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  • Silent Running
  • Silent Running review by TheHoodedMan from Nottingham
    Rated - 5 stars Strangely Moving 8 July 2006
    ...960's, but still that goes to show that even then this was an important debate. Bruce Derns' gentle character is harrassed by his crass shipmates, their attitude echoing ...  
  • Down Periscope
  • Down Periscope review by from Blackpool
    Rated - 5 stars Purile, Tasteless... completely magnificent!!!! 12 October 2005
    ...give this a go. Kelsey Grammer is given his own command of a submarine, but Bruce Dern's Admiral character is not a fan and tries to stitch up KC with a crew of no-ho...  
  • The Burbs
  • The Burbs review by from Rutland, England
    Rated - 5 stars Hanks' best film! 22 June 2004
    ...ore he became Oscar worthy (and more than a little bland). Look out also for Bruce Dern and Corey Feldman in a brilliant turn before he slipped into drug fuelled obliv...  

Bruce Dern - filmography


  • Madison on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jim Caviezel,  Jake Lloyd,  Mary McCormack
    Director: William Bindley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In its heyday, Madison, Indiana was a thriving port on the Ohio River. But by 1971, hard times and unemployment are driving the locals away. The city's one claim to fame is its participation in hydroplane boat racing, a dream kept alive by Jim McCormick (Jim Caviezel) and the team of the Miss ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 948 members
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  • The Hard Easy (2005)
    Starring: Henry Thomas,  David Boreanaz,  Vera Farmiga
    Director: Ari Ryan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 3 members
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  • Monster on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Charlize Theron,  Christina Ricci,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Patty Jenkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Charlize Theron delivers a knockout, cast-against-type performance in this gritty drama, based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a down and out prostitute who was sentenced to death after killing six men between 1989 and 1990. Christina Ricci co-stars as Selby Wall, a lesbian runaway who forms a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 35,093 members
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  • All The Pretty Horses on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Penelope Cruz,  Penelope Cruz
    Director: Billy Bob Thornton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Billy Bob Thornton's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES is about John Grady Cole (Matt Damon), a young rancher growing up just after WWII. After his mother sells the family ranch, John convinces his best friend, Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), to accompany him to Mexico, where ranching is still a big part of life...read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,245 member
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  • Wild Bill on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Ellen Barkin,  John Hurt
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Walter Hill's WILD BILL is a film biography of legendary outlaw James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (Jeff Bridges). The story covers the major events that shaped the gunman's life, including his work as a Kansas lawman, his stint in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, and his part-time ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,038 member
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  • The Burbs on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Carrie Fisher,  Rick Ducommun
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tom Hanks portrays suburbanite Ray Peterson, whose plans for a peaceful vacation are disturbed by a creepy new family on the block, in this outrageous suspense-comedy directed by Joe Dante. To the disappointment of his wife Carol (Carrie Fisher), Ray decides to spend a relaxing week at home, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,993 members
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  • The Big Town (1987)
    Starring: Matt Dillon,  Diane Lane,  Tommy Lee Jones
    Director: Ben Bolt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A country boy with a knack for throwing dice goes to Chicago to try his luck. He's on a winning streak until he falls in love with a married fan-dancer whose husband is a high roller and a killer. The boy soon finds himself rolling for the lady and his life.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 7 members
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  • Tattoo (1981)
    Starring: Bruce Dern,  Maud Adams,  Leonard Frey
    Director: Bob Brooks
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Troubled tattoo artist Karl Kinsky (Bruce Dern) develops an obsessive fascination with Maddy (Maud Adams) when hired to paint temporary tattoos on a group of models for a photo shoot.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 10 members
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  • The Driver on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Ryan O'Neal,  Bruce Dern,  Isabelle Adjani
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ryan O'Neal stars as THE DRIVER, a conniving and talented getaway driver, and Bruce Dern as the corrupt police detective obsessed with capturing him. With breathtaking car chases and a terrific climax, this is a simple and thrilling cat and mouse game. The two single-minded characters, with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,007 member
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  • Coming Home on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Jane Fonda,  Jon Voight,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Hal Ashby
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Sally Hyde's (Jane Fonda) husband, a ramrod-straight marine captain, Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), is sent to Vietnam, she leaves the isolated world of the officer's quarters and begins volunteer social work at the veterans hospital. There her unthinking support of the war and her blindness to its ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 545 members
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  • Family Plot on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Bruce Dern,  Karen Black,  William Devane
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hitchcock's diabolically funny and exciting movie about a search for a missing heir proved to be his final film. Starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, and Karen Black, Family Plot is the story of a cabbie (Dern) and a psychic (Harris) who team up to find a dead man who's not really ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,030 member
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  • Smile (1975)
    Starring: Bruce Dern,  Barbara Feldon,  Michael Kidd
    Director: Michael Ritchie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Michael Ritchie’s SMILE is a satirical, behind-the-scenes look at a California teenage beauty pageant, which also exposes American middle-class mores. The competitors (who seem to favor political maneuvering and backstabbing over talent and poise) provide only part of the story, since the members ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 11 members
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  • The Cowboys on DVD (1972)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Roscoe Lee Browne,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    John Wayne had brawled bare-knuckle gunned down desperadoes, fought jungle wars and piloted the skies. But The Cowboys gave him one of the most juiciest as a leather-tough rancher who, deserted by his regular help, hires 11 greenhorn schoolboys for a cattle drive across 400 treacherous miles. When ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 853 members
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  • Silent Running on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Bruce Dern,  Cliff Potts,  Jesse Vint
    Director: Douglas Trumbull
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In a grim future, Earth is so overdeveloped plants can no longer survive. Giant greenhouses in orbit carry samples of Earth's dying forests. When the government decides they are too expensive to maintain, one committed crew member will stop at nothing to save them. Screenplay by Steven Bochco and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,518 members
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  • Drive, He Said (1971)
    Starring: William Tepper,  Karen Black,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Jack Nicholson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 46% from 8 members
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  • Bloody Mama on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Shelley Winters,  Pat Hingle,  Robert DeNiro
    Director: Roger Corman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Roger Corman pulls no punches in this sordid (and true) saga of Kate "Ma" Barker and her sons, brutal criminals who terrorized America in the 1920s and '30s. At Ma's command they rob and murder, but when they kidnap a local politician (Pat Hingle), he turns into the father figure they ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 238 members
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  • Castle Keep on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Peter Falk,  Patrick O'Neal
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sydney Pollack directs this dramatic allegory about an American military squadron seeking refuge in a castle in the Ardennes Forest during the final days of World War II. When the soldiers get a little too comfortable in their new environment, they spark a conflict with its owner over the castle ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 289 members
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  • Hang 'Em High on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Ed Begley,  Inger Stevens
    Director: Ted Post
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The first spaghetti western made in America (sans Leone) and Eastwood's first star vehicle made outside Europe. Eastwood's innocent cowboy miraculously survives his own hanging and then treks across the frontier to bring his hangmen to justice. Highly entertaining, featuring in small parts Dern, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 4,546 members
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  • Psych-Out on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Dean Stockwell,  Jack Nicholson,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Richard Rush
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A look at the psychedelic world of the 1960's flower children. Jenny is a 17-year-old deaf runaway who stumbles into that world as she searches for her brother who is being pursued by hoods. A low-budget psychedelic cult classic from 1968 offers trippy visuals, acid-tinged soundtracks, and the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 162 members
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  • Rebel Rousers (1967)
    Starring: Cameron Mitchell,  Diane Ladd,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Martin B. Cohen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A gang of lawless, unapologetically hedonistic bikers terrorises the countryside, staging a race in which a kidnapped pregnant woman is offered as a trophy. Gritty fare typical of the underground biker films of the early New Hollywood. Shot in 1967, REBEL ROUSERS also features Jack Nicholson as a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 2 members
    Due for release on 25th January 2010
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  • Marnie on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Tippi Hedren,  Sean Connery,  Diane Baker
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This thriller, based on a best-selling novel by Wilson Graham, revolves around Marnie (Tippi Hedren), a pathological liar and compulsive thief who is befriended by her latest victim, Mark Rutland (Sean Connery). Despite his sincere love, dashing looks, and wealth, some deep-seated neurosis makes ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,157 members
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  • American Cowslip
    Starring: Rip Torn,  Bruce Dern,  Diane Ladd
    Director: Mark David
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Trapped in small-town California USA, Ethan Inglebrink is searching for the perfect moment in a life that is running out of time. And the odds are against him. Ethan is an agoraphobic, drug addict obsessed with his garden. Ethan's neighbor, landlord and maniacal high school football coach Trevor O'..read more »
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Bruce Dern - watch online


