Martin Donovan

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Trust (1990): Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Edie Falco…; A blackly comic examination of suburban neuroses with Adrienne Shelly returning for the director as a college drop–out who befriends an equally…
Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley Shorts) (1991): Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Martin Donovan; The hour–long 'Surviving Desire' is an earlier Hartley work that focuses on Hartley's world of the 'college–educated slacker' whose…
Simple Men (1992): Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Robert Burke, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan…; Hartley's third feature re–visits his deadpan, sexy and intellectual world in which two brothers set off to find their estranged father.
Amateur (1995): Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Lowensohn; Hal Hartley approaches the conventions of a thriller in further probing his fixation with dysfunctional romance and relationships, and thus checks in…
Flirt (1995): Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Parker Posey, Martin Donovan; Moderately successful filmic experiment from Hal Hartley, peddling his usual studied ironies in a story told three times over, in New York, Berlin…
Hollow Reed (1996): Dir. Angela Pope
Feat. Sam Bould, Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson…; An exceptional and gripping British drama is made of delicate subjects –child abuse, custody rangling, homosexuality. The women…
Opposite of Sex, The (1998): Dir. Don Roos
Feat. Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow…; Teenage tearaway Christina Ricci sets off a wild goose chain of frantically convoluted events when she steals her gay half–brother's boyfriend…
Living Out Loud (1998): Dir. Richard LaGravenese
Feat. Holly Hunter, Queen Latifah, Danny De Vito…; Facing up to life without her philandering husband, a nurse (Holly Hunter) forges unlikely friendships with a jazz club chanteuse (Queen Latifah) and…
Book of Life (1998): Dir. Hal Hartley
Feat. Martin Donovan, Polly Jean Harvey, Thomas Jay Ryan; The return of Jesus Christ in the hours prior to Armageddon, December 31, 1999, is told in a series of wry, amusing and thoughtful scenes by indie…
Heaven (1999): Dir. Scott Reynolds
Feat. Martin Donovan, Joanna Going, Danny Edwards…; Banished into virtual anonymity by Miramax studio indifference, we can only assume they found this 'arty' thriller too slippery to pigeonhole and…
Great Gatsby, The (1999): Dir. Robert Markowitz
Feat. Mira Sorvino, Paul Rudd, Toby Stephens…; Competent adaptation that stays close to Fitzgerald's "Great American Novel" about a mysterious millionaire who determines to win back his flighty…
Insomnia (2002): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank…; Consummate thriller from the director of “Memento” is an exemplary remake that follows closely yet deftly refines the well–regarded yet…
Pipe Dream (2002): Dir. John C Walsh
Feat. Martin Donovan, Mary-Louise Parker, Rebecca Gayheart; Snubbed as a serious romantic partner because he is a plumber, Martin Donovan decides to masquerade as a film director in order to attract women and…
Agent Cody Banks (2003): Dir. Harald Zwart
Feat. Frankie Muniz, Cynthia Stevenson, Hilary Duff…; Teen heart–throb Frankie Munz plays a junior CIA agent in this lightweight but savvy James Bond–parody. Skateboarding his way into a…
Saved! (2004): Dir. Brian Dannelly
Feat. Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin…; Satire of 90s Christian teen mores sees Jena Malone ostracised by her righteous friends after becoming pregnant. Surprising lack of bite is…
Quiet, The (2005): Dir. Jamie Babbitt
Feat. Elisha Cuthbert, Camilla Belle, Martin Donovan…; A creepy teenage melodrama about an orphaned deaf–mute girl (Belle) who goes to live in suburbia with her godparents (Falco, Donovan) and…
Weeds (TV Series) (2005-2012): Feat. Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Justin Kirk…; Tinkering with suburban values and the illusion they help maintain, this wry and caustic comedy of affluence trafficks the drug trade of a widowed…
Sentinel, The (2006): Dir. Clark Johnson
Feat. Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria…; A political conspiracy thriller with plenty of gun–cocked posturing involves veteran secret service agent Michael Douglas, implicated in a…
Wind Chill (2007): Dir. Gregory Jacobs
Feat. Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan; A prickly college student (Blunt) catches a ride home for Christmas with a random classmate, but when their car ploughs off the icy road, stranding…
Unthinkable (2010): Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen…; Troubling psychological thriller with Sheen as a terrorist suspect who won't divulge the whereabouts of rogue nuclear weapons, Jackson and Moss…
William Vincent (Shadows and Lies) (2010): Dir. Jay Anania
Feat. James Franco, Martin Donovan, Josh Lucas…; A quiet criminal recounts the eccentric path that has brought him to New York – after four years in exile, to rescue the favourite call girl of…
Collaborator (2011): Dir. Martin Donovan
Feat. Martin Donovan, David Morse, Olivia Williams…; A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run–in with his former neighbor, a right–wing ex–con.
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The (2012): Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber…; A Pakistani Princeton graduate's life in America is shattered in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in this searing adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's…
Nurse (2013): Dir. Douglas Aarniokoski
Feat. Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson…; Paz de la Huerta plays devoted nurse by day, murderous man–hater by night. A trashy, if glossily conceived exploitation film with more than a…
Inherent Vice (2014): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson…; Dir. PT Anderson brings Thomas Pynchon faithfully to the big screen in this dope–addled, shaggy–dog comedy in which Joaquin Phoenix stars…
Ant-Man (2015): Dir. Peyton Reed
Feat. Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll…; The Marvel film universe continues to expand with this fitfully amusing entry in which Paul Rudd acquires a crime–conquering super–suit…
Aftermath (2017): Dir. Elliott Lester
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scoot McNairy, Maggie Grace…; Dramatic thriller from the director of NIGHTINGALE, with Schwarzenegger playing a grieving man whose family dies in a devastating aircraft collision.…
Come to Daddy (2019): Dir. Ant Timpson
Feat. Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Michael Smiley…; Wildly inventive horror–comedy from New Zealand producer and "Incredibly Strange" film festival honcho Ant Timpson in his directorial debut. A…
Apprentice, The (2024): Dir. Ali Abbasi
Feat. Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Martin Donovan…; A riveting drama that charts the apprenticeship of Donald Trump as a young huckster in the 1970s and 80s who is mentored in business chicanery by the…

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