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  • Hard Target
  • Hard Target review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
    ...e the bayous. They track the pair to the rustic cabin of Chance's Uncle Douvee (Wilford Brimley), and the real fireworks begin. ...   Read customer review
  • Star Wars - Ewoks Adventures
  • Star Wars - Ewoks Adventures review by A customer from England
    Rated - 2.0 stars Star Wars Fans Only. 30 November 2006
    ...ply story. Battle For Endor is slighty better mainly due to the inclusion of Wilford Brimley and a new character called Teek. Wicket has also learned to speak English, whi...   Read customer review

Wilford Brimley - filmography


  • End of the Line on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Kevin Bacon,  Wilford Brimley,  Mary Steenburgen
    Director: Jay Russell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two workers fight for survival when their railroad company is closed down, leaving them unemployed. They set out for Chicago on a stolen locomotive to confront the insensitive railroad executives and find themselves locked in a fight for dignity, pride and jobs.
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 62 members
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  • Progeny on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Arnold Vosloo,  Jillian McWhirter,  Brad Dourif
    Director: Brian Yuzna
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    As Craig Barton, a thiry-something surgeon makes passionate love to his wife Sherry, a blinding blue light engulfs them and the air crackles with a powerful electrical energy. The next thing they know, two hours have inexplicably passed. What happened during those two 'lost' hours is a total ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 131 members
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  • In And Out (1997)
    Starring: Kevin Kline,  Tom Selleck,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After three chaste years of engagement, popular high school teacher Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) is finally getting married, and his upcoming wedding to Miss Emily Montgomery (Joan Cusack) is the talk of their small, friendly town. But when a hometown boy-made-movie star outs Howard as gay during ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,807 members
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  • My Fellow Americans (1996)
    Starring: Jack Lemmon,  James Garner,  Dan Aykroyd
    Director: Peter Segal
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, having individually discovered a cover-up by the current president (Aykroyd), flee together when they are almost assassinated by the Secret Service.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 60 members
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  • The Firm on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Terry Kinney,  David Stra,  Tom Cruise
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 16,956 members
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  • The Firm - Blu-ray (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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 479 members
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  • Hard Target on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme,  Lance Henriksen,  Wilford Brimley
    Director: John Woo
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In his Hollywood directorial debut, Hong Kong sensation John Woo styles this action movie about a simple Merchant Marine (Jean-Claude Van Damme) who seeks to protect a beautiful woman whose father was murdered by an organization that sells the opportunity to hunt human prey in a safari game.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 4,789 members
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  • Cocoon The Return on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Courteney Cox,  Wilford Brimley
    Director: Daniel Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When the space travellers return to Earth on a special rescue mission, they are reunited with their own families and friends who they left behind when they were offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens. To their delight they soon realise that Earth isn't the worst planet in the galaxy.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,039 members
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  • Cocoon on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Wilford Brimley,  Hume Cronyn
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A group of senior citizens residing in a rest home find their lives turned upside down after they are offered the gift of eternal youth by benevolent aliens in Ron Howard's wonderful tribute to the human spirit. Brian Dennehy is Walter, an alien who returns to earth to rescue 20 of his friends now ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,098 members
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  • The Hotel New Hampshire on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Beau Bridges,  Nastassja Kinski
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest son. John's father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels, so he buys a run-down seminary in New ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 991 members
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  • Star Wars - Ewoks Adventures (1984)
    Starring: Warwick Davis,  Aubree Miller,  Eric Walker
    Director: John Korty
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Featuring the adventures: 'Caravan Of Courage' and 'The Battle For Endor'. A family is left stranded on the planet Endor when their shuttle crashes. The parents are captured by a monster and the children must enlist the help of Ewoks to get them back safely.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,738 member
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  • 10 To Midnight on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Lisa Eilbacher,  Andrew Stevens
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this run-of-the-mill crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous, 1966 Speck murder of eight nurses in Chicago and an audience's willingness ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 558 members
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  • Borderline on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Wilford Brimley,  Kenneth McMillan
    Director: Jerrold Freedman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Charles Bronson stars as a U.S. Border Guard who is trying to protect the country from the millions of illegal Mexican immigrants who attempt to cross the border annually. He becomes involved in a murder hunt when his partner and a poor youth are murdered...
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 110 members
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Wilford Brimley facts

5 most recent films

End of the Line - 2.5 stars
Progeny - 2.0 stars
In And Out - 3.0 stars
My Fellow Americans - 3.5 stars
The Firm - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Firm - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Firm - 3.5 stars
My Fellow Americans - 3.5 stars
Tender Mercies - 3.0 stars
Cocoon - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Thompson's Last Run - 2.5 stars
Progeny - 2.0 stars
End of the Line - 2.5 stars
Star Wars - Ewoks Adventures - 2.5 stars
The Hotel New Hampshire - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ed Harris - 5 times - show films
Holly Hunter - 4 times - show films
Hal Holbrook - 3 times - show films
Gene Hackman - 3 times - show films
Charles Bronson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jerrold Freedman - 3 times - show films
Sydney Pollack - 3 times - show films
Daniel Petrie - 1 times - show films
John Korty - 1 times - show films
John Woo - 1 times - show films