John Hawkes Filmography

Wristcutters: A Love Story

Actors: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossamon, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits, John Hawkes

Synopsis: Relegated to a forlorn afterlife of unsmiling lost souls and melancholy drifters as a result of committing suicide in the mortal realm, a heartbroken young man sets out to find the girl who inspired his final act of self-destruction after learning that she too has taken her own life in director Goran Dukic Read More

The Amateurs

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Ted Danson, William Fichtner, Patrick Fugit, Lauren Graham

Synopsis: A man down on his luck hatches a different kind of get-rich-quick scheme in this independent comedy. Andy Sargentee (Jeff Bridges) is a middle-aged divorcé who is down in the dumps after the departure of his wife, Thelma (Jeanne Tripplehorn), and son, Billy (Alex D. Linz). The fact that Thelma's Read More

Miami Vice

Actors: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds

Synopsis: Writer and director Michael Mann updates the groundbreaking television crime series he created in the 1980s with this stylish thriller. Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) and Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) are two police detectives working undercover in Florida; Tubbs is smart, cool, and resourceful Read More

Deadwood: Season 03

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Powers Boothe, Jeffrey Jones

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Actors: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie Westerman

Synopsis: A handful of disparate characters, both adults and children, find themselves navigating the tricky waters of intimacy in this award-winning independent comedy drama. Richard (John Hawkes) is a recent divorcé who is alternately exhilarated and terrified with his life and the world around him. While Read More

Deadwood: Complications

Synopsis: Al (Ian McShane) regains consciousness, but he's in bad shape. Alma (Molly Parker) learns that she's pregnant, and, feeling that Doc (Brad Dourif) has been judgmental with her, she turns to Trixie (Paula Malcomson). Alma explains that she wants children of her own, but she has a physical deformity Read More

Deadwood: Season 02

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, John Hawkes, Robin Weigert

A Slipping-Down Life

Actors: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Making its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, this story adapted for the screen and directed by first-timer Toni Kalem is based on the Anne Tyler novel of the same name. The story deals with finding love in a dead-end life. Evie (Lili Taylor) is a loner, living with her widowed Read More

Deadwood [TV Series]

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker

Synopsis: Forget Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The HBO series Deadwood was as close to the "real thing" as any Western fan was ever going to see on television -- and in its pursuit of reality, the series was not afraid of smashing icons or skewering sacred cows. Could anything less be expected of executive producer David Milch Read More

Deadwood: Season 01

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Ray McKinnon, Larry Cedar, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: "Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune." These are the words that serve as greeting for saddle-weary former lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) as he rides into the illegal Dakota Territory settlement of Deadwood, a scant few weeks after Custer's defeat at the Little Big Read More

Deadwood: Sold Under Sin

Synopsis: As Smith's (Ray McKinnon) health continues to deteriorate, Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif) goes to Al (Ian McShane) for help. Doc also delivers a new boot to Jewel (Geri Jewell). Claggett (Marshall Bell) arrives back in camp, accompanied by General Crook (Peter Coyote) and a cavalry division. Claggett Read More

Deadwood: Mr. Wu

Synopsis: Seth (Timothy Olyphant) is not happy in his new post as health commissioner. He proposes a town dump and infirmary to the mayor, E.B. (William Sanderson), whose lack of interest sends Seth to make his case to the media, in the form of A.W. Merrick (Jeffrey Jones). Seth is also looking into Read More

Deadwood: The Trial of Jack McCall

Synopsis: Wild Bill Hickok is dead, and the people of Deadwood prepare to try the man who murdered him, Jack McCall (Garret Dillahunt). Discussing the "hoople-heads," Al (Ian McShane) tells Cy (Powers Boothe), "Sometimes I wish we could just hit 'em over the head, rob 'em, and throw their bodies in the Read More

Deadwood: Here Was a Man

Synopsis: Bill's (Keith Carradine) luck has taken a turn. In a poker game at the new Bella Union, he cleans out Jack McCall (Garret Dillahunt), who does not take it well, even after Bill kindly gives him a dollar to get some food. Seth (Timothy Olyphant), busy building the hardware store, tells Bill that Read More

Deadwood: Suffer the Little Children

Synopsis: Al (Ian McShane), cleaning a bloodstain off the floor of the Gem, offers some advice. "You might, Dan (W. Earl Brown), want to learn how to indicate interest in a girl without murdering another person." E.B. (William Sanderson) has murder on his mind, suggesting to Al that offing Seth (Timothy Olyphant Read More

Deadwood: Plague

Synopsis: Seth (Timothy Olyphant) is out looking for Jack McCall when he's ambushed and nearly killed by a Sioux warrior. Later, Charlie (Dayton Callie), returning from Cheyenne, finds Seth, and Seth gives him the bad news about Bill. Charlie had already heard rumors, but tells Seth, "As often as he wasn't Read More

