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  • Howell to revisit the Land That Time Forgot - 27 March 2009
    -C. Thomas Howell is to direct and star in a new film version of dinosaur adventure The Land That Time Forgot.- -The Gettysburg star will be joined by Timothy Bottoms in the project, based on Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs' adventure story - according to MovieHole.net

C. Thomas Howell - what members say


  • Hoboken Hollow
  • Hoboken Hollow review by littlebanana from Hove
    Rated - 3.0 stars Different in a good way 24 May 2008
    ...t it was still good. Cameos from Michael Madson and Dennis Hopper, as well as C. Thomas Howell playing such a slimeball of a role. The plot was decent, the gore was good, a...   Read customer review
  • The Sweeper
  • The Sweeper review by from Dreamland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Another PM action spectacular! 8 August 2006
    ...t action flicks produced by PM Entertainment (and they have produced a few...). C. Thomas Howell stars in this one, he plays a crazy cop. Bursting with explosive action sequenc...   Read customer review

C. Thomas Howell - filmography


  • Restitution (2011)
    Starring: Mena Suvari,  C. Thomas Howell,  William Sadler
    Director: Lance Kawas
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In a picturesque city on the shores of Michigan, a series of mysterious murders has an unlikely but common thread - Bryan Spikes, a hired insurance fraud investigator who gets more than a paycheck when he is inexplicably killed and then framed for the crimes. One year later, Alex Forrester arrives ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Cross on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Danny Trejo,  Michael Clarke Duncan,  C. Thomas Howell
    Director: Patrick Durham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Given incredible power by an ancient Celtic Cross. Callan continues to fight evil... Now, joined by a team of weapons experts, Callan battles an unstoppable empire in Los Angeles.
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 641 members
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  • Camel Spiders on DVD (2011)
    Starring: GiGi Erneta,  Diana Terranova,  Brian Krause
    Director: Jim Wynorski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the deserts of the Middle East, a platoon of soldiers is terrorized by a gang of large, fast and deadly arachnids called Camel Spiders. After they escape, they discover that they have transported several of them back to the American southwest by accident. An Army Captain, a small-town Sheriff ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 32 members
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  • New Blood on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Tony Todd,  A.J. Draven,  Jason Connery
    Director: Tom Shell
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A laid back college student who favours quiet gatherings with close friends over wild nights out on the town finds himself at the centre of a centuries old war between vampires and mortals in this low-budget frightener starring Tony Todd and C. Thomas Howell. Will is an average college student ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 171 members
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  • The Undead on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Rachel Montez Collins,  C. Thomas Howell,  Tyshawn Bryant
    Director: Thunder Levin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    As a deal is being made in an abandoned warehouse between two rival gangs, the police are waiting outside to make a bust. Events turn sour and one of the policemen is gunned down in an eruption of violence. The fighting abruptly ends as a massive solar flare hits Earth and everyone in the warehouse ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 81 members
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  • The Grind on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tom Sizemore,  C. Thomas Howell,  Michael Welch
    Director: John Millea
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    The story revolves around Luke, a grifter who owes a significant debt to the Mexican mob. Set in the gritty underbelly of Gardena, CA Luke has to come up with one final scheme to pay back his debt or his life is at risk. Supported by his two only friends, Courtney and Josh, they come together to ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 232 members
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  • The Gunfighter's Pledge on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Luke Perry,  C. Thomas Howell,  Kim Coates
    Director: Armand Mastroianni
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    In the lawless town of Asquerosos, the destinies of three men are drawn together. One man (C. Thomas Howell – Hidalgo) seeks his fortune. Another, a murderer (Kim Coates – Skinwalkers), is on the run from the law. While the third (Luke Perry – The Fifth Element) wants vengeance on those who killed ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 19 members
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  • The Haunting Of Marsten Manor on DVD (2007)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Brianne Davis,  Ken Luckey
    Director: Dave Sapp
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A girl angry about being blind and struggling with her faith, unexpectedly inherits an old mansion from her estranged aunt (Janice Knickrehm, "Halloween 6"). She and her friends go there to check it out. On the way they have a strange encounter with the creepy Hank (Ezra Buzzington, "The Hills Have ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 184 members
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  • The Da Vinci Treasure (2006)
    Starring: Lance Henriksen,  C. Thomas Howell,  Nicole Sherwin
    Director: Peter Mervis
