10 Movies Starring Keri Russell

The Lottery

The Lottery

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-09-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(712 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Sackheim

Cast:

Writer:

Shirley Jackson (short story)

Anthony Spinner (television story)

Anthony Spinner (teleplay)

Fullplot:

On his deathbed in the hospital, Jason's father asks that his ashes be spread over the top of his wife's grave. Jason, who came to the city with his father at a young age, remembers little of the town or his mother, but he undertakes the charge. It is an idyllic place, but gradually snips of memory return, until he remembers the significance of the fact that most of the tombstones in the town cemetery, including his mothers, bear the same day and month, one death each year. Caught up in the memory of the lottery he saw as a child, and the one he is trapped in today, escape is difficult and retribution is...

Eight Days a Week

Eight Days a Week

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-02-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2548 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Davis

Fullplot:

Peter loves his next door neighbour Erica and, on the advice of his grandfather, decides to camp out on her front lawn for the entire summer, or until she agrees to go out with him. His father is none too happy about the idea and refuses to let his son back in the house, even to get a change of clothes. Peter's friend, Matt, thinks Peter should give up on women (like he has) and just have sex with fruit, and have a total devotion to masterbation.

The Upside of Anger

The Upside of Anger

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-04-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany, UK

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (18448 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Binder

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

A sharp-witted suburban wife, Terry Wolfmeyer, is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball star turned radio d.j. This leaves her daughters out on a limb. They are forced to juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas as well as their own.

The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-01-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

120 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (2854 Reviews)

Director:

Brent Shields

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Ann Howard Creel (novel)

Camille Thomasson (teleplay)

Fullplot:

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

August Rush

August Rush

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (82130 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaMusic

Cast:

Writer:

Nick Castle (screenplay)

James V. Hart (screenplay)

Paul Castro (story)

Nick Castle (story)

Fullplot:

This is a story of a music prodigy. Lyla is a renowned and beautiful cellist and Louis is a guitar player and vocalist at a club. Lyla and Louis fall in love once they meet each other following the music. Since they have different lives, they have to separate without seeing each other again. However, Lyla has had their baby - Evan, a prodigy born to music. Lyla has an accident and bears the baby but Lyla's father gives the baby to an orphanage without telling her, for fear of affecting her career. After that, both Louis and Lyla give up their music careers. Eleven years later, poor little Evan believes that his parents are waiting for him and goes to New York to find them. In New York, his musical gift leads him to success but also gives him some trouble. A monger uses Evan to make money and prevents him from achieving success. He escapes and runs into a church and people there are surprised by his gift and send him to the best music school, Juilliard. There he receives an education where his genius is recognized, and he creates his composition - August Rhapsody in C major. At the same time, Lyla and Louis both begin to play music again and Louis returns to New York. Because of his perfect performance, Evan is granted an opportunity to play his music in Central Park in front of thousands of people. There are three composers featured, of which he is the last; his mother is the cellist in the preceding performance. As Evan is conducting the orchestra in his rhapsody, Lyla and Louis come to the concert following the music again. The family finally get together!

Grimm Love

Grimm Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-06-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (2562 Reviews)

Director:

Martin Weisz

Fullplot:

In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen's and the thousands of people like him.

Waitress

Waitress

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-05-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (35707 Reviews)

Director:

Adrienne Shelly

Fullplot:

Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have?

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-12-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (67134 Reviews)

Director:

Adam Shankman

Cast:

Writer:

Matt Lopez (screenplay)

Tim Herlihy (screenplay)

Matt Lopez (story)

Fullplot:

In 1974, Marty Bronson builds the Sunny Vista Motel in Los Angeles, California, with the intention of raising his son Skeeter and his daughter Wendy in the place where he works. However he is not a good businessman and the hotel goes bankrupt. Marty is forced to sell his motel to Barry Nottingham that promises to hire Skeeter in a general manager position when he grown up. Years later, Barry builds a new hotel; forgets his promise to Marty; and Skeeter Bronson is only the handyman of his hotel. The general manager is the arrogant Kendall, who is engaged with the shallow Barry's daughter Violet Nottingham. When the Webster Elementary School where Wendy is the principal will be closed to be demolished, she needs to travel to Arizona for a job interview. Wendy asks her friend Jill, who is teacher in the same school, to watch her son Patrick and her daughter Bobbi during the day and Skeeter to watch them during the night. Skeeter meets the estranged kids with his best friend Mickey and makes up bedtime stories to help them to sleep but the kids add details to the stories, changing their endings. Soon Skeeter realizes that the plot of the stories are coming true and affecting his life. Meanwhile Barry Nottingham decides to give a change to Skeeter to dispute the manager position in his new hotel with Kendall like in one of his stories. But Skeeter has told to his nephew and his niece that stories do not have happy endings.

Austenland

Austenland

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (13121 Reviews)

Director:

Jerusha Hess

Cast:

Writer:

Jerusha Hess (screenplay)

Shannon Hale (screenplay)

Shannon Hale (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Austenland is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes, a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with Mr. Darcy-as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice-is ruining her love life; no real man can compare. But when she decides to spend her life savings on a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-07-11

Languages:

English, American Sign Language

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (276188 Reviews)

Director:

Matt Reeves

Cast:

Writer:

Mark Bomback

Rick Jaffa

Amanda Silver

Rick Jaffa (characters)

Amanda Silver (characters)

Pierre Boulle (novel)

Fullplot:

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

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