Pierce Brosnan Movies
Moving to London with his family at an early age, Irish-born actor Pierce Brosnan made ends meet as a commercial illustrator and cab driver before turning to acting full-time. After training at the London Drama Centre, Brosnan made his West End stage bow in 1976, and appeared in his first film, The Long Good Friday, four years later.
American audiences got their first glimpse of the... (read more) charismatic, muscular young actor in the 1981 network miniseries The Manions of America. The following year, he was cast as the suave adventurer hero of the weekly TV series Remington Steele. Brosnan's casual panache and his gift for quippery led the producers of the James Bond movies to select him as the new Bond upon the departure of Roger Moore in 1986. However, at the last moment, the canceled Remington Steele was renewed, and Brosnan was contractually obligated to remain with the program, forcing him to relinquish the James Bond role to Timothy Dalton. Insult was later added to injury when it became evident that the renewal of Steele was something of a subterfuge by its producers to keep Brosnan on their leash. This professional setback was further compounded by personal tragedy seven years later when Brosnan's actress wife Cassandra Harris died after a long illness.
The actor began to regain his motion picture bankability when he was cast in a choice secondary role in the 1993 comedy megahit Mrs. Doubtfire. In 1995, he finally got his chance to play Agent 007 in GoldenEye, and proved that the producer's instincts were right on target. Brosnan not only provided a much-needed boost for the ailing series, but also cemented his status as a capable leading man in a variety of roles, ranging from the title character in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1996) to a stuffy, love-struck professor who meets a ludicrous fate in Mars Attacks! (1996) to a courageous vulcanologist trying to save a town threatened by a reawakened volcano in Dante's Peak (1997). Brosnan played Bond for the second time in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), essaying the role with great success.
Following his turn as the titular thief in the stylish 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, the actor went on to his third Bond outing in The World is Not Enough, again proving that saving the world was most convincingly done by those with convincing tans, straight teeth, and plenty of fun gadgets. And the world isn't the only thing Bond saved. While, the next half-decade found Brosnan stumbling with disappointments like The Tailor of Panama and The Laws of Attraction, he found box office success with the Bond franchise yet again 2002 with his final film in the franchise, Die Another Day. He soon followed this with a critically acclaimed comedic performance in the sleeper hit The Matador, before signing on for the highly anticipated film adaptation of the Abba inspired musical Mama Mia!. Next up, Brosnan would appear in some more dramatic fare like Remember Me before lightening up once more for the romantic comedy I Don't Know How She Does It. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
I Don't Know How She Does It
PG13 2011
A working mother strives to balance her demanding career with the stress of raising two young children and maintaining a healthy marriage in this comedy adapted from the...
Bag of Bones
2011
A novelist (Pierce Brosnan) grieving over the loss of his wife travels to a lakeside home where he's haunted by a ghost and befriends a widow and her daughter, in a two-part...
Remember Me
PG13 2010
His relationship with his father strained in the wake of a family tragedy, rebellious New Yorker Tyler (Robert Pattinson) finds love with the one girl who understands him....
Salvation Boulevard
R 2010
This religious comedy concerns Carl (Greg Kinnear), a parishioner at a megachurch overseen by Reverend Dan (Pierce Brosnan). When Dan's nemesis, an atheist...
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
PG 2010
This adaptation of Rick Riordan's remarkably popular fantasy book series tells the tale of accident-prone teenager Percy (Logan Lerman), who discovers that he's...
The Ghost Writer
PG13 2010
A ghostwriter stumbles onto a secret that places his life in danger as he takes down the life story of a former U.K. prime minister in this Roman Polanski-helmed adaptation of...
Remember Me
PG13 2010
His relationship with his father strained in the wake of a family tragedy, rebellious New Yorker Tyler (Robert Pattinson) finds love with the one girl who understands him....
The Topkapi Affair
2009
Pierce Brosnan returns to the role of Thomas Crown, self-made billionaire and part-time thief, whose latest exploits lead him into an age-long feud that has this charming...
The Greatest
R 2009
Tragedy opens the wounds a family has long struggled to ignore in this powerful emotional drama. Bennett Brewer (Aaron Johnson) was a bright, handsome, and talented young...
Oceans
G 2009
Winged Migration co-directors Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Perrin re-team for this documentary produced for Walt Disney Studios' Disneynature banner and exploring...
Mamma Mia!
PG13 2008
Longing to discover the identity of her true father before she exchanges her wedding vows, the daughter of a once-rebellious single mother secretly invites a trio of paternal...
The Big Biazarro
2008
Former James Bond Pierce Brosnan stars as a legendary card player who mentors a talented but stubborn protégé in director Vondie Curtis-Hall's adaptation of the Leonard...
Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery - The Movie
G 2008
When Thomas finds himself lost in the mountains, he comes across the remains of the town of Great Waterton. Before long, the entire island is in on the discovery, and they are...
Shattered
R 2007
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point in this thriller starring Piece Brosnan, Gerard Butler, and...
Married Life
PG13 2007
After entering into a passionate affair with a much younger woman, an unhappily married man resorts to murder as a means of eliminating his wife in director Ira Sachs'...
Seraphim Falls
R 2006
Frequent television director David Von Ancken (Oz and The Shield) offers a thrilling meditation on the true nature of revenge with this post-Civil War era tale of a one...
The 2006 FIFA World Cup Film: The Grand Finale
2006
Actor Pierce Brosnan narrates this definitive look at the 2006 World Cup. In addition to interviews with such star athletes as Jens Lehmann, Michael Ballack, and Fabio...
A Life Among Whales
2005
Marine biologist Dr. Roger Payne has dedicated four decades to studying whales and campaigning for their protection; his groundbreaking studies of whale songs and habitat...
The Matador
R 2005
A chance meeting between two middle-aged men leads one into a life of crime in this offbeat comedy. Danny Wright (Greg Kinnear) is an American businessman whose life has...
Instant Karma
2005
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