John Cusack

Career timeline

1. 1966 · Born

   Born in Evanston, Illinois, USA

2. 1981 · Screen debut

   Entertainment Tonight (TV)

3. 1986 · Breakthrough

   Stand by Me (Movie)

4. 1997 · Writing debut

   Grosse Pointe Blank (Movie)

5. 2008 · First production

   War, Inc. (Movie)

6. 2025 · Latest release

   Detective Chinatown 1900 (Movie)

Career in numbers

11 1980s

20 1990s

15 2000s

26 2010s

3 2020s

• Comedy32
• Drama31
• Thriller24
• Crime15
• Mystery13
• Romance11

Highest-rated title Stand by Me 1986 7.8 Most popular title 2012 2009 5.9

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside John Cusack in our catalogue.

Joan Cusack

6 titles together

Tim Robbins

4 titles together

Jeremy Piven

3 titles together

Stephen Frears

2 titles together

Michael Lerner

2 titles together

Alan Silvestri

2 titles together

D. B. Sweeney

2 titles together

Johnathon Schaech

2 titles together

Samuel L. Jackson

2 titles together

Alan Arkin

2 titles together

1. 2025 Detective Chinatown 1900 as Grant 6.3 Movie
2. 2024 Decoded as 希伊斯 6.2 Movie
3. 2020 Utopia as Dr. Kevin Christie 7.2 TV
4. 2019 Never Grow Old as Christopher 'Dutch' Albert 6.0 Movie
5. 2018 River Runs Red as Horace 5.5 Movie
6. 2018 Distorted as Vernon Sarsfield 4.9 Movie
7. 2017 Singularity as Elias Van Dorne 3.6 Movie
8. 2017 Arsenal as Sal 4.3 Movie
9. 2016 Cell as Clayton 'Clay' Riddell 4.7 Movie
10. 2015 Chi-Raq as Fr. Mike Corridan 5.7 Movie
11. 2015 Love & Mercy as Brian Wilson 1980s 7.1 Movie
12. 2015 Hot Tub Time Machine 2 as Adam (uncredited) 5.2 Movie
13. 2015 Dragon Blade as Lucius 6.4 Movie
14. 2014 Reclaim as Benjamin 5.2 Movie
15. 2014 The Prince as Sam 4.9 Movie
16. 2014 Maps to the Stars as Dr. Stafford Weiss 6.2 Movie
17. 2014 The Bag Man as Jack 5.3 Movie
18. 2014 Doll & Em as John 6.4 TV
19. 2014 Adult World as Rat Billings 6.0 Movie
20. 2013 Grand Piano as Clem 6.0 Movie
21. 2013 The Butler as Richard Nixon 7.3 Movie
22. 2013 The Frozen Ground as Robert Hansen 6.3 Movie
23. 2013 The Numbers Station as Emerson 5.5 Movie
24. 2012 The Factory as Mike Fletcher 5.6 Movie
25. 2012 The Paperboy as Hillary Van Wetter 5.5 Movie
26. 2012 Evening Urgant as Self 7.0 TV
27. 2012 The Raven as Edgar Allan Poe 6.3 Movie
28. 2010 Shanghai as Paul Soames 6.1 Movie
29. 2010 Hot Tub Time Machine as Adam 6.1 Movie
30. 2009 2012 as Jackson Curtis 5.9 Movie
31. 2008 Igor as Igor (voice) 6.1 Movie
32. 2008 War, Inc. as Brand Hauser 5.5 Movie
33. 2007 Martian Child as David 6.7 Movie
34. 2007 1408 as Mike Enslin 6.7 Movie
35. 2006 The Contract as Ray 5.8 Movie
36. 2005 The Ice Harvest as Charlie 6.0 Movie
37. 2005 Must Love Dogs as Jake 5.9 Movie
38. 2003 Runaway Jury as Nick Easter 7.0 Movie
39. 2003 Identity as Ed 7.2 Movie
40. 2002 Adaptation. as John Cusack (uncredited) 7.3 Movie
41. 2002 Max as Max Rothman 6.2 Movie
42. 2001 Serendipity as Jonathan Trager 7.0 Movie
43. 2001 America's Sweethearts as Eddie Thomas 5.7 Movie
44. 2000 High Fidelity as Rob 7.1 Movie
45. 1999 Cradle Will Rock as Nelson Rockefeller 6.5 Movie
46. 1999 Being John Malkovich as Craig Schwartz 7.4 Movie
47. 1999 Pushing Tin as Nick Falzone 5.9 Movie
48. 1999 The Jack Bull as Myrl Redding 6.5 Movie
49. 1998 The Thin Red Line as Capt. John Gaff 7.4 Movie
50. 1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as John Kelso 6.4 Movie
51. 1997 Anastasia as Dimitri (voice) 7.6 Movie
52. 1997 Con Air as Agent Vince Larkin 6.8 Movie
53. 1997 Grosse Pointe Blank as Martin Q. Blank 7.0 Movie
54. 1996 City Hall as Kevin Calhoun 6.0 Movie
55. 1996 TFI Friday TV
56. 1994 Floundering as JC 4.8 Movie
57. 1994 The Road to Wellville as Charles Ossining 5.6 Movie
58. 1994 Bullets Over Broadway as David Shayne 7.1 Movie
59. 1994 Baseball as (voice) 7.6 TV
60. 1993 Frasier as Greg (voice) 7.7 TV
61. 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 5.3 TV
62. 1992 The Player as John Cusack 7.2 Movie
63. 1991 Shadows and Fog as Student Jack 6.7 Movie
64. 1990 The Grifters as Roy Dillon 6.5 Movie
65. 1989 Fat Man and Little Boy as Michael Merriman 6.2 Movie
66. 1989 Say Anything... as Lloyd Dobler 7.0 Movie
67. 1988 Eight Men Out as Buck Weaver 6.8 Movie
68. 1986 Stand by Me as Denny Lachance 7.8 Movie
69. 1986 One Crazy Summer as Hoops McCann 6.0 Movie
70. 1985 The Journey of Natty Gann as Harry 6.8 Movie
71. 1985 Better Off Dead... as Lane Meyer 6.6 Movie
72. 1985 The Sure Thing as Walter "Gib" Gibson 6.5 Movie
73. 1984 Sixteen Candles as Bryce 6.7 Movie
74. 1983 Class as Roscoe 6.0 Movie
75. 1981 Entertainment Tonight 4.4 TV

1. 2000 High Fidelity 7.1 Movie
2. 1997 Grosse Pointe Blank 7.0 Movie

1. 2010 Hot Tub Time Machine 6.1 Movie
2. 2008 War, Inc. 5.5 Movie

1. 2008 War, Inc. 5.5 Movie

1. 1999 The Jack Bull 6.5 Movie

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