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Tom McCarthy | Rotten Tomatoes. Highest Rated: 97% Spotlight (2015) Lowest Rated: 9% Little Fockers (2010) Birthday: Jun 7, 1966. Birthplace: New Providence, New Jersey, USA.
- June 7, 1966
- The Cobbler
- Stillwater
- Win Win
- Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
- The Visitor
- The Station Agent
- Spotlight
What makes The Cobbler such a baffling misfire is that it didn’t have to be garbage. It could have been a perfectly lovely piece of magical realism, a Jewish fairy tale set in a New York neighborhood that still has a bit of Old World folklore in the air. Even the presence of Adam Sandler isn’t necessarily fatal, as he’s proven himself to be an exce...
Thankfully, there’s an enormous leap in quality between McCarthy’s worst and second-worst movies. Stillwater is by no means a bad film: it’s the kind of character study McCarthy does so well, but with a more uneasy, ambiguous tone than usual. Loosely based on the Amanda Knox case, Stillwater centers on an oil rig worker from Oklahoma (Matt Damon in...
McCarthy made his career out of understated character studies, but even by his standards Win Win is low-key. It’s set in Rhode Island, perhaps the least picturesque state in New England; its cast is populated by reliable, non-flashy actors like Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, and Bobby Cannavale; the sport at its core is not football or baseball, but the ...
The first film McCarthy directed after the Oscar-winning triumph at #1 on this list was… a kids' movie? A kids' movie about a Segway-riding amateur detective and his imaginary polar bear friend? It’s not as much of a departure as one might think. McCarthy had already dabbled in child-friendly media - he helped formulate the story for Up, and co-wro...
The Visitor could have been a white savior narrative, a magical minority narrative, or a mealy-mouthed message movie. Instead, it’s a quiet, grounded, deeply sad picture of New York in the wake of 9/11. It achieves this by simply treating every character as a human being, and not as a symbol. Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, a treasure) isn’t supposed...
In terms of sea-change movies whose journey began at the Sundance Film Festival - Clerks, Little Miss Sunshine, Get Out - The Station Agent is rarely mentioned. While it was only a modest box office hit, its blend of gentle quirk and emotional earnestness helped codify what is known as a “Sundance movie”. Even if it didn’t directly inspire movies l...
In some ways, Spotlight was something of a departure for Tom McCarthy. After a career consisting of small-scale, understated dramas, here was a movie about nothing less than the exposure of widespread sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. It was also his first movie based on true events, as well as his first movie where he wrote the screenplay...
Aug 17, 2021 · ComingSoon’s Alyse Wax spoke to Stillwater director Tom McCarthy about how the script evolved over time, getting to work with Matt Damon, and more. Check out the video or a transcript below.
Jul 29, 2021 · There’s a moment in “Stillwater,” in which Matt Damon stars as Bill Baker, an Oklahoma oil worker trying to get his college-age daughter, Allison, out of a prison in Marseille, France, when Allison...
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producer. Years active. 1992–present. Thomas Joseph McCarthy [1] (born June 7, 1966) [2] is an American filmmaker and actor who has appeared in several films, including Meet the Parents and Good Night, and Good Luck, and television series such as The Wire, Boston Public and Law & Order .