Identity

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

Hardball

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes

Synopsis: Television actor-turned-director Brian Robbins follows up Varsity Blues (1999) and Ready to Rumble (2000) with another sports comedy. Keanu Reeves stars as Conor O'Neill, an underachiever and inveterate sports gambler who needs a bailout loan from a friend to pay off his mounting debt. As a Read More

The Perfect Storm

Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes

Synopsis: In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot waves; tragically, the crew of a fishing boat was lost in the midst of the fearsome storm. Read More

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

Actors: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, Muse Watson, Matthew Settle, Jennifer Esposito

Synopsis: I Know What You Did Last Summer was one of the two teenaged horror movies responsible for bringing the horror genre into the 90's (the other being Wes Craven's Scream). Both of those films came from the pen of screenwriter Kevin Williamson, and both of them generated sequels. I Still Know What You Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I Only Have Eyes For You

Synopsis: Something is driving people crazy the day before the Sadie Hawkins Dance, and it's not just deciding who to ask. Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) has to stop a boy from shooting a girl. As she knocks the gun from his hands, the couple seem perplexed as to why they were fighting and the gun Read More

Deep In The Heart (of Texas)

Actors: Kenneth Cranham, Amanda Root, Marco Perella, C.K. McFarland, Tim Mateer

Synopsis: Texas-born documentary filmmaker Stephen Purvis made his feature directorial debut with this comedy-drama, loosely based on the stage production, In the West -- a series of monologues written and performed by a group of Texas actors. Purvis and his co-scripters Jesse Sublett and Tom Huckabee) gave Read More

Perfect Little Angels

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Jody Thompson, Michael York, Jade Pawluk, Brendan Fehr

Synopsis: Having just moved to a new town, widow Elaine Freedman (Cheryl Ladd) and her teenage daughter, Justine (Jody Thompson) are greeted by the effusive, terribly nice Dr. Calvin Lawrence (Michael York). Sensing that Justine is bit testy and out of sorts (most kids her age tend to get that way, you Read More

ER: Ambush

Synopsis: This first episode of ER's fourth season originally aired live on September 25, 1997, with two separate telecasts for the East and West Coasts. A TV documentary crew follows Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) during a "typical" shift in the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital. Still Read More

Playing God

Actors: David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Michael Massee, Peter Stormare

Synopsis: After losing his license to work as a surgeon, synthetic-heroin addict Eugene Sands (David Duchovny) is on a downward spiral into the Los Angeles drug scene. One night, someone is shot in a bar, and Sands performs a life-saving medical maneuver on the spot. Word travels fast. A few days later, a Read More

From Dusk Till Dawn

Actors: George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: In this action-horror flick from director Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino stars with George Clooney as a pair of bad-to-the-bone brothers named Seth and Richie Gecko. After a string of robberies that left a river of blood in the Geckos' wake, the sadistic siblings Read More

Touched By an Angel: Trust

Synopsis: Rookie cop Monica (Roma Downey) is partnered with veteran officer Zack Bennett (Joe Penny) on his first day back after recovering from a shooting. Zack's former partner Ben (Paul Rodriguez) is angry over the fact that Zack has demanded to be paired up with something else. What Ben doesn't know is Read More

Night of the Scarecrow

Synopsis: This is a '90s version of a good old fashioned B monster movie. It is set in a small rural town that is outwardly upright and peaceful and is inwardly rotten to the core. It seems that in its earliest years, the town fathers made a devil's bargain with a wandering warlock to insure good crops and Read More

Congo

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov

Synopsis: Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle advnture saga. R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker) is the ruthless head of Travi-Com, a telecommunications firm on the cusp of a major breakthrough in laser communications technology. However, Travis needs diamonds to Read More

Wings: Roy Crazy

Synopsis: Concetta Tomei makes a return appearance as Sylvia, the ex-wife of the Hackett brothers' business rival Roy (David Schramm). Looking incongruously glamorous, Sylvia manages to recapture Roy's heart -- and it seems as if the feeling is mutual. Only Brian (Steven Weber) knows that Sylvia is only Read More

Roadracers

Synopsis: Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) was a last-minute replacement for Showtime's Rebel series and after the first viewing, his Roadracers was immediately bumped to the top of the list. This melodramatic tale of rebel youth fighting to get out of a dead-end town is often times enjoyable and Read More

Cool and the Crazy

Actors: Matthew Flint, Alicia Silverstone, Jared Leto

Synopsis: A young, married mother gets in over her head when she has an affair in this made-for-TV movie. Alicia Silverstone stars as Roslyn, a young mother who married her high school sweetheart (Jared Leto). She gets more than just excitement though when she accepts the nudging from a friend and has a Read More

