Matt DamonFilmography

Bourne 4

Actors: Matt Damon

Synopsis: Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) returns to try and remember bits of his veiled past in this fourth installment of the highly successful Universal Pictures series, once again with director Paul Greengrass at the helm. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Liberace

Actors: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon

Synopsis: Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh presents the story of the flamboyant pianist Liberace (played by Michael Douglas) and his long-term partner, Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), in this Warner Bros. biopic. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

True Grit

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin

Synopsis: A 14-year-old girl joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father's killer into hostile Indian territory in Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Charles Portis' original novel. Sticking more closely to the source material than the 1969 feature Read More

Hereafter

Actors: Matt Damon, Cécile De France

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood steps behind the camera for this DreamWorks supernatural thriller penned by Frost/Nixon's Peter Morgan. Kathleen Kennedy produces, with Matt Damon and Haute Tension's Cecile de France starring. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Invictus

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon

Synopsis: Actor Morgan Freeman portrays anti-apartheid activist and former South African president Nelson Mandela in this Clint Eastwood-helmed political drama adapted from author John Carlin's book The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed the World. Set just after the fall of apartheid Read More

The Informant!

Actors: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Rick Overton

Synopsis: A rising star in the agricultural industry suddenly turns whistleblower in hopes of gaining a lucrative promotion and becoming a hero of the common people, inadvertently revealing his penchant for helping himself to the corporate coffers and ultimately threatening to derail the very investigation Read More

Che, Part 1

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Javier Bardem, Julia Ormond, Santiago Cabrera, Franka Potente, Edgar Ramirez, Demián Bichir

Synopsis: Part 1 of Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara saga stars Benicio Del Toro as the legendary Argentine revolutionary. The film opens with Che as one of the important figures in the growing Cuban rebellion led by Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir). The movie charts how the two successfully built an underground Read More

Margaret

Actors: Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno, Matthew Broderick

Che

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Santiago Cabrera, Jorge Perugorría, Edgar Ramirez

Synopsis: Nearly 40 years after Che Guevara's execution in Bolivia, director Steven Soderbergh retraces the life of the iconic Cuban revolutionary in this nearly four-and-a-half-hour saga. Part 1 begins on November 26, 1956, as Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir) sails into Cuban waters with 80 rebels in tow. Read More

Ponyo

Actors: Noah Cyrus, Yuria Nara, Frankie Jonas, Hiroki Doi, Tina Fey, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Matt Damon, Kazushige Nagashima, Cate Blanchett, Yuki Amami, Liam Neeson, George Tokoro

Synopsis: Acclaimed anime master Hayao Miyazaki returns for his ninth animated feature with Ponyo, which deals with a friendship between a five-year-old boy and a goldfish princess who yearns to be human. The daughter of the king of the ocean, Ponyo is no ordinary goldfish -- she has all the magic of the Read More

Running the Sahara

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Matt Damon, Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab, Kevin Lin

Synopsis: Three men attempt to do the unthinkable -- traverse the Sahara desert by means of running -- in this documentary chronicling a journey begun in November 2006. As they interact with the cultures and people of Africa, the runners promote H2O Africa, a charity that strives to promote clean drinking Read More

The Bourne Ultimatum

Actors: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Albert Finney

Synopsis: Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) races to solve the mystery of his past while being hunted by members of the very organization he was hired into as director Paul Greengrass brings author Robert Ludlum's popular character back to the big screen for his third feature outing. David Strathairn, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen Read More

Ocean's Thirteen

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia

Synopsis: Cinema icon Al Pacino joins a powerhouse cast headed by of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and series newcomer Ellen Barkin for this, the third installment of director Steven Soderbergh's popular series of glitzy crime comedies. The only hotelier in Las Read More

MLB: 2007 World Series - Colorado Rockies vs. Boston Red Sox

Actors: Matt Damon, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Kevin Youkilis, Jacoby Ellsbury

Synopsis: MLB: 2007 World Series - Colorado Rockies vs. Boston Red Sox documents the fall classic that saw Boston's team capture the world championship in a sweep of the National League club that was the hottest in baseball going into the series. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

The Good Shepherd

Actors: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard

Synopsis: One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a young man with a bright future ahead of him -- he's a top student at Yale and the protégé of one of the school's leading Read More

The Departed

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly Read More

Feast

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Henry Rollins, Navi Rawat, Judah Friedlander, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: The hard-drinking patrons of a small-town dive bar are forced to fight for their lives when a vicious family of flesh-eating creatures arrive looking for their latest meal in a fast and fun horror romp filmed as part of HBO's Project Greenlight series and starring Balthazar Getty, Judah Friedlander Read More

Syriana

Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt

Synopsis: Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore directorial effort that traces the corruption of the global oil industry from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the petroleum-rich fields of the Middle East. Based in part on the writings of former Read More

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D

Synopsis: Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of the moon -- are paid homage in this documentary. Using newsreel footage, rare NASA photographs, and digitally animated re-creations, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon Read More

