NEVER BEEN KISSED
Release Date: April 9, 1999
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Role: Jason Way
Director: Raja Gosnell
Producer: Sandy Isaac, Nancy Juvonen
Screenwriter: Marc Silverstein, Abby Kohn>Producer: Sandy Isaac, Nancy Juvonen
Music: David Newman
Cinematography: Alex Nepomniaschy
Editors: Debra Chiate, Marcel Sansevieri
Distributors: 20th Century Fox
Main Cast: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Marley Shelton, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon, John C. Reilly, Garry Marshall, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Alba, Jeremy Jordan
Plot Outline: The story of a 25-year-old reporter named Josie Geller, who is sent out as a disguised highschool
student to find a scandalous story for her newspaper. She is made to fit into the 'cool' crowd, a group who once taunted and
ridiculed her, causing internal battles. Yet, one English teacher catches her heart and causes way more problems than she can
handle.
WHATEVER IT TAKES
Release Date: March 31, 2000
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Role: Chris
Director: David Raynr
Producer: Matt Berenson, Bill Brown, Victoria Dee, Paul Schiff, Mark Schwahn
Screenwriter: Mark Schwahn
Distributors: Columbia Pictures
Main Cast: Shane West, Marla Sokoloff, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, James Franco, Aaron Paul, Julia Sweeney, Colin Hanks , Kip Pardue
Plot Outline: The film is about Ryan Woodman (West) and Maggie Carter (Sokoloff), best friends and neighbors. Ryan pines for Ashley (O'Keefe), the popular girl at school. Chris (Franco), her cousin, offers to help Ryan get the girl. The only thing asked for in return is that Ryan helps Chris win the affection of Maggie. In the meantime, however, Ryan grows interested in Maggie and realizes that he loves her. By the time Maggie finds out, she has already fallen in love with Chris. When all this information comes to light, complications ensue.
JAMES DEAN
Release Date: 2001
Genre: Biographical
Role: James
Director: Mark Rydell
Producer: Bill Gerber, George W. Perkins, Mark Rydell, Marvin Worth
Screenwriter: Israel Horovitz
Music: John Frizell
Cinematography: Robbie Greenberg
Editors: Antony Gibbs
Main Cast: James Franco, Mciahel Moriarty, Valentina Cervi, Edward Hermann, David Proval
Plot Outline: The life story of James Dean from a stuggling actor to a famous movie star.
SONNY
Release Date: January 2003
Genre: Crime/Drama
Role: Sonny
Director: Nicolas Cage
Distributors: Gold Circle Films
Main Cast: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Harry Dean Stanton, Mena Suvari, Josie Davis, Nicolas Cage, Scott Caan, Seymour Cassel
Plot Outline: New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't materialize, and he can't escape his past.
CITY BY THE SEA
Release Date: September 6,, 2002 (U.S.)
Genre: Action/Drama
Role: Joey
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Producer: Don Carmondy, Andrew Stevens, Roger Paradiso, Dan Klores
Screenwriter: Ken Hixon
Music: John Murphy
Cinematography: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Editors: Jim CLark
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures
Main Cast: Robert De Niro, Fances McDormand, James Franco, Eliza Dushku, William Forsythe, Patti LuPone, Anson Mount, John Doman, Brian Tarantina, Drena De Niro, Nestor Serrano
Plot Outline: De Niro plays a veteran street cop, the son of an executed killer. While his father didn't intend to kill the kidnapped child, the son reaps the reputation anyway and decides to be so good that he is beyond reproach. Meanwhile, his son, a drug user with fading memories of high-school athletic glory, gets wrapped up in a drug-related killing and asks his father for help. After a failed marriage and an estranged son suddenly come to the attention of de Niro's current girlfriend, she asks why he won't help his son. He has tried so hard to distance himself that he cannot accept any intrusion into his contentment.
His son gets deeper into trouble when the local drug enforcer (played by William Forsythe) kills a cop looking to help de Niro clear his son's name, and the murder is pinned on the son.
In the end De Niro sets aside his self-imposed isolation and helps, drawing the enforcer to him.
SPIDER-MAN
Release Date: May 2, 2002
Genre: Action/Drama
Role: Harry Osborn
Director: Sam Raimi
Producer: Laura Ziskin, Ian Bryce
Screenwriter: Comic Book: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko
Music: Danny Elfman
Cinematography: Don Burgess
Editors: Arthur Coburn, Bob Murawski
Distributors: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, Entertainment
Main Cast: Tobey Maguire, Willen Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris
Plot Outline: Based on Marvel Comics' superhero character, this is a story of Peter Parker who is a nerdy high-schooler.
