Shia LaBeouf Movies That Made Us Fall In Love With The Actor
Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker who was born on June 11, 1986. He was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 2001 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003 for his performance as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel sitcom Even Stevens.
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Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker who was born on June 11, 1986. He was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 2001 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003 for his performance as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel sitcom Even Stevens. In The Christmas Path, he made his cinematic debut in 1998. He made his directorial debut with the short film Let's Love Hate in 2004 and subsequently directed Maniac (2011), which starred American rappers, Cage and Kid Cudi.
In 2007, Shia LaBeouf appeared in the box office hits Disturbia and Surf's Up. In the same year, he was cast as Sam Witwicky, the series' primary protagonist, in Michael Bay's science fiction blockbuster Transformers. Transformers was a box office hit, and it was one of the year's highest-grossing pictures.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), both financial hits, featured Shia LaBeouf. In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, he portrayed Henry "Mutt Williams" Jones III. Holes (2003), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Lawless (2012), The Company You Keep (2012), Nymphomaniac (2013), Fury (2014), American Honey (2016), Borg versus McEnroe (2017), Honey Boy (2019), The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019), and Pieces of a Woman (2019) are among his other film credits (2020). Since 2014, LaBeouf has collaborated with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner on several public performance art events.
Bobby (2006)
Bobby is a mediocre character, but LaBeouf plays him brilliantly. Bobby is directed by Emilio Estevez and stars Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, Christian Slater, Elijah Wood, Lindsay Lohan, Ashton Kutcher, Laurence Fishburne, and Shia LaBeouf. It follows several characters as they pass through the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on the day of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Even yet, LaBeouf isn't the most memorable member of the cast.
He also performs pretty conventional and excellent acting. His story revolves around him and Brian Geraghty, two Kennedy campaign workers who spend less time campaigning and more time going on acid trips.
Bobby arrives at a critical juncture in LaBeouf's career. In 2006, LaBeouf made a more deliberate attempt to move away from indie films and Disney-backed ventures. Bobby is interesting in that he's playing an adult role rather than some wide-eyed, lovable kid popping in for a few scenes.
He'd already cut his teeth with similarly bit parts in I, Robot, Constantine, and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, but Bobby is interesting in that he's playing more of an adult role rather than some wide-eyed, lovable kid popping in for a few scenes. Even as a day player, Bobby teases LaBeouf's ability to make some intriguing decisions as an actor and hold his own in a cast alongside experienced actors. When questioned, this isn't the first (or favorite) LaBeouf role that comes to mind.
Bobby (2006) Trailer
The Battle Of Shaker Heights (2003)
The Battle of Shaker Heights released the same year as Charlie's Angels is the first of two post-Disney Channel indies in which LaBeouf receives top billing in what is his first starring role. When Harry Met Lloyd, Full Throttle, and the conclusion of Even Stevens' three-year television run This is a huge year for LaBeouf, and his leading role in The Battle of Shaker Heights is certainly eye-catching. The problem is, it's obvious that LaBeouf is in a time of change.
In Shaker Heights, he portrays Kelly Ernswiler, a know-it-all adolescent who thinks he's acquired valuable life experience by participating in weekend war reenactments. However, like with many independent coming-of-age films, Kelly's entire jaded/precocious shtick fails him as he attempts to navigate the high school rollercoaster.
LaBeouf delivers another solid, entertaining performance in this film. To be honest, the performance isn't very memorable. Is Shia LaBeouf convincingly portraying a somewhat jaded, slightly precocious, observant-in-all-the-wrong-ways adolescent? Sure! Of course, he was 17 when he produced the film, so it all scans.
While The Battle of Shaker Heights is a largely unimpressive film that does little to showcase LaBeouf's acting abilities, it does provide us the opportunity to contemplate the possibility of this kid star turning into main actor material in the future. In this regard, LaBeouf is a complete success.
The Battle of Shaker Heights Official Trailer!
A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, directed by Dito Montiel in 2006, is the most recent independent film in which LaBeouf appears. In the first of two films that the two will work on, LaBeouf portrays a fictitious version of Montiel, based on his book of the same name. (He'll also appear in Montiel's 2015 military film Man Down.)
By this time in his career, LaBeouf's portrayal of Young Dito (Older Dito is played by Robert Downey Jr.!) is his most mature. Young Dito's adolescent years growing up in Astoria, Queens in the 1980s are reflected in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. The film takes an impressionistic approach to explore a particular and important moment in Dito's life, with the adolescent coming of age as he fantasizes about life beyond Astoria. Dito watches as his boyhood pals suffer much more dismal and lonely endings as he attempts to find a way out of the violence that has engulfed his area.
This movie would score higher if we were talking about any other performer in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. But we're talking about Shia LaBeouf, whose final role in this film is to serve as a sort of calm anchor amid a hurricane of activity.
As his character interacts with sexual encounters, violence, and other difficult material, LaBeouf is given plenty to chew on. While there are no start-making moments for LaBeouf (that distinction belongs to his co-star Channing Tatum), he rises to the occasion and holds his own in an assured, confident manner, reinforcing the sense that he might truly break out in a major way at this point in his career.
A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints - Official Trailer
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz's feature film directorial debut, The Peanut Butter Falcon, is a 2019 American comedy-drama film starring Shia LaBeouf, Zack Gottsegen, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, Jon Bernthal, and Thomas Haden Church.
