 68% (3) Bad Times at the El Royale 141 min R [Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Drew Goddard] [12 Oct 2018]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, Metacritic: 60%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm Writer: Drew Goddard External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Circa 1969, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors - before everything goes to hell. Rotten Tomatoes: Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption... before everything goes to hell. Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson and Cynthia Erivo lead an all-star cast in BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE. 1 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  82% (2) Dream Big: Engineering Our World 42 min N/A [Documentary, Short] [Greg MacGillivray] [04 Sep 2017]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Christian Collier, Jeff Bridges, Jesus Cris Acosta, Steve Burrows Writer: N/A External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Narrated by Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges, DREAM BIG: Engineering Our World is a first film of its kind for IMAX® and giant screen theaters that will transform how we think about engineering. From the Great Wall of China and the world's tallest buildings to underwater robots, solar cars and smart, sustainable cities, DREAM BIG celebrates the human ingenuity behind engineering marvels big and small, and shows how engineers push the limits of innovation in unexpected and amazing ways. With its inspiring stories of human grit and aspiration, and extraordinary visuals for the world's largest screens, DREAM BIG reveals the compassion and creativity that drive engineers to create better lives for people and a more sustainable future for us all. DREAM BIG is a MacGillivray Freeman film produced in partnership with American Society of Civil Engineers and presented by Bechtel Corporation. Rotten Tomatoes: Narrated by Academy Award (R) winner Jeff Bridges, Dream Big: Engineering Our World is a first film of its kind for IMAX (R) and giant screen theatres that will transform how we think about engineering. From the Great Wall of China and the world's tallest buildings to underwater robots, solar cars and smart, sustainable cities, Dream Big celebrates the human ingenuity behind engineering marvels big and small, and shows how engineers push the limits of innovation in unexpected and amazing ways. With its inspiring stories of human grit and aspiration, and extraordinary visuals for the world's argest screens, Dream Big reveals the compassion and creativity that drive engineers to create better lives for people and a more sustainable future for us all. 2 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 78% (3) Only the Brave 134 min PG-13 [Action, Biography, Drama] [Joseph Kosinski] [20 Oct 2017]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 77%, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%, Metacritic: 72%, External Reviews Awards: 3 nominations. Actors: Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly, Josh Brolin, Miles Teller Writer: Sean Flynn (based on the GQ article 'No Exit' by), Ken Nolan, Eric Warren Singer External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire. Rotten Tomatoes: All men are created equal... then, a few become firefighters. Only the Brave, based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit of local firefighters that through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and our country become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the country. As most of us run from danger, they run toward it--they watch over our lives, our homes, everything we hold dear, as they forge a unique brotherhood that comes into focus with one fateful fire. 3 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  43% (3) The Only Living Boy in New York 89 min R [Drama] [Marc Webb] [11 Aug 2017]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, Rotten Tomatoes: 33%, Metacritic: 33%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Callum Turner, Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan Writer: Allan Loeb External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Adrift in New York City, a recent college graduate's life is upended by his father's mistress. Rotten Tomatoes: Thomas Webb (Callum Turner), the son of a publisher and his artistic wife, has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents' Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey. Thomas' world begins to shift when he discovers that his long-married father (Pierce Brosnan) is having an affair with a seductive younger woman (Kate Beckinsale). Determined to break up the relationship, Thomas ends up sleeping with his father's mistress, launching a chain of events that will change everything he thinks he knows about himself and his family. 4 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 87% (3) Hell or High Water 102 min R [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western] [David Mackenzie] [26 Aug 2016]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 97%, Metacritic: 88%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 42 wins & 157 nominations. Actors: Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Dale Dickey, Jeff Bridges, William Sterchi Writer: Taylor Sheridan External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: In Texas, after the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard is losing his ranch to the Texas Midlands Bank. Toby is divorced from his wife who lives with their two sons. When his brother Tanner Howard is released from the prison, they team up to rob agencies of the Texas Midlands Bank to raise money to pay the loan so that Toby may leave the real estate to his sons. Meanwhile the Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton who is near retirement and his Indian descendant partner Alberto Parker try to anticipate the next move of the thieves. Rotten Tomatoes: Texas brothers--Toby (Chris Pine), and Tanner (Ben Foster), come together after years divided to rob branches of the bank threatening to foreclose on their family land. For them, the hold-ups are just part of a last-ditch scheme to take back a future that seemed to have been stolen from under them. Justice seems to be theirs, until they find themselves on the radar of Texas Ranger, Marcus (Jeff Bridges) looking for one last grand pursuit on the eve of his retirement, and his half-Comanche partner, Alberto (Gil Birmingham). As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their scheme, and with the Rangers on their heels, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the values of the Old and New West murderously collide. 5 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  80% (3) The Little Prince 108 min PG [Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy] [Mark Osborne] [05 Aug 2016]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 77%, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%, Metacritic: 70%, External Reviews Awards: 5 wins & 12 nominations. Actors: Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams Writer: Irena Brignull (original screenplay by), Bob Persichetti (original screenplay by), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (based on 'Le Petit Prince' by) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: French, English Country: France Plot: From Mark Osborne comes the first-ever animated feature film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's iconic masterpiece, The Little Prince. At the heart of it all is The Little Girl, who's being prepared by her mother for the very grown-up world in which they live - only to be interrupted by her eccentric, kind-hearted neighbor, The Aviator. The Aviator introduces his new friend to an extraordinary world where anything is possible. A world that he himself was initiated into long ago by The Little Prince. It's here that The Little Girl's magical and emotional journey into her own imagination - and into the universe of The Little Prince - begins. And it's where The Little Girl rediscovers her childhood and learns that ultimately, it's human connections that matter most, and that what's truly essential can only be seen with the heart. Rotten Tomatoes: Kung-fu Panda director Mark Osborne teams with producers Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam for this animated take on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's beloved novella about a pilot (voice of Jeff Bridges) who crash lands in the Sahara desert and encounters a mysterious young boy who claims to be an extraterrestrial prince. James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro, and Paul Giamatti also lend their voices to this Onyx Films production. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi 6 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 32% (3) Seventh Son 102 min PG-13 [Action, Adventure, Fantasy] [Sergei Bodrov] [06 Feb 2015]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 55%, Rotten Tomatoes: 11%, Metacritic: 30%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Alicia Vikander, Ben Barnes, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore Writer: Charles Leavitt (screenplay), Steven Knight (screenplay), Matt Greenberg (screen story), Joseph Delaney (novel) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA, UK, Canada, China Plot: John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected his country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't? Should he trust the girl with pointy shoes? How can Thomas stand a chance against Mother Malkin, the most dangerous witch in the county? Rotten Tomatoes: In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more. Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch, Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance. Summoning her followers of every incarnation, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world. Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory. In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return. He has only until the next full moon to do what usually takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) to fight a dark magic unlike any other. Man's only hope lies in the seventh son of a seventh son. (c) WB 7 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  49% (3) The Giver 97 min PG-13 [Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi] [Phillip Noyce] [15 Aug 2014]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 35%, Metacritic: 47%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 6 nominations. Actors: Alexander Skarsgård, Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep Writer: Michael Mitnick (screenplay), Robert B. Weide (screenplay), Lois Lowry (book) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: South Africa, Canada, USA Plot: After The Ruin, a colorless equalitarian society is formed without memories and everyone follows rules established by the Chief Elder and the Elders. The population uses drugs to stay happy and on the day of the graduation, the teenagers leave their childhood and are assigned to a career chosen by the Elders. Jonas lives with his parents and has two best friends, Fiona and Asher, and he feels different from his friends. He is assigned to be the Receiver of Memories and he is trained by his mentor, The Giver, who gives memories of the world before The Ruin. Jonas learns emotions such as love and fear and the concept of family. When he discovers that the baby Gabriel that he loves as a brother will be eliminated, he decides to change his society but the Chief Elder will do anything to stop him. Rotten Tomatoes: The haunting story of THE GIVER centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver (Jeff Bridges), who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. With this newfound power of knowledge, he realizes that the stakes are higher than imagined - a matter of life and death for himself and those he loves most. