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  • Thompson bonded with Swayze over ballet past - 16 September 2009
    -Actress Lea Thompson bonded with heartthrob Patrick Swayze on the set of Red Dawn after they discovered their shared love of ballet.- -The pair starred in the 1984 classic alongside Charlie Sheen and Swayze's future Dirty Dancing co-star Jennifer Grey, and quickly be

Lea Thompson - what members say


  • Red Dawn
  • Red Dawn review by from Berkshire
    Rated - 3 stars Remembered this from when I was a kid! 19 July 2005
    ...Sheen and Patrick Swayze, some others are in there from the 80's Brat Pack like Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Space Camp). A good concept film made when the cold w...  
  • The Unknown Cyclist
  • The Unknown Cyclist review by LondonMatt from London, England
    Rated - 2 stars Some good acting but an abrupt conclusion 2 April 2005
    ...ly worthy is redeemed by some witty lines and some fine acting, especially from Lea Thompson. Unfortunately, just as there's some real character development with some revel...  
  • Back To The Future
  • Back To The Future review by A customer from Bath, England
    Rated - 4 stars Classic Sci-Fi Comedy 29 July 2004
    ...l J Fox and Christopher Lloyd are both fantastic and they get good support from Lea Thompson, James Tolkan and a hilarious Thomas F Wilson as Biff. This is charming fantasy...  

Lea Thompson - filmography


  • Splinterheads (2009)
    Starring: Thomas Middleditch,  Rachael Taylor,  Christopher McDonald
    Director: Brant Sersen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Justin Frost, is a twenty-something slacker who has decided that his "thing" is that he has no "thing" at all. When a small-time carnival rolls into town, he meets Galaxy, a gorgeous con artist who has more "things" going for her than anyone he has ever met. Galaxy takes Justin on a geo-caching ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • The Unspoken Truth on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Lea Thompson,  Patricia Kalember,  Robert Englund
    Director: Peter Werner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Although her parents disapprove Brianne is determined to marry Clay. At first the marriage is a success but gradually Clay becomes more and more physically and emotionally abusive to his family. One night in a bar a man tries to chat up Brianne and Clay shoots him dead. To try and deceive the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 64 members
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  • Article 99 on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Forest Whitaker,  Lea Thompson,  John Mahoney
    Director: Howard Deutch
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A doctor at a veteran's hospital tries to provide better care for his patients. Due to governmental catch-22's, the patients most in need of care are denied treatment. Doctors become con artists subverting the government by making all of their patients' ailments appear to be war-related so they ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 200 members
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  • Advance To Ground Zero on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Joe Pantoliano,  Martin Sheen,  Lea Thompson
    Director: Peter Markle
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    ADVANCE TO GROUND ZERO is based on the recent revelation that the US government, in the interests of scientific research, deliberately exposed servicemen to radiation during the Nevada atomic bomb tests of the 1950s. Martin Sheen plays a former military doctor, inexplicably suffering from sterility ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • Howard the Duck on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Lea Thompson,  Tim Robbins,  Jeffrey Jone
    Director: Willard Huyck
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Sassy, wise-cracking human sized duck Howard is going about his day to day life on his home planet, when an experiment involving a laser beam on far flung planet Earth drags him halfway across the cosmos to Cleveland, USA. Howard is understandably unsettled, but soon makes close friends with singer ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,083 member
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  • Back To The Future on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Crispin Glover,  Lea Thompson
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Features the popular film trilogy BACK TO THE FUTURE, BACK TO THE FUTURE - PART 2 and BACK TO THE FUTURE - PART 3. The first adventure sees a Californian teenager become the innocent victim of a local crackpot's invention - a time machine made from a DeLorean car. He finds himself in his hometown ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 48,642 members
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  • Red Dawn on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  C. Thomas Howell,  Patrick Swayze
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the heartland of America, Russian and Cuban paratroopers begin to drop outside while classes go on in the high school. When the soldiers begin killing everyone in sight, local teens take to the hills to avoid the new totalitarian regime established in their little town and, as we later learn, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,211 members
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  • Jaws 3 on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Louis Gossett Jr.,  Bess Armstrong,  Simon MacCorkindale
    Director: Joe Alves
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The third film in the successful JAWS franchise follows yet another great white shark with an appetite for humans, this time invading the opening ceremonies of a marine park in Florida. The brand new complex offers visitors the chance to view the undersea kingdom from the safety of glass tunnels on ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 3,482 members
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Lea Thompson facts

5 most recent films

Splinterheads - 3 stars
Caroline In The City - Series 4 - 2.5 stars
The Unknown Cyclist - 2.5 stars
Caroline In The City - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
The Unspoken Truth - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Back To The Future - 4.0 stars
Back To The Future Part 2 - 3.5 stars
Some Kind Of Wonderful - 3.5 stars
Back To The Future Part 3 - 3.5 stars
Caroline In The City - Series 2 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Splinterheads - 3 stars
Advance To Ground Zero - 3.0 stars
Casual Sex? - 2.0 stars
Jaws 3 - 2.5 stars
The Unknown Cyclist - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Christopher Lloyd - 3 times - show films
Amy Pietz - 3 times - show films
Eric Lutes - 3 times - show films
Michael J. Fox - 3 times - show films
Malcolm Gets - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Zemeckis - 3 times - show films
none - 2 times - show films
James Burrows - 2 times - show films
Howard Deutch - 2 times - show films
Harry Winer - 1 times - show films