9 Movies Starring Dan Hedaya

Blood Simple.

Blood Simple.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-01-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (62352 Reviews)

Fullplot:

A bar-owner in Texas is certain that his wife is cheating on him and hires a private detective to spy on her. This is just the beginning of a complex plot which is full of misunderstandings and deceit. Ethan and Joel Cohen's first feature film.

Tightrope

Tightrope

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-08-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (10577 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Tuggle

Fullplot:

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women, that he rapes and murders. The killings are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

Commando

Commando

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-10-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (101423 Reviews)

Director:

Mark L. Lester

Cast:

Writer:

Jeph Loeb (story)

Matthew Weisman (story)

Steven E. de Souza (story)

Steven E. de Souza (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix' friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix' unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.

The Addams Family

The Addams Family

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-11-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (87966 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Charles Addams (characters)

Caroline Thompson

Larry Wilson

Fullplot:

The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

Four Eyes and Six-Guns

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-12-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (154 Reviews)

Director:

Piers Haggard

Fullplot:

Ernest decides to go to Tombstone for opening a eyeglasses store,but soon discovers that nobody trusts him. After helping Wyatt rid the town of Doom Brothers via the shooting,Albright's eyeglasses is really successful.

Daylight

Daylight

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-12-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (49466 Reviews)

Director:

Rob Cohen

Fullplot:

Trouble strikes when runaway robbers in a getaway car hit truck full of explosives in the tunnel connecting Manhattan and New Jersey. Survivors are left in a weakened tunnel blocked at both exits. As Kit Latura approaches the tunnel, he sees the impact and knows he gotta take action. With time running out, he enters the tunnel through a system of maintenance walkways. Can he get the survivors out before the tunnel fills up?

A Life Less Ordinary

A Life Less Ordinary

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-10-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (28938 Reviews)

Director:

Danny Boyle

Fullplot:

Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss' daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels" who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together.

Dick

Dick

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-08-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

France, Canada, USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (15563 Reviews)

Director:

Andrew Fleming

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Andrew Fleming

Sheryl Longin

Fullplot:

Comedy about two high school girls who wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nixon's dog Checkers, and become his secret advisors during the Watergate scandal.

The Crew

The Crew

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-08-25

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (3780 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Dinner

Genres:

CrimeComedy

Fullplot:

Four former made men, struggling to get by in a rundown Miami hotel, come up with a plot to drive out all of the young tenants that are slowly taking over the beach-front hotel and driving up their rent. Taking a man that was found dead on the beach, they arrange what appears to a mob hit and provide a note that says more killings are to occur. Unfortunately the old man they use turns out to be the senile father of a drug lord. The drug lord declares war on the killers of his father, thinking it was an action of his enemies. A stripper learns of the old men's involvement and threatens to squeal on them unless they kill her stepmother. Meanwhile, one man searches for his long-lost daughter, who is the investigating police officer, trying to divest herself from her crumb fellow officer and former boyfriend.

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