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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 »
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  • Behind Enemy Lines on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Owen Wilson,  Gabriel Macht
    Director: John Moore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On a reconnaissance flight over eastern Europe, disillusioned naval pilot Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his partner, Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht), photograph a scene they were not meant to see. When their plane is shot down and Stackhouse is quickly captured and executed, Burnett must struggle to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,766 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 3,384 members
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  • Heartbreakers on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Jennifer Love Hewitt,  Ray Liotta
    Director: David Mirkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    HEARTBREAKERS follows Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a mother and daughter who are expert grifters, through one after another of their perfectly executed scams. Max gets wealthy men to fall in love with her and marry her, then Page seduces them, setting up grounds for Max ..read more »
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  • The Mexican on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Brad Pitt,  Julia Roberts,  James Gandolfini
    Director: Gore Verbinski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts have star power to burn in Gore Verbinski's offbeat THE MEXICAN, about the search for a cursed legendary gun. Pitt stars as Jerry Welbach, a small-time loser who is given no choice but to run an errand for a powerful boss (Bob Balaban) who will have him killed if he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 6,545 members
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  • Under Suspicion on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Gene Hackman,  Thomas Jane
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 3,034 members
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  • Antz on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Sylvester Stallone,  Woody Allen
    Director: Eric Darnell,  Tim Johnson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Central Park ant drone Z longs to be an individual of accomplishment, but Z's colony is a society that puts the value of the colony over personal achievement. Young Z sets his sites on the colony's Queen daughter Bala- who is uninterested until Z successfully mounts a revolution within the colony ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10,479 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 22,889 members
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  • Absolute Power on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Gene Hackman,  Ed Harris
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this slick political thriller, an emotionally disconnected, aesthetically refined master thief is out for one final score before retiring to his treasure-lined hideaway. But during a robbery at a mansion near Washington, he witnesses a bizarre sex murder involving the President of the United ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,987 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 885 members
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  • The Birdcage on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Robin Williams,  Gene Hackman,  Dianne Wiest
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Mike Nichols's hilarious remake of the 1978 French comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, Robin Williams stars as Armand Goldman, a gay cabaret owner who lives in Miami's South Beach with his partner, Albert (Nathan Lane), the club's star performer. Armand and Albert must try in vain to pass as a typical ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,706 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 1,269 member
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  • Extreme Measures on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Hugh Grant,  Gene Hackman,  Sarah Jessica Parker
    Director: Michael Apted
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At New York's Gramercy Hospital, a homeless man under the care of English doctor Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) dies in a horrific manner. Soon both the patient and his file mysteriously disappear. The puzzled Luthan is told by a superior to forget about it and move on. Undaunted, Luthan conducts his own ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,104 members
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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 12,172 members
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  • Crimson Tide on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Gene Hackman,  George Dzundza
    Director: Tony Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Russian rebels gain control of nuclear weapons in the USSR, the United States retaliates by deploying the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine commanded by Captain Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman). Veteran soldier and Naval legend Ramsey selects Lt. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)--a Harvard ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,529 members
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  • The Quick And The Dead on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Gene Hackman,  Russell Crowe
    Director: Sam Raimi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Herod is the corrupt mayor of the Western town of Redemption. A haven for lawbreakers of every type. To enforce his position of absolute power he hosts a shootout contest every year with a cash prize for the winner. Herod always wins...until sexy Ellen rides into town with a six-gun on her shapely ..read more »
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  • Wyatt Earp on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Kevin Costner,  Dennis Quaid,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships with his ..read more »
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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 »
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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 19 members
    Due for release on 29th March 2010
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  • Unforgiven on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Gene Hackman,  Morgan Freeman
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 23,416 members
