Sam RockwellFilmography

Betty Anne Waters

Actors: Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver, Sam Rockwell, Loren Dean

Synopsis: The true story of acclaimed lawyer Betty Anne Waters comes to the screen in this docudrama directed by Tony Goldwyn, and starring Hilary Swank. Her brother convicted for a 1983 murder/robbery he didn't commit, unemployed, single mother of two Betty begins studying law in order to help prove his Read More

Everybody's Fine

Actors: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: A widower (Robert De Niro) takes his grown kids on a road trip in order to reconnect with them after his wife's death in this Miramax production. Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, and Sam Rockwell co-star in the drama, written and directed by Kirk Jones. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Gentlemen Broncos

Actors: Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge, Mike White

Synopsis: A high-school reject gets ripped off by a famous fantasy author at a writing camp in this comedy from director Jared Hess (Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynamite). Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement, and Jennifer Coolidge star in the Ripcord Pictures production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Read More

G-Force

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penélope Cruz, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan

Synopsis: Two time Oscar-winning visual effects artist Hoyt Yeatman makes his feature directorial debut with this Jerry Bruckheimer-produced family film following a group of highly trained guinea pigs on their mission to prevent an evil billionaire from taking over the world. Beginning in the Civil War Read More

Moon

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart

Synopsis: An astronaut miner extracting the precious moon gas that promises to reverse the Earth's energy crisis nears the end of his three-year contract, and makes an ominous discovery in this psychological sci-fi film starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey. For three long years, Sam Bell has dutifully Read More

End Zone

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Sam Rockwell, Kat Dennings

Synopsis: Don DeLillo's farcical novel gets the big-screen treatment with this story of a college football player (Josh Hartnett) whose fascination with nuclear war leads him to look at the game in a whole new way in this ATO Pictures production. George Ratliff directs from a script adapted by David Read More

The Winning Season

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts, Rob Corddry, Shareeka Epps, Emily Rios

Synopsis: Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award recipient James C. Strouse follows up his 2007 Sundance Film Festival favorite Grace Is Gone with this heartfelt drama about an alcoholic ex-basketball star who gets a second chance at success on the court when recruited by a local high school principal to coach the Read More

Frost/Nixon

Actors: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew MacFadyen, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). At the time Nixon sat down with Read More

Choke

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad Henke, Clark Gregg

Synopsis: Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) has got some problems -- when he's not at Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings hunting for women to bed, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants as a scheme to gather money from unsuspecting strangers, which he uses to keep his ailing mother (Anjelica Huston) in a Read More

Snow Angels

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano, Jeanetta Arnette, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: Director/screenwriter David Gordon Green adapts Stewart O'Nan's popular novel to the screen in this feature, which tells the parallel tales of a teenager named Arthur (Michael Angarano) and his onetime babysitter Annie (Kate Beckinsale) -- whose turbulent relationship with her estranged husband Read More

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider

Synopsis: Brad Pitt stars as legendary Wild West outlaw Jesse James in Chopper director Andrew Dominik's cinematic rendering of the events that would eventually bring about the death of the man rumored be the "fastest gun in the West." An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually Read More

Joshua

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga star in director George Ratliff's uncomfortable psychological thriller Joshua, as Brad and Abby Cairn, an affluent young stockbroker and his wife, raising children in New York City. Their firstborn, the nine-year-old Joshua (Jacob Kogan) is a frighteningly intelligent Read More

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Actors: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis

Synopsis: Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a Read More

Piccadilly Jim

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Austin Pendleton, Tom Wilkinson, Allison Janney, Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Jim Crocker (Sam Rockwell) is an American ne'er-do-well living in England with his tolerant father, Bingley (Tom Wilkinson), and his snooty, social-climbing stepmother, Eugenia (Allison Janney). As the film opens, Jim has been fouling up Eugenia's efforts to obtain a peerage with his Read More

The F Word

Synopsis: Writer/director Jed Weintrob takes a cue from Medium Cool director Haskell Wexler with this tale of a frustrated radio DJ who takes to the streets of Manhattan during the Republican National Convention. The Federal Communications Commission has slapped his station with $1 million in indecency Read More

Nobody Wants Your Film

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Peter Stormare, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Synopsis: Director Peter Judson strings together a series of interviews and e-mails captured during the production of an independent feature film to tell this semi-fictionalized tale concerning the difficulties of getting distribution and the frustration, joy, banality, and passion of the filmmaking Read More

