Tim Robbins Filmography

Born:: October 16, 1958 in West Covina, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Tim Robbins ranks among contemporary cinema's most acclaimed and provocative voices; a multifaceted talent, he has proved so adept at wearing the various hats of actor, writer, and director that no less a figure than the legendary filmmaker Robert Altman declared him the second coming of Orson Welles...Read More

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The Lucky Ones

Actors: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Peña, Molly Hagan, Mark L. Young

Synopsis: Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, and Michael Peña star in director Neil Burger's drama concerning a trio of Iraq War veterans who return from battle and set out on an unanticipated road trip across the United States. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

10/24/08
City of Ember

Actors: Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Harry Treadaway

Synopsis: Oscar-winning Monster House director Gil Kenan takes the helm for this children's fantasy concerning two teens who attempt to solve an ancient mystery in time to prevent their illuminated city from being swallowed by darkness. The cast includes Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Tim Robbins Read More

10/10/08
Noise

Actors: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Hurt, Margarita Levieva, Gabrielle Brennan

Synopsis: Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, and William Hurt star in writer/director Henry Bean's topical urban comedy following one man's quest for a little peace and quiet in the big city. The noise was bothersome when David Owen (Robbins) first moved to New York City, but back in those early days it was Read More

5/9/08
MLB: The Team. The Time. The 2006 Mets

Synopsis: In 2006, The New York Mets unexpectedly soared high above their NLB competitors and came within inches of the World Series - dazzling fans young and old. The home video release MLB: The Team. The Time. The 2006 New York Mets provides an array of highlights from that season, featuring exclusive Read More

2007
The Secret Life of Words

Actors: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Julie Christie, Javier Camára, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Steven Mackintosh

Synopsis: Writer-director Isabel Coixet's (My Life Without Me) beautifully wrought chamber drama The Secret Life of Words opens on Hanna (Sarah Polley), a laconic, backward and introverted girl in her early '30s, quietly drowning in her own isolation. Partially deaf from working an untold number of hours in Read More

12/15/06
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

Actors: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR Reed, Troy Gentile, Ronnie James Dio

Synopsis: In this musical comedy-adventure starring self-proclaimed greatest band in the world Tenacious D, a pair of aspiring rock superstars attempt to convince the world of their true talents as they embark on a daring quest to acquire the supernaturally powered guitar pick that will finally allow them Read More

11/22/06
Catch a Fire

Actors: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho K. Masha

Synopsis: An apolitical South African oil-refinery worker and soccer coach is forced into terrorism as a means of fighting back against the brutality of the apartheid regime in director Phillip Noyce's dramatic look at the life of one-time political prisoner and freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso. In the Read More

10/27/06
Zathura

Actors: Jonah Bobo, Josh Hutcherson, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart, Tim Robbins, Frank Oz

Synopsis: An old and forgotten game develops magical powers in this fantasy for the whole family. Twelve-year-old Walter Budwing (Josh Hutcherson) and his younger brother, Danny (Jonah Bobo), figure they're going to be in for a boring time when their father (Tim Robbins), who was supposed to spend the day Read More

11/11/05
The Ballad of Greenwich Village

Synopsis: Ever since the 1850s, Greenwich Village has been the center of New York City's (and perhaps America's) creative and bohemian community; long a bastion of artists, authors, radicals and free-thinkers, Greenwich Village was a community where outsiders of various stripes would be welcomed with open Read More

7/22/05
War of the Worlds

Actors: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins

Synopsis: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction thriller, freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two Read More

6/29/05
Code 46

Actors: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar, Om Puri, Essie Davis

Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, a married man investigates a counterfeiter and ends up the perpetrator of an ethical crime in Code 46, the latest film from prolific British director Michael Winterbottom. Set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced Shanghai, where people are only allowed Read More

8/6/04
XXI Century, Part 4: War, Peace and Patriotism

2004
Broadway: The American Musical, Episode 3 - I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (1929-1942)

2004
Embedded Live

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: V.J. Foster, Brent Hinkley, Tim Robbins, Steven M. Porter, Kate A. Mulligan