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    C. Thomas Howell stars as anthropologist Michael Archer in this unpretentious direct-to-video B-movie, which sets out to capitalize on the furor surrounding THE DA VINCI CODE. Archer is on a quest for hidden treasure, and the cryptic clues to its whereabouts were left centuries before by Leonardo ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 7 members
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  • Hoboken Hollow on DVD (2005)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Michael Madsen,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Glen Stephens
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The hill country in Texas becomes the place of nightmares. Hitchhikers wandering into the area have a habit of going missing... A family ranch welcomes the lonely stranger; food and board are free so long as the work is done. There's a life's work here and if that doesn't suit how about torture ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 6,136 members
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  • The Poseidon Adventure on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Adam Baldwin,  Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer
    Director: John Putch
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    As the luxury liner Poseidon slices through the waters of an ocean storm, a radical terrorist group is preparing to send a bloody message to Western politicians. Shortly after the 2,500 passengers and crew have celebrated New Year, a huge blast rips through the hull, sending freezing waters rushing ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 213 members
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  • Gods And Generals on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Stephen Lang,  Frankie R. Faison
    Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This epic film from writer-director Ron Maxwell chronicles the early events of the American Civil War. It's a prequel to his earlier GETTYSBURG, with some of the same cast, and is part of a planned trilogy. Stephen Lang plays Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, the famous (and deeply religious) Confederate ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,896 member
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  • The Hitcher 2 - I've Been Waiting (2003)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Jake Busey,  Kari Wuhrer
    Director: Louis Morneau
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this sequel to THE HITCHER, C. Thomas Howell reprises his role as Jim, the young man terrorized by Rutger Hauer's hitchhiker in the original. THE HITCHER II takes place years later, with Jim still haunted by his memories of the experience. When he and his girlfriend Maggie (Wuhrer) decide to ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,509 member
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  • Red Team on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Patrick Muldoon,  C. Thomas Howell,  Tim Thomerson
    Director: Jeremy Haft
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    While investigating the mysterious deaths of two notorious mass murderers, FBI agent Jason Chandler (Patrick Muldoon) discovers that many other serial killer suspects have recently vanished without trace. Chandler soon realises there's a killer slaughtering the serial killers....
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 25 members
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  • Felons (1998)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Jack Scalia,  James Russo
    Director: Stephen Eckelberry
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FELONS combines dark humour with sex and violence to create an edgy thriller. At a company barbecue, one of the guests, Barry (Jack Scalia) decides to seduce the host's wife and kill the obnoxious next door neighbour. From there, things continue to get worse as the friends and coworkers plot ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 8 members
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  • Dilemma on DVD (1997)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Courtney Gains,  Danny Trejo
    Director: Eric Larson,  Eric Louzil,  Eric
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An inmate on death row has the rare bone marrow needed to save the life of a young girl with leukemia, and agrees to exchange the marrow for a revised sentence of life without parole for the inmate. En route to the hospital, he escapes and two cops are entrusted with the task of finding and ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 33 members
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  • The Big Fall on DVD (1997)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Sophie Ward,  Jeff Kober
    Director: C. Thomas Howell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Though specializing in cases of adultery, Los Angeles private dick Blaize Rybeck's newest client, the beautiful Emma Russell (Sophie Ward) has a different type of project: she wants him to locate her brother Kenny, a flight instructor who was involved in a plane crash. His body was never found at ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • The Sweeper on DVD (1996)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Jeff Fahey,  Ed Lauter
    Director: Joseph Merhi
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A too-tough, renegade cop, whose family was murdered when he was a child, joins a secret, vigilante, police organisation whose aim is to execute their own brand of justice - legal or not. The only problem is, once you're in, you're in for life.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 78 members
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  • Kindred: The Embraced (1996)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Kelly Rutherford,  Erik King
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    TV Series based on the White Wolf role-playing game, Vampire: the Masquerade. Julian Luna, the undead Prince of the City, leads the Vampire Clans, or Kindred, as he falls in love with Caitlin, a human reporter.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 19 members
