Movies starring Joan Allen

Biography: Joan Allen was born in Rochelle, Illinois. She attended Rochelle Township High School where she was voted most likely to succeed. She participated in the school music program as well. She joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 1977, where she got her professional start. She has a daughter named Sadie.

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Paddy Considine | Edgar Ramirez | Scott Adkins | Joey Ansah | Daniel Bruhl | Chris Cooper | Brian Cox | Dan Fredenburgh | Tom Gallop | Corey Johnson | Trevor St. John | David Strathairn | Joan Allen | Julia Stiles
Directors: Paul Greengrass
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Bourne is once again brought out of hiding, this time inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar—an upgrade to Project Treadstone—in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne (Damon) sets up a meeting with Ross (Considine) and realizes instantly they’re being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst dodging The Company’s best efforts in trying to eradicate him.

Face/Off (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Nicolas Cage | Joan Allen | Alessandro Nivola | Gina Gershon | Dominique Swain | Nick Cassavetes | Harve Presnell | Colm Feore | John Carroll Lynch | CCH Pounder | Robert Wisdom | Margaret Cho | James Denton | Matt Ross
Directors: John Woo
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Sean Archer is a government agent who for six years has been trying to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who tried to kill him but ended up killing Archer’s son instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has planted a bomb that will go off, unless he lets him go but Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing so a fight erupts that leaves Troy comatose. But later when they go through some of his brother, Pollux’s things, they discover that Troy was telling the truth. All what they need now is to find out where it is and the only person who knows is Pollux. And the only person that he will talk to about it, is his brother, Caster but unfortunately he is a vegetable. A government official then suggests to Archer that he assume Caster’s identity and ask Pollux about the bomb. So she brings him to a doctor who has perfected a method wherein the face of one individual is removed from him and placed on another. Archer agrees. The operation is a success so Archer as Troy goes to the prison where Pollux is being held and successfully gets him to tell him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was believed to be comatose awakens and forces the doctor who operated on Archer to place Archer’s face on him. He then goes to the prison as Archer and taunts Archer by telling him that he has destroyed all documentation of the operation and eliminated everyone who knew about it. He then takes his brother out and leaves Archer in prison. But Archer somehow manages to escape and is now trying to find someone who will believe and help him, while Troy is plotting something.

The Upside of Anger (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Joan Allen | Kevin Costner | Erika Christensen | Keri Russell | Alicia Witt | Evan Rachel Wood | Mike Binder | Tom Harper | Dane Christensen | Danny (IV) Webb | Magdalena Manville | Suzanne Bertish | David Firth | Rod Woodruff | Stephen Greif
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A sharp-witted suburban wife, Terry Wolfmeyer, is left to raise her four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor Denny, a once-great baseball star turned radio d.j. This leaves her daughters out on a limb. They are forced to juggle their mom’s romantic dilemmas as well as their own.

Manhunter (1986)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: William L. Petersen | Kim Greist | Joan Allen | Brian Cox | Dennis Farina | Tom Noonan | Stephen Lang | David Seaman | Benjamin Hendrickson | Michael Talbott | Dan Butler | Michele Shay | Robin Moseley | Paul Perri | Patricia Charbonneau
Directors: Michael Mann
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Retired FBI agent Will Graham (William L. Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer by using his ability to get inside the psychopath’s mind. However, it was this ability that drove him into retirement in the first place. The process of tracking and capturing the infamous Hannibal Lecter (Brian Cox) took a tremendous psychic toll on Graham, causing him to spent time in a mental hospital. With another madman on the loose, Graham has no choice but to return to duty, though he knows that it might cost him his family and his sanity.

To get the old mind-set back, Graham visits Hannibal Lecter in his high-security jail cell. However, the manipulative Lecter plays both sides and warns the new killer that Graham is on his trail, telling him to destroy Graham’s family to protect himself. In order to save his own family, Graham must risk everything to once again enter into the mind of the criminally insane.

With MANHUNTER, Mann raises the bar for serial killer films, imbuing his killer with an almost sympathetic quality while keeping him extremely menacing and clearly dangerous. Based on the Thomas Harris novel RED DRAGON, which serves as the prequel to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, MANHUNTER is a masterpiece of gripping storytelling and psychological horror.

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Franka Potente | Brian Cox | Julia Stiles | Karl Urban | Gabriel Mann | Joan Allen | Marton Csokas | Tom Gallop | John Bedford Lloyd | Ethan Sandler | Michelle Monaghan | Karel Roden | Tomas Arana | Oksana Akinshina
Directors: Paul Greengrass
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When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent—who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne (Damon) and Marie (Potente) have been living under assumed names—the pair collapse their lives and head out. Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.