Jeff Daniels

All Movies of Jeff Daniels

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  7.5
  Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
  Christopher Reeve was a world movie star, but in 1995 he suffered a near-fatal horseback riding accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. He later became an activist for spinal cord injury treatment and the rights of pe...
   2024

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  6.0
  A Man in Full (TV Miniseries)
  6 Epiaodes. Charlie Croker owns a real estate business. He is over sixty and has a second wife of only twenty-eight years. But the life of this winner begins to fall apart when he cannot return the large credit he asked the bank t...
   2024

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  10.0
  The Saint of Second Chances
  Mike Veeck, son of legendary Major League Baseball owner Bill Veeck, blows up his father's career and then spends the next few decades learning the value of a second chance.
   2023

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  6.0
  American Rust (TV Series)
  TV Series (2021-2024). 2 Seasons. 19 Episodes. In a Rust Belt town in southwest Pennsylvania, complicated and compromised chief of police (Jeff Daniels) is forced to decide how far he’s willing to go when the son of the woman he...
   2021

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  6.4
  Adam
  Adam Niskar (Aaron Paul) a hardworking mortgage broker seemed to have it all; the successful career, a great family and friends. His perfect life suddenly changes when Adam’s boss (Jeff Daniels) gives him a big promotion at work...
  Character: Mickey

   2020

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  6.7
  The Comey Rule (TV Miniseries)
  TV Miniseries (2020). 2 Episodes. Based on the book "A Higher Loyalty" by former FBI director James Comey (Jeff Daniels) starring him and american presidents Barack Obama (Kingsley Ben‑Adir) and Donald Trump (Brendan G
  Character:  James Comey 2 episodes, 2020

   2020

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  8.0
  Guest Artist
  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.
  Character: Joseph Harris

   2019

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  5.5
  The Catcher Was a Spy
  During the WWII, major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services.
  Character: Bill Donovan

   2018

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  7.4
  The Looming Tower (TV Miniseries)
  “Looming Tower” is a 10-episode series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning expose by Lawrence Wright (also executive producer) on the in-fighting between the FBI and CIA in the years leading up to 9/11. Jeff Daniels will star ...
  Character:  John O'Neill 10 episodes, 2018

   2018

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  8.6
  Godless (TV Miniseries)
  TV Miniseries. 7 episodes. 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 made up
  Character:  Frank Griffin 7 episodes, 2017

   2017

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  Ares III: The Untold Story (S)
  This is a faux-documentary about the rescue of Mark Watney, featuring some of the actors from the movie in-character in 'talking head' interview segments.
   2016

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  3.9
  The Divergent Series: Allegiant
  Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
  Character: David

   2016

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  7.8
  Steve Jobs
  His passion and ingenuity have been the driving force behind the digital age. However his drive to revolutionize technology was sacrificial. Ultimately it affected his family life and possibly his health. In this revealing film we...
  Character: John Sculley

   2015

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  8.3
  The Martian
  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 supplie...
  Character: Teddy Sanders

   2015

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  4.8
  Dumb and Dumber To
  It's been 20 years and Harry Dunn has found something out....he has a daughter Lloyd Christmas his equally dim witted friend takes one look at a picture of her develops a crush and insists the two track her down what ensues when H...
  Character: Harry

   2014

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  The Newsroom: We Just Decided To - Pilot Episode (TV)
  In the aftermath of his public tirade, acclaimed news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) returns to his job to find that most of his staff are leaving and his new executive producer is his ex-girlfriend, MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mor...
   2012

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  7.7
  Looper
  The mid-21st century. Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is employed as a ‘looper’, a hit man who executes victims sent back from 30 years in his future, when time travel has been invented and is controlled by organised crime. When hi...
  Character: Abe

   2012

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  7.8
  The Newsroom (TV Series)
  From the mind of Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network and Moneyball,  comes The Newsroom,  a behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a net...
  Character:  Will McAvoy 25 episodes, 2012-2014

   2012

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  6.6
  Howl
  A drama centered on the obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg (Franco) faced after the publication of his poem, Howl.
  Character: David Kirk

   2010

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  5.3
  The Answer Man
  Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) is the reclusive author of 'Me and God', a book that has redefined spirituality for an entire generation. On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of his still-wildly-popular book, Arlen continues to be s...
  Character: Arlen Faber

   2009

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  6.4
  Away We Go
  A couple who is expecting their first child travel around the U.S. in order to find a perfect place to start their family. Longtime couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) are going to have a baby. The pregnancy pro...
  Character: Jerry

   2009

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  7.3
  State of Play
  Based on the BBC mini-series of the same title, a team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try and solve the murder of a congressman's mistress. D.C. investigative journalist Cal McCaffrey's (Russell Cr...
  Character: George Fergus

