Josh BrolinFilmography

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Actors: Josh Brolin

Synopsis: A man (Josh Brolin) desperately tries to defend his son against the same drug cartel that took his wife's life in this Asger Leth-directed drama. Peter Craig penned the script for the Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Untitled Woody Allen Production

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, Naomi Watts

Synopsis: Woody Allen sets his sights on London for his newest production, with a cast headed by Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, and Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Women in Trouble

Actors: Carla Gugino, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Adrianne Palicki, Marley Shelton, Connie Britton, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Simon Baker

Synopsis: Filmmaker Sebastian Gutierrez writes and directs this ensemble comedy following ten Los Angeles women over the course of 24 hours. When porn starlet Electra Luxx (Carla Gugino) discovers that she's pregnant, her wild world of pleasure and excess is suddenly turned upside down. Subsequently stuck Read More

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

Actors: Amy Poehler, Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Justin Timberlake, Jake Gyllenhaal

Synopsis: This hilarious Saturday Night Live collection celebrates the work of Amy Poehler, featuring her best-loved sketches and characters including "The Dakota Fanning Show," "Live with Regis and Kelly," "The Palin Rap," and a reel of her finest moments as a "Weekend Update" anchor. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Milk

Actors: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco

Synopsis: Academy Award winner Sean Penn takes the title role in Gus Van Sant's biopic tracing the last eight years in the life of Harvey Milk, the ill-fated politician and gay activist whose life changed history, and whose courage still inspires people. When Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Read More

W.

Actors: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in this Oliver Stone biopic that traces the head of state's rise to power from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. Co-written by Stanley G. Weiser, Bush is Read More

Saturday Night Live: Josh Brolin

Actors: Josh Brolin, Adele

Synopsis: This 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Josh Brolin and features musical guest Adele. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Actors: Quentin Tarantino, Wes Craven, Robert Rodriguez, George A. Romero, Eli Roth

Synopsis: Ever since the days of Lon Chaney, Sr. special effects make-up has played a crucial role in the history of motion picture cinema. Produced by Starz Inside, this revealing documentary explores the history of special effects make-up through classic movie clips, rare behind-the-scenes photos, and Read More

No Country for Old Men

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: When a Vietnam veteran discovers two million dollars while wandering through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal gone horribly awry, his decision to abscond with the cash sets off a violent chain reaction in a stripped-down crime drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) has just Read More

American Gangster

Actors: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin

Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. There was a time when no one noticed reserved driver Frank Lucas (Washington), but when the Read More

In the Valley of Elah

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, James Franco

Synopsis: When a model soldier who recently returned to the U.S. from the front lines of Iraq goes AWOL, his veteran father enlists the aid of a dedicated police detective in seeking out his son's true fate in director/screenwriter Paul Haggis's follow up to the Oscar-winning 2004 indie-hit Crash. Mike Read More

Grindhouse

Actors: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Zoe Bell, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Synopsis: Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez join forces to offer a cinematic tribute to the blood-soaked exploitation epics of yesteryear with this hyper-violent coupling of two full-length features punctuated by a collection of outrageous trailers. The first Read More

Planet Terror

Actors: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: Maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie-like humanoids who have taken control of the planet and the remaining survivors who refuse to go down without a fight. A dangerous government experiment has unleashed an abominable contamination that Read More

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Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Eden Brolin, Eleanor Lambert, Nick Searcy, Vincent Riverside

The Dead Girl

Actors: Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, Mary Beth Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Brittany Murphy

Synopsis: Karen Moncrieff, the Independent Spirit Award-nominated director of Blue Car, assembles a stellar cast comprised of Toni Collette, James Franco, Giovanni Ribisi, and Mary Beth Hurt to tell the tale of one girl's mysterious death, and how the tragic actions of the people who surround her eventually Read More

Coastlines

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Josh Brolin, Sarah Wynter, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Victor Nuñez's Coastlines centers on Sonny (Timothy Olyphant), who is returning home after his release from prison. When he asks for money owed to him by local crime boss Fred Vance (William Forsythe), Vance responds by blowing up Sonny's home (causing the death of Sonny's father). Sonny moves in Read More

