Gary Farmer Filmography

Elijah

Actors: Billy Merasty, Glen Gould, Tina Louise Bomberry, Gary Farmer

Synopsis: Filmmakers Paul Unwin and Lisa Meeches team to direct this upbeat biopic of Manitoba politician Elijah Harper, who became the voice of the Canadian people for his bold stance against the Meech Lake Accord and then "Progressive" conservative government back in 1990. A soft-spoken statesman and one Read More

All Hat

Actors: Luke Kirby, Keith Carradine, Lisa Ray, Rachael Leigh Cook, Noam Jenkins

Synopsis: Luke Kirby and Keith Carradine star in director Leonard Farlinger's adaptation of author Brad Smith's laid back neo-western novel. Ray Dokes (Kirby) has just been released from prison, and now as the laconic ex-con makes his way back home he is stunned to see just how much progress has transformed Read More

Disappearances

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Lothaire Bluteau, Gary Farmer, William Sanderson, Charlie McDermott

Synopsis: Longtime actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson stars as a whiskey-smuggling schemer desperate to preserve his endangered cattle herd in director Jay Craven's adaptation of Howard Frank Mosher's best-selling novel. The year is 1932; Prohibition is still in place, and smuggling whiskey has long been a Read More

Evergreen

Actors: Cara Seymour, Mary Kay Place, Noah Fleiss, Gary Farmer, Lynn Cohen, Addie Land

Synopsis: Writer/director Enid Zentelis makes her feature-length debut with the coming-of-age drama Evergreen, shot on-location in Seattle, WA. Teenager Henri (Addie Land) and her single mother Kate (Cara Seymour) move in with Henri's grandmother (Lynn Cohen) in a crumbling old house. Kate works at a Read More

Twist

Actors: Nick Stahl, Joshua Close, Gary Farmer, Michèle-Barbara Pelletier, Stephen McHattie

Synopsis: After countless faithful translations to the big screen -- not to mention one timeless, Oscar-winning musical version -- Charles Dickens' tale of downtrodden London youth is given a gritty, contemporary spin in this independent Canadian production. This time told from the point of view of the Read More

The Big Empty

Actors: Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: A guy looking for easy money gets a lot more than he bargained for in this noir-flavored independent comedy. John Person (Jon Favreau) is a struggling actor living in Los Angeles who is starting to buckle under the pressure of his own failures. With no acting jobs coming in and a massive credit Read More

A Thief of Time

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Sheila Tousey, Peter Fonda, Graham Greene

Synopsis: This adaptation of Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time keeps that book's original storyline. The protagonists Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) are a pair of Navajo police officers whose beat is their reservation. They must investigate why some important historical artifacts have Read More

The Republic of Love

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Emilia Fox, Edward Fox, Martha Henry, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: In Deepa Mehta's poignant and heartbreaking romance, Emilia Fox plays Fay, a generally content, thirtysomething Torontoite suffering in a relationship of quiet desperation with her boyfriend; Bruce Greenwood is Tom Avery, a loser in the ways of romance with three broken-hearted marriages behind Read More

Dreamkeeper

Actors: Eddie Spears, August Schellenberg, Gil Birmingham, Chaske Spencer, Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse

Synopsis: The Hallmark Hall of Fame production Dreamkeeper is a four-hour television miniseries. Teenager Shane Chasing Horse (Eddie Spears) is a member of the Dog Soldiers gang on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His mom (Sheila Tousey) asks him to take his grandpa Old Pete Chasing Horse (August Schellenberg) Read More

Coyote Waits

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Sheila Tousey, Alex Rice, Gary Farmer

Synopsis: When gunshots ring out in a tragic roadside shooting, police officer Delbert Nez winds up dead. His close friend Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach) is the first on the scene, and upon spotting an elderly, drunken Navajo Shaman named Ashie Pinto (Jimmy Herman) with the murder weapon tucked in his belt Read More

Skins

Actors: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Noah Watts, Lois Red Elk

