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Tom Skerritt
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Tom Skerritt - what members say
review by Northernsky from Halifax
Alien ....a faultless fright machine 14 January 2009
review by A customer from Antrim
Pleasant girlie film 24 April 2009
review by A customer from Witham
Underrated, worth a rental. 14 January 2010
Tom Skerritt - filmography
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Rivers Of A Lost Coast - Fly Fishing
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Tom Skerritt
Certificate: 
Tom Skerritt narrates this documentary about coastal fly fishing. The film explores the history of the sport, which emerged in the early 1900s in California, with photos, archival headlines and interviews.
 
31%
from 6 members
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Whiteout
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Patrick Sabongui, Paula Jean Hixson, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Dominic Sena
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Action thriller based on the 1998 comic book by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber. Kate Beckinsale stars as Carrie Stetko, the lone US Marshal assigned to Antarctica, who has been assigned to investigate the frozen continent's first murder case. With only days to go until the sun sets for six months, ..read more »
54%
from 15,226 members
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Beer for My Horses
(2008)
Starring: Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Ted Nugent
Director: Michael Salomon
Certificate: 
"Beer for My Horses" tells the story of two best friends that work together as deputies in a small town. The two defy the Sheriff and head off on an outrageous road trip to save the protagonist's girlfriend from drug lord kidnappers.
71%
from 11 members
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Bonneville
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen
Director: Christopher N. Rowley, Christopher Rowley
Certificate:
When Arvilla Holden promises her husband that she'll cremate him and scatter his ashes, she doesn't expect her promise to be called so soon. Neither does she expect a high-stakes fight with her step-daughter Francine, a Santa Barbara socialite determined to give him a proper burial. Convinced that ..read more »
61%
from 1,658 member
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Mammoth
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Cole Williams, Tom Skerritt, Vincent Ventresca
Director: Tim Cox
Certificate: 
Sci-fi adventure set in a sleepy Louisiana town. After a comet falls on the local museum, a 40,000-year-old Mammoth is awoken from its slumbers. Now the race is on to kill it before it devastates the town, much to the disgust of local paleontologist Dr Frank Abernathy (Vincent Ventresca).
39%
from 429 members
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Stephen King's Desperation
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Steven Weber, Alain Uy, Sammi Hanratty
Director: Mick Garris
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American mini TV horror series based on the novel by Stephen King. In the town of Desperation, Nevada all is not what it seems. En route to Lake Tahoe, the Carver family is pulled over by local sheriff Collie Entragian (Ron Perlman) on a trumped up charge and taken back to the jail at Desperation. ..read more »
58%
from 1,686 member
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Homeland Security
(2004)
Starring: Grant Show, Leland Orser, Scott Glenn
Director: Daniel Sackheim
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Pilot episode for the cancelled series about the creation of the new US Department of Homeland Security. After a series of missed opportunities, misinterpreted information, and bungled intelligence operations, Islamic terrorists launch the devastating September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade ..read more »
44%
from 69 members
Currently unavailable
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Path To War
(2002)
Starring: Felicity Huffman, James Frain, Alec Baldwin
Director: John Frankenheimer
Certificate:
Michael Gambon plays Lyndon B. Johnson in this made-for-TV drama tracing the U.S. government's path from the great hopes of the Kennedy years to the bitterness and failure of their involvement in Vietnam. Beginning his presidency with the dream of transforming the U.S. into a 'Great Society', ..read more »
65%
from 322 members
Currently unavailable
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Greenmail
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kelly Rowan, D.B. Sweeney, Tom Skerritt
Director: Jonathan Heap
Certificate:
Alexander Scott (Stephen Baldwin) is the leader of a radical group who is caught and jailed by an ATF agent (Kelly Rowan) after a spectacular explosion. However, the bomb was thought to be the work of a serial bomber and when the explosions continue, Scott and the agent team up to try to find the ..read more »
42%
from 95 members
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High Noon
(2000)
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Reed Diamond
Director: Rod Hardy
Certificate:
Tom Skerritt (ALIEN, CONTACT) reprises the classic role of Will Kane in this re-telling of the classic western HIGH NOON. Kane finds out that a vicious criminal that he sent to jail is returning on the noon train to extract some revenge. Slowly Sheriff Kane realizes that he does not have the ..read more »
38%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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The Other Sister
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Diane Keaton, Tom Skerritt
Director: Garry Marshall
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Despite suffering from learning problems from an early age, Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis) has grown into an independent young woman. When she returns to live with her mother Elizabeth (Diane Keaton) in San Francisco, Carla enrols at a vocational school, where she meets the similarly 'challenged' ..read more »
60%
from 778 members
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Contact - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Jodie Fos, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
