Mike NewellFilmography

Love in the Time of Cholera

Crew: Director

Actors: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez's novel of the same name, director Mike Newell's Love in the Time of Cholera details a passionate love triangle that unfolds in turn-of-the-century South America. Oscar-winning Pianist scribe Ronald Harwood adapts the story of two young Read More

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Newell, the fourth installment to the Harry Potter series finds Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) wondering why his legendary scar -- the famous result of a death curse gone wrong -- is aching in pain, and perhaps even causing mysterious visions. Before he can think too much about it Read More

Huff: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hank Azaria, Paget Brewster, Blythe Danner, Anton Yelchin, Andy Comeau

Synopsis: Up until the day that a 15-year-old patient committed suicide right in the middle of his office, prosperous L.A. psychiatrist Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) had been sublimely confident that his was the most secure and well-ordered of lives. But as he finds out in the course of Huff's Read More

Mona Lisa Smile

Crew: Director

Actors: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint Read More

I Capture The Castle

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Henry Thomas, Marc Blucas, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Dodie Smith (101 Dalmatians), director Tim Fywell's comic romance follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain (Romola Garai) and her quirky family as they attempt to make the best of their meager existence in a crumbling English castle. While her father (Bill Nighy) has been Read More

Traffic

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Erika Christensen

Synopsis: Described by director Steven Soderbergh as "Nashville meets The French Connection," this multi-character drama explores the effects of international drug trafficking on all fronts: from their source, to the U.S. border, to the federal government, to the private lives of users. Based upon a Read More

High Fidelity

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet

Synopsis: A man discovers that there's more to love than a good mixed tape in this dramatic comedy about music and relationships. Rob (John Cusack), an obsessive record collector in his mid-thirties, is struggling to reconcile his adolescent enthusiasm for pop music with adult responsibilities and a more Read More

Best Laid Plans

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alessandro Nivola, Father Terrance Sweeney, 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

Pushing Tin

Crew: Director

Actors: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Vicki Lewis

Synopsis: The intense world of air-traffic controllers is played for both drama and laughs in Pushing Tin. John Cusack plays Nick Falzone, the top air traffic controller at New York's Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) Center, where he negotiates air traffic and landing patterns for the Kennedy Read More

Donnie Brasco

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche

Synopsis: This drama about an undercover cop who learns the hidden dangers of working his way inside the mob was based on a true story. Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an FBI agent who is given an assignment to infiltrate the Mafia; calling himself Donnie Brasco, he befriends Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a Read More

Photographing Fairies

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber, Philip Davis

Synopsis: Featuring neat special effects, this romantic fantasy is loosely based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies, a tale of two cousins who, in 1917, swore that they had photographed the magical wee folk dancing in their garden. The story the girls told captured the war-weary imagination of Read More

An Awfully Big Adventure

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth

Synopsis: A misleading title and a different type of performance from Hugh Grant are two of the offbeat features of An Awfully Big Adventure. Virginal theatre fanatic Stella (Georgina Cates), who speaks with her dead mother by phone, joins a theatrical troupe in 1947 England headed by manipulative director Read More

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Crew: Director

Actors: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet, John Hannah

Synopsis: This acclaimed British comedy centers on the intermittent romance between a charming (if slightly bumbling) Englishman and a beautiful American woman, who seem to always run into each other at weddings. Indeed, it is at the first of the title's four weddings that Charles (Hugh Grant) and Carrie (Andie McDowell Read More

Into the West

Crew: Director

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Ruaidhri Conroy, Patrick Doyle, David Kelly

Synopsis: Mike Newell directs Jim Sheridan's screenplay (based on a story by Tim Palmer) in this enchanting and magical modern-day fairy tale. Gabriel Byrne plays Papa Reilly, a widower who lives with his two young sons, Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy), in the slums of Dublin. There Read More

Enchanted April

Crew: Director

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Josie Lawrence, Alfred Molina, Polly Walker, Michael Kitchen

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1935 with Ann Harding, Enchanted April, a romantic novel by Elizabeth, was remade in 1992. The first film skips along superficially at 66 minutes: the second, directed by the always intriguing Mike Newell, runs 101 minutes, allowing for richer characterizations and a Read More

Common Ground, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In part one of the 4-hour TV movie Common Ground (see separate entry for details), the city of Boston embarks upon its 1974 school busing program. Instead of bringing unity and harmony, the buses have brought dissension, divisiveness, and some of the ugliest overt bigotry since the 1950s. The Read More

Common Ground, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Curtin, Richard Thomas

