Laura Linney

In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.

Dir. Peter Weir · With Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon

A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.

Dir. Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams · With Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.

Dir. Gregory Hoblit · With Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

Dir. Tom Ford · With Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

Dir. Richard Curtis · With Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Dir. Alan Parker · With Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Anna Gunn

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Dir. Noah Baumbach · With Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg

Fourteen years after the events of the original film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.

Dir. Richard Curtis, Mat Whitecross · With Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth

Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.

Dir. George Miller · With Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov

A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.

Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

Dir. Kirk Ellis · With Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

Dir. Tamara Jenkins · With Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

Dir. Kenneth Lonergan · With Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.

Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris

A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

Dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini · With Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Alicia Keys

Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.

Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan · With Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

Dir. Sarah Smith · With James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy

A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.

Dir. Darlene Hunt · With Laura Linney, John Benjamin Hickey, Oliver Platt

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

Dir. Laura Chinn · With Nico Parker, Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

Dir. Scott Derrickson · With Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott

Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpected promotion and assignment to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a renowned senior agent with 25 years in the FBI. However, he soon learns the reason for his promotion is to gain Hanssen's trust and find proof that he is a traitor to the country. Determined to draw the suspected double-agent out of deep cover, O'Neill finds himself in a lethal game of spy vs. spy, where nothing is as it seems.

Dir. Billy Ray · With Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney

A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.

Dir. Jeremy Brock · With Laura Linney, Rupert Grint, Julie Walters

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into the mystery of human behavior.

Dir. Bill Condon · With Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell

When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.

Dir. Jacob Aaron Estes · With Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Kerry Washington

John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.

Dir. Viggo Mortensen · With Lance Henriksen, Viggo Mortensen, Terry Chen

After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

Dir. Dave Green · With Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, Jeremy Howard

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.

Dir. Michael Grandage · With Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman

When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.

Dir. Gillies MacKinnon · With Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney