John Hawkes
27 titles
Filmography
27 results

The Sessions
(2012)In 1988, in Berkeley, a paraplegic poet took steps to experience his sexuality.

Small Town Crime
(2018)An alcoholic ex-cop finds a woman's body on the roadside. Seeking redemption, he tries to solve the murder case in this darkly comic thriller.

End of Sentence
(2019)Newly widowed, Frank goes on a journey to honor his wife's last wishes of spreading her ashes in a remote lake and taking his estranged son with him.

Too Late
(2016)Private investigator Mel Sampson (John Hawkes), is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past. With this familiar setup, Too Late takes the spine of the classic private eye genre and tears it to pieces, weaving it back together into a tapestry of southern California and the menagerie of eccentric personalities and lost souls who inhabit it.

Low Down
(2014)A look at the life of jazz musician Joe Albany in 1970s Hollywood. As he tries to balance his musical ambition with his devotion to his daughter, Joe struggles to cope with a devastating addiction to heroin.

The Playroom
(2013)Oscar-nominee John Hawkes and Molly Parker star in The Playroom, an unnerving family drama that captures the exhilaration and perversity of the freewheeling '70s.

Scary Movie
(1991)A paranoid teenage nerd comes to believe that an escaped lunatic may be hiding in a Halloween spookhouse, and slowly starts to descend into madness.

Harold Buttleman: Daredevil Stuntman
(2003)John Hawkes stars as Harold Buttleman, a small town tuxedo salesman who thinks he's the next Evel Knievel. He is on the brink of TV stardom, a 3 am spot on the late night cable access, but the life of a daredevil stuntman is harder than it looks. Harold's parents want him to move out of their basement and his girlfriend wants him to settle into a career selling bathtub parts. For Harold, it all depends on his big break. He gathers the entire town for his gala premiere celebration, but there's a surprise in store. An offbeat comedy about following your dreams, and the finer points of being shot out of a cannon.

Me and You and Everyone We Know
(2005)An artist's world is turned upside down when she falls in love with a man who has two sons. This drama from Miranda July won the Originality of Vision prize at Sundance.

Winter's Bone
(2010)Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, this enveloping drama by Debra Granik (Leave No Trace) also launched Lawrence’s career with her fiery turn as an ordinary hero. An intimate odyssey of family, women, and survival, set in the Ozark mountains.

Life of Crime
(2013)A pampered housewife is kidnapped by a pair of blundering ex-cons in an effort to extort money from her sleazy real-estate tycoon husband.

Unlovable
(2018)After a suicide attempt, sex and love addict Joy attends a 12-step meeting and gains a sponsor. Whilst initially struggling to remain clean for 30 days, she meets a socially inept musician named Jim, and together they discover the beauty of platonic friendship, music, and self-expression. Paul James, Ellen Geer, and Melissa Leo also star.

The Pardon
(2013)Based on the true story of a grisly 1940s murder that led to a series of high-profile trials and the first and only execution of a woman in Louisiana.

Small Town Saturday Night
(2010)Just days before leaving for Nashville, Rhett Ryan (Chris Pine) discovers that the desire to follow his dream conflicts with his desire to be with the woman he loves. While Samantha does love the singer-songwriter, she starts to realize that what's best for her daughter and their future may not be what's best for him. In Small Town Saturday Night the lives of a deputy sheriff, a Nashville-bound singer, an ex-con, and a single mother all subtly intertwine to eventually bring them all closer together.

Roving Woman
(2022)Kicked out of her Los Angeles home, Sara steals a car and embarks on a meandering road trip while listening to a strange CD left by the car's owner.

Roadracers
(1994)A cynical look at a 1950s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.

Identity
(2003)Ten strangers with secrets in their pasts are stranded at a desert motel during a violent storm, and soon realize they are being murdered, one by one.

Martha Marcy May Marlene
(2011)A young woman struggles with the effects of cult brainwashing in this chilling psychological thriller.

Higher Ground
(2011)As her marriage begins to unravel, a young woman dares to question the religious dogma and oncoming Rapture she has embraced her entire adult life.

The Peanut Butter Falcon
(2019)Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, and Zack Gottsagen star in "a modern-day Mark Twain fable that will melt your heart" (Flickering Myth).