When a Las Vegas
performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel (Piven) decides to turn
state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a
whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer
breathing.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way (2006)
Adrien Brody plays a detective
investigating the mysterious death of George Reeves, with Ben
Affleck will play the role of Reeves. Diane Lane plays Toni Mannix,
the wife of a studio exec, who may be having a romantic
relationship with Reeves.
Man About Town (2006)
A top Hollywood talent agent (Affleck)
finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his
wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a
reporter out to bring him down.
Jersey Girl
(2004)
Drama
1 hr. 43 min.
Ollie Trinke (Ben
Affleck) is at the top of
his game. A smooth, Manhattan music publicist,
Ollie has just married the love of his life (Jennifer
Lopez) and has a child on the way. It's
a perfect life that is tragically upended when he
suddenly finds himself a single father unqualified
for his new role. Before long Ollie's big city
lifestyle clashes head on with fatherhood. After
losing his job, he's forced to move back in with
his father (George Carlin) in the New Jersey
Suburb where he was raised. With the help of a
beautiful young friend (Liv Tyler) who opens him
up to love again, and the daughter (Raquel Castro)
who gives him the courage to keep going, he begins
to realize that sometimes, you have to forget
about what you thought you were and just accept
who you are.
Surviving
Christmas (2004)
Comedy
and Romance
1 hr. 31 min.
A rich record
executive (Affleck) stuck with spending Christmas
alone (after his girlfriend, played by Morrison,
dumps him) decides to return to the one place
where he was once happiest, his childhood home,
asking the family that lives there now to take him
in for their holiday celebrations, but he
discovers that his new "family" is even
more psychopathic than his real kin.
Daredevil
(2003)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
1 hr. 42 min.
Based on the popular Marvel Comics character,
this is the story of Matt Murdock, son of a boxer
who gets killed by petty criminals for refusing to
take a dive. This drives young Matt to fight
crime, despite a childhood accident that robbed
him of his sight. That same accident, however,
also granted him exceptionally advanced senses of
hearing, touch, taste and smell, as well as
providing him with a strange sort of mental radar
that helps to compensate for his lack of vision.
After training hard in the martial arts, as well
as excelling in law school, Murdock becomes a
lawyer by day and a vigilante calling himself
Daredevil by night.
Gigli (2003)
Comedy
and Crime/Gangster
2 hrs. 11 min.
This character piece tells the story of Gigli
(Affleck), a hit man in Los Angeles eternally
looking for the big score. His latest scheme is
the kidnapping of the mentally challenged brother
(Bartha) of a powerful district attorney.
Successfully getting the brother to his seedy
apartment, Gigli teams up with a woman (Lopez) he
presumes to be in the business as well... is she;
and will Gigli get away with this?
Paycheck
(2003)
Action/Adventure,
Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
1 hr. 50 min.
Ben
Affleck stars as Michael Jennings, a brilliant
computer engineer hired by high-tech corporations
for specialized top-secret projects. Once a job is
complete, Jennings routinely has his short-term
memory erased so as not to divulge any sensitive
company information to future clients. Highly paid
for his work, he expects to earn $4.4billion at
the end of his latest 3-year project. But upon
completion of the job, instead of a big paycheck,
Jennings is handed an envelope filled with random
objects and told that he has agreed to forfeit all
payment. With his memory erased as usual, Jennings
has no way to prove them wrong until he discovers
the objects are clues to the puzzle that once was
his past. But with Federal agents hot on his
heels, Jennings quickly learns that more than just
his paycheck is at stake. In a race against time,
Jennings must put the pieces together with the
help of Rachel (Uma Thurman), the woman he has
worked with and loved for the past three years who
rekindles his memory of their life together,
before the people he once worked for have him
killed.
Changing
Lanes (2002)
Thriller
1 hr. 39 min.
An arrogant lawyer and a down-and-out
businessman become involved in a minor traffic
accident in Manhattan. As a result, the two men
accidentally swap briefcases, the contents of
which cause a heated battle with legal as well as
financial repercussions.
Daddy and
Them (2002)
Welcome
to America's Hearthland, home of hurricanes,
tornadoes, heat waves... and Claude and Ruby.
Never has a couple here been so madly in love, or
so often at odds. When Claude's Uncle Hazel has
been arrested, they head to Little Rock to lend
their support. As the family reunites, it's clear
that, with this bunch, anything goes and everyone
speaks their mind - a tasty mix of ambrosia salad,
armed robbery, sex talk, head-on collisions and a
Macarena monkey.
The Sum of
All Fears (2002)
Action/Adventure
and Thriller
2 hrs. 04 min.
The fourth film starring Tom Clancy's Jack
Ryan character, this time Ben Affleck stars in the
role made famous by Harrison Ford. In this
installment, European neo-Nazi terrorists acquire
a nuclear device and plan to use it at the Super
Bowl, blaming the attack on Russia in the hopes of
rekindling the Cold War. Luckily, CIA analyst Jack
Ryan is on the case.
The Third
Wheel (2002)
Comedy
and Romance Stanley (Luke
Wilson) has worked with Diana (Denise Richards)
and harbored a crush for a quite a while. When he
finally gets the courage to ask for and secure a
date with her, he wants everything to go perfectly
-- but he couldn't have expected Phil (Jay Lacopo)!
On the way to the date, Stanley accidentally bumps
Phil, a homeless man, with his car, and can't
shake him for the rest of the night. Not the
makings for romance, but will true love win out?
Jay and
Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Comedy
2 hrs. 00 min.
When Jay and
Silent Bob learn that a "Bluntman and
Chronic" movie is being made featuring their
comic book counterparts, they drool at the thought
of fat movie checks rolling in. But when the pair
find that there won't be any royalties coming
their way, they set out to sabotage the flick at
all costs. The stoner duo makes the cross-country
trip from New Jersey to Hollywood and along the
way they meet up with a quartet of sexy diamond
thieves (that's Chrissy, Sissy, Missy and
Justice)...and an orangutan. The escaped orangutan
gets a federal wildlife marshal on their tail, and
the whole shebang climaxes as Jay and Silent Bob
make it to the Mirmax lot, crashing through the
sets of a whole bunch of movies, both real and
imaginary. And, oh, yeah - the "secret
origin" of Jay and Silent Bob is finally
revealed!
Pearl Harbor
(2001)
Action/Adventure,
Drama and Romance
3 hrs. 03 min.
Set during the
time of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, two
friends (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) are caught
up in the events that draw the United States into
World War II. One of them enlists with the U.S.
Army Air Corps and the other flies for the British
Royal Air Force, but they both find themselves in
love with the same woman (Kate Beckinsale).
Boiler Room
(2000)
Drama
1 hr. 50 min.
Boiler Room chronicles the rise and fall of
Seth Davis, an enterprising college drop-out who,
determined to prove his worth to a demanding
father, takes a job at a small brokerage firm.
There, in the company's "boiler room",
where young men eager to earn their fortunes work
the phones, Seth soon masters the art of the cold
call and with his new job, begins to regain his
father's respect. But the "boiler room"
quickly draws Seth into a world of corruption and
greed, ultimately jeopardizing all that he has
gained, and all that he had before. Co-worker
Debbie Hilliard becomes involved with Seth, while
Vin Diesel plays Chris Varick, a young broker who
teaches Seth the ways of the "chop
shop".
Bounce
(2000)
Comedy,
Drama and Romance
1 hr. 48 min.
In
this inspirational story of chance romance,
Gwyneth Paltrow plays Abby Janello, the young
widow of a plane crash victim. Living a lonely
life outside L.A., Abby is swept off her feet when
she meets Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck), a successful
advertising executive. However, when Buddy reveals
that he once gave up his seat on a plane that
later crashed, the two realize that they have a
deeper connection. Directed by Don Roos (SINGLE
WHITE FEMALE), BOUNCE is an easygoing love story.
