James Mangold Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A director known for making sophisticated dramas that chronicle people's emotional and moral struggles in the face of an often hostile outside world, James Mangold first earned acclaim for Heavy, his 1995 film debut. The poignant and often wordless account of an overweight pizza chef's (Pruitt...Read More

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Cyclops

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 3:10 to Yuma director James Mangold dives into sci-fi territory with this adaptation of the French graphic novel Cyclops, a dystopian future actioner that concerns a soldier experiencing a crisis of conscience during wartime after realizing the mass media's influence on his missions. ~ Jeremy Read More

1/1/09
The Archive

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 3:10 to Yuma's James Mangold directs this time-travel thriller for Universal Pictures. Playwright David Auburn (Proof) provides the script for the production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
3:10 to Yuma

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster

Synopsis: Russell Crowe plays a desperado whose accomplices stage an ambush after he is taken into custody by a determined local sheriff in this remake of the 1957 film starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. James Mangold directs a script based on the Elmore Leonard short story and penned by Stuart Beattie, Michael Brandt Read More

9/2/07
Men in Trees [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Created by Sex and the City alumnus Jennie Bicks, the hour-long dramedy Men in Trees stars Anne Heche as Marin Frist, a Chicago-based "relationship coach" and author who suffered a professional and personal crisis when she found out her own fiancé was cheating on her. Hoping to put her problems Read More

2006
Walk the Line

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts

Synopsis: James Mangold's Walk the Line tells the life story of country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), focusing primarily on the long courtship he had with June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). The film is structured as an extended flashback opening with Cash readying to take the stage at his Read More

11/18/05
Identity

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Ten strangers are brought together during a weather emergency, only to discover a far greater danger awaits them in this suspense-drama. A sudden rainstorm in a remote desert town strands a disparate variety of people at a rundown motel. A convict sentenced to death, Malcolm Rivers (Pruitt Taylor Vince Read More

4/25/03
The Sweetest Thing

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair, Thomas Jane, Jason Bateman, Parker Posey

Synopsis: Former South Park writer and Win Ben Stein's Money sidekick Nancy Pimental makes her feature screenwriting debut with this relationship comedy. Cameron Diaz stars as Christina Walters, a jaded, club-hopping single woman in San Francisco who has given up trying to find the perfect mate to focus on Read More

4/12/02
Kate and Leopold

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer

Synopsis: Filmmaker James Mangold follows his Oscar-winning drama Girl, Interrupted (1999) with this whimsical fantasy. Meg Ryan stars as Kate McKay, a modern female executive in New York City whose drive to succeed in the cutthroat corporate world has left little time for romance. When her genius Read More

12/21/01
Lift

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sticky Fingaz, Kerry Washington, Lonette McKee, Eugene Byrd, Barbara Montgomery, Samantha Brown

Synopsis: A thief plans one last heist -- though hardly for the typical reasons -- in this offbeat drama. Neicy (Kerry Washington) is a stylish, well-dressed young woman who maintains an air of intelligent arrogance in her part-time job as a window dresser at an upscale Boston department store. Neicy has a Read More

2001
Girl, Interrupted

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and Read More

12/21/99
Cop Land

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Peter Berg

Synopsis: The second film from writer/director James Mangold, the corruption drama Cop Land stars Sylvester Stallone as Freddy Heflin, the much-denigrated sheriff of tiny Garrison, NJ, a community which -- thanks to a technicality -- is populated almost entirely by members of the New York City Police Read More

1997
Heavy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pruitt Taylor Vince, Liv Tyler, Shelley Winters, Deborah Harry, Joe Grifasi, Evan Dando

Synopsis: This character drama, set in a local pub in rural New York State, focuses on the lives, thoughts, and emotions of a group of social outcasts. The lead misfit is Victor, a shy and very rotund man in his '30s who works as a pizza maker in a roadside inn. His mother, Dolly owns the establishment. She Read More

1995
Oliver and Company

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Bette Midler

Synopsis: In this modernized, animated adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist, set in the grim streets of New York City, Oliver is an innocent kitten trying to survive. He finds himself involved with a gang of canine crooks owned by the evil human Fagin. One day, Oliver and his pal the Chihuahua Tito find Read More

11/18/88