Lasse HallströmFilmography

Born:: June 2, 1946 in Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of Sweden's most renowned directors, Lasse Hallström is best known to international audiences as the maker of such poignant but resolutely unsentimental coming-of-age films as My Life as a Dog and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The son of an amateur filmmaker, Hallström was born in Stockholm on...Read More

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Dear John

Crew: Director

Actors: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Director Lasse Hallström and screenwriter Jamie Linden collaborate to adapt author Nicholas Sparks' novel about a young soldier who falls for an idealistic college girl. Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) was on spring break when she first met John Tyree (Channing Tatum), who was home on temporary Read More

2/5/10
New Amsterdam [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Zuleikha Robinson, Alexie Gilmore, Stephen Henderson

Synopsis: Originally slated to make its Fox network bow on September 25, 2007, but held up due to production problems, New Amsterdam was rushed onto the network's schedule during the 2008 Hollywood writers' strike, with only eight of the propose thirteen episodes in the manifest. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Read More

2008
The Hoax

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Stanley Tucci

Synopsis: Director Lasse Hallström offers a brisk account of the scam that shook the literary community with this semi-comic biographical drama starring Richard Gere as the man who sold a fraudulent biography of Howard Hughes to publishing giant McGraw Hill. The year was 1971; the Vietnam War was raging and Read More

4/6/07
Casanova

Crew: Director

Actors: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin

Synopsis: History's most renowned ladies' man finally meets his match in this historical romance laced with comedy and adventure. In Venice in 1753, Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) is a notorious playboy whose way with women goes too far when he's caught leaving the bedroom of a novice nun, and one of the Read More

12/25/05
An Unfinished Life

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner

Synopsis: Two generations of a damaged family are brought together in this emotional drama. Einar Gilkyson (Robert Redford) was a once successful rancher whose spread went to seed after he developed a serious drinking problem. Now on the wagon, Einar looks after what's left of his spread with his friend Read More

9/9/05
Open Window

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robin Tunney, Joel Edgerton, Cybill Shepherd, Matt Keeslar, Scott Wilson, Shirley Knight, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: Mia Goldman's psychological drama Open Window stars Joel Edgerton and Robbin Tunney as a husband and wife who have intense professional lives, but are able to rely on each other during their time together at home. One night the wife is raped, sending her into a depression that threatens to crumble Read More

2005
ABBA: The Definitive Collection

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This deluxe collection of ABBA's music videos provides an interesting insight into the group's visual appeal (i.e., their clean-scrubbed, deliriously European look) by collecting their video output in one convenient package. Most of the clips were directed by Lasse Hallström and utilize the kind Read More

2002
The Shipping News

Crew: Director

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Pete Postlethwaite

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director Lasse Hallström. Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (Cate Blanchett), a promiscuous wild woman who tries Read More

12/25/01
Chocolat

Crew: Director

Actors: Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina

Synopsis: The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community's activities are Read More

12/15/00
The Cider House Rules

Crew: Director

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Michael Caine

Synopsis: John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an orphan who spent most of his childhood at the St. Cloud Orphanage in rural Maine, where he grew up under the strong but affectionate care of Dr. Read More

12/10/99
Something to Talk About

Crew: Director

Actors: Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick

Synopsis: The feminist outrage of Thelma & Louise (1991) screenwriter Callie Khouri blended superbly with director Lasse Hallstrom's predilection for stories about idiosyncratic families in this effective comedy-drama. Julia Roberts stars as Grace King Bichon, a prim small-town wife who is incensed when she Read More

1995
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Darlene Cates

Synopsis: Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom's follow-up to the underrated Once Around earned far more attention than its predecessor thanks to the judicious casting of perennial thinking woman's heartthrob Johnny Depp and a certain up-and-coming thespian by the name of Leonardo DiCaprio. A prisoner of his Read More

1993
Once Around

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands

Synopsis: Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom made his American movie debut with this romantic comedy, starring Holly Hunter as Renata Bella, an aimless Bostonian thirtysomething who attends a seminar for aspiring condo salespersons. Here she meets hotshot salesman Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss), who Read More

1/18/91
My Life as a Dog

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anton Glanzelius, Anki Liden, Manfred Serner, Melinda Kinnaman, Tomas von Bromssen

Synopsis: In 1959 Sweden, young Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius) lives with his dying mother and his nasty older brother. He survives all of life's knocks by comparing himself to those who are worse off--such as Laika, the little Russian space dog who was rocketed to his death and had nothing to say in the Read More

5/1/87
Mer Om Oss Barn I Bullerby

Crew: Director

Actors: Linda Bergstrom, Cripin Dickson Wendenius, Henrik Larsson, Ellen Demerus, Anna Sahlin

Synopsis: This idyllic children's story is taken from the popular novel by Astrid Lingren. In the tale, the children revel in playing in a rural paradise far away from the problems of the world and the eyes of adult supervision. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Alla Vi Barn I Bullerby

Crew: Director

Actors: Linda Bergstrom, Cripin Dickson Wendenius, Henrik Larsson, Ellen Demerus, Anna Sahlin

Synopsis: A young child's account of an idyllic summer in the 1920s, this film by Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog) features three girls and three boys on vacation in a remote rural area of Sweden. Their ages range between seven and nine and they have fun in the way that innocent kids can; they romp in the Read More

1986
Tvaa Killar Och En Tjej

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Brasse Brannstrom, Magnus Haerenstam, Pia Green

Synopsis: In this conventional comedy about a stand-up trio who come together again after a 16-year-hiatus to write material for a friend's wedding, the actors add enough of their talents to the script to lighten up the movie, but the narrative is still rather ordinary. Two of the trio were married to each Read More

1983
Tuppen

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Magnus Haerenstam, Allan Edwall

Synopsis: Cederkvist (Magnus Haerenstram) starts strutting around an all-women textile mill soon after he arrives as the regional "efficiency expert" determined to whip the plant into clock-work order and bed down whomever he can. (The time is WW II and all the men are apparently away fighting.) Naturally Read More

1981
Jag Aer Med Barn

Crew: Director, Editor, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Magnus Haerenstam, Anki Liden, Lis Nilheim

Synopsis: Bosse (Magnus Haerenstam) is an ad-agency employee who takes a leave of absence to complete his novel in this offbeat comedy. When he meets Lena (Anki Liden), the two are soon living together, and the author forgets his literary pursuits to father a child. He reads every book he can on pregnancy Read More

1979
ABBA: The Movie

Crew: Director, Editor, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hughes, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Bruce Barry

Synopsis: ABBA, the spirited Swedish pop-singing group who skyrocketed to fame with their 1974 single "Waterloo," star in this loosely constructed vehicle. The story involves the efforts of a diligent DJ to secure an interview with the group while they're on tour in Australia. Eighteen of ABBA's hits are Read More

1977
En Kille och en tjej

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This Swedish film is entirely about the romance between a young man and a woman: how they meet, get together, become lovers, fight, make up, and generally engage in everyday life. Somehow, despite their imperfections, the affection between them enables them to surmount the obstacles that arise. Read More

1975
Shall We Go to My or Your Place or Each Go Home Alone?

Crew: Director

1973