Curtis HansonFilmography

Born:: March 24, 1945
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A filmmaker fascinated by themes of deception and deceptive characters, the gifted screenwriter-turned-director Curtis Hanson chalked up an enviable track record of finely tuned sleepers ("small movies") an astonishing 30 years prior to his official recognition by Hollywood, with the Best...Read More

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Lucky You

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Debra Messing, Horatio Sanz

Synopsis: A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer in a high-stakes emotional drama from L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson Read More

5/4/07
In Her Shoes

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Francine Beers, Richard Burgi, Brooke Smith, Jerry Adler, Ken Howard, Norman Lloyd, Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Feuerstein

Synopsis: Curtis Hanson's adaptation of Jennifer Weiner's novel In Her Shoes stars Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz as a pair of very close but very different sisters. Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie Feller (Diaz) gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her lack of scruples. She constantly Read More

10/7/05
8 Mile

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Evan Jones

Synopsis: Controversial rap star Eminem makes his acting debut in this hard-edged urban drama, inspired in part by incidents from the musician's own life. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit's Read More

11/8/02
Adaptation

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: The creative team behind Being John Malkovich -- director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the Read More

1/10/02
Greg the Bunny [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An outgrowth of a series of "interstitial" segments seen between programs on cable TV's Independent Film Channel, the adult-oriented Fox Network sitcom Greg the Bunny was set in an alternate world where human beings peacefully coexisted with talking puppets. Among the "Fabricated Americans" in Read More

2002
Wonder Boys

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey, Jr., Katie Holmes

Synopsis: In this comedy, a middle-aged man juggles his problems with women, literature, and a career, while a younger man chases the artifact of his dreams. Pittsburgh college professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is currently single following his divorce from his third wife; after publishing an Read More

2/25/00
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: A documentary about the iconic career of actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows traces its subject's work from his earliest days in Hollywood to his award-winning (and career-salvaging) films of the 1990s. Directed by Bruce Ricker, who also made the lauded jazz Read More

2000
Dial H For Hitchcock

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Demme, Joseph Stefano, John Michael Hayes, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: This documentary is a loving look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Speeding through much of his early British works, the film focuses on his American classics, such as Marnie, Vertigo, and particularly Psycho. The movie also neatly examines Hitchcock's signature touches, from his Read More

1999
Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

Actors: Wendie Malick, Robert Desiderio, Kenneth David Gilman, Tyler Gannon

Synopsis: This made-for-cable biopic is a slightly campy recounting of the lives, careers, and inbred rivalry between twin-sister gossip columnists Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren -- both characters played by Wendie Malick, in what one critic described as "a weird tour de force." Covering a period Read More

1999
L.A. Confidential

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of Read More

1997
The River Wild

Crew: Director

Actors: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, John C. Reilly

Synopsis: In a change-of-pace role designed to prove that she could carry high-concept genre films as well as character-driven dramas, Meryl Streep headlined this fast-paced adventure as Gail, a whitewater rafting guide. For a vacation, Gail is accompanying her son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and workaholic Read More

1994
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Crew: Director

Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Julianne Moore

Synopsis: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is director Curtis Hanson's suburban horror story of a demented nanny bent on revenge for past wrongs. Peyton (Rebecca De Mornay) was once a happily married woman, but when her doctor husband is accused of assaulting a patient and he commits suicide, her world falls Read More

1/10/92
Bad Influence

Crew: Director

Actors: Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, Christian Clemenson, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: Successful LA marketing analyst Michael Boll (James Spader) seemingly has it all-except a sense of self-confidence. Enigmatic drifter Alex (Rob Lowe) enters Michael's life and immediately begins to exert a negative influence. As Michael's self-esteem zooms (aided by generous dollops of sex and Read More

3/9/90
The Bedroom Window

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Isabelle Huppert, Paul Shenar, Wallace Shawn, Frederick Coffin

Synopsis: In director/writer Curtis Hanson's 1987 chiller The Bedroom Window, architect Terry Lambert (Steve Guttenberg) experiences a most disorienting turn of events when his French lover, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) - the wife of his boss - walks over to the titular window in-between lovemaking sessions Read More

1/16/87
The Children of Times Square

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joanna Cassidy, Brandon Douglas, Danny Nucci

Synopsis: The Children of Times Square are alienated and disenfranchised kids from all over the country. With nowhere to go and no real purpose in life, they converge on the streets of New York, totally vulnerable despite their outward toughness. Howard Rollins plays a ruthless cocaine dealer who, in the Read More

1986
The Goonies

Actors: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green

Synopsis: Leonard Maltin wasn't alone when he noticed similarities between Goonies and the 1934 Our Gang comedy Mama's Little Pirate. Adapted by Chris Columbus from a story by Steven Spielberg, the film follows a group of misfit kids (including such second-generation Hollywoodites as Josh Brolin and Sean Astin Read More

1985
Never Cry Wolf

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Hugh Webster

Synopsis: The wolves of the Arctic Circle and its environs, the stunning beauty of a Northern winter, a biologist who braves it all to record the lives of the wolves, and Inuits who save the biologist's hide and share their own wisdom openly are all winners in this film that is a tribute to the skills of Read More

1983
Losin' It

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, Shelley Long, John P. Navin, Jr.

Synopsis: There is hardly any variation on the stereotyped teens-and-sex movie in this story about four high school seniors who travel to Mexico to find a brothel and have something to brag about when they get back home. Among the four is the sensitive Woody (Tom Cruise) who is not sure he wants this trip Read More

1982
White Dog

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker, Lynne Moody

Synopsis: A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore Read More

1982
The Little Dragons

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Lane, Ann Sothern, Chris Petersen, Pat Petersen, Sally Boyden

Synopsis: Preteen kung-fu masters are on the case when a young girl is kidnapped by hillbillies in this adventure for kids. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
The Silent Partner

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Celine Lomez

Synopsis: The Canadian "sleeper" The Silent Partner stars Elliott Gould as a teller, Miles Cullen, who figures out psycho Harry Reikle's (Christopher Plummer) scheme to rob his bank, several days ahead of time. Cullen providently squirrels away 50,000 dollars in a safety-deposit box before Reikle strikes. Read More

1978
The Arousers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabel Jewell, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: The Arousers was also shipped out as Sweet Kill and A Kiss From Eddie. Former teen heartthrob Tab Hunter stars as a sex-obsessed serial killer. Hunter can't seem to convince the women he meets that he's worth loving and caring about, so he murders them. Based on an actual case history, the film is Read More

1970
The Dunwich Horror

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sr., Sam Jaffe, Donna Baccala

Synopsis: With a style and tone that wreaks of the late '60s, this cheap-looking adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story plays like an obvious reference to the battle between the establishment and the counterculture. The film stars Dean Stockwell as Wilbur Whateley, a brooding young man who makes a connection Read More

1970