Reed Birney
10 titles
Filmography
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Crimewave
(1985)A businessman hires two inept hitmen to kill his partner, but when his wife witnesses it, she and a framed nerd become their next targets.

The Greatest Man in the World
(1981)James Thurber’s ofbeat pilot becomes a hero when he bests Lindbergh in flight, but on the ground he is an arrogant lout with criminal tendencies.

Mad Women
(2015)"With Mad Women, Jeff Lipsky dares us to rethink desire. In this universe, every relationship-especially between family members-has a sexual component and every core memory represents a stage in the acquisition of a sexual identity. It forced me to rethink the way sexual desire saturates everything. I don't like backing down from a movie that challenges me." -David Edelstein, New York Magazine

The Last
(2019)Josh and his fiancé Olivia, both devout followers of modern Orthodox Judaism (she a recent convert from Catholicism), meet their beloved 92-year-old great-grandmother Claire for a beach outing. After lunch, Claire makes a shattering confession: She was never a Jew. Her life was saved by a German gynecologist and that she was his nurse, at Auschwitz.

Mass
(2021)Parents of both the shooter and one of the victims agree to meet and talk in an attempt to move forward following a school shooting tragedy.

The Forty-Year-Old Version
(2020)Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.

Strawberry Mansion
(2021)In a future where dreams are recorded and taxed by a surveillance state, an auditor finds himself drawn into the dreams of an aging eccentric.

Jackrabbit
(2015)When a friend's suicide leaves behind a mysterious computer drive, a hacker and a computer technician attempt to decipher the message left in his wake.

If You See Something
(2025)Ali, an Iraqi doctor seeking asylum falls for Katie, an emerging New York gallerist and they begin a new romance together. When disturbing news from Baghdad comes back to haunt Ali in the midst of his asylum process, Ali becomes increasingly torn between the new life he's starting with Katie and the life he left behind.

Occupy, Texas
(2016)Beau Baker, a washed out Occupy Wall Street protester, wakes up on the streets of New York City to the news of his parents death and that he must return home to Texas where his parents have left him in charge of his two teenage sisters.