Results for : Octavia Spencer

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

Director: Gabriele Muccino

Genres: Drama

Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Diane Kruger, Quvenzhané Wallis

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

Just days before Rhett (Chris Pine) is leaving for Nashville to pursue a lifelong dream of being a singer/songwriter, his girlfriend Samantha (Bre Blair) realizes that "his" future may not be "their" future. This news comes as a shock to Rhett, and he is faced with having to choose between following his dream and staying in his hometown in order to be with the woman he loves.

Director: Ryan Craig

Genres: Drama

Actors: Shawn Christian, Chris Pine, Bre Blair, John Hawkes, Lin Shaye

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

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

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 small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the celebrity, and the girl's best friend.

Director: Robert Luketic

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Josh Duhamel, Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace, Nathan Lane, Sean Hayes

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

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

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

A social outcast with a facial birthmark finds his world flipped upside down after he posts videos of his quirky life onto the Internet and becomes an unwilling cyber-celebrity.

Director: Nathaniel Atcheson

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Byron Lane, Ahna O'Reilly, Beth Grant, Zack Silva, Julianna McCarthy

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 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

A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

Director: Mike Binder

Genres: Drama

Actors: Kevin Costner, Jillian Estell, Jennifer Ehle, Gillian Jacobs, Octavia Spencer

The film adaptation of Del Shores' hit play. Under the thumb of her abusive husband, post-middle age Willadean feels life has passed her by until she makes some unlikely friends. Del Shores adapts this uplifting story from his play "The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife."

Director: Del Shores

Genres: Drama

Actors: Beth Grant, Octavia Spencer, Dale Dickey, David Steen

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

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

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

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

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

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

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

Director: Theodore Melfi

Genres: Drama , History

Actors: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst

A high school romantic comedy about freshman Victor who has contracted a case of Anya-itis, (acute and incurable love passion for high school senior Anja.) And why shouldn't he?

Director: Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg

Genres: Comedy , Romance

Actors: Devon Werkheiser, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tania Verafield, Ken Luckey, Adam J. Bernstein

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

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

A comedic look at crime, love, tolerance and fried chicken.

Director: Tate Taylor

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney, Tate Taylor, Melissa McCarthy, John Wesley

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

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

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

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.

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

Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.

Director: Sean Anders

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, Sunita Mani

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

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

Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior.

Director: Mark Waters

Genres: Comedy , Crime , Drama , Mystery

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Brett Kelly, Tony Cox, Christina Hendricks

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

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

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

Malcolm is a brilliant, callous businessman who is a vicious, overbearing father. Mark is the sales manager at Chamberlain Auto, the dealership that promises to do "Whatever It Takes" to put you in a new car. But on a scorching hot Saturday in the middle of the Phoenix summer, Mark has a chance to get his own dealership - and out from under the thumb of his father. Mark has to sell thirty-five cars by the end of the day. The question: Will Mark do whatever it takes - including betraying his sales team and himself - to get what he wants?

Director: Adam Collis

Genres: Drama , Comedy

Actors: Alessandra Torresani, Octavia Spencer, Patrick J. Adams, Chris Mulkey, Dash Mihok

Based on the hilarious and popular FunnyorDie.com web series, the film charts the rise and fall of America's worst Christian pop band! Pastor Jerry gets possibly awful medical news and is determined to reach his rebellious teen while he still can. Jerry forms Cross My Heart, a Christian band, to keep his son on a "righteous" path. He finds four young musicians with varying levels of talent and the first single Save The World! takes off on multiple (and some unexpected) radio formats. But the band starts to unravel!

Director: Jason Naumann

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Tim Bagley, Mindy Sterling, Joel McCrary, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine Reitman

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 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