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Richard LaGravenese has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Freedom Writers.
The Fisher King
1991 · Movie · Writer
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads
Unbroken
2014 · Movie · Writer
Top 12%Netflix · Included
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1996 · Movie · Writer
Top 33%Netflix · Included
Disenchanted
2022 · Movie · Writer
Top 34%Disney+ · Included
Behind the Candelabra
2013 · Movie · Writer
Top 64%Max · Included
The Last Five Years
2014 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 73%Tubi · Free w/ ads
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Dir. Richard LaGravenese · With Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Meryl Streep, Clint Eastwood, Annie Corley
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.
Dir. Alfonso Cuarón · With Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham
A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Dir. Angelina Jolie · With Jack O'Connell, Alex Russell, Domhnall Gleeson
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Dir. Richard LaGravenese · With Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Dir. Robert Redford · With Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
Dir. Barbra Streisand · With Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan
Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle turns to the magic of Andalasia for help. Accidentally transforming the entire town into a real-life fairy tale and placing her family’s future happiness in jeopardy, she must race against time to reverse the spell and determine what happily ever after truly means to her and her family.
Dir. Adam Shankman · With Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Dir. Francis Lawrence · With Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Dir. Ted Demme · With Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Dir. Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuarón, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Doyle, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Oliver Schmitz, Nobuhiro Suwa, Daniela Thomas, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Bruno Podalydès · With Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Dan Aykroyd
In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
Dir. Richard LaGravenese · With Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan, Natalie Knepp
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
Dir. Richard LaGravenese · With Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons
An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.
Dir. Taylor Hackford · With Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
Dir. Jonathan Demme · With Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Kimberly Elise
The only thing worse than being the assistant to a high-maintenance movie star who doesn't take you seriously? Finding out he's smitten with your mom.
Dir. Richard LaGravenese · With Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King
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