Reindeer
Games (2000)
Drama
and Thriller Rudy Duncan (Ben
Affleck) is a small-time car
thief about to be released from jail in time for
Christmas. When his cellmate, Nick, is suddenly
killed, Rudy decides to take on his identity in
order to meet Nick's beautiful pen-pal girlfriend,
Ashley (Charlize Theron). The couple has fun until
her psychotic brother, Gabriel (Gary Sinise),
shows up. Gabriel and his gang want to hold up a
casino where Nick had once worked, and they
blackmail Rudy/Nick into going along with the
scheme. Rudy has to bluff his way through the
crime, pretending to be Nick in order to avoid
being killed while trying to sabotage the plans of
the bad guys. Will Rudy be able to outsmart the
bad guys, or will he end up facedown in the snow?
Double crosses abound in this frosty film noir
action movie boasting a twisty script by writer
Ehren Kruger (SCREAM 3, ARLINGTON ROAD) and
assured direction by veteran John Frankenheimer
(THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, RONIN), plus a sneaky
sense of humor and plenty of Christmas references.
200
Cigarettes (1999)
Comedy
and Drama
1 hr. 37 min.
A
comedy set in New York's East Village on New
Year's Eve 1981, "200 Cigarettes"
follows various young couples and friends whose
lives will intersect at a party that night in a
downtown loft. Anyone who has been on the town the
last night of the year knows the familiar
feelings: sentimental recollections, uncertainty
about the future and fear that time is running out
are mingled with the excitement of a cold winter
night and the anticipation of a new love when the
clock strikes 12. In "200 Cigarettes,"
the evening's magic pushes each character to share
a secret or create a pact, rush toward calamity or
run from danger, break up or hook up. But by
evening's end, the characters will have one thing
in common: all will be revealed in the clear light
of the morning after.
Dogma (1999)
Comedy
2 hrs. 10 min.
The latest battle in the eternal war between
Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late,
late 20th Century. In what can only be deemed a
comedy parable, two renegade fallen angels attempt
to jerry-rig the entire cosmological system --
unless a rag-tag group of humans can stop faith.
Bethany, the heroine of DOGMA, is a woman who
feels her prayers haven't been answered when, out
of nowhere, a heralding angel appears in her
bedroom and declares her the potential savior of
humanity. This abrupt meeting sets her off on an
extraordinary journey of mystery, comedy and
suspense as she is transported to a fantastical
world of celestial characters and spirited
adventure. Along the way she will meet up with a
heaven-sent messenger, an apostle with a 2,000
year old beef, a hotheaded demon, a heavenly Muse
and two unlikely Prophets known as Jay and Silent
Bob as they each discover the power of their own
individual faith.
Forces of
Nature (1999)
Comedy
and Romance
1 hr. 42 min.
Ben has to get from New York to Savannah for
his wedding to Bridget. He has everything under
control until an eccentric young woman named Sarah
literally falls into his life... and atmospheric
conditions become decidedly unstable. Despite
being detained, derailed and disrobed, panic
doesn't really set in until Ben realizes that he's
developing a definite attraction to the sexy and
impetuous Sarah... and the feeling is decidedly
mutual. It seems that man, machine and the forces
of nature are conspiring to keep Ben from his
vows, leaving him to wonder if this is some kind
of cosmic test... and if it is, will he pass?
Armageddon
(1998)
Science
Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
2 hrs. 24 min.
Bruce Willis stars as a roughneck oil driller
who takes his merry band of misfits into outer
space to save the world from a giant asteroid on a
collision course with it.
Phantoms
(1998)
Thriller
1 hr. 45 min.
Dean Koontz
adapts his own novel and with the help of Peter
O'Toole, manages to make it more than a routine
horror movie. With Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Ban
Affleck, Liev Schreiber.
Shakespeare
in Love (1998)
Comedy
and Romance
1 hr. 53 min.
A witty, fast-moving romantic comedy set in
London in 1593, follows the trials and
tribulations of Will Shakespeare, a struggling
young playwright suffering from a dreadful bout of
writer's block. No matter how hard he tries, he
just can't seem to make any headway with his
latest work, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's
Daughter." Somehow, even the title doesn't
sound quite right. But then, Will meets and falls
instantly in love with the startlingly beautiful
Viola who, desperate to become an actor (in a time
when women are not allowed to perform in the
theater), disguises herself as a man to audition
for his play. Inspired by love, Will's creative
powers are unleashed as his great love story,
"Romeo and Juliet," is brought to life
for the first time.
