Sarah Polley Movies

Genres: Drama    Sci-Fi    Thriller   

Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, Brandon McGibbon, Simona Maicanescu, ...


With Oscar winner Adrian Brody as a leading actor I was expecting a lot
- a lot more. The picture looked very promising in the beginning - nice quality and
good effects. But then it turned out to be a weak and boring plot.
There is not much action and only 5 actual characters. Instead of action sci-fi thriller, which I expected from the plot
summary, it was a story about two s...

Genres: Drama    Fantasy    Romance    Sci-Fi   

Starring: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham, Rhys Ifans, ...

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Genres: Drama    Music   

Starring: James Roday, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Majandra Delfino, Marieh Delfino, Sam Shepard, ...

I think to gain a full appreciation of Don't Come Knocking, it will
help to be familiar with the work of Pulitzer and multiple Obie winning
Sam Shepard, who contributes the screenplay for this movie. I've read
reviews all over the internet complaining that the film lacks in terms
of realism, but this complaint seems ill-conceived if aimed at Shepard,
who has generally operated ...

Genres: Drama    Romance   

Starring: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara, Danny Cunningham, ...

I went to see this last Isabel Coixet's movie three hours ago and its
beautiful and powerful story is still bouncing in my head... the sea,
Tim Robbin's eyes, Hanna's beautiful voice and her intense way of
holding her feelings, Simon's delightful food in the middle of
nowhere..The way it is conceived is somehow simple, a mysterious woman, in my
opinion extremely well resolved b...

Genres: Drama    Horror    Thriller   

Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, ...

Dawn of the DeadI'm not sure I can recall witnessing an opening sequence quite like the
one
I saw in Zack Snyder's remake of the classic horror film 'Dawn of the
Dead.'
Besides being rather lengthy (it's over ten minutes before we see the
opening credits), it has a bizarre creepiness about it. There's something
about the cinematography employed to show us 'the beginning of ...

Genres: Drama   

Starring: Brent Carver, Olympia Dukakis, Jane Leeves, Parker Posey, Don McKellar, ...

I was fortunate enough to see this film at the Sundance Film Festival, and
while I was ostensibly in Park City for skiing, this film will stand out
in
my memory as the high point of the trip.
Poignant, heartfelt, authentic, beautifully acted, outstanding direction,
incredible script - I could go on...When the director of the film came out to address the audience before the
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Genres: Drama    Romance   

Starring: Sarah Polley, Amanda Plummer, Scott Speedman, Leonor Watling, Deborah Harry, ...

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Genres: Fantasy    Mystery    Sci-Fi    Thriller   

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo, Stephen Rea, Robert Sean Leonard, ...

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Genres: Mystery    Thriller    Drama   

Starring: Ciarán Hinds, Richard Donat, Sarah Polley, Ulrich Thomsen, Anders W. Berthelsen, ...

This movie could be an excellent film, having a great cast and budget,
photography and soundtrack, but it does not work well. Why? Because of the
confused screenplay and a terrible and even pretentious direction. There are
two stories, one of them excellent. In 1873, two women are ax murdered in an
isolated island in New Hampshire. A man is accused of the crime by the
survival,...

Genres: Comedy    Crime    Thriller   

Starring: Katie Holmes, Sarah Polley, Suzanne Krull, Desmond Askew, Nathan Bexton, ...

"Go" reads like a very very good sophomore offering by a very very good
up-and-coming director. You can almost see a bright future for everyone
involved in the film, from the director (Doug Liman) to the screenwriter
(John August) to all of the young actors. The script is clearly the winner,
with witty dialogue and a convoluted plotline (or plotlines, depending on
how you view ...

Genres: Adventure    Horror    Sci-Fi    Thriller   

Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar, ...

I feel compelled to speak up for this film against the spoilt ravings of the
it-said-it-was-like-the-Matrix-but-I-didn't-see-any-cool-computer-graphics-a
nywhere crowd that have dominated these pages.There seem to be two schools of thought on the use of special effects in
movies. The prevalent theory - depressingly common among film goers and
film-makers alike - seems to be that a...

Genres: Drama    Romance   

Starring: Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Jean Smart, Gina Gershon, Paul Dooley, ...

This was a slow moving but interesting story about a 50 something bohemian
photographer named Connie Fitzpatrick (Stephen Rea) who is a serial
seducer
of impressionable young women. His seduction is not really about sex,
although that is part of it. Instead, it is more of an emotional
seduction
that involves his creating a symbiotic mentor/prot...

Genres: Drama    Sci-Fi   

Starring: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell, Sarah Polley, ...

There are films that are great, but by virtue of their intelligence and
understatement fall through the cracks - or go on over the years to
achieve 'cult' status. Paul Auster's 'Smoke', or Thomas McCarthy's 'The
Station Agent' are a couple. This is such a film, and for fans of these
types of 'smarter', less 'hollywood' productions there is no greater
cinematic experience than f...

Genres: Drama   

Starring: Lynn Whitfield, Martin Villafana, Rainbow Francks, Clark Johnson, Sarah Polley, ...

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Genres: Drama   

Starring: Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, ...

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Genres: Drama    Family   

Starring: Mairon Bennett, Sam Waterston, Patricia Phillips, Zoe Caldwell, Sarah Polley, ...

While young Sarah Polley is not meant to be the featured child in this
film
she certainly steals the limelight from Mairon Bennett. She does a
wonderful job as the young cockney orphan who becomes Jane Stuart's
staunchest ally. Her performance and Colleen Dewhurst's make the film a
joy
to watch. Sam Waterston does a credible job as the father although I
think
tha...

Genres: Animation    Adventure    Family    Fantasy    Musical   

Starring: Gordon Pinsent, Elizabeth Hanna, Lisa Yamanaka, Marsha Moreau, Bobby Becken, ...

My parents bought this for me on video when I was a toddler and I just
loved it. It's an exciting new story. It has some fun songs in it and
an interesting story-line. Babar is telling his children the story of
his childhood, so the movie takes place mostly in Babar's past. It's a
cute depiction of his childhood relationship with Celeste and the
rhinos. It also incl...

Genres: Action    Adventure    Comedy    Drama    Fantasy   

Starring: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, ...

Wasn't feeling the very best today, but had to get on with it anyway,
as you do, you know, and, when I finally got a chance to sit down in my
own living room this afternoon who should come bursting thru the door
but my 6 year old son and about 7 of his friends... JUST as this movie,
which I've always adored, came on one of The SKY movie channels. I
closed the living room curtai...

Genres: Family    Fantasy   

Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Hill, Elisabeth Harnois, ...

When One Magic Christmas came out in 1985 on TV, my mom recorded it on
to a VHS tape. We had this beat up, bad copy of the movie. You had to
turn the volume up all the way in order to hear anything, still this
movie was amazing to me. Mary Steenbergen doesn't believe in Christmas
or Santa. She is such a scrooge about the season, that not even her
kids' excitement could ...