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James Toback is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 23 november 1944 at New York City (USA)

James Toback

James Toback
James Toback participated to 22 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 2 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Scriptwriter

Bugsy
Bugsy (1991)
, 2h15
Directed by Barry Levinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Mob film, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna
Rating67% 3.397513.397513.397513.397513.39751
Gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who works for the New York mob, goes to California and instantly falls in love with Virginia Hill, a tough-talking Hollywood starlet. The two meet for the first time when Bugsy visits his friend, actor George Raft, on a film set. He buys a house in Beverly Hills from opera singer Lawrence Tibbett, planning to stay there while his wife and two daughters remain in Scarsdale.
The Beat That My Heart Skipped, 1h47
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Piano
Actors Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh-Dan Pham, Jonathan Zaccaï, Aure Atika, Gilles Cohen
Roles Original Story
Rating71% 3.5965953.5965953.5965953.5965953.596595
Intense young "tough" Thomas Seyr is a 28-year-old real estate broker involved in shady business deals. His business partners, Fabrice and Sami, spend much of their time ruthlessly chasing squatters and illegal immigrants out of the buildings they have procured and trying to work their way around government housing regulations. Thomas is born to this kind of work; his father, Robert, is also involved in dodgy enterprises and sometimes calls upon Thomas to beat up people who refuse to pay. Tom shows a protective and defensive attitude toward his father who doesn't always appreciate what his son does for him–so much so that when his father introduces his new girlfriend to Tom, Tom undermines her to her face, and insults her to his father, insisting she is an opportunistic "whore." Later, when he tries to enlist her help to watch over his father, she tells him they broke up due to Robert changing his attitude and she is aware of Tom's backstabbing because Robert told her. Robert by this time is in danger from a Russian gangster, Minskov (Anton Yakovlev) who scammed him out of 300,000 Euros and Tom is worried for his safety.