Jim Sheridan

Carey Mulligan received rave reviews for her role in An Education. Next up is Wall Street 2 for Oliver Stone, and Jim Sheridan's Brothers. James Mottram talks to Britain's fastest-rising star Just under a year ago, Carey Mulligan was...

In this article: Carey Mulligan, An Education, Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice, Wall Street 2, Oscar, Brothers, Joe Wright, and Audrey Hepburn

Jim Sheridan (In America, The Boxer) is back at the box office this season with his war-themed drama Brothers. Based on Susanne Bier's film of the same name, Brothers centers on a young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) who comforts his older brother's...

In this article: Brothers, Susanne Bier, Tobey Maguire, Connie Nielsen, Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, The Boxer, In America, and Afghanistan

...womanizing best buddy and business partner (John Travolta) to help care for the twin kids he never knew he had. "Brothers" ??? Jim Sheridan directs this reversal-of-roles drama about siblings (Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal), one a Marine...

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...called, wouldn't you know, Christmastown. In America (2002, Fox, $15) Three major Oscar nominations went to writer/director Jim Sheridan's immigrant saga, whose humiliated siblings (Emma and Sarah Bolger) are forced by circumstances to...

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...for me. I hadn't done that in, like, two months." It's something of a relief too, to see Maguire looking much fitter than in the Jim Sheridan film, which opens Dec. 4. He had dropped more than 20 pounds from his already slender frame to...

In this article: Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brothers, Brodre, Natalie Portman, and Spider-Man

...Colin Firth in a story of death and loss. Difficult war sagas with their roots in Iraq and Afghanistan come in "The Messenger" and Jim Sheridan's "Brothers." Even Jason Reitman's more buoyant "Up in the Air" starring George Clooney is set...

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...Paramount. She also co-wrote and directed the Danish-language "Brothers," a war-themed drama that is being remade for Lionsgate with Jim Sheridan at the helm and starring Natalie Portman. She is attached to Universal's romantic comedy "Lost...

In this article: Susanne Bier, Oscar, Steve Almond, After the Wedding, Natalie Portman, Things We Lost in the Fire, and Brothers