   2009

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  5.9
  Paper Man
  A washed-up writer forms an unlikely friendship with a teenager from Long Island.
  Character: Richard Dunn

   2009

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  6.0
  Sweet Nothing in My Ear (TV)
  Character: Dan Miller

   2008

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  6.5
  Traitor
  When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn (Don Cheadle). A myster...
  Character: Carter

   2008

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  3.3
  Mama's Boy
  Eccentric Jeffrey Mannus is 29 years old and still lives at home with his mom, Jan. He sees no reason to alter this arrangement, but his perfect world is upended when Jan meets Mert, a motivational speaker. Mert successfully woos ...
  Character: Mert Rosenbloom

   2007

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  6.9
  The Lookout
  Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a former high school star athlete, crashes his car one night due to reckless driving. The accident kills his best friend and his best friend’s girlfriend, while his own girlfriend loses a leg....
  Character: Lewis

   2007

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  4.9
  RV
  Overworked Bob Munro (Robin 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 ...
  Character: Travis Gornicke

   2006

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  7.1
  Infamous
  On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arres...
  Character: Alvin Dewey

   2006

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  5.8
  Because of Winn-Dixie
  Based on the perennial best seller, a lonely young girl adopts an orphaned dog, Winn-Dixie (so named for the supermarket where she found him), who helps her makes friends in the small Florida town. The bond between the girl and he...
  Character: Preacher

   2005

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  8.1
  The Squid and the Whale
  Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1986. When Walt Berkman, an impressionable 16-year-old, passes off the Pink Floyd song "Hey You" as his original work and performs it at a high school talent show, he's perfectly content with his ra...
  Character: Bernard Berkman

   2005

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  8.0
  Good Night, and Good Luck.
  Set in 1953, during the early days of television broadcast journalism. Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and his dedicated staff — headed by his co-producer Fred Friendly (George Clooney) and reporter Joseph Wershba (Robert Do...
  Character: Sigfried "Sig" Mickelson

   2005

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  5.8
  Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (TV)
  A made-for-TV updating of Neil Simon's classic romantic comedy stars Patricia Heaton as the divorced mom who becomes reluctant roommates with an aspiring actor (Jeff Daniels) when he sublets part of her Greenwich Village apartment...
  Character: Elliot Garfield

   2004

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  6.7
  The Five People You Meet in Heaven (TV)
  From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie comes an astonishing journey of redemption and self-discovery that proves not all mysteries unfold in life. Eddie (Oscar and Golden Globe winn...
  Character: Blue Man

   2004

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  6.4
  Imaginary Heroes
  Starring Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Emile Hirsch, and Michelle Williams, IMAGINARY HEROES is a funny and poignant coming of age story in which the faade of an ordinary American family is peeled back to reveal that nothing is ...
  Character: Ben Travis

   2004

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  4.2
  Gods and Generals
  A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War (1861-1863) and how the campaigns unfolded from Manassas I to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film Gettysburg explores the motivations of the combatants a...
  Character: Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

   2003

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  5.8
  I Witness
  Jim Rhodes is a human rights worker in Tijuana for a few days to make sure that union elections are fair at a maquiladora owned by a U.S. corporation. In quick succession, the police assault the strikers, the bodies of 27 peasants...
  Character: James Rhodes

   2003

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  Super Sucker
  Two door to door vacuum cleaner salesmen hilariously compete against each other.
  Character: Fred Barlow | Movie director

   2002

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  6.4
  Blood Work
  Someone's got Terry McCaleb's number. A veteran FBI profiler, McCaleb (C. Eastwood) is unrelenting in his pursuit of justice and unequalled in his success at tracking and catching murderers. But as he closes in on his latest adver...
   2002

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  7.7
  The Hours
  In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Rich...
  Character: Louis Waters

   2002

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  5.0
  The Crossing (TV)
  In 1776, less than six months after the Declaraton of Independence, the Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, was on the brink of utter defeat. Low on men, cannons and supplies, Washington decides to ri...
   2000

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  6.4
  Cheaters (TV)
  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 privilege...
  Character: Dr. Gerard Plecki

   2000

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  4.9
  All the Rage
  Stern's directorial debut explores issues of violence in American society through three intricately connected stories concerning the ubiquitousness of hand guns. Seven strangers (Allen, Daniels, Sinise, Braugher, Forster, Schwimme...
  Character: Warren Harding

   1999

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  3.6
  My Favorite Martian
  Life couldn't get much worse for News Producer Tim O'Hara. He humiliates the one he loves, Brace Channing and ends up getting fired by her father. Then, a Martian from Mars arrives in his home. The Martian adopts the name 'Uncle M...
   1998

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  7.5
  Pleasantville
  Plot: Left home together for the weekend, teenage brother and sister David and Jennifer argue over which tv show to watch, he wanting to watch a marathon of his favourite series, the old 1950s show ‘Pleasantville’, while she w...
  Character: Bill Johnson

