Movies with John Heard
Movies found: 30, viewing from 1 to 20
The Legends of Nethiah
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Russ Emanuel, Tomax Aponte
Starring: John Heard, Jilon Ghai, Robert Picardo, Theresa Russell, Julie Michaels, Lavinia Dowdell, Bryce Clyde Jenkins
Available Quality: DivX
A young boy whose parents are going through a bitter divorce, is given hope and courage through the powerful stories embellished by his grandfather. The stories give the boy the inner strength and resolve to confront the inevitable challenges which lie ahead.
The Lucky Ones
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Neil Burger
Starring: John Heard, Michael Pena, Tim Robbins, John Diehl, Rachel McAdams, Mark L. Young, Molly Hagan
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod
The story revolves around three soldiers -- Colee, TK and Cheever -- who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S., with Colee on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family because he saved her life, TK seeking confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury that threatens his sexual function and middle-aged Cheever planning to hit the casinos in a desperate effort to pay for his son's college tuition.
Edison
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: David J. Burke
Starring: Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, John Heard, Kevin Spacey, Roselyn Sanchez, Piper Perabo, Justin Timberlake
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Josh Pollack, a naive and ambitious reporter, is convinced the F.R.A.T., an elite force within the Edison Police Department, is corrupted. Working on a homicide case, he begins to unearth evidence which suggests that the entire justice system is willingly turning a blind eye to the abuses of the this force. When his life and that of his girlfriend are threatened from his research, he join forces with his editor, a once-famous reporter, and a renown private detective to bring down the F.R.A.T. and every one behind it.
Cat People
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Fantasy
Year: 1982
Country: USA
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Ed Begley Jr., Frankie Faison, Scott Paulin, Ruby Dee, Annette O'Toole
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to Leopards, who mated with them. Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People. We follow brother and sister - who seem to be the only ones of their kind left...
Heaven Help Us
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: Michael Dinner
Starring: Jay Patterson, John Heard, Donald Sutherland, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Dundas, Philip Bosco, Kate Reid
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Too Big to Fail
Genres: Drama
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Ben Livingston, John Heard, Cynthia Nixon, William Hurt, Kathy Baker, Edward Asner
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonder...
The Pelican Brief
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Romance
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Finn, Tony Goldwyn, Anthony Heald, John Heard, Julia Roberts, William Atherton
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the k...
Big
Genres: Comedy, Family, Romance
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Penny Marshall
Starring: John Heard, Tom Hanks, David Moscow, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins, Jon Lovitz, Jared Rushton
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A young boy makes a wish at a fairground machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that his wish has been granted and his body has grown older over night. But he is still the same 12 year old kid on the 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. What will he find out about this strange world?
Mind the Gap
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Eric Schaeffer
Starring: John Heard, Alan King, Elizabeth Reaser, Christopher Kovaleski, Kim Raver, Yolonda Ross, Eric Schaeffer
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Animal Factory
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Steve Buscemi
Starring: Mark Boone Junior, Chris Bauer, Tom Arnold, John Heard, Danny Trejo, Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Ron, who's young, slight, and privileged, is sentenced to prison on marijuana charges. For whatever reason, he brings out paternal feelings in an 18-year prison veteran, Earl Copan, who takes Ron under his wing. The film explores the nature of that relationship, Ron's part in Earl's gang, and the way Ron deals with aggressive cons intent on assault and rape. There's casual racism, too, in the prisoners and the guards, a strike called by Black prisoners, and the nearly omnipresence of hard drugs. Ron's lawyer is working on getting Ron out quickly, Earl has a shot at parole, and death seems to be waiting in the next cell. Will prison turn Ron i...
Home Alone
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: John Candy, Joe Pesci, Macaulay Culkin, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Devin Ratray
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
It is Christmas Time and the McAllister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But, the youngest in the family named Kevin got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz and was sent to his room which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the family were in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about 2 burglars, Harry and Marv about to rob his house on Christmas eve. Kevin acts qu...
