 53% (1) The Nurse 89 min TV-14 [Thriller] [Sam Irvin] [19 Dec 2014]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 53%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Brigid Brannagh, Costas Mandylor, John Heard, Willa Ford Writer: Paolo Mazzucato External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A young woman takes in her estranged father after he suffers a stroke, but his home-care nurse's attentive dedication may be masking a dark and dangerous secret. Rotten Tomatoes: Saisissant une opportunité d'emploi, Brian ramène sa femme Cara dans sa ville natale, où elle n'a pas que des bons souvenirs. Ce déménagement la rapproche, à son corps défendant, de son père Frank, qui les a abandonnées sa mère et elle quand Cara était petite. Lorsque Frank est victime d'une attaque, sa fille accepte toutefois de l'accueillir chez elle, où Lynette, une infirmière à domicile l'épaule pendant sa convalescence... 1 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  69% (3) Torn 80 min N/A [Drama] [Jeremiah Birnbaum] [18 Oct 2013]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Rotten Tomatoes: 90%, Metacritic: 59%, External Reviews Awards: 3 wins. Actors: Dendrie Taylor, Faran Tahir, John Heard, Mahnoor Baloch Writer: Michael Richter (screenplay), Michael Richter (story), Marc Posner (story), Jeremiah Birnbaum (story), Michael Richter External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: Pakistan, USA Plot: Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect. Rotten Tomatoes: An unexpected bond forms between two women when their sons are killed in an explosion at a local shopping mall. When the police find evidence of a bomb, one of the sons, a Muslim American, becomes the prime suspect, threatening the two mothers' new friendship and forcing them to question how well they knew their own children. Torn is a powerful dramatic journey that invites each of us to confront our own perceptions of the world and one another. Starring Mahnoor Baloch (Pakistani model, TV & film star in her U.S. film debut), Dendrie Taylor (The Fighter, Sons of Anarchy, True Blood and the upcoming Saving Mr. Banks), Faran Tahir (Iron Man, Star Trek, Elysium), John Heard (Chilly Scenes of Winter, Cutter's Way), Patrick St. Esprit (Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Sons of Anarchy), Sharon Washington (Michael Clayton, Die Hard: With a Vengeance). The Bay Area-based production team was led by Michael Richter as writer/producer, and Jeremiah Birnbaum as director/producer. (c) Official Site 2 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 57% (2) Sharknado 86 min TV-14 [Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller] [Anthony C. Ferrante] [11 Jul 2013]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 33%, Rotten Tomatoes: 82%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Cassandra Scerbo, Ian Ziering, John Heard, Tara Reid Writer: Thunder Levin External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. Rotten Tomatoes: A freak storm brings hundreds of vicious, man-eating sharks ashore in Los Angeles and a group of friends struggle to steer clear of their violent and destructive path. ~ Megan Walsh-Boyle, Rovi 3 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  36% (3) Assault on Wall Street 99 min R [Action, Crime, Thriller] [Uwe Boll] [30 Jul 2013]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, Rotten Tomatoes: 25%, Metacritic: 24%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Dominic Purcell, Edward Furlong, Erin Karpluk, John Heard Writer: Uwe Boll External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: Canada, USA Plot: Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim snaps and goes to extreme lengths to seek revenge for the life taken from him. Rotten Tomatoes: A security guard for an armored truck, Jim (Dominic Purcell) is a blue-collar New Yorker who works hard to earn a living. His wages support himself and his wife Rosie (Erin Karpluk), who is on the upswing recovering from a near-fatal illness. Yet things start to fall apart after Rosie's health insurance stops covering her treatment and Jim's life savings are lost via a disastrous investment his stockbroker had advised him to make. As a row of professional and personal dominoes falls, Jim is confronted by the realization that, after being abused and exploited by financial institutions for far too long, he has only one choice: to strike back. From the mind of notorious German writer/director Uwe Boll (House of the Dead), ASSAULT ON WALL STREET is excoriating look at the American financial system that is sure to stir up plenty of Occupy-esque sentiment. (c) Phase 4 4 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 58% (1) A Perfect Ending 110 min Not Rated [Drama, Romance] [Nicole Conn] [21 Jun 2012]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win. Actors: Barbara Niven, Bryan Mordechai Jackson, Jessica Clark, John Heard, Morgan Fairchild Writer: Nicole Conn External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Rebecca has a very unusual secret, one that not even her best friends know about. The last person on earth she expects to reveal it to is a high priced escort named Paris. What starts as a comedy of errors ends up a uniquely erotic journey. Rebecca's unconventional efforts to find herself are raw, evocative, and often times