Joseph Gordon-Levitt Filmography

500 Days of Summer

Actors: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly, Matthew Gray Gubler

Synopsis: Fox Searchlight presents this romantic comedy concerning a woman (Zooey Deschanel) whose non-belief in love is tested when a man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) falls head-over-heels with her. Marc Web directs from a script by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Miracle at St. Anna

Actors: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonzo, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, John Leguizamo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: A group of four black soldiers in the 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division of the U.S. Army during World War II get stuck behind enemy lines after getting separated from their squadron when one of them bravely attempts to rescue an Italian boy. Alienated from their own country, the soldiers find solace Read More

Stop-Loss

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ciarán Hinds

Synopsis: After serving his tour of duty in Iraq, a young American soldier who is ordered to return to the front lines as part of the military's controversial stop-loss policy opts instead to go AWOL in a thought-provoking military drama directed by Kimberly Peirce. Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Philippe) is a Read More

Killshot

Actors: Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Johnny Knoxville, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Thomas Jane, Rosario Dawson

Synopsis: Prime Suspect 4 and Inspector Morse director John Madden comes back to the world of crime after a brief foray into romance with Shakespeare in Love and Captain Corelli's Mandolin with this adaptation of pulp icon Elmore Leonard's novel concerning a real estate agent and her husband (Thomas Jane) Read More

The Frog King

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Director Darren Star takes the helm for this Bret Easton Ellis penned romantic comedy concerning an indolent assistant editor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) whose responsibility-shirking behavior may have inadvertently destroyed his chances of connecting with his dream woman. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie 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

Shadowboxer

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, Vanessa Ferlito, Macy Gray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: A late-career change of heart leads to a dangerous life on the run for two seasoned assassins whose complex relationship masks a dark past in director Lee Daniels' pulpy film noir. When Mickey (Cuba Gooding Jr.) was just a child, his abusive father savagely murdered the young boy's mother shortly Read More

Brick

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas, Noah Fleiss, Noah Segan

Synopsis: A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's hard-boiled high-school noir, told in the style of a Dashiell Hammett mystery. An outsider by nature, Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is forced to penetrate the elaborate ranks of the high-school social Read More

Mysterious Skin

Actors: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeff Licon, Bill Sage

Synopsis: Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on Read More

Havoc

Actors: Bijou Phillips, Anne Hathaway

Synopsis: A pair of naïve young girls learn that even the most insignificant actions can have lasting consequences in this music-driven take on teen culture starring Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips and directed by two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Influenced by the hip-hop thug lifestyle and Read More

Latter Days

Actors: Wesley A. Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss, Rebekah Jordan, Amber Benson, Khary Payton

Synopsis: Sweet Home Alabama screenwriter C. Jay Cox directs the independent romance Latter Days. Christian (Wesley A. Ramsey) is a young gay party boy who lives in Southern California. When a group of good-looking Mormon missionary guys move into his apartment complex, he's determined to pick one up. He Read More

Manic

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Bacall, Zooey Deschanel, Cody Lightning, Elden Henson

Synopsis: This first feature for filmmaker Jordan Melamed uses the verite style of the Dogme 95 movement for a hard-hitting drama centering on a group of troubled teens. Taking place entirely in a psychiatric ward, the film opens with Lyle (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who has chosen to accept calm in the Read More

Treasure Planet

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of adventure Treasure Island gets a science fiction update in this animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures. Jim (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar Read More

Sweet Jane

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bud Cort, Mary Woronov, William McNamara

Synopsis: Drug user Jane (Samantha Mathis) lives on the streets, but Jane's addiction puts her in the hospital after she overdoses. A doctor determines she's HIV-positive and plans tests, but she slips away and returns to the streets. She's followed by sick teen Tony (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who sees her as Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 06

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Compared to the zany opening episodes of previous seasons, the sixth and final season of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun boasts a rather innocuous opener, with alien-in-human-form Dick Solomon (John Lithgow) helping his human-in-human form fiancée Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) teach a Read More

10 Things I Hate About You

Actors: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan

Synopsis: As Shakespearean adaptations go, it's not quite as odd as moving The Tempest to another planet (as in Forbidden Planet) or Hamlet to a Canadian brewery (the secret subtext of Strange Brew), but it's still safe to say no one was expecting a version of The Taming of the Shrew set in an American high Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 05

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: The riotous conclusion of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun's fourth season has a big spillover effect at the beginning of Season Five. The Solomon "family", a group of aliens in human form who've come to earth on a fact-finding mission, are relieved to discover that the baby borne by Harry Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 04

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Resolving the cliffhanger ending of Season Three, Season Four of 3rd From the Sun finds the Solomon family--actually a team of aliens who've assumed human form while on a fact-finding mission on Planet Earth--desperately searching for their kidnapped colleague Harry Solomon (French Stewart) Read More

