Ian McEwan Filmography

Born:: June 21, 1948 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Occupation:: Associate Producer, Executive Producer, Screenwriter, Book Author
Birth name:: Ian Russell McEwan

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Atonement

Crew: Book Author, Executive Producer

Actors: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: A mischievous girl accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit, only to find that her words have irrevocably and permanently changed the lives of all involved in a film that re-teams the filmmakers behind Pride & Prejudice to adapt the best-selling 2002 novel by author Ian Read More

12/7/07
Enduring Love

Crew: Associate Producer, Book Author

Actors: Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Daniel Craig, Bill Nighy, Susan Lynch

Synopsis: Enduring Love is director Roger Michell and screenwriter Joe Penhall's adaptation of Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel. Joe (Daniel Craig, who starred in Michell's previous film, The Mother), a college professor, is out on a romantic picnic with his long-time girlfriend, Claire (Samantha Morton), a Read More

10/29/04
First Love, Last Rites

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, Eli Marienthal, Robert Burke, Jeanetta Arnette

Synopsis: Jesse Peretz made his directorial debut with this intimate romantic drama adapted from a short story by Ian McEwan, switching McEwan's setting from an industrial English seaside town to the Louisiana bayou. Joey (Giovanni Ribisi) and Sissel (Natasha Gregson Wagner) live in a drab house on stilts Read More

9/11/98
The Innocent

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Anthony Hopkins, Campbell Scott, Ronald Nitschke, Hart Bochner

Synopsis: A young man unthinkingly throws himself into a world of political and sexual turmoil in John Schlesinger's adaptation of the novel by Ian McEwan. Leonard Markham (Campbell Scott) is a British communications and surveillance expert who is sent to Germany in the early 1950s, at the height of the Read More

1993
The Cement Garden

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Andrew N. Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sinéad Cusack, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin

Synopsis: Ian McEwan's disturbing novel is given a chilly shimmer in this film adaptation by Andrew Birkin. The film takes place in a concrete slab of a house situated on the outskirts of an English town. The father (Hanns Zischer) is a consumptive creep, while the mother (Sinead Cusack) is a sweet and Read More

1993
The Good Son

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson, David Morse, Daniel Hugh Kelly

Synopsis: Macaulay Culkin tries for a change of pace playing a schoolyard psychotic in The Good Son. When 12-year-old son Mark (Elijah Wood) is his mother's side as she's dying of cancer, she makes him promise her that she won't die. When she does die, Mark is consumed with grief, as well as guilt that he Read More

1993
The Comfort of Strangers

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren, Manfredi Aliquo

Synopsis: In this erotic thriller, a young English couple on vacation in Venice find themselves seduced by a mysterious older couple. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) have come to Italy to chart the future of their troubled relationship. They soon meet Robert (Christopher Walken), the Read More

3/15/91
Soursweet

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun, Jodi Long, Soon-Teck Oh, William Chow

Synopsis: With this melodrama about a Chinese immigrant couple trying to succeed in the harsh realities of Margaret Thatcher's economically depressed England, the sobering social commentary of director Mike Newell's television work met the airy charm of his romantic films. After their wedding in Hong Kong Read More

1989
Schmetterlinge

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Peter Franke

Synopsis: When young Kaja (Lena Boehncke) is found dead, Andi (Bertram von Boxberg) is questioned by authorities. The two had spent time together along the railroad tracks where Kaja was promised by Andi that he would take her to the place where beautiful butterflies congregate. Andi is told that the girl Read More

1988
The Ploughman's Lunch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Rosemary Harris, Frank Finlay, Charlie Dore

Synopsis: A writer displays a troubling streak of opportunism in his personal and professional lives in this British drama. As the Falkland Islands war rages, journalist and aspiring historical writer James Penfield (Jonathan Pryce) is working on a book that will examine the 1965 Suez crisis in a manner Read More

1983