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Something to Talk About

Something to Talk About (1995) more movies like this

directed by Lasse Hallström
featuring Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick

The feminist outrage of Thelma & Louise (1991) screenwriter Callie Khouri blended superbly with director Lasse Hallstrom's predilection for stories about idiosyncratic families in this effective comedy-drama. Julia Roberts stars as Grace King Bichon, a prim small-town wife who is incensed when she learns that her husband Eddie Bichon (Dennis Quaid ...

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The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) more movies like this

directed by Roland Emmerich
featuring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward

Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather patterns throughout the ages) Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), ...

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The Big Easy

The Big Easy (1987) more movies like this

directed by Jim McBride
featuring Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, John Goodman, Ebbe Roe Smith

A film that captures the steamy, colorful essence of New Orleans, this crime thriller tells the romantic story of a classy detective whose investigation of a gangland murder lands him in trouble with the city's new District Attorney, a woman with a rigid penchant for following the letter of the law. Despite their differences, the two manage to ...

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Breaking Away

Breaking Away (1979) more movies like this

directed by Peter Yates
featuring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Paul Dooley, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie

Dennis Christopher stars as a recent high school graduate in Bloomington, Indiana, who is caught with his friends -- Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley -- coasting between high school and deciding what to do with the rest of their lives. The four friends are snobbishly looked down upon by the college students of the town as "cutters," ...

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The Rookie

The Rookie (2002) more movies like this

directed by John Lee Hancock
featuring Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, Beth Grant, Angus T. Jones

The true story of a middle-aged baseball rookie comes to the screen from Finding Forrester (2000) screenwriter Mike Rich and the studio behind the previous year's equally inspirational sports drama Remember the Titans (2001). Twelve years ago, the pro baseball aspirations of Texas pitcher Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) were derailed by a severe ...

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The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff (1983) more movies like this

directed by Philip Kaufman
featuring Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward

Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original Mercury astronauts. Scott Glenn plays Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Fred Ward is Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; and Ed Harris is John Glenn, the straight-arrow "boy scout ...

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Enemy Mine

Enemy Mine (1985) more movies like this

directed by Wolfgang Petersen
featuring Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick

Love means never having to say that you're ugly in the extravagant fantasy film Enemy Mine. Earthling Dennis Quaid is Davidge, one of many space warriors engaged in a bloody extraterrestrial battle against the Draconians. Crash-landing on a faraway planet, Davidge is forced into an "up close and personal" with the Drac (Lou Gossett Jr.), a ...

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Traffic

Traffic (2000) more movies like this

directed by Steven Soderbergh
featuring Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Erika Christensen

Described by director Steven Soderbergh as "Nashville meets The French Connection," this multi-character drama explores the effects of international drug trafficking on all fronts: from their source, to the U.S. border, to the federal government, to the private lives of users. Based upon a miniseries originally aired on Britain's Channel 4, ...

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The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap (1998) more movies like this

directed by Charles Shyer, Nancy Meyers
featuring Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter

The husband-and-wife team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, who scored with their 1991 remake of the 1950 Father of the Bride, returned for this updating of the 1961 comedy about twins who hope to bring their divorced parents back together. Sheyer and Meyers stayed close to the original screenplay by David Swift, based on Erich Kastner's book Das ...

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Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge (1990) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner

Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point, plays Suzanne Vale, a popular movie actress well ...

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Wyatt Earp (1994) more movies like this

directed by Lawrence Kasdan
featuring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon

Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this epic version of the legendary western sheriff-gunslinger's life story stars Kevin Costner as Earp, who lived from 1848 to 1929. Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Earp tries to run away to join the Union Army in the Civil War, but he is turned away because of his youth. Instead, he studies law and marries Urilla ...

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Frequency (2000) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Hoblit
featuring Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell, Noah Emmerich

Known more for his dark, psychological crime thrillers Primal Fear (1996) and Fallen (1998), director Gregory Hoblit surprisingly created this Frank Capra-meets-Rod Serling-style fantasy that mixes several genres of storytelling into a likable stew. James Caviezel stars as John Sullivan, a New York police detective who has never recovered from the ...

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Playing by Heart (1998) more movies like this

directed by Willard Carroll
featuring Anthony Edwards, Dennis Quaid, Ellen Burstyn, Gena Rowlands, Jay Mohr, Jon Stewart, Ryan Phillippe, Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Angelina Jolie, Madeleine Stowe

Sophomore writer/director Willard Carroll weaves together an all-star cast in interlocking stories about finding love in Los Angeles. The film's theme is spoken by young club-hopper Joan (Angelina Jolie). Taken by the mysterious Keenan (Ryan Phillippe), she tells him that "talking about love" is like "dancing about architecture" (the original ...

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The Long Riders (1980) more movies like this

directed by Walter Hill
featuring David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach, James Keach, Dennis Quaid

The hook in Walter Hill's mythic retelling of the James-Younger outlaw legend is in the casting; the James, Younger, Miller, and Ford Brothers are played by a string of acting brothers, the Keachs, the Carradines, the Quaids and the Guests. The film begins as outlaws are robbing a bank. After the robbery, Ed Miller (Dennis Quaid) finds himself ...

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Far from Heaven (2002) more movies like this

directed by Todd Haynes
featuring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Viola Davis

Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957, Cathy and Frank have a beautiful home and two happy, ...

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Great Balls of Fire! (1989) more movies like this

directed by Jim McBride
featuring Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Trey Wilson

Until its last 10 minutes or so, this filmed biography of controversial recording star Jerry Lee Lewis plays like a live-action cartoon. As played by Dennis Quaid, "the killer" is a very mixed-up individual: a saintly sinner, a world-wise naif, a skilled performer with zero sense of discipline, a loving husband who uses his wife for a punching bag ...

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Jaws 3 (1983) more movies like this

directed by Joe Alves
featuring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Putch

An ocean-themed Florida amusement park comes under attack from an angry Great White shark in this third installment of the horror series. The film maintains only a loose relationship to the original Steven Spielberg hit, centering on Mike (Dennis Quaid) and Sean (John Putch), the sons of police chief Martin Brody (originally played by Roy Scheider ...

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Undercover Blues (1993) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry Miller

Nick and Nora Charles are updated to a touchy-feely couple of the 1990s who take a break from the action to raise their eleven-month-old child. Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star as Jane and Jeff Blue, two CIA super-agents who have abandoned the daily grind to devote quality time to their baby but find trouble on vacation in New Orleans. First ...

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Caveman (1981) more movies like this

directed by Carl Gottlieb
featuring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, Jack Gilford, John Matuszak

Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr plays a prehistoric, social outcast who, along with other misfits, forms his own tribe and finds various comic adventures. This spoof is mostly without dialogue besides the expected neanthropic grunt. Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

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Any Given Sunday (1999) more movies like this

directed by Oliver Stone
featuring Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx

Oliver Stone takes on professional football, a sport whose grace and delicacy are a good match for his filmmaking style. Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little enthusiasm for the finer points of the game and is ...

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In Good Company (2004) more movies like this

directed by Paul Weitz
featuring Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer

A middle-aged man finds a callow twentysomething usurping his professional life and worming his way into his family in this alternately funny and poignant comedy drama. Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is a middle-aged man who has spent 20 years as the head of advertising sales for Sports America , a leading athletics magazine. Dan is happily married ...

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Yours, Mine & Ours (2005) more movies like this

directed by Raja Gosnell
featuring Dennis Quaid, Rene Russo, Rip Torn, Linda Hunt, Jerry O'Connell, David Koechner

Two big families merge into one super-sized brood in this comedy. Frank Beardsley (Dennis Quaid) is a naval officer who has been raising eight children on his own after the death of his wife, and while he loves his kids, he rules his household with military precision. Frank has been alone just long enough that he decides it's time to start dating ...

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The Alamo (2004) more movies like this

directed by John Lee Hancock
featuring Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Jordi Mollà, Emilio Echeverria

Re-teaming Dennis Quaid with John Lee Hancock, the director of 2002's The Rookie, The Alamo retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers -- including William Travis (Patrick Wilson), Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), and Jim Bowie (Jason Patric) -- ...

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Suspect (1987) more movies like this

directed by Peter Yates
featuring Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco

British filmmaker Peter Yates directs Suspect, a suspenseful courtroom drama set in Washington, D.C. After a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and a Justice Department secretary is found dead, a deaf-mute homeless veteran, Carl Wayne Anderson (Liam Neeson), is the suspected killer. Lonely yet dedicated public defender Kathleen Riley (Cher) is ...

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Dragonheart (1996) more movies like this

directed by Rob Cohen
featuring Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer

A boy and his dragon unite to fight evil in this fantasy. Bowen (Dennis Quaid), a Knight of The Old Code in Medieval times, is summoned by Aislinn the Queen (Julie Christie) to the bedside of her son, Einon, who is also Bowen's student. Einon has been wounded and is near death; with his heart about to give out, Bowen calls upon Draco (voice of ...

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