Philip Baker Hall Movies

Nerdy high schooler Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write an article for the school paper about the infamous new delinquent transfer student, Buddy...

Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe...

The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival....

A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.

An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and a reason to live.

Follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears...

At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall,...

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return...

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from...

Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative man alive....

Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.

A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film...

Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within...

High school senior Marlon Bowne is smitten with overachieving classmate Jessica Kailo. But, if he wants to have a shot with her, he'll have to find a...

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.