The story concerns a young man with Down syndrome (Gottsegen) who escapes from an assisted living home and meets a fugitive fisherman (LaBeouf); while the two men develop an instant connection, a social worker (Johnson) tries to hunt them down.
North Carolina and Georgia were used for filming. On March 9, 2019, the film had its global debut at South by Southwest, and Roadside Attractions gave it a limited theatrical distribution in the United States on August 9, 2019. The film went on to become a sleeper success, earning more than $23 million worldwide, making it the year's highest-grossing independent picture, and receiving critical acclaim.
THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON Trailer (2019)
Fury (2014)
Fury is a 2014 American war film starring Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pea, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, and Scott Eastwood, and written and directed by David Ayer. The video depicts American tank personnel fighting in Nazi Germany during the closing weeks of World War II's European theater. Ayer was inspired by the service of veterans in his family and by reading books on American armored forces in World War II, such as Belton Y. Cooper's Death Traps, describing the high fatality rates experienced by tank crews in Europe.
The principal shooting started on September 30, 2013, in Oxfordshire, after production began in early September 2013 in Hertfordshire, England. Filming took place over a month and a half in several locales, including Oxford, and ended on November 13. Fury was released on October 17, 2014, to good reviews and global revenue of $211 million.
FURY - Official Trailer
Lawless (2012)
John Hillcoat directed Lawless, a 2012 American crime drama film. The script is based on Matt Bondurant's historical book The Wettest County in the World, written by Australian singer-screenwriter Nick Cave (2008). Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, and Guy Pearce are among the cast members.
The film follows three bootlegging brothers Forrest (Hardy), Howard (Clarke), and Jack Bondurant (LaBeouf) as they battle the vicious Deputy Charley Rakes (Pearce) and his men, who attempt to shut down the brothers' Prohibition-era moonshine operation when Forrest refuses to pay the police off. Before it was released, the picture was in development for approximately three years. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and was released in theaters on August 29, 2012.
LAWLESS - Official Trailer (2012)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
The Greatest Game Ever Played is a 2005 American biographical sports film about golf champion Francis Ouimet's early life. Bill Paxton directed the picture, which was his last one as a filmmaker.
Ouimet is played by Shia LaBeouf. Mark Frost developed the script for the film from his book The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf, which he published in 2002. It was filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with the golf scenes taking place at the Kanawaki Golf Club in Kahnawake, Quebec.
The Greatest Game Ever Played [Trailer]
Transformers (2007)
Transformers is a science fiction action film released in 2007 that is based on the toy line of the same name. Michael Bay directed the picture, which combines computer animation and live-action shooting, while Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. It is the first chapter in the live-action Transformers film series, and it was produced by Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto.
Shia LaBeouf plays Sam Witwicky, a teenager who becomes embroiled in a battle between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, two groups of extraterrestrial robots who can change into common equipment, mainly cars. The Autobots aim to recover and utilize the AllSpark, the magical relic that gave life to their robotic species on Earth, to rebuild Cybertron and end the conflict, while the Decepticons want to use it to construct an army by giving life to Earth's machines. Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Megan Fox, Rachael Taylor, John Turturro, and Jon Voight also appear, with Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving providing the voices of Optimus Prime and Megatron, respectively.
In 2003, Murphy and DeSanto collaborated on the idea, and DeSanto authored the treatment. The next year, Steven Spielberg joined the project, appointing Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman to create the script. During shooting, the United States Armed Forces and General Motors (GM) donated vehicles and planes, saving money for the production and adding authenticity to the combat sequences. Hasbro's marketing strategy for the film includes collaborations with several businesses, including a viral marketing campaign, synchronized releases of prequel comic books, toys, and novels, and product placement agreements with GM, Burger King, and eBay.
Critics gave Transformers mixed reviews, but audiences reacted positively. With an estimated 46 million tickets sold in the United States, it became the fifth highest-grossing picture of 2007, earning $709 million worldwide. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards, for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects, and received four Visual Effects Society awards. Empire complimented LaBeouf's portrayal, while fans appreciated Cullen's reprise of Optimus Prime from the 1980s television series. Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Dark of the Moon (2011), Age of Extinction (2014), and The Last Knight (2017) were the four sequels, as well as a spin-off named Bumblebee in 2018.
Transformers (2007) - Full Trailer [HD]
American Honey (2016)
Andrea Arnold wrote and directed American Honey, an epic road comedy-drama released in 2016. Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough are among the cast members of the film. Star (Lane), a disturbed adolescent, joins a traveling sales team selling magazine subscriptions door to door throughout the American Midwest. The principal shooting started in May 2015, with locations throughout the United States. It's Arnold's first film set and shot outside of the UK. At the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the film was chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or and received the Jury Prize.
The film was well-received, with Lane's performance, as well as that of LaBeouf and Keough, earning critical acclaim. A24 released the film on September 30, 2016, in the United States, while Universal Pictures released it on October 14, 2016, in the United Kingdom. American Honey was nominated for Best British Film at the BAFTA Awards' 70th edition.
American Honey | Official Trailer HD | A24
Disturbia (2007)
Disturbia is a 2007 American thriller film directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, and Carrie-Anne Moss. It was written by Christopher Landon and Carl Ellsworth and stars Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, and Carrie-Anne Moss.
The story concerns a kid who is put on house arrest after attacking a teacher at school and starts spying on his neighbors, thinking one of them is a potential serial murderer. The film was released on April 13, 2007, and was partially inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. It got mostly favorable reviews and earned $118 million on a $20 million budget.
Disturbia Trailer HD
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