John Cusack
Birthday: 1966-06-28
Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Biography: John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American actor. Cusack began acting in films during the 1980s, starring in coming-of-age dramedies such as Sixteen Candles (1984), Better Off Dead (1985), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and Say Anything... (1989). In the 1990s, he then started appearing in independent films and had leading men roles in Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Con Air (1997), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Max (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). Cusack has been nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe for his role starring in High Fidelity. He won the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Maps to the Stars. He is a son of filmmaker Dick Cusack and the younger brother of actors Bill, Joan and Ann Cusack. In 2012, Cusack was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Stand by Me
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys d...
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High Fidelity
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand w...
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Pursuit
Detective Breslin crosses paths with Calloway, a ruthless hacker desperate to find his wife, who has...
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Being John Malkovich
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. ...
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Say Anything...
Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty ...
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The Contract
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking t...
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1408
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Do...
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Con Air
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard...
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The Player
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but ...
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Identity
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the ...
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The Road to Wellville
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustl...
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Grace Is Gone
Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, a...
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City Hall
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and...
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Martian Child
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old ...
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Class
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the sma...
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Bullets Over Broadway
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's...
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Hot Tub Time Machine
Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal...
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Runaway Jury
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell ...
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America's Sweethearts
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a...
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Must Love Dogs
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but oft...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionai...
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The Thin Red Line
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ult...
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Tapeheads
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dimwitted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, wit...
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Cradle Will Rock
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attem...
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The Sure Thing
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on...
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The Ice Harvest
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. Bu...
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Grosse Pointe Blank
Hitman Martin Blank becomes a moving target after he rebuffs a fellow assassin's invitation to form ...
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Anastasia
Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories o...
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
A personal, intimate look at journalist Hunter S. Thompson with a special emphasis on his Hollywood ...
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Pushing Tin
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several ...
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Fat Man and Little Boy
Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...
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Serendipity
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they have genui...
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War, Inc.
In the future, the desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after private corporation Tamerlan...
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Eight Men Out
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning ...
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Max
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while ...
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True Colors
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the ...
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Better Off Dead...
High school student Lane Meyer sinks into suicidal depression when his girlfriend dumps him for jock...
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Roadside Prophets
On a quest to fulfill a friend's last wish, Joe takes to the desert road on his 1957 Harley-Davidson...
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The Journey of Natty Gann
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A c...
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2012
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of r...
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Hot Pursuit
High school student Dan Bartlett misses the plane he was supposed to be on with his rich girlfriend ...
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Igor
A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the d...
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Map of the Human Heart
In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his...
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Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
In 2002, a 60-year old McCartney refocused the attention on his musicianship, staging a massive live...
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Sixteen Candles
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces...
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Shanghai
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and...
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The Jack Bull
When the law fails to punish a fellow rancher that has abused his horses, a Wyoming horse trader sac...
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Breakfast with Hunter
Breakfast with Hunter is a feature length documentary starring the infamous outlaw journalist Dr. Hu...
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The Grifters
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both...
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One Crazy Summer
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family...
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four y...
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The Raven
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit ...
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Woody Allen: A Documentary
An intense portrait of the iconic filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian and musician Woody Allen: his l...
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The Paperboy
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate....
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Money for Nothing
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides...
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Grandview, U.S.A.
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim P...
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The Numbers Station
When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he ...
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Fog of War
With WWII raging around them, an injured pilot and his fiancée find themselves stranded on a remote ...
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Adult World
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a...
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Chicago Cab
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad par...
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The Butler
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler fro...
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Maps to the Stars
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are c...
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The Factory
An obsessed cop is on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when hi...
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Cell
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epid...
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The Frozen Ground
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert...
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Grand Piano
Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of h...
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The Prince
A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his d...
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The Bag Man
A criminal waits in a seedy motel for his boss after killing several men to steal a bag....
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Drive Hard
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crim...
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Love & Mercy
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...
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Floundering
John Boyz lives close to where they film "Baywatch", but you'd never know it. His life is full of bi...
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Reclaim
After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at not...
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We're No Animals
A Hollywood actor grows tired of making the same corporate movies, so he moves to Argentina to find ...
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Shadows and Fog
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante g...
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Dragon Blade
Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and ...
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This Is My Father
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been ...
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Chi-Raq
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdr...
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The Fog Bowl
Exploring the Fog Bowl, the 1988 NFC Divisional Round Game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chica...
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Arsenal
After the deadbeat brother of a businessman is assumed to be in on his own kidnapping, his sibling m...
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BRATS
In the 1980s, Andrew McCarthy was part of a young generation of actors who were set to take over Hol...
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Adaptation.
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustr...
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Decoded
In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy's communication cod...
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Bob Roberts
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickl...
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Broadcast News
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting re...
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Blood Money
Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hellbent on retrieving h...
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2
After their first adventure with the Hot Tub Time Machine, Lou and Nick are living very well off the...
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Distorted
A married couple suspect that the 'smart apartments' in their high tech residence are being used by ...
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All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set
A behind the scenes look at the making of Being John Malkovich, condensed from hours of footage duri...
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Guyville Redux
Fans and luminaries of the Chicago music scene explain their reactions to Liz Phair's EXILE IN GUYVI...
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Elvis Stories
Elvis Stories is a short movie directed by Ben Stiller and starring John Cusack and Ben Stiller...
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Singularity
When Elias van Dorne, CEO of the world's largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful inve...
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Summerhood
The coming of age summer-camp saga of four best friends who hate each other....
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Never Grow Old
An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under th...
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Boom Bust Boom
Terry Jones presents Boom Bust Boom. The result of a meeting between writer, director, historian and...
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The Concert for New York City
The Concert for New York City (2001) captures the star-studded benefit held at Madison Square Garden...
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River Runs Red
When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a...
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2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the ...
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The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the proj...
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Eastwood on Eastwood
Autobiography of Clint Eastwood up to his movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."...
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America | A Tribute to Heroes
A benefit concert and telethon organized by George Clooney and broadcast uninterrupted and commercia...
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Salinger
An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), ...
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The Road to The Sure Thing
A 26-minute documentary which gives an in-depth overview into the films production. This segment inc...
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Detective Chinatown 1900
In 1900, a white woman was murdered in Chinatown in San Francisco, and the suspect was a Chinese man...
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Why Is It Always Me?
Aimed at teenagers, this explores common adolescent struggles and conflicts with family and peers. T...
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