Movies starring Jack Thompson

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Kevin Spacey | Jack Thompson | Irma P. Hall | Jude Law | Alison Eastwood | Paul Hipp | Lady Chablis | Dorothy Loudon | Anne Haney | Kim Hunter | Geoffrey Lewis | Richard Herd | Leon Rippy | Bob Gunton
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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This panoramic tale of Savannah’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William’s famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim’s violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim’s buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy’s murder, Kelso has his hands full.

December Boys (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe | Teresa Palmer | Christian Byers | Lee Cormie | James Fraser | Jack Thompson | Kris McQuade | Suzie Wilks | Victoria Hill | Sullivan Stapleton | Ralph Cotterill | Frank Gallacher
Directors: Rod Hardy
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It’s the 1960s, Australia. 4 orphaned boys, who are best friends, escape their orphanage and go to a beach resort. At the resort is a couple that’s keen on adopting a boy, which causes tension & competition between the boys. One of the boys also has his first romance with a girl that’s there.

The Good German (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Thompson | John Roeder | George Clooney | Tobey Maguire | Cate Blanchett | Dominic Comperatore | Dave Power | Tony Curran | Ravil Isyanov | J. Paul Boehmer | Igor Korosec | Boris Kievsky | Vladimir Kulikov | Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy | Aleksandr Sountsov
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain’s uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who’s now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he’s assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena’s keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.

Man-Thing (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Matthew Le Nevez | Rachael Taylor | Jack Thompson | Rawiri Paratene | Alex O'Loughlin | Steve Bastoni | Robert Mammone | Patrick Thompson | William Zappa | John Batchelor | Ian Bliss | Imogen Bailey | James Coyne | Cheryl Craig
Directors: Brett Leonard
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Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.

Man-Thing (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Matthew Le Nevez | Rachael Taylor | Jack Thompson | Rawiri Paratene | Alex O'Loughlin | Steve Bastoni | Robert Mammone | Patrick Thompson | William Zappa | John Batchelor | Ian Bliss | Imogen Bailey | James Coyne | Cheryl Craig
Directors: Brett Leonard
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Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.

Flesh & Blood (1985)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Netherlands | Spain | USA
Actors: Rutger Hauer | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Tom Burlinson | Jack Thompson | Fernando Hilbeck | Susan Tyrrell | Ronald Lacey | Brion James | John Dennis Johnston | Simón Andreu | Bruno Kirby | Kitty Courbois | Marina Saura | Hans Veerman | Jake Wood
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
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In 1501, in the Western Europe, in a period when the black plague is jeopardizing the populations, an army of mercenary peasants leaded by Martin (Rutger Hauer) fights side-by-side with the noble Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) to retrieve his castle, with the promise of a huge reward. However, the band is betrayed by Arnolfini, and decides to pay him back, assaulting and stealing a caravan under the command of Arnolfini and his son and student, Steven (Tom Burlinson). In one of the wagon is traveling the fiancée of Steven, Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who is accidentally kidnapped and later raped by the group. Agnes becomes Martin’s mate, and the mercenaries decide to invade a castle, without knowing that the army of Arnolfini is chasing them.

Original Sin (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Antonio Banderas | Angelina Jolie | Thomas Jane | Jack Thompson | Gregory Itzin | Allison Mackie | Joan Pringle | Cordelia Richards | James Haven | Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | Mario Iván Martínez | Harry Porter | Fernando Torre Laphame | Shaula Vega | Lisa Owen
Directors: Michael Cristofer
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Can love release our true self? A wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, Luis Vargas, advertises for a US wife; Julia Russell, from Delaware, sends her photograph, but the woman who steps off the ship is much lovelier. Luis marries her immediately and gives in to love. But Julia may not be who she claims: first a private eye shows up on behalf of Julia’s sister, then the sister herself. By now, Luis has given has wife access to bank accounts, and when she runs with his cash, he pursues her, with the help of Downs, the P.I., perhaps to kill her. Pursuit may be part of a con game as well, and Julia’s past explains some, if not all, of what remains of the story. A priest hears her confession.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Sean Penn | Naomi Watts | Don Cheadle | Jack Thompson | Brad William Henke | Nick Searcy | Michael Wincott | Mykelti Williamson | April Grace | Lily Knight | Jared Dorrance | Jenna Milton | Mariah Massa | Eileen Ryan | Derek Greene
Directors: Niels Mueller
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Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman (Sean Penn) who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother’s old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon’s broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that landed a helicopter on the White House lawn gives him the idea for his attack. Bolting onto a Baltimore plane, he attempts the hi-jacking.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Natalie Portman | Hayden Christensen | Christopher Lee | Samuel L. Jackson | Frank Oz | Ian McDiarmid | Pernilla August | Temuera Morrison | Jimmy Smits | Daniel Logan | Jack Thompson | Leeanna Walsman | Ahmed Best | Rose Byrne
Directors: George Lucas
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Ten years after the ‘Phantom Menace’ threatened the planet Naboo, Padmé Amidala is now a Senator representing her homeworld. A faction of political separatists, led by Count Dooku, attempts to assassinate her. There aren’t enough Jedi to defend the Republic against the threat, so Chancellor Palpatine enlists the aid of Jango Fett, who promises that his army of clones will handle the situation. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to train the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who fears that the Jedi code will forbid his growing romance with Amidala…