When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn't follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice. Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson. Votes: 114,236 | Gross: $11.33M
A young doctor on his way across the country to a job interview crashes his car in a small town and is sentenced to work for several days at the town hospital. Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Barnard Hughes, Woody Harrelson. Votes: 36,396 | …
Jan 10, 1997 · The People vs. Larry Flynt: Directed by Milos Forman. With Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson. The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.
5. Zombieland (2009) Error: please try again. A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting bruiser in search of the last Twinkie and a pair of sisters striving to get to an amusement park join forces in a trek across a zombie-filled America.
A group of women in the Minnesota iron mines decide to stand up against harassment from their male co-workers in this drama based on a true story. Watch all you want.
"North Country," which tells her story, is inspired by the life of a real person, Lois Jenson, who filed the first class action lawsuit for sexual harassment in American history.Oct 20, 2005
Woody Harrelson movies: 15 greatest films ranked from worst to...THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (1996)THE MESSENGER (2009) ... WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP (1992) ... THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (2017) ... NATURAL BORN KILLERS (1994) ... NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) ... SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (2012) ... ZOMBIELAND (2009) ... More items...•Jul 8, 2020
Single mother Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) is part of a group of the first women to work at a local iron mine in Minnesota. Offended that they have to work with women, male workers at Eveleth Mines lash out at them and subject them to sexual harassment. Appalled by the constant stream of insults, sexually explicit language and physical abuse, Josey -- despite being cautioned against it by family and friends -- files a historic sexual harassment lawsuit.North Country / Film synopsis
Josey Aimes is based on Lois Jenson, who started working in the mines in 1975 and endured thirteen years of harassment before filing her first lawsuit. Jenson v. Eveleth Mines was settled in 1998, ten years after it was first filed, and over twenty years after the harassment began.
$3.5 millionOn December 23, 1998, just before the trial was set to begin, fifteen women settled with Eveleth Mines for a total of $3.5 million.
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She also discovers that Glory has Lou Gehrig's Disease, and her health is declining rapidly. Alice and Hank argue over Josey's lawsuit, and when Hank still refuses to forgive his daughter, Alice leaves him.
Question: What was more challenging, the lawyering or the hockey? Woody Harrelson: I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it.Sep 27, 2005
1988-89The movie is set in 1988-89, yet it frequently shows the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, which occurred in 1991.
In 2015, Woody Harrelson and daughter Zoe starred in a 7-minute short film for U2 's 'Song for Someone.'. In 2016, Harrelson announced that he would direct, write, produce, and star in a film, Lost in London, which was shot as a single take and premiered live on January 19, 2017.
The case was dismissed in April 2010. In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Harrelson received criticism for publicly sharing a report which claimed to discuss the " negative effects of 5G " and its supposed role in the pandemic.
In 2008, Harrelson appeared in several films, among them the Will Ferrell basketball comedy Semi-Pro and the stark Will Smith drama Seven Pounds as a blind vegan meat salesman named Ezra Turner. Harrelson at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in 2016.
His character, Woody Boyd, was from Hanover, Indiana, where Harrelson attended college. In 1999, Harrelson guest-starred in the Cheers spin-off success Frasier, in which he reprised the role of "Woody Boyd.". He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for this performance.
Harrelson is widely known for his work on the NBC sitcom Cheers. He played bartender Woody Boyd, who replaced Coach (played by Nicholas Colasanto, who died in February 1985). He joined the cast in 1985 in season four, spending the final eight seasons (1985–1993) on the show. For this role, Harrelson was nominated for five Emmy Awards, winning once in 1989. His character, Woody Boyd, was from Hanover, Indiana, where Harrelson attended college. In 1999, Harrelson guest-starred in the Cheers spin-off success Frasier, in which he reprised the role of "Woody Boyd." He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for this performance. He appeared in several 2001 episodes of Will & Grace as Grace's new boyfriend Nathan.
