Acting

Michael Mattison

Acting credits

Forrest Gump poster
8.5

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Forrest Gump

1994

Fire Down Below poster
5.8

When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief agency—to determine what happened.

Fire Down Below

1997

The Great Debaters poster
7.3

The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.

The Great Debaters

2007

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood poster
6.0

In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002

New Best Friend poster
5.1

Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.

New Best Friend

2002

No artwork available
9.0

An off-beat comedy about coffee, guns and getting out of a really crappy job.

Steaming Milk

1997

Tad poster
7.1

The story of Abraham Lincoln's presidency told from the perspective of his son, Tad.

Tad

1995

Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel poster
4.8

Bandit (Brian Bloom) gets an unexpected and unwelcome visit from his eccentric Uncle Cyrus.

Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel

1994

Forgiven poster
9.0

On the eve of his campaign launch for a seat in the US Senate, a small town District Attorney receives word that the governor has exonerated a death row inmate whom the DA prosecuted five years earlier for the murder of a local police officer. In the wake of the ex-inmate's release and through the prism of the media frenzy, what unfolds is a public vetting of the DA's record. When hard evidence of actual impropriety finds its way into his possession, the exonerated man seeks out the DA for answers.

Forgiven

2006