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A seventeen-year-old kid (Ed) trying to understand who he wants to be in the world, befriends a terminally ill ex-CIA contract killer (Ashby) who is trying to make peace with his life and God before he goes.
Ashby is a departure for Mickey Rourke, as he's been kind of slumming it in B movie junk for a few years. That changes here. Rourke's cowboy machismo and brooding vibe of danger is genius and takes on a whole new light when contrasted with the bright, idiosyncratic realm of the low key indie dramedy.
Ashby (2015) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Being There: Directed by Hal Ashby. With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
It became Ashby's first film as a director. From there he delivered a series of well-acted, intelligent human scaled dramas that included The Last Detail (1973) , Shampoo (1975) , Bound for Glory (1976) , Coming Home (1978) and Being There (1979) .
In 2007 took part in the film Resident Evil: Extinction opposite Milla Jovovich. In 2008 he starred in Impact Point and co-starred with Steven Seagal in the action film Against the Dark. In 2009, he starred in action Anaconda - Trail of Blood. From 2011 to 2017 he played the role of Sheriff Stilinski in the TV series Teen Wolf.
65 Metascore. On Election Day, 1968, a hairdresser and ladies' man is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his various girlfriends and his mistress, whose husband he meets and finds out is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend. Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant.
Hal Ashby's comedy is too dark and twisted for some, and occasionally oversteps its bounds, but there's no denying the film's warm humor and big heart.
Biography Documentary. Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising ... Read all.
Blast: Directed by Albert Pyun. With Linden Ashby, Andrew Divoff, Kimberly Warren, Rutger Hauer. Terrorists are holding the U.S. Olympic swim team hostage, and only janitor Jack Bryant (Linden Ashby) can stop them.