humorous, but always very real, very human. Sometimes a perfect ending is not what you expect it to be. Rotten Tomatoes: She's elegant, wealthy and proper - an upstanding wife and mother with three grown children, a swanky estate and a horrible husband. But when Rebecca confesses to her friends about her unsatisfactory love life, they set her up with an exceptionally talented high-class call girl named Paris - and, needless to say, the lives of both Rebecca and Paris are changed forever. Filled to the brink with aching desire, the sexual chemistry is off the charts between '90s TV icon Barbara Niven as the beautiful blond client and out lesbian actress Jessica Clark (True Blood's Lilith) as the smokin' hot hooker who truly does have a heart of gold. Grappling with a veritable soap opera of family drama at home, Rebecca escapes into the oasis of her encounters with Paris. Meanwhile, outside of her lucrative sex-worker day-job, Paris is a struggling artist with troubles of her own. Featuring a bold, beautiful, unleashed performance by Barbara Niven and a star turn from Jessica Clark , A Perfect Ending also boasts the fabulous Morgan Fairchild as the presiding madam of ill-repute and the talented John Heard as Rebecca's husband. 5 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  73% (2) Too Big to Fail 99 min TV-MA [Biography, Drama, History] [Curtis Hanson] [23 May 2011]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 74%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 5 wins & 28 nominations. Actors: Erin Dilly, James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt Writer: Peter Gould, Andrew Ross Sorkin (book) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend. Rotten Tomatoes: Oscar-winning director Curtis Hanson (8 Mile, L.A. Confidential) adapts author Andrew Ross Sorkin's penetrating expose of the 2008 Wall Street financial crisis in this made-for-HBO docudrama featuring an all-star cast. As the U.S. economy hits the skids, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (William Hurt) finds himself caught up in a critical battle of wills between the key players on Wall Street, and the powers that be in Washington, D.C. With just weeks to go before the country plunges into the most devastating financial crash since the Great Depression, the powerbrokers on both sides scramble to pull the failing economy back from the brink of disaster. Ed Asner, Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Cynthia Nixon, James Woods, Tony Shalhoub, and Topher Grace co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi 6 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 70% (1) Justice League: The New Frontier 75 min PG-13 [Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi] [Dave Bullock] [26 Feb 2008]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations. Actors: David Boreanaz, John Heard, Miguel Ferrer, Neil Patrick Harris Writer: Stan Berkowitz, Darwyn Cooke (additional material), Darwyn Cooke (graphic novel), Bob Kane (character created by: Batman), Jerry Siegel (character created by: Superman), Joe Shuster (character created by: Superman), William Moulton Marston (character created by: Wonder Woman) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: Adapting the award-winning DC Comics miniseries DC: THE NEW FRONTIER by Darwyn Cooke, Justice League: The New Frontier spins a tale of the DC Universe in the 1950s, focusing on test pilot Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) and the Martian Manhunter. The story also features other DC characters, including Barry Allen (the Flash), Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and many more. Rotten Tomatoes: Adapted from the six-issue comic book series originally published in 2004, the animated adventure Justice League: The New Frontier follows the epic adventures of Superman and his fellow DC Comics superheroes from the end of World War II to the global tensions of the Cold War. In addition to detailing the ultimate fate of DC war comic squadron The Losers and showing how reluctant fighter pilot Hal Jordan made the stunning transformation into The Green Lantern, the film also follows Superman and Wonder Woman as they struggle with their involvement on the East Asia battle arena, finds the Martian Manhunter arriving on planet Earth, and showcases John Henry's valiant struggle against the evil Ku Klux Klan. 7 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  56% (2) Snake Eyes 98 min R [Crime, Mystery, Thriller] [Brian De Palma] [07 Aug 1998]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, Metacritic: 52%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Carla Gugino, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Nicolas Cage Writer: Brian De Palma (story), David Koepp (story), David Koepp (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA, Canada Plot: Ricky Santoro is a flamboyant and corrupt Atlantic City cop with a dream: become so well connected that he can become mayor. In lieu of that, he'll settle for keeping his comfortable lifestyle. On the night of the heavyweight boxing championship, Rick becomes mixed up in the assassination of the Secretary of Defense, an assassination involving his best friend. Becoming the investigating officer in the case, Rick soon uncovers a conspiracy to kill the Secretary and a mysterious woman in white. The