Dan Futterman

Dan Futterman

Birth : 1967-06-08, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Futterman (born June 8, 1967) is an American actor and screenwriter. Although he is known for several high-profile acting roles, including Val Goldman in the film The Birdcage, and Vincent Gray on the CBS television series Judging Amy, he is also a screenwriter. In 2005, he wrote the screenplay for the film Capote for which he received an Academy Award nomination and an Independent Spirit Award, Boston Society of Film Critics award, and Los Angeles Film Critics Association award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Futterman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Dan Futterman

Movies

Foxcatcher
Writer
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
Kill the Messenger
Leo Wolinsky
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Hello I Must Be Going
David
Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.
A Mighty Heart
Daniel Pearl
Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
Truman Capote: Answered Prayers
Self
A short documentary looking at how the film Capote was developed, the motivations of those involved, and insights from Gerald Clarke, Capote's friend and biographer.
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Self
Featurette on the making of Capote (2005).
Capote
Screenplay
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
Enough
Joe
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.
Urbania
Charlie
A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.
When Trumpets Fade
Despin
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.
Thicker Than Blood
Griffin Byrne
Griffin Byrne is the idealistic new history, English and maths teacher in Father Frank Larkin's school in a mainly Latino ghetto neighborhood where most kids, even many of its graduates, end up in crime and poverty. He takes a particular interest in one of the boys nobody believes will ever come to anything, Lee Cortes, who he finds to be a prodigy in cartoon drawing but who never spoke a word at school, and always wears a Walkman, essentially because of his home situation: his elder brother Tyro, a drug dealer, abuses him and his mother, so he often stays home to mind the smallest siblings. Griffin tries everything to help Lee, despite everyones cynicism, even takes him in his bachelor flat, but finds the whole family situation must be solved, which is probably beyond his power, yet tries tireless, even if he gets nothing but abuse and the results seem to do more hurting then helping...
1999
Rufus Wild
On New Year's Eve 1999, as a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their identities, relationships, and self-doubts before the millennium turns.
Shooting Fish
Dylan
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.
Far Harbor
Brad
A group of seven young people spend a weekend in the home of a wealthy yuppie on Long Island and live out their problems.
Breathing Room
David
She's Kathy, a comix cartoonist; he's David, teaching English to new immigrants. It's New York City, with 29 shopping days left until Christmas, and they're in love. Or are they? Their romance has been on-again, off-again because David can't bring himself to say, "I love you." He can say it in French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, but not English. So, when she learns at an inopportune time that he's applied for a job in Ho Chi Minh City, she asks for breathing room until Christmas; the film chronicles the ensuing days of restless indecision.
The Birdcage
Val Goldman
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's conservative moralistic parents.
Tracey Ullman Takes on New York
Peter Levine
Tracey Ullman and her wacky cast of characters take a bite out of the Big Apple.
Class of '61
Shelby Peyton
Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.
Passed Away
Tom
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats.
The Fisher King
Punk
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
Josh
A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
Daughters of Privilege
Ballard Moss
A Florida newspaper owner's daughter gets involved with her father's archrival who uses this to bring down his business.
Untitled Bruce Lee Biopic
Writer
A biopic about the life and career of the iconic martial artist and movie star Bruce Lee.