Jeff Daniels
Date of Birth: 19 Feb 1955
Country: USA
Biography: Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company)... (Wikpedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 80 (Actor), 2 (Director), 3 (Writer)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (80) | Director (2) | Writer (3)
- We Just Decided To (2012) - S1 E1
- Election Night Part II (2013) - S2 E9
- News Night 2.0 (2012) - S1 E2
- The 112th Congress (2012) - S1 E3
- I'll Try to Fix You (2012) - S1 E4
- Amen (2012) - S1 E5
- Bullies (2012) - S1 E6
- 5/1 (2012) - S1 E7
- The Blackout Part I: Tragedy Porn (2012) - S1 E8
- The Blackout Part II: Mock Debate (2012) - S1 E9
- The Greater Fool (2012) - S1 E10
- First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers (2013) - S2 E1
- The Genoa Tip (2013) - S2 E2
- Willie Pete (2013) - S2 E3
- Unintended Consequences (2013) - S2 E4
- News Night with Will McAvoy (2013) - S2 E5
- One Step Too Many (2013) - S2 E6
- Red Team III (2013) - S2 E7
- Election Night Part I (2013) - S2 E8
- Boston (2014) - S3 E1
- Run (2014) - S3 E2
- Main Justice (2014) - S3 E3
- Contempt (2014) - S3 E4
- Oh Shenandoah (2014) - S3 E5
- What Kind of Day Has It Been (2014) - S3 E6
- Now It Begins... (2018) - S1 E1
- Losing My Religion (2018) - S1 E2
- Mistakes Were Made (2018) - S1 E3
- Mercury (2018) - S1 E4
- Y2K (2018) - S1 E5
- Boys at War (2018) - S1 E6
- The General (2018) - S1 E7
- A Very Special Relationship (2018) - S1 E8
- Tuesday (2018) - S1 E9
- 9/11 (2018) - S1 E10
Based on the perennial best seller, Because of Winn Dixie tells the story of a lonely young girl who adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie (for the supermarket where she found him). The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father. (20th Century Fox)
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A retired FBI profiler is brought back into service under unusual circumstances involving his own blood analysis to track a ruthless serial killer. (Warner Bros.)
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Harry and Lloyd are two brainless losers who try to return a suitcase full of money to its pretty owner. After a journey full of accidents they arrive in snowy Aspen, Colorado and try to find her. But will they succeed? (imdb)
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Gods and Generals, the screen adaptation of Jeff Shaara's heralded best-selling novel and prequel to the acclaimed drama "Gettysburg," is and epic and sweeping portrayal of a nation divided at the start of the Civil War. (Warner Bros.)
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The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place; all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. (Paramount)
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Imaginary Heroes is a look at one long year in the lives of an ostensibly typical, upper-middle-class suburban family. It tells a tale of a family in crisis with wit, warmth and a very contemporary sardonic spin. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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In Gary Ross' daring modern fairy tale Pleasantville, an entire fictional town is granted a chance to experience the comedies, and dangers of real life. In this fantastical adventure, two late 20th Century teenagers (Maguire, Witherspoon) accidentally bring living color to a mysterious suburb trapped in a black-and-white 50's utopia -- and set off a revolution. (New Line Cinema)
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Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's. (imdb)
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The real-life conflict between esteemed television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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A young cop must save the passengers of a bus that has a bomb set to explode if the bus goes below 50 MPH (imdb)
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In 1930s New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.
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A species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to the U.S. in a coffin and starts to breed and kill.
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A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air. (imdb)
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This heartwarming and heartbreaking story about the complex relationship between a mother and daughter. Aurora Greenway is a wealthy widow who is obsessed with her appearance and controlling her daughter, Emma. Emma marries against her mother's wishes, and the two have a troubled marriage.
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A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium. (imdb)
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A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up. (imdb)
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Rachel and Mark are both Washington journalists. They meet at a wedding and not long after they get married themselves... (imdb)
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In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War. (imdb)
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Overworked Bob Munro (Williams) and his family are in desperate need of some quality time together. After promising to take them on a vacation in Hawaii, Bob abruptly changes plans and organizes a road trip to Colorado in a recreational vehicle. Dragging his wife and kids kicking and screaming into the RV, Bob's togetherness plan almost immediately hits a speed bump, and everything that can go wrong, does. (Sony)
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A woman kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur, but various animals then gang up against her and get their revenge in slapstick fashion. (imdb)
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A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. (imdb)
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Infamous follows the dangerous quest for artistic greatness chosen by Truman Capote (Jones) as he travels to Kansas to investigate the brutal murder of the Clutter family, accompanied by lifelong friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Nelle Harper Lee (Bullock). (Warner Independent Pictures)
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Lawyer Charles Tuttle is defending his wife's relative Benny Gibbs in a class action fraud suit, but when he gets to the city where court takes place, he gets drunk and the following day, when the hearings begin, his friend, actor Richard Rietti takes his place posing as Charlie. The bad thing is that Richard doesn't know anything about being a lawyer, and Charlie has to teach him as the court goes on. (imdb)
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A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance. (imdb)
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This intelligent crime drama is centered around Chris (Gordon-Levitt), a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank when he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist. (Miramax Films)
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A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck. (imdb)
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004) - TV Movie
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life. (imdb)
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The Goodbye Girl (2004) - TV Movie
A contemporary turn on Neil Simon's classic film about a dumped-on divorcee and an aspiring actor who become unwilling roommates in a New York City apartment.
