James Toback
James Lee Toback (born November 23, 1944) is an American screenwriter and film director.
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| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.857 |
| Birthday | 1944-11-23 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
2015
Mississippi Grind
6/501
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The...
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Mississippi Grind
1983
Exposed
4.8/14
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for he...
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Exposed
1990
Alice
6.4/301
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults h...
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Alice
1999
Giving It Up
4/10
A womanizing New York adman attempts to identify the causes of, and find a remedy for, his so-called addiction to sex, in order to win the love of a w...
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Giving It Up
2004
When Will I Be Loved
4/37
Feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, a young woman begins to explore her sexuality with other people.
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When Will I Be Loved
2005
The Outsider
6.2/5
Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or distribut...
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The Outsider
2002
Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film
0/0
The director and the actor from Fingers (1978) talks about the film
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Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film
2014
River of Fundament
6.6/16
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collabora...
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River of Fundament
2007
Never Down
0/0
Rico reunites with his ex-wife after serving a five year prison term for armed robbery. Upon Rico's release he encounters old and new forces conspirin...
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Never Down
2017
An Imperfect Murder
3.7/20
Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake,...
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An Imperfect Murder
1999
Black and White
4.7/63
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high schoo...
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Black and White
1968
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
0/0
Portrait of Norman Mailer at the time of the Pentagon demonstrations in 1967, documenting Mailer's involvement and arrest, together with two TV appear...
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Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?
2017
We Blew It
5.6/9
How did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived...
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We Blew It
2016
Toback Vs. Mailer: The Incident
0/0
Betting, boxing, and boozing: this is the weird, true story of the time Norman Mailer confronted James Toback to argue about the difference between bo...
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Toback Vs. Mailer: The Incident
2013
A Fuller Life
6.6/12
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child...
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A Fuller Life
2002
Jim Brown: All-American
5/5
Jim Brown: All-American is a 2002 documentary film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film d...
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Jim Brown: All-American
1990
The Big Bang
4.2/5
Filmmaker James Toback poses basic questions in philosophy, such as why we're here and where we're going, to various celebrities and ordinary people.
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The Big Bang
2006
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
0/0
Retrospective documentary of the film "Bugsy"
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The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
2022
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
7.6/8
A road-movie narrated by Michael Cimino (recorded by the documentary's director during their journey together across the United States), and with the...
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