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Eyewear in Movies

Titlesort icon Year Genre Director More information
161 Danny Roane: First Time Director 2006 comedy Andy Dick

- Andy Dick as the title character. Also in movie poster.
162 Dark Knight, The 2008 action; crime Christopher Nolan

Gary Oldman as James Gordon.
163 Dark Water 2005 drama; horror Walter Salles

Tim Roth wears browline glasses with plus lenses as the main character's lawyer, Jeff Platzer.
164 Dark, The 2005 horror John Fawcett

Something lands into the water. It must be a person as you see a pair of glasses gently gliding towards the bottom. One of the lenses is broken. There's a suitcase too. These are the first moments of the movie.
Not that much further in the movie, the female lead finds the glasses and a fragment of a jaw bone washed on the beach.
You have to watch the movie yourself to find out what has happened.
165 Darkman 1990 action; crime; romance Sam Raimi

In his lab the scientist Peyton Westlake aka Darkman (part by Liam Neeson) is seen handling black plastic eyewear.
Nelson Mashita sports wire rims as the scientist's assistant Yakitito.
Ted Raimi is the thug Rick in wire rims.
166 Das alte Haus 2012 drama Markus Welter

One still with character in 80-style stainless steel rimmed glasses with double bridge.
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167 Das kann doch unseren Willi nicht erschüttern 1970 comedy Rolf Olsen

German comedian Heinz Erhardt as the title character in a black plastic frame.
168 Date Night 2010 comedy; romance; thriller Shawn Levy

Tina Fey in plastic glasses as the female lead Claire Foster.
169 Date Night 2010 comedy, crime Shawn Levy

- Tina Fey as Claire Foster wears glasses in some scenes.
- Steve Carell as her husband, Phil Foster.
Notes based on trailer and clips.
170 Dave 1993 comedy; romance Ivan Reitman

Kevin Kline wears modified oval glasses in the roles of Dave Kovic and Bill Mitchell.
171 David & Fatima 2008 drama Alain Zaloum

Tony Curtis with reading glasses Mr. Schwartz.
Martin Landau as Rabbi Schmulic.
172 Day at the Races, A 1937 comedy Sam Wood

Groucho Marx as Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush.
Haven't seen this movie yet. Inclusion in this list based on one still and poster artwork.
173 Dead Man 1995 western Jim Jarmusch

Haven't seen this film yet. Note based on stills.
Johnny Depp wears round metal rimmed glasses without nose pads as the character William Blake.
174 Dead Ringers 1988 drama; horror David Cronenberg

- Jeremy Irons as the twin gynecologists Beverly Mantle and Elliot Mantle.
- This role won Irons the 'New York Film Critics Circle Award' for best actor (1988), the 'Chicago Film Critics Association Award' for best actor (1989), the 'International Fantasy Film Award' for best actor (Fantasporto - 1989) and the 'Genie Award' for "Best performance by an actor in a leading role" (1989).
175 Death at a Funeral 2007 comedy Frank Oz

Not quite the eyewear movie.
Peter Dinklage plays the dwarf Peter. He puts on rimless glasses once or twice for reading.

Thomas Wheatley as the Reverend is briefly seen holding a pair of elaborate half-rim glasses.
176 Death at a Funeral 2010 comedy Neil LaBute

- One unidentified black actor in plastic glasses.
177 Death Becomes Her 1992 comedy; fantasy Robert Zemeckis

- Bruce Willis in browline glasses as Dr. Ernest Menville. This part yielded Willis a Saturn (1993) for best actor.
- Sydney Pollack in a cameo as E.R. doctor wears metal rimmed glasses with brow bar (i.e. double bridge) and presumably his own prescription.
- Unidentified actor in plastic aviators with brow bar.
178 Deconstructing Harry 1997 comedy; drama; fantasy Woody Allen

Woody Allen in his trademark black plastic glasses as the title character.
179 Deep Freeze 2003 horror John Carl Buechler

David Millbern as professor Ted Jacobson wears rimless glasses (minus lenses).
The same goes for David Lenneman as computer wiz "Update".

Rebekah Ryan wears rimless glasses as well. She is Kate, a slender redhead post grad.

Also available on DVD in the USA as "Ice Crawlers"
180 Definitely, Maybe 2008 comedy; romance Adam Brooks

Found one still of Rachel Weisz in glasses as Summer Hartley. No other such stills. No glasses in the trailer I caught.