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  • Tremors
  • Tremors review by from South Glamorgan
    Rated - 5 stars Something is wrong under Perfection 20 April 2004
    ...he residents keep disappearing and nobody knows why. Handymen Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) and Valentine McKee (Kevin Bacon) have a plan – if they can ever manage to act...  
  • Tremors 2 - Aftershocks
  • Tremors 2 - Aftershocks review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor in flintshire
    Rated - 5 stars superb......... 1 March 2007
    ...this dvd is superb. Fred Ward is back fighting Graboids again. Kevin Bacon is not in this movie, but there is a new sidekick. Christopher Gartin fills the gap, as the ...  
  • Escape From Alcatraz
  • Escape From Alcatraz review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 26 October 2005
    ...hom he'll make his escape. Among his break-out buddies are the Anglin Brothers (Fred Ward and Jack Thibeau), with whom he'd served in other lockups, and several others w...  

Fred Ward - filmography


  • Coast To Coast on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Judy Davis,  Selma Blair
    Director: Paul Mazursky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    City by city, mile by mile, a married couple on the verge of a breakup travel across the country to revisit their tumultuous past and rediscover what it means to fall in and out of love - and maybe back again. With each new stop comes a new revelation for the couple - a chance to expose their ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 103 members
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  • Joe Dirt on DVD (2001)
    Starring: David Spade,  Dennis Miller,  Brittany Daniel
    Director: Dennie Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Full of raunchy, tasteless, hilarious gags, JOE DIRT follows its eponymous protagonist (David Spade) on the search for his long-lost parents. Working as the janitor at a radio station, he enlists the help of one of the deejays (Dennis Miller) to tell his story on the air: When he was eight years ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,283 member
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  • Corky Romano on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Christopher Penn,  Peter Berg,  Richard Roundtree
    Director: Rob Pritts
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Over the years, television's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE has been the playground and jumping off point for an impressive number of comic superstars who nimbly made the transition from television to the big screen, including John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Steve Martin. Recently that tradition has continued ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 309 members
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  • Dice (2 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Aidan Gillen,  Martin Cummings,  Gina McKee
    Director: Rachel Talalay
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dice tells the story of charismatic psychology teacher, Glenn Taylor (Aidan Gillen - The Vice, Queer as Folk), who manipulates people by teaching them how to live by the throw of a dice. When the small community is shattered by the death of student Sally Quine, Detective Patrick Styvesant (Martin ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 11 members
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  • Red Team on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Patrick Muldoon,  C. Thomas Howell,  Tim Thomerson
    Director: Jeremy Haft
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    While investigating the mysterious deaths of two notorious mass murderers, FBI agent Jason Chandler (Patrick Muldoon) discovers that many other serial killer suspects have recently vanished without trace. Chandler soon realises there's a killer slaughtering the serial killers....
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 17 members
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  • Circus on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Hannah,  Eddie Izzard,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Rob Walker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Conman Leo Garfield and his glamorous wife Lily are the coolest couple in town. They dream of an escape from the drudgery of everyday crime - they want a one-way boat trip to Cuba. Together, they mastermind the most audacious scam. Drawn into their web is an assortment of loud and tasteless ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 577 members
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  • First Do No Harm on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Fred Ward,  Seth Adkins
    Director: Jim Abrahams
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this alternately heartbreaking and uplifting drama inspired by actual events, a small town Midwest family discovers that their youngest son suffers from epilepsy. Left without hope after their insurance runs out, the mother presses on, studies everything she can find about the illness, and, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 309 members
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  • Short Cuts on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  Tim Robbins,  Madeline Stowe
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a springboard, American maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial, rage, and despair in the lives of several ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,290 members
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  • The Player on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Greta Scacchi,  Whoopi Goldberg
