The best Spalding Gray’s movies on Google Play Movies

Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray

05/06/1941- 10/01/2004
We present our ranking of the best Spalding Gray’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Spalding Gray.
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How High

How High
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/2001
  • Character: Prof. Jackson
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance exams and wind up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.

Kate & Leopold

Kate & Leopold
6.4/10
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. The more time Kate spends with Leopold, the harder she falls for him. But if he doesn't return to his own time, his absence will forever alter history.

Bliss

Bliss
6/10
A newly married happy couple visits a sex therapist to determine why the wife can't achieve an orgasm with her husband. This causes a horrific suppressed memory to emerge and she becomes more and more distant.

Beaches

Beaches
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1988
  • Character: Dr. Richard Milstein
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Diabolique

Diabolique
5.4/10
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police investigator who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins to think that they know more than they are telling, and their mental state is not helped when their victim is seen, apparently alive and well by one of the pupils.

The Paper

The Paper
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/03/1994
  • Character: Paul Bladden
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.

The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 02/11/1984
  • Character: United States consul
The real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.

Beyond Rangoon

Beyond Rangoon
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 24/05/1995
  • Character: Jeremy Watt
Patricia Arquette stars as American widow Laura Bowman, a young doctor who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s, in this fictionalized drama based on actual events. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister (Frances McDormand) in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.

Twenty Bucks

Twenty Bucks
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1993
  • Character: Priest
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

Glory Daze

Glory Daze
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1995
  • Character: Jack's Dad
Jack, a soon-to-be graduate, finds he's having a difficult time letting go of the college life -- and decides maybe he doesn't have to. Also questioning whether there's life after college are Jack's roommates: Rob, who fears domestication; comic-strip artist Mickey, who's shy around girls; intellectual party animal Slosh; and perpetual student Dennis.

True Stories

True Stories
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/10/1986
  • Character: Earl Culver
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

Straight Talk

Straight Talk
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/04/1992
  • Character: Dr. Erdman
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Seven Minutes in Heaven
5.9/10
Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who ran away from home after a fight with his stepfather, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she thinks, while her best friend Polly falls in love with baseball player Zoo Knudsen.

Bad Company

Bad Company
5.4/10
Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent individuals. Crowe, working with Margaret Wells (another former Covert Operations operative), blackmails and bribes a State Supreme Court judge, but the deal sours. One of Crowe's co-workers, Tod Stapp, discovers Crowe's current CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Grimes, and blackmails him to be cut in on the deal. More blackmail occurs as Wells manipulates Crowe to kill Grimes, then the CIA uses that discovery to blackmail Wells into killing Crowe. Who can you trust???

Gray's Anatomy

Gray's Anatomy
6.8/10
The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) he had developed.

Clara's Heart

Clara's Heart
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/10/1988
  • Character: Peter Epstein
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to new experiences, and eventually leading to a disturbing secret in Clara's past.

Stars & Bars

Stars & Bars
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/03/1988
  • Character: Reverend T.J. Cardew
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

The Pickle

The Pickle
4.4/10
Harry Stone (Aiello) always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead he made The Pickle - a teenage sci-fi flick about a flying cucumber. Harry just wanted to get out of debt; now everyone he's ever known, loved and neglected is standing in line for tickets.

Variety

Variety
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/09/1983
  • Character: Voice on answering machine (voice)
A repressed young woman develops a fascination for pornography and voyeurism while selling tickets to adult movies.

And Everything Is Going Fine

And Everything Is Going Fine
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/06/2010
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
From the first time he performed Swimming to Cambodia - the one-man account of his experience of making the 1984 film The Killing Fields - Spalding Gray made the art of the monologue his own. Drawing unstintingly on the most intimate aspects of his own life, his shows were vibrant, hilarious and moving. His death came tragically early, in 2004; this compilation of interview and performance footage nails his idiosyncratic and irreplaceable brilliance.

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