From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. He has written several award-winning novels, including A Drink Before the War and the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. Another novel, Gone, Baby, Gone, was also adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film. His novel Shutter Island was adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese in 2010. Lehane is a graduate of Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Lehane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Biography from TMDB.
- August 4, 1965 (61)
- Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Writer and producer
- 12 on MovieCove · 17 credits in all
What are Dennis Lehane's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 4
Grounded 3 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 2
A split, not a type: Steady 1 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 2
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 2
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 4
Resolved 1 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Dennis Lehane's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 9 of their 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on HBO Max (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Dennis Lehane's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
17 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page; 4 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Smoke(2025)
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows
Black Bird(2022)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Another Country(2022)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
The Outsider(2020)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all showsGone Baby Gone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Mr. Mercedes(2017)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
Live by Night(2016)
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films
The Drop(2014)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Boardwalk Empire(2010)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
Shutter Island(2010)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Gone Baby Gone(2007)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Mystic River(2003)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
The Wire(2002)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
American Playhouse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)
A Bostonian (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
American Son (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Colt (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 16 titles, 13 of them dated from 1982 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Dennis Lehane's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 90th percentile, the median of all 6; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 90th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up10
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 12 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved6
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Broadly Agreed1
Reviewers score the dialogue 64/100 and the plot and story 53/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Dennis Lehane's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.