14 Movies Starring Patrick Wilson

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-12-22

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

143 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (90647 Reviews)

Director:

Joel Schumacher

Cast:

Writer:

Gaston Leroux (novel)

Andrew Lloyd Webber (book)

Andrew Lloyd Webber (screenplay)

Joel Schumacher (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn't want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protègè lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan?

The Alamo

The Alamo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-04-09

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

137 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(16056 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Leslie Bohem

Stephen Gaghan

John Lee Hancock

Fullplot:

Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas.

Little Children

Little Children

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-02-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

136 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (89282 Reviews)

Director:

Todd Field

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Todd Field (screenplay)

Tom Perrotta (screenplay)

Tom Perrotta (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage to an advertising executive, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is an immature househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure to a minor - living with his elderly mother, May; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?

Hard Candy

Hard Candy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-04-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (124083 Reviews)

Director:

David Slade

Fullplot:

After three weeks of chatting with the thirty-two year old photographer Jeff Kohlver over the Internet, fourteen year old Hayley Stark meets him in the Nighthawks coffee shop. Hayley flirts with him in spite of the age difference and proposes to go to his house. Once there, she prepares a screwdriver for them and Jeff passes out. When he awakes, he is tied up to a chair, and Hayley accuses him of pedophilia. Jeff denies the accusation, and Hayley begins to torture him in a cat and mouse game.

Barry Munday

Barry Munday

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-03-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (3353 Reviews)

Director:

Chris D'Arienzo

Cast:

Writer:

Chris D'Arienzo (screenplay)

Frank Turner Hollon (book)

Fullplot:

Barry: he slacks off at work, savors one-nights stands, and is getting older (young people call him "sir"). Then, he loses his testicles in an assault and gets a letter saying he's to become a father. He can't remember the woman and asks if she'll meet with him: she's Ginger, a solitary waspish woman about his age. He acknowledges paternity and wants to be a part of the pregnancy and parenthood. With reluctance and lots of put-downs, Ginger introduces him to her family, including the favored younger sister, and allows him to come with her to her doctor's. With his own father issues, a canny boss, brittle Ginger, and her vampy sister, can Barry hang in there?

Evening

Evening

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-06-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany

Runtime:

117 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (11256 Reviews)

Director:

Lajos Koltai

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Susan Minot (screenplay)

Michael Cunningham (screenplay)

Susan Minot (novel)

Fullplot:

The love which binds mother and daughter -- seen through the prism of one mother's life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its close. Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this "Harris," wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, when she was Ann Grant, a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila's irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann's love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.

Lakeview Terrace

Lakeview Terrace

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-09-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (38211 Reviews)

Director:

Neil LaBute

Cast:

Writer:

David Loughery (screenplay)

Howard Korder (screenplay)

David Loughery (story)

Fullplot:

In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a gated community. The racist and dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth.

The Conjuring

The Conjuring

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-07-19

Languages:

English, Latin

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (254059 Reviews)

Director:

James Wan

Genres:

Horror

Fullplot:

In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.

The Ledge

The Ledge

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-05-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany, Saudi Arabia

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (14395 Reviews)

Director:

Matthew Chapman

Fullplot:

A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills. Ultimately, as a test of faith, or lack of it, the believer forces the non-believer onto the ledge of a tall building. He then has one hour to make a choice between his own life and someone else's. Without faith in an afterlife, will he be capable of such a sacrifice?

Insidious

Insidious

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-04-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (177164 Reviews)

Director:

James Wan

Fullplot:

A gripping story of a family in search of help for their son, Dalton, who fell into a coma after a mysterious incident in the attic. Little do they know that there is much more to this endless sleep than meets the eye as they explore the paranormal, and rediscover the past; the key to getting their son back once and for all.

