3 Movies Directed by Phil Joanou

U2: Rattle and Hum

U2: Rattle and Hum

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-11-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (4925 Reviews)

Director:

Phil Joanou

Fullplot:

This film documents the 1987 North American tour of the great rock band, U2. Fresh with their success of their best selling album, The Joshua Tree, the band plays monster gigs. Along the way, the band takes the opportunity in indulge in some special musical activities like playing with BB King and performing "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking" with a famous church choir. All the while, concert footage of the band's biggest hits on tour is featured while Bono speaks his mind on the problems of his homeland.

Final Analysis

Final Analysis

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-02-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (10179 Reviews)

Director:

Phil Joanou

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Berger (story)

Wesley Strick (story)

Wesley Strick (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A psychiatrist (Gere) has an affair with his patient's sister (Basinger) who is married to a Greek mobster (Roberts). The mobster is a tyrant over his wife. The psychiatrist wants her to get a divorce, but she is afraid of what her husband would do. She has a medical condition that becomes apparent when she drinks. One night she drinks anyway and attacks her husband. The psychiatrist uses his professional pull to try and help her out of the consequences of her actions, but becomes uncertain if she is telling him the truth.

Heaven's Prisoners

Heaven's Prisoners

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-05-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

132 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (4153 Reviews)

Director:

Phil Joanou

Cast:

Writer:

James Lee Burke (book)

Harley Peyton (screenplay)

Scott Frank (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Ex-detective Dave Robicheaux has made a new life for himself and his wife Annie running a bait shop in the outskirts of New Orleans. When they save a little girl, the sole survivor of a plane crash, their lives become forever changed. They take the orphan child into their home and prepare to raise her. However, a visit from DEA agent Dautrieve brings out the detective instincts in Robicheaux and he begins to ask about the rest of the passengers. This brings trouble to Robicheaux and he turns to drug lord Bubba Rocque, a childhood friend. But the friendship becomes estranged when an assault on the Robicheaux home leaves one victim...Annie.

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