David Hayman Filmography

Avenger

Actors: Sam Elliott, Timothy Hutton, James Cromwell, William Hope, David Hayman

Synopsis: Oscar nominated filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen executive produced this TNT/Warner Brothers co-production concerning a small-town lawyer and one-time Special Forces operative who embarks on a violent quest to avenge the brutal murder of his daughter, and soon finds his thirst for vengeance threatening Read More

Where the Truth Lies

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, Rachel Blanchard, David Hayman

Synopsis: A reporter unexpectedly gets a personal perspective on a legendary show-business story in this adaptation of Rupert Holmes' novel, scripted and directed by noted Canadian independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan. In the mid-'50s, Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) were a wildly Read More

Rag Tale

Actors: Rupert Graves, Jennifer Jason Leigh

The Last Great Wilderness

Actors: Alastair Mackenzie, Jonathan Phillips, David Hayman, Ewan Stewart, Victoria Smurfit

Synopsis: Scottish short film director David Mackenzie made his feature-film debut in 2002 with The Last Great Wilderness, the tale of two oddballs stuck in a sleepy Scottish town out in the middle of nowhere. The romantically jilted Charlie (Alastair Mackenzie) is headed to a remote location in the Read More

The Wild Dogs

Actors: Anca Androne, Rachel Blanchard, Visinel Burcea, Mihai Calota, Marcel Unguriano Catalin

Synopsis: Wasting no time after shooting his 2003 Sundance Film Festival entry The Event, director Thom Fitzgerald returned to Romania, the country that served as the setting for his 2001 Canadian-TV film Wolf Girl, for this cerebral study of commerce, camaraderie, and degradation. The Wild Dogs explores Read More

The Tailor of Panama

Actors: Dylan Baker, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine McCormack, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Set amidst the controversy of the handover of the Panama Canal from America to Panama in late 1999, this espionage thriller follows seductive British spy Andrew Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), who has found himself recently banished to Panama. When Osnard stumbles into a tailor shop, he meets Harry Read More

Vertical Limit

Actors: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco, Temuera Morrison, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: Family differences and personal grudges add drama to an already tense situation as the lives of a team of mountain climbers hang in the balance in this action drama. Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell) and his sister Annie (Robin Tunney) are the children of Royce Garrett (Stuart Wilson), an avid Read More

Best

Actors: John Lynch, Ian Bannen, Jerome Flynn, Ian Hart, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Mary McGuckian directs this bleak biopic about famed Manchester United soccer star George Best, who dumped his career down the drain with booze, brawling, and drugs. The film charts Best's (John Lynch) rise from Belfast, to fame, to dissipation. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

My Name Is Joe

Actors: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Annemarie Kennedy, David Hayman

Synopsis: Actor Peter Mullan won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival "Best Actor" award with this film, directed by Ken Loach (Carla's Song, Ladybird, Ladybird). The drama is set in Possilpark, one of Glasgow's poorest neighborhoods, a rough section where half the population is out of work. Unemployed reformed Read More

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane, Helen Baxendale, David Hayman

Synopsis: Ordinary Decent Criminal is a classic gangster movie in modern-day Ireland. It follows the extraordinary adventures of a Robin Hood character, Michael Lynch, a thief, bigamist, liar, and criminal genius who robs from the rich to give to the poor. Michael is suave, sardonic, and sexy. When his Read More

The Match

Actors: Max Beesley, Isla Blair, James Cosmo, Samantha Fox

Synopsis: The first film by {$Mick Davis), The Match is a contemporary romantic comedy set in the idyllic village of Inverdoune nestling in the Scottish Highlands. Wullie Smith is the shy milkman who carries the physical and emotional scars of a childhood tragedy and who is in love with Rosemary, the Read More

The Jackal

Actors: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Tess Harper

Synopsis: In Moscow, after FBI deputy director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and scarred Russian intelligence officer Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora) bring down a key figure in the Russian Mafia, they are threatened by the criminal's powerful brother who swears vengeance on the FBI and immediately hires Read More

The Near Room

Crew: Director

Actors: Adrian Dunbar, David Hayman, Peter McDougall

Synopsis: The Near Room, a British crime drama in the noir tradition, tells the story of reporter Charlie Colquhoun (Adrian Dunbar), a man who finds himself the prime suspect in both a kiddie porn ring and a murder. Hired by his ex-wife, Charlie begins his own investigation looking for his daughter, Tommy Read More

