Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?

Homegrown

1998

English

5.7

♡ 10

44%

Stephen Gyllenhaal Director

Billy Bob Thornton as Jack Marsden

Jake Gyllenhaal as Jake / Blue Kahan

John Lithgow as Malcolm / Robert Stockman

Jamie Lee Curtis as Sierra Kahan

Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up with go-between Lucy in the next town, they plot their next move.

The Manhattan Project

1986

English

6.1

♡ 28

50%

Marshall Brickman Director

Peter McRobbie as Electronics

Bruce Jarchow as Interrogator

John Lithgow as John Mathewson

Robert Sean Leonard as Max

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.

The Day After

1983

English

7.0

♡ 32

86%

environmental protection agency

Nicholas Meyer Director

William Allen Young as Airman Billy McCoy

Amy Madigan as Alison Ransom

John Lithgow as Joe Huxley

Arliss Howard as Tom Cooper

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

A Civil Action

1998

English

6.6

♡ 17

65%

Steven Zaillian Director

William H. Macy as James Gordon

John Travolta as Jan Schlichtmann

John Lithgow as Judge Walter J. Skinner

Rob McElhenney as Teenager on Property

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.

The Tomorrow Man

2019

English

5.9

♡ 15

43%

Noble Jones Director

Wendy Makkena as Beverly St. Michaels

John Lithgow as Ed

Sophie Thatcher as Jeanine

Eve Harlow as Tina

Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other’s stuff.

Beatriz at Dinner

2017

English

6.0

♡ 23

75%

Miguel Arteta Director

Salma Hayek as

John Lithgow as Doug

David Warshofsky as Grant

Connie Britton as Kathy

Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.

Into the 8th Dimension

2016

English

7.7

♡ 4

Action

buckaroo banzai

Documentary

A feature-length documentary on the making of the 1980s cult classic movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.

Resting Place

1986

English

6.4

♡ 14

68%

Action

Drama

John Korty Director

CCH Pounder as Ada Johnson

Morgan Freeman as Luther Johnson

John Lithgow as Maj. Kendall Laird

Brian Tarantina as Sp4 Beyer

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.

Love Is Strange

2014

English

6.7

♡ 17

93%

Ira Sachs Director

John Lithgow as Ben Hull

Andrew Polk as Doctor

Harriet Sansom Harris as Honey

Marisa Tomei as Kate Hull

After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartment and live apart, relying on friends and family to make ends meet.

Mesmerized

1985

English

4.7

♡ 1

19%

Action

Drama

new zealand

Michael Laughlin Director

John Lithgow as Oliver Thompson

Jodie Foster as Victoria

Sarah Peirse as Victoria's Mother

Michael Murphy as Wilson

An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.

Out Cold

1989

English

5.5

♡ 5

31%

Malcolm Mowbray Director

James Lashly as Cop #1

John Wesley as Cop #2

John Lithgow as Dave

Marvin J. McIntyre as Hunter #2

Sunny is married to the butcher, Ernie, and their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs. Thus Sunny hires Lester Atlas as private investigator in order to collect proof for the divorce. One evening drunken Ernie and his partner Dave have a fight in the butcher shop with Ernie getting knocked out in the fridge where he dies during the night. But it was not Dave's fault but intentional murder by Sunny. Only Lester has proof so Sunny kills him, too. Thus she only has to kill Dave to get rid of all witnesses, but he can free himself out of the fridge and wants to take revenge.

Terms of Endearment

1983

English

7.4

♡ 30

81%

83%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

texas

James L. Brooks Director

Debra Winger as Emma Horton

Jack Nicholson as Garrett Breedlove

John Lithgow as Sam Burns

Danny DeVito as Vernon Dahlart

Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.

Redwood Curtain

5.8

John Korty Director

Debra Monk as Geneva, Laird's Sister

Lea Salonga as Geri Riordan

Catherine Hicks as Julia Riordan

John Lithgow as Laird Riordan

Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father.

Santa Claus

1985

English

6.3

♡ 18

22%

Jeannot Szwarc Director

John Lithgow as B.Z.

John Hallam as Grizzard

Dudley Moore as Patch

Aimée Delamain as Storyteller

In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.

The Pelican Brief

1993

English

6.6

♡ 57

56%

Alan J. Pakula Director

Julia Roberts as Darby Shaw

Denzel Washington as Gray Grantham

Christopher Murray as Rupert

John Lithgow as Smith Keen

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

On Broadway

2019

English

7.3

♡ 1

76%

Oren Jacoby Director

Hugh Jackman as Self

John Lithgow as Self

Ian McKellen as Self

Helen Mirren as Self

An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love

2013

English

7.5

♡ 2

96%

Dori Berinstein Director

Merv Griffin as Self

John Lithgow as Self

Matt Damon as Self

Clancy Brown as Self

When Marvin Hamlisch passed away in August 2012 the worlds of music, theatre and cinema lost a talent the likes of which we may never see again. Seemingly destined for greatness, Hamlisch was accepted into New York’s Juilliard School as a 6-year-old musical prodigy and rapidly developed into a phenomenon. With instantly classic hits ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘Nobody Does It Better’ and scores for Hollywood films such as The Swimmer, The Sting and Sophie’s Choice and the Broadway juggernaut A Chorus Line; Hamlisch became the go-to composer for film and Broadway producers and a prominent presence on the international Concert Hall circuit. His streak was staggering, vast, unprecedented and glorious, by the age of 31 Hamlisch had won 4 Grammys, an Emmy, 3 Oscars, a Tony and a Pulitzer prize: success that burned so bright, it proved impossible to match.

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983

English

6.5

♡ 33

60%

Steven Spielberg Director

Kathleen Quinlan as Helen Foley

John Lithgow as John Valentine

Rod Serling as Narrator

Kevin McCarthy as Uncle Walt

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."

The 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors

2021

English

7.2

♡ 2

Action

Glenn Weiss Director

John Travolta as Self - Presenter

John Lithgow as Self - Presenter

Bryan Cranston as Self - Presenter

Bradley Cooper as Self - Presenter

Entertainers receive recognition at the annual ceremony; the year's honorees are choreographer and actress Debbie Allen, singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez, country singer-songwriter Garth Brooks, violinist Midori, and actor Dick Van Dyke.

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