Results for : Octavia Spencer

Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's assassination. Based on a book by Ellen Fitzpatrick

Director: Bill Couturié

Genres: Documentary

Actors: Anne Hathaway, Bérénice Bejo, Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Chris Cooper

Sol Goode, a charismatic L.A. twenty-something, has always relied on charm, good looks, and fast talk to glide through life. But his luck may have run out; faced with eviction from his hipster apartment, totaling his car, and the threat of having to find a real job, Sol realizes that maybe the life he's been leading is no longer making him happy.

Director: Danny Comden

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Katharine Towne, Tori Spelling, Carmen Electra, Natasha Gregson Wagner

Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have put out an extradition order for him.

Director: John McNaughton

Genres: Drama , Crime

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Illeana Douglas, Anthony LaPaglia, Eric Roberts, Beverly D'Angelo

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

Director: Julius Onah

Genres: Drama , Thriller

Actors: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth, Norbert Leo Butz

Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.

Director: James Ponsoldt

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

Director: Laura Dern

Genres: Drama

Actors: Brittany Snow, Jennifer Hudson, Melissa Leo, Mitch Rouse, Sarah Hyland

When your father is a pornographer, what can you do to shock him? If you're Katrina Bartalotti, you announce that you're going to lose your virginity -- live on the Internet, for the whole world to see.

Director: Jean-Pierre Marois

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Mena Suvari, Sally Kellerman, Ira Israel, Octavia Spencer

After passionately auditioning for a role in a local community theater production, Judy is cast aside by a pretentious theater director. Lucky for her, she gets another unbelievable chance.

Director: Kirsten Smith

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Anna Faris, Larry Miller, Octavia Spencer, Ron Livingston, Mason Vale Cotton

Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane, a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife's untimely death. When Frank helps a stranger who's sidelined by a fatal accident on his way to a fateful reunion, he decides to show up for the rendezvous in the man's place. In the process, he finds hope and redemption.

Director: Randall Miller

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Actors: Robert Carlyle, John Goodman, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, Octavia Spencer

Our story takes place in the fertile, San Joaquin Valley. Fueled by gin and sheer determination, Elizabeth James (Ms. Liz) operates her third generation dairy farm outside the region's domineering co-ops. To help keep the place afloat, she's employed five renegade ranch hands. These boys have put a pin in responsibility and opted to stretch out the party as long as possible. Unfortunately, women, booze, and fisticuffs can only lead to one outcome: trouble. With the dairy farm reporting its third straight deficit year, Ms Liz is attracting some unwanted attention. Delbert Furgeson, the owner of the area's largest co-op, is pushing to buy her out. This only incenses the prideful Ms Liz and starts a volatile feud between the two. Sharing the narrative are the ranch hands.

Director: Eshom Nelms

Genres: Drama

Actors: Jane Kaczmarek, C. Thomas Howell, James Lafferty, Aaron Hill, Dale Dickey

When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.

Director: Raja Gosnell

Genres: Crime , Comedy

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Jascha Washington, Terrence Howard

Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.

Director: Jason Lew

Genres: Romance , Drama

Actors: Boyd Holbrook, Elisabeth Moss, Octavia Spencer, Sung Kang, Waleed Zuaiter

A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.

Director: Florrie Laurence

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Dedee Pfeiffer, Laura Leighton, Teri Garr, Howard Hesseman, Bert Remsen

Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad brother pulls his disappearing act. Mark walks out on wife Dianne after learning that the baby they're expecting has severe genetic abnormalities. Dianne is nonetheless determined to bear her child, with support from her mother and Mark's brother David, a pediatrician whose love for Dianne is unspoken but obvious. How do they cope with the challenges of raising this little girl named Julia?

Director: Dick Lowry

Genres: TV Movie , Drama , Family , Romance

Actors: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Campbell Scott, Eric Close, Alexa PenaVega, Blair Brown

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

Director: Marc Webb

Genres: Drama , Family , Comedy

Actors: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer

Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.

Director: Daniel Taplitz

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Jennifer Esposito, Gabrielle Union, Peter MacNicol

Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...

Director: Stephen Herek

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Family

Actors: Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Bill Cobbs, Octavia Spencer

Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.

Director: Eshom Nelms

Genres: Thriller , Crime , Mystery

Actors: John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, Anthony Anderson, Robert Forster, Clifton Collins Jr.

Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.

Director: Ryan Coogler

Genres: Drama

Actors: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

Director: Sean Anders

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Merced, Margo Martindale, Julie Hagerty

This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.

Director: Beyoncé Knowles

Genres: Documentary , Music

Actors: Beyoncé Knowles, Jay-Z, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Solange Knowles

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

Director: Gabriele Muccino

Genres: Drama

Actors: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Sarah Jane Morris, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy

The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful family-court judge in L.A. Over the years, she has avoided her father and knows nothing of the child. That all changes when he decides that is time she knew her own child and heads for L.A.