   1998

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  5.4
  Trial and Error
  Up-and-coming L.A. corporate lawyer Charles Tuttle (Jeff Daniels) is going to marry his wealthy boss's beautiful daughter Elizabeth (Alexandra Wentworth), but first he must head to a remote Nevada town to help his employer's rapsc...
  Character: Charles Tuttle

   1997

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  5.0
  101 Dalmatians
  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.
  Character: Roger

   1996

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  6.4
  Two Days in the Valley
  Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to murder Roy Foxx (Peter Horton), the former husband of also-ran Olympic skier Becky Foxx (Teri Hatcher...
  Character: Alvin Strayer

   1996

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  6.6
  Fly Away Home
  Amy (Anna Paquin) is a young teenager when she loses her mother to a car accident. Because of it, she moves in with her father (Jeff Daniels). Amy finds her new life absolutely miserable, until she finds abandoned goose eggs from ...
   1996

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  7.9
  Speed
  A mad bomber with a vendetta against a young cop plants a bomb on a bus in L.A. The hero, with the help of a beautiful passenger, must diffuse the explosive device which is set to detonate if the bus slows to under 50 miles per ho
  Character: Harry

   1994

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  6.1
  Dumb and Dumber (Dumb & Dumber)
  When best friends Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne both get fired, Lloyd convinces Harry to travel to Colorado to search for his dream woman, Mary Swanson. Little does Lloyd know that Mary's in Aspen trying to find her kidnapped hu...
  Character: Harry Dunne

   1994

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  7.0
  Gettysburg
  On July 1, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers were drawn by fate to the defining moment of the Civil War. Men of honor in an age when honor meant everything, they fought out of loyalty to country or homeland, or to preserve states' ...
   1993

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  6.0
  Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (TV)
  For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, J...
  Character: Tom Noonan

   1992

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  5.0
  Timescape
   1992

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  Rain Without Thunder
  It's the year 2042 and the threat is real...women are going to prison for terminating their pregnancies. An investigating reporter is determined to reveal the truth behind the convictions.
   1992

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  5.8
  There Goes the Neighborhood
  Character: Willis Embry

   1992

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  4.2
  The Butcher's Wife
  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 anti...
  Character: Dr. Alex Tremor

   1991

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  6.3
  Arachnophobia
  A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidently transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of ...
  Character: Ross Jennings

   1990

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  5.2
  Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael
  Although Roxy left town more than fifteen years ago, her memory has never faded. Her expected return starts to impact a number of lives, including that of her ex-husband Denton Webb. But it is Dinky, the adopted daughter of the Bo...
  Character: Denton Webb

   1990

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  No Place Like Home (TV)
  A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire.
  Character: Mike Cooper

   1989

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  Checking Out
  A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.
  Character: Ray Macklin

   1989

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  6.1
  The House on Carroll Street
  A romantic thriller about a woman who inadvertantly uncovers a government conspiracy to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the United States six years after World War II has ended.
  Character: Cochran

   1987

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  7.9
  Radio Days
  These are the 40s, the golden age of radio, when the peculiar members of a working-class New York family live with the set on all day long. The music, tear-jerking dramas, stories about super-heroes, competitions, reports on high ...
  Character: Biff Baxter

   1987

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  5.5
  Heartburn
  Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "à clef" rehash of her marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Meryl Streep plays Rachel, an influential ...
  Character: Richard

   1986

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  6.7
  Something Wild
  The uneventful life of business-man Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels) suddenly changes when he meets the wild and sexy Lulu (Melanie Griffith). When he accepts her offer to drive him back to his office, she instead takes him out of to...
  Character: Charles Driggs

   1986

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  Marie
  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.
  Character: Eddie Sisk

   1985

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  7.7
  The Purple Rose of Cairo
  It’s the Depression and Cecilia works herself into the ground as a waitress in New Jersey while her husband does nothing. Her only outlet is the cinema, to which she returns time and again to escape from reality and dream of a w...
  Character: Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd

   1985

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  8.0
  Terms of Endearment
  Larry McMurtry's novel becomes a somewhat lumpy film as directed by James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets). Nevertheless, it is entirely winning, with Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger playing a combative mother and daughter who see...
  Character: Flap Horton

   1983

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  7.0
  Ragtime
  Based on the acclaimed and popular E.L. Doctorow novel, RAGTIME tells the intricate story of four New York families--three of which are fictional--at the turn of the 20th century, each indicative of that time in American history, ...
  Character: P.C. O'Donnell

   1981

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  A Rumor of War (TV Miniseries)
  The memories of a US Marine lieutenant in Vietnam who slowly gets disillusioned as the war progresses.
   1980