He was orphaned as a child, bullied by jocks, and can't confess his crush for his stunning neighborhood girl Mary
Jane Watson. To say his life is "miserable" is an understatement. But one day while on an excursion to a
laboratory a runaway radioactive spider bites him... and his life changes in a way no one could have imagined.
Peter acquires a muscle-bound physique, clear vision, ability to cling to surfaces and crawl over walls, shooting
webs from his wrist ... but the fun isn't going to last. An eccentric millionaire Norman Osborn administers a
performance enhancing drug on himself and his maniacal alter ego Green Goblin emerges. Now Peter Parker has
to become Spider-Man and take Green Goblin to the task... or else Goblin will kill him. They come face to
face and the war begins in which only one of them will survive at the end.
DEUCES WILD
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Genre: Crime/Action
Role: Tino
Director: Scott Kalvert
Producer: Willi Bar
Screenwriter: Paul Kimatian, Christopher Gambale
Music: Stewart Copeland
Cinematography: John A. Alonzo
Editors: Micahel R. Miller
Distributors: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Main Cast: Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Norman Reedus, Max Perlich
Plot Outline: A movie based off of the "West Side Story".
THE COMPANY
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Genre: Music/Drama
Role: Josh
Director: Robert Altman
Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics
Main Cast: Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco, Barbara E. Robertsons, William DIck, Susie Cusack
Plot Outline: An inside look at the world of ballet. With the complete cooperation of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Altman follows the stories of the dancers, whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close, as they cope with the demands of a life in the ballet. Campbell plays a gifted but conflicted company member on the verge of becoming a principal dancer at a fictional Chicago troupe, with McDowell the company's co-founder and artistic director, considered one of America's most exciting choreographers. Franco plays Campbell's
boyfriend and one of the few characters not involved in the world of dance.
SPIDER-MAN 2
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Genre: Action/Adventure
Role: Harry Osborn
Director: Sam Raimi
Producer: Avi Arad, Laura Ziskin
Screenwriter: Alvin Sarfent
Music: Danny Elfman, Christopher Young, John Debney
Cinematography: Bill Pope
Editors: Bob Murawski
Distributors: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, Entertainment
Main Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina
Plot Outline: Peter Parker's having a rough time. His double life as the superhero Spider-Man is having a devastating impact on his civilian life. Things are so bad he declares that he's quitting, and never putting on the suit again. However, his sense of duty forces him to become a hero again when the brilliant scientist Dr. Otto Octavius is deformed in an accident and becomes Dr. Octopus. With four metal tentacles sticking out of his back, he'll prove to be a more than worthy opponent for Spider-Man.
THE APE
Release Date: 2005
Genre: Comedy
Role: Harry Walker
Director: James Franco
Screenwriter: James Franco, Merriwther Williams
Main Cast: James Franco, Brian Lally, Allison Bibcoff, Stacey Miller, Vince Jovlivette
Plot Outline: Originally starting as a play, written (along with "Spongebob Squarepants" writer Williams) and starring James Franco (Spider-Man 2, City by the Sea), The Ape is yet another film featuring a writer who isolates himself to finish his latest novel, only to crack from the pressure and hallucinate an alter ego that he perceives to be real
(see Barton Fink and Secret Window). But is it really a hallucination?
More?
THE GREAT RAID
Release Date: August 12, 2005
Genre: Action/Adventure
Role: Harry Osborn
Director: John Dahl
Producer: Lawrence Bender, Marty Katz
Screenwriter: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro
Music: Trevor Rabin
Cinematography: Peter Menzies Jr.
Editors: Scott Chestnut, Pietro Scalia
Distributors: Miramax Films
Main Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, James Franco, Marton Csokas, Connie Nelson, Cesar Montano
Plot Outline: A war film which tells the story of the January 1945 liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during World War II.
