Eric RothFilmography

Occupation:: Screen Story, Screenwriter

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng

Synopsis: David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties Read More

12/25/08
Lucky You

Crew: Screen Story, 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
The Good Shepherd

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard

Synopsis: One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a young man with a bright future ahead of him -- he's a top student at Yale and the protégé of one of the school's leading Read More

12/22/06
Munich

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

12/23/05
Ali

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver

Synopsis: Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from the coffers of Columbia Pictures and other financiers to creating this biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time Read More

12/25/01
The Insider

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: The Insider tells the true story of a man who decided to tell the world what the seven major tobacco companies knew (and concealed) about the dangers of their product. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he Read More

11/5/99
The Horse Whisperer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed himself for the first time in this romantic drama adapted from the 1995 best-seller by Nicholas Evans. Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson of Manny & Lo) and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose Read More

1998
The Postman

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James Russo

Synopsis: Kevin Costner directed and stars in this adaptation of David Brin's science fiction novel The Postman (1985), first published in 1982 issues of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Costner's return to directing after his Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves(1990) is a futuristic epic depicting the Read More

1997
Forrest Gump

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field

Synopsis: "Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most Read More

1994
Mr. Jones

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Altman

Synopsis: The title character, a manic depressive prone to very irrational behavior (Richard Gere), is hospitalized for treatment. While there, the psychiatrist responsible for his rehabilitation (Lena Olin) becomes involved with him and cannot stand to allow his check-out. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Memories of Me

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Billy Crystal, Alan King, JoBeth Williams, Sean Connery, Janet Carroll

Synopsis: The bittersweet comedy Memories of Me stars Billy Crystal as Dr. Abbie Polin, a New York heart surgeon, long estranged from his father, Abe (Alan King). When the doctor suffers a mild heart attack, he tries to patch things up with his dad, hoping in this way to bring some equilibrium to his own Read More

9/28/88
Suspect

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: British filmmaker Peter Yates directs Suspect, a suspenseful courtroom drama set in Washington, D.C. After a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and a Justice Department secretary is found dead, a deaf-mute homeless veteran, Carl Wayne Anderson (Liam Neeson), is the suspected killer. Lonely yet Read More

10/23/87
Airport '79: Concorde

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy

Synopsis: The fourth Airport film may be the silliest of them all, as George Kennedy returns, this time co-piloting with Alain Delon. The plane is on its way to the Moscow Olympics, has a bomb on board, and gets fired upon with missiles that necessitate flying upside-down. A look at the cast list resembles Read More

1979
The Nickel Ride

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, John Hillerman, Bo Hopkins, Victor French

Synopsis: The events leading up to the death of a small-time Los Angeles hood provides the basis of this gripping crime drama. The doomed gangster is known as the "key man" because he manages several warehouses containing oodles of pilfered loot. They mobsters have stolen so much that they are running out Read More

1974
The Strangers in 7A

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Andy Griffith, Michael Brandon, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to Read More

1972