Alan J. Pakula

Alan J. Pakula
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 16 (Director), 4 (Writer)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (2) | Director (16) | Writer (4)
The Devil\
A harrowing thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. (Sony Pictures)
+4
All the President\
Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.
+3
Sophie\
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust (imdb)
+15
The Parallax View
Joe Frady is a determined reporter who often needs to defend his work from colleagues. After the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator, Frady begins to notice that reporters present during the assassination are dying mysteriously. (imdb)
+7
Presumed Innocent
When the woman deputy prosecutor R.K. Sabich had an affair with is murdered the prosecutor asks him to lead the investigation. When Sabich digs too deeply he finds himself framed for the murder. (imdb)
+5
The Pelican Brief
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. (imdb)
+3
Klute
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. (imdb)
+3
Rollover
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos. (imdb)
+3
Starting Over
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. (imdb)
+3
Consenting Adults
Richard and Priscilla Parker's lives take a turn for the better when Eddy and Kay move into the house next door. Eddy's a risk taker and shows his new neighbours how to enjoy life at the expense of a rule or convention or two. What Richard doesn't realise is that Eddy's little games are just a prelude to something that's intended to destroy his neighbours' lives. (imdb)
+3
Dream Lover
After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results ... (imdb)
+2
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
While touring Spain, a young man, suffocated by his blue-blood family, meets an older woman, a not-quite-middle-aged spinster suffocated by her roles in life, who is yearning for something to live for as she faces a final illness. He falls in love with her unaffected realism, and she with his boyish enthusiasm and unashamed wonder at the world. Together they struggle with a lack of tolerable options for such an odd couple, while learning to depend on each other for much more than friendship. (imdb)
Comes a Horseman
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage...they eventually find love. (imdb)
+7
The Sterile Cuckoo
A spunky college girl tumbles through an autumn romance with a bashful student.
+2
See You in the Morning
Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids... (imdb)
+2
Orphans
The two brothers Treat and Philip lived alone since they were kids. Interdependent they dwell in a loft house and live on little thefts, until an aging minor criminal moves in with them and takes over the role of a father. (imdb)