TV Guide: Kevin Kline

Listing: A Prairie Home Companion

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:15:00 -0500

Mon Dec 15 09:15 AM HBO2e

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Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

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Video: Kevin Kline: Breakout Roles

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:29:37 -0500

As one of the few actors in Hollywood to win an Oscar for a comedy, Kevin established himself quickly and firmly in the industry.

Video: Kevin Kline: Early Years

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:29:35 -0500

Originally a stage player, Kline gained recognition amongst his peers before gaining roles opposite the industries most notable up and coming actors.

Video: Star Bites: Kevin Kline

Biography — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:29:34 -0500

Kevin Kline talks about losing weight for "Life as a House," his musical family and Alanis Morissette.

Video: The Big Chill - (Re-issue Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:43:07 -0500

A friend's death brings together a group of former college activists in The Big Chill (1983) starring Glenn Close, William Hurt and Kevin Kline.

Video: Kevin Kline

The Daily Show — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:36:00 -0500

Jon admits he knows nothing about Kevin Kline.

Video: Anniversary Party

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:42:35 -0500

In this Dogma 95-inspired first feature for acclaimed performers Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, the two star as Joe and Sally Therrian, a couple who have recently reconciled after a yearlong separation, and who decide to throw a sixth anniversary party in their honor. They invite a bevy of Hollywood types, including Skye Davidson (Gwyneth Paltrow), a young, beautiful, Ecstasy-pushing actress appointed to play a character based on Sally in the new feature film based on Joe's successful novel. Also featured are Cal and Sophia Gold (played by real-life marrieds Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates), the former a co-star of Sally's and the latter her best friend who has given up the business to raise a family; Mac (John C. Reilly), the director of the new film and his actress wife Clair (Jane Adams), who has continued working after the recent birth of their child; Judy and Jerry Adams (Parker Posey and John Benjamin Hickey), the Therrians' managers; and Gina (Jennifer Beals), Joe's ex-girlfriend, who is often re

Video: Grand Canyon

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:30:59 -0500

Director Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon is a gathering of random events, uniting the film's wildly divergent protagonists. Driving home from an LA Lakers game, Mack (Kevin Kline), an immigration attorney, is stranded in an unsavory part of town when his car breaks down. He is rescued from a gang of hoods by Simon (Danny Glover), an African-American tow truck driver, inaugurating a friendship between these two men. Mack offers to repay Simon's kindness by helping his sister (Tina Lifford) find an apartment in a better neighborhood, and by arranging a blind date between Simon and Jane (Alfre Woodard), a friend of Mack's secretary Dee (Mary Louise Parker). Woven into this fabric are the tribulations of Mack's best friend, a pompous exploitation movie producer (Steve Martin), who is later wounded in a robbery similar to the one threatening Mack at the beginning of the film; of Mack's wife Claire (Mary McDonnell), who adopts an abandoned baby, and disenfranchised son Roberto (Jeremy Sisto); and of Simon's nephew

Video: Ice Storm, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:28:17 -0500

Set on Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, The Ice Storm looks into the lives of a wealthy Connecticut family who are calm and civil on the outside, but whose lives are quietly falling into chaos. Sixteen-year-old Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) is home for the holidays from prep school; he'd just as soon have stayed at school, given the usual level of tension around the house and his desire to win the affections of Casey (Katie Holmes), a girl living in Manhattan. His 14-year-old sister, Wendy (Christina Ricci), is already a hardened cynic obsessed with the ongoing Watergate investigation, and she has begun acting out sexually with a neighbor boy, Mikey (Elijah Wood). Apparently, this runs in the family: Wendy's father, Ben (Kevin Kline), is having an affair with Mikey's mother, Janey (Sigourney Weaver), though Ben sees a future in the relationship and Janey does not. Elena (Joan Allen), Ben's wife, knows something is wrong with her marriage and her life, but she has no idea what she should do about it. As the teenagers

Video: Life As A House

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:13:08 -0500

Kevin Kline stars as George, a down-on-his-luck architect in this tearjerker from Irwin Winkler (At First Sight, Guilty By Suspicion). A disdainful local character who draws disapproval from the community, particularly his neighbor played by Mary Steenburgen, George sets out to change his life after suddenly losing his longtime job and discovering he's terminally ill (he has cancer). Attempting to reconnect with his estranged and troubled son, Sam (Hayden Christiansen), George endeavors to spend the summer they have together building his dream home by the sea. The laborious process leads to the rebuilding of dissipated relationships, the birth of new ones, and all-around healing. ~ Rachel Deahl, All Movie Guide.