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  • Teresa's Tattoo on DVD (1995)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Nancy McKeon,  Lou Diamond Phillips
    Director: Julie Cypher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With a dragon tattoo on her chest, Gloria wears earrings that contain details of the US space programme. When she is kidnapped by a gang of crooks, she accidentally drowns in a swimming pool. The search is now on to find a suitable replica...
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 31 members
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  • Gettysburg on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Jeff Daniels,  Martin Sheen
    Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    GETTYSBURG captures in vivid detail one of the most famous battles of the Civil War, in which more than 50,000 American lives were lost. Covering three days of brutal military campaigns, the film re-creates the world in which Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Lewis Armistead, and others made their ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,226 members
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  • The Hitcher on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer,  C. Thomas Howell
    Director: Robert Harmon
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A magnanimous young man who picks up a strange hitchhiker on a desert highway on a dark, rainy night soon wishes he had just driven on. The deranged hitchhiker turns the innocent fellow's journey into a living nightmare.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,102 members
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  • Soul Man on DVD (1986)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Arye Gross,  James Earl Jones
    Director: Steve Miner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Harvard Law freshman Mark Watson, having been cut off by his millionaire dad, tries to fund his education by tinting his skin with tanning pills and passing as African-American. But after being nearly evicted by his landlord, arrested by the police, and subjected to an endless barrage of 'no ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 340 members
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  • Red Dawn on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  C. Thomas Howell,  Patrick Swayze
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An American city awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky -- shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,926 members
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  • The Outsiders - Blu-ray (1983)
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Matt Dillon,  Ralph Macchio
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, THE OUTSIDERS tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in rural Oklahoma. C. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy, the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 252 members
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  • Askari on DVD
    Starring: Marlee Matlin,  C. Thomas Howell,  Amanda Fuller
    Director: David Lister
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A teenage orphan is sent to live with her Auntie in Africa. Her Auntie lives on an African game farm. Initially the two women tolerate each other's company but eventually their love for a young elephant brings them together...
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 130 members
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  • Pure Danger on DVD
    Starring: C. Thomas Howell,  Teri Ann Linn,  Michael Russo
    Director: C. Thomas Howell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Johnny and Becky run a diner in the middle of the desert. Their lives are pretty dull, so when a gangster, complete with a sack of diamonds, dies at one of their tables, they decide to take the loot and run. It's not long before they find themselves being hotly pursued...
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 23 members
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  • Gang Law
    Starring: Gary Busey,  Silkk The Shocker,  Jeff Speakman
    Director: Master P
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Kool finds life on the streets disturbing due to the drugs and the gangs. Through Martial Arts he tries to stay disciplined to do the right thing. He is deeply in love with Lashawana and when she is wrongfully charged with the murder of a police officer, Kool attempts to clear her name...
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 227 members
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  • Far Out Man on DVD
    Starring: Tommy Chong,  C. Thomas Howell,  Rae Dawn Chong
    Director: Thomas Chong
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rae Dawn is worried about her dad, Far Out Man, an eternal hippie musician for whom time has stopped at the break up of his marriage, during the Woodstock era. She contacts a psychiatrist and the comedy begins.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 61 members
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C. Thomas Howell facts

5 most recent films

Restitution - 3 stars
Cross - 2.0 stars
Camel Spiders - 1.5 stars
The Terror Experiment - 2.0 stars
New Blood - 1.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Southland - Season 1 and 2 - 4.0 stars
The Outsiders - 3.5 stars
Gettysburg - 3.5 stars
The Hitcher - 3.5 stars
The Outsiders - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Restitution - 3 stars
The Big Fall - 0.5 stars
The Da Vinci Treasure - 1.5 stars
Pure Danger - 1.5 stars
Dilemma - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Sizemore - 4 times - show films
Rutger Hauer - 4 times - show films
Patrick Swayze - 4 times - show films
Robert Carradine - 4 times - show films
Jake Busey - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Francis Ford Coppola - 4 times - show films
Christopher Chulack - 4 times - show films
Nelson McCormick - 4 times - show films
Steve Miner - 3 times - show films
Robert Harmon - 3 times - show films