Jeff Daniels Filmography

Space Chimps

Actors: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Jeff Daniels, Omid Abtahi, Stanley Tucci

Synopsis: Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Cheryl Hines, and Andy Samberg lend their voices to this computer-animated comedy following the descendants of the first chimps in space as they blast off for fun and adventure on a far-away planet. Ham III (Samberg) is the grandson of Ham, the first-ever chimp Read More

A Plumm Summer

Actors: William Baldwin, Lisa Guerrero, Owen Pearce, Chris Kelly, Henry Winkler

Synopsis: A highly unlikely crime helps bring together two brothers in this nostalgic comedy drama. Rocky Plumm (Owen Pearce) is a five-year-old boy growing up in a small Montana town in the mid-'60s. In Rocky's eyes, there's no star bigger or brighter than local kid's show host Happy Herb (Henry Winkler) Read More

Sweet Nothing in My Ear

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Marlee Matlin, Sonya Walger, Ed Waterstreet, Phyllis Frelich

Synopsis: A married couple locked in separate realities is faced with the most difficult decision of their lives after learning that their son, who loses his ability to hear at age four, could potentially regain his hearing with the help of cochlear implants. Dan Miller (Jeff Daniels) and his wife Laura Read More

Untitled Sam Mendes Comedy

Actors: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines

Synopsis: Authors Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida provide the script for Sam Mendes' (Revolutionary Road) untitled comedy focusing on a married couple (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) searching for a place to live before their baby is born in this Focus Features production. Maggie Gyllenhaal and Curb Your Read More

Mama's Boy

Actors: Jon Heder, Diane Keaton, Jeff Daniels, Anna Faris, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Jeff Daniels, Jon Heder, and Diane Keaton star in director Tim Hamilton's domestic comedy concerning a slacker who finds his status as man of the house challenged when his single mother begins dating a self-help guru. As the influence of youth gradually gives way to the wisdom of age, the stage is Read More

The Lookout

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino

Synopsis: A former high-school hockey star handicapped in a tragic car accident becomes an unlikely ally to a crack team of determined bank robbers in this thriller starring Jeff Daniels and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. When his promising career on the ice is suddenly cut short, former athlete Chris Pratt (Gordon-Levitt Read More

Infamous

Actors: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Douglas McGrath's Infamous represents the second major biopic about the avant-garde belletrist Truman Capote to be released within a year. It thus tells roughly the same story as Bennett Miller's earlier Capote, recounting the events that belied the writer's six-year authorship of the seminal Read More

RV

Actors: Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, Joanna 'Jojo' Levesque, Josh Hutcherson

Synopsis: A white-collar workaholic deceptively persuades his family to forgo their much-anticipated Hawaiian vacation for a cross-country road trip in a fully loaded RV, during which they discover the true meaning of family bonding, in Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld's family-friendly road comedy Read More

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Actors: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella

Synopsis: George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, in this fact-based drama, which was Clooney's second feature film as a director. In 1953, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) was one of the best-known newsmen on television as host of both Read More

The Squid and the Whale

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin

Synopsis: Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has gone into a slow decline as he spends more time teaching and less time writing. His wife, Joan (Laura Linney), meanwhile, has recently begun Read More

Because of Winn-Dixie

Actors: AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Eva Marie Saint, Dave Matthews

Synopsis: It's not finishing school or a traditional upbringing that causes ten-year-old Opal to learn about the world outside of her own backyard, but rather a particularly awkward-looking mutt named Winn-Dixie. Based on a novel by Kate DiCamillo, Winn-Dixie and Opal not only become privy to the eventful Read More

Imaginary Heroes

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams, Kip Pardue

Synopsis: A shocking and tragic event causes the members of a quietly dysfunctional family to reexamine themselves and their lives in this drama. Ben and Sandy Travis (Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver) are a couple whose troubled family begins to crumble when their eldest son, star college athlete Matt (Kip Pardue Read More

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Actors: Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, Dagmara Dominczyk, Steve Grayhm, Michael Imperioli

Synopsis: Mitch Albom wrote the screenplay for this made-for-television adaptation of his best-selling story, which offers a novel perspective on life, death, and the meaning of our existence. Eddie (Jon Voight) is an elderly maintenance man who has spent most of his life keeping the rides at an amusement Read More

