Movies from Sam Rockwell

Some Like It Hot

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I think Wedding Crashers is an amazing film. I think it’s a reinvention of Some Like It Hot, and maybe that’s not a popular point of view but I stand by it. I think Vince is incredible in it; he’s like Dean Martin. So I continue to learn and hopefully steal.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

Wedding Crashers

John and his buddy, Jeremy are emotional criminals who know how to use a woman's hopes and dreams for their own carnal gain. Their modus operandi: crashing weddings. Normally, they meet guests who want to toast the romantic day with a random hook-up. But when John meets Claire, he discovers what true love – and heartache – feels like.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I think Wedding Crashers is an amazing film.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

Young Frankenstein

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
Then watching comedies, I still learn from the greats like Richard Pryor, Bill Murray and Gene Wilder. Some of his performances that come to mind, like in Young Frankenstein, just blow me away comedically.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

Coal Miner's Daughter

Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

Taxi Driver

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver'.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

The Executioner's Song

In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
That comes to mind, a little bit. Tommy Lee Jones in “Executioner’s Song” is a good one. Movies like that.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

Tender Mercies

Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
and a few of those genre movies and yeah I do think my performance was inspired by some of them, particularly “Tender Mercies,” with Robert Duvall.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

One False Move

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I love “Badlands” and “One False Move” .
Movies from Sam Rockwell

Badlands

A dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I love “Badlands” and “One False Move”.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

My Dinner with Andre

Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I get a big kick out of those movies. I also like, you know, The Rover, The Piano Teacher, or My Dinner With Andre. I like small movies and I like big movies.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

The Piano Teacher

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I also like, you know, The Rover, The Piano Teacher.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

The Rover

10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I also like, you know, The Rover.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

Iron Man

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I like The Avengers, I like Iron Man.
Movies from Sam Rockwell

The Avengers

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
Sam Rockwell
Actor
I think it depends on your taste. I happen to like those comic book movies. I like The Avengers.