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James Toback

James Toback

American screenwriter and film director
November 23, 1944 (80 years old)
U.S. 2014. Thriller by Rupert Wyatt with Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson. To pay off his gambling debts within seven days, a literature professor trains one of his students to fix a basketball game.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 2013. Documentary by James Toback. With actor Alec Baldwin, director James Toback is scouring the Cannes Film Festival looking for producers for a remake of ""Last Tango in Paris,
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 2008. Documentary by James Toback. The former world champion boxer Mike Tyson, known as much for his antics as for his sporting achievements, tells the story of the ups and downs of his life.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Beat That my Heart Skipped

V.O.: De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
Fr. 2005. Psychological drama by Jacques Audiard with Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham. A schemer from father to son decides to prepare a piano audition to become a concert performer like his deceased mother.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 2004. Mores drama by James Toback with Neve Campbell, Frederick Weller, Dominic Chianese. A young New York artist has a surprise in store for two men who tried to exploit her.
U.S. 2001. Mores drama by James Toback with Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams. Captain of the Harvard basketball team, a drug-addicted philosophy student gets involved in a gambling scandal.
U.S. 1999. Mores drama by James Toback with Power, Allan Houston, Brooke Shields. In New York City, a criminal with dreams of becoming an impresario moves among rap stars, athletes and young white men who idolize hip hop culture.
U.S. 1997. Dramatic comedy by James Toback with Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Robert Downey Jr.. Discovering that they have been sharing the same lover for ten months, two women decide to confront him.
U.S. 1991. Mores drama by Barry Levinson with Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel. Fascinated by Hollywood and in love with a starlet, an unscrupulous mobster dreams of building a luxurious hotel-casino in the middle of the desert.
Runtime: 135 min.
U.S. 1989. Documentary by James Toback. Different people answer questions about life, sexuality, and death.
Runtime: 81 min.
U.S. 1987. Sentimental comedy by James Toback with Robert Downey Jr., Molly Ringwald, Dennis Hopper. In love with a beautiful redhead, an incorrigible womanizer tries to help her when she gets in trouble with a gangster.
Runtime: 81 min.
U.S. 1983. Drama by James Toback with Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel. A young woman comes to New York to try her luck and becomes a famous model, only to find herself embroiled in a terrorist plot.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1981. Dramatic comedy by James Toback with Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1977. Mores drama by James Toback with Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Michael V. Gazzo. A virtuoso pianist is torn between his musical ambitions and the rackets run by his father.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1974. Psychological drama by Karel Reisz with James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Paul Sorvino. A professor in debt because of his passion for gambling is driven by his creditors to dishonest actions.
Runtime: 109 min.

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