Movies Starring Billy Crudup
Watchmen
Who watches the Watchmen?
Danny Woodburn, Apollonia Vanova, Nhi Do, Tony Ali, Jay Brazeau, Chris Burns, Billy Crudup, Matt Drake, Ron Fassler, Matt Frewer, L. Harvey Gold, Matthew Goode
DIRECTOR:A crime/conspiracy story based on the influential comic by Alan Moore. Watchmen focuses on the every day life of out of work superheroes. Costumed superheroism has been outlawed, and most groups have been abandoned. But as a new threat presents itself, the paranoid masked detective/vigilante Rorschach uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all masked heroes.
Dedication
With each moment we write our story
Bob Balaban, Peter Bogdanovich, Bobby Cannavale, Billy Crudup, Martin Freeman, Jason Evans Lee, Christopher Grey Misa, Antonio Parisi, Jeremy Shamos, Steven Wargo, Tom Wilkinson, Charlene Biton, Cassidy Hinkle, Mandy Moore, Jicky Schnee
DIRECTOR:Justin Theroux
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.
The Good Shepherd
Edward Wilson believed in America, and he would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it.
Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Michael Gambon, Martina Gedeck, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Mark Ivanir, Gabriel Macht, Lee Pace, Joe Pesci
DIRECTOR:Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes an influential veteran operative, while his distrust of everyone around him increases to no end. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
Big Fish
An adventure as big as life itself.
Steve Buscemi, Helena Bonham Carter, Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Matthew McGrory, David Denman, Missi Pyle, Loudon Wainwright III, Ada Tai, Arlene Tai
DIRECTOR:The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.
Waking the Dead
Sometimes love has a life of its own.
Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, Hal Holbrook, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll, Lawrence Dane, Ed Harris, Larry Marshall, Stanley Anderson, Patricia Gage, John Carroll Lynch
DIRECTOR:Fielding Pierce lives the life of an aspiring politician - in 1972 he's serving in the Coast Guard (trying to avoid Vietnam in the most honorable way), and by 1973 he has entered law school. Along the way he falls in love with Sarah, a fiercely idealistic woman who devotes her life to helping others - unfortunately she's killed in an explosion while assisting members of the Chilean resistance. Nine years later, in the middle of a congressional election, Fielding is suddenly flooded with thoughts and visions of his lost love.
Almost Famous
Experience it. Enjoy it. Just don't fall for it.
Fairuza Balk, Jason Lee, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Angarano, Anna Paquin, Noah Taylor, John Fedevich, Mark Kozelek, Liz Stauber, Jimmy Fallon
DIRECTOR:William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Sleepers
When friendship runs deeper than blood
Kevin Bacon, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Vittorio Gassman, Minnie Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Ron Eldard, Joseph Perrino, Jason Patric, Geoffrey Wigdor, Brad Pitt, Terry Kinney, Brad Renfro, Bruno Kirby, Frank Medrano
DIRECTOR:Four boys growing up in Hell's Kitchen play a prank that leads to an old man getting hurt. Sentenced to no less than one year in the Wilkenson Center in upstate New York, the four friends are changed by the beating, humiliation and sexual abuse by the guards sworn to protect them. Thirteen years later and a chance meeting lead to a chance for revenge against the Wilkenson Center and the guards.
