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Gene Hackman quizzed by cops over street bust-up -
31 October 2012
-Actor Gene Hackman was quizzed by cops on Tuesday (30Oct12) after allegedly slapping a homeless man who swore at his wife.-The Royal Tenenbaums star lost his temper after a man, identified by TMZ.com editors as Bruce Becker, approached Hackman and his wife Betsy Arak
Gene Hackman - what members say
review by from Colchester, England
13 December 2004
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A reminder of how great a star Clint Eastwood is 15 September 2003
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One of the best 14 April 2004
Gene Hackman - filmography
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Welcome To Mooseport
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Christine Baranski, Maura Tierney, Gene Hackman
Director: Donald Petrie
Certificate: 
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Comedy about the politics of small-town life starring Gene Hackman as former US President Monroe Cole, who has retired to the small town of Mooseport in rural New England to relax and write his memoirs after losing the recent election. His neighbours convince him to run for mayor of the town - and, ..read more »

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Runaway Jury
(2003)
Starring: Jennifer Beals, John Cusack, Bruce Davison
Director: Gary Fleder
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Gary Fleder's film is based on the novel by John Grisham but with a slight change in story: instead of the tobacco industry, the filmmakers decided to use the firearms industry. Attorney, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman) is hired by the wife of a man who died in a shooting. She wants to sue the ..read more »

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Runaway Jury - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: John Cusack, Bruce Davison, Dustin Hoffman
Director: Gary Fleder
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Gary Fleder's film is based on the novel by John Grisham but with a slight change in story: instead of the tobacco industry, the filmmakers decided to use the firearms industry. Attorney, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman) is hired by the wife of a man who died in a shooting. She wants to sue the ..read more »

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The Royal Tenenbaums
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Danny Glover, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: Wes Anderson
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Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children--Chas, Richie, and Margot--they were a family of geniuses and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have had a preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and ..read more »

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Behind Enemy Lines - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: David Keith, Gabriel Macht, Joaquim De Almeida
Director: John Moore
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Hollywood war drama inspired by the story of Scott O'Grady, the US fighter pilot who was shot down over Bosnia in 1995 and managed to find his way back to base without being captured. After photographing some Bosnian Serb troops hidden in a forest, Lieutenant Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) and his co-..read more »

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Heartbreakers
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta
Director: David Mirkin
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Maxine Connors (Sigourney Weaver) and daughter Paige (Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a successful con-artist double act. Scheming mom Maxine lures rich men to the altar only to set up a seduction via her daughter that guarantees a hefty divorce settlement a little time later. Some debts to clear, Maxine ..read more »

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Heist
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, Danny De Vito
Director: David Mamet
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Master thief Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) is ready to retire and has agreed with his fence Mickey Bergman (Danny DeVito) to carry out one last job. Bergman worries that Moore might double-cross him, so he sends his nephew Jimmy Silk (Sam Rockwell) along as insurance. But Silk then becomes involved with ..read more »

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The Mexican
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Bob Balaban, Michael Cerveris, Gene Hackman
Director: Gore Verbinski
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Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt) is in a dilemma. His mafia boss has ordered him to go to Mexico and collect a priceless antique pistol called 'The Mexican', while his girlfriend Samantha (Julia Roberts) has demanded that he finish his association with the mafia altogether. What should he do? Jerry opts ..read more »

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Under Suspicion
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Thomas Jane, Morgan Freeman, Isabel Algaz
Director: Stephen Hopkins
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It's carnival time in Puerto Rico, but three young women have been found dead and the killer is still on the loose. Harry Hearst (Gene Hackman) is a rich and successful lawyer who discovers one of the bodies and is consequently asked by police chief Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman) to help with his ..read more »

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The Replacements
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Rhys Ifans, Brett Cullen
Director: Howard Deutch
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Comedy set during the infamous American football players' strike of the 1980s. Keanu Reeves is Shane Falco, a has-been quarterback asked to join up with veteran coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to fill in for the striking pro players. With Rhys Ifans as the hard drinking, chain smoking kicker, ..read more »

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Enemy Of The State
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
Director: Tony Scott
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The National Security Agency is a covert organisation whose secret activities are protected by a state-of-the-art surveillance network operated by a team of first-rank techno-boffins. When a videotape proving their involvement in a recent political assassination falls into the hands of Washington ..read more »