Into the Blue

Actors: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott

Synopsis: Greed turns an idyllic vacation into a nightmare in this action drama. Jared Cole (Paul Walker) makes his living salvaging wreckage from ships off the coast of the Bahamas. He shares a rattle-trap trailer home with his girlfriend, Samantha "Sam" Nicholson (Jessica Alba), a shark expert who works Read More

Milwaukee, Minnesota

Actors: Troy Garity, Alison Folland, Randy Quaid, Bruce Dern, Hank Harris

Synopsis: Allan Mindel's Milwaukee, Minnesota is about con men hoping to take advantage of a fishing champion. Albert (Troy Garity) is the best ice-fisherman in Wisconsin. He is not the sharpest tack in the box, making him susceptible to the less than ethical advances of nefarious Jerry (Randy Quaid), Stan (Hank Harris Read More

Melinda and Melinda

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Chloë Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller, Will Ferrell, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: While Woody Allen has long fused comedy and drama in his films, he embraces the two styles in a new and unusual way in this feature. Sy (Wallace Shawn) is enjoying dinner with some friends when they begin debating the nature of the tragic and the humorous. Sy, observing that a very fine line Read More

Into the West

Actors: Matthew Settle, Josh Brolin, Skeet Ulrich, Keri Russell, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the sprawling six-part, 12-hour TV miniseries Into the West covers 65 years of American history, from the first major migration westward in the mid-1820s to the massacre at Wounded Knee in the early 1890s. The story is largely seen through the eyes of two Read More

Mister Sterling [TV Series]

Actors: Josh Brolin, Audra McDonald, William Russ, David Noroña, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: Created by West Wing writer Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., the weekly, 60-minute political drama Mister Sterling was a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for the 21st century. Josh Brolin starred as William Sterling Jr., the idealistic young "reformist" son of a popular retired California governor (James Whitmore Read More

Hollow Man

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Greg Grunberg, Mary Jo Randle, Kim Dickens, Joey Slotnick, William Devane

Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller, a man and a woman must fend off a killer whom they cannot see. Scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) is working with a secret military research team headed by Dr. Kramer (William Devane), assigned to create new intelligence technology. With the help of his colleagues Read More

Slow Burn

Actors: Minnie Driver, James Spader, Josh Brolin, Stuart Wilson

Synopsis: Greed and obsession fuel a deadly showdown in this thriller. When Trina (Minnie Driver) was a girl, her mother and father were determined to find a fortune in diamonds that had supposedly been buried in the desert in Mexico many years before. Now that her parents have passed on, Trina has Read More

Picnic

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Josh Brolin, Ben Caswell, Gretchen Mol, Chad Morgan

Synopsis: Originally staged on Broadway in 1953 and filmed two years later, William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic drama Picnic went before the cameras a second time in 2000 as a made-for-TV movie. Josh Brolin stars as Hal Carter, a handsome and impecunious drifter who shows up in a tranquil Kansas Read More

Best Laid Plans

Actors: Father Terrance Sweeney, Alessandro Nivola, Rebecca Klingler, Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hendrickson, Josh Brolin, Owen Bush, Rocky Carroll, Michael Hagerty, Jesse Woodrow

Synopsis: Absolutely nobody is who he or she seems in this stylish thriller about a guy who wants to get out of his fly-speck hometown, the girlfriend who wants to help him, and the successful friend who just might make it possible. When Bryce (Josh Brolin) returns to his tiny hometown of Tropico, NV, he Read More

The Mod Squad

Actors: Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, Omar Epps, Dennis Farina, Josh Brolin

Synopsis: Police Capt. Adam Greer (Dennis Farina) needs some new cops who can go where other cops can't. Greer finds three young people on their way to jail: Lincoln Hayes (Omar Epps), the black one, is up for arson; Pete Cochrane (Giovanni Ribisi), the white one, is up for robbery; and Julie Barnes (Claire Danes 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

Nightwatch

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Josh Brolin, Patricia Arquette, Alix Koromzay

Synopsis: Like The Vanishing (1988 and 1993), Nightwatch is an English-language version of a foreign-made film with the original director hired to remake his own movie. Ole Bornedal was the writer-director of the suspenseful 1994 thriller, Nattevagten, which had no U.S. release immediately on the heels of Read More