The Truth
Genres: Thriller
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Ryan Barton-Grimley
Starring: John Heard, Brendan Sexton III, Chic Daniel, Daniel Baldwin, Erin Cardillo, Erica Shaffer, Carter MacIntyre
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated. The wife may, or may not, know the intruder; and the intruder may, or may not, have previously crossed paths with the husband. Can a couple survive once they have been exposed to each other for who (and for what) they really are? Is the intruder actually there just to rob them? What are they each trying to hide from him and from each other?
Rambling Rose
Genres: Drama
Year: 1991
Country: USA
Director: Martha Coolidge
Starring: John Heard, Robert Duvall, Kevin Conway, Robert John Burke, Lisa Jakub, Lukas Haas, Laura Dern
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men. "Daddy" Hillier soon grows tired of Rose's rambling ways.
Formosa Betrayed
Genres: Thriller
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Adam Kane
Starring: Wendy Crewson, John Heard, Kenneth Tsang, Chelcie Ross, Tonray Ho, Tzi Ma, Leslie Hope
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. His investigation takes him across the Pacific to the island nation of Taiwan, where with the help of the outspoken widow and an unlikely spy, he learns that the Professor's killing was not a random act, but a desperate move by a scandalous government intent on keeping its nefarious activities under wraps. Our detective soon finds himself on a collision course against the U.S. State Department, the...
Betrayed
Genres: Action, Thriller, Romance
Year: 1988
Country: USA, Japan
Director: Costa-Gavras
Starring: John Heard, Tom Berenger, Ted Levine, Jeffrey DeMunn, John Mahoney, Debra Winger, David Clennon
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In Chicago, the host of a controversial radio talk show Sam Kraus is assassinated in the garage of his building by the terrorist group Z.O.G. - "Zionist Occupied Government. FBI agent Catherine Phillips is assigned to work undercover in a rural area to investigate the prime suspect Gary Simmons using the identity of Katie Weaver. Katie meets the family man and widower Gary, his mother, his son and his daughter, and she believes he is innocent and they fall in love with each other. Gary trusts Katie, proposes to her and discloses the truth about his bigot friends and himself. Katie faces a this dilemma and asks her superior Mike Carnes to take...
Little Hercules
Genres: Family
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Mohamed Khashoggi
Starring: John Heard, Judd Nelson, Hulk Hogan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
12 year old Hercules comes down from Mt. Olympus to see what its like to be with mortals. Little Hercules travels from Mt. Olympus to live life as a mortal in Los Angeles.
Heart Beat
Genres: Drama
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: John Byrum
Starring: John Heard, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, Ray Sharkey, Tony Bill, Luis Contreras, Ann Dusenberry
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The relentless, free-spirit of "On the Road" and the Beat Generation is lovingly captured in this overlooked gem. The film chronicles the rocky marriage of Neal and Carolyn Cassad, and their strange friendship with Jack Kerouac (John Heard), set against the backdrop of San Francisco's beatnik culture of the 1950s.
One Eight Seven
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Clifton Collins Jr., Tony Plana, Jack Kehler, Lobo Sebastian, Kelly Rowan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.
Justice League: The New Frontier
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Director: Dave Bullock
Starring: John Heard, Neil Patrick Harris, Kyra Sedgwick, Jeff Bennett, Jeremy Sisto, Miguel Ferrer, Lucy Lawless
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Adapting the award-winning DC Comics miniseries DC: THE NEW FRONTIER by Darwyn Cooke, Justice League: The New Frontier spins a tale of the DC Universe in the 1950s, focusing on test pilot Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) and the Martian Manhunter. The story also features other DC characters, including Barry Allen (the Flash), Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and many more.
The Milagro Beanfield War
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Jerry Hardin, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Richard Bradford, Christopher Walken, James Gammon, Tony Genaro
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs. But when Joe Mondragon illegally diverts water to irrigate his bean field, the local people support him because of their resentment of water use laws that favor the rich like Devine. When the Governor sends in ruthless troubleshooter Kyril Montana to settle things quickly...