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Antz
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Danny Glover, Sharon Stone, Danny Glo
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
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Z (voiced by Woody Allen) is a neurotic ant who lives and works in a colony beneath New York's Central Park. Z falls in love with Princess Bala (Sharon Stone) after she dances with him incognito at the workers' bar, and swaps places with his army friend Weaver (Sylvester Stallone) in the hope of ..read more »

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Enemy Of The State - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
Director: Tony Scott
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The National Security Agency is a covert organisation whose secret activities are protected by a state-of-the-art surveillance network operated by a team of first-rank techno-boffins. When a videotape proving their involvement in a recent political assassination falls into the hands of Washington ..read more »

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Absolute Power - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Laura Linney, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Whilst on a job, burglar Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) witnesses the President of the United States, Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman), committing murder in the apartment of wealthy businessman Walter Sullivan. Richmond kills Sullivan's wife, with whom he was having an affair, and then makes it look ..read more »

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Absolute Power
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Laura Linney, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Clint Eastwood
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In this thriller, an aging cat burglar becomes a crusader embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game involving murder and a government cover-up. Adapted by distinguished scenarist William Goldman from a novel by David Baldacci and featuring a powerful all-star cast, the story works at different ..read more »

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Twilight
(1997)
Starring: James Garner, Paul Newman, Gene Hackman
Director: Robert Benton
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The Nobody's Fool (1994) team of Paul Newman, director Robert Benton, and scripter Richard Russo reassembled for this L.A. detective drama, beginning with a Puerto Vallarta prologue showing private eye Harry Ross (Newman) accidentally shot by 17-year-old Mel Ames (Reese Witherspoon) during his ..read more »

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Extreme Measures
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Paul Guilfoyle, David Morse, Gene Hackman
Director: Michael Apted
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Comic leading man Hugh Grant gets serious in this drama about a physician who uncovers a truly disturbing secret. Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor serving a residence in a hospital in New York City, is very puzzled by a patient brought to the emergency room one night. Naked, disoriented, ..read more »

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The Chamber
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Lela Rochon, Faye Dunaway, Chris O'Donnell
Director: James Foley
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A gritty adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel. Former Ku Klux Klan member Sam Cayhall (Gene Hackman) has been on death row for nearly thirty years after pleading guilty to bombing a civil rights leader and killing his children. With just 28 days until his execution, Sam's grandson Adam ..read more »

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The Birdcage
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Christine Baranski, Dan Futterman
Director: Mike Nichols
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Director Mike Nichols teams up with his former partner/screenwriter Elaine May for the first time in many years and for the first time together in films to create this sophisticated, remake of the phenomenally popular French musical farce La Cage aux Folles that stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, ..read more »

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Crimson Tide
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza
Director: Tony Scott
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Combat veteran Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his second-in-command Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) are the chief officers on board US nuclear submarine Crimson Tide. They are heading for Russia, ready to intervene in an escalating crisis which could result in the outbreak of World War 3. When they ..read more »

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The Quick and the Dead - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Pat Hingle, Sharon Stone, Lance Henriksen
Director: Sam Raimi
Certificate: 
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Mayor Herod (Gene Hackman) has turned the town of Redemption from a friendly and safe place into a haven for criminals and thugs. In return for keeping these men on the streets, Herod receives fifty cents out of every dollar they make. Every year he holds a quick-draw shoot-out contest with a huge ..read more »

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Crimson Tide - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza
Director: Tony Scott
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Combat veteran Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his second-in-command Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) are the chief officers on board US nuclear submarine Crimson Tide. They are heading for Russia, ready to intervene in an escalating crisis which could result in the outbreak of World War 3. When they ..read more »

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Get Shorty - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: John Travolta, David Paymer, Danny De Vito
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Certificate: 
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Film-mad mobster Chili Palmer (John Travolta) goes AWOL from his intended assignment to track down B-Movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), who has racked up gambling debts all over Las Vegas. Dazzled by the Hollywood lights, Palmer forgets his debt-collecting duties, deciding instead to pitch ..read more »

