Chris Messina

Chris Messina

Date of Birth: 11 Aug 1974

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 48 (Actor), 1 (Director), 1 (Writer)

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    Ordinary Sinner
    Three friends encounter violence and bigotry in a small college town. (imdb)
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    Rounders
    A story of passion, risk, and the extreme price of friendship in the world of high-stakes poker. (Miramax)
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    The Siege
    A political thriller, a cautionary fiction that is chillingly close to leading news stories of the day. (Fox)
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    Turn It Up
    Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run drugs for "Mr. B." Inside a week, Diamond's beloved mother dies suddenly, his father appears after an absence of 12 years and wants a relationship, and his girlfriend Kia tells him she's pregnant, asking him if he's ready to be a father. (imdb)
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    This sweet romantic comedy reunites "Sleepless In Seattle" stars Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. He's the owner of a bookstore chain; she's the woman he falls for online. Both are unaware that she runs the little shop his company is trying to shut down.
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    Ira and Abby
    Ira and Abby is a sweet, hilarious, and slightly subversive romantic comedy. It examines the issues of marriage, monogamy, and whether "I do" is the only path to lifelong love and happiness. Ira Black is brilliant, neurotic, Jewish, and has so many issues he can't fit them into 12 years of analysis. Abby Willoughby is a free spirit who works in a gym and is better at solving her friends' problems than selling memberships.... (Magnolia Pictures)
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    Made of Honor
    The film revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her "maid" of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.
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    Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. (imdb)
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    Humboldt County
    A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself. (imdb)
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    Towelhead
    A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War. Based on Alicia Erian's novel "Towelhead".
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    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    A graduate student copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.
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    Away We Go
    A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
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    Julie & Julia
    Intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
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    Greenberg
    A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
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    Devil
    Based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan and directed by the brothers Dowdle (Quarantine helmers Drew and John Eric), this edgy thriller is set in an elevator, where a group of passengers are trapped with none other than the king of the underworld. Luckily for them, a homicide detective (Chris Messina) is on board. Not so luckily: the cop has issues of his own, including a not-so-long-ago-kicked addiction to alcohol.
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    Like Crazy
    A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
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    Monogamy
    The strained relationship of an engaged Brooklyn couple, Theo (Chris Messina) and Nat (Rashida Jones). Theo is bored with his job as a wedding photographer-the generic backgrounds, the artificial posing, the stilted newlyweds-so he develops an unconventional side business, called "Gumshoot," a service where clients hire him to stalk them with his camera... (vjn)
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    An Invisible Sign
    Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises. (imdb)
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    Twenty-Eight Hotel Rooms
    While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she's married, and he's seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives. (mubi.com)
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    Celeste and Jesse Forever
    A divorcing couple tries to maintain their friendship while they both pursue other people. (imdb)
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    The Trouble with Bliss
    A guy in his mid-thirties watches as his life comically unravels after he enters into a relationship with the daughter of a former high school classmate.
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    The Giant Mechanical Man
    An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
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    Ruby Sparks
    A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence. (imdb)
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    Argo
    As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador. (imdb)
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    Fairhaven
    Dave returns to his hometown on the Massachusetts coast for his father's funeral, where his reunion with two old friends provides a healthy dose of reality
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    Palo Alto
    The narratives that entwine through this observant and occasionally alarming film reflect events from Franco's own adolescence, yet they speak to any generation, with kids drawn toward vice for its own sake, seeking some combination of cheap thrills and meaningful connection. (tiff.net)
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    Cake
    The acerbic, hilarious Claire Simmons becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. (imdb)
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    Manglehorn
    A Texas-set story of a locksmith in a small town who never got over the love of his life. (imdb)
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    Digging for Fire
    The discovery of a bone and a gun send a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend. (imdb)
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    Alex of Venice
    Workaholic attorney Alex is forced to reinvent her life after her husband suddenly leaves. Now faced with the humdrum and sometimes catastrophic events that permeate the fabric of our lives, Alex discovers both a vulnerability and inner strength she had not yet tapped all while trying to hold together her broken family. (imdb)
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    The Mindy Project
    A young Ob/Gyn doctor balances her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small office. (imdb)
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    Zeroville
    A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry. (imdb)
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    Live by Night
    A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime. (imdb)
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    Sharp Objects
    Sharp Objects (2018) - TV Mini-Series
    A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder. (imdb)
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    The Sweet Life
    The Sweet Life, an edgy and unconventional dramedy, is the love story of Kenny Parker and Lolita Nowicki, each struggling with their own brand of demons, who first meet by chance in Chicago and form a pact to travel across country to the Golden Gate Bridge to commit suicide... together. (imdb)
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    Blame
    A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to 'The Crucible'. (imdb)
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    The True Adventures of Wolfboy
    Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother. (imdb)
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    Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
    After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
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    She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy thinks she's dying tomorrow...and it's contagious. (imdb)
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    The Secrets We Keep
    In post-WWII America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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    I Care a Lot
    A legal guardian discovers that her seemingly perfect client is not who they appear to be.
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    Call Jane
    A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
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    The Aviary
    Two women flee into the New Mexican desert to escape the clutches of an insidious cult. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can't shake the feeling that they are being followed by its leader, a man as seductive as he is controlling. With their supplies dwindling and their senses starting to fail them, they are faced with a horrifying question: how do you run from an enemy who lives inside your head?
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    The Boogeyman
    Adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Boogeyman'.
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    Air
    Follows the history of shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball: Michael Jordan.
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    Based on a True Story
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    I.S.S.
    Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling, the US and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground; take control of the station by any means necessary. (imdb)
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    Juror #2
    Family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma...one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict-or free-the wrong killer. (imdb)
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