Louisiana football star Gavin Grey had it all. He was an All-American champion who married his high-school sweetheart, homecoming queen Babs Rogers, and who was a hero to his hometown. Yet after a failed professional career, Gavin realizes that fame and success have passed him by and that he no longer is the hero everyone keeps reminding him he should still be. His dissatisfaction with his life leads to strains in his marriage, and Gavin begins to wonder who he is, if he's not a hero anymore.

The Comedian

2016

English

5.8

♡ 46

24%

Taylor Hackford Director

Leslie Mann as Harmony Schiltz

Robert De Niro as Jackie Burke

Harvey Keitel as Mac Schiltz

Edie Falco as Miller

An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his younger brother and his wife, Jackie is forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he meets Harmony, the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul, and the two find inspiration in one another, resulting in surprising consequences.

Against All Odds

1984

English

5.9

♡ 23

64%

Taylor Hackford Director

Allen Williams as Bob Soames

Bill McKinney as Head Coach

James Woods as Jake Wise

Jeff Bridges as Terry Brogan

Having been cut from his professional football team, down-and-out athlete Terry Brogan is in desperate need of money. Crooked nightclub owner and bookie Jake Wise offers Terry a hefty sum to go to Mexico and find his girlfriend, Jessie Wyler. Terry cannot turn the offer down. When Terry locates Jessie, the two fall in love. Terry reports that he failed to find her, but Jake sends someone else. Terry and Jessie's love must endure unexpected twists.

Ray

2004

English

7.7

♡ 63

79%

blindness and impaired vision

Taylor Hackford Director

Mike Pniewski as Bus Driver

David Krumholtz as Milt Shaw

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles

Paula Jai Parker as Ruth Brown

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

White Nights

1985

English

6.7

♡ 17

46%

Taylor Hackford Director

William Hootkins as Chuck Malarek

Isabella Rossellini as Darya Greenwood

Helen Mirren as Galina Ivanova

John Glover as Wynn Scott

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

An Officer and a Gentleman

1982

English

7.1

♡ 43

79%

Taylor Hackford Director

Harold Sylvester as Perryman

David Keith as Sid Worley

John Laughlin as Troy

Richard Gere as Zack Mayo

Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.

The Idolmaker

1980

English

6.9

♡ 5

90%

Taylor Hackford Director

Peter Gallagher as Caesare

James Saito as Eddie

Joe Pantoliano as Gino Pilato

Olympia Dukakis as Mrs. Vacarri

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll

1987

English

7.7

♡ 8

89%

Taylor Hackford Director

John Lennon as Self

Eric Clapton as Self

Bobby Keys as Self

Chuck Leavell as Self

St. Louis, 1986. For Chuck Berry's 60th, Keith Richards assembles a pickup band of Robert Cray, Joey Spampinato, Eric Clapton, himself and long-time Berry pianist, Johnnie Johnson. Joined on stage by Etta James, Linda Ronstadt and Julian Lennon, Berry performs his classic rock songs. His abilities as a composer, lyricist, singer, musician and entertainer are on display and, in behind-the-scenes interviews, are discussed by Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springstein, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and others. There's even a rarity for Berry—a rehearsal. Archival footage from the early 1950s and a duet with John Lennon round out this portrait of a master.

Proof of Life

2000

English

6.3

♡ 18

38%

Taylor Hackford Director

Pamela Reed as Janis Goodman

Rowena King as Pamela

David Morse as Peter Bowman

Russell Crowe as Terry Thorne

When American engineer Peter Bowman is kidnapped while working in South America, his wife Alice enlists special agent Terry Thorne to help free him. However, complications arise when Thorne falls in love with her. Their lives are on the line, their hearts out on a limb.

Dolores Claiborne

1995

English

7.4

♡ 50

86%

82%

Action

based on novel or book

Taylor Hackford Director

John C. Reilly as Const. Frank Stamshaw

Bob Gunton as Mr. Pease

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Selena St. George

Judy Parfitt as Vera Donovan

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

Love Ranch

2010

English

5.6

♡ 5

12%

Taylor Hackford Director

Joe Pesci as Charlie Bontempo

Helen Mirren as Grace Bontempo

Gina Gershon as Irene

M.C. Gainey as Warren Stamp

Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.

The Devil's Advocate

1997

English

7.5

♡ 232

65%

Taylor Hackford Director

Connie Nielsen as Christabella Andreoli

Keanu Reeves as Kevin Lomax

Charlize Theron as Mary Ann Lomax

James Saito as Takaori Osumi

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

Blood In, Blood Out

1993

English

7.9

♡ 50

64%

Taylor Hackford Director

Valente Rodriguez as Frankie

Danny Trejo as Geronimo

Billy Bob Thornton as Lightning

Gary Carlos Cervantes as Smokey

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.

Parker

2013

English

♡ 165

42%

48%

Action

based on novel or book

Taylor Hackford Director

Kip Gilman as Danzinger

Bobby Cannavale as Jake Fernandez

Jennifer Lopez as Leslie Rodgers

Jason Statham as Parker

A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.

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Ray

White Nights

An Officer and a Gentleman

The Idolmaker

Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll

Proof of Life

Dolores Claiborne

Love Ranch

The Devil's Advocate

Blood In, Blood Out

Parker