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Jun 13, 2024 · Director: James Cameron. Image via 20th Century Studios. The Abyss might not be the greatest film James Cameron ever made, but it sure is the director’s wettest. Titanic and Avatar: The Way of ...
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- The Abyss (1989) 89%
- Swing Shift (1984) 87%
- Sweet Dreams (1985) 90%
- Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) 95%
- The Truman Show (1998) 94%
- Gone Baby Gone (2007) 94%
- Apollo 13 (1995) 96%
- Snowpiercer (2014) 94%
- Places in The Heart (1984) 89%
- The Right Stuff (1983) 96%
1989’s underwater epic The Abyss required the construction of the world’s biggest tank of filtered fresh water, as well as newly designed watertight cameras and bleeding-edge special effects work from Industrial Light & Magic. It also required a lot of patience on the part of its cast (including Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, both of whom ...
It endured an infamously bumpy production period — during which stars Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell went over Jonathan Demme’s head to arrange edits and reshoots with a different director — but even if Swing Shiftdidn’t end up fulfilling Demme’s original vision, critics still felt it effectively told the story of a war bride (Hawn) who enters the wo...
Although it was roundly criticized for taking liberties with the facts of its subject’s brief, fascinating life, the Patsy Cline biopic Sweet Dreams makes for a solidly compelling — if at times frustratingly inaccurate — film about the country star’s (played by Jessica Lange) early years, short career, and tragic death, as well as her tumultuous ma...
You think the dynamic at your company is brutal? Try swimming with the sharks of Glengarry Glen Ross, a pitch-black, deeply profane case study in how quickly an office will disintegrate when a sales team is told that it’s about to enter a competition — and everyone who winds up lower than second place is going to lose his job. The result, as you mi...
Is it science fiction? A comedy? A drama? A psychiatric syndrome? Actually, 1998’s The Truman Show is all of the above. Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank, the unwitting star of a wildly popular reality series engineered by a producer named Christof (played by Harris), in which Truman’s life — complete with fake wife, fake friends, and a whole fake...
Ben Affleck made his directorial debut with this pitch-black thriller, adapted from the Dennis Lehane novel about a private investigator (Casey Affleck) who finds himself mixed up in the exceedingly shady case of a kidnapped girl. As he works with the cops (including Harris and Morgan Freeman) and his girlfriend/partner (Michelle Monaghan), it beco...
This dramatization of NASA’s aborted 1970 lunar mission combined one of star Tom Hanks’ biggest personal passions — space travel — with Hollywood’s favorite thing: a blockbuster prestige picture. With a cast that featured a number of similarly prolific actors (among them Harris, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, and Gary Sinise), Apolloprobably would have ...
A little more than 15 years after he played a powerful man who manipulates lives in service of his own warped version of the greater good for The Truman Show, Harris offered a variation on that theme for Snowpiercer. One of the best-reviewed movies of 2014, it found director and co-writer Bong Joon-ho exploring the outer reaches of bizarro mainstre...
Sally Field won a Best Actress Oscar and John Malkovich earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination for their work in this 1984 drama, which tells the story of a widowed woman (Field) who struggles to keep her Texas farm afloat during the Great Depression while her sister (Lindsay Crouse) deals with her crumbling marriage to a carousing husband (Harr...
It’s based on one of America’s most inspiring true stories, it features an ace ensemble cast, and it earned rave reviews from critics — so why did audiences turn their backs on The Right Stuff during its 1983 theatrical run? The fact that it’s more than three hours long probably had something to do with it, but in writer/director Philip Kaufman’s d...
An insurance salesman is oblivious of the fact that his entire life is a TV show and his family members are mere actors. As he starts noticing things and uncovers the truth, he decides to escape. Director Peter Weir Stars Jim Carrey Ed Harris Laura Linney. 9. Apollo 13.
Apr 23, 2024 · Harris has a broad range of talents that included performances in over-the-top action hits and emotional dramas. Harris excels in historic films like Apollo 13, The Right Stuff, and Pollock, portraying real-life figures with depth. With a career spanning almost 50 years, Ed Harris has proven himself as one of the best actors in Hollywood, as he ...
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- Apollo 13. Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon. 198 votes. Apollo 13, a gripping space docudrama, chronicles the real-life, perilous lunar mission of 1970. The film features astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), command module pilot Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise), and flight director Gene Kranz (Ed Harris).
- The Abyss. Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn. 170 votes. In The Abyss, a deep-sea oil drilling team, led by foreman Virgil Bud Brigman (Ed Harris), confronts an otherworldly phenomenon after a U.S. nuclear submarine sinks mysteriously.
- Enemy at the Gates. Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz. 181 votes. Enemy at the Gates, a war drama, is set amidst the ruins of Stalingrad during World War II.
- The Truman Show. Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich. 135 votes. In The Truman Show, Jim Carrey stars as Truman Burbank, an insurance salesman unknowingly living his life on a TV set.
Nov 25, 2023 · Take a look through our gallery of Harris’s greatest films, including a few for which he should’ve received Oscar nominations. 15. ‘Walker’ (1987) Directed by Alex Cox. Written by Rudy ...
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The Abyss (1989) PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery. A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. Director: James Cameron | Stars: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester.
