Alan J. Pakula

The Devil's Own -- Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt co-star in Alan J. Pakula's hit about about a New York cop and an Irishterrorist who face the ultimate danger when their lives intersect.

The Pelican Brief -- Julia Roberts who finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government after shewrites a speculative legal brief exposing the illegal activities of a powerful oil magnate.

Set in the Hollywood of the thirties, screen legend Natalie Wood ("West Side Story," "Rebel Without a Cause") stars in a behind-the-scenes epic, the story of the effects of the Hollywood dream machine on a spirited young singer and actress from the time of her discovery at age 15 through her triumphs and defeats. Also starring screen legend Robert Redford ("Up Close and Personal," "Indecent Proposal"), real-life grown-up teen star Roddy McDowall ("Lassie, Come Home," "Planet of the Apes" series), Christopher Plummer ("The Sound of Music," "Somewhere in Time") and Ruth Gordon ("Harold and Maude," "Rosemary's Baby"), who garnered an Oscar nomination for her performance.

Steve McQueen and Lee Remick ignite sparks in this impassioned drama about a rootless drifter and the woman who loves him. Georgette Thomas (Remick) arrives with her small daughter in Columbus, Texas, to join her husband, Henry (McQueen), who has just been paroled from the state penitentiary. He'd been serving time for stabbing a man in a drunken brawl. His hopes pinned to a career as a songwriter, Henry returns to singing and playing guitar in bawdy roadhouses. Slim (Don Murray), a quiet-spoken depot sheriff, grows attached to Georgette and the child and does what he can to keep the volatile Henry in line. But, when Henry's tantrums become increasingly more violent, Slim is forced to stop him, bringing the film to a shattering climax.

"Comes a Horseman" is an unforgettable saga of unrelenting action, adventure and romance on the American frontier. When a lovely widow (Fonda) is pressured to sell her failing cattle ranch to her unscrupulous and powerful ex-lover (Jason Robards), she enlists the aid of an antagonistic neighbor (Caan) in a desperate attempt to restore the ranch's fortunes. With great skill and determination, the duo struggle to rope enough cattle to pay off their debts...but their problems are just beginning. Driven by a deep-felt rage against their adversary and a growing affection for each other they stand tall against stampedes, betrayal and sabotage...and triumph with shotguns blazing in a dramatic climax of nerve-shattering intensity.

Aspiring author Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a Brooklyn boarding house with winsome Polish émigré Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her mercurial lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline) -- a union unsettled by Nathan's violent behavior and Sophie's disturbing recollections of her wartime experience. Stingo discovers that Sophie is a fraud, though, when her accounts of her stint at a Nazi concentration camp unravel, laying bare the real source of her torment.

Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt co-star in Alan J. Pakula's hit about about a New York cop and an Irishterrorist who face the ultimate danger when their lives intersect.

Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt star in this harrowing thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire (Pitt) is one of the IRA's deadliest assassins. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara (Ford), a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.

(Academy Award-winner Julia Roberts - "Ocean's Eleven," "Erin Brockovich") who finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government after she writes a speculative legal brief exposing the illegal activities of a powerful oil magnate. When those close to her are killed by assassins, the young woman embarks on a desperate flight with a Washington, D.C., investigative reporter (Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Denzel Washington -- "Training Day," "Malcolm X") her only confidant and ally. Co-starring Academy Award-nominee Sam Shepard ("The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "The Right Stuff") and Tony Goldwyn ("The Last Samurai," "Ghost"). With Emmy and Golden Globe-winner John Lithgow ("The World According to Garp," TV's "3rd Rock from the Sun"). Directed by Alan J. Pakula ("Sophie's Choice," "All the President's Men"). "Superb! Fantastic suspense! A major thriller! Fast and exciting" (WNBC-TV). "An exhilarating, breathless, first-class thriller" (CBS-TV). "Perfect casting and stellar work by writer-producer-director Alan Pakula" (Variety).

Julia Roberts who finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government after shewrites a speculative legal brief exposing the illegal activities of a powerful oil magnate.

Julia Roberts who finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government after shewrites a speculative legal brief exposing the illegal activities of a powerful oil magnate.

Academy Award-winner Julia Roberts finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government after she writes a speculative legal brief exposing the illegal activities of a powerful oil magnate. When those close to her are killed by assassins, the young woman embarks on a desperate flight with a Washington, D.C. investigative reporter (Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Denzel Washington), her only confidant and ally. Co-starring Academy Award-nominee Sam Shepard and Tony Goldwyn. With Emmy and Golden Globe-winner John Lithgow. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. "Superb! Fantastic suspense! A major thriller! Fast and exciting" (WNBC-TV). "An exhilarating, breathless, first-class thriller" (CBS-TV). "Perfect casting and stellar work by writer-producer-director Alan Pakula" (Variety).