Matthew Modine Filmography

Weeds: Season 03

Actors: Mary-Louise Parker

Go Go Tales

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Modine, Asia Argento, Riccardo Scamarcio, Lou Doillon

Synopsis: Indie stalwart Abel Ferrara helms this quirky comedy about the goings-on at a downtown cabaret. Willem Defoe stars as Ray Ruby, the proprietor of a joint where all of the dancing girls have big dreams of working their way up to bigger and better things. But trouble begins to brew when money Read More

I Think I Thought

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew Modine, Ewa DeCruz, Nick Raynes

The Bedford Diaries [TV Series]

Synopsis: An "ensemble drama" along the lines of The O.C. -- but with characters who wore more clothes and stayed indoors more often -- the WB network's weekly, hour-long Bedford Diaries was set at fictional Bedford college, a liberal-arts establishment somewhere in Manhattan (the series was lensed Read More

Kettle of Fish

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Matthew Modine, Gina Gershon, Christy Scotty Cashman, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Opposites attract in the close quarters of a one bedroom apartment in this romantic comedy from first-time director Claudia Meyers. Mel (Matthew Modine) plays saxophone with a jazz band, and the only thing he's ever pursued with the same passion as his music is women, whom he loves and leaves on a Read More

Transporter 2

Actors: Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: Driver and muscle for hire Frank Martin returns in this sequel to the 2002 box-office hit. Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is a former special-forces officer who will transport anything anywhere for a price, and his latest assignment is acting as chauffeur for Jack Billings (Hunter Clary), the young 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

Opa!

Actors: Matthew Modine, Richard Griffiths, Agni Tsangaridou, Alki David

Synopsis: Love clashes with duty in director Udayan Prasad's tale of a determined archeologist who chases his father's dream across the globe only to find his life mission thwarted when he discovers the true meaning of love. Eric (Matthew Modine) is an archeologist seeking to verify his father's claims that Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Rage

Synopsis: Two young girls, Kerry Lynn Palmer and Dana McNamara, are raped and murdered--fourteen years apart. At the time of the first murder, Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) had nailed Gordon Rickett (Matthew Modine) as the perpetrator, only to let Rickett slip through his fingers. Now Read More

Mary

Actors: Matthew Modine, Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Heather Graham, Marion Cotillard

Synopsis: An egotistical film director (Matthew Modine), a contemplative talk show host (Forrest Whitaker) and an actress in the throes of a religious epiphany (Juliette Binoche) cross paths in this allegorical drama from director Abel Ferrara. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

A Hairy Tale

Funky Monkey

Actors: Roma Downey, Matthew Modine, Seth Adkins

Synopsis: When a rogue CIA agent and a kung fu fighting chimp named Clemens stage a daring escape from a top-secret government testing facility, the stage is set for an adventure that's sure to please the entire family in this primate crowd-pleaser featuring Matthew Modine, Seth Adkins, and Roma Downey. Read More

The Winning Season

Synopsis: The time travel film The Winning Season stars Shawn Hatosy as Joe Soshack, a man who is attempting to make a fortune by traveling back in time to have baseball legend Honus Wagner (Matthew Modine) autograph his baseball card. Joe arrives in 1909, but his plan starts to go wrong when he becomes Read More

Le Divorce

Actors: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining), Le Divorce is a romantic comedy from director James Ivory. Revisiting the "Americans in France" theme that Ivory explored in 1998's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Read More

Hollywood North

Actors: Matthew Modine, Alan Bates, Deborah Kara Unger, John Neville, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: Candian filmmaker Peter O'Brian directs the comedy Hollywood North, set in Toronto during the late '70s. Matthew Modine stars as Bobby Mayers, a stressed-out Canadian producer trying to make an action film called "Flight to Bogota." The production is inevitably troubled by numerous problems with Read More

Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: British actor Robert Carlyle stars as the 20th century's most infamous dictator in this two-part TV biopic. The film covers the life of Adolf Hitler from his childhood to his emergence as absolute ruler of Germany in 1934. Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's Read More