Rob Roy

Actors: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: The 18th century Scottish legend of Robert Roy MacGregor comes to life in this stylish adaptation of the swashbuckling novel by Sir Walter Scott. Liam Neeson stars as the title character, a cattle drover and proud head of a Highlands clan who takes a one thousand pound loan from the royal Marquis Read More

Finney

Crew: Director

Actors: David Morrissey, Andy Serkis, Melanie Hill

Synopsis: A jazz musician who once turned his back on the family business finds that cutting one's ties to the past may not be as simple as walking away in this U.K.crime drama starring David Morrissey and Andy Serkis. Stephen Finne (Morrissey) comes from a long line of career criminals, but despite the Read More

Black and Blue

Crew: Director

The Hawk

Crew: Director

Actors: Helen Mirren, George Costigan, Rosemary Leach, Owen Teale

Synopsis: The British psychological thriller The Hawk stars Helen Mirren as Anne Marsh, a housewife with a history of mental illness who begins to suspect that her husband (George Costigan) is a hunted serial killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive

Actors: Patty Duke, David Selby, David Soul, Terry Davis, Kimberly Cullum

Synopsis: In this bizarre thriller, based on a true story, a family moves into their dream house and are appalled to discover that they are not alone when strange things begin to happen. It soon becomes apparent that the special tenants are angry spirits out to destroy the family and their neighbors who Read More

Silent Scream

Crew: Director

Actors: Iain Glen, Harry Jones, Andrew Barr

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this drama follows the exploits (both real and imagined) of the murderer Larry Winters (Iain Glen), who achieved fame as a writer and poet while he was in prison for his crimes. He is best known for his elegaic stories about boyhood life in the Scottish Highlands. Flashback Read More

Venus Peter

Actors: Gordon R. Strachan, Ray McAnally, David Hayman, Sinéad Cusack, Caroline Paterson

Synopsis: Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or Read More

Walker

Actors: Ed Harris, Marlee Matlin, Peter Boyle, Keith Szarabajka, Blanca Guerra, Sy Richardson, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Alex Cox directed this hallucinatory bio-pic starring Ed Harris as 19th-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and eventually a Nicaraguan dictator. When his deaf wife (Marlee Matlin) Read More

Hope and Glory

Actors: Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Derrick O'Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Sammi Davis

Synopsis: An affectionate reverie about war, childhood, and British stoicism, John Boorman's Hope and Glory is the veteran filmmaker's recollection of the bombing of London during World War II. Set on the British home front during the early days of the war, this episodic movie shows the blitz through the Read More

Sid and Nancy

Actors: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Andrew Schofield, Debby Bishop

Synopsis: Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to Read More

The Gospel According to Vic

Actors: Tom Conti, Helen Mirren, David Hayman, Brian Pettifer, Jennifer Black

Synopsis: Vic Mathews (Tom Conti) is a Glasgow teacher who works in a Catholic school for backward students. Though the school is named for Edith Semple, a long-dead Scotswoman who supposedly performed several miracles in her lifetime, Vic is doggedly nonreligious, insisting that it's miracle enough that Read More

Murphy's Law

Actors: Charles Bronson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Carrie Snodgress, Robert F. Lyons, Angel Tompkins, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: An officer of the law becomes a wanted man while trailing a killer in this crime drama. Jack Murphy (Charles Bronson) is a police detective who helped to put Joan Freeman (Carrie Snodgress), a psychotic murderer, behind bars ten years ago. However, Joan is now back on the street and determined to Read More

A Sense of Freedom

Synopsis: The story of the real-life Scottish criminal who spent a decade in and out of British prisons is the subject of this film directed by John MacKenzie (Long Good Friday) and produced by Beatle George Harrison's company, Hand Made Films. The life of the violent criminal is captivating, for, following Read More

Coming Out of the Ice

Actors: John Savage

Synopsis: Coming Out of the Ice stars John Savage as the real-life Victor Herman, an American athlete born to Ukrainian immigrants. In 1931, when Herman was sixteen, he and his family moved to the Soviet Union when his father was transferred there for his job with Ford Motor Company. Four years later Read More

Eye of the Needle

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove

Synopsis: Having already been seen spying for the Nazis in 1979's The Eagle Has Landed, Donald Sutherland once more infiltrates wartime England on behalf of Der Fuhrer in Eye of the Needle. Willing to kill even the most innocent of bystanders to complete his task, Sutherland manages to remain in Britain Read More