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all - a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before. THE GIVER is based on Lois Lowry's beloved young adult novel of the same name, which was the winner the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. (C) Weinstein 8 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 31% (3) R.I.P.D. 96 min PG-13 [Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi] [Robert Schwentke] [19 Jul 2013]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 13%, Metacritic: 25%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker, Ryan Reynolds Writer: Phil Hay (screenplay by), Matt Manfredi (screenplay by), David Dobkin (story by), Phil Hay (story by), Matt Manfredi (story by), Peter M. Lenkov (comic book created by), Lucas Marangon (comic book) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: After Nick is murdered by his own partner, he joins the Rest in Peace Department to protect the world from the undeads. While working with his new partner, many undeads are seen gathering in Boston. Soon he realizes that someone close to him is behind all a plot to bring on the apocalypse. Rotten Tomatoes: Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds headline the 3D supernatural action-adventure R.I.P.D. as two cops dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. Veteran sheriff Roy Pulsifer (Bridges) has spent his career with the legendary police force known as R.I.P.D. tracking monstrous spirits who are cleverly disguised as ordinary people. His mission? To arrest and bring to justice a special brand of criminals trying to escape final judgment by hiding among the unsuspecting on Earth. Once the wise-cracking Roy is assigned former rising-star detective Nick Walker (Reynolds) as his junior officer, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, two of R.I.P.D.'s finest must miraculously restore the cosmic balance...or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way. (c) Universal 9 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  84% (3) True Grit 110 min PG-13 [Adventure, Drama, Western] [Ethan Coen, Joel Coen] [22 Dec 2010]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%, Metacritic: 80%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 10 Oscars. Another 37 wins & 153 nominations. Actors: Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon Writer: Joel Coen (screenplay), Ethan Coen (screenplay), Charles Portis (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with 'true grit,' Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her 'grit' tested. Rotten Tomatoes: Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father's killer into hostile Indian territory in Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Charles Portis' original novel. Sticking more closely to the source material than the 1969 feature adaptation starring Western icon John Wayne, the Coens' True Grit tells the story from the young girl's perspective, and re-teams the celebrated filmmaking duo with their No Country for Old Men producing partner Scott Rudin. Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi 10 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 82% (3) Crazy Heart 112 min R [Drama, Music, Romance] [Scott Cooper] [05 Feb 2010]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 90%, Metacritic: 83%, External Reviews Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 36 wins & 29 nominations. Actors: Anna Felix, Colin Farrell, James Keane, Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Herman Writer: Scott Cooper, Thomas Cobb (novel) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. Rotten Tomatoes: Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician. As he struggles down the road of redemption, Bad learns the hard way just how tough life can be on one man's crazy heart. 11 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  55% (3) TRON: Legacy 125 min PG [Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi] [Joseph Kosinski] [17 Dec 2010]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 50%, Metacritic: 49%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 49 nominations. Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde Writer: Edward Kitsis (screenplay), Adam Horowitz (screenplay), Edward Kitsis (story), Adam Horowitz (story), Brian Klugman (story), Lee Sternthal (story), Steven Lisberger (characters), Bonnie MacBird (characters) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 20 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant Quorra, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. Meanwhile, the malevolent program CLU, who dominates the digital world, plans to invade the real world and will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. Rotten Tomatoes: The Master Control Program is booted back up in this revamped Tron continuation that sees the return of original star Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, the brilliant computer programmer whose disappearance leads his son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), to search for him in and out of the computer world. Original director and co-writer Steven Lisberger produces the new film, which is helmed by commercial director Joseph Kosinski. James Frain, Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett, and Michael Sheen also star, with Bruce Boxleitner returning as Alan Bradley and Tron, the heroic protagonist of the original film. 12 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 57% (1) The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans 70 min NOT RATED [Documentary] [Eddie Chung] [01 Jan 2009]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Jeff Bridges, Jerry Haleva, Joe Blevins, Lu Elrod Writer: N/A External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans by director Eddie Chung, follows the intertwining lives and sub-culture of 'Achievers,' fans of 'The Big Lebowski.' Rotten Tomatoes: Don your most comfortable robe and slip on your favorite flip-flops for a casual visit to the first ever Big Lebowski festival. The year was 2002. Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt were vendors at a tattoo convention when they playfully began quoting lines from one of their favorite films, the Coen Brothers' comedy The Big Lebowski. Much to their surprise, Russell and Shuffitt weren't the only ones who seemed to know the movie by heart. Almost immediately, the laid back duo hatched the idea for the ultimate Big Lebowski tribute: assemble a large collection of die-hard fans in a typical bowling alley, and keep the White Russians flowing while the film played and everyone bowled to the heart's content. Over the course of the next five years, the festival caught on like wildfire, with Big Lebowski bashes being organized in bowling alleys around the world. Fortunately, filmmaker Eddie Chung had his camera rolling at just the right moment, and in this documentary he shows how a simple joke between friends became a global phenomenon. 13 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  55% (3) The Men Who Stare at Goats 94 min R [Comedy, War] [Grant Heslov] [06 Nov 2009]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 51%, Metacritic: 54%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Writer: Jon Ronson (inspired by the book), Peter Straughan (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Arabic Country: USA, UK Plot: A reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends. Rotten Tomatoes: Reporter Bob Wilton is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady, a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of 'Warrior Monks' with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy's thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program's founder, Bill Django, has gone missing and Cassady's mission is to find him. 14 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 83% (3) Iron Man 126 min PG-13 [Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi] [Jon Favreau] [02 May 2008]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 79%, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%, Metacritic: 79%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 65 nominations. Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard Writer: Mark Fergus (screenplay), Hawk Ostby (screenplay), Art Marcum (screenplay), Matt Holloway (screenplay), Stan Lee (characters), Don Heck (characters), Larry Lieber (characters), Jack Kirby (characters) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Persian, Urdu, Arabic, Hungarian Country: USA, Canada Plot: Tony Stark. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. Son of legendary inventor and weapons contractor Howard Stark. When Tony Stark is assigned to give a weapons presentation to an Iraqi unit led by Lt. Col. James Rhodes, he's given a ride on enemy lines. That ride ends badly when Stark's Humvee that he's riding in is attacked by enemy combatants. He survives - barely - with a chest full of shrapnel and a car battery attached to his heart. In order to survive he comes up with a way to miniaturize the battery and figures out that the battery can power something else. Thus Iron Man is born. He uses the primitive device to escape from the cave in Iraq. Once back home, he then begins work on perfecting the Iron Man suit. But the man who was put in charge of Stark Industries has plans of his own to take over Tony's technology for other matters. Rotten Tomatoes: Billionaire industrialist and genius inventor Tony Stark is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man. 15 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  70% (3) Surf's Up 85 min PG [Animation, Comedy, Family, Sport] [Ash Brannon, Chris Buck] [08 Jun 2007]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 79%, Metacritic: 64%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 17 nominations. Actors: Jeff Bridges, Jon Heder, Shia LaBeouf, Zooey Deschanel Writer: Don Rhymer (screenplay by), Ash Brannon (screenplay by), Chris Buck (screenplay by), Christopher Jenkins (screenplay by), Christopher Jenkins (story by), Christian Darren (story by), Diego Garzon (story editor) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: This story follows a teenage rock hopper penguin named Cody Maverick from his hometown of Shiverpool, Antarctica, where all of the other penguins think he's nothing but a surfing fool, to the 'Big Z Memorial Surf Off' on Pen Gu Island. Young Cody is determined to win the most important competition in the world of penguin surfing in honor of 'Big Z,' a deceased surfing legend whom he has idolized since childhood. But the waves in Pen Gu are different than in Shiverpool, and the competition is steep. The current champ, egotistical Tank Evans, isn't just about to let this little penguin knock him from first place without a fight. When Cody wipes out and encounters Geek, a recluse aging former surfer, living in the jungle, he learns some important lessons about life and surfing, and even teaches Geek a thing or two. Rotten Tomatoes: A 'mockumentary' on how penguins were actually the inventors of surfing, including behind-the-scenes footage from the Penguin World Surfing Championship. 16 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 49% (3) Stick It 103 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama, Sport] [Jessica Bendinger] [28 Apr 2006]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 31%, Metacritic: 53%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, Nikki SooHoo, Vanessa Lengies Writer: Jessica Bendinger External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: Germany, USA Plot: Haley Graham is a former gymnast-turned-juvenile delinquent who, after one too many run-ins with the law, is forced to enroll at an elite gymnastics academy, the VGA in Houston, Texas which is run by the legendary Olympic gymnast Burt Vickerman. But the rebellious Haley is not welcomed into the academy by the other teenage gymnasts who despise her for walking out on her Junior Olympic team years earlier during a competition which cost them the gold medal. But Haley is not a docile person either and makes every effort to provoke conflicts with the other girls. Vickerman takes it upon himself to coach Haley in his own way to make her regain her self respect for the VGA's coming spot on the Gymnastic Nationals. Rotten Tomatoes: Haley Graham is a rebellious 17 year-old who is forced to return to the regimented world of gymnastics after a run-in with the law. A judge sentences Haley to her ultimate nightmare -- attending an elite gymnastics academy run by legendary hardnosed coach Burt Vickerman. Haley's rebellious spirit and quick-witted banter quickly shakes things up at the strict school - making both close friends and bitter foes along the way. Haley surprises herself as she discovers an unexpected ally in the form of her new coach, and learns respect is a two-way street. Haley, Vickerman, and a group of his elite athletes band together to confront a major championship and prove that loyalty, friendships and individual athletes matter more than rules, judges or scores. 