Redeemer

Actors: Obba Babatunde, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: Volunteering to teach literature to the inmates of the Dalesboro Correctional Institute, novelist Paul Freeman (Matthew Modine) becomes fascinated with the plight of Charles Henderson (Obba Babatunde), a former Black Panther serving a life sentence for a murder committed 20 years before. Of the Read More

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Synopsis: Wealthy businessman Jack Robinson (Matthew Modine) is building a new casino on the site of the family castle in England when the construction crew makes a startling discovery: They find the skeleton of a gigantic human being. Soon, foul weather and natural disasters occur at an unnatural rate. Read More

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Actors: Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation, but he was also an intensely private man who rarely gave interviews and produced most of his films under a shroud of secrecy, which tended to foster a great deal of rumor and speculation about his working Read More

Nobody's Baby

Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Gary Oldman, Radha Mitchell, Mary Steenburgen, Gordon Tootoosis

Synopsis: A slack-jawed yokel discovers the joys of parenthood while trying to avoid the law in this gleefully tasteless comedy. Billy (Skeet Ulrich) and Buford (Gary Oldman) are two dim-witted rednecks who grew up together in an orphanage; as adults, the pair ended up in prison after reading other people's Read More

The Shipment

Synopsis: After smuggling a stolen multimillion-dollar shipment of Viagra into the United States from Mexico, Crazy Jose (Paul Rodriguez) is pursued by an angry New York Mafioso in this outrageous comedy from director Alex Wright. Though the big-city wise guys are determined to recover their profitable Read More

Flowers For Algernon

Actors: Matthew Modine, Kelli Williams, Ron Rifkin, Bonnie Bedelia, Richard Chevolleau

Synopsis: Matthew Modine stars in this adaptation of the classic novel by Daniel Keyes. In the film, Modine plays Charlie Gordon, a gentle, simple man with an IQ of 68 who is the subject of an intelligence-enhancing experiment. This lowly janitor, who was the butt of many of his co-workers' jokes, is soon Read More

Very Mean Men

Actors: Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, Ben Gazzara, Scott Baio, Burt Young

Synopsis: A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving drinks to a tough-looking guy (Martin Landau) he Read More

In the Shadows

Actors: Jeff Chase, Joey Lauren Adams, James Caan

Synopsis: New York hit man Eric O'Byrne (Matthew Modine) is sent to Miami to murder movie stunt coordinator Lance Huston (James Caan) in retaliation for an on-set accident that killed a powerful capo's nephew, who also was a drug smuggler working on a large deal with eccentric kingpin Draven (Cuba Gooding Jr. Read More

Any Given Sunday

Actors: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx

Synopsis: Oliver Stone takes on professional football, a sport whose grace and delicacy are a good match for his filmmaking style. Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little Read More

One Last Score

Crew: Director

Actors: John Hurt, Matthew Modine, Kevin J. O'Connor, David Keith

Synopsis: An ex-con finds that going straight isn't easy -- especially when it means going against your family. Johnny Cooper (Matthew Modine) is a petty criminal who has just gotten out of jail after doing time for armed robbery. While Johnny's brother James (Kevin J. O'Connor) and father Sean (John Hurt) Read More

The American

Synopsis: Adapted from Henry James' 1877 novel, The American stars Matthew Modine as Christopher Newman, a nouveau riche Californian determined to crash into European society. Falling in love with aristocratic young widow Claire De Cintre (Aisling O'Sullivan), Christopher intends to marry the girl Read More

What The Deaf Man Heard

Actors: Matthew Modine, Claire Bloom, Judith Ivey, James Earl Jones, Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis: Scripter Robert W. Lenski adapted G.D. Gearino's novel What the Deaf-Mute Heard for this Hallmark Hall of Fame comedy. It was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, by director John Kent Harrison. During the '40s, single mother Helen (Bernadette Peters) boards a bus for Barrington, Georgia, with Read More