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The Quick and the Dead
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Pat Hingle, Sharon Stone, Lance Henriksen
Director: Sam Raimi
Certificate: 
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Mayor Herod (Gene Hackman) has turned the town of Redemption from a friendly and safe place into a haven for criminals and thugs. In return for keeping these men on the streets, Herod receives fifty cents out of every dollar they make. Every year he holds a quick-draw shoot-out contest with a huge ..read more »

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Get Shorty
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: John Travolta, David Paymer, Danny De Vito
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to ..read more »

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Wyatt Earp
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Epic re-telling of the life of Wyatt Earp from law student, through petty crook to lawman and entrepreneur. The much-filmed Gunfight at the OK Corral is only a minor part of the tale and almost slips by without anyone noticing. Kevin Costner stars as the famous lawman and most feared gunslinger of ..read more »

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Wyatt Earp - Blu-ray
(1994)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Certificate: 
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Epic re-telling of the life of Wyatt Earp from law student, through petty crook to lawman and entrepreneur. The much-filmed Gunfight at the OK Corral is only a minor part of the tale and almost slips by without anyone noticing. Kevin Costner stars as the famous lawman and most feared gunslinger of ..read more »

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Geronimo - An American Legend
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Matt Damon, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall
Director: Walter Hill
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Walter Hill's revisionist western tells the story of the native American chief Geronimo (Wes Studi) after his homeland is overrun by the migrant whites. Betrayed by General George Crook (Gene Hackman), Geronimo gathers a small group of fellow warriors and together they leave their reservation and ..read more »

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The Firm
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Paul Sorvino, Hal Holbrook, David Stra
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Ex-lawyer, John Grisham's first novel is brought to the screen by Sydney Pollack. Hot shot Harvard law graduate Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is headhunted and enrolled by a small firm of lawyers based away from New York City, offering him a large pay package. When the FBI tell Mitch that the firm is ..read more »

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The Firm - Blu-ray
(1993)
Starring: Paul Sorvino, Hal Holbrook, Gene Hackman
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Ex-lawyer, John Grisham's first novel is brought to the screen by Sydney Pollack. Hot shot Harvard law graduate Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is headhunted and enrolled by a small firm of lawyers based away from New York City, offering him a large pay package. When the FBI tell Mitch that the firm is ..read more »

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Unforgiven - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman
Director: Clint Eastwood
Certificate: 
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In 1880s Kansas, ageing gunslinger-turned-farmer William Munny (Clint Eastwood) reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement to help Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) collect the bounty on a wanted murderer. The man in question cut up a prostitute in a lawless town lorded over by the corrupt Sheriff ..read more »

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Unforgiven
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff Little Bill Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big ..read more »

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Company Business
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gene Hackman
Director: Nicholas Meyer
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An ex-CIA agent (Gene Hackman) is called back for a final assignment: to effect an exchange of spies with the Soviet Government. At the last minute, Hackman realises that the American spy is a fake and that he and the Soviet spy must go on the run from both sides.

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Narrow Margin
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Gene Hackman, M. Emmet Walsh, Anne Archer
Director: Peter Hyams
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Caulfield (Gene Hackman) is a district attorney determined to nail an old adversary. He gets his chance when Carol Hunnicutt (Anne Archer) witnesses a murder committed by the man - but a pack of assassins are determined to kill her before she can testify. Caulfield and Carol take refuge on a train ..read more »

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Class Action
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Joanna Merlin, Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Director: Michael Apted
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Gene Hackman plays a Civil Liberties lawyer who only fights for the underdogs in order to be on the front cover of 'Time' Magazine. His daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) is an up and coming lawyer who opposes her father's views. Inevitably they face each other in court - a case which Hackman ..read more »

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Postcards from the Edge
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Hackman, Rene Assa
Director: Mike Nichols
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Based on actress Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, this darkly comic drama focuses on the strained relationship between showbiz mother and daughter, Doris Mann (Shirley Maclaine) and Suzanne Vale (Meryl Streep). Tensions between the two are brought to a head when Suzanne, fresh out of ..read more »

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The Package
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Kevin Crowley, Anatoly Davydov, Joanna Cassidy
Director: Andrew Davis
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Sergeant Gallagher (Gene Hackman) has been assigned to take a court-martialled serviceman back to the States. However, he escapes and takes on a new identity. With the help of his ex-wife (Joanne Cassidy), Gallagher sets out on his own investigation, stumbling upon a conspiracy which reaches the ..read more »

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Bat 21
(1988)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed
Director: Peter Markle
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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..