Synopsis: Embedded Live contains a stage performance of Tim Robbins' controversial satire that pointed out the horror and the folly of the American invasion of Iraq. The story of the play concerns a group of journalists who have been embedded with troops on the ground in the fictional country of Gomorrah. Read More

2004
The Party's Over

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Actors and political activists come together to take a long, hard look at the State of the Union during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in this documentary, a follow-up to 1993's The Last Party, in which actor Robert Downey Jr. followed the 1992 presidential campaign. In The Last Party 2000 Read More

10/24/03
Mystic River

Actors: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney

Synopsis: Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed Read More

10/8/03
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Shortly after graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, filmmaker Tom Peosay and his wife Sue (an Asian Studies major) set out on a tour of Asia that culminated in an extended stay in the Chinese-occupied nation of Tibet. With that formative visit, the Peosays became actively Read More

9/19/03
The Education of Gore Vidal

Actors: Anne Jackson, Gore Vidal, Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Sarah Sarandon, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Always his own best audience, celebrated author, social critic, and self-described political "nag" Gore Vidal also proves the ideal master of ceremonies (via film clips from an extended interview) for this biographical documentary. From the vantage point of his villa in Ravello, Italy, Vidal Read More

2003
Queens Supreme [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Oliver Platt, Annabella Sciorra, Robert Loggia, L. Scott Caldwell, James Madio

Synopsis: Actress Julia Roberts was executive producer of Queens Supreme, a weekly, seriocomic look at the judicial system in the Big City. The setting was the Queens Supreme County Courthouse, where a motley crew of judges worked together while working apart. The dramatis personae included Read More

2003
The Day My God Died

2003
The Truth About Charlie

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins, Park Joong-Hoon

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme filters the classic Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant vehicle Charade through the influence of the French New Wave in this stylish romantic thriller. Regina Lambert (Thandie Newton) has been having second thoughts about her marriage to the often enigmatic art dealer Charlie (Stephen Dillane Read More

10/25/02
Human Nature

Actors: Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Video director Michel Gondry and scriptwriter Charles Kaufman -- who shot to fame after penning Being John Malkovich -- collaborate on this bizarre fable about human behavior in and out of society. The film opens by quickly introducing the three leads -- Lila (Patricia Arquette) who is locked away Read More

4/12/02
Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

2002
AntiTrust

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Tim Robbins, Douglas McFerran

Synopsis: Just how far should one man go to stay ahead of his competition? Milo Hoffmann (Ryan Phillippe) is a young and gifted computer software designer who with his close friend Teddy is about to launch a high-tech start-up firm based on Milo's inventive ideas in convergence, in which he's helping to Read More

1/12/01
High Fidelity

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

3/31/00
Mission to Mars

Actors: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis: Brian De Palma directed this science-fiction suspense story. When the United States sends its first manned mission to Mars, hopes are high for new scientific discoveries, but many of those hopes are dashed when the Mars crew meets an unexplained disaster; three members of the mission are killed Read More

3/10/00
The Directors: Adrian Lyne

Synopsis: Known for his sex-charged erotic dramas and thrillers, British director Adrian Lyne made a name for himself with such racy fare as 9 1/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction, and Lolita. This video profile highlights his career, featuring interviews with Jeremy Irons, Anne Archer, and Tim Robbins. ~ Jonathan Read More

2000
Cradle Will Rock

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes, Cherry Jones, Angus MacFadyen

Synopsis: The sometimes rocky relationship between art and politics in America in the 1930s -- as well as the gulf between the wealthy and the struggling -- sets the stage for Tim Robbins' ambitious comedy-drama Cradle Will Rock. Pulling together a variety of threads from actual events, Robbins examines the Read More

12/8/99
Arlington Road

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope Davis, Robert Gossett

Synopsis: In this tense thriller, a man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be -- and their secrets could be deadly. Michael Faraday (played by Jeff Bridges) is a college professor whose wife, an FBI agent, was killed in the line of duty by members of an extremist right-wing Read More