  • Posse to Watch Now (1975)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Bruce Dern,  Bo Hopkins
    Director: Kirk Douglas
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 92 minutes
    A publicity-hungry U.S. Marshal (Kirk Douglas) doesn't just hunt down and capture fugitives, he makes sure a photographer is around to record his crime-fighting exploits and bolster his political aspirations. In POSSE the lawman soon discovers that fame may be fleeting when he sets his sights on ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 25% from 2 members
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Bruce Dern facts

5 most recent films

Big Love - Season 1 - 3.5 stars
Down In The Valley - 3.0 stars
Madison - 2.5 stars
The Hard Easy - 2.5 stars
Monster - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Big Love - Season 1 - 3.5 stars
Midnight Sting - 3.5 stars
Support Your Local Sheriff - 3.5 stars
Marnie - 3.5 stars
Hang 'Em High - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

American Cowslip - 3 stars
The Big Town - 2.0 stars
Drive, He Said - 2.0 stars
Posse - 2.5 stars
Harry Tracy - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Diane Lane - 4 times - show films
Jack Nicholson - 4 times - show films
Roscoe Lee Browne - 4 times - show films
Rip Torn - 3 times - show films
John Wayne - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Walter Hill - 3 times - show films
Mark Rydell - 3 times - show films
Kirk Douglas - 2 times - show films
Sydney Pollack - 2 times - show films
Ben Bolt - 2 times - show films