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Another Woman
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Harris Yulin, Martha Plimpton, Ian Holm
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's 17th film. Gena Rowland plays Marion, an academic who rents a flat in which to write a book on philosophy and becomes intrigued by conversations she overhears from a psychologist's office next door. One patient, Hope (Mia Farrow), has a particular effect on Marion forcing her to re-..read more »

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Mississippi Burning
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Michael Rooker, Badja Djola, R. Lee Ermey
Director: Alan Parker
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Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem Dafoe (younger, idealistic). A Southerner himself, ..read more »

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No Way Out
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Sean Young, Howard Duff, Will Patton
Director: Roger Donaldson
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Navy intelligence officer Lt Farrell (Kevin Costner) is called into the Pentagon and assigned to investigate the murder of the Defence Secretary's mistress (Sean Young). Trouble is, Farrell was also having an affair with the dead woman and all the evidence he uncovers in his investigation seems to ..read more »

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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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Heeding the emotional appeal of a 12 year-old boy, Superman agrees to rid the world of all nuclear weapons. Arch-villain Lex Luthor, however, has other ideas. Now an enterprising nuclear arms dealer, Luthor attempts to thwart the peace plan by creating the ultimate henchman in the fearsome form of ..read more »

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Hoosiers
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Gene Hackman
Director: David Anspaugh
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An unexpected late-1986 box-office hit, Hoosiers tells the true story of a group of underdogs who become champions. Set in the 1950s, Hoosiers is about a hard-luck, unemployed college basketball coach (Gene Hackman) who gets a chance to coach a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team. Facing ..read more »

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Twice in a Lifetime
(1985)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Bud Yorkin
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A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid-and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also ..read more »

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Target
(1985)
Starring: Guy Boyd, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt
Director: Arthur Penn
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Walter Llloyd (Gene Hackman) is an unassuming owner of a Texan lumberyard. When Walter's wife Donna (Gayle Hunnicutt) is kidnapped whilst on a trip to Paris. he immediately travels there with his son, Chris (Matt Dillon). But Chris knows nothing of his father's past and is shocked to discover that ..read more »

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Eureka
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Theresa Russell, Mickey Rourke, Rutger Hauer
Director: Nicolas Roeg
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Idiosyncratic thriller directed by Nicholas Roeg starring Gene Hackman as Jack McCann, a wealthy gold prospector who surveys the world from his luxurious Caribbean island home, 'Eureka'. Determined to guard his fortune from business competitors, and engaged in a devouring relationship with his ..read more »

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Under Fire
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman, Nick Nolte
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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Nicaragua, 1979, and three US journalists land in the country to cover the fall of the Somoza government. When one of the three, Alex Grazier (Gene Hackman), then returns home to become a television anchorman, the way is cleared for news photograper Russell Price (Nick Nolte) to move in on his girl,..read more »

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Uncommon Valour
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Reb Brown, Robert Stack, Tim Thomerson
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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After 10 years of going through the right channels to search for his son who has been listed as missing in action in Vietnam, Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) decides he must take matters into his own hands and go to Vietnam himself. He finds financial backing in the form of a Texas oil tycoon (..read more »

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Superman II
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Jack O'Hallor, Ned Beatty, Christopher Reeve
Director: Richard Lester, Richard Donner
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Director Richard Lester provides a slightly tongue-in-cheek sequel to 'Superman - The Movie'. Superman (Christopher Reeve) continues to outstrip speeding bullets and leap tall buildings in a single bound, this time while preventing three arch-enemies from space from achieving world domination.

