sidney's boyfriend Billy (Skeet Ulrich) is a prime suspect. News reporter Gail Weathers (Courteney Cox) and Deputy Dewey Riley (David Arquette) investigate and look at clues that may link the killer to Sidney's mother's murder.
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Scream 2 1997 R, 120 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, David Warner, Jerry O'Connell, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liev Schreiber, Elise Neal, Timothy Olyphant, Lewis Arquette, Duane Martin, Rebecca Gayheart
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), after surviving her ordeal of mass killings in "Scream" (1996), is now a college co-ed living in Cincinnati. Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) has written a best-selling book based on the killings, and the book is made into a movie, "Stab." While watching "Stab" at the local theater, two college students are killed. Sidney suspects that she has not escaped from her life of terror. Gale and Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) investigate and discover that a copy-cat killer is, indeed, recreating the earlier massacres that involve carving up the victims.
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 Scream 3 2000 R, 116 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Parker Posey, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley, Deon Richmond, Liev Schreiber, Lance Henriksen, Jenny McCarthy, Kelly Rutherford, Julie Janney, Richard Arquette, Lynn McRee, Nancy O'Dell
In this final episode of the "Scream" trilogy, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is still haunted by her terrifying past, has changed her name, and is hiding out in Monterey, California, where she is working as a crisis intervention counselor. Despite hopes that she will not be bothered again, Sidney's ordeal is far from over. Gale Weather's (Courtney Cox) book "Stab" has inspired a series of "Stab" movies. During the filming of "Stab 3," cast members and crew are being killed by a maniac who slashes the victims to pieces. The actors are being killed in the same order that they die in the movie, and, once again, Gale and Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) arrive on the scene to investigate.
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Sphere 1998 PG-13, 133 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah, Marga Gomez, Huey Lewis, Barnard Hocke, James Pickens Jr.
A 400-year-old spaceship is discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, but when a team of scientists investigates, it finds a computer keyboard reading "Made in USA 2048." What is going on?
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Spring Forward 1999 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Gilroy
Cast: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott, Ian Hart, Peri Gilpin, Bill Raymond, Catherine Kellner, Hallee Hirsh, Justin Laboy, Kristin Laboy
Murphy (Ned Beatty), who works for the Connecticut Parks and Recreation Department, becomes the mentor of a young man (Liev Schreiber) just recently released from the penitentiary. This compelling story takes place during one year as the two men, from very different backgrounds, bond through one-on-one conversations.
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 The Sum of All Fears 2002 PG-13, 124 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates, Philip Baker Hall, Bruce McGill, Bridget Moynahan, Ciaran Hinds, Ron Rifkin
Tom Clancy's novel is brought to the screen with Ben Affleck starring as hero Jack Ryan. This time, Ryan is involved in an international chess game involving a terrorist group that now has its hands on a nuclear weapon and plans to detonate it.
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The Sunshine Boys 1995 TV, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Erman
Cast: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber, Edie Falco, Tyler Noyes, Olga Merediz, Andy Taylor, Jose Soto
Neil Simon updated his 1972 play for this made-for-TV offering about the proposed reunion of two comedians–Al Lewis (Woody Allen) and Willie Clark (Peter Falk)–after they had gone their separate ways. The film suffers in comparison to the original starring Walter Matthau and George Burns.
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Taking Woodstock 2009 110 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Imelda Saunton, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Liev Schreiber, Henry Goodman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Adam LeFevre, Kevin Chamberlin, Jonathan Groff, Edward Hibbert, Paul Dano, Kelli Garner, Bette Henritze
This film is based on the true story of Greenwich Village interior designer Elliot (Demetri Martin) who moved back to his parents'–Sonia and Jake (Imelda Stanton and Henry Goodman)–home in upstate New York to help manage their run-down Catskills motel, The El Monaco. The year is 1969, and when Elliot gets word that a neighboring town has retracted its permit for a planned hippie music festival, Elliot sees a way to drum-up business for the motel. Elliot contacts the producer, Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff), and offers to board the crew and use his family's land for the concert. Their land is a swamp and will not work, but a few weeks later, half a million people arrive for the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that takes place on neighbor Max Yasgur's (Eugene Levy) farm. Elliot works hard to keep things running smoothly, and his success changes his life forever.
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 Twilight 1998 R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Robert Benton
Cast: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Stockard Channing, Reese Witherspoon, Giancarlo Esposito, James Garner, Liev Schreiber, M. Emmet Walsh, Margo Martindale, John Spencer, Peter Gregory, Patrick Malone, Jason Clarke, Rene Mujica
Retired detective Harry Ross (Paul Newman) is living with movie star friends Jack and Catherine Ames (Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon) in Santa Monica. When Harry delivers a package for Jack, he finds Lestar Ivar (M. Emmet Walsh) dying after being shot. Harry looks around Ivar's apartment and finds 20-year-old newspaper articles about Catherine's first husband who disappeared 20 years ago. Now, Harry's curiosity is peaked, and he asks LAPD detective Verna Hollander (Stockard Channing) for help in finding answers to the unsolved case. The trail leads to other unsolved cases–including one involving Harry's old colleague Raymond Hope (James Garner) who also runs errands for Jack and just might have the answers that Harry seeks.
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 A Walk on the Moon 1999 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Cast: Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber, Anna Paquin, Tovah Feldshuh, Bobby Boriello, Victoria Barkoff, Stewart Bick, Jess Platt, Star Jasper
This is a romanticized story of Pearl Kantrowitz's (Diane Lane) odyssey during the summer of 1969–not far from Woodstock–in the Catskills when she finds excitement in a three-day affair with a traveling salesman, Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen)
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| 1. Buffalo Girls (1995)
2. The Daytrippers (1996)
3. Defiance (2008)
4. Denise Calls Up (1995)
5. Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
6. Hamlet (2000)
7. The Hurricane (1999)
8. Jakob the Liar (1999)
9. Kate & Leopold (2001)
10. Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
11. Mad Love (1995)
12. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
13. Mixed Nuts (1994)
14. The Omen (2006)
15. The Painted Veil (2006)
16. Party Girl (1995)
17. Phantoms (1998)
18. Ransom (1996)
19. RKO 281 (1999)
20. Scream (1996)
21. Scream 2 (1997)
22. Scream 3 (2000)
23. Sphere (1998)
24. Spring Forward (1999)
25. The Sum of All Fears (2002)
26. The Sunshine Boys (1995)
27. Taking Woodstock (2009)
28. Twilight (1998)
29. A Walk on the Moon (1999)
30. Walking and Talking (1996)
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