Matchstick Men

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce Altman, Bruce McGill, Fran Kranz

Synopsis: Ridley Scott directs the crime comedy Matchstick Men, based on the novel of the same name by Eric Garcia. Neurotic con man Roy (Nicolas Cage) suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank (Sam Rockwell) swindle people out of money by Read More

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? Read More

Welcome to Collinwood

Actors: Luis Guzman, Michael Jeter, Patricia Clarkson, Andrew Davoli, Isaiah Washington

Synopsis: A group of likable losers try to pull of what by their standards seems like a major heist in this offbeat crime comedy, loosely based on the classic Italian caper comedy I Soliti Ignoti. A group of sad sacks living in a rundown neighborhood in Cleveland all have one thing in common -- they need Read More

13 Moons

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Peter Dinklage, David Proval, Daryl Mitchell, Karyn Parsons

Synopsis: The director of such off-beat independent films as In the Soup, director Alexandre Rockwell once again teams with that film's star to deliver this Los Angeles-based comedy concerning superstition and intersecting lives. Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's (Steve Buscemi) Read More

Heist

Actors: Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay

Synopsis: Esteemed writer/director David Mamet fashioned this homage to the elegant, character-driven "tough guy" genre pictures of Warner Bros. in the 1930s and '40s, even using vintage scores in the soundtrack. Gene Hackman stars as Joe Moore, an accomplished thief whose career is jeopardized after he's Read More

Charlie's Angels

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Crispin Glover, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: They're beautiful, they're brilliant, and they can kick your butt -- the most glamorous private eyes in the world are back in action in this big-screen adaptation of the popular '70s television series. Natalie (Cameron Diaz) is the smart but silly one, Dylan (Drew Barrymore) is the tough but Read More

Galaxy Quest

Actors: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Enrico Colantoni

Synopsis: A team of intrepid adventurers travels through the outer reaches of the galaxy, each week finding excitement and adventure on Galaxy Quest! Or at least that's the way it was in the mid-1970s, when brave if reckless Captain Peter Quincy Taggart, lovely Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Read More

The Green Mile

Actors: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graham Greene, Gary Sinise

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility Read More

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Christian Bale, Dominic West, David Strathairn, Sophie Marceau

Synopsis: With William Shakespeare now a hot commodity at the box office (and his body of work conveniently out of copyright), the usual trickle of film adaptations of the Bard's work is becoming a small flood, and director Michael Hoffman has assembled a cast of leading stage and screen actors for this Read More

Jerry and Tom

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chaykin, Ted Danson, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Actor Saul Rubinek made his directorial debut with this crime comedy adapted by Rick Cleveland and from his own 1994 one-act play. Hit man Tom (Joe Mantegna) and his apprentice Jerry (Sam Rockwell), wait in a deserted Chicago bar for the phone-call command to execute the hooded Stanley (Peter Riegert Read More

Louis & Frank

Actors: Steve Randazzo, Francesco Messina, Tony Curtis, Meta Golding, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Alexandre Rockwell wrote and directed this follow-up to his award-winning In the Soup (1992) with a spin-off of two characters from his earlier success, singing landlords Louis Di Buffoni (Steven Randazzo) and Frank (Francesco Messina). Louis now has a family and a Queens removals business, while Read More

Safe Men

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Paul Giamatti, Michael Schmidt, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: A case of mistaken identity forces a pair of lounge singers to pose as safecrackers in this farce. Sam (Sam Rockwell) and Eddie (Steve Zahn) are hapless musicians; Frank (Mark Ruffalo) and Mitchell (Josh Pais) are expert safecrackers. But when local Jewish gangster Big Fat Bernie Gayle (Michael Lerner Read More

Lawn Dogs

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Christopher McDonald, Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce McGill, Mischa Barton

Synopsis: A young girl finds friendship on the wrong side of the career tracks in this drama. Camelot Gardens is a "gated community" where wealthy people can purchase luxurious (if sterile) homes and a security force ensures that riffraff will be kept away from your door after nightfall. The Stockard family Read More

Arresting Gena

Actors: Paul Lazar, Sam Rockwell, Summer Phoenix, Aesha Waks

Synopsis: Gena (Aesha Waks) is a 16-year-old girl whose mother has fallen into a coma; with her immediate family unable to watch over her, it's decided that she'll spend the summer with her Uncle John (Paul Lazar). Gena takes a part-time job at a beauty parlor and makes friends with a girl named Jane (Summer Phoenix Read More

Drunks

Actors: Richard Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Calista Flockhart, Spalding Gray, George Martin

