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Owen Wilson being awesome with his adorable son and also his 10 best performances in film

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The apple doesn't fall far from the Wilson tree when it comes to looks. Actor Owen Wilson was snapped last night playing with his son Robert, who looks just like his old man.

Out for a family dinner with Owen’s ex-wife Jade Duell, Robert had a ball running around with dad’s mobile phone in hand.

Once Owen caught up with him, the little guy got a big hug from dad and was then gently tossed in the air, providing the perfect moment for these happy snaps.


As the pictures show, Owen and Robert share an uncanny resemblance - the same Wilson eyes and shock of blonde hair.

This doting dad has been a bit reclusive lately, so it’s great to see him out and about with the family.

Today, November 18, Owen Wilson celebrates his 45th birthday. Raised in Dallas, Texas, Wilson was expelled from the private high school he attended with his brother, Luke. He then attended military school in New Mexico and later, the University of Texas in Austin. There he met aspiring filmmaker Wes Anderson, and the rest is history. Since breaking through with his role in Bottle Rocket, Wilson quickly became one the most popular comedic actors in Hollywood. He never got too big to work with his original collaborator, however, and the two will team up once again in The Grand Budapest Hotel, currently in production.

In honor of Wilson’s birthday, we’ve compiled our list of his 10 greatest roles. Take a look below and let us know what you think.


10. Lieutenant Chris Burnett in Behind Enemy Lines

Owen Wilson, action star? Yes indeed. In 2001’s underrated Behind Enemy Lines, Wilson plays a disgruntled Navy pilot who ends up, you guessed it, behind enemy lines after his plane is shot down during a routine reconnaissance run. With the help of an authority-bucking Gene Hackman, Wilson is eventually rescued before a Bosnian guerrilla army can catch him.


9. Francis Whitman in The Darjeeling Limited
After surviving a near fatal accident, Wilson’s character, Francis Whitman, decides to organzie a trip through India with his brothers with the ultimate goal to reconnect with their mother (Anjelica Huston). At first, his control over the trip is obsessive—he passes out laminated daily itineraries and orders food for his brothers— but eventually he learns to loosen up, let the journey play itself out and, as a result, he forms a deeper bond with his brothers.


8. Randolph Dupree in You, Me and Dupree
You, Me and Dupree sees Wilson with his hair at its longest and his acting style at its most laid back. Despite his aloofness, Dupree is one of Wilson’s wildest, most out-there characters, inadvertently reeking havoc on the new marriage of his best friend Carl (Matt Dillon) and Molly (Kate Hudson) after “temporarily” moving into their house.


7. Ned Plimpton in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
In The Life Aquatic, Wilson plays Ned Plimpton, an innocent, unassuming pilot for Air Kentucky who is the suspected son of the relatively brusque Steve Zissou (Bill Murray). Despite their disparate backgrounds, Ned tags along with his supposed father’s mission to kill a tigershark, setting the stage for a boat ride full of classic Wes Anderson familial dysfunction.


6. Hansel in Zoolander
Zoolander was a landmark comedy in 2001, and Wilson was front and center as Hasel, Derek Zoolander’s modeling nemesis who cares more about what bark is made out of and idolizing Sting (not for his music, but for the fact the he’s out there doing it) than his rivalry with Ben Stiller’s Zoolander. Eventually, the two supermodels team up to bring down Mugatu (Will Ferrell), after he brainwashes Zoolander with the Frankie Goes to Hollywood song “Relax.”


5. John Beckwith in Wedding Crashers
Along with Old SchoolWedding Crashers was one of the most quintessential “frat pack” movies of the ’00s. Wilson played the more sensitive crasher opposite the gregarious Vince Vaughn, who suffered at the hands of the psychotic Isla Fisher so that Wilson could pursue his dream girl, Rachel McAdams. Despite the best efforts of Christopher Walken and Bradley Cooper, however, both crashers end up getting their girls.