After the death of her father, Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) devotes her life to science. Convinced of the existence of extra-terrestrial life, she uses satellites to sweep the stars for evidence. When she receives the transmission of what seems to be a blueprint from another species for the ..read more »
73%
from 1,191 member
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Contact
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jodie Fos, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
After the death of her father, Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) devotes her life to science. Convinced of the existence of extra-terrestrial life, she uses satellites to sweep the stars for evidence. When she receives the transmission of what seems to be a blueprint from another species for the ..read more »
68%
from 14,975 members
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Knight Moves
(1992)
Starring: Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin
Director: Carl Schenkel
Certificate: 
Christopher Lambert stars as Peter Sanderson, a chess champion who is implicated in a series of murders of women - one of whom he recently slept with. Police psychiatrist Kathy Sheppard (Diane Lane) is assigned to build up a profile of the killer. However, she begins to believe that Sanderson is ..read more »
58%
from 505 members
Currently unavailable
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A River Runs Through It
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Tom Skerritt, Brad Pitt
Director: Robert Redford
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Robert Redford directs and narrates this tale of two brothers growing up in 1920s Montana. Norman (Craig Sheffer) is the responsible one who will later attend college, while Paul (Brad Pitt) is more reckless, staying at home and getting increasingly involved in a lifestyle of gambling and drinking. ..read more »
67%
from 4,509 members
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Poison Ivy
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd
Director: Katt Shea Ruben
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Drew Barrymore plays Ivy, an outsider who invades a middle-class family and exposes its tense undercurrents. Ivy befriends the awkward lonely daughter of the family and soon uses her influence to win over the girl's father. Only his sick wife is in the way.
54%
from 1,463 member
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The Rookie - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Sonia Braga, Raul Julia
Director: Clint Eastwood
Certificate:
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Buddy movie featuring Charlie Sheen as a buttoned-down young policeman who pairs up with Clint Eastwood's hard-bitten, hard-drinking maverick. The duo work in the auto-theft division and are on the trail of a big stolen car ring. Initially despising his older colleague's methods, the 'rookie' ..read more »
64%
from 375 members
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Steel Magnolias
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Sam Shepard, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah
Director: Herbert Ross
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The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron. Robert Harling's original stage play was set exclusively in a Louisiana beauty parlor where an all-female cast of characters laughed, cried and compared menfolk. The film expands ..read more »
67%
from 8,486 members
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The Big Town
(1987)
Starring: Diane Lane, Lee Grant, Matt Dillon
Director: Ben Bolt
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Matt Dillon stars as a gambler J.C. Cullen, a small-town country boy who goes to Chicago to try his luck. Once there he starts shooting dice for a husband and wife team but is itching to try his luck in the big backroom games hosted by bad guy Cole. Eventually he gets in on the game but by that ..read more »
40%
from 10 members
Not available for rental
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Cheers - Season 6
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Ted Danson, John Ratzenberger
Director: James Burrows, Thomas Lofario, George Wendt
Certificate:
All 25 episodes from the sixth season of the 1980s US sitcom based in the bar where everybody knows your name. Episodes are: 'Home is the Sailor', ''I' On Sports', 'Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 1)', 'Little Carla, Happy at Last (Part 2)', 'The Crane Mutiny', 'Paint Your Office', 'The Last ..read more »
79%
from 369 members
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Miles To Go
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Tom Skerritt
Director: David Greene
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Jill Clayburgh stars as a loving wife and mother who is told that she has terminal cancer. In the short period of time she has left, she vows to sort out the various personal difficulties facing the family and searches for her replacement.
35%
from 9 members
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Top Gun - Blu-ray
(1986)
Starring: Clarence Gilyard, Rick Rossovich, Val Kilmer
Director: Tony Scott
Certificate:
One of the definitive films of the 1980s, 'Top Gun' is a high-octane, high-concept mixture of slick images, hard action and non-stop music. Tom Cruise plays Maverick, a young fighter pilot enrolled at Naval college, training with the most gifted flyers of his generation, and competing for the ..read more »
76%
from 3,104 members
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Top Gun
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Clarence Gilyard, Rick Rossovich, Val Kilmer
Director: Tony Scott
Certificate:
Devil-may-care navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent to Miramar Naval Air Station for advanced training. Here he vies with Tom Kasansky (Val Kilmer) for the coveted Top Gun award. When not so occupied, Mitchell carries on a romance with civilian consultant Charlotte Blackwood (Kelly ..read more »
69%
from 35,730 members
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Space Camp
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Tate Donovan, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston
Director: Harry Winer
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Five teenagers go to NASA Summer Camp to learn what it's like to be an astronaut. By accident, they and their instructor (Kate Capshaw) are launched into space and they must work out how to get back to Earth.