conspiracy was shocking, but not half as shocking as the identity of its mastermind. Rotten Tomatoes: Brian DePalma directed this taut thriller, set in Atlantic City, where a corrupt cop investigates a political assassination. Outside an Atlantic City arena-hotel-casino, a TV news reporter stands in a pre-hurricane storm to report on the heavyweight boxing match about to begin inside. A transition to the stadium interior focuses on Atlantic City homicide Detective Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage), a father with a wife and son, yet also a dishonest cop who maintains a mistress and cheerfully accepts bribes. DePalma's Steadicam follows Santoro on a fast-paced tour of the stadium as the laughing, yelling detective travels stairs and hallways, talks to a gal with a between-rounds placard, visits the dressing room of champ Lincoln Tyler (Stan Shaw), rides down an escalator to squeeze money from a small-time hood, enters the arena of 14,000 fight fans, talks on his phone with his girlfriend and wife, and sits ringside next to his lifelong buddy, Navy Cmdr. Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise). Behind Dunne, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Kirkland (Joel Fabiani) is seated alongside billionaire casino owner Gilbert Powell (John Heard). As the fight gets underway, Dunne abandons his position protecting the defense chief to pursue a suspicious redhead. From his ringside vantage point, Santoro has a close view of the champ, curiously conscious despite taking a kayo punch. At that moment, an assassin fires at Kirkland. Santoro immediately concocts a good cover story for his pal (to explain why Dunne left his post protecting Kirkland). Just after the shooting, Dunne kills a Palestinian extremist, the apparent killer, and Santoro orders the stadium doors locked, hoping he can locate other suspects among the fleeing crowd. One such is Julia Costello (Carla Gugino), an injured woman in a blond wig who spoke with Kirkland seconds before the gunfire. After a video replay reveals the champ took a fall, going down to the floor from a punch that never touched him, Santoro becomes more curious and suspicious, comparing witness accounts, and he attempts to locate Julia, convinced she's the key to truth behind the assassination. As it all comes to a head, Santoro peels through successive layers of corruption, ultimately confronting himself in a self-examination of his own values. Filmed at Montreal's old Forum. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi 8 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 48% (2) One Eight Seven 119 min R [Drama, Thriller] [Kevin Reynolds] [30 Jul 1997]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 30%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Clifton Collins Jr., John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Samuel L. Jackson Writer: Scott Yagemann External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students. Rotten Tomatoes: A dedicated high school teacher tries to imbue his troubled, mostly impoverished inner city students with discipline, respect and a love of learning, but unlike the educators in The Blackboard Jungle, To Sir With Love or even Stand and Deliver, this teacher fails and so resorts to desperate means to cope. Up until the moment he was stabbed by a vengeful gang member while teaching at a Brooklyn High School, Trevor Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson) was a dedicated educator. His nearly fatal wounding coupled with an indifferent school administration profoundly changed him. Fifteen months race past and a physically recovered Trevor is substituting at an inner city school in Los Angeles. But though he has changed coast lines, the students are just as vicious, angry and dangerous as their New York counterparts. Trevor is particularly bedeviled by Benny Chacon (Lobo Sebastian), a brazen gangsta who commits a murder and disappears, leaving the defiant Cesar in charge. In proving his dominion, Cesar (Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez) and his cronies commit various crimes against Trevor, whose only friend is fellow teacher Ellen Henry (Kelly Rowan). When Cesar goes too far, Trevor goes over the edge. The action is punctuated by a driving musical score and restless MTV-style camerawork that adds artiness to the unswervingly downbeat plot. The title (pronounced 'one, eight, seven') is used by gang members to denote homicide; they in turn took it from a police code. 9 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  53% (3) My Fellow Americans 101 min PG-13 [Adventure, Comedy] [Peter Segal] [20 Dec 1996]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 47%, Metacritic: 49%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jack Lemmon, James Garner, John Heard Writer: E. Jack Kaplan (story), Richard Chapman (story), E. Jack Kaplan (screenplay), Richard Chapman (screenplay), Peter Tolan (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Spanish Country: USA Plot: Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, become reluctant allies when they become the target of a conspirator in President Haney's administration. The two ex-presidents realize they have an enemy within the government and set out to find evidence that will clear their names. The search takes them across the Southern Appalachians; along the way they meet a homeless couple, thwart kidnapers in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant, and find themselves marching in a gay pride parade. Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy, Russell P. Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Matt Douglas (James Garner) are two former U.S. Presidents who sit on opposite sides of the political fence. Kramer is a stuffy Republican reluctant to part with a dollar, while Douglas is a left-leaning Democrat with an eye for the ladies. Douglas succeeded Kramer in office after a single term, while Douglas, after four years as chief executive, lost to his former running mate William Haney (Dan Aykroyd). When the facts about a bribery scheme in Haney's administration threaten to surface and destroy his reputation, the ruthless president tries to pin the responsibility on Kramer and Douglas -- and when the ex-presidents learn the truth about Haney's dealings, Haney tries to have them killed before they can talk. Kramer and Douglas soon find themselves on the run, disguising themselves as celebrity impersonators, hiding out in the woods with a homeless family, and marching in a Gay Pride parade in an effort to stay clear of Haney's goons while they bring the truth to the people. My Fellow Americans also features Lauren Bacall as Kramer's long-suffering wife and John Heard as Haney's intellectually-challenged vice president. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi 10 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 56% (3) The Pelican Brief 141 min PG-13 [Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Alan J. Pakula] [17 Dec 1993]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, Rotten Tomatoes: 52%, Metacritic: 50%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Denzel Washington, John Heard, Julia Roberts, Sam Shepard Writer: John Grisham (book), Alan J. Pakula (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. Then Grantham's editor tells him that they have nothing; that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham's about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive? Rotten Tomatoes: Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), served as Callahan's mentor. When Callahan shares this so-called 'Pelican Brief' with buddy Gavin Verheek (John Heard), an FBI lawyer, the document makes its way to White House flack Fletcher Coal (Tony Goldwyn), who believes it could topple the current administration. When Callahan is murdered and the President (Robert Culp) convinces the FBI to hold off on investigating Darby's theory, the resourceful student must go into hiding, stalked by relentless assassin Khamel (Stanley Tucci). Her only hope of escaping Callahan's fate and proving her theory lies in Washington investigative reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington), who's already had one confidential source back out of sharing information about the assassinations. This John Grisham adaptation is generally faithful to the best-selling novel. Fans of HBO's Sex and the City will notice one of its future stars, Cynthia Nixon, in a small role as one of Darby's New Orleans classmates. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi 11 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  51% (2) Radio Flyer 114 min PG-13 [Drama] [Richard Donner, David Mickey Evans] [21 Feb 1992]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 33%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Adam Baldwin, Elijah Wood, John Heard, Lorraine Bracco Writer: David Mickey Evans External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the 'Radio Flyer', into a plane to fly him to safety. Rotten Tomatoes: Two brothers are the victims of their widowed mother's violent drunkard husband who spares no rod with the youngest brother. Reverting to a world of make-believe, they imagine that their Radio Flyer wagon can fly and that in it they can escape their tormenting stepfather. This film deals in an almost make-believe manner with the serious issue of child abuse. ~ Rovi 12 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 56% (1) The End of Innocence 102 min R [Drama] [Dyan Cannon] [05 Sep 1991]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Dyan Cannon, George Coe, John Heard, Lola Mason Writer: Dyan Cannon External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers. Rotten Tomatoes: Actress Dyan Cannon, whose 1976 directorial debut Number One was nominated for a 'best short subject' Academy Award, moves on to feature-length projects with The End of Innocence. In addition to directing, Ms. Cannon wrote the screenplay and played a leading role in this story of a young girl spiritually torn apart by forces beyond her control. Rebecca Schaeffer plays Stephanie Lewis, unwanted and ignored by her eternally squabbling parents. Mom and Dad do further damage to Stephanie's battered psyche by giving her mixed messages concerning sex and religion. The girl's self-esteem dwindles to microscopic proportions thanks to a series of no-good boyfriends. Suffering a nervous breakdown, she is placed in an asylum, where for the first time she treated as a human being rather than a nuisance by compassionate psychiatrist John Heard. Completed in the late 1980s, End of Innocence was released in 1990, one year after the death of star Rebecca Schaeffer. 