Richard Russo Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Teleplay By, Screen Story, Screenwriter, Book Author

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Keeping Mum

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Tamsin Egerton

Synopsis: Niall Johnson's comedy Keeping Mum concerns the family of a vicar who are beset by a variety of problems. Reverend Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson) is a well-meaning but hapless religious figure in his town. His son, Petey, is a wimp, forever terrorized at school. His daughter, Holly, enjoys the Read More

12/5/05
The Ice Harvest

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Two men on the run from the mob end up negotiating more than their share of obstacles along the way in this comedy drama from director Harold Ramis. Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) and Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) are a pair of friends who work for Bill Gerard (Randy Quaid), a mobster with his Read More

11/23/05
Empire Falls

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Nesbitt Blaisdell, Michael Brockman, Dennis Farina, William Fichtner, Adam Le Fevre, Carey Lowell, Stephen Mendillo, Larry Pine, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Wachtel, Robin Wright Penn, Matt Blumm, Miles Chandler, Kortney Adams, David Altshuler, Doree A. Austin, Bradley J. Van Dussen, Troy Faucher, Bryant R. Garrett, Stephen E. Hodgdon, James K. Small, Birdie Katz, Wilma Keem, Tina Konstantoulaki, June Marie Krumholz, Gail R. Pelotte, Scott Riccio, David Montgomery, Dan Pleva, Delia Robertson, Timothy J. Ryan, Linda Saulter, Adam L. Sirois, Tony Takacs, Kaile R. Jr. Warren, Claire Winters, Matthew Dixon, Harold Withee, Ed Harris, Danielle Panabaker, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Helen Hunt, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: This two-part HBO miniseries is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo. Having long since sacrificed youthful ideals and values to remain in his New England hometown for the sake of his family, middle-aged Miles Roby (Ed Harris) finds his "secure" little world disintegrating Read More

2005
The Human Stain

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller

Synopsis: For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins Read More

10/31/03
Brush With Fate

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Glenn Close, Thomas Gibson, Ellen Burstyn, Phyllida Law, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Susan Vreeland's novel The Girl in Hyacinthn Blue was the source for this made-for-TV drama. Utilizing a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, the film chronicles the 300-year history of a lost painting said to have been created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The story is framed by the Read More

2003
Twilight

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: The Nobody's Fool (1994) team of Paul Newman, director Robert Benton, and scripter Richard Russo reassembled for this L.A. detective drama, beginning with a Puerto Vallarta prologue showing private eye Harry Ross (Newman) accidentally shot by 17-year-old Mel Ames (Reese Witherspoon) during his Read More

1998
Nobody's Fool

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh

Synopsis: Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination (and won citations from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Berlin International Film Festival) for his performance in this well-drawn comedy-drama. Sully (Newman) is a 60-year-old man who emotionally seems to have never quite emerged from adolescence; Read More

1994