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1	The Great Gatsby (1974) more movies like this directed by Jack Clayton featuring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby wants to win back the love of socialite Daisy ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £5.05!
2	The Man in the Moon (1991) more movies like this directed by Robert Mulligan featuring Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon, Jason London In its elegiac nostalgia for the days of childhood innocence, Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon recalls another of Mulligan's earlier films, To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in a Louisiana backwater town in the 1950s, the film chronicles the coming-of-age of a young teenage girl. Dani (Reese Witherspoon) is a fourteen-year-old girl who shares a room ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.64!
3	Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997) more movies like this directed by Ken Burns featuring Adam Arkins, Murphy Guyer, Sam Waterston, Matthew Broderick, Kevin Conway This Ken Burns documentary, narrated by Hal Holbrook, chronologically traces the well-documented 1804-06 military expedition of Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and Lt. William Clark (1770-1838) to survey newly acquired lands and seek a Northwest Passage. Ordered by Thomas Jefferson (who labeled it the Corps of Discovery), the expedition was approved ... see all copies from £7.78! new only from £14.52!
4	The Killing Fields (1984) more movies like this directed by Roland Joffé featuring Sam Waterston, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson, Athol Fugard, Spalding Gray, Bill Paterson The Killing Fields is a romanticized adaptation of an eyewitness magazine story by New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg. Covering the U.S. pullout from Vietnam in 1975, Schanberg (Sam Waterston) relies on his Cambodian friend and translator Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) for inside information. Schanberg has an opportunity to rescue Dith Pran ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £11.20!
5	Hopscotch (1980) more movies like this directed by Ronald Neame featuring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom Walter Matthau plays a CIA agent who's been confined by office politics to a desk job. The disgruntled Matthau quits the service and heads to Europe, where he links up with former lover (an fellow ex-agent) Glenda Jackson. All goes smoothly until Matthau acts on the advice of yet another retired agent, Russian Herbert Lom, who suggests that ... see all copies from £16.25! new only from £16.29!
6	Capricorn One (1978) more movies like this directed by Peter Hyams featuring Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson Astronauts Charles Brubaker, John Walker, and Peter Willis (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston, respectively) are hailed as heroes when they become the first men to be rocketed to Mars. Actually the space travelers are as phony as their mission controller, Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook); to avert a failure that might cost the space ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.06!
7	Heaven's Gate (1981) more movies like this directed by Michael Cimino featuring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, John Hurt A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism, Cimino used the historical Johnson County War incident ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £7.22!
8	Miracle at Midnight (1998) more movies like this directed by Ken Cameron featuring Sam Waterston, Mia Farrow, Justin Whalin In this WWII-era drama, a Danish physician and his wife courageously fight the Nazis by helping save the lives of their Jewish neighbors. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide see all copies from £10.68! new only from £10.68!
9	Serial Mom (1994) more movies like this directed by John Waters featuring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Mary Jo Catlett Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the perfect suburban housewife and mother. She likes to cook, her home is immaculately clean, she's always well-groomed and cheerful, and she loves her husband Eugene (Sam Waterston) and her two children, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard). There's just one problem with Beverly -- if you do anything ... see all copies from £3.32! new only from £3.32!
10	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) more movies like this directed by Woody Allen featuring Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Sam Waterston Woody Allen spent most of the 1980s and '90s veering between comedy and drama, and he rarely combined the two with greater success than in Crimes and Misdemeanors, in which he weaved together two stories, one deadly serious, one often funny, both ending in sadness. Martin Landau plays Dr. Judah Rosenthal, a prominent ophthalmologist with a ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £7.45!
11 view cover	The Glass Menagerie (1973) more movies like this directed by Anthony Harvey featuring Joanna Miles, Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston Previously filmed in 1950, Tennessee Williams' 1944 Broadway hit The Glass Menagerie was remade for television in 1973. Katharine Hepburn is top-billed as Amanda Wingfield, a faded southern belle who lives on her memories in a Depression-era St. Louis tenement. Sam Waterston narrates the story as Amanda's idealistic son Tom, who'd give anything to ... see all copies from £15.12! new only from £15.12!
12 view cover	The Enemy Within (1994) more movies like this directed by Jonathan Darby featuring Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards, Jr., Josef Sommer An attempt to overthrow the President of the United States is the subject of this made-for-cable conspiracy-thriller. Forest Whitaker stars as Colonel Mackenzie Casey, a loyal member of President Foster's (Sam Waterston) inner circle. When Casey discovers a plot by his superior (Jason Robards) to stage a coup during military exercises, he teams up ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £7.20!
13 view cover	Law & Order: Season 05 (1994) more movies like this The biggest news surrounding Law & Order's fifth season was the acrimonious exit of series regular Michael Moriarty, who, since the program's inception, had upheld the "Order" part of the program as Executive Assistant DA Ben Stone. According to the script, Stone quit the DA's office in disgust and despair after a witness to whom he'd promised ... see all copies from £30.04! new only from £30.04!
14 view cover	Rancho Deluxe (1975) more movies like this directed by Frank Perry featuring Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Charlene Dallas, Clifton James In Frank Perry's curious, off-center comedy Western, Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston play Jack McKee and Cecil Carlson, a couple of cattle rustlers whose special target is taciturn rancher John Brown (Clifton James). Both men are outcasts by choice; McKee can't stand being around his stuck-up ex-wife (played by Doria Cook), while Carlson, an Indian ... see all copies from £3.86! new only from £8.33!
