Bob Balaban Movies

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native...

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated...

Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following high school graduation. After they play a prank on an...

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German...

When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After...

New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice eliminate corruption in the police department, as long...

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his...

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon...

Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem...

Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa....

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads:...

A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at...

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion...

Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be...

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults...