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Home Alone

Home Alone (1990) more movies like this

directed by Chris Columbus
featuring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard

Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he realizes they've left him "home alone," he learns to fend for himself and, eventually has to protect his house against two ...

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) more movies like this

directed by Chris Columbus
featuring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard

John Hughes and Chris Columbus repeat their best-selling formula from the first Home Alone film with this sequel. Once again Kevin McCallister's (Macaulay Culkin) family leave him behind, only now he gets on a flight to New York instead of going with his family to Miami. Kevin manages to hail a cab and is delivered to the doorsteps of the Plaza ...

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Awakenings

Awakenings (1990) more movies like this

directed by Penny Marshall
featuring Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller

Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, ...

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The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief (1993) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn

Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), served as Callahan's mentor. When Callahan shares ...

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Beaches

Beaches (1988) more movies like this

directed by Garry Marshall
featuring Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan

Based on a novel by Iris Rainer Dart, Beaches traces the 30-year oil-and-water friendship between free-spirited Bronx Jew CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and uptight San Francisco WASP Hillary Essex (Barbara Hershey). The two meet as children in Atlantic City (played by Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds) and are reunited in the 1960s, when CC is a struggling ...

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Big

Big (1988) more movies like this

directed by Penny Marshall
featuring Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, John Heard, Jared Rushton, Robert Loggia

More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by Tom Hanks). Still a 13-year-old mentally and ...

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The Milagro Beanfield War

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) more movies like this

directed by Robert Redford
featuring Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon, John Heard, Chick Vennera

It's advisable to know from the beginning of The Milagro Beanfield War that "milagro" is the Spanish word for "miracle". The scene is a rundown Hispanic community in New Mexico, bordering a posh housing development. In full control of the local water rights, the powers-that-be are secure in the belief that they'll be able to expand their ...

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White Chicks

White Chicks (2004) more movies like this

directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans
featuring Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Jaime King, Frankie R. Faison, Lochlyn Munro, John Heard

When brothers and fellow FBI agents Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans) accidentally ruin an otherwise painstakingly executed drug bust, getting back into the good graces of their boss becomes a high-priority assignment in itself. With this in mind, Marcus and Kevin take on a case far beneath their usual standards when they ...

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Deceived

Deceived (1991) more movies like this

directed by Damian Harris
featuring Goldie Hawn, John Heard, Robin Bartlett, Ashley Peldon, Tom Irwin

Goldie Hawn delivers a surprisingly understated performance (allowing the audience to shift their laughter from the usually comic Hawn to the unbelievable storyline) in the unsuccessful thriller Deceived. Hawn plays Adrienne Saunders, a successful art restorer who is married to Jack (John Heard), a devoted husband who is also an expert in the ...

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Heaven Help Us

Heaven Help Us (1985) more movies like this

directed by Michael Dinner
featuring Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon

Charles Purpura scribed this semi-autobiographical tale about his experiences in a Brooklyn Catholic school of 1965 which suffers from the film's inability to decide whether it wants to be a sketch of the Catholic school experience or another version of Animal House. The film focuses on several Catholic school boys who get into ever increasing ...

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The Trip to Bountiful (1985) more movies like this

directed by Peter Masterson
featuring Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay

Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son (John Heard) and daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), elderly Geraldine Page wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, Page boards a ...

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Cat People (1982) more movies like this

directed by Paul Schrader
featuring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee

In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of sacrificial, mystical union between panthers and an ancient tribe of humans. Flash forward to 1980's New Orleans, where waifish Irina (Natassja Kinski) meets her older brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), a minister, for the ...

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Mindwalk (1991) more movies like this

directed by Bernt Amadeus Capra
featuring Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye, Emmanuel Montes

A fictionalized depiction of the ecological and holistic teachings of the philosopher Fritjof Capra filmed by his brother Bernt, Mindwalk consists almost entirely of the verbal interplay between its three archetypal characters, physicist Sonia (Liv Ullmann), conservative politician Jack (Sam Waterston), and poet Thomas (John Heard). The trio meet ...

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My Fellow Americans (1996) more movies like this

directed by Peter Segal
featuring Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, John Heard, Everett McGill, Sela Ward

In this comedy, Russell P. Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner) are two former U.S. Presidents who sit on opposite sides of the political fence. Kramer is a stuffy Republican reluctant to part with a dollar, while Douglas is a left-leaning Democrat with an eye for the ladies. Douglas succeeded Kramer in office after a single term, ...