Young Adult

Young Adult

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-12-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (61560 Reviews)

Director:

Jason Reitman

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Thirty-seven year old Mavis Gary seems incapable of happiness. She has had one failed marriage with no romance in her immediate horizon. She ghosts writes a young adult series of books, which has just been canceled due to low sales. She is in the process of writing the last book, with which she is having a mental block. She lives vicariously through Kendall Strickland, the teenaged female heroine in her books, as like Kendall she believes her high school years were the best years of her life when she was the prom queen. When she receives news that her high school beau, Buddy Slade, and his wife, Beth Slade, have just had their first child, Mavis takes it as a sign that she and Buddy are meant to be together. As such, she devises a false pretense to travel from her Minneapolis home back her her old hometown of Mercury, Minnesota to reclaim Buddy from Beth. As Mavis slyly or not so slyly does whatever she can to hang out with Buddy, even in Beth's company if need be, she also runs into another old high school colleague named Matt Freehauf. She barely remembers Matt until she is reminded that he was the "hate crime" kid i.e. he was beaten almost to death by the school jocks who believed he was gay (which he is not), which has left him among other things needing to walk with a brace. Matt ends up being Mavis' drinking buddy and confidante, Matt, in turn, who tries to be Mavis' voice of reason to get her out of her delusional state about Buddy and get a grip on reclaiming her life as a functioning adult.

Insidious: Chapter 2

Insidious: Chapter 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (91135 Reviews)

Director:

James Wan

Cast:

Writer:

Leigh Whannell (based on characters created by)

James Wan (story)

Leigh Whannell (story)

Leigh Whannell (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Renai is interrogated by a police detective about the supernatural events in the house. While the police investigate the house, the Lambert family temporarily moves to the old house of Lorraine Lambert. Renai is haunted by a woman in white and Josh has a strange behavior at home. Meanwhile Lorraine seeks out Elise's partners Specs and Tucker expecting to find answers.

Space Station 76

Space Station 76

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-03-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.9 (5085 Reviews)

Director:

Jack Plotnick

Cast:

Writer:

Jennifer Elise Cox (screenplay)

Sam Pancake (screenplay)

Jack Plotnick (screenplay)

Kali Rocha (screenplay)

Michael Stoyanov (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Space Station 76 is a refueling satellite near an alternate-reality Earth, circa 1976. Jessica arrives to serve as the station's new first mate. While she narrates a piece about how she likes the predictability of asteroids, some placidly drifting asteroids are shown colliding in chain-reaction fashion. While at first the station appears normal and the people friendly, Jessica soon discovers that the people on board have issues due to the isolation and stress of being cooped up with one another in a relatively small space far from Earth. This is in addition the usual problems people struggle with, such as infidelity, loneliness, depression, and drug abuse. She tries to make friends and fit in, but, unable to connect meaningfully with anyone, she becomes lonely. She's baffled and disillusioned by the stiff and irritable Captain Glenn, who harbors secrets of his own. She finds herself drawn to Ted, a lonely, married crewman, and his 7 year-old daughter, Sunshine. Ted yearns to reconnect with his unhappy, medicated wife, Misty, but she's too far gone to respond and is driving him away. His daughter Sunshine contends with her unhappy, mentally ill mother and her own isolation issues. Events finally come to a head at a Christmas party when a rapidly unhinging Misty decides everyone needs to play the "Truth Game." Just when it seems like everything's falling apart, a celestial event shakes everyone to their core, reminding them what their real priorities in life should be.

Jack Strong

Jack Strong

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-07-24

Languages:

Polish, English, Russian

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

128 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (2124 Reviews)

Fullplot:

This gripping spy thriller tells the true story of a man who dares to challenge the Soviet empire. While planning the maneuvers of the Warsaw Pact forces, Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski has access to top secrets. He gets to know that the American nuclear counterattack against Soviet forces is planned to be executed on Polish territory. Thanks to his determination, he starts a long, lonely and psychologically exhausting cooperation with CIA. From that very moment the life of his family and his own is in constant danger as one careless move may lead to tragedy.

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