George Roy Hill’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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George Roy Hill has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Sting.
Recurring themes

Borsalino
1970
Crime · Comedy

My Favorite Year
1982
Comedy · Drama

Palombella rossa
1989
Comedy · Drama

God of Gamblers
1989
Action · Comedy

Risky Business
1983
Romance · Comedy

The Big Picture
1989
Comedy · Romance

Annie Hall
1977
Comedy · Drama

Rushmore
1998
Comedy · Drama

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O'Morrison

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Dir. George Roy Hill · With Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche