Movies starring Balaban, Bob

Ghost World (2001)

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Birch, Thora | Johansson, Scarlett | Buscemi, Steve | Renfro, Brad | Douglas, Illeana | Balaban, Bob | Travis, Stacey | Stevenson Jr., Charles C. | Sheridan, Dave | McGowan, Tom | Azar, Debra | George, Brian | Healy, Pat | Bell, Rini | Thyne, T.J.
Directors: Zwigoff, Terry
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Set in the summer after graduation, Enid and Rebecca are both outsiders in a world slowly being engulfed by fake 50’s diners and Starbucks. Enid must attend an art class to officially graduate high school as Rebecca gets a job. When the two play a mean joke on a much older, geeky record collector, Enid finds a fellow soul and begins to discover the complexities of becoming an adult in the modern world.

Greedy (1994)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Douglas, Kirk | Travis, Nancy | d'Abo, Olivia | Hartman, Phil | Begley Jr., Ed | Burns, Jere | Camp, Colleen | Balaban, Bob | Hyser, Joyce | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Fallon, Siobhan | McCarthy, Kevin | Alexander, Khandi
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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An extremely wealthy and crafty old man (Douglas) toys with his greedy nieces and nephews as they circle about, waiting for their ill-deserved inheritance. The plot thickens as the old man takes a young mistress (d’Abo), and they fear that she will get the estate. In response, they locate the much-loved nephew (Fox) who walked away from the whole greed thing and became a professional bowler. Deception upon deception complicates matters as young Daniel is slowly drawn back under the spell of Greed.

For Love or Money (1993)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Finkel, Fyvush | Moyer, Mike | Guerra, Saverio | Hagen, Daniel | La Chanze | Laurence, Paula | Mitchell, Donna | Monk, Debra | Reaves-Phillips, Sandra | Fox, Michael J. | Anwar, Gabrielle | Higgins, Anthony | Tucker, Michael | Balaban, Bob | Mizrahi, Isaac
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Doug Ireland is the concierge of a ritzy hotel in New York. He does what he has to to satisfy the hotel’s guests, by getting them what they need; like jewelry, candy mints, and theatre tickets. He also tries to keep the manager from terminating Milton, the bellhop, who was been working at the hotel for more than half a century, who likes to think that the spirit of the hotel’s founder is still around. Doug wants to open his own hotel on Roosevelt Island. Now he has saved every cent he could to get an option on an old hotel. Now he has a matter of weeks to develop the hotel or else he will lose it. But to do it he needs at least 3 million dollars and his best chance to get it is Christian Hanover. While Hanover considers Doug’s proposal, he asks him to “take care” of his girlfriend, Andy, a girl whom Doug has the hots for but is constantly turned down when he asks her out, cause she doesn’t want to be two timing her boyfriend, Hanover. Now Hanover is married but says that “he will divorce his wife and marry her”. Doug doesn’t exactly believe him but thinks that his hotel is more important and Andy can make her own decisions. But the more Doug spends with Andy, Doug is starting to wonder what is important.

2010 (1984)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Scheider, Roy | Lithgow, John | Mirren, Helen | Balaban, Bob | Dullea, Keir | Rain, Douglas | Osborne, Madolyn Smith | Elcar, Dana | Jaffe, Taliesin | McEachin, James | Deschanel, Mary Jo | Baskin, Elya | Kramarov, Saveli | Rudnik, Oleg | Shneider, Natasha
Directors: Hyams, Peter
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman’s last transmission… “My God, it’s full of stars…”

Dedication (2007)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Balaban, Bob | Bogdanovich, Peter | Cannavale, Bobby | Crudup, Billy | Freeman, Martin | Lee, Jason Evans | Misa, Christopher Grey | Parisi, Antonio | Shamos, Jeremy | Wargo, Steven | Wilkinson, Tom | Biton, Charlene | Hinkle, Cassidy | Moore, Mandy | Schnee, Jicky
Directors: Theroux, Justin
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The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children’s book author (Crudup) who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator (Moore) instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend (Wilkinson). Balaban is the book’s publisher.

No Reservations (2007)

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Eckhart, Aaron | Breslin, Abigail | Clarkson, Patricia | Wade, Jenny | Balaban, Bob | O'Byrne, Brian F. | Rabe, Lily | Silver, Eric | Bareikis, Arija | McMartin, John | Weston, Celia | Kravitz, Zöe | Rauch, Matthew | Molloy, Dearbhla
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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A master chef, Kate (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan—with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivattes and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection.

Lady in the Water (2006)

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Genres: Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Giamatti, Paul | Howard, Bryce Dallas | Wright, Jeffrey | Balaban, Bob | Choudhury, Sarita | Cheung, Cindy | Rodríguez, Freddy | Irwin, Bill | Hurt, Mary Beth | Gray-Cabey, Noah | Reitman, Joseph D. | Harris, Jared | Monohon, Grant | Boyd, John
Directors: Shyamalan, M. Night
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The super Cleveland Heep finds a woman swimming in the swimming pool of the condominium during the night; he slips, hits his head on the floor and faints in the water, and she rescues him. He discloses that she is a “Narf” called Story, a character of bedtime stories, that is chased by a “Scrunt” and she needs to return to her Blue World with an eagle. Cleveland convinces the tenants to help and protect Story.

Mexican, The (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Roberts, Julia | Gandolfini, James | Simmons, J.K. | Balaban, Bob | Augustus, Sherman | Cerveris, Michael | Hackman, Gene | Coca, Richard | Krumholtz, David | Guerra, Castulo | Serbulo, Mayra | Sánchez, Salvador | Ciangherotti, Alan | Romero, Melisa
Directors: Verbinski, Gore
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Jerry Welbach is given two ultimatums. His mob boss wants him to travel to Mexico to get a priceless antique pistol called “The Mexican” or he will suffer the consequences. The other ultimatum comes from his girlfriend Samantha, who wants him to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures that being alive, although in trouble with his girlfriend is the better alternative so he heads south of the border. Finding the pistol is easy but getting it home is a whole other matter. The pistol supposedly carries a curse - a curse Jerry is given every reason to believe, especially when Samantha is held hostage by the gay hit man Leroy to ensure the safe return of the pistol.

Gosford Park (2001)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: Germany | Italy | UK | USA
Actors: Smith, Maggie | Gambon, Michael | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Rutherford, Camilla | Dance, Charles | Somerville, Geraldine | Hollander, Tom | Wightman, Natasha | Northam, Jeremy | Balaban, Bob | Wilby, James | Blakley, Claudie | Fox, Laurence | Ford, Trent | Phillippe, Ryan
Directors: Altman, Robert
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Set in the 1930’s the story takes place in an old fashioned English country house where a family has invited many of their friends up for a weekend shooting party. The story centers around the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on and secrets are revealed, it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it…?

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dreyfuss, Richard | Truffaut, François | Garr, Teri | Dillon, Melinda | Balaban, Bob | McNamara, J. Patrick | Kemmerling, Warren J. | Blossom, Roberts | Dodds, Philip | Guffey, Cary | Bishop, Shawn | Campbell, Adrienne | Dreyfuss, Justin | Henriksen, Lance | Connally, Merrill
Directors: Spielberg, Steven
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Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in the form of military vehicles that went missing decades ago suddenly appearing in the middle of nowhere. Roy and the agents both follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.