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One Eight Seven (1997) more movies like this

directed by Kevin Reynolds
featuring Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Tony Plana

A dedicated educator loses his passion for teaching as he struggles to survive in this tense urban drama. Trevor Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is a science teacher trying to make a difference in a tough Brooklyn high school, but he faces an uphill battle against students more interested in gang battles than education and an administration that won ...

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The Package (1989) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Davis
featuring Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, John Heard, Dennis Franz

The Package, a thriller involving political assassination and intrigue, is an excellent action feature using a familiar theme and providing good performances by the cast. Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) is a prisoner entrusted to Gallagher (Gene Hackman) for transportation back to the United States. Boyette escapes and Gallagher must find him. In doing ...

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The Seventh Sign (1988) more movies like this

directed by Carl Schultz
featuring Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow, Manny Jacobs, Peter Friedman, John Heard

This horror thriller is based upon the final chapter of the Bible and centers upon Abby Quinn, a pregnant woman living in Venice, California who leases her garage apartment to mysterious David, who seems to be trying to claim the soul and the life of her unborn child. Little does she knows that he is Christ incarnate and has come to open each of ...

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Rambling Rose (1991) more movies like this

directed by Martha Coolidge
featuring Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Heard

Rambling Rose is the most part a flashback, related by grown-up Southerner Buddy Hillyer (John Heard). The bulk of the film takes place in 1935, when rambunctious backwoods housekeeper Rose (Laura Dern) virtually invades the Hillyer household. Daddy Hillyer (Robert Duvall), a bed-rock Southern gentleman, welcomes the congenitally amoral but ...

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Snake Eyes (1998) more movies like this

directed by Brian De Palma
featuring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw

Brian DePalma directed this taut thriller, set in Atlantic City, where a corrupt cop investigates a political assassination. Outside an Atlantic City arena-hotel-casino, a TV news reporter stands in a pre-hurricane storm to report on the heavyweight boxing match about to begin inside. A transition to the stadium interior focuses on Atlantic City ...

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C.H.U.D. (1984) more movies like this

directed by Douglas Cheek
featuring John Heard, Kim Greist, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, George Martin

People are disappearing all over the Big Apple. Nobody cares, though, because most of the missing are homeless. But when investigative reporter Murphy (J.C. Quinn) tips off principled photographer George Cooper (John Heard) to a government conspiracy involving the dumping of nuclear waste beneath the streets, Cooper decides to dig a little deeper. ...

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Radio Flyer (1992) more movies like this

directed by Richard Donner
featuring Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Adam Baldwin, Ben Johnson

Two brothers are the victims of their widowed mother's violent drunkard husband who spares no rod with the youngest brother. Reverting to a world of make-believe, they imagine that their Radio Flyer wagon can fly and that in it they can escape their tormenting stepfather. This film deals in an almost make-believe manner with the serious issue of ...

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Monday Night Mayhem (2002) more movies like this

directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
featuring John Turturro, John Heard, Kevin Anderson, Nicholas Turturro, Brad Beyer

Just as Jon Voight's on-target portrayal of controversial sportscaster Howard Cosell) in the 2002 biopic Ali was making the theatrical rounds, actor John Turturro offered his own spin on "Humble Howard" in the made-for-cable movie Monday Night Mayhem. Based on the book by Bill Carter and Marc Gunther, the film chronicles the creation of ABC ...

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Tracks (2004) more movies like this

directed by Peter Wade
featuring Chris Gunn, Ice-T, John Heard, Mark Bendo

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Betrayed (1988) more movies like this

directed by Costa-Gavras
featuring Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair, John Mahoney

Set in the American South, Betrayed stars Debra Winger as an FBI agent who infiltrates a Klanlike white supremacist organization. Allegedly a woman of intelligence and perception, Winger throws caution and logic to the winds when she falls in love with local farmer Tom Berenger. Much to her surprise Berenger turns out to be the most rabid racist ...

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Cutter's Way (1981) more movies like this

directed by Ivan Passer
featuring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Anne Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott

After emigrating to the United States in 1969, Czech-born director Ivan Passer finally broke through to American audiences with his fourth film, a unique blend of mystery and social commentary. Cutter's Way is set in Santa Barbara, CA, a community of wealth and power. Its main characters, however, are among the town's have-nots: Richard Bone Jeff ...

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