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  • Company Business on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Director: Nicholas Meyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An ex-CIA agent, now involved in industrial espionage, his last job being for a cosmetics firm, is recalled by the agency to escort and swap a former Soviet spy, now languishing in prison, along with $2 million in South American drug money. When the arrangement goes awry and the two realise that ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 206 members
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  • Narrow Margin on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Anne Archer,  James B. Sikking
    Director: Peter Hyams
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A woman on a blind date (Anne Archer) has her life thrown into confusion and danger when her escort is slain by mob thugs. As the key witness to the murder, she becomes the responsibility of Robert Caulfield (Gene Hackman), a Los Angeles D.A., who travels to remote Canadian cabin to protect her so ..read more »
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  • Postcards From The Edge on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Meryl Streep,  Dennis Quaid,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An actress with a drug and alcohol problem, recovering from a near fatal overdose, accepts a minor role in a film on the condition that she lives with a responsible person during her rehabilitation. That 'person' is her mother, a big star from the 50's who sees herself in her daughter. Both must ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,102 member
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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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  • Another Woman on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Gena Rowlands,  Gene Hackman,  John Houseman
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A university professor, Marion Post is experiencing a type of midlife crisis, so she rents an apartment in order to write a book. The apartment is next to a psychiatrist's office, and she inadvertently hears what transpires between the doctor and some of her patients. She becomes obsessed with the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 969 members
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  • Bat 21 on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Danny Glover,  Jerry Reed
    Director: Peter Markle
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    During the Vietnam war, a U.S. observation plane is hit by a V.C. missile. The only survivor of the crew is the Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton..
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 838 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 »
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  • Best Shot on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Dennis Hopper,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: David Anspaugh
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    BEST SHOT (aka HOOSIERS) is based on the incredible true story of a small-town high-school basketball team and their journey to become Indiana State Champs in 1954. The film follows the team's controversial coach, Norman Dale (Gene Hackman), a tough yet patient man who was not afraid to make big ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 394 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 287 members
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  • Under Fire on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Gene Hackman,  Joanna Cassidy
    Director: Roger Spottiswoode
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A pair of news correspondents chronicling the final days of the corrupt Samoza Regime in Nicaragua find themselves under fire from both sides. After an American news reporter is killed in Nicaragua, two of his fellow journalists choose to participate actively in the revolution. But as the Somoza ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 302 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 »
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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 »
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  • March Or Die on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Terence Hill,  Max von Sydow
    Director: Dick Richards
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Expelled from West Point, a man enlists in the French Foreign Legion and commands a motley crew of men assigned to protect an archaeological expedition. Things don't go as planned. Filmed in the Sahara Desert and starring Gene Hackman.
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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 »
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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 »
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  • The Poseidon Adventure on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Ernest Borgnine,  Carol Lynley
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon is on a magnificent voyage from New York to Athens, Greece. Unfortunately, disaster befalls passengers and crew when the cruise ship is capsized by a huge tidal wave brought on by a submarine-induced earthquake. Though the casualties are many, 10 ..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 »
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  • Bonnie And Clyde on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Faye Dunaway,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Arthur Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the true-life exploits of the notorious depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, BONNIE AND CLYDE has become a part of popular American culture and is recognized as one of the most violent films to come out of mainstream Hollywood. Bonnie is bored with life and wants a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 8,169 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 87 members
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  • Split Decisions on DVD
    Starring: Craig Sheffer,  Jeff Fahey,  Gene Hackman
    Director: David Drury
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The 'Fighting McGuinns' are a real tough boxing family suffering the pain of family conflict. It is only when the eldest son is murdered for refusing to fix a fight that the family comes together, for their salvation lies not in the fate of a boxing match, but in the future of their family. PLEASE ..read more »
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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

Tony Lo Bianco - 8 times - show films
Fernando Rey - 8 times - show films
Roy Scheider - 8 times - show films
Christopher Reeve - 6 times - show films
Morgan Freeman - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Frankenheimer - 8 times - show films
William Friedkin - 8 times - show films
Clint Eastwood - 6 times - show films
Richard Donner - 4 times - show films
Arthur Penn - 4 times - show films