Synopsis: Filmmaker Chris Eyre, who directed the independent success story Smoke Signals -- one of the first motion pictures directed by, written by, and starring Native American talent -- offers another look at contemporary Native American culture in this hard-hitting drama. Rudy (Eric Schweig) and Mogie Read More

Unconquering the Last Frontier

The Score

Actors: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer

Synopsis: Three generations of method acting giants unite for this crime thriller written by Kario Salem and directed by Frank Oz. Robert De Niro stars as Nick Wells, an aging thief whose specialty is safecracking and who is on the verge of retiring to a life of ease, running his jazz club and romancing his Read More

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Actors: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva, Isaach de Bankolé, Frank Minucci

Synopsis: A surreal crime drama told as only Jim Jarmusch could, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai stars Forest Whitaker as Ghost Dog, a hit man living in an unidentified but run-down city in what license plates call "The Industrialized State." Known for his gift of being able to come and go without people Read More

The Gift

Crew: Director

Heater

Actors: Gary Farmer, Stephen Ouimette, Tina Keeper, Jan Skene, Mauralea Austin

Synopsis: Two of Canada's most acclaimed actors, Stephan Ouimette and Gary Farmer, star in this gritty account of two homeless guys who struggle through Winnipeg's harsh winter. Their prize possession is a cheap space heater that they still keep in its original box. Heater was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Read More

Touched

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Tygh Runyan, Maury Chaykin, Lolita Davidovich

Synopsis: Veteran Canadian filmmaker Mort Ransen follows the critical and commercial success of Margaret's Museum (1995) with this unusual romance between a young man and a much older woman in the backwaters of British Columbia. Carrie (Lynn Redgrave) is an aging, hard-drinking widow. Her estranged daughter Read More

Smoke Signals

Actors: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal

Synopsis: This dramatic feature was written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans. Native American writer Sherman Alexie scripted this adaptation of his 1993 short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Director Chris Eyre's previous short Someone Kept Saying Powwow is Read More

Stolen Heart

Actors: Lisa Ryder, Randy Hughson, Gary Farmer, Christopher Healey, James Gatto

Synopsis: Terry O'Brien scripted and made his directorial debut with this low-budget ($100,000) Canadian comedy-thriller set in upstate New York and Ontario, Canada. Attractive Joey (Lisa Ryder) leads a group of small-time criminals into a plot to kidnap the daughter of self-help guru Robert Buchanon (Randy Hughson Read More

Lilies

Actors: Brent Carver, Marcel Sabourin

Synopsis: Love, jealousy, revenge and forbidden homosexual passion color this alternately campy and dramatic adaptation of a play by Michel Marc Bouchard. Operating at different levels, the story begins in 1952 inside a Quebec prison chapel where hard-core convict Simon Doucet offers confession to Bishop Read More

Moonshine Highway

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Randy Quaid, Jeremy Ratchford, Gary Farmer, Maria Del Mar

Synopsis: In this rip-roaring actioner, a moonshiner comes to a crossroads in his life when he must decide whether he should spend the rest of his days running illegal corn squeezin's and eluding the vengeful and corrupt sheriff, or follow the advice of his lover (the same sheriff's estranged wife) and head Read More

Dead Man

Actors: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: A dark, bitter commentary on modern American life cloaked in the form of a surrealist western, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man stars Johnny Depp as William Blake, a newly-orphaned accountant who leaves his home in Cleveland to accept a job in the frontier town of Machine. Upon his arrival, Blake is told Read More

Demon Knight

Actors: Billy Zane, Bill Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot Read More

Henry & Verlin

Actors: Gary Farmer, Keegan Macintosh, Nancy Beatty, Robert Joy, Joan Orenstein, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: The deep bond formed between a troubled nephew and his simple uncle, whose character is reminiscent of Lenny from Of Mice and Men, is the focus of this Canadian melodrama set during the Depression in rural Ontario. Nine-year old Verlin will not talk, or cannot talk. His concerned and Read More

