Dan FuttermanFilmography

Born:: June 8, 1967 in Silver Spring, MD
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Most fans got their first taste of Dan Futterman when he played the son of Robin Williams in 1996's The Birdcage. Futterman actually began his professional acting career in 1991, however, when he was cast in the stage production of Club Soda just two years after he graduated from Columbia...Read More

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A Mighty Heart

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irfan Khan, Denis O'Hare, Archie Panjabi

Synopsis: Angelina Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl, wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, in director Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Mariane's memoir recounting the abduction and murder of her husband (played in the film by Dan Futterman) by Pakistani militants. It was on January 23, 2002, that Mariane Read More

6/22/07
Capote

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: The creation of one of the most memorable books of the 1960s -- and the impact the writing and research would have on its author -- is explored in this drama based on a true story. In 1959, Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a critically acclaimed novelist who had earned a small Read More

9/30/05
Related [TV Series]

Actors: Jennifer Esposito, Kiele Sanchez, Lizzy Caplan, Laura Breckenridge, Callum Blue

Synopsis: Set in New York, the weekly, hour-long dramedy Related was another of the WB network's bids to replicate the popularity of their earlier Gilmore Girls. Upon the announcement by their widowed father (Tom Irwin) that he was about to marry his longtime fiancée (Christine Ebersole), the four "couldn't Read More

2005
Judging Amy: Season 06

Actors: Amy Brenneman, Dan Futterman, Tyne Daly, Richard T. Jones, Jessica Tuck

2004
Enough

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Bill Campbell, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Fred Ward, Tessa Allen, Noah Wyle

Synopsis: A Cinderella story turns into a nightmare when a former waitress' perfect marriage gives way to adultery and physical abuse in this combination of domestic drama and revenge thriller. Motherless young woman Slim (Jennifer Lopez) works in a San Francisco diner with her best friend, Ginny (Juliette Lewis Read More

5/24/02
Judging Amy: Season 03

Actors: Amy Brenneman, Dan Futterman, Tyne Daly, Richard T. Jones, Jessica Tuck

2001
Urbania

Actors: Dan Futterman, Alan Cumming, Matt Keeslar, Josh Hamilton, Lothaire Bluteau

Synopsis: One of the most talked-about movies of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, this film, directed by Jon Shear, recalls the edgy, aggressively-political qualities of early '90s queer cinema such as Poison (1991) and Swoon (1991) -- and throws in a few nods to Martin Scorsese's late-night New York City Read More

9/15/00
Judging Amy: Season 02

Actors: Amy Brenneman, Dan Futterman, Tyne Daly, Richard T. Jones, Jessica Tuck

2000
Judging Amy: Season 01

Actors: Amy Brenneman, Dan Futterman, Tyne Daly, Richard T. Jones, Jessica Tuck

1999
Homicide: Life on the Street: A Case of Do or Die

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A woman is found dead at the bottom of a cliff the day before her wedding. It is up to Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) to determine if the woman killed herself, or if she was murdered. In another investigation, Sheppard (Michael Michele) and Mike (Giancarlo Esposioto) find Read More

1999
When Trumpets Fade

Actors: Ron Eldard, Zak Orth, Frank Whaley, Dylan Bruno, Martin Donovan

Synopsis: John Irvin directed this gripping and effective WWII drama set amid the carnage and slaughter of the Hurtgen Forest battle when the Allies moved on toward Germany in the fall of 1944. Private Manning (Ron Eldard) hopes for a Section 8 switch away from the frontline combat, but when he's the only Read More

1998
1999

Actors: Dan Futterman, Jennifer Garner, Matt McGrath, Amanda Peet, Steven Wright

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Nick Davis, the grandson of famed Hollywood screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), wrote and directed this comedy-drama about young New Yorkers at a party on New Year's Eve in the year 1999. The dawning millennium brings the partygoers to an existential precipice Read More

1998
Shooting Fish

Actors: Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend, Kate Beckinsale, Claire Cox, Dominic Mafham

Synopsis: Calling to mind the whimsical, swinging London comedies of the 1960s, such as the Blake Edwards Pink Panther films and the collaborations of The Beatles with director Richard Lester, this frantic romantic comedy is an airy, pop example of the British New Wave. Dylan Dan Futterman and Jez Stuart Townsend Read More

1997
The Birdcage

Actors: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Hank Azaria, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols teams up with his former partner/screenwriter Elaine May for the first time in many years and for the first time together in films to create this sophisticated, remake of the phenomenally popular French musical farce La Cage aux Folles that stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane Read More

1996
Breathing Room

Actors: Susan Floyd, Dan Futterman, David Thornton, Amy Hohn, Rod McLachlan

Synopsis: David (Dan Futterman) is a language expert who knows how to say "I Love You" in fifteen different languages. But he can't seem to bring himself to say it in plain English to his girlfriend of the past two years, Kathy (Susan Floyd), and that's putting their relationship in jeopardy in the romantic Read More

1996
'Til Christmas

Synopsis: A seemingly star-crossed couple struggles to get back together in this romantic comedy. Their troubles begin off right from the start of their relationship. Kathy is Jewish and terribly involved with her career at a design and animation company. David is Protestant and teaches English as a Second Read More

1996
Far Harbor

Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Edward Atterton, Jim True, Marcia Gay Harden, Dan Futterman

Synopsis: In this emotional drama, a group of young professionals tries to get away from their problems, only to find that their friends create new annoyances. The marriage of Ellie (Jennifer Connelly) and Ryland (Jim True) has been strained by the recent death of their infant daughter. Hoping that some Read More

1996
Class of '61

Actors: Dan Futterman, Clive Owen, Josh Lucas, Sophie Ward, Laura Linney

Synopsis: The titular year refers to the class of 1861, and the implied school is the venerable West Point Academy. This made-for-television drama centers on one of that classes most illustrious students, George Armstrong Custer, and tells how the Civil War affected his friendship with two classmates, one Read More

1993
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even

Actors: Hillary Wolf, David Strathairn, Margaret Whitton, Griffin Dunne, Patricia Kalember

Synopsis: Joan Micklin Silver tries her mighty best to wring something substantial out of Frank Mugavero's banal sit-com screenplay concerning the effect of divorce on the divorced parents' off-spring. Hillary Wolf stars as Laura Chartoff, a lonely thirteen-year-old girl who is the victim of multiple Read More

5/8/92
Passed Away

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William L. Petersen, Maureen Stapleton, Helen Lloyd Breed, Patricia Reed

Synopsis: In this black comedy, elderly Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) passes away just as he's about to tell his oldest son Johnny (Bob Hoskins) what he's decided is truly important in life, which does little to ease Johnny's mid-life anxieties. Jack's funeral and the subsequent wake brings together the Read More

4/24/92
The Fisher King

Actors: Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, David Hyde Pierce, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his Read More

9/20/91
Daughters of Privilege

Synopsis: In this drama a Florida newspaper owner's daughter gets involved with her daddy's biggest competitor who uses her to help destroy her father's business. Trouble ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1991