The Brothers Grimm

Actors: Monica Bellucci, Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Jonathan Pryce

Synopsis: Two men who have made a career out of spinning remarkable stories find themselves bringing them to life in this inventive fantasy inspired by the creators of some of the world's best-loved fairy tales. Will Grimm (Matt Damon) and his brother Jake Grimm (Heath Ledger) earn their living by traveling Read More

Ocean's Twelve

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: After pulling off the heist of their lives, Danny Ocean and his pals unexpectedly find themselves back in harness in this sequel to 2001's blockbuster hit Ocean's Eleven. After robbing a cool $160 million from the Bellaggio Hotel Casino and winning back his former wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), from Read More

The Bourne Supremacy

Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, Joan Allen

Synopsis: The second chapter in the "Bourne Trilogy," based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novels, reaches the screen in this sequel to the 2002 thriller The Bourne Identity. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar Read More

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Actors: Matt Damon

Synopsis: Directed by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller, Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train offers a retrospective on the life and times of Howard Zinn. Activist, best-selling author, and historian, Zinn is considered the catalyst for some of the most notable progressive movements of the past 60 Read More

Stuck on You

Actors: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Eva Mendes, Wen Yann Shih, Pat Crawford Brown

Synopsis: After tackling schizophrenia, obesity, and the inner workings of the vascular system (as represented by an animated Chris Rock), Peter and Bobby Farrelly set their comedic sights on a set of conjoined twins in this broad comedy. Written and directed by the non-twin Farrellys, Stuck on You stars Greg Kinnear Read More

The Battle of Shaker Heights

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart, Billy Kay, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: The Battle of Shaker Heights is directed by the team of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin. Kelly Ernswiler (Shia LaBeouf) is a quirky 17-year-old whose greatest passion is reenacting battles from World War II. After meeting Bart Bowland (Elden Henson), someone who is nothing like him but shares his Read More

Gerry

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon

Synopsis: Gus Van Sant returned to his roots in experimental filmmaking with this offbeat feature, whose dialogue was entirely improvised by its two person cast. Two men named Gerry (played by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) are driving through the desert regions of Death Valley, traveling towards an unknown Read More

Journey to the Planet Earth [TV Documetary Series]

Synopsis: The tenuous balance between humankind and the environment was explored, examined, and dissected on this seven-part PBS documentary series. Amidst clips of starvation, devastation, and ecological disasters, filmmakers Hal and Marilyn Weiner offered hypothetical alternatives to the depletion of the Read More

Project Greenlight: Season 02

The Bourne Identity

Actors: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Clive Owen, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: The best-selling suspense novel by late author Robert Ludlum comes to the screen for a second time, following a 1988 made-for-TV movie. Matt Damon stars as Jason Bourne, a barely alive amnesiac with a pair of bullet wounds in his back, pulled from the Mediterranean by Italian fishermen. Bourne's Read More

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Actors: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Fusco returns to the Western themes of his previous films Young Guns and Thunderheart with this animated children's adventure from Dreamworks. Matt Damon supplies the voice of Spirit, a wild Mustang stallion living free in the Old West of the late 19th century, where he's Read More

Stolen Summer

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Bonnie Hunt, Kevin Pollak, Adi Stein

Synopsis: Pete (Adi Stein) is an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-'70s. Pete attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of Lord, and not that of the Devil. Perhaps taking this message a bit too Read More

Speakeasy

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A runner-up in HBO's popular series Project Greenlight, this touching tale of common threads and self-discovery stars David Strathairn, Nicky Katt, and Christopher McDonald. Brought together by a car accident, Bruce Hickman (Strathairn) and Frank Marnikov (Katt) soon discover that they are Read More

The Third Wheel

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Luke Wilson, Denise Richards, Jay Lacopo, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon

Synopsis: An unlucky-in-love bachelor lands his dream date, but finds that getting through the evening will be a difficult challenge indeed in this romantic comedy. The Third Wheel stars Luke Wilson as Stanley, a woefully inept young man who -- with the aid of his roommate Mike (Ben Affleck) -- works up the Read More

Push, Nevada [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Derek Cecil, Scarlett Chorvat, Jon Polito, Armand Assante, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: Network television's first "interactive" mystery-suspense series, Push, Nevada got under way somewhat in the manner of the 1945 theatrical feature Murder, He Says, with stalwart IRS agent Jim Prufrock (Derek Cecil) venturing into the hinterlands in search of a huge cache of stolen money. Prufrock Read More

Saturday Night Live: Matt Damon

Actors: Matt Damon, Bruce Springsteen

Synopsis: This 2002 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Matt Damon and features musical guest Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Majestic

Actors: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Gerry Black, Brent Briscoe, Karl Bury

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete's on top of the world with his first motion picture "Sand Pirates of the Read More

Ocean's Eleven

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons team up for the heist to end all heists in this high-profile remake of the 1960 Rat Pack favorite. As with its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven opens with its titular hero Danny Ocean (George Clooney stepping into the Frank Sinatra role) eager for a new Read More

