Claire Simpson Filmography

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Stop-Loss

Crew: Editor

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ciarán Hinds

Synopsis: After serving his tour of duty in Iraq, a young American soldier who is ordered to return to the front lines as part of the military's controversial stop-loss policy opts instead to go AWOL in a thought-provoking military drama directed by Kimberly Peirce. Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Philippe) is a Read More

3/28/08
The Return

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adam Scott, Kate Beahan, J.C. MacKenzie, Erinn Allison, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: A self-assured Midwestern girl finds her confidence gradually crumbling as a barrage of terrifying visions prompt her to investigate a brutal murder in a supernatural thriller directed by Asif Kapadia and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Joanna Mills (Gellar) is a successful sales representative Read More

11/10/06
The Constant Gardener

Crew: Editor

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: A man discovers a deadly secret when he tries to find out who killed the woman he loves in this suspense drama based on a novel by John Le Carré. Justin Quale (Ralph Fiennes) is a low-level British diplomat who has been given a new assignment in Kenya. Justin's wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), is an Read More

8/31/05
Possession

Crew: Editor

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Northam, Lena Headey

Synopsis: In Neil LaBute's film adaptation of A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning 1990 novel, Aaron Eckhart (who has starred in all of LaBute's films) plays Roland Michell, an American academic researcher, working in London, who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Read More

8/16/02
Town & Country

Crew: Editor

Actors: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Garry Shandling, Jenna Elfman

Synopsis: This long-delayed romantic comedy from director Peter Chelsom stars Warren Beatty as a wealthy New York architect, Porter Stoddard. The revelation that his best friend Griffin (Garry Shandling) is cheating on his wife Mona (Goldie Hawn) leads to a mid-life crisis of sorts for Porter, jeopardizing Read More

4/27/01
Jakob the Liar

Crew: Editor

Actors: Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber, Mark Margolis

Synopsis: This remake of the 1975 German film Jakob der Lügner stars Robin Williams in a dramatic role as a man who uses his active imagination to bring a ray of hope where hope was all but unknown. Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) is the owner of a small café during the Nazi occupation of Poland; he has little Read More

9/24/99
Without Limits

Crew: Editor

Actors: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis: One of two filmed biographies of late track star Steve Prefontaine to be produced in the late '90s, Without Limits comes from director Robert Towne, who previously took a stab at the track-star drama with his directorial debut, 1982's Personal Best. Billy Crudup stars as the ill-fated athlete who Read More

1998
The Fan

Crew: Editor

Actors: Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Benicio Del Toro

Synopsis: Robert De Niro is Gil Renard, baseball fan from hell. Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) is the player he is nuts about. No sooner does the talented Rayburn sign a huge contract with the San Francisco Giants, than everything in his life goes horribly wrong. Not only does his field play deteriorate Read More

1996
Black Beauty

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Jim Carter, Peter Davison, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: The fourth screen adaptation of Anna Sewell's classic novel is, in some ways, the most faithful and accomplished. Screenwriter and director Caroline Thompson recounts the life of Black Beauty, an aging, handsome stallion living in Victorian England. The film is narrated by Alan Cumming as the Read More

1994
The Mambo Kings

Crew: Editor

Actors: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Synopsis: New York art dealer Arne Glimcher took his first crack at film directing with this florid, high-energy romance about two brothers who flee Cuba in the early 1950s to make it as musicians in the United States. Cynthia Cidre wrote the literate screenplay adapted from Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Read More

2/28/92
State of Grace

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro

Synopsis: This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Kitchen beat. Penn is ostensibly on a sentimental journey to his old neighborhood. Actually he's been assigned to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Ed Harris, the brother of Sean's best Read More

9/14/90
Tequila Sunrise

Crew: Editor

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell, Raul Julia, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: For his first directorial project in six years, Robert Towne selected a timeworn romantic-triangle yarn, injecting the material with subtlety and conviction. Tequila Sunrise stars Mel Gibson and Kurt Russell as two lifelong friends who, in true James Cagney-Pat O'Brien fashion, grow up on the Read More

12/2/88
Wall Street

Crew: Editor

Actors: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: "Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns Read More

12/11/87
Someone to Watch over Me

Crew: Editor

Actors: Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Orbach, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Someone to Watch Over Me, a mystery thriller directed by Ridley Scott is the story of a police officer who falls in love with the woman he is hired to protect and the effect of this affair on his marriage and his life. Claire (Mimi Rogers) an extremely wealthy socialite is the sole witness to a Read More

10/9/87
Hell High

Crew: Editor

Actors: Christopher Stryker, Maureen Mooney, Christopher Cousins, Millie Prezioso, Jason Brill

Synopsis: This routine slasher-thriller deviates slightly from the standard formula by way of a fairly intelligent script which explores the murderer's motivation in far more detail than other films of the subgenre. The central character is high-school science teacher Ms. Storm (Maureen Mooney), a Read More

1987
Platoon

Crew: Editor

Actors: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army in the late '60s. He's shipped off to Vietnam, where he serves with a Read More

12/19/86
Salvador

Crew: Editor

Actors: James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo

Synopsis: While Salvador wasn't Oliver Stone's first film (a pair of offbeat horror stories preceded it), it defined his style of fiercely dramatic, politically oriented filmmaking, staked out his territory as one of the major directors of the 1980s and 1990s, and remains one of his strongest works to date. Read More

3/5/86
C.H.U.D.

Crew: Editor

Actors: John Heard, Kim Greist, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, George Martin

Synopsis: People are disappearing all over the Big Apple. Nobody cares, though, because most of the missing are homeless. But when investigative reporter Murphy (J.C. Quinn) tips off principled photographer George Cooper (John Heard) to a government conspiracy involving the dumping of nuclear waste beneath Read More

1984