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  • Bacon gives Crawford advice for Footloose role - 5 June 2009
    -Footloose star Kevin Bacon has been sharing his words of wisdom with Chace Crawford after learning the Gossip Girl actor is stepping into his dancing shoes for a remake of the 1984 movie classic.- -Crawford is currently brushing up on his fancy footwork to take over


  • Kevin Bacon Interview - 1 January 2000
    - - -Kevin Bacon is without question one of the hardest working actors of his generation. He made his film debut back in 1978 with frat-comedy Animal House, but it wasn't until Footloose in 1983 that his career really started to kick off. Since then th

Kevin Bacon - what members say


  • JFK
  • JFK review by from Durham
    Rated - 5 stars a must see film 21 July 2004
    ...es. Stone masterfully populates his movie with an all star cast (joe pesci, Kevin Bacon, michael rooker, wayne knight, jack lemon, are a few) to deal with the many cha...  
  • Tremors
  • Tremors review by from South Glamorgan
    Rated - 5 stars Something is wrong under Perfection 20 April 2004
    ...nd nobody knows why. Handymen Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) and Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) have a plan – if they can ever manage to act on it! Weapon obsessed survivalis...  
  • Stir Of Echoes
  • Stir Of Echoes review by from NOTTINGHAM
    Rated - 4 stars 20 October 2004
    ...ory with believable, down to earth characters. Nicely acted by all, especially Kevin Bacon as the non-believer beset by psychic visions....  

