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Eyewear in Movies

Titlesort icon Year Genre Director More information
681 Southland Tales 2006 comedy; sf; thriller Richard Kelly

- Nora Dunn wears blue plastic ovals in the role of Cyndi Pinziki.
682 Speedy 1928 comedy Ted Wilde

Harold Lloyd in his signature round eyewear as Harold - Speedy - Swift.
683 Spellbound 1945 thriller Alfred Hitchcock

Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen.
684 Spider-man 2001 fantasy Sam Raimi

Tobey Maguire (as Peter Parker / Spider-man) in black plastic rimmed specs in a limited number of scenes.
685 Spider-Man 2 2004 action; crime; sf Sam Raimi

Tobey Maguire wears black plastic glasses in some scenes where his character is in Peter Parker mode.
686 Spieler 1990 drama Dominik Graf

Peter Lohmeyer as Jonathan "Jojo".
Reviewer Michael Althen* has pointed out the symbolic meaning of Jonathan's glasses.

*in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, München, 03./04.11.1990
687 Spirit, The 2008 action Frank Miller

There is a teaser poster with Scarlett Johansson in a stylish fifties cat eye frame. Her character is called Silken Floss.
688 Splinter 2008 horror Toby Wilkins

Paulo Costanzo as Seth Belzer in a small wire frame (probably semi-rimless).
689 Spy Next Door, The 2010 action; comedy Brian Levant

Jackie Chan sporting brown plastic eyewear as Bob Ho.
690 Sssssss 1973 horror; sf Bernard L. Kowalski

The main character falls in love with the nearsighted daughter of a mad scientist.
691 Stanno tutti bene 1990 drama Giuseppe Tornatore

Marcello Mastroianni wears thick plus glasses as Matteo Scuro, a retired man who travels through Italy to find out how his grown-up offspring is doing.
692 Star Is Born, A 1937 drama William A. Wellman

Jed Prouty in a small role as the journalist Artie Carver wears perfectly round black rimmed glasses. The character features in a short telephone conversation where he tries to convince the male lead to use his influence on the female lead to grant Carver an interview.
693 Stargate 1994 sf Roland Emmerich

James Spader is the bespectacled Egyptologist Daniel Jackson who succeeds at deciphering the code on an archeological artifact. This turns out to be a stargate. Next he joins a group of military people who enter the gate. Soon the company members realize that they are stuck in an alien civilization reminiscent of ancient Egypt. The scientist will find himself standing up against the evil sungod Ra and falling in love with one of the local beauties. In general this movie received poor reviews by the critics.
694 State and Main 2000 comedy; drama David Mamet
695 Statement, The 2003 drama Norman Jewison

Michael Caine as Pierre Brossard in simple polished steel eyewear with a single bridge.
Also on the movie poster.
696 Steel Magnolias 1989 drama Herbert Ross

Daryl Hannah wears plus glasses as Annelle, though not all the time.
697 Stepford Wives, The 2004 comedy; fantasy; sf; thriller Frank Oz

Bette Midler as Bobbie Markowitz in metal half rims.
698 Stranger at the Door 2004 crime; thriller Douglas Jackson

Dean Hagopian in a small supporting role as Maynard Zell, a friend of the story's central family who lives near and looks after their country cottage.
Made for TV.
699 Straw Dogs 1971 thriller Sam Peckinpah

Dustin Hoffman as mathematician David Sumner. The film poster featuring Hoffman with broken glasses is well-known.
700 Straw Dogs 2011 thriller Rod Lurie

- James Marsden sports oval steel rims in the part of screenwriter David Sumner. Remake of the 1971 movie with Dustin Hoffman.
- At the time of writing this, the movie has not been released yet. Inclusion based on stills.