Director: Dick Lowry

Genres: Drama , TV Movie

Actors: Ving Rhames, Gloria Reuben, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Adilah Barnes, Robert Bailey Jr.

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Director: Joel Schumacher

Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Ashley Judd

A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Genres: Drama , Comedy , Crime

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Bernie Mac, John Ritter

A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

Director: Michael Pearce

Genres: Adventure , Science Fiction , Thriller

Actors: Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Lucian-River Mirage Chauhan, Rory Cochrane, Aditya Geddada

In a quiet suburban community where everything is peaceful and in its place, a single crack has just appeared. Angie and Russ are a young married couple with a bright future. Angie is pregnant and expecting to join her circle of friends in happy motherhood, but fate has other plans.

Director: Marc Forster

Genres: Drama

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Megan Mullally, Catherine Lloyd Burns, Jacqueline Heinze, Alan Ruck

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Director: Tate Taylor

Genres: Drama

Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis, Lennie James

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Genres: Fantasy , Family , Adventure , Comedy , Horror

Actors: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Jahzir Bruno, Chris Rock

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Director: Rob Minkoff

Genres: Mystery , Comedy , Crime

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Tim Blake Nelson, Mekhi Phifer, Matt Ryan

On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that exposes the family's most intimate secrets.

Director: Barry W. Blaustein

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Ben Schwartz, Kate Mara

When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.

Director: Jim Sonzero

Genres: Horror , Thriller

Actors: Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, Rick Gonzalez, Jonathan Tucker

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer

A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an AA meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry. The clock starts to tick: will she conceive, have a baby, and lose Harold (and the child) to his planet before he discovers emotion and starts to care?

Director: Mike Nichols

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Science Fiction

Actors: Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, John Goodman, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley

Lucy has always used food to escape life's problems, but when this self-titled "fat friend" lures her group of old college buddies to the Montana wilderness, she reveals a new self - skinny, beautiful and still flawed.

Director: Tate Taylor

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, Josh Hopkins, Octavia Spencer, Jack Noseworthy

This collection of five short films artfully portrays desire's ability to both empower and destroy those who encounter it.

Director: Lorraine Bracco

Genres: Romance , Drama

Actors: Robert Pattinson, Talulah Riley, David Burke, Anna Calder-Marshall, Marianne Borgo

With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dealer. After the amateurs botch the delivery of the objet d'art, the dealer kills Felix and forces the remaining four to "find" $1 million within a week's time or face certain death.

Director: Paul Rachman

Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller

Actors: Tim Curry, Balthazar Getty, Olivia Williams, Stacy Edwards, Daniel London

Antoine and Kenny Tyler are NCAA college basketball players, and Antoine is the star. Suddenly Antoine dies of heart attack and Kenny has to fill his shoes as leader of team. Some time later, Antoine returns as a ghost and helps Kenny in game and in life, but Kenny changes in the process and doesn't quite like it.

Director: Randall Miller

Genres: Fantasy , Drama , Comedy , Science Fiction

Actors: Marlon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison, David Paymer, Michael Michele, Octavia Spencer

A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

Director: John August

Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Science Fiction , Thriller

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis, Elle Fanning, David Denman

Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.

Director: Carl Schenkel

Genres: Drama

Actors: James Coburn, Lisa Zane, Paul Kersey, Finn Carter, William R. Moses

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.

Director: Silas Howard

Genres: Drama

Actors: Claire Danes, Ann Dowd, Octavia Spencer, Jim Parsons, Priyanka Chopra

When Alex is caught using magic to clean her room she is forced to go to wizard school with Justin. Max and Jerry camp out on the terrace to prove their manhood.

Director: Mark Cendrowski

Genres: Family , Comedy , Fantasy

Actors: Selena Gomez, David Henrie, Jake T. Austin, David DeLuise, Maria Canals-Barrera

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

Director: Bong Joon-ho

Genres: Action , Science Fiction , Drama

Actors: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton

A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.

Director: Marcos Siega

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Selma Blair, Jane Krakowski, Stark Sands, Elisabeth Harnois

Explore the life and legacy of Kentucky-born author bell hooks, who wrote nearly 40 books and whose work at the intersection of race, class and gender serves as a lasting contribution to the feminist movement. Learn how bell’s childhood in Hopkinsville and her connection to Kentucky’s “hillbilly culture” informed her views and her belief that feminism is for everybody. Becoming bell hooks, a one-hour documentary, features selections read by Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and interviews with feminist activist Gloria Steinem, Kentucky writers Crystal Wilkinson and Silas House, bell’s younger sister Gwenda Motley and many others.

Director: Sarah Louise Moyer

Genres: Documentary

Actors: bell hooks, Octavia Spencer, Gloria Steinem, Crystal Wilkinson, Silas House