17 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  40% (3) Tideland 120 min R [Drama, Fantasy, Horror] [Terry Gilliam] [11 Aug 2006]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 31%, Metacritic: 26%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 11 nominations. Actors: Brendan Fletcher, Janet McTeer, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly, Jodelle Ferland Writer: Tony Grisoni (screenplay), Terry Gilliam (screenplay), Mitch Cullin (novel) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: UK, Canada Plot: Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads enter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens. Rotten Tomatoes: A young girl named Jeliza-Rose is transported to her grandparents' farm following her mother's drug overdose. Once there, she embarks on a fantastic voyage into a world of bog men and disembodied Barbie heads. 18 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 74% (3) Seabiscuit 140 min PG-13 [Drama, History, Sport] [Gary Ross] [25 Jul 2003]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 77%, Metacritic: 72%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 37 nominations. Actors: Chris Cooper, David McCullough, Elizabeth Banks, Jeff Bridges, Paul Vincent O'Connor, Tobey Maguire Writer: Laura Hillenbrand (book), Gary Ross (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: It's the Depression, and everyone needs to hold onto a dream to get them through the bad times. Car maker Charles Howard is no different, he who is trying to rebuild his life after the tragic death of his only child and the resulting end of his first marriage. With second wife Marcela at his side, Charles wants to get into horse racing and ends up with a team of underdogs who are also chasing their own dream. The first is trainer Tom Smith, who has a natural instinct to spot the capabilities of horses. The second is the horse Tom chooses for Charles, Seabiscuit, an unconventional choice as despite his pedigreed lineage, Seabiscuit is small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp. But Tom can see something in Seabiscuit's nature to make him a winner, if only Seabiscuit can be retrained from his inbred losing ways. And third is the jockey they decide to hire, Johnny 'Red' Pollard, so nicknamed because of his hair color. Like Tom, Red has always shown a natural way with horses, but a difficult upbringing due solely to the Depression has made Red an angry young man, which has gotten him into trouble both on and off the track. And he is large for a jockey, and thus he always feels the need to battle the weight issue. Another common trait between Tom, Seabiscuit and Red is that they have been called crazy by those in traditional horse racing circles. Against the odds, Seabiscuit, with his human team behind him, does show his winning abilities and captures the imagination of all those others wanting to believe in a dream. But Seabiscuit's victories are at smaller races. As such, Charles aims high and wants Seabiscuit to race Triple Crown winner War Admiral, who by all accounts is a winner and should be a winner. If given the chance to race against War Admiral (whose owner doesn't want to race as he feels he has nothing to prove), will Seabiscuit and his team continue to keep the dreams of the common Americans alive? Through the good and the bad, especially as Red and Seabiscuit face mirroring problems, they all have to decide what is in their collective best interest. Rotten Tomatoes: For his sophomore effort, director Gary Ross re-teams with Tobey Maguire and William H. Macy, stars of his directorial debut Pleasantville, for this depression-era sports drama about the legendary racehorse, Seabiscuit. Unlike 1949's fictionalized The Story of Seabiscuit starring Shirley Temple, this version attempts to present a factual account of the story, which centers around the three men who saw the famed horse to victory. Jeff Bridges stars as Charles Howard, an entrepreneur who owns the unlikely racehorse. Howard teams with partially blind boxer-turned-jockey Red Pollard (Maguire in his first performance since annihilating the 2002 box-office in Spider-Man) and horse trainer Tom Smith (Chris Cooper fresh off his best-supporting actor Oscar for Adaptation). Together, the three work to help the famed horse to several symbolic victories that helped to inspire a downtrodden 1930s America. The supporting cast, headed by Macy, includes Elizabeth Banks (Spider-Man) and real-life jockeys Gary Stevens and Chris McCarron. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi 19 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  37% (3) Masked and Anonymous 112 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama, Music, Western] [Larry Charles] [08 Aug 2003]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 55%, Rotten Tomatoes: 25%, Metacritic: 32%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, John Goodman, Penélope Cruz Writer: Bob Dylan, Larry Charles External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: UK, USA Plot: Against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of revolution, Uncle Sweetheart and Nina Veronica are slimy promoters planning a benefit concert. They desire the services of legendary singer Jack Fate, and soon Fate is sprung from jail. A rock journalist investigates the concert, attempting to determine just who will benefit. Revolution may be raging outside the arena, but Jack Fate and the benefit concert play on as planned. Rotten Tomatoes: Set somewhere, sometime in an unnamed country, torn by civil war with unclear battle lines, impresario Uncle Sweetheart is scheming to find a headliner for a benefit concert. The purpose of the concert is unclear and the charity that the profits go to is its promoter's pockets. Nina Veronica is the veteran TV producer whose job it is to make sure that the concert is an international spectacle--yet her task is impossible to achieve. And when Uncle Sweetheart manages to get the iconic cult star Jack Fate released from prison to perform, the stage is set for tumult. 20 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 80% (3) Lost in La Mancha 89 min R [Documentary] [Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe] [02 Aug 2002]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 94%, Metacritic: 74%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 11 nominations. Actors: Jeff Bridges, Johnny Depp, Philip A. Patterson, René Cleitman, Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni Writer: N/A External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, Spanish, French Country: UK, USA Plot: Director Terry Gilliam is the latest filmmaker to try and bring Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra's 'Don Quixote de la Mancha' to the big screen, the movie to be called The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Before filming even begins, Gilliam, who has moved from Hollywood studio to European financing, will have to scale back his vision as his budget has been slashed from $40 million to $32 million, still astronomical by European standards. But Gilliam is a dreamer, much like his title character, and his vision for the movie is uncompromising, meaning with the reduced budget that there is no margin for error and that some of his department heads may have to achieve miracles with their allotted moneys. During pre-production and actual filming, what Gilliam does not foresee is contractual and health issues with his actors, and the effects of Mother Nature. The question is does Gilliam have a Plan B if/when things go wrong. Rotten Tomatoes: A documentary that details and depicts the pre-production and the first six days of production of acclaimed director Terry Gilliam's ill-fated attempt to film 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' in late 2000. Piece by piece, the entire production ended up falling apart. A series of events conspire to shut down the project altogether: a severe storm washing away equipment; jet fighters interrupting the filming of the pivotal and somber Inquisition scene; and the star suffering a damaging back injury. Gilliam's decades-long dream to make a film based on Don Quixote came to a grinding halt--but it was all captured on film. Thus, what was expected to be, simply, a special documentary featurette--shown as part of the film's eventual DVD package--is now the basis of the film, itself. 21 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  54% (3) K-PAX 120 min PG-13 [Drama, Sci-Fi] [Iain Softley] [26 Oct 2001]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 41%, Metacritic: 49%, External Reviews Awards: 3 nominations. Actors: Alfre Woodard, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Mary McCormack Writer: Gene Brewer (novel), Charles Leavitt (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA, Germany Plot: PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. Rotten Tomatoes: A mysterious and extraordinary mental patient, named Prot, convinces both staff and fellow patients that he comes from a utopian planet called K-PAX. While his psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Powell, is baffled by this cheerfully confident man, Prot's description of life on a planet 1000 light years away awakens a sense of possibility among the other patients. The doctor gradually begins to witness this so-called alien having a remarkable effect on the mental health of the hospital's other patients. When Prot says he's going back before the summer ends, all the patients in the ward vie to go with him. As the days before Prot's announced departure from earth race by, Dr. Powell struggles with questions of science. Determined to prove the stranger is nothing more than a tragic victim of multiple personality disorder, the doctor soon finds himself doubting his own diagnosis. 22 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 68% (3) The Contender 126 min R [Drama, Thriller] [Rod Lurie] [13 Oct 2000]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 76%, Metacritic: 59%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 20 nominations. Actors: Christian Slater, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen Writer: Rod Lurie External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA, Germany, UK Plot: A political thriller about Laine Hanson, a senator who is nominated to become Vice President following the death of the previous office holder. During the confirmation process, Laine is the victim of a vicious attack on her personal life in which stories of sexual deviancy are spread. She is torn as to whether she should fight back, or stick to her high principles and refuse to comment on the allegations. Rotten Tomatoes: The hard-ball gamesmanship and casual character assassination of American politics sets the stage for this thriller from writer and director Rod Lurie. When the Vice President of the United States unexpectedly dies, all eyes in Washington D.C. are on President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) as he chooses a new VP. Sen. Jack Hathaway (William Petersen), a respected career politician enjoying a new swell of popularity after a well-publicized attempt to save a drowning woman, is expected to be Evans' choice, but instead he picks Sen. Laine Hanson (Joan Allen), a decision that raises eyebrows on both sides of the political fence. Veteran power broker Shelly Runyon (Gary Oldman) is vehemently opposed to Hanson's appointment, in part because the Democratic senator was once a Republican, and vows to do everything in his power to prevent her from being confirmed. Runyon and his staff start digging for dirt on Hanson, and soon make a surprising discovery -- her personal morality is called into question when it's alleged that she took part in a group sexual liaison while she was a college student. The Contender also stars Mike Binder as one of Hanson's advisors, Mariel Hemingway as an old friend with a surprising secret, Christian Slater as an ambitious congressmen assisting Runyon, and Philip Baker Hall as Hanson's father; it was the second feature from former film critic Rod Lurie. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi 23 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  37% (3) Simpatico 106 min R [Drama, Comedy, Crime] [Matthew Warchus] [04 Feb 2000]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 45%, Rotten Tomatoes: 25%, Metacritic: 41%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Catherine Keener, Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, Sharon Stone Writer: Sam Shepard (original play), Matthew Warchus (screenplay), David Nicholls (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: UK, France, USA Plot: As youths in Azusa, Vinnie, Carter, and Rosie pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big bucks on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Jump ahead twenty years, Carter and Rosie are married, successful racers in Kentucky about to sell their prize stallion, Simpatico. Vinnie is a drunk in Pomona. Vinnie decides to make a play for Rosie, lures Carter to California, steals his wallet and heads for Kentucky with the original blackmail material. Carter begs Vinnie's friend, a grocery clerk named Cecilia, to follow Vinnie and get the stuff back that he has in a box. Will she succeed? Rotten Tomatoes: Old rivalries lead to new betrayals in this Sam Shepard drama with comic undertones. Vinnie (Nick Nolte) and Carter (Jeff Bridges) have known each other for years, but their relationship has grown less than cordial. Many years ago, the two men, along with Vinnie's girlfriend Rosie (Sharon Stone), were making good money in a con game at a racetrack until Simms (Albert Finney), the local racing official, got wind of their ruse. Vinnie and Carter hatched a blackmail scheme that ended Simms' career and ruined his life. Years later, Vinnie is an alcoholic low-life who still makes a living from blackmail; Carter is now a successful horse breeder, married to Rosie, and Vinnie has incriminating information about him that he uses to get Carter to pay his living expenses. Carter gets a call from Vinnie one night as he's finalizing the sale of his prize-winning stallion Simpatico; Vinnie is in jail on a morals charge regarding a woman he's been seeing named Cecilia (Catherine Keener). Vinnie makes Carter an offer: if he comes to California to help him out of this mess, he'll hand off the documents that he's been using against him for years. Carter agrees, but when he arrives, it turns out that Vinnie's not in jail, Cecilia has filed no charges against him, and this is just part of a larger scam with Carter as its target. Director Matthew Warchus made his screen debut with this film; he also adapted the screenplay (in collaboration with David Nicholls) from the play by Sam Shepard. 24 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 66% (3) Arlington Road 117 min R [Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Mark Pellington] [09 Jul 1999]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, Rotten Tomatoes: 62%, Metacritic: 65%, External Reviews Awards: 5 nominations. Actors: Hope Davis, Jeff Bridges, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins Writer: Ehren Kruger External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: In suburban Reston, Virginia, George Washington University American History professor Michael Faraday is still mourning the death of his wife, FBI agent Leah Faraday, after three years. His inside knowledge of the agency colors what he teaches in his classes. Although on good terms with Leah's ex-partner, Whit Carver, and the agency in general, Michael wants the agency at least to acknowledge their responsibility in her death in the line of duty. Michael is moving on with his personal life, he being in a serious relationship with his former teaching assistant Brooke Wolfe. Although he likes Brooke, Michael and Leah's nine year old son, Grant Faraday, may not yet be quite ready for Brooke to be a permanent part of their lives. It is only in helping adolescent Brady Lang who he sees in medical distress that Michael meets his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang, Brady's parents. In the process, Michael and Brooke becomes friends with the Langs, as Grant and Brady become friends. However, the more time that he spends with them and catches discrepancies in their stories, Michael becomes suspicious that the Langs may not be everything they appear on the surface. As such, Michael, against Brooke's concerns of invasion of the Lang's privacy, begins his own investigation of Oliver in particular. What Michael discovers has serious national security implications, as well as possible life threatening dangers to him, Brooke and Grant. Rotten Tomatoes: In this taut thriller, Michael Faraday is a college professor whose wife, an FBI agent, was killed by members of an extremist right-wing terrorist group. When Michael becomes friendly with his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang, he begins to suspect that something isn't quite right. 25 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  55% (3) The Muse 97 min PG-13 [Comedy] [Albert Brooks] [27 Aug 1999]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 53%, Metacritic: 56%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations. Actors: Albert Brooks, Andie MacDowell, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone Writer: Albert Brooks, Monica Mcgowan Johnson External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical 'Zeus's Daughter' (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife (MacDowell) going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of Brooks, who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help. Rotten Tomatoes: Actor/writer/director Albert Brooks turns his satiric gaze on the film industry in this comedy about a screenwriter who has hit a rough patch. Steven Philips (played by Brooks) has enjoyed a celebrated career in Hollywood, but one day he has a meeting with his agent, who informs him his career is suddenly going nowhere. Steven quickly finds himself at the end of his rope and is unable to put a decent sentence on paper. Desperate, he hears that there's a bona fide muse in Hollywood, Sarah (played by Sharon Stone), who might be able to help with his problems. The writer contacts Sarah, hoping a good, stong dose of inspiration will get his career back on track. However, Sarah's late hours and endless demands don't do much to help Steven's relationship with his wife (Andie MacDowell). The Muse features an original musical score by Elton John, and cameos by several notable film figures, including Martin Scorsese, Rob Reiner, and James Cameron. 26 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 78% (3) The Big Lebowski 117 min R [Comedy, Crime] [Joel Coen, Ethan Coen] [06 Mar 1998]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 81%, Rotten Tomatoes: 82%, Metacritic: 71%, External Reviews Awards: 4 wins & 17 nominations. Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German, Hebrew, Spanish Country: USA, UK Plot: When 'The Dude' Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude. Rotten Tomatoes: The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper from the Coen Brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) pivots around a case of mistaken identity complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot, and gallons of White Russians (made with fresh cream, please). In 1991, unemployed '60s refugee Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) grooves into his laid-back Los Angeles lifestyle. One of the laziest men in LA, he enjoys hanging with his bowling buddies, pompous security-store owner Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) and mild-mannered ex-surfer Donny (Steve Buscemi). However, the Dude's life takes an alternate route the afternoon two goons break into his threadbare Venice, California, bungalow, rough him up, and urinate on his living room rug. Why? Because Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara) is owed money by the wife of a certain Jeff Lebowski. However, the goons grabbed the wrong Jeff Lebowski. With the right info, they would have invaded the home of philanthropic Pasadena millionaire Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston). The Dude looks up his wealthy namesake, manages to get a replacement for his rug, and meets the millionaire's sexy young wife Bunny (Tara Reid). Later, Jeffrey ('The Big') Lebowski calls in the Dude to deliver a $1 million ransom for the return of his kidnapped wife. Fine -- except that Walter intrudes and botches the ransom drop. As events unravel, the Dude gets caught up in the schemes of Lebowski's daughter, erotic artist Maude (Julianne Moore), encounters both cops and bad guys, and drifts through an elaborate bowling fantasy sequence titled Gutterballs. The soundtrack includes Bob Dylan, Yma Sumac, Moondog, Captain Beefheart, and the Sons of the Pioneers. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi 27 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  60% (2) The Mirror Has Two Faces 126 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Barbra Streisand] [15 Nov 1996]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 56%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 9 nominations. Actors: Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall Writer: André Cayatte (screenplay 'Le Miroir a Deux Faces'), Gérard Oury (screenplay 'Le Miroir a Deux Faces'), Richard LaGravenese (screen story), Richard LaGravenese (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Rose and Gregory, both Columbia University professors meet when Rose's sister answers Gregory's 'personals' ad. Several times burned, the handsome-but-boring Gregory believes that sex has ruined his life, and has deliberately set out to find and marry a woman with absolutely no sex appeal. Greg thinks he's found what he's looking for in Rose, a plain, plump English Lit professor who can't compete with her gorgeous mother and sister. More out of mutual admiration and respect than love, Greg and Rose marry. Greg assumes that Rose understands that he is not interested in a sexual relationship. He's mistaken, and their marriage is nearly destroyed when Rose tries to consummate their relationship. While Gregory is out of the country on a lecture tour, Rose diets and exercises to transform herself into a sexy siren in a last-ditch attempt to save her marriage. Rotten Tomatoes: In this romantic comedy, middle-aged English professor Rose Morgan is homely and shy. Professor Gregory Larkin has had one failed romance too many and blames sex for his rotten luck. After hearing Rose praise chaste and courtly love to her class, Gregory enters a romantic but non-physical relationship with her. 28 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 59% (3) White Squall 129 min PG-13 [Adventure, Drama] [Ridley Scott] [02 Feb 1996]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%, Metacritic: 53%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Caroline Goodall, Jeff Bridges, John Savage, Scott Wolf Writer: Charles Gieg Jr. (book), Felix Sutton (book), Todd Robinson External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Danish, Spanish Country: USA, UK Plot: A true story about a group of American teenage boys who crew a school sailing ship to gain experience, discipline, or whatever their parents feel they lack. The voyage is a true adventure for them all but it has its downs as well as ups. Rotten Tomatoes: Based on a true incident from 1960, White Squall is the story of the tragic sinking of the Albatross, a prep school educational two-masted schooner, during a Caribbean storm. Screenwriter Todd Robinson wrote the script after meeting one of the tragedy's survivors, Chuck Gieg. In the film, Gieg (Scott Wolf) is the narrator. He and his fellow students, whose parents have paid handsomely for their schooling, which combines classroom work with real-life adventure, are introduced to their grizzled seafaring captain, Christopher Sheldon (Jeff Bridges). Gieg is initially skeptical of Sheldon's authority, but he gradually comes to see the captain as a model of manhood. The other boys aboard include Frank Beaumont (Jeremy Sisto), a self-absorbed snob; Dean Preston (Eric Michael Cole), a troublemaker and bully; Tod Johnston (Balthazar Getty), a returning student; and the naïve Tracy Lapchick (Ethan Embry). John Savage plays the pompous English teacher aboard the ship. Various incidents establish the boys' insecurities and relationships with the authorities -- and foreshadow their eventual fate. The killer squall comes up quietly but soon turns deadly, and the boys are forced to go beyond their privileged upbringings and deal with real danger. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi 29 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  49% (2) Wild Bill 98 min R [Action, Biography, Western] [Walter Hill] [01 Dec 1995]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Rotten Tomatoes: 39%, External Reviews Awards: 3 nominations. Actors: Diane Lane, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt Writer: Peter Dexter (book), Thomas Babe (play), Walter Hill (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Sioux, Cantonese Country: USA Plot: Wild Bill Hickok, famed lawman and gunman of the Old West, is haunted by his past and his reputation. He is loved by, but cannot love, Calamity Jane. Dogging his trail is young Jack McCall, who blames Bill for abandoning the boy's mother and destroying her life. McCall has sworn to kill Bill, and Bill's ghosts, his failing eyesight, and his fondness for opium may make McCall's task easier. Rotten Tomatoes: This film is the tale of how Wild Bill Hickok finally got his in Deadwood, but director Walter Hill tells the story in an unapologetically realistic fashion, laying to waste the glamourous legend of Wild Bill. Hill presents to the audience a stubborn, half-blind, drug-addicted Hickok who is harder to like. Terrific performances from everyone on board, especially David Arquette who is a standout. 30 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 47% (2) Blown Away 121 min R [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Stephen Hopkins] [01 Jul 1994]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 32%, External Reviews Awards: 2 nominations. Actors: Jeff Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, Suzy Amis, Tommy Lee Jones Writer: John Rice (story), Joe Batteer (story), Jay Roach (story), Joe Batteer (screenplay), John Rice (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Irish Country: USA Plot: Jimmy Dove works for the bomb squad in Boston and he is always the one who is on the tough jobs. One day he decides to quit the force and to become a teacher for the rookies of the squad. A few days later his former partner is killed by a bomb and Jimmy becomes suspicious that maybe this bomb could have been built by a former friend of himself. He begins to investigate and finds out that his worst nightmare has returned from his past. Rotten Tomatoes: Tommy Lee Jones and Jeff Bridges star respectively as a psychotic (but creative!) explosives expert and a bomb-disposal cop out to stop him in Boston. 31 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  79% (2) Fearless 122 min R [Drama, Thriller] [Peter Weir] [05 Nov 1993]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 7 nominations. Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce Writer: Rafael Yglesias (novel), Rafael Yglesias (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived. Rotten Tomatoes: Adapted by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias from his own novel, Fearless explores the complex struggle back to mental health of post-traumatic stress disorder victim Max Klein (Jeff Bridges). One of few survivors of a fatal plane crash, Klein remains calm and assists other survivors out of the burning debris, earning praise as a hero by the media. After stoically departing the tragedy without a word to emergency officials, Max returns home with detached feelings towards his wife (Isabella Rossellini) and son, along with a bizarre, seemingly authentic belief that he is now impervious to harm. Bill Perlman (John Turturro), a psychiatrist for the airline, fails to reach Max about his newfound fearlessness, but asks for his help in aiding Carla (Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee Rosie Perez), a fellow crash survivor filled with grief and guilt over the loss of her baby. In one of his earlier roles, Benicio del Toro plays a small part as Carla's boyfriend. 32 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 74% (2) American Heart 113 min R [Crime, Drama, Romance] [Martin Bell] [07 May 1993]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations. Actors: Edward Furlong, Greg Sevigny, Jeff Bridges, John Boylan Writer: Peter Silverman (story), Martin Bell (story), Mary Ellen Mark (story), Peter Silverman (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: After leaving jail, Jack Kelson wants to live a normal life. He rents a small flat, moves in with his son Nick and tries to get a steady job. But then a former friend steps into his life again. Rotten Tomatoes: Following up on Streetwise, his powerful documentary on the homeless kids of Seattle, director Martin Bell returned to that city for a dramatic feature. Nick Kelson (Edward Furlong) is a troubled teenager whose mother has been dead for many years; he spends much of his time with other throwaway kids roaming the city. When Nick's father Jack (Jeff Bridges) is released from a long stretch in prison, the father and child reunion is a bumpy one. Jack senses an obligation to his son but is trying to focus on taking responsibility for his own life before he can extend himself. Nick is wary of his father's criminal background, but he also craves the stability of a real home life. Aware that a return to the city whose mean streets spawned his criminal career might pull him back into his old ways, Jack talks about moving to Alaska to make a fresh start, but it's not clear if Nick is part of his plan. The film's unsentimental look at its characters always on the verge of backsliding didn't endear it to ticket buyers, but it was lauded by many critics for its honesty and for Bridges' strong performance, which won an Independent Spirit award. 33 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  53% (3) The Vanishing 109 min R [Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller] [George Sluizer] [05 Feb 1993]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, Rotten Tomatoes: 47%, Metacritic: 49%, External Reviews Awards: 2 nominations. Actors: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock Writer: Tim Krabbé (novel), Todd Graff (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Barney teaches chemisty, and is planning to abduct a woman. Despite methodical planning and countless trial runs he always manages to mess things up. Then Diane, who is traveling with her boyfriend Jeff, unwittingly makes herself an easy target. The story is mainly from Jeff's viewpoint, as he searches for Diane. Barney watches him. Rotten Tomatoes: After his girlfriend Saskia disappears at a rest stop, Rex spends the good part of three years searching for her. Finally, Saskia's abductor approaches Rex with promises of information, setting off a cat-and-mouse game that results in one of the most shocking endings of all time. 34 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 73% (3) The Fisher King 137 min R [Comedy, Drama, Fantasy] [Terry Gilliam] [27 Sep 1991]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%, Metacritic: 61%, External Reviews Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 34 nominations. Actors: Adam Bryant, David Hyde Pierce, Jeff Bridges, Paul Lombardi, Robin Williams Writer: Richard LaGravenese External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. Dejected and remorseful, the DJ strikes up a friendship with Parry, a former professor who became unhinged and then homeless after witnessing his wife's violent death in the bar shooting. The DJ seeks redemption by helping Parry in his quest to recover an item that he believes is the Holy Grail and to win the heart of the woman he loves. Rotten Tomatoes: Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his listeners. One fan in particular takes Jack's rants to heart and goes to a fancy restaurant with a gun, murdering innocent diners. Jack is so distraught at what his on-air suggestion wrought that he sinks into a three-year depression, drinking himself to sleep and mooching off of his girlfriend Anne Napolitano (Mercedes Ruehl, in an Oscar-winning performance), an attractive owner of a video store. Hitting bottom, Jack slumps to the river, prepared to commit suicide. To his rescue comes a crazed but witty homeless man named Parry (Robin Williams), who tells Jack he's destined for great things -- all his has to do is find the Holy Grail (conveniently located in mid-town Manhattan) and save Parry's soul. He also wants Jack to help him out with the woman of his dreams, Lydia Sinclair (Amanda Plummer), a shy type who works at a publishing company. Parry was once a university professor became unglued by a tragic event in his past; Jack soon realizes that to save himself, he first must save Parry. 35 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  57% (2) Texasville 123 min R [Drama] [Peter Bogdanovich] [28 Sep 1990]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, Rotten Tomatoes: 55%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Christiansen, Jeff Bridges, Jimmy Howell, Loyd Catlett, Pearl Jones, Timothy Bottoms Writer: Larry McMurtry (novel), Peter Bogdanovich (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: The summer of 1984: 32 years after Duane Jackson captained the high school football team and Jacy Farrow was homecoming queen, the small town of Anarene, Texas prepares for its bicentennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. People assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is 'tired in his mind,' causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age? Rotten Tomatoes: Texasville is Peter Bogdanovich's much-delayed sequel to The Last Picture Show. Adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel and told as a series of episodes, Texasville follows the characters from The Last Picture Show as they reunite in a small Texas town nearly 30 years after the end of the last movie, and face a number of adult problems, as well as confronting lingering emotions and memories from adolescence. 36 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 83% (3) The Fabulous Baker Boys 114 min R [Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance] [Steve Kloves] [13 Oct 1989]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%, Metacritic: 85%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 13 nominations. Actors: Beau Bridges, Ellie Raab, Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer Writer: Steve Kloves External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play in small clubs. They perform cover tunes of music standards and have never needed a day job. Times are changing and dates are becoming more difficult to get so they interview female singers. They finally decide on Susie Diamond, a former 'escort' who needs some refinement, but the act begins to take off again. While the act is now successful, both Frank and Jack have problems with their life on the road. Susie becomes the agent that makes them re-evaluate where they are going, and how honest they have been with each other. Rotten Tomatoes: Real-life siblings Beau and Jeff Bridges star as the eponymous Fabulous Baker Boys. Musical prodigies both, the Bakers have long been teamed as a twin-piano act, with the less talented Frank (Beau Bridges) coasting on the skills of his brilliant younger brother, Jack (Jeff Bridges). Their career dwindling to nickel-and-dime dates in second-rate clubs, the Bakers decide that they need a female vocalist to boost their popularity. They select auditioner Susie Diamond (Michelle Pfeiffer), who in addition to being a gifted songstress is drop-dead gorgeous. The newly renovated Baker Boys act scores a success, which is inevitably threatened by Susie's growing popularity and by Jack's insistence upon pursuing an affair with the girl. 37 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  54% (2) See You in the Morning 119 min PG-13 [Drama, Romance] [Alan J. Pakula] [21 Apr 1989]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, Rotten Tomatoes: 50%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Alice Krige, Drew Barrymore, Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges Writer: Alan J. Pakula External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance. Rotten Tomatoes: This film is a somewhat contrived pairing of two divorcees who are giving it a second go. They're up against considerable odds, however, because the children of each are not too pleased with their new 'parent.' Jeff Bridges stars as the husband and Alice Krige plays his second wife. 38 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 76% (3) Tucker: The Man and His Dream 110 min PG [Biography, Drama] [Francis Ford Coppola] [12 Aug 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 85%, Metacritic: 74%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 6 nominations. Actors: Frederic Forrest, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau Writer: Arnold Schulman, David Seidler External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Based on a true story. Shortly after World War II, Preston Tucker is a grandiose schemer with a new dream, to produce the best cars ever made. With the assistance of Abe Karatz and some impressive salesmanship on his own part, he obtains funding and begins to build his factory. The whole movie also has many parallels with director Coppola's own efforts to build a new movie studio of his own. Rotten Tomatoes: History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his investors' money and played fast and loose with ethics and legalities in the pursuit of his dream. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola isn't buying this: to hear Coppola tell it, Tucker was 'Mr. Smith Goes to Detroit,' a sincere visionary who tried and failed to buck the Big Three auto manufacturers. Moreover, he was a staunch defender of family values, as witness his inseparable relationship with his loyal wife (Joan Allen) and adoring children. It was for his family's sake, rather than any dreams of financial gain, that Tucker created the oddball three-headlight vehicle which he envisioned as the 'car of the future'. Naturally, the corporate fat cats of 1947 can't abide competition from a rugged individualist; thus, with several politicos in their pockets, they crush the Tucker and the man who built it. We'd have been more inclined to believe the story had Coppola adopted a straightforward Capraesque approach and not utilized all sorts of complicated camera trickery. Somehow, by presenting Tucker in so showoffy a directorial manner, the character comes off more as a sleight-of-hand artist than a bastion of sincerity. Even so, Jeff Bridges does a nice job as Tucker, as does Martin Landau as Tucker's incongruous business partner. Jeff's dad, Lloyd Bridges, appears in an uncredited role as a 'bought' senator. 39 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  50% (2) Nadine 83 min PG [Comedy, Mystery, Romance] [Robert Benton] [07 Aug 1987]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 55%, Rotten Tomatoes: 45%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Gwen Verdon, Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Rip Torn Writer: Robert Benton External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Working in an Austin, Texas, beauty parlour in 1954, Nadine Hightower endeavours to retrieve some 'art studies' she injudiciously had taken. Her visit to the photographer leaves him dead and her in possession of highly valuable plans of a proposed new road. With both the police and the murderous villains after her she enlists the help of her (almost) ex-husband Vernon, the none too successful owner of the Bluebonnet Bar. Fortunately the thugs are as much no-hopers as the Hightowers. Rotten Tomatoes: Set in Austin Texas in 1954, this comedy chronicles the exploits of a pregnant beauty operator who rushes to her almost ex-husband after she accidentally witnesses a murder. Though neither are endowed with an abundance of intelligence, the two manage to solve the case and protect her life before it is too late. 40 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 65% (2) The Morning After 103 min R [Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller] [Sidney Lumet] [25 Dec 1986]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, Rotten Tomatoes: 71%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Diane Salinger, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia Writer: James Cresson External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French Country: USA Plot: Alex Sternberg wakes up with a hangover and no memory of how she ended up in bed with a dead man. She flees, convinced that she has had another blackout and stabbed someone. Her only support, Turner, an ex cop and recovering alcoholic who is unsympathetic to her plight. She could believe that it is as simple as a violent act committed while drunk, except that the body keeps re-appearing. Rotten Tomatoes: In this excellent thriller, crisply directed by Sidney Lumet, Alex Sternbergen (Jane Fonda), a washed-up, alcoholic actress who never quite made it, wakes up one morning in an unfamiliar, luxurious loft apartment, only to find the corpse of a stranger next to her in bed. Alex can remember nothing of the night before. In a panic, she tries to flee but is unable to get a flight out of Los Angeles, and short of cash, she hitches a ride with Turner Kendall (Jeff Bridges), a disabled former policeman who happens to be fixing his car in the airport parking lot. Alex tries to get rid of Turner and returns to the loft which she cleans in a futile attempt to get rid of her finger prints. Turner continues to take an unappreciated interest in Alex and keeps turning up unexpectedly, much to her annoyance. Finally, desperate and on the run, and never sure that she didn't commit the murder, Alex allows Turner to help her. Alex also confides in and is helped by her ex-husband and friend Joaquin Manero (Raul Julia), the only man she completely trusts. Despite Alex's suspicion of Turner, she slowly falls in love with him. The movie quickly moves to a surprising conclusion, and creates a good deal of suspense, particularly when Alex is confronted with a corpse that just won't stay put. The highlight of the film is the performance by Jane Fonda reminiscent of her magnificent performance as Bree Daniels in Klute. The Morning After never rises to the quality of Klute, but Fonda's performance was strong enough to earn her an Oscar nomination. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi 41 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  28% (3) 8 Million Ways to Die 115 min R [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Hal Ashby] [25 Apr 1986]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, Rotten Tomatoes: 0%, Metacritic: 29%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Alexandra Paul, Jeff Bridges, Randy Brooks, Rosanna Arquette Writer: Lawrence Block (book), Oliver Stone (screenplay), R. Lance Hill (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage. During his recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, he meets a mysterious stranger who draws him back into a world of vice. In trying to help this beautiful woman, he must enter a crime-world of prostitution and drugs to solve a murder, while resisting the temptation to return to his alcohol abuse. Rotten Tomatoes: Jeff Bridges plays Matthew Scudder, an LA sheriff who loses his job due to his inability to stay away from booze. While attending an AA meeting, Scudder is invited to attend a party, where he meets the beauteous Sunny (Alexandra Paul). Also at the party is druggie Chance (Randy Brooks), an old enemy of Scudder's. It doesn't take long for Scudder to figure out that Chance is a pimp and Sunny is one of his hookers. She begs Scudder to help her break away from Chance. Not long afterward, Sunny is killed, and Scudder crawls back into the bottle. Eventually sobering up, he vows to avenge Sunny's death. Much blood is spilled before the killer is revealed; along the way, Scudder gets a new lease on life when he falls in love with ex-hooker Rosanna Arquette. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 42 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 73% (2) Jagged Edge 108 min R [Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Richard Marquand] [04 Oct 1985]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 82%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations. Actors: Dave Austin, Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Maria Mayenzet, Peter Coyote, Richard Partlow Writer: Joe Eszterhas External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn't handled a criminal case for many years. There's a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves. Rotten Tomatoes: When his wife is brutally murdered, San Francisco newspaper mogul Jeff Bridges is the prime suspect. High-priced defense lawyer Glenn Close takes the case, falling in love with Bridges in the process. Totally convinced of his innocence, Close earns Bridges an acquittal by producing surprise character witness Leigh Taylor-Young. Unfortunately, Close has allowed her heart to rule her head under the worst possible circumstances, as the film's slasher-movie finale proves. Though it starts with style and assurance, The Jagged Edge quickly descends into a mass of inconsistencies, cavernous plot holes, and neanderthal behavior on the part of the 'smartest' characters. Only Robert Loggia, as a no-nonsense private eye, emerges from this melange without egg on his face. 43 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  75% (3) Starman 115 min PG [Romance, Sci-Fi] [John Carpenter] [14 Dec 1984]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 84%, Metacritic: 71%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations. Actors: Charles Martin Smith, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Richard Jaeckel Writer: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to model 'himself' on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he is called, has a deadline to meet, and kidnaps Jenny in order to meet it. Rotten Tomatoes: Having crashed to Earth, an extraterrestrial space traveller must assume a human identity lest he be captured by the authorities. The alien (Jeff Bridges) chooses the likeness of the recently deceased husband of Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). At first dumbstruck, Jenny becomes both hostile toward and frightened of her guest. He gradually wins her confidence, learning a few vital English-language phrases so that he can explain his presence. The 'starman' has come to Earth with a message of peace, in response to the similar message sent out on Voyager One. He asks for Jenny's help in transporting him to the Nevada desert, where his fellow aliens are to pick him up and take him to his home planet. Soon he and Jenny form a united front against a mean-spirited National Security Council agent (Richard Jaeckel), who intends to seize the starman and turn him over for scientific scrutiny (and possible extermination). While en route to Nevada, Jenny grows closer to the gentle-natured Starman, eventually making love with him. By the time he is poised to leave, she is carrying his child, leaving the field wide open for a sequel--which was never produced, though a weekly TV version surfaced in 1986. 44 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 56% (3) Against All Odds 128 min R [Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller] [Taylor Hackford] [02 Mar 1984]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Rotten Tomatoes: 67%, Metacritic: 42%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations. Actors: Alex Karras, James Woods, Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward Writer: Eric Hughes, Daniel Mainwaring External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Terry Brogan, an aging football player in L.A., is cut early in the season; he needs money, so he takes a job from a shady friend of his, Jake Wise, to track down Wise's girlfriend, Jessie, who's somewhere in Mexico. She's also the daughter of a very wealthy land developer, who owns Terry's team. He heads for Cozumel, finds Jessie, and promptly falls in love with her. He thinks it's mutual, then without warning, she heads back to L.A. and Jake. What's going on with her, and what's the connection between Jake's hold on Jessie and the various politicians, lawyers, and environmentalists who seem to be converging on some sort of land deal? Terry keeps looking for answers. Rotten Tomatoes: Once past the pulse-pounding car-chase opening sequence of Against All Odds, sharp-eyed viewers will be able to figure out that this 1984 suspenser is a remake of the 1947 noir classic Out of the Past. Forced off the field due to a shoulder injury, football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) takes a job with crooked nightclub owner Jake Wise (James Woods). Brogan isn't fond of his new boss, but he isn't much better himself, having previously shaved points during a game at Wise's behest. When Wise's girlfriend Jessie Wyler (Rachel Ward) skips town with a great deal of money, Brogan is sent to fetch her back. Once in Mexico, Brogan and Wyler fall in love, weakening his resolve to go through with his job. When Brogan fails to carry out his orders, another of Wise's hired hands (Alex Karras) is sent out to retrieve both Brogan and Wyler. During a struggle, the thug is killed by Wyler, who for the first time in the film demonstrates that she isn't the victim of circumstance she pretends to be. Upon his return to the U.S. -- minus Wyler, who's taken another run-out powder -- Brogan becomes enmeshed in a shady Chinatown-like business deal involving Wise and a real-estate fat cat (Richard Widmark) -- who happens to be married to Wyler's mother. Like Past, Against All Odds is based on the Daniel Mainwaring novel Build My Gallows High, and Jane Greer, who played the Rachel Ward character in the earlier film, is here cast as Ward's mother. Phil Collins wrote and sang the Oscar-winning theme song. 45 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  76% (3) Cutter's Way 109 min R [Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Ivan Passer] [10 Feb 1982]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, Metacritic: 70%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 2 nominations. Actors: Ann Dusenberry, Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn Writer: Newton Thornburg (novel), Jeffrey Alan Fiskin (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Alex Cutter (Heard) came back from war minus an eye, a leg, and an arm and mad as hell. He lacks direction, drinks too much, and abuses his wife (Eichhorn). One night his friend Richard Bone (Bridges) witnesses someone dumping something in an alley; it turns out to be the body of a young girl. When Cutter hears about it, he embarks on a crusade to expose the killer, enlisting the help of the murdered girl's sister. Bone reluctantly joins them. Are they right or are they in search of their white whale? Rotten Tomatoes: When his close friend, a small-time hustler and drifter, is falsely accused of murder, disabled Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter reluctantly comes to his defense. This gritty drama depicts the mixed emotions of the alcoholic, alienated Cutter as he attempts to uncover the truth. 