The Goodbye Girl

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Patricia Heaton, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Lynda Boyd, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: The TNT cable network aired this made-for-TV version of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl in January 2004. Jeff Daniels stars as Elliot Garfield, an actor who subleases an apartment in New York City. Unfortunately, the apartment is already occupied by dancer Paula McFadden (Patricia Heaton) and her Read More

Gods and Generals

Actors: Kevin Conway, Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: Director Ron Maxwell and producer Ted Turner return to the glory and tragedy of the Civil War in this historical drama, a prequel to Gettysburg, which examines the early days of the conflict through the experiences of three men. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) left behind a quiet Read More

Super Sucker

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Clean carpets and dirty minds find a common ground in this comedy written, directed, produced, and distributed by leading man Jeff Daniels. Fred Barlow (Daniels) is a hapless door-to-door salesman who scrapes together a living selling and distributing the Super Sucker Home Cleaning System, a Read More

I Witness

Actors: Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Portia de Rossi, Clifton Collins, Jr.

Synopsis: An American abroad discovers that a series of crimes may have a greater significance than imagined in this drama. Rhodes (Jeff Daniels) is an American human rights activist who has come to a small Mexican border town to help oversee union elections at a factory owned by a United States firm. While Read More

The Hours

Actors: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette

Synopsis: Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her Read More

Blood Work

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus

Synopsis: A retired detective must battle former colleagues and his own failing health in order to bring a murderer to justice in this action drama produced and directed by its star, Clint Eastwood. Terry McCaleb (Eastwood) was one of the best and most thorough detectives at the FBI's Southern California Read More

Escanaba in da Moonlight

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, Joey Albright, Randall Godwin, Kimberly Norris Guerrero, Wayne David Parker

Synopsis: The first day of deer hunting season may be a rite of passage for many hunters across the Midwest, but nowhere more so than in the small Michigan town of Escanaba -- or so this comedy from writer/director/star Jeff Daniels would have you believe. Daniels plays Rueben Soady, a dim hunter slouching Read More

Cheaters

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, Paul Sorvino, Luke Edwards

Synopsis: Moral hypocrisy and the woes of America's public schools and educational system are the focus of Cheaters, which is based on a real-life 1995 cheating scandal at a Chicago high school. In a working class area of the city, teacher Dr. Gerald Plecki (Jeff Daniels) is desperate for his students to Read More

Chasing Sleep

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl, Gil Bellows, Zach Grenier, Julian McMahon

Synopsis: Ed Saxon (Jeff Daniels) is an English professor of some repute whose life is thrown into serious chaos when his wife, Eve, fails to return home one day. After a sleepless night, Ed phones the police, who find no trace of Eve, save her abandoned car. Later Ed, by now exhausted and disheveled, is Read More

My Favorite Martian

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: My Favorite Martian stars Jeff Daniels as Tim O'Hara, once a newspaper man and now a struggling television producer in Santa Barbara. Tim has a crush on vapid news reporter Brace Channing (Elizabeth Hurley) while overlooking his feelings for Lizzie (Daryl Hannah), a technician working at the Read More

The Crossing

Actors: Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Adapted by screenwriter Howard Fast from his own fact-based novel, this historical drama tells the story of one of the most unexpected triumphs of the American Revolutionary War. In December 1776, the armies of General George Washington (Jeff Daniels) are near the point of collapse; short on Read More

It's The Rage

Actors: Joan Allen, Andre Braugher, Josh Brolin, Jeff Daniels, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Director James D. Stern debuts with this darkly comedic, archly ironic look at America's obsession with guns. The film opens with Helen and Warren Harding (Joan Allen and Jeff Daniels) awaking one night to the sounds of their suburban trophy getting broken into. Warren grabs his trusty handgun and Read More

Pleasantville

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Gary Ross, Oscar nominated for his Dave and Big screenplays, made his directorial debut with this comedy. The cheerful '50s TV sitcom "Pleasantville" is revived in the '90s for a loyal cable audience. One devoted fan is shy suburban teen David Wagner (Tobey Maguire), who has an almost obsessive Read More