FOOL'S GOLD
Release Date: 2005
Genre: Comedy
Role: Brent
Director: James Franco
SCreenwriters: James Franco, Merriwether Williams
Main Cast: James Franco, Vince Jolivetter, Stacey Miller, Robyn Cohen, David Markey, Ali Pomerantz, Bethany Zolt
Plot Outline:
FLY BOYS
Release Date: August 12, 2005
Genre: Action/Romance
Role: Blaine Rallings
Director: Tony Bill
Producer: Dean Devlin, Marc Frydman
Screenwriter: David S. Ward
Distributors: MGM
Main Cast: James Franco, Martin Henderson, Jean Reno, Jennifer Decker, David Ellison, Tyler Labine
Plot Outline: The movie follows several members of the Lafayette Escadrille, American pilots who volunteered to fight in the French Air Service, the Aéronautique militaire, during the First World War prior to America's entrance into the war.
THE WICKER MAN
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Genre: Horror
Role: Bar Guy #1
Director: Neil LaBute
Producer: Nicolas Cage, Randall Emmett, Norm Golightly, Avi Lerner, Joanne Seller
Screenwriter: Neil LaBute
Music: Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography: Paul Sarossy
Editors: Eric Boyd-Perkins
Distributors: Warner Bros.
Main Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski, Diane Delano
Plot Outline: While recovering from a tragic accident on the road, the patrolman Edward Malus receives a letter from his former fiancée Willow, who left him years ago without any explanation, telling that her daughter Rowan is missing. Edward travels to the private island of Summerisle, where Willow lives in an odd community that plant fruits, and she reveals that Rowan is actually their daughter. Along his investigation with the hostile and unhelpful dwellers, Edward discloses that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals to improve their harvest, and Rowan is probably alive and being prepared to be sacrifi
ced. When he locates the girl, he finds also the dark truth about the wicker man.
ANNAPOLIS
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Genre: Action
Role: Jake Huard
Director: Justin Lin
Producer: Damien Saccani, Mark Vahradian
Screenwriter: Dave Collard
Music: Brian Tyler
Cinematography: Phil Abraham
Editors: Fred Raskin
Distributors: Touchstone Pictures
Main Cast: James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Roger Fan, Donnie Wahlberg, Vicellous Reon Shannon
Plot Outline: A movie revolving around Jake Huard, a young man who dreams of one day attending the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
Release Date: January 13, 2006
Genre: Romance
Role: Tristan
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Producer: Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Lisa Elizey, Gianna Facio, Moshe Diamant, Elie Samaha
Screenwriter: Dean Georgaris
Music: Anne Dudley
Editors: Peter Boyle
Distributors: Twentieth Century Fox
Main Cast: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell
Plot Outline: A medieval romantic on two forbidden lovers whom fate brings together.
SPIDER-MAN 3
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Genre: Action/Adventure
Role: Harry Osborn
Director: Sam Raimi
Producer: Avi Arad, Stan Lee, Laura Ziskin, Grant Curtis
Screenwriter: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Alvin Sargent
Music: Christopher Young, Danny Elfman
Cinematography: Bill Pope
Editors: Bob Murawski
Distributors: Sony Pictures
Main Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace
Plot Outline: Peter Parker has finally managed to piece together the once-broken parts of his life, maintaining a balance between his relationship with Mary-Jane and his responsibility as Spider-Man. But more challenges arise for our young hero. Peter's old friend Harry Obsourne has set out for revenge against Peter; taking up the mantle of his late father's persona as The New Goblin, and Peter must also capture Uncle Ben's real killer, Flint Marko, who has been transformed into his toughest foe yet, the Sandman. All hope seems lost when suddenly Peter's suit turns jet-black and greatly amplifies his powers. But it also begins to greatly amplify the much darker qualities of Peter's personality that he begins to lose himself to. Peter has to reach deep inside himself to free the compassionate hero he used to be if he is to ever conquer the darkness within and face not only his greatest enemies, but also...himself.
AN AMERICAN CRIME
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Genre: Myster
Role: Dennis
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Producer: Pamela Koffler, Kevin Turen, Christine Vachon, Henry Winterstern
Screenwriter: Tommy O'Haver
Music: Alan Ari Lazar
Cinematography: Byron Shah
Editors: Melissa Kent
Distributors: First Look International
Main Cast: Ellen Page, Catherine Keener, Ari Graynor, James Franco, Romy Rosemont, Jeremy Sumpter
Plot Outline: "This," said Prosecutor Leroy New, "has been the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana." It was the first crime of child abuse that broke through reticence and denial to register with the public. Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener portrays Gertrude Baniszewski, the seemingly ordinary housewife who imprisons and tortures a beautiful teenager, played by Gemini Award winner Ellen Page, in the basement of her house - two portrayals that will resonate with audiences long after they leave the theatre.