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Superman
(1978)
Starring: Trevor Howar, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp
Director: Richard Donner
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Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where ..read more »

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Superman - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Trevor Howard
Director: Richard Donner
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A baby from the planet Krypton develops superhuman powers under Earth's yellow sun. As an adult (Christopher Reeve) he dons red cape and pants, and flies across the world doing good deeds, whilst also hiding behind the alias of mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent. Fellow journalist Lois Lane (Margot ..read more »

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March Or Die
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Terence Hill, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm
Director: Dick Richards
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In 1918, Major Foster (Gene Hackman) of the French Foreign Legion is recommended to accompany and protect the archaeological expedition being led by Marneau (Max Von Sydow). Foster, who regards Marneau's activities as little better than grave robbing, reluctantly obeys, but the excavation offends ..read more »

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Bite The Bullet
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Paul Stewart, James Coburn, Ian Bannen
Director: Richard Brooks
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Nine people take part in a 700 mile endurance horse race across the American West. The contestants include old friends Sam Clayon (Gene Hackman) and Luke Matthews (James Coburn), as well as the fiesty Miss Jones (Candice Bergen). Written and directed by Richard Brooks ('Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', '..read more »

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Night Moves
(1975)
Starring: Harris Yulin, Gene Hackman, James Woods
Director: Arthur Penn
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Private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is dedicated to his job, but his dedication does not make him happy or powerful in his personal life, and his wife (Susan Clark) is cheating on him. Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her trust-funded daughter Delly (Melanie ..read more »

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The Conversation
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Made between The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), and in part an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's art-movie classic Blow-Up (1966), The Conversation was a return to small-scale art films for Francis Ford Coppola. Sound surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to ..read more »

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Young Frankenstein
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, Gene Hackman
Director: Mel Brooks
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In this spoof of Mary Shelley's gothic tale, the grandson of Victor Frankenstein, a neurosurgeon, has spent his life living down the legend of his grandfather, even changing the pronunciation of his name. When he discovers his grandfather's diary, he begins to feel differently, and returns to the ..read more »

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Scarecrow
(1973)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Eileen Brennan
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
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Drama starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. Trying to hitch a ride on a desolate California road, fresh-out-of-prison Max (Hackman) meets ex-sailor Lion (Al Pacino). They are both heading east, as Max dreams of opening a car wash in Pittsburgh and Lion believes that the wife and child he left behind ..read more »

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The Poseidon Adventure
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Carol Lynley, Eric Shea, Jack Albertson
Director: Ronald Neame
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When a luxury liner is upturned by a tidal wave on New Year's Eve, ten survivors struggle to stay alive as they seek a means of escape. Resourceful man of the cloth Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) assumes responsibility for his fellow passengers, who include a pop singer, an elderly Jewish ..read more »

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The Hunting Party
(1971)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen
Director: Don Medford
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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: James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Gene Hackman
Director: John Sturges
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John Sturges' tense drama is based on the novel by Martin Caidin and won an Academy Award for Special Visual Effects. Whilst on an extended space mission, three astronauts - crew commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), scientist/astronaut Clayton Stone (James Franciscus) and pilot Buzz Lloyd (Gene ..read more »

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Downhill Racer
(1969)
Starring: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.

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Bonnie and Clyde - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder, Clyde Howdy
Director: Arthur Penn
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Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway star in Arthur Penn's lauded crime drama based on the true story of outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. In the 1930s, car thief Clyde (Beatty) teams up with Bonnie (Dunaway), the daughter of one of his victims, and together they become notorious bank robbers and ..read more »

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Bonnie and Clyde
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder, Clyde Howdy
Director: Arthur Penn
Certificate: 
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Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true ..read more »

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Hawaii
(1966)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris
Director: George Roy Hill
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Hawaii hadn't even begun filming when director Fred Zinnemann was replaced by George Roy Hill; similarly, the role intended for Charlton Heston ended up being played by Richard Harris (though Heston would eventually star in the 1970 sequel, The Hawaiians). Based on James A. Michener's best-selling ..read more »

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Lilith
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Peter Fonda, James Patterson, Jessica Walter
Director: Robert Rossen
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Vincent Bruce (Warren Beatty) is a Korean War veteran who becomes an occupational therapist in a private mental hospital that cares for wealthy, schizophrenic clientele. He slowly begins to fall for Lilith Arthur (Jean Seberg), a patient who is mentally locked in her own little world. Vincent ..read more »

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Split Decisions
on DVD
Starring: Craig Sheffer, Jeff Fahey, Gene Hackman
Director: David Drury
Certificate: 
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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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