Halloween: H20

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd

Synopsis: This is the seventh movie in this horror series and a 20th anniversary follow-up to John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), arguably the most influential horror film of the '70s, a film that set the standard of horror for the next two decades and catapulted the career of Jamie Lee Curtis. Newspaper Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 03

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Season Three of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun opens with another dilemma for the group of space aliens who have assumed the human form of the "Solomon" family for the purpose of gathering intelligence on the planet earth: It seems that group leader Dick Solomon (John Lithgow) has been Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 02

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Season two of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun begins where Season One left off, with Dick Solomon (John Lithgow), the leader of a group of space aliens who've assumed human form to gather intelligence on the planet earth, still locked in the basement of his home, while his alien clone Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 01

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Upon assuming human form, the team of extraterrestrials calling themselves the Solomon family begin developing human emotions and character faults, as Season One of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun begins its first season. Despite the difficulties inherent in adjusting themselves to their Read More

The Juror

Actors: Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Heche, James Gandolfini, Lindsay Crouse

Synopsis: A woman serving on the jury of an anti-Mafia trial must protect herself and her young son from a psychopathic gangster in this thriller. Demi Moore stars as Annie Laird, a single mother and artist who readily agrees to do her civic duty on the jury in the trial of a major organized crime figure. Read More

The Great Elephant Escape

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Kenya, this made-for-TV movie tells the story of a boy's fight to save an elephant. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as Beverly Cunningham, a mother who takes her son to live with her in Africa. When her son and a pal befriend an abandoned elephant, a Safari chase ensues as they try Read More

The Road Killers

Actors: David Arquette, Christopher Lambert

Synopsis: A family on a road trip through the Arizona desert is terrorized by a teenage gang led by a deranged killer. They kidnap the family's teenage daughter, and the father must track down the gang and rescue his daughter. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Angels in the Outfield

Actors: Danny Glover, Tony Danza, Brenda Fricker, Christopher Lloyd, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Updated from the 1951 film of the same name, Angels In The Outfield takes liberties with the original to bring sentimental values to a modern setting. Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favorite baseball team, the Read More

Partners

Holy Matrimony

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Tate Donovan, John Schuck

Synopsis: As if losing both her husband and her money isn't enough, a woman in her mid-20s also finds herself married to a 12-year-old boy (who doesn't even like her) in the comedy Holy Matrimony. Havana (Patricia Arquette) is an aspiring showgirl who is working at a sleazy carnival while she dreams of her Read More

Road Flower

Synopsis: The Road Flower was given a limited release in 1993, then reissued two years later under the title The Road Killers. Essentially a rehash of the old drive-in perennial Hot Rods to Hell, the film stars Christopher Lambert as the taciturn head of a vacationing family. While motoring somewhere in the Read More

Roseanne: Daughters and Other Strangers

Synopsis: Darlene has to decide between going to art school in Chicago and staying with David (Johnny Galecki) in Lanford. Meanwhile, D.J. makes a new friend in the neighbor George (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Secret

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) and Sully (Joe Lando) come to the rescue of Zack (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a mentally challenged youth who has suffered ill treatment at the hands of his guardian. The rest of the community shuns Zack, not only because he is "simple-minded," but because he is apparently the Read More

A River Runs Through It

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as Read More

Beethoven

Actors: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Nicholle Tom, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Castile

Synopsis: Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of Read More

Switching Parents

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bill Smitrovich, Kathleen York, Robert Joy, Joyce Reehling

Synopsis: In this drama, 12-year-old Gregory decides he prefers living with his foster parents and so launches his own custody battle to get away from his birth parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Changes'

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Michael Nouri, Christie Clark, Renee O'Connor, Christopher Gartin

Synopsis: In this made for TV movie based on Danielle Steele's novel, Cheryl Ladd portrays a successful New York television anchorwoman. When she marries a successful surgeon in Los Angeles, romance becomes difficult with their careers on opposite ends of the country. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Plymouth

Synopsis: In this sci-fi movie, the residents of a Northwest logging town go to the moon after their hometown is destroyed by accidentally released toxins. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hi Honey, I'm Dead

Synopsis: A rude entrepreneur is transformed into an average Joe by his guardian angel in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Shear Madness

Synopsis: 15 years ago, Jessica's cousin Anne (Shirley Jones was about to be married when her fiancé was murdered, ostensibly by Anne's mentally unbalanced brother, who was promptly locked up in an institution. Now, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is in attendance when Anne decides to give matrimony a second Read More

Settle the Score

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a Chicago policewoman remains haunted by the memory of the man who raped her two decades before and decides to return to her hometown to find him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stranger on My Land

Synopsis: In this drama, a Vietnam vet takes a stand when government agents attempt to take his ranch so they can build a missile base there. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More