13 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  50% (2) Deceived 104 min PG-13 [Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Damian Harris] [27 Sep 1991]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 39%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Charles Kassatly, Damon Redfern, Goldie Hawn, John Heard Writer: Mary Agnes Donoghue (story), Mary Agnes Donoghue (screenplay), Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A marriage that seemed perfect comes crashing down after the death of Jack Saunders, husband of Adrienne Saunders. Strange developments begin to be discovered by Adrienne regarding Jack's past, developments that lead her to believe she has been deceived. Rotten Tomatoes: Goldie Hawn delivers a surprisingly understated performance (allowing the audience to shift their laughter from the usually comic Hawn to the unbelievable storyline) in the unsuccessful thriller Deceived. Hawn plays Adrienne Saunders, a successful art restorer who is married to Jack (John Heard), a devoted husband who is also an expert in the antiques business. Married for six years and parents of a charming 5-year-old daughter Mary (Ashley Peldon), the Saunders appear to have everything going for them. But after a series of odd occurrences that even an idiot would notice, Adrienne finally comes the conclusion that her husband is not the man she thought he was when she married him. After Jack tells Mary that he was in Boston but Adrienne's friend tells her she saw him in New York, the mysterious clues begin piling up and are too numerous to ignore: there's a call from a department store concerning some sexy lingerie that Jack purchased; a friend is found murdered after checking on the authenticity of an Egyptian necklace; and there are indications that Jack was involved with a scheme to steal artifacts from a museum. Adrienne is finally convinced that something is fishy about her husband when he mysteriously dies is an auto wreck, and she discovers that Jack has been using the name of a man who had died 16 years earlier. Adrienne proceeds to polish her magnifying glass and conducts some detective work on her own to find out who her husband really was. This is when the danger really begins. 14 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 67% (3) Home Alone 103 min PG [Comedy, Family] [Chris Columbus] [16 Nov 1990]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, Rotten Tomatoes: 65%, Metacritic: 63%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 4 nominations. Actors: Daniel Stern, Joe Pesci, John Heard, Macaulay Culkin Writer: John Hughes External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA Plot: It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family named Kevin got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz and was sent to his room which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the family was in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed, and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about two burglars, Harry and Marv, about to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin acts quickly by wiring his own house with makeshift booby traps to stop the burglars and to bring them to justice. Rotten Tomatoes: Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he realizes they've left him home alone, he learns to fend for himself and, eventually has to protect his house against two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) who are planning to rob every house in Kevin's suburban Chicago neighborhood. Though the film's slapstick ending may be somewhat violent, Culkin's charming presence helped the film become one of the most successful ever at the time of its release.~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide 15 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  64% (2) The Package 108 min R [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Andrew Davis] [25 Aug 1989]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 64%, Rotten Tomatoes: 64%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, John Heard, Tommy Lee Jones Writer: John Bishop External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Johnny Gallagher, a sergeant, is sent from Germany with a prisoner. The prisoner escapes from the men's room at National Airport and Hackman begins his search for his man. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife and various old friends, he finds that the prisoner is part of a plot by senior military personnel on both sides to kill a very high-ranking world figure in order to sabotage arms control talks. Rotten Tomatoes: The Package, a thriller involving political assassination and intrigue, is an excellent action feature using a familiar theme and providing good performances by the cast. Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) is a prisoner entrusted to Gallagher (Gene Hackman) for transportation back to the United States. Boyette escapes and Gallagher must find him. In doing so, Gallagher finds himself getting into far more than he had bargained for as he becomes involved in a political assignation plot that he must stop. Both Hackman and Jones are excellent in reprising familiar roles. Hackman is never better than when portraying the decent man in a precarious position, and Jones plays Boyette with the same cunning and intelligence that he brought to The Executioner's Song. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi 16 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 53% (2) Beaches 123 min PG-13 [Comedy, Drama, Music] [Garry Marshall] [13 Jan 1989]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 38%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations. Actors: Barbara Hershey, Bette Midler, John Heard, Spalding Gray Writer: Iris Rainer (novel), Mary Agnes Donoghue (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Francisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man. Rotten Tomatoes: Based on a novel by Iris Rainer Dart, Beaches traces the 30-year oil-and-water friendship between free-spirited Bronx Jew CC Bloom (Bette Midler) and uptight San Francisco WASP Hillary Essex (Barbara Hershey). The two meet as children in Atlantic City (played by Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds) and are reunited in the 1960s, when CC is a struggling singer and Hillary is trying to break free from her staid upbringing by becoming an activist. The two ladies room together, then fall out when both are attracted to off-Broadway producer John Pierce (John Heard). CC wins John, but she quickly outgrows him as she matriculates into a bawdy performer. The recently patched-up friendship between CC and Hillary is torn asunder again when Hillary and her new husband express distaste for CC's performing style. Comes the 1970s, and CC and Hillary are reunited after shedding their respective spouses. Broke again, they once more become Manhattan roommates. Their bond strengthens, but there is tragedy in store for the duo. 17 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  81% (3) Big 104 min PG [Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance] [Penny Marshall] [03 Jun 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 97%, Metacritic: 73%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 12 nominations. Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, John Heard, Robert Loggia, Tom Hanks Writer: Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A young boy (David Moscow) makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman. What will he find out about this strange world? Rotten Tomatoes: More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be 'big'. That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by Tom Hanks). Still a 13-year-old mentally and emotionally, Josh decides to hide out in New York City until he can figure out what to do next. He lucks into a job with a major toy company run by kid-at-heart McMillan (Robert Loggia). By cannily bringing a child's eye view to McMillan's business, Josh rises to the top-and in process, he falls in love with fellow employee Susan (Elizabeth Perkins). But he's still a kid, and he'd like to go back to his own world and own body. Written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, Big proved a crucial success for budding director Penny Marshall, who'd work harmoniously with Hanks again on the radically different A League of Their Own. The cinematography was by Barry Sonenfeld, who went on to become a director himself with The Addams Family. That Big was heavily reliant upon the input of Tom Hanks and Penny Marshall was proven by the failed attempt to turn the property into a Broadway musical. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 18 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 52% (2) Betrayed 127 min R [Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Costa-Gavras] [26 Aug 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, Rotten Tomatoes: 42%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Betsy Blair, Debra Winger, John Heard, Tom Berenger Writer: Joe Eszterhas External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA, Japan Plot: A woman starts work on a farm, and gets to know the owner. They get on well, and she also gets on with his children. He asks her to stay on when the work is finished. Things are not what they seem, and we discover the woman is actually an FBI agent... Rotten Tomatoes: Set in Iowa, Betrayed stars Debra Winger as an FBI agent who infiltrates a Klanlike white supremacist organization. Allegedly a woman of intelligence and perception, Winger throws caution and logic to the winds when she falls in love with local farmer Tom Berenger. Much to her surprise Berenger turns out to be the most rabid racist of all. 19 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  45% (1) The Telephone 96 min R [Comedy, Drama] [Rip Torn] [22 Jan 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 45%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations. Actors: Elliott Gould, John Heard, Severn Darden, Whoopi Goldberg Writer: Harry Nilsson (screenplay), Terry Southern (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life. Rotten Tomatoes: A struggling actress resorts to prank telephone calls to release her frustrations but gets more than she bargained for when her jokes have unforeseen consequences. This comedy is best known for the attempts of star Whoopi Goldberg to prevent its release. 