John Lithgow
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Filmography
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Love Is Strange
(2014)After finally getting married after 28 years together, Ben and George are forced to face bureaucracy and the challenges of being forced to live apart.

Raising Cain
(1992)Brian de Palma directs this stylish thriller about a psychologist (John Lithgow) whose deranged multiple personalities emerge when he discovers his wife (Lolita Davidovich) is cheating.

The Manhattan Project
(1986)Can anyone stop Armageddon? In this gripping doomsday thriller, a high school science whiz kid (Christopher Collet) builds an atomic bomb as a prank... only to trigger a horrifying race against time. John Lithgow and Cynthia Nixon also star.

Harry and the Hendersons
(1987)Oscar-nominee John Lithgow stars in this big-hearted, big-footed comedy about a family's race to return a loving Sasquatch to his natural habitat before the authorities capture him.

The Tomorrow Man
(2019)Two lonely sexagenarians—one a zealous doomsday prepper and the other a compulsive shopper—embark on a journey to lose control and find love.

Out Cold
(1989)A black comedy in which a meek butcher wrongly believes he has killed his partner after discovering him frozen to death in the freezer.

Projections of America
(2015)During World War II, a team of idealistic film-makers hoped the power of film could reshape the world. As Allied forces liberated Western Europe, the military campaign was accompanied by a vast propaganda effort that centred on 26 short documentaries about American life targeted at the newly liberated populations.

2010
(1984)A belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's '2001 - A Space Odyssey' (1968) - an earlier Arthur C. Clarke novel. Nine years after the Jupiter voyage of Discovery went mysteriously awry, the Soviet Union and United States team together to launch a salvage operation, despite being on the brink of nuclear war. The questions to which the crew seek an answer include ascertaining what happened to the ship'...

Cliffhanger
(1993)A mid-air heist turns into a search for stolen money.

Santa Claus: The Movie
(1985)Christmas is in trouble when one of Santa’s obstinate elves finds himself out of a job and scooped up by an unscrupulous toy company executive.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
(1984)A rock-star/brain-surgeon/comic-book-hero/samurai must stop evil creatures from the 8th dimension who want to conquer our dimension.

The Rule of Jenny Pen
(2025)Confined to a secluded retirement home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge (Geoffrey Rush) must stop an elderly psychopath (John Lithgow) who terrorises residents with a child's puppet.

Distant Thunder
(1988)After 15 years of self-imposed isolation, a Vietnam veteran emerges from the wilderness to reconcile with his teenage son.

Blow Out
(1981)A Philadelphia sound-effects man witnesses and records a car accident that turns out to be a politically motivated murder.

Conclave
(2024)Following the death of the Pope, the reluctant Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with overseeing the group of Cardinals from across the globe that make up the Conclave; those responsible for selecting a new leader for the Church.

Footloose
(1984)When teenager Ren (Kevin Bacon) and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.

This Is 40
(2012)Amid a series of personal and professional crises, a long-married couple must figure out how to forgive, forget and enjoy the rest of their lives -- before they kill each other.

Silent Fall
(1994)A controversial therapist is assigned to unlock clues from the mind of a boy with autism who survived the double homicide of his parents.

Pet Sematary
(2019)The Creed family leaves the city for the country, but their idyllic new life is short-lived when the cemetery next door unleashes its evil curse.

Johnny Skidmarks
(1998)When his associates start turning up dead, a crime scene photographer and blackmailer has a very short time to find the killer before it’s his turn.