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Alexander Payne | Director Supercut. 3 Videos. 99+ Photos. Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Peggy (Constantine) and George Payne, ran a Greek restaurant.
- January 1, 1
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- Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- SIDEWAYS (2004) Writers: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor. Starring Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh.
- THE HOLDOVERS (2023) Writer: David Hemingson. Starring Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston.
- NEBRASKA (2013) Writer: Bob Nelson. Starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk. Nebraska native Payne pays tribute to his home state in this memorable road movie focusing on the aging Woody Grant (Oscar nominee Bruce Dern, superb), who is convinced that he has won a million-dollar prize in a magazine sweepstakes and asks his son David (Will Forte) to drive him there so that he can collect his winnings.
- THE DESCENDANTS (2011) Writers: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash. Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Robert Forster.
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- 'The Holdovers' (2023) IMDB: 8.0/10. Hands down the best Christmas movie to come out of 2023, The Holdovers takes place at a New England boarding school where despised classics professor Paul Hunham (Giamatti) is tasked with looking after the students who must stay on campus over the holidays.
- 'Nebraska' (2013) IMDb: 7.7/10. Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) is an elderly man who believes he has won a million-dollar sweepstakes prize and sets out on foot to claim it in Nebraska.
- 'Sideways' (2004) IMDb: 7.5/10. Sideways follows two friends on an alcohol-fueled road trip through California wine country. Paul Giamatti plays Miles Raymond, a depressed and struggling writer, while Thomas Haden Church is Jack Cole, a former soap opera actor celebrating his upcoming wedding.
- 'The Descendants' (2011) IMDb: 7.3/10. George Clooney is Matt King, a Hawaiian landowner and attorney, who must grapple with life-altering decisions after his wife falls into a coma following a boating accident.
- Nebraska (2013) “Nebraska” is Payne’s most personal and endearing film: a classic road trip movie, a beautifully textured character study, and a heartening late-career showcase for Bruce Dern and June Squibb.
- Election (1999) Co-produced by MTV and starring flavor of the moment Reese Witherspoon, Election is probably Payne’s most widely seen movie as it was assimilated into the wave of snarky high school comedies of the late 1990s with relative ease.
- Sideways (2004) Sideways is probably the signature Alexander Payne film. Unapologetically, it is a film about middle-class middle-Americans and their problems, centering on best friends with very different approaches to love and life.
- The Holdovers (2023) It is surprising that Payne is not a credited screenwriter on The Holdovers, considering how neatly it fits in with his written output.
- 8 Downsizing
- 7 Citizen Ruth
- 6 Nebraska
- 5 Election
- 4 The Descendants
- 3 About Schmidt
- 2 The Holdovers
- 1 Sideways
Although Downsizingwas made on a big budget, and had an A-list cast including Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, and Hong Chau, it is considered one of the weaker films of Payne's career. With that said, it is still a highly original tale about a new technology that can shrink people, which allows them to not only reduce individual waste, b...
Citizen Ruth was Payne's breakout film that featured a spectacular performance from Laura Dern. The film follows Ruth Stoops (Dern), who becomes roped into an abortion debate after becoming impregnated. At the same time, Dern gives an honest portrayal of addiction. It is a fascinating look into politics and abortion rights that features a great cas...
Payne goes back to his roots with his acclaimed film Nebraska, featuring one of Bruce Dern's best performances of his career. The film focuses on a troubled, older man named Woody (Dern) who goes on a road trip with his son David (Will Forte) to receive a supposedly $1 million coming to him. It is a great story focusing on the relationship between ...
Election brings the world of politics to a Nebraska high school. The movie focuses on a high school teacher, Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), who becomes overly involved in a high school election between two very different students, Tracy Flick and Paul Metzler. Reese Witherspoon gives a fantastic performance as the overachieving Tracy Flick, pr...
The Descendants is an endearing story following a successful man, Matt King (George Clooney), who struggles to connect with his two daughters while his wife is in a coma. At the same time, he uncovers that his wife was having an affair before her terrible accident. The film dives deep into the history of Hawaii and also the complicated fractions in...
In Payne's acclaimed film, About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson takes on a character that he never has before. Nicholson plays a subtle and unhappy man named Warren Schmidt, who has just recently retired. It is a sharp contrast to the more bombastic roles Nicholson is known for. He embarks on a journey to see his estranged daughter after his wife unexpect...
Read Our Review Payne's most recent movie, The Holdovers came out only a few days ago, on October 27, 2023. Considered to be one of Payne's best works in the last few years, the movie stars Paul Giamatti in the role of a disliked teacher, Paul Hunham, at a boarding school in the 1970s. The story begins when Hunham has to supervise a few students wh...
Sideways is the type of film that gets better every time you watch it. Like a good bottle of wine it gets better with age. The movie is a buddy comedy about two middle-aged men on a trip through the California wine country. Along the way, we learn a lot about wine tasting through the memorable character Miles (Paul Giamatti). At the same time, Thom...
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