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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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Rudy

Rudy (1994) more movies like this

directed by David Anspaugh
featuring Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Lili Taylor, Jason Miller, Robert Prosky

A young man learns to let nothing stop him from realizing his ambitions in this drama, based on a true story. Ever since he was a little boy, Rudy Ruettiger (Sean Astin) has dreamed of attending Notre Dame University, and playing on the Fighting Irish football team. However, Rudy's dream doesn't seem very practical; Daniel (Ned Beatty), his father ...

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Superman: The Movie

Superman: The Movie (1978) more movies like this

directed by Richard Donner
featuring Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper

Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where he develops his alter-ego Clark Kent and is raised ...

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Deliverance

Deliverance (1972) more movies like this

directed by John Boorman
featuring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Adapted from James Dickey's popular novel, John Boorman's 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (Ned Beatty), and Drew (Ronny Cox) agree to canoe ...

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Hopscotch

Hopscotch (1980) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom

Walter Matthau plays a CIA agent who's been confined by office politics to a desk job. The disgruntled Matthau quits the service and heads to Europe, where he links up with former lover (an fellow ex-agent) Glenda Jackson. All goes smoothly until Matthau acts on the advice of yet another retired agent, Russian Herbert Lom, who suggests that ...

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Hear My Song

Hear My Song (1991) more movies like this

directed by Peter Chelsom
featuring Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, David McCallum, Tara Fitzgerald, Shirley Ann Field

The owner of a British nightclub attempts to do the impossible by coaxing a legendary Irish tenor out of retirement for a once-in-a-lifetime show in this engagingly quirky comedy. The owner, Mickey O'Neill, is particularly desperate to land a performance by the great Josef Locke, as his already questionable reputation was ruined when he booked an ...

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Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels (1996) more movies like this

directed by Charles Sturridge
featuring Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin

Originally aired on the NBC network as a two-part miniseries, this all-star adventure is perhaps one of the most complete and faithful retellings of 18th-century author Jonathan Swift's epic social satire on film. Nine years after he set sail from England, a bedraggled, disoriented Dr. Lemuel Gulliver (Ted Danson) returns to his home. His faithful ...

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Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows (2003) more movies like this

directed by Lyman D. Dayton, Sam Pillsbury
featuring Dabney Coleman, Dave Matthews, Kris Kristofferson, Ned Beatty, Joseph Ashton

Based on the 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows is a family-oriented drama four years in the making. This project is co-directed by Lyman Dayton, who also adapted the screenplay and produced the 1974 filmed version. The story involves 12-year-old Billy Coleman (Joseph Ashton), who lives in the Ozark mountains with his ...

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The Toy

The Toy (1982) more movies like this

directed by Richard Donner
featuring Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, Wilfrid Hyde-White

In The Toy, director Richard Donner and screenwriter Carol Sobieski update the 1976 Pierre Richard farce Le Jouet as a vehicle for comedian Richard Pryor. Pryor stars as out-of-work journalist Jack Brown, who's hit with the sudden realization that his idle book writing won't pay a 10,000-dollar sum necessary to keep his house from going to auction ...

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A Cry in the Wild

A Cry in the Wild (1990) more movies like this

directed by Mark Griffiths
featuring Jared Rushton, Pamela Sue Martin, Stephen Meadows, Ned Beatty

A teenage boy takes major steps toward manhood after he is stranded in a dense wilderness forest following a plane crash and is forced to use his wits to survive and make it safely back to civilization. He eventually finds some company in a pair of orphaned grizzly bear cubs. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Superman II (1980) more movies like this

directed by Richard Lester
featuring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp

Between giving up his super powers, confronting criminals from outer space, and having problems with his girlfriend, it's a bad time to be the Man of Steel in this sequel to the 1978 blockbuster. When terrorists threaten to destroy Paris with a thermonuclear device as they hold reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) hostage, Superman (Christopher ...

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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Alfred G. Bosnos, Barbara J. Longo, Dolores Clark, Fred Brookfield, Karen Carr, Lee Meza, Margo Epper, Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Jacqueline Bisset, Ned Beatty, John Huston, Tab Hunter

Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. In a tiny West Texas town, Roy Bean is an imperious, self-appointed judge whose intimidation keeps the local residents living in fear. The townspeople finally manage to tie him to the back of a horse and ship him out to the Badlands. ...