Chasing Amy
(1997)
Comedy
1 hr. 45 min.
Best friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards
are enjoying success as the creators of the cult
comic book 'Bluntman and Chronic.' When they meet
fellow comic book artist Alyssa Jones, Holden's
desire for the beautiful charmer is immediate.
Alyssa, however, has set her romantic sights
elsewhere but decides, nevertheless, to pursue a
friendship with Holden. This presents Holden with
a dilemma: feeling the way he does, can he merely
be friends with this woman? Banky, who knows
Holden best, doesn't think so. As the friendship
deepens, so do Holden's affections for Alyssa. And
cautiously, yet effortlessly, so do Alyssa's for
him. With their relationship strugging to define
itself, Banky grows more and more frustrated at
the notion of losing his best friend to emotional
adulthood.
Going All
the Way (1997)
Drama MTV director
emeritus Pellington tackles Dan Wakefield's
eponymous novel about disenchanted young Army
grunts returning to the stultifying blue-collar
environs of circa-1954 Indianapolis after a Korean
tour of duty. Disillusioned vet Sonny (Davies),
while confused about his future, also struggles
with repressive Fundamentalist parents and his own
sexual coming-of-age, taking solace in his
friendship with the more worldly Gunner (Affleck).
McGowan (SCREAM) and Weisz (THE MUMMY) play the
girls of their dreams. Winner of Sundance Special
Recognition accolades for production designer
Therese DePrez.
Good Will
Hunting (1997)
Drama
1 hr. 50 min.
Matt Damon, who created the title character
and wrote the script with costar Ben Affleck,
gives a star-making performance as a working class
genius with a chip on his shoulder.
Glory Daze
(1996)
Comedy At a dilapidated Bay Area college crash pad,
Jack (Ben Affleck) and his four hard-partying
housemates face their post-graduation, entry-level
futures with reluctance, drowning their
disaffections in hits from the beer bong and
boisterous bon mots. French Stewart, Sam Rockwell,
and Alyssa Milano co-star. Matthew McConaughey,
Spalding Gray, and John Rhys-Davies also appear in
cameos.
Mallrats
(1995)
Comedy When
a couple of well-meaning slackers, T.S. (Jeremy
London) and Brodie (Jason Lee), lose their
girlfriends, they set about trying to reclaim
their pride (and their ladies) in the most obvious
of places--the mall. Once there, the pair push the
limits of decency and mall etiquette, encountering
an array of mall denizens, including Jay and
Silent Bob from CLERKS and legendary comic book
creator Stan Lee. A surprising number of
misadventures ensue, bringing the boys the
possibility of regaining their lady loves.
Dazed and
Confused (1993)
Comedy Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a
hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at high
school social development. On the last day of
school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas
high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to
end. The restless almost-seniors--an eclectic
group of stone-heads, fraternal jocks, and snobby
sorority girls--can't wait to haze the incoming
freshman, an annual event as harrowing for
freshman boys as it is humiliating for girls.
Amidst this teenage wasteland of drugs, partying,
and rock and roll is football star Pink (Jason
London), who saves scrawny pre-frosh Mitch (Wiley
Wiggins) from being paddled to oblivion by
upper-classmates. But Pink has his own battles:
he's struggling over the head coach's demand that
football players sign a pledge to abstain from sex
and all psychoactive substances. When a wild
end-of-the-year party is cancelled, the students
end up congregating at a beer-blast in the back
woods, organized by aging hang-about Wooderson
(Matthew McConaughey). In the same way that George
Lucas assembled a cast of fresh young faces for
AMERICAN GRAFFITI, Linklater here creates an
unforgettable cast of characters that are
immediately familiar to anyone who has ever been
through high school.
School Ties
(1992)
Drama A working-class teenager receives a football
scholarship to an elite New England prep school
and enjoys acceptance as the team hero--until his
classmates discover he is Jewish.