46 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 69% (3) The Last Unicorn 92 min G [Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy] [Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.] [19 Nov 1982]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, Rotten Tomatoes: 63%, Metacritic: 70%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Alan Arkin, Angela Lansbury, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes Writer: Peter S. Beagle (screenplay), Peter S. Beagle (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German Country: UK, France, West Germany, Japan, USA Plot: From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard... Rotten Tomatoes: A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns. 47 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  65% (3) TRON 96 min PG [Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi] [Steven Lisberger] [09 Jul 1982]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 71%, Metacritic: 58%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations. Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, David Warner, Jeff Bridges Writer: Steven Lisberger (screenplay), Steven Lisberger (story), Bonnie MacBird (story) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron to outmaneuver the Master Control Program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game. Rotten Tomatoes: A computer programmer is trapped in the game he's creating. 48 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 61% (1) Kiss Me Goodbye 101 min PG [Comedy, Fantasy, Romance] [Robert Mulligan] [22 Dec 1982]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: James Caan, Jeff Bridges, Paul Dooley, Sally Field Writer: Bruno Barreto (suggested by material from), Jorge Amado (suggested by material from), Charlie Peters (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancé Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories haunt her, but also Jolly's ghost, who doesn't approve of her new mate. Invisible to anyone but Kay, he tries to prevent the wedding. Rotten Tomatoes: Robert Mulligan directed this Americanized re-make of the successful Brazilian comedy Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Sally Field stars as Kay Villano, a lonely widow of three years who can't forget the memory of her dead husband, Jolly (James Caan). Jolly was a selfish and unfaithful Broadway choreographer who still managed to win Kay over with his charm. But Kay has fallen in love again with Rupert Baines (Jeff Bridges), a stuffy professor of Egyptology. As her wedding day approaches, Kay receives a visit from Jolly's ghost, who taunts and harasses her, clearly upset that Kay is marrying someone so dull. Kay goes ahead with the marriage and Jolly refuses to disappear, resulting in a bizarre menage-a-tois. 49 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  74% (2) Winter Kills 97 min R [Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [William Richert] [11 May 1979]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Jeff Bridges, John Huston Writer: Richard Condon (book), William Richert (written for the screen) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: 19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the clues that have been handed to him. As he progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern the real trails from the dead ends, and increasing dangerous as unknown parties try to stop Nick from uncovering the truth. Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Jeff Bridges stars as the scion of a powerful Kennedyesque family, who has done his best to make himself obscure after the assassination of his brother, the former President of the U.S. Bridges is introduced to a terminally ill gentleman who claims to have been 'the second assassin.' 50 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 50% (1) Somebody Killed Her Husband 97 min PG [Comedy, Crime, Mystery] [Lamont Johnson] [29 Sep 1978]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 50%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges, John Wood, Tammy Grimes Writer: Reginald Rose External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves. Rotten Tomatoes: A department-store clerk is having an affair with a beautiful married woman, whose husband soon enough turns up murdered, along with several others. The woman and the clerk decide to work together and solve the case themselves in this comedic mystery. 51 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  66% (2) Stay Hungry 102 min R [Drama, Comedy] [Bob Rafelson] [10 May 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, Rotten Tomatoes: 75%, External Reviews Awards: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination. Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bridges, R.G. Armstrong, Sally Field Writer: Charles Gaines (screenplay), Bob Rafelson (screenplay), Charles Gaines (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym 'Olympic', where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and falls in love with Joe's friend Marie-Tate. Rotten Tomatoes: This comedy drama centers on a blue-blooded Southerner's attempt to buy a popular gym as part of a crucial real estate bargain. As he gets to know the gym's patrons, he comes to see them and their working-class existence differently, especially after falling in love with a lower-middle class girl. 52 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 60% (2) King Kong 134 min PG [Adventure, Horror] [John Guillermin] [17 Dec 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Metacritic: 61%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Charles Grodin, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, John Randolph Writer: James Ashmore Creelman (based on the {1933} screenplay), Ruth Rose (based on the {1933} screenplay), Merian C. Cooper (from an idea conceived by), Edgar Wallace (from an idea conceived by), Lorenzo Semple Jr. (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: An expedition of the 'Petrox' company, is exploring in search of petrol. A strange island where they arrive is the home of a giant ape, King Kong, that is captured by the expedition in order to make money exhibiting it to the world. When in the U.S. the huge gorilla becomes restless, trying to return home... Rotten Tomatoes: Abandoned in the jungle after his parents are killed, a young boy is taken in by a family of apes and raised as one of their own. As he grows older, he begins to question his origins and sets out to discover his true self. Co-written and directed by Rene Cardona Jr., this adventurous tale from Mexico stars Hugo Stiglitz, Peggy Bass, Jorge Graham, Martin Espinosa, Aurelio Sparrow, Edith Gonzalez and Carlos East. 53 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  74% (2) Hearts of the West 102 min PG [Western, Comedy] [Howard Zieff] [08 Oct 1975]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%, External Reviews Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Andy Griffith, Blythe Danner, Donald Pleasence, Jeff Bridges Writer: Rob Thompson External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him. During his escape, Lewis stumbles on to the set of a Wild West movie and through mishap and chance becomes a star of Hollywood Westerns. Rotten Tomatoes: Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey or Peter B. Kyne. He arrives in Nevada to seek out the correspondence school that has 'graduated' him. After learning that he's been taken to the cleaners by crooks, he stumbles onto a threadbare film-unit grinding out 'B' westerns. He is given a job by unit manager Kessler (Alan Arkin), then falls in love with spunky script girl Miss Trout (Blythe Danner). With the help of crusty stunt man Howard Pike (Andy Griffith), Tyler fends off the correspondence-school crooks who want the money that he has accidentally stolen from them. 54 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 66% (2) Rancho Deluxe 93 min R [Comedy, Romance, Western] [Frank Perry] [14 Mar 1975]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 69%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Clifton James, Elizabeth Ashley, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston Writer: Thomas McGuane External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Jack McKee (Jeff Bridges) and Cecil Colson (Sam Waterston) are bumbling drifters who make a living by rustling cattle in the wilds of Montana. Jack left his wealthy parents because he resented their posh lives. Cecil is of Caucasian and Native American descent seeking his own path in life away from his grumpy cowboy father (Joe Spinell). Both Jack and Cecil hustle and rustle their way in the world by targeting cattle owned by wealthy ranch-owner John Brown (Clifton James). Frustrated that someone is killing his cattle, John hires a pair of ranch hands, Burt and Curt (Richard Bright and Harry Dean Stanton), to find the rustlers. When Brown realizes he cannot trust his two inept ranch hands, he turns to the grizzled former rustler Henry Beige (Slim Pickens) to find the cattle thieves. Jack and Cecil always stay a step ahead of their pursuers, not realizing that their luck must run out sometime. Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy western, cattle rustlers Jack McKee and Cecil Carlson's special target is taciturn rancher John Brown. Together, they plan to lift themselves out of the penny-ante class with one big crime caper. Brown gets wind of their scheme and sends private eye Henry Beige after them. 55 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  73% (3) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 115 min R [Comedy, Crime, Drama] [Michael Cimino] [24 May 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%, Metacritic: 62%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Catherine Bach, Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis, Jeff Bridges Writer: Michael Cimino External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers. Rotten Tomatoes: As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet of misfits in their life of crime. Retired thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) and sweet drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) meet cute when Thunderbolt jumps into Lightfoot's stolen car to escape a gunman. The pair embarks on an oddball journey to get Thunderbolt's loot from an old robbery before his former associates, the sadistic Red (George Kennedy) and cretinous Goody (Geoffrey Lewis), get to it first, but all four are too late; the one-room schoolhouse hiding place has apparently vanished. So instead, the four play house and work legit jobs while they plot to rob the same place Thunderbolt and Red hit before. Although the plan goes awry, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot discover that they may still have succeeded-or so they think. As the easy-going mediator between the two, Eastwood's Thunderbolt was a move away from his tough cop-westerner image; his audience accepted this then-atypical performance enough to turn Thunderbolt and Lightfoot into a moderate hit. Bridges received his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, but Cimino turned down a subsequent deal with Eastwood, moving instead to his artistic peak with The Deer Hunter (1978) and career nadir with Heaven's Gate (1980). 