When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

In the Line of Fire

1993

English

7.2

♡ 122

96%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Wolfgang Petersen Director

Clint Eastwood as Frank Horrigan

Rene Russo as Lilly Raines

John Malkovich as Mitch Leary

John Heard as Professor Riger

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.

One Eight Seven

1997

English

6.6

♡ 30

31%

Kevin Reynolds Director

John Heard as Dave Childress

Nikky Smedley as Petula

Samuel L. Jackson as Trevor Garfield

Guy Torry as Voice in Crowd

After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad. He then moves to California to be a sub for a predominantly Native Hispanic/Latin-American high school in Los Angeles. He is tormented by members of a Native Hispanic/Latino-American tag crew named K.O.S. (Kappin’ off Suckaz).

Cutter's Way

1981

English

6.8

♡ 9

92%

Ivan Passer Director

John Heard as Alex Cutter

Jack Murdock as Concession Owner

Jeff Bridges as Richard Bone

Julia Duffy as Young Girl

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.

Marathon Man

1976

English

7.4

♡ 45

82%

81%

Action

based on novel or book

John Schlesinger Director

Dustin Hoffman as Babe

John Heard as Columbia student on stairs

William Devane as Janeway

Jacques Marin as LeClerc

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

O

2001

English

6.1

♡ 7

65%

Tim Blake Nelson Director

Martin Sheen as Coach Duke Goulding

John Heard as Dean Brable

Julia Stiles as Desi Brable

Josh Hartnett as Hugo Goulding

Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoration of all, including the team's coach and the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi. Odin's troubled friend Hugo, the coach's son, is deeply resentful of his father's preference of Odin on and off the court. When Hugo plots a diabolical scheme to sow the seed of mistrust between O and Desi, it sets in motion a disturbing chain of events which erupts into a firestorm of breathtaking intensity.

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