Terry George Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Inside Man 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Spike Lee returns to big-budget thriller territory with this sequel to 2006's blockbuster hit Inside Man. Hotel Rwanda's Terry George provides the screenplay, with Brian Grazer onboard to produce. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Emily Watson, Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, David Morrissey, Priyanka Xi

Synopsis: A lonely young boy vows to protect the rapidly growing hatchling that emerges from a mysterious egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch in My Dog Skip and Tuck Everlasting director Jay Russell's screen adaptation of writer Dick King-Smith's popular children's novel. Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) Read More

12/25/07
Reservation Road

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly, Mira Sorvino, Elle Fanning

Synopsis: The lingering weight of tragedy threatens to pull two men under following a harrowing hit-and-run accident in a quiet revenge drama directed by Terry George and starting Mark Ruffalo and Joaquin Phoenix. When his son is killed in an unsolved hit-and-run accident, a grieving father (Phoenix) spends Read More

10/19/07
Hotel Rwanda

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Jean Reno

Synopsis: Hotel Rwanda tackles one of the most horrifically ugly events in recent history, when the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide, massacring hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis (who had been given power by the departed Belgian colonists), while the rest of the Read More

12/22/04
Hart's War

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard, Marcel Iures

Synopsis: Based on the novel by John Katzenbach, author of Just Cause (1995), this prison camp drama combines elements of A Soldier's Story (1984) and the classic Stalag 17 (1953). Colin Farrell stars as Lt. Tommy Hart, a second-year Harvard Law School student who enlists to fight in World War II but ends Read More

2/15/02
The District [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Jayne Brook, Lynne Thigpen, Roger Aaron Brown, Sean Patrick Thomas

Synopsis: Craig T. Nelson stars as Jack Mannion, a policeman brought in to fight crime in the nation's capital in this television drama series. After a controversial but successful stint as chief of police in Newark, NJ, Mannion makes a positive impression on Deputy Mayor Mary Ann Mitchell (Jayne Brook) and Read More

2000
A Bright Shining Lie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Paxton, Amy Madigan, Vivian Wu, Donal Logue, Eric Bogosian

Synopsis: Adapted from Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, this $14-million TV docudrama, re-creating the Vietnam War with convincing combat footage, was the most expensive two-hour movie ever produced by HBO Pictures. Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann (Bill Paxton) spends ten years Read More

1998
The Boxer

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) directed this drama about a Belfast boxer, filmed with Dublin locations substituting for Belfast. Released after his 14-year prison sentence for IRA activities, 32-year-old Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns to his old neighborhood and sees former-flame Read More

1997
Some Mother's Son

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David Patrick O'Hara, John Lynch

Synopsis: A 1981 hunger strike in a Belfast prison is the historical inspiration for the drama Some Mother's Son, which attempts to focus on the personal dimensions of the event through its portrayal of the families of the striking prisoners. Directed by Terry George, co-author of In the Name of the Father Read More

1996
In the Name of the Father

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal Read More

1993