Kevin Bacon - filmography


  • Taking Chance (2009)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Tom Aldredge,  Nicholas Art
    Director: Ross Katz
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Inspired by the true story of the United States Marine who volunteered to escort the remains of a nineteen year old soldier who was killed in Iraq to his small hometown in remote Wyoming, TAKING CHANCE stars Kevin Bacon in the feature directorial debut of Oscar-nominated producer Ross Katz. Lance ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 1st February 2010
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  • Frost/Nixon on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Frank Langella,  Michael Sheen,  Rebecca Hall
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (Da Vinci Code, A Beautiful Mind) brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Queen, The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 20,521 members
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  • Death Sentence on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Garrett Hedlun,  Kelly Preston
    Director: James Wan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 27,147 members
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  • Rails And Ties on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Marcia Gay Harden,  Kevin Bacon,  Miles Heizer
    Director: Alison Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Suffering from addiction and depression, Laura Danner (Bonnie Root) drives her car--with her son, Davey (Miles Heizer), inside--onto the railroad tracks, waiting for the train to come and kill them. Davey is able to get out but not save his mother as the train, driven by engineer Tom Stark (Kevin ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 148 members
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  • The Woodsman on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Kyra Sedgwick,  Eve
    Director: Nicole Kassell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With a 12-year prison stretch reaching an end, convicted paedophile Walter (Kevin Bacon) faces an uncertain walk back into the free world in THE WOODSMAN. Attempting to keep his previous indiscretions sheltered from prying eyes, Walter tries to piece together his shattered life by finding a job and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 25,618 members
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  • Mystic River - BLU-RAY Version (2003)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Tim Robbins,  Kevin Bacon
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In Clint Eastwood's MYSTIC RIVER, a murder mystery in South Boston unites three men who have been friends since childhood. Grippingly powerful performances from the entire cast--Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Marcia Gay Harden, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, and Laura Linney--combined with gritty ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 2 members
    Due for release on 8th February 2010
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  • In The Cut on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  Mark Ruffalo,  Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Director: Jane Campion
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The acclaimed New Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) here turns her unusual artistic eye toward the urban erotic thriller genre. Based on the novel by Susanna Moore, IN THE CUT tells the story of Frannie (Meg Ryan) an English teacher living in Manhattan's East Village who finds herself mixed ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 12,866 members
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  • Trapped on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Charlize Theron,  Courtney Love,  Stuart Townsend
    Director: Luis Mandoki
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Will and Karen Jennings find themselves fighting to save their daughter's life when they are held hostage. The twenty four hour plan sees them trapped in different cities...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,682 members
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  • End of the Line on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Wilford Brimley,  Mary Steenburgen
    Director: Jay Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two workers fight for survival when their railroad company is closed down, leaving them unemployed. They set out for Chicago on a stolen locomotive to confront the insensitive railroad executives and find themselves locked in a fight for dignity, pride and jobs.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 43 members
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  • Hollow Man on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Elisabeth Shue,  Josh Brolin
    Director: Paul Verhoeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Paul Verhoeven's appropriately shallow Hollow Man, Kevin Bacon plays a bad-boy egotistical scientist who heads up a double-secret government team experimenting with turning life-forms invisible. How do we know he's a bad boy? Because he (a) wears a leather overcoat, (b) compares himself to God, (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 9,812 members
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  • My Dog Skip on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Frankie Muniz,  Diane Lane,  Luke Wilson
    Director: Jay Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A heartwarming coming-of-age tale set in 1940s Yazoo, Mississippi. Willie Morris (Muniz) is an introverted eight-year-old whose best friend is Dink Jenkins (Wilson - BOTTLE ROCKET), a high school football star. Willie's mother convinces his stern father to buy Willie a puppy for his ninth birthday, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 514 members
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  • Stir Of Echoes on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Kathryn Erbe,  Illeana Douglas
    Director: David Koepp
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The only real problem with Stir of Echoes has nothing to do with the movie itself, but with unlucky coincidence. Adapted from a Richard Matheson novel, this film arrived around the same time as The Sixth Sense. Surface similarities made it suffer by cursory comparison and the competing film's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 7,490 members
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  • Wild Things on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Matt Dillon,  Neve Campbell
    Director: John McNaughton
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A seemingly virtuous high school guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon), is accused of raping students Kelly (Denise Richards) and Suzie (Neve Campbell). Ken Bowden (Bill Murray), an oddball attorney, and Detective Ray Duquette (Kevin Bacon) come to Lombardo's aid, unraveling a much larger ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 6,857 members
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  • Digging to China (1998)
    Starring: Evan Rachel Wood,  Kevin Bacon,  Mary Stuart Masterson
    Director: Timothy Hutton
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to make plans for leaving and she finally does so together with her childlike (mentally ill) friend Ricky.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 54% from 9 members
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  • Sleepers on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Robert De Niro,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tommy, John, Michael, and Shakes are four young teenage punks growing up in the streets of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. When these four friends pull a prank that that goes awry, they find themselves serving time at the Wilkinson School for Boys, where they are repeatedly and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 15,323 members
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  • Apollo 13 on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Kevin Bacon,  Bill Paxton
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A vividly rendered dramatisation of Apollo 13's true-life brush with disaster on the way to the Moon in 1971. This mesmerising film combines computer graphics, archive footage and seamless special effects to recreate the adrenalised odyssey of Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert who ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 18,008 members
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  • Balto on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Bridget Fonda,  Phil Collins
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Based on the true adventure of an Alaskan sled dog named Balto who trekked across the frozen tundra to deliver a serum to a remote village in 1925, BALTO is a heartwarming animated film that features the voices of Kevin Bacon and Bridget Fonda. Balto, who is half wolf and half dog and therefore an ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 976 members
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  • A Few Good Men on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Tom Cruise,  Demi Moore
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When two marines are charged with murdering a member of their platoon during an unsanctioned disciplinary action in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the armed forces hire a lieutenant they believe is a lightweight defense attorney. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) prides himself in having successfully ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 16,283 members
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  • Queen's Logic (1991)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Linda Fiorentino,  John Malkovich
    Director: Steve Rash
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A group of discontented "thirtysomething" men, who grew up together in Queens, reunite to celebrate the impending marriage of one of their own. Their coming together proves to be a real eye-opener, especially when they are confronted with the reality that, despite their advanced age, they are still ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 6 members
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  • He Said, She Said on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Elizabeth Perkins,  Sharon Stone
    Director: Ken Kwapis,  Marisa Silver
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Anti-intellectual skirt-chasing journalist Dan Hanson (Kevin Bacon) and his sensitive, liberal, erudite colleague Lorie Bryer (Elizabeth Perkins) find themselves fighting for the same column at the Baltimore Sun. They become a hit when the editors decide to run their columns side-by-side allowing ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 473 members
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  • JFK (1991)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Sissy Spacek,  Tommy Lee Jones
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oliver Stone's self-proclaimed 'countermyth', JFK mocks the doubtful veracity of the Warren Commission's findings on the Kennedy assassination and summarizes some of the myriad theories that have been proposed in its stead. Focusing on the investigation by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 14,026 members
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  • Tremors - HD DVD Version (1989)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Fred Ward,  Rhonda Le Beck
    Director: Ron Underwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The race to higher ground is on when two handymen and a local seismology student discover that their little town of Perfection, Nevada is infested with stinky subterranean man-eating worms. A very well-done comedy-horror film that salutes a host of horror films from bygone years.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 270 members
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  • Tremors on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Fred Ward,  Rhonda Le Beck
    Director: Ron Underwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tremors didn't actually break any new ground (even though its tunnelling worm monsters certainly did), but it revved up the classic monster-movie formulas of the 1950s with such energetic enthusiasm and humour that it made everything old seem new again. It's also got a cast full of enjoyable actors ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,977 members
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  • The Big Picture (1989)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Emily Longstreth,  J.T. Walsh
    Director: Christopher Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Christopher Guest cowrote and directed The Big Picture, a solid spoof about the pitfalls of believing your own hype. Kevin Bacon plays a high-minded would-be filmmaker whose student movie wins a prestigious national award and an invitation to Hollywood. Before he knows it, he is being wined and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 25 members
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  • Lemon Sky (1988)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Casey Affleck,  Tom Atkins
    Director: Jan Egleson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    This made-for-television adaptation of Lanford Wilson's play stars Kevin Bacon as a troubled young man who is trying to come to terms with his unfortunate upbringing.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 34% from 5 members
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  • Planes, Trains And Automobiles on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  John Candy,  Laila Robins
    Director: John Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    All Neal Page (Steve Martin) wants to do is make it home from a business trip in New York City and spend Thanksgiving with his family in Chicago. Instead, he finds himself rerouted from New York's La Guardia Airport to Wichita, Kansas. With no other options, Neal decides to share a room in a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 12,589 members
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  • Footloose on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Lori Singer,  John Lithgow
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This classic tale of teen rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren (Kevin Bacon) and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small midwestern town, he's in for a real case of culture shock. Though ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,699 members
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  • New York, I Love You
    Starring: Carlos Acosta,  Eva Amurri,  Kevin Bacon
    Director: Yvan Attal,  Allen Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come to life in "New York, I Love You" - a collaboration of storytelling from some of today's most imaginative filmmakers and featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, ..read more »
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Kevin Bacon - watch online