Mimic

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: While one would imagine that the average New Yorker would be used to dealing with bugs after years of apartment dwelling, a scientific experiment gone wrong results in an insect that even Raid can't handle in this sci-fi/horror thriller. In Manhattan, cockroaches are spreading a deadly disease Read More

Flirting With Disaster

Actors: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore, George Segal, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: In this satirical comedy, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) has a beautiful wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and a four-month old son, and on the surface his life is good. But something's been troubling him: Mel knows he was adopted, and he can't resolve his issues with the mother who gave him away years Read More

Bed of Roses

Actors: Christian Slater, Mary Stuart Masterson, Pamela Segall, Josh Brolin, Ally Walker

Synopsis: Two lonely people learn to say it with flowers in this romantic drama. Lisa (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a business executive who has gotten used to being alone but doesn't like it very much; she was abandoned by her birth parents, and then spent most of her childhood being raised by Stanley (S.A. Griffin Read More

Gang in Blue

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Josh Brolin, J.T. Walsh, Stephen Lang, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: In this highly-charged police drama, Officer Michael Rhoades is becoming increasingly disturbed by the amount of white-on-black violence that has been escalating in his quiet town. He is especially disturbed that much of that interracial brutality is coming from the police. Rhoades calls they FBI 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

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

Prison for Children

Synopsis: Made for television, Prison for Children is set in a brutal boys' reformatory. New superintendent John Ritter tries to improve conditions, but finds himself up against a wall of indifference and red tape. The film shows how a supposedly "beneficial" system of incarceration and detention can Read More

The Young Riders: Season 03

Actors: Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Gregg Rainwater

Synopsis: Leathery old stationmaster Teaspoon Hunter moves his Pony Express way-station from Sweetwater, Wyoming to the larger, more urbanized community of Rock Creek, Nebraska, as The Young Riders begins its third and final season. Now a US marshal, Teaspoon has left the care and maintenance of his station Read More

The Young Riders: Season 02

Actors: Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Travis Fine

Synopsis: Season Two of The Young Riders finds a few changes of personnel around and about the Pony Express station run by crusty old Teaspoon Hunter (Anthony Zerbe in pre-Civil War Sweetwater, Wyoming. Youthful riders The Kid (Ty Miller, Billy Cody (Stephen Baldwin, Jimmy Hickok (Josh Brolin, Ike McSawain Read More

Finish Line

Actors: James Brolin

Synopsis: James Brolin costars with his son Josh in the made-for-cable Finish Line. The film's ad copy says it all: "His father made him run. The steroids made him win." In a justifiably melodramatic fashion, the film, based on a true story, examines the win-at-any-cost mentality of high school athletes and Read More

The Young Riders: Season 01

Actors: Anthony Zerbe, Ty Miller, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Brolin, Travis Fine

Synopsis: Season One of The Young Riders begins in 1860, as a rambunctious teenaged hothead known only as The Kid (Ty Miller) signs on as a rider for the Central Overland Express mail service in Sweetwater, Wyoming. This particular branch of the service is overseen by stationmaster Teaspoon Hunter (Anthony Read More

The Neon Payback

Private Eye

Actors: Lisa Jane Persky, Bill Sadler, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Woods

Synopsis: Private Eye was the pilot for the 1987 TV series of the same name. The setting is the Los Angeles of 1956. Ex-cop Jack Cleary (Michael Woods), embittered over his brother's death, becomes a Spillanelike private detective, principally to solve his sibling's murder. A Rock 'n' roll idol (John Read More

Thrashin'

Actors: Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, Pam Gidley, Brooke McCarter, Jr., Brett Marx

Synopsis: Valley boys take on the punk rockers in this teen-age adventure. This time they use skateboards instead of zip guns, knives and fists. The rich Valley kids, "The Ramp Locals," are led by Corey Webster, while the leather-clad, street-wise punks follow Tommy Hook. The trouble begins when Corey falls Read More

The Goonies

Actors: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green

Synopsis: Leonard Maltin wasn't alone when he noticed similarities between Goonies and the 1934 Our Gang comedy Mama's Little Pirate. Adapted by Chris Columbus from a story by Steven Spielberg, the film follows a group of misfit kids (including such second-generation Hollywoodites as Josh Brolin and Sean Astin Read More