John Lee Hancock

Directing

John Lee Hancock

Born 1956-12-15 · Longview, Texas, USA

John Lee Hancock Jr. (born December 15, 1956) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films The Rookie (2002), The Alamo (2004), The Blind Side (2009), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), The Founder (2016), The Highwaymen (2019), The Little Things (2021), and Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022). He also wrote the film A Perfect World (1993) screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Lee Hancock, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Blind Side poster
7.7

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

The Blind Side

2009

The Blind Side poster
7.7

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

The Blind Side

2009

Snow White and the Huntsman poster
6.0

After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.

Snow White and the Huntsman

2012

A Perfect World poster
7.5

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

A Perfect World

1993

The Founder poster
7.2

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

The Founder

2016

The Little Things poster
6.4

Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

The Little Things

2021

The Little Things poster
6.4

Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

The Little Things

2021

The Little Things poster
6.4

Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

The Little Things

2021

The Rookie poster
6.8

Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.

The Rookie

2002

Mr. Harrigan's Phone poster
6.4

Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone.

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

2022

Mr. Harrigan's Phone poster
6.4

Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone.

Mr. Harrigan's Phone

2022

Saving Mr. Banks poster
7.3

Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

Saving Mr. Banks

2013

The Highwaymen poster
6.8

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.

The Highwaymen

2019

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil poster
6.3

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

1997

The Alamo poster
5.8

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.

The Alamo

2004

The Alamo poster
5.8

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.

The Alamo

2004

My Dog Skip poster
6.7

A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood.

My Dog Skip

2000

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NR

Young, untried attorney Brent Wisner takes on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant U.S. chemical company Monsanto on behalf of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, who used the company’s best-known product Roundup, a financially successful weed and grass pesticide killer, as part of his job as a high school groundskeeper and is now suffering illnesses.

Monsanto

No artwork available
NR

Young, untried attorney Brent Wisner takes on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant U.S. chemical company Monsanto on behalf of Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, who used the company’s best-known product Roundup, a financially successful weed and grass pesticide killer, as part of his job as a high school groundskeeper and is now suffering illnesses.

Monsanto

No artwork available
6.0

A good-hearted, second-rate rodeo cowboy fights his way through numerous obstacles, including a Mexican jail, to get his long-time girlfriend to marry him.

Hard Time Romance

1991

No artwork available
6.0

A good-hearted, second-rate rodeo cowboy fights his way through numerous obstacles, including a Mexican jail, to get his long-time girlfriend to marry him.

Hard Time Romance

1991