7/9/99
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Actors: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe, Seth Green

Synopsis: Austin Powers -- fashion photographer, denizen of Swingin' London, international espionage agent, and bane of dental hygienists everywhere -- returns in his second screen adventure. Powers (once again played by Mike Myers), a 1960s superspy stranded in the 1990s, discovers that his nemesis Read More

6/11/99
Road to Return

1998
Nothing to Lose

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston

Synopsis: Two men with nothing in common become unlikely companions in this comedy. Advertising executive Nick Beame (Tim Robbins) is not having a good day when he comes home from work to discover that his wife Ann (Kelly Preston) is having an affair with another man -- who, adding insult to injury, happens Read More

1997
The Typewriter, the Rifle, and the Movie Camera

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The Typewriter, the Rifle, and the Movie Camera recounts the three stages of filmmaker Samuel Fuller's remarkable career -- from his beginnings as Arthur Brisbane's copy boy, to his experience as a rifleman in World War II, to his success as a "B" movie writer/director. Tim Robbins narrates the Read More

1996
Dead Man Walking

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Tim Robbins' second directorial effort (after the political satire Bob Roberts) was this drama based on a true story, which explores the issue of capital punishment. Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a nun and teacher living in rural Louisiana. One day, she receives a letter from Matthew Read More

1995
The Gospel According to Jesus

Synopsis: This program is designed to take viewers on a spititual journey. The Gospel According to Jesus features a video montage of the enduring state of Jesus' teachings in America today. Includes discussions by everyday people on topics such as the parables, a showcase of poetry, readings from the Read More

1995
The Hudsucker Proxy

Actors: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney

Synopsis: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen concocted this stylish screwball comedic amalgam of Frank Capra and Howard Hawks. Tim Robbins stars as Norville Barnes, a dull-wit from Muncie, Indiana who wrangles a job with the big Hudsucker Industries. He has a singular idea for a new children's toy that he wants to Read More

1994
The Shawshank Redemption

Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Bill Sadler, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most Read More

1994
I.Q.

Actors: Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks

Synopsis: Legendary scientist Albert Einstein (played here by Walter Matthau) takes a break from theoretical physics to try to set up his intellectual niece with a handsome auto mechanic in this romantic comedy. The movie's central conceit is that Einstein's brilliance extends to matters of the heart Read More

1994
Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

1994
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

1993
Bob Roberts

Crew: Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Brian Doyle-Murray, Gore Vidal

Synopsis: In the tradition of This Is Spinal Tap, producer/ director/ star Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts is a satire disguised as a documentary. Robbins plays the titular Roberts, a wealthy, well-connected young man running for a senatorial seat in Pennsylvania. On the surface, Roberts is an ingratiating Read More

9/4/92
The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

4/10/92
Saturday Night Live: Tim Robbins

Actors: Tim Robbins, Sinéad O'Connor

Synopsis: This 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Tim Robbins and features musical guest Sinead O'Connor. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Jungle Fever

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Anthony Quinn, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: Spike Lee defines "jungle fever" as sexual attraction between members of two races. In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the repercussions of an interracial affair upon two very distinct communities. Wesley Snipes is Flipper, a happily married and successful architect, and Annabella Sciorra is Read More

6/7/91
Jacob's Ladder

Actors: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Ving Rhames, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Synopsis: A tortured man finds himself caught in a middle-ground between hallucination and reality in this supernatural thriller, scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin of Ghost (1990) and My Life (1993).
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is a soldier stationed in Vietnam who undergoes a traumatic experience on the Read More

11/2/90
Cadillac Man

Actors: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher, Zack Norman

Synopsis: Robin Williams stars in this oddball comedy about a fast-talking car salesman who is down on his luck and in over his head until an extreme situation forces him to use his sales skills to save lives. Joey O'Brien (Williams) is the stereotypical car salesman: enterprising, aggressive, and desperate Read More

5/18/90
Erik the Viking

Actors: Tim Robbins, Gary Cady, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones

Synopsis: An unusually principled young Viking becomes increasing uncomfortable with all the killing and plundering that goes with the job, and sets out on a magical journey in order to bring about world peace. Former Monty Python member Terry Jones attempts to have his story of Erik's seemingly hopeless Read More

9/22/89
Twister

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Dylan McDermott, Jenny Wright

Synopsis: Don't mistake this movie for the stormy special-effects blockbuster of the same name; the two films are light years apart. Based on Mary Robison's novel Oh!, this Twister was the quirky first feature from screenwriter/director Michael Almereyda (Nadja, The Eternal) about an eccentric Read More

6/30/89
Miss Firecracker

Actors: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: A hot tamale tries to throw off a different sort of heat in this comedy of small-town manners. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for her unrepentant promiscuity. An orphan taken in by her genteel relatives, she idolizes her older cousin, Elain Rutledge Read More

1989
Tapeheads

Actors: John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Doug McClure, Connie Stevens, Clu Gulager, Katy Boyer

Synopsis: In this high-energy satire of the music biz, Ivan Alexov (John Cusack) and Josh Tager (Tim Robbins) lose their jobs as security guards, and they decide to start their own video production company. Their first gigs are less than inspiring, including a rappin' commercial for a chicken-and-waffle Read More

10/21/88
Bull Durham

Actors: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl

Synopsis: A blend of comedy, drama and romance, Bull Durham follows the intertwining of three lives brought together by the great American pastime. Crash Davis (Kevin Costner, showcasing his Midwestern charm) is a perennial Minor Leaguer assigned to the Durham Bulls, a hapless team with a long tradition of Read More

6/15/88
Five Corners

Actors: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro, Elizabeth Berridge

Synopsis: Quirky comedy, intense drama, and warm nostalgia are all combined in this eccentric look at one night in 1964 amongst the residents of the Five Corners neighborhood of the Bronx. The bulk of the film concerns Linda (Jodie Foster), a young woman who finds herself stalked by a disturbed rapist fresh Read More

1/22/88
Howard the Duck

Actors: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien

Synopsis: In this sci-fi comedy from executive producer George Lucas, Howard the Duck is an extra-terrestrial fowl who is accidentally beamed to earth by physicist Dr. Jenning (Jeffrey Jones) and his assistant Phil (Tim Robbins). The two go looking for Howard and find him in the home of Beverly Switzer (Lea Thompson Read More

8/1/86
Top Gun

Actors: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: Devil-may-care navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent to Miramar Naval Air Station for advanced training. Here he vies with Tom Kasansky (Val Kilmer) for the coveted "Top Gun" award. When not so occupied, Mitchell carries on a romance with civilian consultant Charlotte Blackwood (Kelly McGillis Read More

5/16/86
Amazing Stories: Mirror, Mirror

Actors: Sam Waterston

1986
Moonlighting: Gunfight at the So-So Corral

Synopsis: Having been conned into keeping the Blue Moon Detective Agency alive, Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) reluctantly agrees to team up with arrogant private eye David Addison (Bruce Willis) to solve their first "official" case. A man (Pat Corley) has come to the agency in hopes of locating his Read More

1985
Malice in Wonderland

Actors: Jane Alexander, Denise Crosby, Elizabeth Taylor, Jason Wingreen, Tim Robbins

Synopsis: When the made-for-TV The Rumor Mill first aired on May 12, 1985, it bore the title Malice in Wonderland. This joyously inaccurate biopic concerns itself with Hollywood's two foremost gossipmongers of the 1930s and 1940s: Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper. Long involved in the film industry, Parsons Read More

1985
The Sure Thing

Actors: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Tim Robbins, Lisa Jane Persky

Synopsis: Director Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing is essentially It Happened One Night for the 1980s, but its lack of surprise in no way impedes its entertainment value. John Cusack plays Walter "Gib" Gibson, a self-involved college freshman who makes plans to head to California, there to touch base (and a few Read More

1985
Fraternity Vacation

Actors: Stephen Geoffreys, Sheree J. Wilson, Cameron Dye,