The best Wallace Shawn’s drama movies

Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

12/11/1943 (80 años)
Today we present the best Wallace Shawn’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 Wallace Shawn’s movies.
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Toy Story 4

Toy Story 4
7.7/10
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.

Manhattan

Manhattan
7.8/10
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Marriage Story

Marriage Story
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/09/2019
  • Character: Frank
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Southland Tales

Southland Tales
5.3/10
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

I Could Never Be Your Woman

I Could Never Be Your Woman
6/10
This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.

The Only Living Boy in New York

The Only Living Boy in New York
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/07/2017
  • Character: David
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.

Book Club

Book Club
6.1/10
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspiration on how to handle sexual pleasure at an elderly age.

My Favorite Martian

My Favorite Martian
5.1/10
News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.

The Bedroom Window

The Bedroom Window
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 16/01/1987
  • Character: Henderson's Attorney
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.

All That Jazz

All That Jazz
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/12/1979
  • Character: Assistant Insurance Man
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Radio Days

Radio Days
7.4/10
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Atlantic City

Atlantic City
7.3/10
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Maggie's Plan

Maggie's Plan
6.2/10
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect for each other?

Melinda and Melinda

Melinda and Melinda
6.4/10
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.

The Double

The Double
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 03/04/2014
  • Character: Mr. Papadopoulos
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

The Hotel New Hampshire

The Hotel New Hampshire
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 09/03/1984
  • Character: Freud
The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.

Admission

Admission
5.7/10
Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer, Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago.

My Dinner with Andre

My Dinner with Andre
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/10/1981
  • Character: Wally Shawn
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.

Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet
5.7/10
Meet Spot, a clever little dog with big dreams of becoming a real boy. When Spot finds out that a crazy scientist can make his wish come true, he takes a cross-country trek with Leonard, his best friend and master, and their mom. However, Dr. Krank's experiments are a little less than perfect, and it will take Leonard and his pet pals to right this genetic wrong.

A Late Quartet

A Late Quartet
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 02/11/2012
  • Character: Gideon Rosen
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert — quite possibly their last — only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.

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