15 view cover	Mindwalk (1991) more movies like this directed by Bernt Amadeus Capra featuring Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye, Emmanuel Montes A fictionalized depiction of the ecological and holistic teachings of the philosopher Fritjof Capra filmed by his brother Bernt, Mindwalk consists almost entirely of the verbal interplay between its three archetypal characters, physicist Sonia (Liv Ullmann), conservative politician Jack (Sam Waterston), and poet Thomas (John Heard). The trio meet ... see all copies from £101.06! new only from £101.06!
16 view cover	Just Between Friends (1986) more movies like this directed by Allan Burns featuring Mary Tyler Moore, Christine Lahti, Ted Danson, Sam Waterston, Salome Jens A timid aerobics instructor learns that her new best friend is also her husband's mistress in this domestic drama starring Mary Tyler Moore. Suffering from a bit of empty-nest syndrome as her children pass through adolescence, indecisive homemaker Holly Davis (Moore) reluctantly accepts a part-time gig teaching exercise classes for frazzled gym ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.57!
17 view cover	September (1987) more movies like this directed by Woody Allen featuring Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Elaine Stritch, Sam Waterston A weekend stay at a Vermont summer house provides glimpses into the lives of six unhappy people, plagued by unrequited feelings, thoughts and desires. Mia Farrow plays Lane, a troubled woman who hides from a terrible childhood memory. She's in love with Peter (Sam Waterston), who is tempted by Stephanie (Dianne Wiest), her good friend. As the ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.78!
18 view cover	Swimming to Cambodia (1987) more movies like this directed by Jonathan Demme featuring Spalding Gray, Sam Waterston, Ira Wheeler By rights, an 87-minute filmed monologue should be as stimulating as watching paint dry. Ah, but when the monologist is the brilliant Spalding Gray, then the audience is in for a cerebral feast. Based on his one-man Broadway presentation, Swimming to Cambodia is a mesmerizing account of Gray's experiences while playing a small role in the 1984 ... see all copies from £6.53!
19 view cover	The Journey of August King (1995) more movies like this directed by John Duigan featuring Jason Patric, Thandie Newton, Larry Drake, Sam Waterston, Nesbitt Blaisdell This drama chronicles the moral fortitude and courage of a simple North Carolina farmer in 1815. The trouble begins when the widowed farmer August King takes his wagon to a nearby town to get supplies and make the final payment on his land. He arrives to find the townsfolk quite agitated as two slaves have escaped from the estate of Olaf ... see all copies from £3.07! new only from £7.45!
20 view cover	David's Mother (1994) more movies like this directed by Robert Allan Ackerman featuring Kirstie Alley, Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing, Phylicia Rashad, Chris Sarandon Kirstie Alley earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in this moving made-for-TV drama. She plays Sally Goodson, the devoted mother of autistic child David. Abandoned by her husband years before, Sally has sacrificed much for her son but has felt it in his best interest. One of the key things she accomplished was keeping her son out ... see all copies from £4.10! new only from £4.93!
21 view cover	Warning Sign (1985) more movies like this directed by Hal Barwood featuring Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Dysart In yet another ostensible thriller about deadly germs wreaking havoc on human life and psyches, this is a frenetic, uneven story about germs going berserk in a sealed-off lab, giving rise to infected humans more berserk than the germs. The lab is secretly developing weapons of biological warfare, and when an accident occurs that immediately seals ... see all copies from £4.78! new only from £5.06!
22 view cover	The Proprietor (1996) more movies like this directed by Ismail Merchant featuring Jeanne Moreau, Josh Hamilton, Sean Young, Austin Pendleton, Sam Waterston, Christopher Cazenove, Nell Carter Noted producer Ismail Merchant stepped up to the director's chair for this drama. Adrienne Mark (Jeanne Moreau) is the most acclaimed French novelist of her generation, whose best known work, Je M'Appelle France , was an international best-seller made into an award-winning French film (and a disastrous Americanized remake). Adrienne is living in ... see all copies from £2.73!
23 view cover	A House Divided (2000) more movies like this directed by John Kent Harrison featuring Jennifer Beals, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Sam Waterston, Tim Daly, Ron White, Shirley Douglas This historical drama, based on a true story, is set in Georgia in the mid-1800s. David Dickson (Sam Waterston) owns a large plantation, as well as a number of slaves who do the labor required to run it. Dickson finds himself attracted to one of his new slaves, a bright and willful teenager named Julia (Lisa Gay Hamilton); Dickson rapes Julia, and ... see all copies from £38.91!
24 view cover	The Boy Who Loved Trolls (1984) more movies like this directed by Harvey Laidman featuring Sam Waterston, Susan Anton, Matt Dill Matt Dill is The Boy Who Loved Trolls in this 55-minute TV fantasy. Convinced that trolls do indeed exist, Dill makes the acquaintance of one named Ofoeti (Sam Waterston) under a bridge. Alas, Ofoeti will die unless Dill agrees to remain with the troll for all time. Susan Anton and W.H. Macy also star in this engaging children's tale. The Boy Who ... see all copies from £5.17!
25 view cover	The Room Upstairs (1987) more movies like this directed by Stuart Margolin featuring Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing More a series of ragged comic anecdotes than a unified whole, the made-for-TV The Room Upstairs top-bills Stockard Channing as a Boston teacher of the hearing-impaired. Strapped for cash, Ms. Channing converts her family home into a boarding house. Six tenants with varying degrees of eccentricities and personal hang-ups take up residence, ... see all copies from £3.42!

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