The Maker

Actors: Matthew Modine, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Mary-Louise Parker

Synopsis: Tim Hunter, the director of River's Edge, returned with another powerful story of troubled teenagers struggling to find their way out of moral and legal limbo. High school senior Josh Minell (Jonathan Rhys Myers) has strong academic skills, but he spends his nights hanging out with a group of Read More

The Blackout

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Matthew Modine, Dennis Hopper, Claudia Schiffer, Sarah Lassez

Synopsis: Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this typically edgy look at an actor whose abuse of alcohol and drugs takes an unexpected toll. Matty (Matthew Modine) is an actor whose career is on the fast track; however, he's not able to handle the pressures of life in Hollywood, so he heads to Miami to Read More

The Real Blonde

Actors: Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Maxwell Caulfield, Elizabeth Berkley

Synopsis: This romantic comedy from writer and director Tom DiCillo follows some New York City pals seeking authenticity with the real blonde, a symbol of amorous perfection. Joe (Matthew Modine) is an out-of-work actor struggling for even bit parts in Madonna music videos by groveling in front of a Read More

Fluke

Actors: Matthew Modine, Nancy Travis, Eric Stoltz, Max Pomeranc, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: A man learns to be a better person when he turns into a dog in this thoughtful and surprisingly somber drama for the family. Tom (Matthew Modine), a businessman, is so driven to succeed that he all but ignores his wife Carol (Nancy Travis) and their son Brian (Max Pomeranc). Tom's perspective Read More

Bye Bye, Love

Actors: Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid, Paul Reiser, Janeane Garofalo, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Three divorced fathers, played by Paul Reiser, Matthew Modine, and Randy Quaid, experience the joys and hardships of their former marriages, their relationships with their kids, and getting back into the dating scene in this whimsical comedy. Dave (Modine) is diligently playing the field, while Read More

Cutthroat Island

Actors: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide

Synopsis: Geena Davis stars in this adventure saga as the most swashbuckling female pirate to ever lay waste to the seven seas. Morgan Adams (Davis) is the daughter of a pirate who has followed in her father's footsteps. When he dies, he passes along his ship, a crew of bandits, and one third of a treasure Read More

The Browning Version

Actors: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twenty Read More

Jacob

Actors: Sean Bean, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: The biblical story of Jacob explored in this made-for-TV movie starring Matthew Modine as the titular religious figure and Lara Flynn Boyle as his love Rachel. Set against the backdrop of Jacob's many trials from God throughout his life, Turner Pictures' production focuses on the romantic aspect Read More

Equinox

Actors: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Fred Ward, Tyra Ferrell, Tate Donovan, Marisa Tomei

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph wrote and directed this typically off-beat drama. A brief romantic liaison between a wealthy European and an American ballet dancer results in a pair of identical twins, who are separated and raised by others shortly after birth. Henry (Matthew Modine) was adopted by Pete (M. Emmet Walsh Read More

And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

Short Cuts

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Tim Robbins, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Synopsis: Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls Read More

Wind

Actors: Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey, Stellan Skarsgård, Rebecca Miller, Ned Vaughn, Cliff Robertson, Jack Thompson

Synopsis: Wind is set in the world of competitive yacht racing, where a young sailor (Matthew Modine) is intent on winning the America's Cup, as well as regaining the affections of his ex-girlfriend (Jennifer Grey). As the film opens, Modine chooses to race the America's Cup instead of staying with Grey. Read More

Memphis Belle

Actors: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, David Strathairn

Synopsis: Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclaimed documentary about the real-life events depicted in the film. The ensemble cast is composed of ten young actors portraying the crew of the World Read More

Pacific Heights

Actors: Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning Read More

The Lemon Sisters

Actors: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, Kathryn Grody, Elliott Gould, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane and Kathryn Grody are the title "siblings," three unrelated women who perform as a lounge trio and struggle to come up with the money to buy their own club. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Gross Anatomy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, John Scott Clough

Synopsis: Gross Anatomy is to medical school what Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems to be well above Modine's social strata. Perhaps as a reaction to Read More

The Gamble

Actors: Matthew Modine, Jennifer Beals, Faye Dunaway, Corinne Clery, Federica Moro

Synopsis: In this lusty romantic adventure, a young wanderer returns to his Venice home and discovers that his wealthy father has squandered the family fortune on gambling and is deeply indebted to a cruel countess from Germany. When she sees the young man, she decides she wants him and decides to make one Read More

Married to the Mob

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the Read More

Eugene O'Neill: Journey into Genius

Synopsis: Starring Matthew Modine, Journey Into Genius portrays the writing career of award-winning American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Covering his life from his childhood of shadowing his actor father, the film reveals O'Neill's personal difficulties including alcoholism, divorce, and becoming stricken Read More

Saturday Night Live: Matthew Modine

Actors: Matthew Modine, Edie Brickell

Synopsis: This 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Matthew Modine and features musical guest Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Orphans

Actors: Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Kevin Anderson, John Kellogg, Anthony Heald

Synopsis: Two brothers kidnap a boozy gangster and try to hold him for ransom in this psychological thriller. Harold (Albert Finney) is lured from a saloon by Treat (Matthew Modine) to their squalid tenement. He and his reclusive and agoraphobic brother, Phillip (Kevin Anderson), have no idea Harold is a Read More

Full Metal Jacket

Actors: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film crystallizes the experience of the Vietnam War by concentrating on a group of raw Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel The Short Timers, the film's first half details the volunteers' harrowing boot-camp Read More

Vision Quest

Actors: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling, Ronny Cox, Harold Sylvester

Synopsis: According to high school wrestler Matthew Modine, a spiritual "Vision Quest" is necessary for him to decide his future. Thus, Modine starts behaving in a manner that amazes even himself. The crowning achievement of Modine's new outlook on life is his romance with 21-year-old artist Linda Fiorentino Read More

Mrs. Soffel

Actors: Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the inmates, despite her fragile health. While making her Read More

Birdy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Delores Sage, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: Director Alan Parker tackles this adapation of William Wharton's novel, which retains much of the source material's texture and complexity. Matthew Modine is Birdy, who comes back from Vietnam mentally shattered and deludes himself into thinking that he is a bird, an animal that has obsessed him Read More

The Hotel New Hampshire

Actors: Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: This macabre, whimsical, erotic, dark, seriocomic film is a complex tale about an eccentric family and the psychological and emotional maelstroms that follow them around from New England to New York to Vienna, where the Hotel New Hampshire is located. Writer-director Tony Richardson worked from Read More

Baby It's You

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Jack Davidson, Nick Ferrari

Synopsis: In the early 1960s, two very different New Jersey high schoolers share their first love in this bittersweet romantic drama, an early feature by writer/director John Sayles. Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is a sweet, overachieving Jewish girl heading for college to become an actor; "Sheik" Read More

Streamers

Actors: Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier, Albert Macklin

Synopsis: Based on the virulently antimilitary play by David Rabe, Streamers is set in a basic-training barracks. Matthew Modine is among the raw recruits who alternate between strutting around like bantam cocks to snivelling like frightened children. To test one another's manhood, the recruits indulge in Read More

Private School

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Betsy Russell, Matthew Modine, Michael Zorek, Fran Ryan

Synopsis: Three of the hallmarks of education in America -- nudity, teenage sex, and big, destructive gags -- are on plentiful display in this teen comedy. Christine (Phoebe Cates), a student at an exclusive all-girls private school, is in love with Jim (Matthew Modine), who attends an academy for boys Read More

Amy and the Angel

Synopsis: Amy's angel is her guardian angel who, seeing her in a despondent state (from her parents' recent divorce and a painful lack of friends) shows Amy the bright side of her life, helpin