Trial and Error

Actors: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Wentworth, Austin Pendleton, Jessica Steen, Rip Torn, Dale Dye, Lawrence Pressman, Max Casella

Synopsis: This comedy features TV's Seinfeld regular Michael Richards in his first starring role, opposite Jeff Daniels. Daniels plays Charlie Tuttle, an up-and-coming attorney engaged to Tiffany Whitfield (Alexandra Wentworth), the daughter of the law firm's boss (Lawrence Pressman). His boss sends him to Read More

Fly Away Home

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Holter Ford Graham

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, Fly Away Home is a family drama about Amy Alden (Anna Paquin), a 13-year-old girl who, after the tragic death of her mother, is sent to live with her father Thomas (Jeff Daniels), a sculptor. Amy misses her mother and has never enjoyed a very warm relationship with her Read More

2 Days in the Valley

Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, James Spader, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to Read More

101 Dalmatians

Actors: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie

Synopsis: There are more puppies than you can shake a rolled up newspaper at in this live-action remake of the Disney animated favorite 101 Dalmatians. Roger (Jeff Daniels) is a designer of computer games who shares his home with his pet dalmatian, Pongo. One day, Roger takes Pongo for a walk in the park Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jeff Daniels [2]

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Luscious Jackson

Synopsis: This 1995 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jeff Daniels and features musical guest Luscious Jackson. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Redwood Curtain

Actors: Lea Salonga

Synopsis: An adopted girl's search for the truth is the subject of this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. Lea Salonga stars as Geri Riordan, a half-Vietnamese girl who feels an emptiness in her life because she doesn't know her ancestral roots. After the death of her adopted father, she starts to Read More

Speed

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: If you don't think Speed is the fastest-moving adventure film ever made, we challenge you to find a faster one. Keanu Reeves stars as an LA Bomb Squad specialist whose principal antagonist is elusive bomber-extortionist Dennis Hopper. Seeking vengeance after his latest ransom scheme is thwarted Read More

Terminal Velocity

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock

Synopsis: Party-hard skydiving teacher Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has a knack for getting himself into trouble, but his booze-babes-and-planes shenanigans hardly prepare him for an international plot that pits Brodie and a mysterious KGB agent against a post-Cold War Russian villain called Kerr (Chris Read More

Dumb and Dumber

Actors: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Teri Garr, Karen Duffy

Synopsis: Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels play the title roles (though viewers may find themselves debating which is which) in this genially low-brow comedy. Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are two intellectually-challenged best friends who share an apartment so messy that gangsters Read More

Gettysburg

Actors: Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes this sprawling historical epic. As in Shaara's novel, director Ronald Maxwell focuses on a handful of major players to dramatize the events of July 1863, when the armies of the Union and Confederacy clash at the small Read More

Frasier: Here's Looking at You

Synopsis: After Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) buys a telescope for his father, Martin (John Mahoney), and the old man discovers the visceral pleasures of being a peeping tom (but a benign one, of course). While spying into the windows of other people's apartments, the widowed Martin spots an attractive Read More

Rain Without Thunder

Actors: Carolyn McCormick, Ali Thomas, Betty Buckley, Iona Morris, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Rain Without Thunder is a "pro-choice" tract, expertly packaged in the form of speculative fiction. In a futuristic society, abortion is a crime punishable by a harsh prison term, and all female sexual activity is electronically monitored. When young Ali Thomas chooses not to bring her unborn Read More

There Goes the Neighborhood

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Catherine O'Hara, Hector Elizondo, Rhea Perlman, Dabney Coleman, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Avarice is the motivation behind the zany deeds in this comedy. It all begins when a dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychiatrist who heads to Cherry Hill, New Jersey to find it. Unbeknownst to him, he is followed by two fugitive convicts who overheard the Read More

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Jeff Daniels, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story is a made-for-cable adaptation of James Neff's Mobbed Up, a real-life account about Teamster president Jackie Presser. Brian Dennehy plays Presser, who was Jimmy Hoffa's successor as president of the Teamsters. Like Hoffa, Presser was caught between the Read More

Disaster in Time

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Ariana Richards, Marilyn Lightstone, Emilia Crow, Jim Haynie