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Actors: Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ben Affleck, Shannon Elizabeth

Synopsis: The frequently recurring title characters, employed by writer and director Kevin Smith as supporting players in several of his films, are put to rest with this comedy that focuses on them exclusively. Jay (Jason Mews) and Silent Bob (Smith) are a pair of stoned New Jersey slackers who have long Read More

Project Greenlight [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Project Greenlight is an ambitious and unique reality program. The series was a joint venture of Miramax, HBO, Sam Adams, and LivePlanet. The executive producers of the series and the subsequent feature film, Stolen Summer, were actor/screenwriters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and producer Chris Moore Read More

All the Pretty Horses

Actors: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Penélope Cruz, Rubén Blades, Bruce Dern, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: Director Billy Bob Thornton explores coming of age in this Western based on Cormac McCarthy's prize-winning novel of the same name. John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) and Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) are young Texan men who seek a more fulfilling life as cowboys in the slowly fading Old West, circa Read More

Finding Forrester

Actors: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes

Synopsis: In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive novelist named Forrester (Sean Connery) -- who hasn't written anything since winning a Pulitzer Prize decades earlier -- and Jamal (Rob Brown), a Read More

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Actors: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his Read More

Titan A.E.

Actors: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo

Synopsis: Titan A.E. combines cel and CG imagery in this science fiction saga. In 3028, after the Earth is destroyed by an invading alien race, a tiny number of surviving humans roam the universe in ragtag spaceships, trying to find each other and maintain some sense of community. Shortly before the final Read More

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Actors: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: After the Oscar-winning The English Patient, writer/director Anthony Minghella attempted another tricky literary adaptation with The Talented Mr. Ripley, which features heartthrob Matt Damon cast against type as a psychopathic bisexual murderer. Tom Ripley (Damon) is a bright and charismatic Read More

Dogma

Actors: Ben Affleck, George Carlin, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Would you believe that the last living descendent of Jesus Christ is a woman working at an abortion clinic in Illinois? And that she's been sent on a holy mission with two minor characters from Clerks and Mallrats as her guides? Prepare to suspend any and all disbelief as you watch the religious Read More

Rounders

Actors: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen

Synopsis: John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure, law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who loses his entire savings to Russian club owner Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). Mike then turns away from Read More

Saving Private Ryan

Actors: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesel

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a Read More

Chasing Amy

Actors: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Dwight Ewell

Synopsis: After a pair of films about hipster slackers, the work of writer-director Kevin Smith matured and gained critical respect with this low budget, independent comedy-drama about love, sex and the fine line between the two. Ben Affleck stars as Holden McNeil, a New Jersey comic book writer who is Read More

The Rainmaker

Actors: Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing Read More

Good Will Hunting

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård

Synopsis: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Damon), gifted with a photographic memory, who hangs out with his South Boston bar buddies, his best friend Chuckie (Affleck), and his affluent British Read More

Courage Under Fire

Actors: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon

Synopsis: A soldier discovers how elusive the truth can be in this first major film about America's role in the Gulf War. Lt. Col. Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) was the commander of a unit during Operation Desert Storm who mistakenly ordered the destruction of what he believed to be an enemy tank Read More

Glory Daze

Actors: John Rhys-Davies, Alyssa Milano, Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Megan Ward, French Stewart, Vien Hong, Vinnie DeRamus, Spalding Gray

Synopsis: "El Rancho," a sort of punk rock Animal House, is the setting for this college drama. Five roommates live in this group house on the cusp of college graduation. Jack (a mohawk-wearing Ben Affleck) is an art major pining over his ex-girlfriend, while Rob (Sam Rockwell) fears domestication after Read More

The Good Old Boys

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Terry Kinney, Frances McDormand, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek

Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones made his directorial debut in this made-for-television movie about an aging cowboy dealing with the changing face of the West. Jones stars as Hewey Calloway, a cowboy who has roamed the West for years, who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads -- torn between the freedom of his Read More

Geronimo: An American Legend

Actors: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon

Synopsis: Walter Hill directs John Milius's script (co-written by Larry Gross) depicting a revisionist perspective on the "Geronimo Campaign" and how Geronimo, with 34 men, managed to elude 5000 U.S. cavalry men between 1885 and 1886 before his surrender at the Canyon of the Skeletons in September 1886. The Read More

School Ties

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery

Synopsis: An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. Read More

Rising Son

Actors: Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy stars in this made-for-cable drama about a blue-collar family man laid off from his auto-industry job who learns that his resentful son plans to drop out of medical school. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Mystic Pizza

Actors: Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, William R. Moses

Synopsis: Three teenagers learn a lot about life and love one summer in this romantic comedy-drama. Kat (Annabeth Gish), Daisy (Julia Roberts), and Jojo (Lili Taylor) are three working-class women just out of high school who have jobs at the same pizza parlor in the resort community of Mystic, Connecticut. Read More