Dead Air

Actors: Gregory Hines, Debrah Farentino

Synopsis: A radio dee-jay gets targeted by a crazed killer in this made-for-television thriller. Gregory Hines stars as Mark Jannek, a late-night disc-jockey who is being harassed by an anonymous killer on the telephone. The killer thinks that Shepard knows too much and decides to threaten both the dee-jay Read More

Wings: Business or Pleasure

Synopsis: Davis Lynch (Mark Harelik), a potential investor in Sandpiper Air, arrives in Nantucket to discuss Joe's plans for expansions. When it becomes obvious that Lynch is fascinated by Helen (Crystal Bernard), Joe (Tim Daly) encourages her to entertain the wealthy visitor. This brings down the wrath of Read More

Freaked

Actors: Alex Winter, Megan Ward, Michael Stoyanov, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: The manic writing-directing comedy team of Tom Stern and Alex Winter (the latter of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) followed up their deranged short-film collaborations and the short-lived MTV series The Idiot Box with this comic fantasy, which amounts to a virtual Read More

Flesh and Bone

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Small-time Texas businessman Arlis Sweeney (Dennis Quaid) can never shake the memory of his father's (James Caan) wasted life. What particularly sticks in his craw is the murder committed years earlier by his father and a teenaged accomplice. While going through the by-rote motions of his job (he Read More

Nails

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Maniacal Dennis Hopper plays a high-strung L.A. homicide detective who embarks upon a vengeful hunt for the drug pushers who brutally murdered his partners. His investigation soon reveals that the dealers' influence extends to the highest echelons of city government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Sweet Poison

Synopsis: In this crime drama, ruthless Bobby Stiles busts out of a maximum security prison and makes a bee-line for his hometown where he plans to get revenge upon his double-crossing brother. Bobby ends up hijacking a married couple and forcing them to take him there. It's a long journey and perceptive Read More

The Rape of Dr. Willis

Synopsis: In this ironic drama, a hard working, devoted doctor finds herself accused of murder after the man who raped her dies under her care. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rosalie Goes Shopping

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold, Willy Harlander, Erika Blumberger

Synopsis: Larger-than-life German actress Marianne Sagebrecht stars as Rosalie Greenspace, a German bride raising a wonderful family in Stuttgart, Arkansas who she delights in providing gift after gift of goodies that are procured by her newly acquired talent of buying via "ze vonderful credit card." The Read More

Never Leave Nevada

Actors: Steve Swartz, Rodney Rincon, Janelle Buchanan, Catherine Catmull

Synopsis: Two young men travel around the country to anti-nuclear demonstrations selling anti-nuke T-shirts out of the trunk of their car. They stop in a small Nevada town and fall for two roommates: one is a health clinic worker whose estranged husband is dying of cancer, and the other is a dealer at a Read More

Dakota

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Eli Cummins, Dee Dee Norton, Jordan Burton, Steve Ruge

Synopsis: Dakota (Lou Diamond Phillips) is a troubled teen on the run. He takes a job on a Texas ranch to work off his debts. While Dakota works on restoring an antique car and other chores, he becomes a surrogate big brother for Casey (Jordan Burton), the young rancher's son who lost a leg to bone cancer. Read More

Heartbreak Hotel

Actors: David Keith, Tuesday Weld, Charlie Schlatter, Angela Goethals, Jacque Lynn Colton

Synopsis: Johnny Wolfe (Charlie Schlatter) is an Ohio teen whose alcoholic mother Marie (Tuesday Weld) has been a huge Elvis Presley fan since the 1950s. To cheer her up on her birthday, Johnny kidnaps the king of rock & roll (David Keith) after a 1972 concert. Elvis settles in to the Wolfe's den by Read More

Johnny Be Good

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey, Jr., Paul Gleason, Uma Thurman, Steve James

Synopsis: Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall) is a hot-shot high-school quarterback who receives intoxicating offers from spirited college recruiters in this adolescent teen comedy. Bathroom humor and sight gags are strung together in a story involving booze, broads, and other benefits for the coveted Read More

D.O.A.

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern, Jane Kaczmarek

Synopsis: "They didn't kill me; I was dead already," is the statement uttered by Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid), an English professor at the University of Texas at Austin who has been poisoned by a slow-acting toxin and who has twenty-four hours to track down his killers before he ceases to exist. Remade Read More

Murder Rap

Synopsis: A musician is seduced by an attractive woman, and thinks himself lucky until he realizes that she is involved with him for a reason. She wants him to help her kill her husband. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More