Synopsis: J. Anthony Lukas' 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning book Common Ground served as the basis of the two-part TV movie Common Ground. Jane Curtin plays Alice McGoff, and CCH Pounder plays Rachel Twymon, two Boston housewives and mothers on opposite sides of one of the city's bitterest racial battles. In Read More

Smith and Jones in Small Doses

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The stars of the British laughfest Alas Smith and Jones briefly abandoned their traditional sketch-comedy format in favor of brief "book" shows. The four 20-minute playlets offered herein included "The Whole Hog," "The Boat People," "Second Thoughts," and "The Waiting Room." Exercising their usual Read More

Soursweet

Crew: Director

Actors: Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun, Jodi Long, Soon-Teck Oh, William Chow

Synopsis: With this melodrama about a Chinese immigrant couple trying to succeed in the harsh realities of Margaret Thatcher's economically depressed England, the sobering social commentary of director Mike Newell's television work met the airy charm of his romantic films. After their wedding in Hong Kong Read More

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Crew: Director

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alex English, Gregory Peck, William L. Petersen, Joshua Zuehlke

Synopsis: When young Chuck Murdock (Joshua Zuehlke) visits a nuclear missile site, he learns that one bomb would destroy the earth in less time than it would take a piece of silverware to drop from his hand to the floor. This information sends the sensitive boy into existential angst. Wondering why anybody Read More

The Good Father

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Fanny Viner, Simon Callow

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins stars in The Good Father as a publishing executive whose wife Julie Walters has left him, taking their son with her. Walking around like a zombie after this blow, Hopkins is brought back to life by involving himself in the profound problems of his friend Jim Broadbent. Feeling that Read More

Dance with a Stranger

Crew: Director

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Matthew Carroll, Tom Chadbon

Synopsis: This darkly haunting slightly fictionalized film is a retelling of the life and death of Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson), the last woman to be executed in England. Ellis, a divorcee and ex-prostitute works as a "hostess" in a tacky nightclub. There she meets and begins an obsessive love affair Read More

Blood Feud

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Blake, Cotter Smith, Danny Aiello, Edward Albert, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: Blood Feud was a two-part TV drama, originally presented as an "Operation Prime Time" special. Robert Blake is disturbingly convincing as labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, engaged in a decade-long war of words with attorney (and later attorney general) Robert F. Kennedy. Cotter Smith makes his TV debut as Read More

Bad Blood

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Thompson, Carol Burns, Dennis Lili, Donna Akersten, Martyn Sanderson

Synopsis: Jack Thompson plays Stan Graham, a tragic and notorious figure of New Zealand's war years. Not the most easygoing person in the world to begins with, Graham is pushed over the edge when his farm is foreclosed. With seemingly no other options, he turns into a homicidal maniac, killing everyone he Read More

Birth of a Nation

Crew: Director

Actors: Jim Broadbent, Robert Stephens, Tim Roth, Graham Crowden

The Awakening

Crew: Director

Actors: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist, Patrick Drury

Synopsis: English archaeologist Matthew Corbeck (played by the emphatically-American Charlton Heston) undertakes an expedition to find the tomb of the Egyptian princess Kara, despite his awareness of a nefarious curse that is said to befall anyone who disturbs the tomb. Eighteen years after Corbeck's Read More

The Man in the Iron Mask

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Louis Jourdan

Synopsis: The made-for-television The Man in the Iron Mask was, at the very least, the twelfth film version of Alexandre Dumas' 1847 novel. The title character is Philippe (Richard Chamberlain), rightful heir to the throne of France. Enemies of Philippe's twin brother, King Louis XIV (also Chamberlain) plot Read More

Wessex Tales [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This six-part British anthology offered new adaptations of the works of Thomas Hardy. The initial 75-minute telecast, on November 7, 1973, was Hardy's "The Withered Arm." Subsequent episodes included "Fellow Townsman," "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions," (with John Hurt), "An Imaginative Woman," "The Read More

The Man From Haven

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Created by Wilfred Greatorex, the British miniseries The Man From Haven was a showcase for the versatile Ian Holm. The "man" in question was Jack Byron Lever (Holm), an unscrupulous businessman. Gaining access to a number of Swiss bank accounts, Lever used the knowledge gleaned thereby to Read More

Spindoe

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This spin-off of the British crime series The Fellows focused on recurring character Alec Spindoe (Ray McAnally), a brash cockney gangster. Ostensibly shipped off to prison for keeps by the two protagonists of The Fellows, Spindoe nonetheless managed to get sprung in time to appear in his own Read More