Movie Search Results for Robert Towne

Jack Nicholson is unforgettable as private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and politica

Tom Cruise plays race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid), Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Academy Award. winner Robert Duvall) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly end

Mitch McDeere is a young and ambitious Harvard Law student. Mitch is widely sought after by law firms, but turns down several offers from top firms to go to work for a small, but wealthy Memphis firm.Ignoring his wife's initial misgivings about the new job and the partners at the firm, Mitch dives into his new career with ambition and gr

Several years into his exile from Hollywood, director Roman Polanski hits his stride again with this dread-filled suspense thriller. Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Sondra (Betty Buckley), are in Paris on business when Sondra suddenly vanishes. With no way to contact her or to communicate with the locals, Richard is paralyzed wi

With computer genius Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) at his side and a beautiful thief (Thandie Newton) on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This Mission: Impossible sequel from director John Woo plunges Hunt