  • He Said, She Said to Watch Now (1991)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Elizabeth Perkins,  Nathan Lane
    Director: Ken Kwapis,  Marisa Silver
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 115 minutes
    He says sex, she says romance. He says relationship, she says marriage. He says he won't but she hopes he will...lucky they both agree they've fallen in love! Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins are competing journalists who find love and success as battling co-hosts of their own talk show. But the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 8 members
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  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles to Watch Now (1987)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  John Candy,  Laila Robins
    Director: John Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 92 minutes
    Neal Page is an advertising executive who just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal Page gets is misery. Misery named Del Griffith - a loud mouthed, but nevertheless loveable, salesman who leads Neal on a cross-country, wild goose chase that keeps Neal ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 144 members
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Kevin Bacon facts

5 most recent films

Taking Chance - 3 stars
My One and Only - 2.5 stars
The Air I Breathe - 3.0 stars
Frost/Nixon - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Frost/Nixon - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Frost/Nixon - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Frost/Nixon - 4.0 stars
Tremors - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Apollo 13 - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Few Good Men, A - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Taking Chance - 3 stars
Lemon Sky - 2.0 stars
New York, I Love You - 2.0 stars
End of the Line - 2.0 stars
My One and Only - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Oliver Platt - 6 times - show films
John Candy - 5 times - show films
Gary Oldman - 4 times - show films
Kyra Sedgwick - 4 times - show films
Sissy Spacek - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ron Howard - 4 times - show films
Oliver Stone - 3 times - show films
John Hughes - 3 times - show films
Sean S. Cunningham - 2 times - show films
Rob Reiner - 2 times - show films