John Howard Movies

Genres: Crime    Drama    Mystery    Thriller   

Starring: Chris Haywood, Tatea Reilly, Laura Linney, Sean Rees-Wemyss, Gabriel Byrne, ...

There is much of the troubling darkness of Ray Lawrence's earlier work,
movies like Bliss and Lantana, present in Jindabyne, an Australian
rendition of Raymond Carver's short story 'So much water so close to
home'. From the first scenes - a sexually-motivated killing, implied
rather than shown - Jindabyne holds your attention despite its somewhat
slow pace and c...

Genres: Drama    Romance   

Starring: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Matthew Dyktynski, Lynette Curran, Yumiko Tanaka, ...

It would be impossible to say anything substantially meaningful about
"Japanese Story" without spoiling the film for those who have not seen it.
Suffice it to say, it's set in Australia and works with a an Aussie woman
(Colette) and a Japanese man (Hiromitsu) to build slowly to an emotionally
potent situation - a series of moments - and then lingers in the denouement
allowing t...

Genres: Comedy    Drama    Romance   

Starring: Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes, Bille Brown, ...

Billy Connolly plays a fisherman living in Australia, having given up law
out of frustration with the ‘system'. When a freak of lightning wipes out
his small fishing boat and the insurance companies refuse to pay (as it's an
‘act of God') he takes up law again to take on the system, the legal
fiction, the churches and the big insurance companies.
Although it's title a...

Genres: Comedy    History   

Starring: Yahoo Serious, Odile Le Clezio, John Howard, Peewee Wilson, Su Cruickshank, ...

"Young Einstein" is not a great movie. It's not really a good movie either.
But it's an original, low-budget and very likeable movie.Of course, it's all complete nonsense. The plot involves Yahoo Serious
splitting beer atoms, inventing the electric violin and the surfing board,
running into the cute Marie Curie and having a very bad hair day, and is of
course full of anachronisms a...

Genres: Horror    Thriller   

Starring: Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue, ...

Okay, the plot sounds ludicrous, doesn't it? A giant killer pig?
Despite the apparent ridiculousness of the plot, this movie is better
than one might expect.Beth Winters, a Canadian reporter, has come to the small Australian
Outback town of Gamulla to shoot a story about the local dog food
packing plant, which uses the meat of poached kangaroos in its product.
When Beth disappe...

Genres: Sci-Fi    Thriller   

Starring: Scott Brady, Sheree North, Gary Merrill, Wende Wagner, Mike Road, ...

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Genres: Comedy    Romance   

Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, ...

A movie custom-made to fit the personality of an arrogant but
headstrong movie star, a play with dialog that sizzles with so much
ferocity that it threatens to leap out the confines of its own frame,
performances that could not have and have not have been excelled ever
since, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY is one of the best screwball comedies
ever made and the third to pair her with C...