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A woman is determined to reveal the truth about an insidious political corruption. In doing so she risks her safety, career and reputation but will not stop asking questions until the truth is known. (imdb)
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Before they can complete renovations on their new inn, Widower (Ben Wilson) and daughter (Hillary) are visited by a woman seeking immediate lodging for her strange group of travellers. Why they won't stay at the hotel in town is just the first of many mysteries surrounding the group that lead Wilson to a startling discovery affecting his family and neighbours. (imdb)
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A clairvoyant thinks she's met her husband to be because she's seen him in her dreams. They marry quickly, and return to the husband's ("the butcher"), home in the city. She has a big impact on everyone she meets by anticipating their questions and actions and advising them on their love life. Her interference then brings her into contact with the real man of her dreams. (imdb)
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Set in Montana in 1968, two young brothers from a distressed home go head-to-head with the FBI to crack the kidnapping case of the beloved TV puppet, Froggy Doo. (imdb)
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A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mom realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau. (IMDB)
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Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator. Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand: Rid a far-away planet of their nefarious leader. Fortunately for Ham III, two of his simian peers are along for the ride.
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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988) - TV Movie
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny". (imdb)
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After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim. (imdb)
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A reclusive author of spiritual books, is pursued for advice by a single mother and a man fresh out of rehab. (imdb)
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Based on the BBC mini-series of the same title, a team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman's mistress.
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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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The Crossing (2000) - TV Movie
A dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton. (imdb)
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Cheaters (2000) - TV Movie
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High recruits seven students for an academic decathlon team. They work long hours, preparing for the February regional event, won for ten straight years by a privileged, preppy school. Steinmetz finishes just well enough to be invited to the state meet. When a team member steals a copy of the state test, the teacher and kids face a dilemma: to remain honest, or to cheat and score a victory for kids in underfunded schools...
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Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008) - TV Movie
Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant. (imdb)
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A drama centered on the obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg faced after the publication of his poem, "Howl".
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A washed-up writer forms an unlikely friendship with a teenager from Long Island. (imdb)
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A small town prepares for the homecoming of superstar Roxy Carmichael, as does a young outsider, who believes Roxy is her mother. (imdb) (imdb)
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Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of an FBI agent who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty. (imdb)
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Two door to door vaccuum cleaner salesmen hilariously compete against each other. (imdb)
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Willis Embry, who is a psychologist in a jail, was left by his girl-friend. He has no time to be sad about it because an old man, who is very ill, tells him something about a robbery and the millions of dollars hidden somewhere. The old man asks Willis to find it and give a part of it to his relative, and he can keep the rest. In the next door some bad guy hears it and this causes the complications ... Written by Kornel Osvart (imdb)
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In 2072, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self. (imdb)
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Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. His life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria, until he finally learns that all he has to fear is fear itself. (imdb)
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20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption. (imdb)
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The Newsroom (2012) - TV Series
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During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. (imdb)
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Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter. (official movie site)
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After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago to finally discover the shocking truth of what lies behind it. (imdb)
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Wiley and Sandra have been happily married for years and are now in the process of breaking up. Sam, his childhood friend, is just beginning to fall in love with a new teacher at the high school. As they try to adjust to these conflicting emotions they find themselves having to evaluate their own relationship as well. (imdb)
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Ballad of the Dreadnought (2016) - Short Film
A look at the 100 year history of Martin Dreadnought and its contribution to music and culture. (imdb)
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Major league baseball player, Moe Berg, lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services. (imdb)
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The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family. (imdb)
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Godless (2017) - TV Mini-Series
Frank Griffin, an outlaw terrorizing the 1880s American West, hunts down Roy Goode, his partner turned enemy. Roy hides out at a ranch as Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico - a town mysteriously made up entirely of women. (imdb)
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Tanner '88 (1988) - TV Mini-Series
Tanner is a political candidate in the 1988 presidential race. A New Hampshire fixture, he goes on the campaign trail and faces fitting into a difficult era.
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The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero (Jeff Daniels) and exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age. (imdb)
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The Looming Tower (2018) - TV Mini-Series
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Washington (2020) - TV Mini-Series
Washington tells the story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. (imdb)
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The Comey Rule (2020) - TV Mini-Series
Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson star as former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump in this limited series of the story of two powerful men, whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
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Hemingway (2021) - TV Mini-Series
Explore the painstaking process through which Hemingway created some of the most important works of fiction in American letters. (imdb)
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This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.
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9/11 from the President's perspective, with exclusive access to information from the one's that had to take decisions during the World Trade Center's attack. (imdb)
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American Rust (2021) - TV Series
A compelling family drama that will explore the tattered American dream through the eyes of complicated and compromised chief of police Del Harris (Daniels) in a Rust Belt town in southwest Pennsylvania.
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When a frenzy of five Megalodons torment the open ocean, the stakes have never been higher. (imdb)
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The definitive story of Barry Sanders' Hall-of-Fame career and his extraordinary decision to walk away from the game in the prime of his career.
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Mike Veeck, son of MLB franchise owner Bill Veeck, blows up his father's career. Exiled from the game he loves, the younger Veeck spends the next few decades clawing his way up from rock bottom, determined to redeem himself. (rottentomatoes.com)
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A Man in Full (2024) - TV Mini-Series
Follows an Atlanta real estate mogul as he faces sudden bankruptcy, and tries to defend his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace. (imdb)
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