Synopsis: An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting brings together a disparate group of people struggling with addiction to drugs and liquor in this film based on Gary Lennon's play "Blackout." Jim (Richard Lewis) is in a bad mood as he sits in on an AA meeting in the basement of a church in New York City; he's Read More

Basquiat

Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie

Synopsis: Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration into weird lifestyles and heavy drug use; and at Read More

Box of Moonlight

Actors: John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener, Lisa Blount, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: In this whimsically absurd comedy, Al Fountain (John Turturro) is an rigidly self-controlled electrical engineer who has discovered his first gray hair and has begun seeing things (bicycles running backwards, coffee pouring from the cup into the pot). To Al's shock, he's fired without notice from Read More

The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy

Synopsis: Filmed in 1993, this comedy is filled with actors who have since found niches as stars and supporting actors in independent films. The story is set in Brooklyn where recent film-school graduate Les is attempting to make a documentary. When he learns that whole community has been grieving over the 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

Mercy

Actors: John Rubinstein, Amber Kain, Sam Rockwell, Jane Lanier, Novella Nelson

Synopsis: A rich but bigoted man is forced to confront his ugliest prejudices face to face in this thriller. Frank Kramer (John Rubinstein) is a successful but narrow-minded attorney who comes home one day to discover that his daughter Nicole (Rhea Silver-Smith) is missing. Kramer shortly receives a Read More

NYPD Blue: Torah!

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) pose as Hassidic Jews in hopes of nabbing a gang specializing in stealing Torahs. Though Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel) doesn't like the way Det. Morrissey (Conor O'Farrell) is handling a case involving several seemingly random stabbings, Fancy can't Read More

Somebody to Love

Actors: Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn, Michael de Lorenzo, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Hollywood wannabes struggle to succeed while striving for relationships that are doomed to fail in this gloomy comedy-drama from writer-director Alexandre Rockwell. Rosie Perez stars as Mercedes, a transplanted New Yorker now living in East L.A. and taxi dancing at a seedy Hollywood strip joint. Read More

Law & Order: Manhood

Synopsis: A highly decorated police officer is killed in a shootout with a drug dealer. In his statement to the police, the dealer indicates that the dead cop's fellow officers failed to provide proper backup. When it is revealed that the victim was gay, the staff of the DA's office grimly prepare to charge Read More

In the Soup

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals, Pat Moya, Will Patton

Synopsis: Alexandre Rockwell's quirky autobiographical comedy stars Steve Buscemi as Adolpho Rollo, a would-be screenwriter who is obsessed with getting his 500-page script "Unconditional Surrender" produced. Desperate for money, he places an ad for financial backing, which is answered by con man Joe (Seymour Cassel Read More

Light Sleeper

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Paul Schrader's brilliant study of another alienated urban denizen skirting the borderline of madness stars Willem Dafoe as John Le Tour, a rich, upscale drug dealer for Manhattan professionals -- "White drugs for white people," as he puts it. John is a recovering addict and for him it's the Read More

Jack and His Friends

Actors: Allen Garfield, Sam Rockwell, Judy Reyes, Paul Hecht, Alison Fraser

Law & Order: Intolerance

Synopsis: Detectives Logan (Chris Noth) and Cerella (Paul Sorvino) swing into action when a Chinese-American honors student is killed. At first, it seems as though an Asian street gang was responsible for the killing. Then, more evidence comes to surface, leading to an intense scholarship competition and a Read More

Strictly Business

Actors: Tommy Davidson, Joseph C. Phillips, Anne-Marie Johnson, David Marshall Grant, Halle Berry

Synopsis: In this lively comedy, an African American yuppie rethinks life on the corporate fast-track after he falls in love with an ultra hip club promoter. Knowing that she finds him a total square, he seeks the advice of a swinging young mail boy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang Read More

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

Actors: Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais, Ray Serra, Michelan Sisti, Michael Turney, Leif Tilden, James Saito

Synopsis: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie is the live-action, feature film adaptation of the cult comic book and the popular animated television show. After prolonged exposure to radiation, four teenage turtles--Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donatello--have mutated into ninjas and have begun Read More

Clown House

Actors: Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh, Sam Rockwell, Tree

Synopsis: Three brothers on their way to the circus must cope with the youngest boy's fear of clowns. Little do they know that a trio of violent madmen have murdered the circus' real clowns and, after adopting their guise, are savaging the townspeople at random. The boys finally figure out that they are in Read More