Loading
American Gun
Genres
Drama
Overview
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
95 min
Release Date
2005-09-15
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
38
Vote Average
5.632
Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
Forest Whitaker
Carter
Marcia Gay Harden
Janet Huttenson
Donald Sutherland
Carl Wilk
Lisa Long
Sandra Cohen
Chris Warren
Marcus
Amanda Seyfried
Mouse
Nikki Reed
Tally
Tony Goldwyn
Frank
Rex Linn
Earl
Davenia McFadden
Felicia
Linda Cardellini
Mary Ann Wilk
Schuyler Fisk
Cicily
Melissa Leo
Louise
Dallas McKinney
Jimmy Frank
Dean Norris
Terrence
Michael Shannon
Jerry
Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
David Huttenson
Joseph Kell
Security Guard
Garcelle Beauvais
Sarah
James Morrison
St. Anthony's Principal
Lee Garlington
Psychologist
Sydney Walsh
Karen
Calvin Jung
Store Owner
Rachael Bella
Haille
Jonathan Ahdout
Ike
Sean Allen Rector
Gas Station Young Dude
Audrey Wasilewski
Annette
Steven E. Barnes
Student
Joy DeMichelle
Marcus' Mom
Daniel Buran
Convenience Store Clerk
Brian Avery
Convenience Store Robber
Aasha Davis
Student
Gabrielle Christian
Girl
Jernard Burks
Burly Guy
Andrew Caple-Shaw
College Rapist
Ali Hillis
Gunshop Patron
Kiyano La'vin
Taft Security Guard
Lombardo Boyar
Hector
Charles Duckworth
Connie
Todd Tesen
Barry
Gary Paul Clark
Supervisor
Terry Rhoads
Ed Hogan
Michael Milhoan
Victim's Father
Arlen Escarpeta
Jay
Neil Mather
Bob
John Stewart Muller
School Shooter (uncredited)
Michael Dempsey
Landlord
Kevin Phillips
Reggie
Rainbow Borden
Thief
Similar Movies
Explore movies similar to this one that you might also enjoy.
7.0
Three Times
In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
2005-05-20 | zh
6.4
Class of 1984
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
1982-08-20 | en
5.0
The Wendell Baker Story
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
2005-08-03 | en
6.6
Spun
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.
2003-02-07 | en
4.9
Vegas: Based on a True Story
The film takes place away from the glittering strip of mega casinos, but the greed of Sin City is just as pervasive on the desert outskirts. This is where a happy family learns of a forgotten fortune that may be buried beneath their home. Their lives are turned upside down. A sophisticated study of just how far people are able and willing to go if faced with the tempting prospect of easily acquired wealth.
2008-01-01 | en
6.2
Clay Pigeons
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with the affair. Clay unknowingly befriends a serial killer named Lester Long who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy."
1998-09-25 | en
5.9
Roadracers
Cynical look at a 1950s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.
1994-07-22 | en
7.4
The Color of Pomegranates
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
1969-10-01 | hy
6.7
Notre Musique
A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself.
2004-11-24 | fr
6.2
Horns and Halos
"What if someone wrote your biography? Would there be horns and halos involved?"
2002-03-30 | en
5.6
The War Within
A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
2005-09-30 | pt
6.6
Downtown '81
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
2001-07-13 | en
7.1
Lisbon Story
Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
1994-12-16 | en
6.0
The Wizard
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.
1989-12-15 | en
6.0
Human Nature
Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.
2001-09-12 | en
7.4
Once Were Warriors
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
1994-09-02 | en
6.5
Little Voice
After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.
1998-11-05 | en
4.6
A Night In Heaven
Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?
1983-11-18 | en
5.3
Hannah Takes the Stairs
Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?
2007-08-22 | en
5.9
Pyewacket
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.
2017-12-08 | en