4. Kevin Rawley in Meet the Parents
Wilson only played a minor role in Meet the Parents and its sequels, but his character of the all-too-perfect Kevin Rawley, Pam’s ex-boyfriend, is one of the film’s most hilarious roles, especially when pitted against the bumbling Ben Stiller. Plus, it only took him 70 hours to carve a wedding altar by hand from a single piece of wood.


3. Gil Pender in Midnight in Paris
Gil Pender, a Hollywood screenwriter going through a mid-life crisis, is a role seemingly tailor-made for Wilson to play—wide-eyed, in over his head, dressed in khaki and romantically involved with Rachel McAdams. Although it’s hard to hold the wide-eyed and in-over-his-head parts against him; he diddiscover a time portal to the Jazz Age.


2. Eli Cash in The Royal Tenenbaums
Although he co-wrote it, Wilson did not appear in Wes Anderson’s second film, Rushmore. The duo reunited a few years later, however, for The Royal Tenenbaums, with Wilson again co-writing and appearing as Eli Cash, the drug-addled, Cormac McCarthy-style novelist and wannabe Tenenbaum who has an affair with Gwenthy Paltrow’s character, Margot. He also helps bring the discordant Tenenbaums together again when he crashes Etheline’s wedding (literally) by running his sports car into the side of the building while wearing face paint. Did we mention he was drug-addled?


1. Dignan in Bottle Rocket
Wilson’s first role was also his best. After meeting Wes Anderson at the University of Texas, the two teamed up to write Bottle Rocket, a cult classic about two outcast friends trying to distance themselves from their roots. Starring opposite his real-life brother, Luke, Owen inhabited all of Dignan’s insecurities en route to masterminding an ill-fated heist of a cold-storage facility.

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Little Robert is so cute also It's Owen's birthday today

Source for first article: http://entertainment.msn.co.nz/blog.aspx?blogentryid=1067240&showcomments=true
Source for second article: http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/11/the-10-best-owen-wilson-performances.html

kknee13 18th-Nov-2012 04:59 pm (UTC)
but but

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superdogbiter 18th-Nov-2012 05:02 pm (UTC)
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bbbitchface 18th-Nov-2012 05:10 pm (UTC)
comalies 18th-Nov-2012 05:11 pm (UTC)
Stawp. I've never even seen this movie and I want to cry.
pieisgood08 18th-Nov-2012 05:13 pm (UTC)
I only watched this movie once and that was enough. Oh my lord the tears.
die2nitelive4ev 18th-Nov-2012 05:15 pm (UTC)
WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!!

Family dog was exactly like Marley even his attitude and he went down the same way, that movie is banned for our house
mynamehere07 18th-Nov-2012 05:22 pm (UTC)
fraubluecher 18th-Nov-2012 07:45 pm (UTC)
He's so good! Can't stop watching.
mmbien 18th-Nov-2012 05:24 pm (UTC)
i love animals and have cried a lot at various films/documentaries, but this film was utter shite. didn't feel a thing.
midsummerain 18th-Nov-2012 05:38 pm (UTC)
I haven't seen this movie. I had a hard enough time getting through the book because I was having flashbacks to the sad parts of my dogs getting older and eventually dying. I want to watch the movie but I know that my tears will be uncontainable, so I will need to do it at a time when I feel like crying. :o
anna_bea2 18th-Nov-2012 05:40 pm (UTC)
nonononononnooooooo
nullteiler 18th-Nov-2012 05:40 pm (UTC)
eeew dogs
thelovegetaway 18th-Nov-2012 05:41 pm (UTC)
ugh i haven't even seen this movie but I have a tear streaming down my cheek over this gif
weasleyswit 18th-Nov-2012 05:58 pm (UTC)
I watched this movie by myself, and I'm so glad I did. I was crying so hard while I cuddled with my dog. It was bad.
eulalia_vox 18th-Nov-2012 06:40 pm (UTC)
Oh... pardon me, I have to go weep in a corner now. :'[
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