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  • Bonnie And Clyde
  • Bonnie And Clyde review by from Colchester, England
    Rated - 4 stars 13 December 2004
    ...ie and Clyde, who along with the infamous Barrow gang (excellently portrayed by Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard and Estelle Parsons) travel through 1920's USA robbing bank...  
  • Unforgiven
  • Unforgiven review by A customer from Kidlington, Oxon
    Rated - 5 stars A reminder of how great a star Clint Eastwood is 15 September 2003
    ... who returns to crime on a two-wrongs-will-correct-the-prob lem mission against Gene Hackman, the corrupt mayor. While Hackman is masterful, Clint Eastwood remains the mast...  
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Young Frankenstein review by from N. Yorkshire
    Rated - 5 stars One of the best 14 April 2004
    ... Peter Boyle plays a remarkably erudite monster, despite never speaking, and Gene Hackman is blindingly funny as the hermit who never sees. Old gags, new gags, and ab...  

Gene Hackman - filmography


  • Runaway Jury on DVD (2003)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Gene Hackman,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Gary Fleder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Gary Fleder (THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD, KISS THE GIRLS) tackles best-selling novelist John Grisham's tale of jury manipulation in RUNAWAY JURY. Jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) can spin any jury in favour of his client. At least he always could before. But his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 38,800 members
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  • Heist on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Danny De Vito,  Delroy Lindo
    Director: David Mamet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written and directed by David Mamet, HEIST is a crime thriller that follows aging master thief Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) as he plans one last robbery before literally sailing off into the sunset. What seems like the perfect heist gets complicated, however, when Joe's "business" partner, Bergman (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,391 members
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  • Under Suspicion on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Gene Hackman,  Thomas Jane
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Director Stephen Hopkins' (LOST IN SPACE) crime thriller is a remake of the 1981 French film GARDE A VUE, and is adapted from John William Wainwright's novel BRAINWASH. On the evening of the San Sebastian festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, wealthy tax attorney Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman) is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,044 members
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  • Enemy Of The State on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Gene Hackman,  Jon Voight
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Dean (Will Smith) is a labor lawyer who is unknowingly in possession of evidence related to a serious politically motivated crime. Government agents eager to hide their guilt believe that Dean is on to them, and proceed to turn his life upside-down, ruin his reputation, and frame him for ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 22,984 members
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  • Twilight on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Susan Sarandon,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 899 members
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  • The Chamber on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Chris O'Donnell,  Faye Dunaway
    Director: James Foley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An idealistic young lawyer, Adam Hall (O'Donnell) travels to Mississippi to plea for the life of an inmate scheduled to die in the gas chamber in four weeks. The condemned man, an unrepentant bigot, happens to be the attorney's estranged grandfather Sam Cayhall (Hackman). This suspenseful thriller ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,273 member
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  • Get Shorty on DVD (1995)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Gene Hackman,  Rene Russo
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This slick adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1990 novel features John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who's been sent to L.A. to collect on a bad debt from trash movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), the maker of the stunning flops "Grotesque" and "Slime People." But this is Harry's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 12,209 members
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  • The Firm on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jeanne Tripplehorn,  Ed Harris
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 14,966 members
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  • Firm, The - BLU-RAY Version (1993)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jeanne Tripplehorn,  Ed Harris
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays Mitch McDeere, an ambitious young lawyer who accepts an unmatchable offer from a Memphis law firm only to discover that the deal was too good to be true. As he becomes tangled in a web of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 20 members
    Due for release on 29th March 2010
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  • Class Action on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,  Joanna Merlin
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A father and daughter, both attorneys, are on opposite sides in the courtroom. He's on the prosecuting side and she's for the defence. As father and daughter they become divided, and as attorneys, endangered by the truth. Gene Hackman plays Jedediah Tucker Ward an esteemed trial attorney who has ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 462 members
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  • The Package on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Joanna Cassidy,  John Heard
    Director: Andrew Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sgt. Johnny Gallagher is severely reprimanded after a breach in security allowed a terrorist attack on a disarmament conference. He is given the menial task of escorting a court-martialled soldier back to America. On the way he is beaten up and the soldier absconds. His investigations lead Johnny ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 368 members