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Robert Altman's adaptation of Michael Tolkin's novel gives the notorious director a chance to address perhaps his greatest nemesis: the Hollywood studio system. Disguised as a thriller, the film assembles virtually every famous actor in Hollywood to create an exhilarating blend of real life and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,720 members
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  • Catchfire on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Dennis Hopper,  Dean Stockwell
    Director: Alan Smithee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ann Benton (Jodie Foster) is a self-possessed artist who stumbles across a mob hit in progress. She manages to escape and report the crime to the police but recognises Mafia soldier John Luponi (Dean Stockwell) at the station and takes off, becoming a fugitive. Meanwhile, mob boss Lino Avoca (..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 354 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 9,982 members
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  • Big Business on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Bette Midler,  Lily Tomlin,  Edward Herrmann
    Director: Jim Abrahams
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two sets of female twins are mixed up at birth. One set becomes the chief executives of a Manhattan conglomerate, while the other set succeeds at becoming poor country bumpkins. They all accidentally meet up at New York's Plaza Hotel, and from then on it's chaos all the way...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,646 member
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  • Off Limits on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Willem Dafoe,  Gregory Hines,  Fred Ward
    Director: Christopher Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Buck McGriff and Albaby Perkins are two tough, hard nosed cops looking for the killer of six Vietnamese prostitutes whose babies were fathered by American soldiers. Aided by Sister Nicole, they gather evidence which finally implicates a high-ranking American officer....
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 27 members
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  • The Right Stuff on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Sam Shepard,  Scott Glenn,  Dennis Quaid
    Director: Philip Kaufman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This epic chronicle of the seven pilots chosen to become astronauts for Project Mercury is based on the novel by Tom Wolfe (THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES) and directed by visionary filmmaker Philip Kaufman (QUILLS, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING).Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,628 members
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  • Uncommon Valour on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Fred Ward,  Randall Cobb
    Director: Ted Kotcheff
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With the financial backing of a wealthy Texan, Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) prepares to carry out a dangerous mission to find his son who is listed as "missing in action" in Vietnam. Five of his son's Marine buddies accompany him. The film also stars Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze, Fred Ward ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 474 members
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  • Southern Comfort on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Keith Carradine,  Powers Boothe,  Fred Ward
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 2,571 members
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  • Chaos Factor on DVD
    Starring: Antonio Sabato Jr.,  Fred Ward,  Kelly Rutherford
    Director: Terry Cunningham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    While clearing land mines in Cambodia, Army intelligence agent Jack Poynt makes a gruesome discovery. Not only does he inadvertently uncover a virtual killing field of toxically poisoned bodies - the remnants of a top secret CIA installation from the Vietnam era - he also uncovers an incriminating ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 15 members
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  • Abandon on DVD
    Starring: Katie Holmes,  Benjamin Bratt,  Charlie Hunnam
    Director: Stephen Gaghan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (TRAFFIC) makes his directorial debut with ABANDON, a dense, moody psychological thriller. Loosely based on the book ADAM'S FALL by Sean Desmond, ABANDON tells the troubled story of Katie (Katie Holmes), a college senior who's having a tough time keeping ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 751 members
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Fred Ward - watch online


  • The Player to Watch Now (1992)
    Starring: Tim Robbins,  Greta Scacchi,  Fred Ward
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 119 minutes
    Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 35 members
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Fred Ward facts

5 most recent films

Armored - 2.0 stars
The Gun - Complete Series - 2.5 stars
Coast To Coast - 2.5 stars
Summer Catch - 2.5 stars
Joe Dirt - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Tremors - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Escape From Alcatraz - 3.5 stars
Short Cuts - 3.5 stars
The Right Stuff - 3.5 stars
Tremors - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cinema Collection - Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 - 1.5 stars
Chaos Factor - 1.5 stars
Armored - 2.0 stars
Red Team - 2.0 stars
Dice - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Richard E. Grant - 3 times - show films
Dean Stockwell - 3 times - show films
Tim Robbins - 3 times - show films
Michael Gross - 3 times - show films
Dennis Hopper - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Altman - 4 times - show films
Andrew Davis - 2 times - show films
Ron Underwood - 2 times - show films
Philip Kaufman - 2 times - show films
Jim Abrahams - 2 times - show films