Sioux City

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Ralph Waite, Melinda Dillon, Salli Richardson, Adam Roarke

Synopsis: A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller. Because of his upbringing, Jesse Rainfeather Goldman knows almost nothing of Native American traditions. He is doing his internship when he Read More

500 Nations, Vol. 4: Invasion of the Coast - The First English Settlements

Synopsis: Hosted by Kevin Costner and narrated by Gregory Harrison, the historical documentary 500 Nations, Volume 4: Invasion of the Coast - The First English Settlements portrays America's original inhabitants before and after the Europeans arrived. The film begins in the Arctic where the Inuit culture Read More

Ed and His Dead Mother

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty, Miriam Margolyes, John Glover, Sam Jenkins, Rance Howard

Synopsis: Though it's been a year since her death, Ed (Steve Buscemi) is still pining over his deceased mother (Miriam Margolyes). Enter a firm called Happy People Ltd, which for a hefty fee will bring Ed's mom back to life. He ponies up the money, and miracle of miracles, mother returns. At first all is Read More

The Dark Wind

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Ward, Gary Farmer, John Karlen, Lance Baker

Synopsis: Noted documentary filmmaker Errol Morris made his dramatic feature debut with this story about murder and other dirty dealings on an American Indian reservation. Recent college graduate Jim Chee (Lou Diamond Phillips) has just taken a job with the Navajo Reservation Police in Arizona, where he Read More

Blown Away

Synopsis: In this sexually charged thriller, Rich (Corey Haim) is an 18-year-old working at an exclusive ski resort while his older brother Wes (Corey Feldman) serves out a sentence in the state prison. Rich becomes strongly attracted to Megan (Nicole Eggert), a beautiful young woman whose father owns the Read More

Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder

Synopsis: An avant-garde painter uses his recently killed victims to reenact famous paintings and finds himself a hit with the art world. No one knows who he is as he only signs his "work" AK for artistic killer. Hot on his trail is a television reporter who lives with a pianist and a performance artist in Read More

Sparks: The Price of Passion

Synopsis: In this drama, a mayor's political career is threatened by the avaricious land speculators who are trying to force her to give into their demands. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Renegades

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jami Gertz, Robert Knepper, Bill Smitrovich

Synopsis: Director Jack Sholder followed his surprise sleeper hit The Hidden (1987) with this action drama that re-teamed Young Guns (1988) co-stars Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips. Sutherland stars as Buster McHenry, a Philadelphia cop working undercover as a thief in the gang of wealthy Read More

Powwow Highway

Actors: A. Martinez, Gary Farmer, Amanda Wyss, Joanelle Nadine Romero, Sam Vlahos

Synopsis: The road movie gets a smart update with this seriocomic tale of two Cheyenne men traveling from their reservation in Montana to New Mexico. For one of them, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez), a quick-tempered activist, the journey is a practical one; his sister has been arrested and he is the only family Read More

Blue City Slammers

Actors: Eric Keenleyside, Tracy Cunningham, Paula Barrett, Barry Green, Murray Westgate

Synopsis: A women's softball team prepares for the Labor day championship tournament in this uneven feature. While the women work to ready themselves for the big game, their boyfriends are boozing and carousing. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

The Big Town

Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane Read More

The Believers

Actors: Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Robert Loggia, Jimmy Smits, Harley Cross

Synopsis: A police psychologist and his school-age son become embroiled in the machinations of a mysterious cult religion in this thriller from director John Schlesinger. After his wife is electrocuted in a freak accident, Dr. Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) and his son, Chris (Harley Cross), move back to Read More

Police Academy

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Public safety takes a turn for the worse in this hit comedy, which spawned a long-running franchise. As a crime wave sweeps through a major city, the mayor decides that part of the problem may stem from overly restrictive qualifications for police officers, so she opens the door of the city's Read More

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Synopsis: In this futuristic adventure, a man gets too enmeshed in virtual reality and ends up with his personality melded to the on-screen persona of Humphrey Bogart. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More