56 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 65% (1) Lolly-Madonna XXX 103 min PG [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Richard C. Sarafian] [25 Dec 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Jeff Bridges, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Scott Wilson Writer: Rodney Carr-Smith, Sue Grafton (novel), Sue Grafton (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Two rustic families, headed by patriarchs Laban Feather and Pap Gutshall, are feuding. At first, it is comical, with just the sons of the two families playing tricks on each other. But soon the Feather boys decide to kidnap a girl. She turns out to be innocent bystander Roonie Gill, not the made-up girlfriend 'Lolly Madonna.' As events escalate, Zack Feather and Roonie fall in love and try to bring the others to their senses. Will Roonie discover Zack's dark secret, the reason for the painful feud between the two families which once were close friends? Rotten Tomatoes: Petty jealousies and misunderstandings between two rival families escalate into a tragic outburst of violence in this drama. Laban Feather (Rod Steiger) is the patriarch of a family of Tennessee moonshiners, brewing corn liquor with the help of his sons: Thrush (Scott Wilson), Zack (Jeff Bridges), Hawk (Ed Lauter), and Finch (Randy Quaid). The chief rivals of the Feather Family have long been the Gutshalls, another Tennessee clan who sell illegal alcohol; the Gutshalls are led by father Pap (Robert Ryan), with the help of his boys Ludie (Kiel Martin), Seb (Gary Busey), and Villum (Paul Koslo). While fighting for their share of the market in white lightning, the Feathers and the Gutshalls have also feuded over a piece of land that each side believes is rightfully theirs. Hoping to create internal friction amongst the Feather siblings, Ludie Gutshall mails a postcard from the non-existent 'Lolly-Madonna' to the Feather home and allows the brothers to puzzle over who has attracted her attentions. The prank begins to turn ugly when Thrush and Hawk kidnap Roonie Gill (Season Hubley), a woman passing through town en route to meet her fiancée, believing that she's the 'Lolly Madonna' they've heard about. Lolly-Madonna XXX was based on a novel by Sue Grafton entitled The Lolly-Madonna War, and was also released under that title. 57 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  81% (2) The Iceman Cometh 239 min PG [Drama] [John Frankenheimer] [10 Nov 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 89%, External Reviews Awards: 3 wins & 1 nomination. Actors: Fredric March, Jeff Bridges, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan Writer: Thomas Quinn Curtiss, Eugene O'Neill (play) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: It's 1912 and the patrons of 'The Last Chance Saloon' have gathered for their evening of whiskey to contemplate their lost faith and dreams, when Hickey (Lee Marvin) arrives. Hickey is out to convince everyone that he can help them all find peace of mind by ridding them of the foolish dreams and by bringing them back to reality. Hickey is working especially hard on Larry Slade (Robert Ryan) a former anarchist who has lost his will for life and is awaiting the eventuality of death. Larry is not affected by the cajolings of Hickey but his young companion Parritt (Jeff Bridges) is strangely affected and this leads to revelations about his own mother and feelings of betrayal and loss. As the night wears on the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. As the anger builds everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. This leads to more revelations and with Hickey having the faint questioning of his own new found convictions. Rotten Tomatoes: This film, based on Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play, is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Harry's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about, and the wasted lives they wound up with. 58 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 72% (3) The Last American Hero 95 min PG [Drama, Sport] [Lamont Johnson] [27 Jul 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, Metacritic: 74%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeff Bridges, Ned Beatty, Valerie Perrine Writer: Tom Wolfe (articles), William Roberts External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Rotten Tomatoes: Lamont Johnson's subtle direction graces this true-life success story about racecar driver Junior Jackson (Jeff Bridges), based on stock-car champion Junior Johnson. As a child in North Carolina, Jackson stays one step ahead of reform school until his father (Art Lund) is thrown in prison for moonshining. Seeing the error of his ways, Jackson begins to concentrate his driving skills, hoping to become a professional stock car racer to raise money to get his father released from jail. Jackson rises from the ranks into the highest rung of professional stock car racing, but Jackson finds his independent nature is compromised by the corporate realities of the professional sports world. The real Junior Johnson served as technical advisor on the film. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi 59 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  87% (2) Fat City 96 min PG [Drama, Sport] [John Huston] [26 Jul 1972]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations. Actors: Candy Clark, Jeff Bridges, Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell Writer: Leonard Gardner (screenplay), Leonard Gardner (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: The film tells the story of two boxers and their problems. One of them is on the decline of his career while the other one just begins his ascent in this sport. Rotten Tomatoes: This gritty yet affectionate look at the world of small-time boxing highlights a down-and-out slugger and a young up-and-comer, both moving gracefully through a world of seedy gyms and flop houses. 60 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 80% (2) Bad Company 93 min PG [Adventure, Drama, Western] [Robert Benton] [22 Dec 1972]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 91%, External Reviews Awards: 1 nomination. Actors: Barry Brown, David Huddleston, Jeff Bridges, Jim Davis Writer: David Newman, Robert Benton External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A group of naive boys find that life as desperadoes in the west is more serious that they understood when they embark on abortive careers in bushwhacking. Violence, betrayal, sombre colours and a Beckettsian whimsy mark this ironic western. Rotten Tomatoes: Set during the Civil War, Bad Company stars Barry Brown as a Northern boy, Drew Dixon, who heads West to avoid getting drafted. He falls under the spell of Jake Rumsey (Jeff Bridges), an easygoing young con artist. Drew joins Jake's gang of boy bandits, who live by their wits and try to avoid confrontation with adult criminals like Big Joe (David Huddleston). It is Drew who must eventually save Jake from hanging, even though he realizes that his intervention could lead to his own execution. 61 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  91% (3) The Last Picture Show 118 min R [Drama] [Peter Bogdanovich] [22 Oct 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 81%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, Metacritic: 93%, External Reviews Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 22 nominations. Actors: Ben Johnson, Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms Writer: Larry McMurtry (screenplay), Peter Bogdanovich (screenplay), Larry McMurtry (novel) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry). Rotten Tomatoes: Produced by Hollywood iconoclast BBS Productions, film critic-turned-director Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 film pays homage to Hollywood's classical age as it chronicles generational rites of passage in Anarene, a fictional one-horse Texas town. In 1951, high school seniors Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges) play football, go to the movies at the Royal Theater, hang out at the pool hall owned by local elder statesman Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson), and lust after rich tease Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd in her film debut). As the year passes, Sonny learns about the pitfalls and compromises of adulthood through an affair with his coach's wife Ruth (Cloris Leachman) and a thwarted elopement with Jacy after she dumps Duane. Following two tragic deaths, and with Duane gone to Korea and Jacy packed off to college in Dallas, Sonny is left behind in Anarene, wise enough to absorb the life lessons of Sam the Lion and Jacy's mother Lois (Ellen Burstyn). He is determined to honor Sam's legacy as the town's conscience, despite a telling sign of incipient communal disintegration: the closing of the Royal Theater after a final showing of Howard Hawks's Red River. Paying tribute to classical Hollywood directors like Hawks and John Ford, Bogdanovich used old-time cinematographer Robert Surtees and shot The Last Picture Show in crisp black-and-white, with a restrained style devoid of the kind of 'new wave' techniques (jump cuts, zooms, and jittery hand-held camerawork) used by such contemporaries as Arthur Penn, Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, and Martin Scorsese. As in such Ford films as The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Bogdanovich relies on careful visual composition in deep focus to help communicate the regret over the passing of an era. Hailed as one of the best films by a young director since Citizen Kane (1941), The Last Picture Show premiered at the New York Film Festival and went on to become a hit. It was also nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay for Larry McMurtry's and Bogdanovich's adaptation of McMurtry's novel. John Ford stalwart Johnson won Supporting Actor and Leachman won Supporting Actress, beating out their cohorts Bridges and Burstyn. For an audience steeped in movie history and caught up in the chaotic 1971 present, The Last Picture Show presented a nostalgic look backward that was not so much an escape from the present as a coming to terms with what the present had lost. Its 1990 sequel Texasville, in which Bridges and Shepherd played later incarnations of their original characters, was not as successful. 62 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 59% (1) Halls of Anger 96 min R [Drama] [Paul Bogart] [28 Dec 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Calvin Lockhart, James A. Watson Jr., Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges Writer: John Herman Shaner, Al Ramrus External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help. Rotten Tomatoes: White students are bussed into an all black school in this powerful drama. Quincy Davis (Calvin Lockhart) is the dedicated black English teacher who leaves an all white school to teach in the inner city. Lloyd Wilkerson (John McLiam) is the disciplinary principal who manages the institution like a prison. He tells Quincy point blank that his main job is to keep the peace in a potentially explosive situation. Sherry (Patricia Stich) is stripped in the locker room while Douglas (Jeff Bridges) is repeatedly beaten up but refuses to give up or give in to the mob. The white minorities are constantly harassed by the mob lead by the militant J.T. Watson (James A. Watson Jr.). Lerone (Dewayne Jesse) is helped with his reading by Lloyd, and improves his skills by reading Lady Chatterly's Lover. The after-school reading program soon becomes popular to the students, who find new appreciation for literary pursuits. Watch for an early appearance from Rob Reiner, later to achieve sitcom stardom as Meathead on All in the Family and become one of Hollywood's best directors. 63 / 63 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |