4 Movies Starring Matthew Fox

Vantage Point

Vantage Point

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-02-22

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (121642 Reviews)

Director:

Pete Travis

Fullplot:

The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything?

We Are Marshall

We Are Marshall

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-12-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (43253 Reviews)

Director:

McG

Genres:

DramaSport

Cast:

Writer:

Jamie Linden (screenplay)

Cory Helms (story)

Jamie Linden (story)

Fullplot:

In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancèe of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971?

Alex Cross

Alex Cross

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-10-19

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA, France

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.1 (26930 Reviews)

Director:

Rob Cohen

Cast:

Writer:

Marc Moss (screenplay)

Kerry Williamson (screenplay)

James Patterson (based on the novel "Cross" by)

Fullplot:

Dr. Alex Cross is on his last police duty to track down an assassin called Picasso, who's been torturing and killing rich businessmen in Detroit. Soon when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits to end this once and for all.

Emperor

Emperor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-07-27

Languages:

English, Japanese

Countries:

Japan, USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (9492 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Webber

Genres:

DramaHistory

Cast:

Writer:

Vera Blasi (screenplay)

David Klass (screenplay)

Shiro Okamoto (book)

Fullplot:

A story of love and understanding set amidst the tensions and uncertainties of the days immediately following the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. On the staff of General Douglas MacArthur (Jones), the de facto ruler of Japan as Supreme Commander of the occupying forces, a leading Japanese expert, General Bonner Fellers (Fox) is charged with reaching a decision of historical importance: should Emperor Hirohito be tried and hanged as a war criminal? Interwoven is the story of Fellers' love affair with Aya, a Japanese exchange student he had met years previously in the U.S. Memories of Aya and his quest to find her in the ravaged post-war landscape help Fellers to discover both his wisdom and his humanity and enable him to come to the momentous decision that changed the course of history and the future of two nations.

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