Deirdre Bowen Filmography

Outlander

Crew: Casting

Actors: James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: When an extraterrestrial spaceship comes crashing down to Earth during the reign of the Vikings, the Scandinavian plunderers get set to do battle with a most unusual enemy in director Howard McCain's earthbound science fiction thriller. Jim Caviezel, Jack Huston, and Sophia Myles star in a film Read More

Eastern Promises

Crew: Casting

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinéad Cusack

Synopsis: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Vincent Cassel star in this David Cronenberg's thriller concerning a London midwife who unwittingly stumbles into a clandestine Russian sex trafficking ring. An unidentified Russian teen has been rushed to a London hospital after going into Read More

Shoot 'Em Up

Crew: Casting

Actors: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk, Daniel Pilon, Sidney Mende-Gibson

Synopsis: Clive Owen stars in this gritty, over the top action thriller as Mr. Smith, a gun-toting badass with a hair trigger and an unknown past. He's far from a doctor and farther from a parent, but when he unwittingly discovers an innocent woman delivering a baby right in the middle of a gunfight, Smith Read More

Skinwalkers

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jason Behr, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Kim Coates, Natassia Malthe

Synopsis: His 13th birthday fast drawing near, an unsuspecting young boy on the verge of a remarkable transformation remains completely unaware that an ancient prophecy is set to be fulfilled with the rising of the red moon. To most folks, 12-year-old Timmy (Matthew Knight) would seem an average adolescent Read More

Silent Hill

Crew: Casting

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates

Synopsis: A mother and daughter flee to a strange abandoned town to seek out answers to the daughter's nightly psychological turmoil in Brotherhood of the Wolf director Christophe Gans' adaptation of the popular survival horror video game. Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) is a very sick child, yet rather than Read More

Saint Ralph

Crew: Casting

Actors: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer Tilly, Shauna MacDonald

Synopsis: A young man with big dreams sets out to do the seemingly impossible in this bittersweet comedy drama. Ralph Walker (Adam Butcher) is a 14-year-old boy growing up in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1954. Ralph is convinced he's cut out to do something remarkable some day, but he hasn't quite decided what Read More

New York Minute

Crew: Casting

Actors: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Andy Richter, Riley Smith

Synopsis: Marking their first theatrical-release feature since 1995's It Takes Two, the Olsen twins bring their adventures back to the big screen with New York Minute. Billed as a sort of Ferris Bueller's Day Off for tweens, the plot involves the escapades of two enterprising Long Island girls, Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen Read More

Owning Mahowny

Crew: Casting

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin, John Hurt, Sonja Smits, Ian Tracey

Synopsis: A seemingly ordinary bank employee develops an obsession that could destroy his life and that of those around him in this drama. Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a quiet, unassuming employee of a bank in Toronto; he lives modestly, drives a used car, and is dating one of the bank's tellers Read More

Foolproof

Crew: Casting

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet, Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, James Allodi

Synopsis: A harmless game among friends escalates into a dangerous game of wits against a master criminal in writer/director William Phillips' taut sophomore thriller. For seven years, Kevin (Ryan Reynolds), Samantha (Kristin Booth), and Rob (Joris Jarsky) have mastered the homespun game Foolproof, in which Read More

Stardom

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jessica Paré, Dan Aykroyd, Charles Berling, Thomas Gibson, Frank Langella

Synopsis: French Canadian director Denys Arcand pushes the boundaries of the mockumentary with Stardom, the tale of a fictional neophyte supermodel (Jessica Pare) told entirely through clips of her appearances on talk shows, television interviews, and documentaries. Originally titled 15 Moments Read More

Sunshine

Crew: Casting

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Molly Parker

Synopsis: The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles. The story begins in the late 18th century, as Aaron and Josefa Sonnenschein (the name means "Sunshine" in German) Read More

Nuremberg

Crew: Casting

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox, Michael Ironside, Matt Craven

Synopsis: This TNT miniseries stars Alec Baldwin as Robert Jackson, the Supreme Court justice who served as the head prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal that took place in Nuremberg after the horrors of WWII and the Holocaust. The film follows Jackson from his preparations for the trial to the outcome of Read More

The Red Violin

Crew: Casting

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy Read More

eXistenZ

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, Don McKellar

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, who has long been fascinated by the ways new technology shapes and manipulates the human beings who believe they are its masters, is in familiar territory with eXistenZ, a futuristic thriller which combines elements of science fiction, horror and Read More

Joan of Arc

Crew: Casting

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Neil Patrick Harris, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: A literal interpretation of the oft-produced biography of 15th century historical heroine Joan d'Arc, this four-hour television miniseries version of Joan's story is lavishly produced. In a tiny village during the Hundred Years' War, teenager Joan d'Arc (Leelee Sobieski) has been raised by her Read More

Conquest

Crew: Casting

Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Tara Fitzgerald, Monique Mercure, David Fox, Eugene Lipinski

Synopsis: Piers Haggard directed this whimsical Canadian-British comedy-drama set in tiny Conquest, Saskatchewan (pop. 124), where local banker Pincer Bedier (Lothar Bluteau) encourages new businesses. After the Alfa Romeo of Daisy MacDonald (Tara Fitzgerald) stalls in Conquest, Pincer recruits her to run Read More

The Assistant

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gil Bellows, Kate Greenhouse, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Jaimz Woolvett

Synopsis: Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural. During the Depression, drifter Frank Alpine (Gil Bellows) and hobo Ward Minogue (Jaimz Woolvett) rob the small Bober Read More