Video: Sophie's Choice

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:55:57 -0500

The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie's ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie's choice is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based. The film

Video: Trade

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:46:46 -0500

After his 13-year-old sister is abducted by sex traffickers, a determined Mexican teen travels from the barrios of Mexico City to a run-down stash house in New Jersey in a desperate attempt to rescue the frightened girl before she is swallowed whole by one of the criminal underworld's darkest secrets. Jorge's (Cesar Ramos) adolescent sister, Adriana (Paulina Gaitan), has been kidnapped and thrust into a lucrative underground trade in which young girls are bought and sold to the highest bidder. Now, as the terrified youngster is herded through a complex network of underground tunnels leading into the United States, her only ally is a Polish woman named Veronica (Alicja Bachleda), who has been tricked into the trade by the same nefarious gang. After circumventing immigration officers and eventually working his way across the border, the desperate Jorge comes into contact with a Texas lawman named Ray (Kevin Kline), whose own devastating personal loss to sex traffickers causes him to join the search for Adriana.

Video: Emperor's Club, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:12:28 -0500

A dedicated teacher learns some important lessons about himself years after he retired from the classroom in this drama. William Hundert (Kevin Kline) is an instructor at St. Benedict's School for Boys, an exclusive private academy on the East Coast where Hundert drills his charges on the moral lessons to be learned through the study of Greek and Roman philosophers. Hundert is fond of telling his students, A man's character is his fate, and he strives to impress upon them the importance of the ordered and examined life. In 1976, however, Hundert finds himself with an especially challenging group of students -- party-minded Fred Masoudi (Jesse Eisenberg) , introverted Martin Blythe (Paul Dano), bright but mischievous Deepak Mehta (Rishi Mehta), and most notably, openly rebellious Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch). The son of a powerful politician, Bell pointedly runs against the current of Hundert's example, questioning the importance of the material, flouting the school's rules, talking out of turn in class, and

Video: Chaplin

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:10:30 -0500

Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's {-My Autobiography}, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and Chaplin's real-life daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his mentally ill mother. With the use of flashback, an elderly Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor (Hopkins), who urges him to be more vulnerable and emotionally honest with his memoirs while journeying through his poverty-stricken childhood, closest friendships, many marriages, merciless pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover (Kevin Dunn), and ingenious invention of The Little Tramp. Highlighted works such as The Gold Rush (1925) and The Great Dictator (1940) illustrate significant turning points in Chaplin's prolific filmography. Director Richard Attenborough's film also explores the circumstances surrounding Chaplin's exile from America and his eventual return to receive an honorary Academy Award. ~ Lisa Kropiewnicki, All Movie

Video: Cry Freedom

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:09:12 -0500

Richard Attenborough directed this dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington), a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist. Woods and his wife Wendy (Penelope Wilton) get to know Biko, and they become friends, until Biko is brutally murdered at the hands of government troops in 1977 for his activities against the country's repression of the black majority population. Donald is shocked and appalled by Biko's murder and determined that the truth about Biko will become known to the world; eventually, Donald and Wendy Woods and their children must leave South Africa (and nearly everything they have) as they spread the word about Biko's life and death to ensure that he did not die in vain. Washington received an Academy Award nomination for his performance as Biko. ~

Video: Best Of The Tony Awards: The Plays, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:31:27 -0500

The five-star actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein hosts the compilation film The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays - a collection of 19 legendary scenes from Tony Award-winning Broadway plays, originally filmed and aired on television. Highlights include extracts from: Kevin Kline in {+Hamlet}; Linda Lavin, Michele Lee and Tony Roberts in {+The Tale of the Allergist's Wife}; Morgan Freeman in {+As You Like It}; Len Cariou in {+Long Day's Journey into Night}; James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance in {+Fences}; and Annette Bening and Tim Daly in {+Coastal Disturbances}. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide.

Video: Mary Engelbreit: The Night Before Christmas

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:42:13 -0500

This holiday tale offers a spin on the classic Clement C. Moore creation The Night Before Christmas. Gregory is a mouse who accidentally learns of a plan by an evil elf to keep Santa from delivering presents to all the good boys and girls. He sets off to stop the bad elf and gets help from a variety of beings including a fairy, an owl, and an older mouse. Kevin Kline provides vocal work on this production. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide.