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  • No Way Out on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Kevin Costner,  Sean Young
    Director: Roger Donaldson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this taut remake of THE BIG CLOCK, Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner), a Naval intelligence officer, begins dating an alluring woman (Sean Young) who happens to be the girlfriend of his boss--the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman). When the woman is murdered, the Secretary assigns the task of tracking ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,679 members
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  • Target on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Matt Dillon,  Herbert Berghof
    Director: Arthur Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon star as father and son in this unique blend of family relationships and international intrigue. Walter Lloyd (Hackman) is a simple businessman raising his normal family in a Texas suburb. He and his wife, Donna, love each other very much. Walter and his son, however, do ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 289 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 477 members
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  • Superman on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Christopher Reeve,  Gene Hackman,  Marlon Brando
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Richard Donner's blockbuster, the Superman myth is well told, from his birth on the doomed planet Krypton to his childhood in a small Kansas town and beyond. After he comes of age, young Clark Kent, as his Earth parents have named him, learns the truth of his alien birth on a voyage of discovery ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 14,354 members
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  • Young Frankenstein on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Gene Wilder,  Peter Boyle,  Marty Feldman
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An affectionate parody that pays homage to the FRANKENSTEIN films (from the novel FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley) directed by James Whale in the 1930s, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is both a zany comedy and cinematic tour de force. Written by director Mel Brooks and the star of the film, Gene Wilder, YOUNG ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 6,014 members
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  • Scarecrow (1973)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Al Pacino,  Eileen Brennan
    Director: Jerry Schatzberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Former photographer Jerry Schatzberg follows up his explosive directorial debut THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK with SCARECROW, which captured the Grand Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Opening on a desolate highway, two drifters stumble into each other, and decide to hitchhike together across the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 65% from 48 members
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  • The Hunting Party (1971)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Gene Hackman,  Candice Bergen
    Director: Don Medford
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger keeps his beautiful young wife Melissa like a part of his property, subdued to his will. But one day she's kidnapped by the famous outlaw Frank Calder - just to teach him reading, so he tells her. Calder doesn't know or care who's wife she is. He takes ..read more »
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  • Marooned on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  Richard Crenna,  David Janssen
    Director: John Sturges
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Gregory Peck stars as Charles Keith, the ground-based supervisor of a crew of astronauts led by mission commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna) conducting a series of endurance tests while in space. When Keith orders the ship to reenter earth's atmosphere, their craft experiences a mechanical problem,..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 226 members
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  • Lilith on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Peter Fonda,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Robert Rossen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is an idealistic young war veteran who has just begun working as a therapist in a mental institution in his Maryland hometown. His first patient is a sex-obsessed schizophrenic named Lilith (Jean Seberg), who quickly becomes smitten with him. At first, Vincent ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 88 members
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  • Under Suspicion to Watch Now (2000)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Gene Hackman,  Thomas Jane
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Director Stephen Hopkins' (LOST IN SPACE) crime thriller is a remake of the 1981 French film GARDE A VUE, and is adapted from John William Wainwright's novel BRAINWASH. On the evening of the San Sebastian festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico, wealthy tax attorney Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman) is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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Gene Hackman facts

5 most recent films

Welcome To Mooseport - 2.5 stars
Runaway Jury - 3.5 stars
Behind Enemy Lines - 3.5 stars
Heist - 3.0 stars
Heartbreakers - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Bridge Too Far, A - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Unforgiven - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Enemy Of The State - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Unforgiven - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Unforgiven - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Hunting Party - 2.0 stars
Split Decisions - 2.0 stars
Firm, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
I Knew it was You - 4.5 stars
Marooned - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Fernando Rey - 8 times - show films
Roy Scheider - 8 times - show films
Tony Lo Bianco - 8 times - show films
Morgan Freeman - 7 times - show films
Clint Eastwood - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

William Friedkin - 8 times - show films
John Frankenheimer - 8 times - show films
Clint Eastwood - 6 times - show films
Tony Scott - 4 times - show films
Richard Donner - 4 times - show films


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