John Rothman films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 37 films and 1 TV show on Boxlist

Known for Ghostbusters, Big and United 93.

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Starring John Rothman

Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Zelig
1983 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of...
The Devil Wears Prada
2006 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and won't let her succeed if she doesn't fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine.
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Ghostbusters
1984 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign...
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The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising...
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Sophie's Choice
1982 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war...
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Painkiller
2023 · TV
7.2/10 · TMDB
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
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Big
1988 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how...
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United 93
2006 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Stardust Memories
1980 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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The Report
2019 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to...
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Bombshell
2019 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
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Adam
2009 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
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Gettysburg
1993 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General...
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Game Change
2012 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both...
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Enchanted
2007 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't...
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Pollock
2000 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has...
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Reservation Road
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
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Copycat
1995 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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The Hoax
2006 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
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Good Kids
2016 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
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The Associate
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm...
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Kate & Leopold
2001 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
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...
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The Siege
1998 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with...
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I ♥ Huckabees
2004 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
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Small Engine Repair
2021 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
The seemingly casual reunion of three old friends at an out-of-the-way repair shop masks a hidden agenda fuelled by the arrival of a privileged young yuppie.
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That Awkward Moment
2014 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the marriage of their friend Mikey is over, they gladly welcome him back into their circle. The three young men make a...
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The Door in the Floor
2004 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of...
Nocturne
2020 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.
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Jingle All the Way
1996 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite...
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
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Picture Perfect
1997 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
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Maybe I Do
2023 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Michelle and Allen, who have reached the point in their relationship where they are considering next steps, decide to invite their parents to finally meet and to offer some understanding of why marriage works. Except the parents already...
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When...
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Taxi
2004 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
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Daredevil
2003 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
A man blinded in a childhood accident fights crime using his superhumanly-elevated remaining senses.
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Say It Isn't So
2001 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Boy meets girl; boy falls in love (and had wild, non-stop sex) with girl; boy loses girl... when they discover they are brother and sister! But when he learns that he's the victim of the ultimate case of mistaken identity, the lovesick...
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