61%
from 2,493 members
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The Dead Zone
(1983)
Starring: Martin Sheen, Herbert Lom, Anthony Zerbe
Director: David Cronenberg
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Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person's future simply by touching his or her hand. After seeing several examples, Smith's doctor (Herbert Lom) becomes convinced that Smith can not ..read more »
68%
from 5,681 members
Currently unavailable
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Fighting Back
(1982)
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Patti Lupone, Michael Sarrazin
Director: Lewis Teague
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It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination ...
35%
from 2 members
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Alien
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
Certificate:
When Kane (John Hurt) and the crew of the spaceship 'Nostromo' investigate a transmission from a deserted planet, he is attacked by an unknown organism which attaches itself to his face. The crew cut the creature off, but not before it has made Kane the host of a monstrous alien killer, one which ..read more »
78%
from 58,201 members
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Alien - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
Certificate:
When Kane (John Hurt) and the crew of the spaceship 'Nostromo' investigate a transmission from a deserted planet, he is attacked by an unknown organism which attaches itself to his face. The crew cut the creature off, but not before it has made Kane the host of a monstrous alien killer, one which ..read more »
88%
from 279 members
Not available for rental
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Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Cheech Marin, Louisa Moritz, Tommy Chong
Director: Lou Adler
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Cheech and Chong make their big screen debut in this doped-up tale about two stoners on a quest to get high. When Man Stoner (Thomas Chong) is thrown out of his home by his up-tight parents, he soon meets and starts hanging out with the like-minded Pedro De Pacas (Cheech Marin). The two then find ..read more »
70%
from 2,730 members
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The Turning Point
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Martha Scott, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Antoinette Sibley
Director: Herbert Ross
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Oscar-nominated drama starring Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft. As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee (MacLaine) left the stage for marriage and motherhood while Emma (Bancroft) would become an international ballet icon. When Deedee's teenage daughter (Leslie Browne) ..read more »
63%
from 255 members
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Thieves Like Us
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Louise Fletcher, Tom Skerritt, Keith Carradine
Director: Robert Altman
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In 1930s Mississippi, a convicted murderer (Keith Carradine) is serving his sentence on a prison farm when he manages to escape with two accomplices. They go on the run, embarking on a series of violent bank robberies, but it is not long before the police are on their trail. Robert Altman gathers ..read more »
59%
from 292 members
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Big Bad Mama
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: William Shatner, Robbie Lee, Tom Skerritt
Director: Steve Carver
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1970s cult action flick from the Roger Corman stable. When her lover dies, Wilma (Angie Dickinson) finds little success in her attempts to keep his bootlegging business going. But when she meets bank robber Fred (Tom Skerritt), and joins him for his next big heist, things start looking up. She and ..read more »
47%
from 243 members
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M.A.S.H.
(2 discs)
(1970)
Starring: Sally Kellerman, Rene Auberjonois, Elliott Gould
Director: Robert Altman
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Surgical hijinks unfold as ace Army cutters subvert the Korean War, drive lieutenants over the edge, chase after wary nurses, and have fun with syringes during an epic football game--all the while remembering that they're living in the backdrop of a seemingly senseless war zone.
68%
from 7,774 members
Currently unavailable
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The Twilight Zone - Season 2
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Terry Farrell, Martin Balsam, Gina Gershon
Certificate:
All 21 episodes of the American anthology sci-fi series, based on the cult 1960s series by Rod Serling. In each episode, ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances, where the normal laws of reality no longer apply. In this series, a shy waitress is given a vital message by a UFO, but refuses ..read more »
54%
from 538 members
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Tom Skerritt facts
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...a Cartwright (Lambert) at 29 and Sigourney Weaver as Ripley at 30 the youngest. Tom Skerritt( Dallas) was 46, John Hurt (Kane ) 39, Harry Dean Stanton (Brett) 53, Yaphet Ko...
