James Woods
          Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
True Crime (1999) 
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, James Woods 
- Implausible but fun, this is Clint Eastwood relaxing his usually rigorous standards with a hokey thriller–by–numbers stocked with…
 
General's Daughter, The (1999) 
- Dir. Simon West
Feat. John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Woods 
- Gathering suspense from the 'closed–world' ethics of the US military, this thriller from the writer of A FEW GOOD MEN concerns a gruesome,…
 
Any Given Sunday (2000) 
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Aaron Eckhart, LL Cool J… 
- Tackling the subject of American football with trademark fervour, a mix of film stocks and some frantic editing, Oliver Stone delivers a…
 
Dirty Pictures (2000) 
- Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. James Woods, Craig T. Nelson 
- Based on the true–story of how the Chicago Arts Centre was prosecuted in 1990 for obscenity over an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's…
 
Virgin Suicides, The (2000)
 
- Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods… 
- An aptly seductive adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’ acclaimed romantic tragedy set in a sleepy Michigan community in the mid–70s. Kirsten…
 
Scary Movie 2 (2001) 
- Dir. Keenan Ivory Wayans
Feat. Tori Spelling, James Woods 
- The Wayans clan (Marlon, Shawn and Keenan) again agreeably pastiche the (already self–parodic) SCREAM slasher genre, yet the law of diminishing…
 
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) 
- Dir. Penny Marshall
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, James Woods 
- Based on the bestselling Me–generation memoir of Beverly D’Onofrio, this follows Drew Barrymore’s efforts to fulfill her dreams…
 
Stuart Little 2 (2002) 
- Dir. Rob Mankoff
Feat. Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Michael J. Fox… 
- A worthy sequel to the live–action/CGI original, with spritely mouse Stuart still living with the Little family (Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie),…
 
Northfork (2003) 
- Dir. Michael Polish
Feat. Nick Nolte, James Woods, Daryl Hannah… 
- Eerie, heavily–stylized independent film with a prestige cast and exquisite design and photography that serve less of a storyline than its…
 
This Girl's Life (2003) 
- Dir.  Ash
Feat. Juliette Marquis, James Woods, Michael Rapaport… 
- A fictionalised 'slice of life' which portrays the experiences of an international porn star (Marquis) and her ailing father (Woods).
Aiming to…
 
Be Cool (2005) 
- Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn… 
- This sequel to the stylish GET SHORTY has a certain snap in its step, with the resourceful wiseguy Chili Palmer (Travolta) back after almost a…
 
Pretty Persuasion (2005) 
- Dir. Marcos Siega
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Ron Livingston, James Woods… 
- A malicious student (Evan Rachel Wood) connives with her cowed classmates to lay a false claim of sexual harrassment against a drama teacher…
 
Shark (TV Series)  (2006) 
- Feat. James Woods
 
- Fine courtroom series headlined by James Woods as a big–time lawyer who back steps to the position of District Attorney and imparts his…
 
Surf's Up (2007) 
- Dir. Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel… 
- Everybody’s surfin’ in this animated comedy about a group of penguins – among other creatures great and small – who converge on a…
 
Straw Dogs (2011) 
- Dir. Rod Lurie
Feat. James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgard… 
- Sam Peckinpah's controversial 1971 film is bleached, but certainly not bettered in this nasty remake that goes for broke in the violence stakes,…
 
Too Big to Fail (2011)
 
- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt… 
- HBO throw the kitchen sink at the 2008 financial crisis with this heavy–hitting reenactment of events leading up to the TARP bailout.
The…
 
White House Down (2013) 
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal… 
- Conveniently on a tour of the White House, action hero beefcake Channing Tatum scrambles to save the President (Jamie Foxx) from an invading…
 
Jobs (2013) 
- Dir. Joshua Michael Stern
Feat. Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad… 
- Ashton Kutcher portrays computer visionary Steve Jobs in this heady biopic charting Apple's evolution from the Macintosh to the iPod.