12/12/2023 0 Comments Stardust memories synopsis![]() ![]() The following year, working with director James Gray for a third time, he starred in TWO LOVERS opposite Gwyneth Paltrow. He then starred in the deeply moving RESERVATION ROAD, for director Terry George. In 2007, Phoenix starred in two features Sony Pictures' WE OWN THE NIGHT, where he reteamed with Mark Wahlberg and director James Gray. For his performance, he collected his second Academy Award® nomination (for Best Actor) and won the Golden Globe® as Best Actor in a Musical as well as nominations for BAFTA, SAG, BFCA and Chicago Film Critics Awards. In 2006, Phoenix was hailed for his performance as legendary singer-songwriter Johnny Cash (opposite Oscar®-winning actress Reese Witherspoon) in James Mangold's biopic WALK THE LINE. Phoenix then provided the voice in the animated film BROTHER BEAR, followed by Thomas Vinterberg's IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE, BUFFALO SOLDIERS, LADDER 49, and HOTEL RWANDA. Night Shyamalan's SIGNS, and reteamed with Shyamalan two years later on the gothic thriller THE VILLAGE. In 2002, he starred opposite Mel Gibson in M. Also that year, he starred opposite Mark Wahlberg, James Caan, Faye Dunaway, Ellen Burstyn and Charlize Theron in James Gray's THE YARDS. He won a Broadcast Film Critics Award as Best Supporting Actor for Philip Kaufman's Oscar®-nominated QUILLS, based on Douglas McGrath's play about the Marquis de Sade, in which he co-starred with Kate Winslet and Geoffrey Rush. He received awards as Best Supporting Actor from the National Board of Review and The Broadcast Films Critics Association. In addition to an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, Phoenix received nominations for a Golden Globe® and the British Academy (BAFTA) Award. In 2000, he earned his first Academy Award nomination co-starring opposite Russell Crowe as the complex Commodus in Ridley Scott's Oscar®-winning Best Picture, GLADIATOR. Phoenix next won acclaim as a street smart adult bookstore clerk who helps detective Nicolas Cage search for the truth behind what appears to be a snuff film in Joel Schumacher's dark thriller, 8MM. ![]() In 1998, Phoenix co-starred opposite Vince Vaughn in two very different roles-as an American jailed in Malaysia for possession of drugs belonging to accomplice Vaughn in RETURN TO PARADISE, and as a dupe to Vaughn's smooth-talking serial killer in the black comedy CLAY PIGEONS. That same year, he co-starred opposite Claire Danes, Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez in Oliver Stone's "U-Turn." ![]() He next co-starred with Liv Tyler, Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly in INVENTING THE ABBOTTS in 1997. It wasn't until 1996 that the young actor returned to the fold with a stunning and critically-acclaimed performance opposite Nicole Kidman in Gus Van Sant's TO DIE FOR. Two years later, director Ron Howard cast the teenager as Dianne Wiest's son in his popular family comedy PARENTHOOD. The following year, he starred in RUSSKIES with sister Summer and Carole King. He was a regular on the short- lived 1986 CBS series "Morningstar/Eveningstar," and followed that same year with his first feature film role in SPACECAMP. During that time, he made numerous episodic television appearances on such hit shows as "Hill Street Blues," "The Fall Guy" and "Murder, She Wrote". JOAQUIN PHOENIX (Abe) was born in Puerto Rico and began his acting career at the age of eight. But his decision sets off a chain of events that will affect him, Jill and Rita forever. Once Abe makes a profound choice, he is able to embrace life to the fullest again. Pure chance changes everything when Abe and Jill overhear a stranger's conversation and become drawn in. Still, when she tries to make their relationship a romantic one, he rebuffs her. Even as Abe displays signs of mental imbalance, Jill's fascination with him only grows. While Jill loves her boyfriend Roy (Jamie Blackley), she finds Abe's tortured, artistic personality and exotic past irresistible. Soon after arriving to teach at a small town college, Abe gets involved with two women: Rita Richards (Parker Posey), a lonely professor who wants him to rescue her from her unhappy marriage and Jill Pollard (Emma Stone), his best student, who becomes his closest friend. Abe feels that everything he's tried to do, from political activism to teaching, hasn't made any difference. Woody Allen's IRRATIONAL MAN is about a tormented philosophy professor who finds a will to live when he commits an existential act.Philosophy professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) is at rock bottom emotionally, unable to find any meaning or joy in life. ![]()
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