Video: Road To El Dorado, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:35:01 -0500

Dreamworks SKG's second feature-length animated film blends comedy and drama in an unusual historical adventure. Two genial swindlers working as stable hands stow away with Cortez, the legendary Spanish conquistador, as he searches for El Dorado, the lost City of Gold. Luck smiles on the two con men, and they happen to find a settlement in Mexico that they believe is El Dorado; however, while the two exotic strangers are at first embraced by the Mayan people, they've also arrived just in time to be offered up as the next human sacrifice. The Road to El Dorado was directed by Don Paul, who helmed the first DreamWorks animated feature, The Prince of Egypt; Will Finn, a featured animator on Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin; Bibo Bergeron, who worked on Ferngully: The Last Rainforest; and David Silverman. It features new songs by Elton John and Tim Rice, and the voice cast includes Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Edward James Olmos, and Armand Assante. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Silverado

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:43:17 -0500

Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the town of Silverado, held in thrall by crooked sheriff Brian Dennehy and his behemoth deputies. The four disparate heroes--Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn and Danny Glover--prepare to do battle against Dennehy for personal reasons ranging from mercenary to altruistic. Sidelines characters include duplicitous, dandified gambler Jeff Goldblum, frontier widow Rosanna Arquette and gimlet-eyed saloon owner Linda Hunt. The film is stolen hands-down by Kevin Costner, playing an irresponsible young gunslinger who never speaks when hootin' and hollerin' will do. A classic, High Noon-style showdown caps this rousing retro western. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: January Man, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:36:22 -0500

This offbeat police thriller with heavy doses of humor was written by John Patrick Shanley, the former playwright who wrote Cher's hit romantic comedy Moonstruck. Kevin Kline stars as Nick Starkey, a brilliant former New York City police detective who has been exiled to the fire department because of his unorthodox ways. He's called back to service by his police commissioner brother Frank (Harvey Keitel) in the hopes that he can find a bizarre serial killer who's been murdering one woman a month. Nick's condition to agreeing to help is that he gets to cook dinner for Frank and his snooty wife Christine (Susan Sarandon), a former girlfriend of his. Ultimately, Nick uses his Zen-like intuition and some high-tech computer hardware (with prominent product placement plugs) to find the killer, pausing to have an affair with the mayor's beautiful daughter Bernadette (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. In the improbable conclusion, Nick figures out the exact day the killer will strike and the exact apartment! January Man

Video: On This Day: October 24

iVillage — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:09:02 -0500

On this day in history: the 40 hour work week officially went into effect, and Kevin Kline, B.D. Wong and Zac Posen were born.

Photo: Kevin Kline, Owen Kline and Noah Baumbach - IFP's 15th Annual Gotham Awards, November 30, 2005

courtesy Stephen Lovekin/WireImage.com — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0500

Kevin Kline, Owen Kline, Noah Baumbach

Photo: Kevin Kline - BAM 2005 Spring Season Gala Celebrates Matthew Bourne's Play "Without Words," March 15, 2005

courtesy Stephen Lovekin/WireImage.com — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0500

Kevin Kline

Photo: Phoebe Cates & Kevin Kline - "Rock the Cure" a Benefit Concert for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, September 25, 2003

courtesy Theo Wargo/WireImage.com — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:00:00 -0500

Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates

Photo: Sheryl Crow, Bill Clinton, Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates - Man of the Year 2002 Honoring Former President Bill Clinton, September 12, 2002

courtesy Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 00:00:00 -0500

Sheryl Crow, Bill Clinton, Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates

Photo: Kevin Kline & Hayden Christensen - Toronto Film Festival 2001 "Life as a House" premiere, September 9, 2001

courtesy Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com — Sun, 09 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0500

Kevin Kline, Hayden Christensen

Photo: Kevin Kline - Toronto Film Festival 2001 "Life of a House" press conference, September 9, 2001

courtesy Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com — Sun, 09 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0500

Kevin Kline

Photo: Kevin Kline & Will Smith - The "Wild Wild West" Los Angeles premiere, June 28, 1999

courtesy Steve Granitz/WireImage.com — Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:00:00 -0500

Kevin Kline, Will Smith

Photo: As You Like It - Alfred Molina, Kevin Kline

courtesy Laurie Sparham/HBO

As You Like It, Alfred Molina, Kevin Kline