The best Adam Arkin’s drama movies

Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin

19/08/1956 (67 años)
Today we present the best Adam Arkin’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Adam Arkin’s movies.
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Hitch

Hitch
6.6/10
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.

The Sessions

The Sessions
7.2/10
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green to lose his virginity.

A Serious Man

A Serious Man
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/09/2009
  • Character: Don Milgram
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Pig

Pig
6.9/10
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.

The Doctor

The Doctor
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/07/1991
  • Character: Dr. Eli Blumfield
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.

Hanging Up

Hanging Up
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 16/02/2000
  • Character: Joe Marks
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.

Heat Wave

Heat Wave
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 13/08/1990
  • Character: Art Berman
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
6.5/10
Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane, a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife's untimely death. When Frank helps a stranger who's sidelined by a fatal accident on his way to a fateful reunion, he decides to show up for the rendezvous in the man's place. In the process, he finds hope and redemption.

Graduation

Graduation
6.4/10
Four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her banker father having an affair, the foursome plots to rob his bank during graduation ceremonies. When things don't go according to plan, they end up learning more about themselves in one day than they ever did in school.

Off Season

Off Season
5.6/10
After the death of his parents, 10-year-old Jackson Mayhew moves in with his Aunt. But when he befriends an elderly man, he begins to suspect that the old man is actually Santa Claus.

Kids in America

Kids in America
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/10/2005
  • Character: Ed Mumsford
Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious rebellion.

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/12/1993
  • Character: Bookstore Manager
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.

Roughing It

Roughing It
7/10
A teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the "Gold Rush" days in search of fortune and his destiny.

Thirst

Thirst
4.7/10
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.

Babies

Babies
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/09/1990
  • Character: David
The physical and emotional trauma of three close-knit women trying to have children is explored.

Baby Blue Marine

Baby Blue Marine
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/05/1976
  • Character: Rupe
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.

A Promise to Keep

A Promise to Keep
6.5/10
Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.

The Fourth Wise Man

The Fourth Wise Man
6.9/10
Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant Orontes set off to join the caravan of the three other wise men. They miss the caravan, but Artaban continues the search for his King, always one step behind. Artaban spends much of his remaining wealth and all of his energy helping the poor and unfortunate people he meets, until at the end of his life he finally finds Jesus--at His trial! Has Artaban wasted his life in a foolish quest? Will he ever get the chance to present his gifts to the King?

Dottie Gets Spanked

Dottie Gets Spanked
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1993
  • Character: Dick Gordon
A six-year-old boy in pre-hippie 1960s United States endures ridicule from his schoolmates and worry from his father over his fixation with a TV star named Dottie.

Murder on Pleasant Drive

Murder on Pleasant Drive
5.8/10
After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but without a body, neither Deanna or Sherrie can prove that murder, much less a crime, has even been committed. With the support of Sherrie, Deanna embarks on an eleven-year search to trace John's past, eventually uncovering a 25 year-old case of a missing person that involved John's first wife, who too, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Using this lead, Deanna and Sherrie must use all their evidence to bring John to justice.

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