Crash

Crew: Casting

Actors: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette

Synopsis: After surviving a brutal car wreck, commercial director James Ballard finds himself slowly drawn to a mysterious subculture of people who have transformed automobile accidents into erotic events. Like the J.G. Ballard novel that inspired it, David Cronenberg's study of the sexual dimension of Read More

Swann

Crew: Casting

Synopsis: Mary Swann, an Ontario farmer's wife, lead a fairly dull existence until she demonstrated a remarkable talent for poetry and became the darling of the literati. Tragically, she was ruthlessly slain by her own husband who then committed suicide. Mary's closest friend Rose is devastated by the death Read More

Blood & Donuts

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gordon Currie, Justin Louis, Helene Clarkson, Fiona Reid, Frank Moore

Synopsis: This Canadian production stars Gordon Currie as a charming but awkward vampire who is awakened from a decades-long nap by a runaway golf ball and eventually tries to readjust to life in the '90s with the help of a nutty, philosophical cab driver (Justin Louis) and the lovely proprietor of an Read More

Billy Madison

Crew: Casting

Actors: Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson, Bradley Whitford, Josh Mostel

Synopsis: Master of infantilism Adam Sandler stars as the title character, an overgrown rich kid who wiles away his days poolside, swilling kegs of beer and appreciating fine nudie magazines such as "Drunk Chicks" -- that is, until his father (Darren McGavin) decides to test his mettle as future head of the Read More

When Night Is Falling

Crew: Casting

Actors: Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny, David Fox, Tracy Wright

Synopsis: This Canadian drama tells the tale of Camille, who works at an uptight Protestant college as a professor of mythology. She has been going out with career theologian Martin for three years, but it appears her real true love is her dog, Bob. Bob dies in a tragic car accident and poor Camille is Read More

Kissinger and Nixon

Crew: Casting

Actors: Ron Silver, Beau Bridges, Matt Frewer, Ron White, George Takei

Synopsis: Walter Isaacson's book Kissinger: A Biography served as the basis for this made-for-television movie about the famed political leader. Beau Bridges stars as President Richard Nixon and Ron Silver portrays Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security advisor. The adaptation shows how Kissinger worked Read More

Camilla

Actors: Jessica Tandy, Bridget Fonda, Elias Koteas, Maury Chaykin, Graham Greene

Synopsis: Jessica Tandy made one of her final screen appearances in this comic road movie. Freda (Bridget Fonda) is a would-be singer and songwriter who would like a career as a performer but lacks the courage; it doesn't help that her husband Vincent (Elias Koteas), a graphic artist, keeps insisting that Read More

Love on the Run

Crew: Casting

M. Butterfly

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon, Shizuko Hoshi

Synopsis: David Cronenberg's cinematic intensity eviscerates this adaptation of David Henry Hwang's passionate stage production. Based on a true incident involving a French diplomat who carried on an affair for 18 years with a man the diplomat thought was a woman, M. Butterfly begins in 1964 Beijing when Read More

Love and Human Remains

Crew: Casting

Actors: Thomas Gibson, Ruth Marshall, Cameron Bancroft, Mia Kirshner, Joanne Vannicola

Synopsis: Based upon a play by screenwriter Brad Fraser, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Denys Arcand's dark-humored drama Love and Human Remains follows the lives of a group of young Canadians, with a particular focus on their romantic and sexual experiences. The central characters Read More

Naked Lunch

Crew: Casting

Actors: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Read More

Love & Murder

Actors: Todd Waring, Kathleen Laskey, Ron White, Wayne Robson

Synopsis: Hal Caine (Todd Waring) is a photographer who acts as an amateur dating service (or maybe a pimp) in his spare time. As he is snapping away from his apartment window one night, he captures a murder on film. Somebody is killing the ladies of the evening, and now that person knows he knows about Read More

Dead Ringers

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas

Synopsis: Two twin brothers, both renowned gynecologists, descend into madness after becoming romantically involved with the same woman in this disturbing, horrific drama. Jeremy Irons delivers a bravura performance as both Beverly and Elliot Mantle, Toronto-based surgeons who operate an exclusive Read More

John and the Missus

Crew: Casting

Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Jackie Burroughs, Randy Follett, Jessica Steen, Roland Hewgill

Synopsis: Veteran Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent handled the direction of John and the Missus. And who with better right? Pinsent also wrote the novel upon which his screenplay was based. John Munn (Pinsent) is a Newfoundland miner whose town faces extermination when the local copper mine is closed. Everyone Read More

The Fly

Crew: Casting

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Les Carlson

Synopsis: Considered fairly gruesome in its day, the original 1958 The Fly looks like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood compared to this 1986 remake. Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis star as Seth Brundle, a self-involved research scientist, and Veronica Quaife, a science-magazine reporter. Inviting Veronica to his Read More

Covergirl

Actors: Jeff Conaway, Irena Ferris, Cathie Shirriff, Roberla Leighton, Deborah Wakeham

Synopsis: An electronics tycoon takes a shine to a beautiful aspiring model and decides to turn her into a superstar in this melodrama that was funded by the Canadian Film Development Corporation. First he buys the modeling agency where she works and then sets about towards turning her into the "The Read More

The Dead Zone

Crew: Casting

Actors: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person's future simply by touching his or her hand. After seeing several examples, Smith's doctor (Herbert Lom) becomes convinced that Smith can Read More

The Amateur

Actors: John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: CIA computer technician John Savage seeks revenge for the terrorist killing of his girlfriend. Threatening to make public his insider's information, Savage forces his reluctant bosses to train him in the art of assassination. He then heads into enemy territory (at least, it was enemy territory Read More