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Silver Streak (1976) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Hiller
featuring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty

While taking a train trip from L.A. to Chicago, mild-mannered George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) makes the acquaintance of Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh). As they indulge in a brief bit of spooning, Hilly tells George that her boss is on the verge of exposing a group of vicious art forgers. Later that evening, George sees the body of Hilly's boss being ...

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Nashville (1975) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious country icon Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson) and his ...

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Prelude to a Kiss (1992) more movies like this

directed by Norman Rene
featuring Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty, Patty Duke

In this quirky romantic comedy about soul transference, Alec Baldwin plays Peter Hoskins, the straight-laced head of the microfiche department at a company that publishes scientific journals. When he meets a free-spirited, sleep-deprived bartender named Rita (Meg Ryan), the opposites attract and launch into a round-the-clock romance characterized ...

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White Lightning (1973) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd

When the police pick up Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) for running moonshine, they agree to let him out of jail if he will help them capture the key figures in his moonshine operation. Since the suspected ring leader is the man who killed Gator's little brother, he agrees to help out the cops to get himself out of prison and get his revenge. ...

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Sweet Land (2006) more movies like this

directed by Ali Selim
featuring Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty

A European exile finds herself a stranger in a strange land when she comes to the United States in this independent romantic comedy-drama. As a man ponders what to do with his family's estate after the death of his grandmother, he thinks back to how she first came to America shortly after World War I. Olaf (Tim Guinee) is a Norwegian-American ...

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Life (1999) more movies like this

directed by Ted Demme
featuring Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac

Comedians Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a story that wouldn't appear to have many immediate humorous possibilities -- two men serving life sentences in prison for a crime they did not commit. Life opens in Harlem in 1932, where Ray Gibson (Eddie Murphy) is a small-time con man in debt to Spanky, a gangster (Rick James). Ray spots ...

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Wise Blood (1979) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, Amy Wright

Set in the Deep South during the postwar era, Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif as an aimless veteran, who decides to become a Bible-thumping preacher (for a questionable concern called "The Church Wihout Christ") principally because he hasn't anything better lined up. Dourif links up with a veteran of the hellfire-and-brimstone circuit, who for ...

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The Fourth Protocol (1987) more movies like this

directed by John MacKenzie
featuring Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty, Betsy Brantley, Ray McAnally

Scripted by Frederick Forsyth from his own novel, The Fourth Protocol is a fact-based spy thriller. The titular protocol is a secret agreement between America, Britain and Russia to cease smuggling nuclear weapons into their respective countries. This figures into the schemes of several rogue spies, who hope to destroy NATO by embarking on just ...

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1941 (1979) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Nancy Allen

It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that comprise the "plot" of this strange period comedy, a sort of satirical disaster movie, from Steven ...

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The Big Bus (1976) more movies like this

directed by James Frawley
featuring Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty

The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers of the big bus, and of course they have a few ...

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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) more movies like this

Reconstructed using archival film and sound elements long thought to be extinct, this special cut of Superman II pieces together unseen footage shot by Richard Donner in order to present the most comprehensive version of what was to be the original cut of the blockbuster sequel. As initially planned, the first two films were to be filmed back-to ...

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Midnight Crossing (1988) more movies like this

directed by Roger Holzberg
featuring Faye Dunaway, Daniel J. Travanti, Kim Cattrall, John Laughlin, Ned Beatty

Helen Barton (Faye Dunaway) and her insurance salesman husband Morely (Daniel J. Travanti) set sail with Lexa (Kim Cattrall) and her husband Jeff (John Laughlin) in this modern-day pirate adventure. Jeff's late father and Morely are searching for the treasure the two buried on a remote island 35 miles from Cuba in 1959. Lexa and Morely are engaged ...

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Gray Lady Down (1977) more movies like this

directed by David Greene
featuring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie

When the nuclear submarine he captains is rammed by a freighter while surfacing in Atlantic waters just off the coast of Rhode Island, Navy Captain Paul Blanchard (Charlton Heston) is able to radio for help. However, his sub's condition calls for urgent attention. Downed in extremely deep water near an even deeper ocean trench, the sub is perched ...

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