20 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 88% (2) The Trip to Bountiful 108 min PG [Drama] [Peter Masterson] [24 Jan 1986]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 6 nominations. Actors: Carlin Glynn, Geraldine Page, John Heard, Richard Bradford Writer: Horton Foote (screenplay), Horton Foote (play) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as 'home.' The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae, insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts 'escape' attempts each month which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. Watts' Social Security check. Then, Mrs. Watts makes a successful escape and last trip home. Rotten Tomatoes: Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to leave her loathsome son (John Heard) and daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), elderly Geraldine Page wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Escaping from her family's clutches, Page boards a bus to Bountiful, where she makes the acquaintance of young Rebecca DeMornay. The two women immediately hit it off, and their trip is a most pleasant one. Eventually, sheriff Richard Bradford, ordered to find Page and bring her back to her family, catches up with the old woman just 12 miles from Bountiful. Feeling sorry for Page, Bradford permits her to complete her sentimental journey, even though he knows full well that Bountiful is now a ghost town of empty ruins and dilapidated shacks. It doesn't matter, though: Page sees Bountiful just as it was when she left it, and for the first time in years she is truly happy and at peace with herself. After several near-misses, Geraldine Page finally won an Academy Award for A Trip to Bountiful (incidentally, the original TV production, which still exists in kinescope form, starred Lillian Gish and Eva Marie Saint). 21 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  58% (3) Heaven Help Us 104 min R [Comedy, Drama, Romance] [Michael Dinner] [08 Feb 1985]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 40%, Metacritic: 64%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Mary Stuart Masterson Writer: Charles Purpura External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age. Rotten Tomatoes: Charles Purpura scribed this semi-autobiographical tale about his experiences in a Brooklyn Catholic school of 1965. The film focuses on several Catholic school boys who get into ever increasing amounts of trouble with the presiding priests of the Catholic school, St. Basil's. Andrew McCarthy plays Michael Dunn, a newly arrived student who latches onto the class egghead Caesar (Malcolm Danare), who is constantly picked on by the class bully Rooney (Kevin Dillon). Rooney intimidates Michael and Caesar to become his erstwhile chums and, along with a few other quiet students, they receive corporal punishment for minor infractions, disrupting communion and confession and, ultimately, their antics inspire changes in the strict school hierarchy. 22 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 47% (3) C.H.U.D. 88 min R [Horror, Sci-Fi] [Douglas Cheek] [31 Aug 1984]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 29%, Metacritic: 57%, External Reviews Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination. Actors: Christopher Curry, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Kim Greist Writer: Parnell Hall (screenplay), Shepard Abbott (story) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them. Rotten Tomatoes: People are disappearing all over the Big Apple. Nobody cares, though, because most of the missing are homeless. But when investigative reporter Murphy (J.C. Quinn) tips off principled photographer George Cooper (John Heard) to a government conspiracy involving the dumping of nuclear waste beneath the streets, Cooper decides to dig a little deeper. Soon he discovers the existence of C.H.U.D.s, or 'Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers,' derelicts who have become grotesque monsters after being exposed to the mountains of hazardous waste. Meanwhile, Captain Bosch (Christopher Curry), a cop whose wife is among the missing, forms an unlikely alliance with the Reverend (Daniel Stern), a leftist soup-kitchen cook who knows the score. Murphy, Cooper, Bosch, and the Reverend soon run up against the stonewalling tactics of Wilson (George Martin), a government toadie. As the titular monsters begin to tire of their underground habitat, the protagonists -- including Cooper's wife, beautiful model Lauren Daniels (Kim Greist) -- face a race against time to defeat not only the C.H.U.D.s, but the government's cover-up. The debut, and only film, from writer Parnell Hall and director Douglas Cheek, C.H.U.D. was followed by 1989's C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the C.H.U.D. Co-stars Stern and Heard would later appear together in the first two Home Alone pictures, while Curry would appear in the third. 23 / 27 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. 24 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 61% (3) Cat People 118 min R [Fantasy, Horror, Thriller] [Paul Schrader] [02 Apr 1982]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, Rotten Tomatoes: 62%, Metacritic: 62%, External Reviews Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 nomination. Actors: Annette O'Toole, John Heard, Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski Writer: DeWitt Bodeen (story), Alan Ormsby (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to leopards, who mated with them. Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People before they transform into panthers. Irene Gallier was raised by adoptive parents and meets her older brother Paul for the first time since childhood. We follow brother and sister - who seem to be the only ones of their kind left. Rotten Tomatoes: In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of sacrificial, mystical union between panthers and an ancient tribe of humans. Flash forward to 1980's New Orleans, where waifish Irina (Natassja Kinski) meets her older brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), a minister, for the first time since their animal trainer parents died and she was sent to a series of foster homes. Paul's Creole housekeeper, Female (Ruby Dee), helps Irina settle into her brother's home, but Paul himself disappears. Cut to a fleabag motel where a blasé prostitute finds an angry panther instead of a client; after mauling her, the cat is captured by police and a team of zoologists: Oliver (John Heard), Alice (Annette O'Toole), and Joe (Ed Begley Jr.). The next day Irina finds herself in the zoo where these scientists work; drawn to the newly captured panther, she befriends Oliver and takes a job in the gift shop. Shortly after the panther's violence turns deadly, it escapes, and soon Paul turns up spouting an unbelievable story about his family's were-cat heritage and his inevitable sexual union with little Irina. On the run from her dangerous brother, Irina takes refuge in a sexually frustrated romance with Oliver, afraid of what might happen if she consummates their passion. Astute viewers will notice that the zoologist characters refer to the film's panthers as leopards; 'panther' is actually a generic term for any large cat, especially a black one, but Cat People's panthers are in fact leopards whose black color comes from a recessive trait known as melanism. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi 25 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |  58% (1) Heart Beat 110 min R [Drama] [John Byrum] [24 Sep 1980]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: John Heard, Nick Nolte, Ray Sharkey, Sissy Spacek Writer: John Byrum External Links: External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA Plot: The life and friendship between the icons of the Beat Generation - Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady and Jack Kerouac. Rotten Tomatoes: Based on a book by Carolyn Cassady, the former wife of Beat icon Neal Cassady, Heart Beat explores the couple's relationship with On the Road author Jack Kerouac, and stars John Heard as Kerouac, Nick Nolte as Neal and Sissy Spacek as Carolyn. 26 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |
 60% (1) First Love 92 min R [Drama, Romance] [Joan Darling] [14 Apr 1978]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, External Reviews Awards: N/A Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, John Heard, Susan Dey, William Katt Writer: Harold Brodkey (story 'Sentimental Education'), Jane Stanton Hitchcock (screenplay), David Freeman (screenplay) External Links: External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, French, Italian Country: USA Plot: Elgin Smith is a student attending Ridgedale College, he who spends his time working part time as a waiter on campus to pay for what his partial scholarship won't, studying, attending classes, or kicking around a soccer ball to get some exercise (as he isn't very good at the actual game to get much real playing time in his pickup league). He doesn't have much of an active sex life as he isn't in a relationship and he wants to equate making love with actual love, not only from his own perspective but also that of the other person in the relationship. In that respect, he is unlike his dorm neighbor, David Bonner, who has sex with his girlfriend Felicia, while he fools around behind her back with another girl named Shelley. Elgin's life may change when he becomes infatuated with a student on campus on first sight, she who he will learn is named Caroline Hedges. As Elgin is able to spend time with her, he, without truly knowing that much about her, does fall in love with her, as he believes she is progressing toward falling in love with him. But what Elgin hopes will be a happily ever after with Caroline may change when he learns that there is another man in the picture, someone who has been in her life for most of her life, is old enough to be her father, but is married so that there is no guarantee if there is a future for them regardless of what she may want. Elgin may get a different perspective of his relationship with Caroline and young love in general in discussions with Shelley, who hangs out with him on the occasions when she has to wait for David to finish his time with Felicia. Rotten Tomatoes: Joan Darling's first directorial effort is this melancholy examination of a love affair between two sensitive college students --based upon Harold Brodsky's short story 'Sentimental Education.' William Katt plays Elgin Smith, a college hunk who falls for college coed Caroline (Susan Dey). With Caroline, Elgin experiences the euphoria and the pitfalls of an intense college love affair. Mostly the pitfalls, however, since Elgin discovers that Caroline is involved with an older man. 27 / 27 Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Copy URL |