Harrelson has attended environmental events such as the PICNIC'07 festival that was held in Amsterdam in September 2007. PICNIC describes its annual festival as "three intensive days [when] we mix creativity, science, technology, media, and business to explore new solutions in the spirit of co-creation".
Also that year, he starred in comedic drama film The Glass Castle, an adaptation of Jeannette Walls 's memoir. In 2018, Harrelson played Tobias Beckett, a criminal and Han Solo 's mentor in Lucasfilm 's Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people. — Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Despite being portrayed in an Oscar nominated movie, Larry Flynt was refused an invitation to the 1997 Academy Awards, so Woody Harrelson brought Flynt to the award shows as his "plus one".
By what name was The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) officially released in India in English?
44. Defendor (2010) Amidst the glut of superhero movies, Defendor was a necessary corrective measure: a wry indie about Arthur, an ordinary guy who decides to turn himself into a Batman-like vigilante, clumsily named Defendor , who believes he’s out to stop a mysterious nemesis he calls Captain Industry.
But as Randall, a construction-worker buddy of Sleepwalking ’s sensitive, directionless hero James (Nick Stahl), he’s mostly just coasting on backslapping charm and a stoner’s sensibility.
Play It to the Bone (1999) Of all Ron Shelton’s sports comedies ( Bull Durham, Tin Cup, White Men Can’t Jump ), this is definitely the dullest. Part of the problem is that Shelton doesn’t seem to care as much about the film’s central sport (boxing) as he did about basketball, golf, and baseball, and it shows.
The Grand (2007) The Grand is a Christopher Guest movie that’s been kicked in the head by a mule a couple of times, an entirely improvised comedy about the World Series of Poker tournament back when half of the movies being made seemed to be about professional poker.
In Doc Hollywood, Harrelson is knowingly dense as Hank, the rival for the affections of small-town beauty Lou (Julie Warner), who has an interest in the big-city doctor (Michael J. Fox) who’s just arrived.
Like many established character actors in the 21st century, Harrelson was savvy enough to hitch his wagon to some franchises. The Now You See Me series is easily the goofiest: He plays Merritt McKinney, who’s part of a team of magician thieves that feel very “ Ocean’s Eleven populated by a bunch of Scott Caans.”.
Hey, you try playing an angelic, vegetarian, blind telemarketer in a movie drowning in gooey sentiment. Harrelson ’s role in Seven Pounds is a change of pace for him — Ezra is a straight-arrow sap whom Will Smith’s character decides to help, and so the actor mostly has to project uncomplicated goodness.
Deemed one of the greatest courtroom dramas of all time and based on the novel with the same title, Anatomy of a Murder follows Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler (played by James Stewart), who has his work cut out for him after agreeing to defend Lt. Manion (played by Ben Gazzarra), who murdered a local bar owner after learning he’s been accused of rape.
5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) In this film, Tyrone Power plays Leonard Vole, who has been accused of murdering a wealthy woman.
Trivia: Julia Roberts’ salary for her role as Erin Brockovich made her the first actress in Hollywood to earn more than $20 million. 9.
Set in 1839, Amistad tells the story of a slave ship sailing from Cuba to the United States. In the film, directed by Steven Spielberg, Cinque (played by Djimon Hounsou) leads the slaves in an uprising, which results in them being held as prisoners in Connecticut.
Philadelphia (1993) Directed by Jonathan Demme, Philadelphia tells the story of lawyer Andrew Beckett, who struggles to hide his homosexuality, as well as his HIV status, for fear that they will have a negative impact on his career at a prestigious Philadelphia law firm.
Trivia: Witness for the Prosecution was the last film that Power completed before he died of a heart attack in November of 1958. 6. Legally Blonde (2001) Based on the novel by Amanda Brown, Legally Blonde is a courtroom comedy that stars Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a sorority girl from California.
2. 12 Angry Men (1957) This classic courtroom drama was directed by Sidney Lumet and details the deliberations of 12 men, all of whom are part of the jury deciding the fate of a poor young man who’s been accused of murder. If found guilty, he will face the death penalty.