Synopsis: An innkeeper in a small Midwestern town is concerned about strange boarders, whom he believes are visitors from the future. He struggles to save his daughter from being taken by the aliens and to keep the town from being destroyed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Butcher's Wife

Actors: Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza, Mary Steenburgen, Frances McDormand

Synopsis: As a clairvoyant, Demi Moore awaits signs from beyond that her true love, whomever he may be, is waiting for her, somewhere. When New York butcher George Dzundza shows up on the tiny North Carolina island where Demi lives, she is convinced that he is the man predestined to be her husband. After Read More

The Story of America's Classic Ballparks

Synopsis: Narrated by Jeff Daniels, this video takes a close look at four of America's baseball parks and the players and games that define them. Parks visited include Comiskey Park, Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park, and Wrigley Field. Included are interviews with many famous ballplayers including Ted Williams Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jeff Daniels [1]

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Color Me Badd

Synopsis: This 1991 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jeff Daniels and features musical guest Color Me Badd. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Love Hurts

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Judith Ivey, Cynthia Sikes, Cloris Leachman, Amy Wright

Synopsis: Bud Yorkin's comedy stars Jeff Daniels as a former big-leaguer who yearns for romance, but finds himself overwhelmed with the problems of the women in his life. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Actors: Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins, Thomas Wilson Brown, Joan McMurtrey

Synopsis: In this film, the small town of Clyde, Ohio is buzzing with excitement when it is said that the famous Roxy Carmichael is leaving her luxurious Hollywood life to return to her old hometown. Her return causes upheaval in the lives of family-man Denton Webb (Jeff Daniels), her old boyfriend, and an Read More

Arachnophobia

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman, Julian Sands, Stuart Pankin

Synopsis: Referring to the fear of spiders, Arachnophobia features a particularly deadly species of spider that manages to make its way from the Venezuelan rain forest to a small California town, thanks to the many oversights of entomologist Julian Sands. Yuppie doctor Jeff Daniels, fed up with the dangers Read More

Checking Out

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker, Kathleen York, Allan Havey

Synopsis: Jeff Daniels stars in this tedious situation comedy concerning the middle-aged terror of illness and mortality. Scripted by Joe Eszterhas, Daniels plays Southern Californian Ray Macklin, who thinks he will live forever but realizes the fallacy of his idea when his best friend drops dead in front Read More

No Place Like Home

Actors: Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels, Kathy Bates, Anne Pitoniak, Scott Marlowe

Synopsis: Written with heartbreaking attention to detail by Ara Watson and Sam Blackwell, No Place Like Home was one of the first TV movies to direct itself to the plight of the homeless. Jeff Daniels plays a Pittsburgh apartment superintendent and aspiring electrician who loses his job--and his home--when Read More

Sweet Hearts Dance

Actors: Don Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Perkins, Kate Reid

Synopsis: This gentle comedy drama explores aspects of love and relationships by featuring two parallel tales, both occurring in the same Vermont town. In one, the boredom faced by a married pair of high-school sweethearts leads to the destruction of their marriage. At the same time, their closest friend Read More

The House on Carroll Street

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Rhode, Jessica Tandy

Synopsis: Yes, there are commies under the bed. But are there Nazis there too? Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis) is a modestly successful Life photo editor living in 1950s New York, until she is called before the Senate Un-American Activities Committee to testify about her "communist" associations. When she Read More

Love Notes

Synopsis: Made for cable TV, Love Notes stars a decidedly pre-Dumb and Dumber Jeff Daniels. He plays a Regular Joe with an overactive libido. The story covers three episodes in Daniels' sex life, in ascending order of steaminess. Most prominent amongst the female cast members (in more ways than one) is Read More

The Caine Mutiny Court Martial

Actors: Brad Davis, Eric Bogosian, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk, this thought-provoking made-for-television drama chronicles the court martial of the lieutenant who commandeered the U.S.S. Caine during a potentially deadly storm. The only way his attorney can save him is to prove that Captain Queeg was Read More

Radio Days

Actors: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Josh Mostel, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as Joe, a teenage Jewish boy, growing up with a house full of relatives in Brooklyn. Allen cuts Read More

Something Wild

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive