Dennis Quaid broke through in Breaking Away and The Right Stuff, the latter giving him Gordon Cooper, played with a confidence the film treats as slightly ridiculous and entirely earned.
The Big Easy, Innerspace and Great Balls of Fire gave him a run of 1980s leads, and he lost a substantial amount of weight for Wyatt Earp in a way he has said damaged his health.
Frequency, Far from Heaven and The Parent Trap fill out the later work, and he has been open about a cocaine addiction during the 1980s.
Benicio del ToroTraffic (2000) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Soderbergh shot three parallel drug war narratives himself, gave each one a different film stock, and won Best Director while the film lost Best Picture to Gladiator. Benicio del…
Arjay SmithThe Day After Tomorrow (2004) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Roland Emmerich froze the northern hemisphere in about a week, which is roughly ten thousand times faster than any climate model permits, and produced the most…
Dennis QuaidStrange World is the Walt Disney Animation Studios feature that recorded one of the worst opening weekends in modern Disney theatrical animation history. Jake Gyllenhaal voices Searcher Clade, a farmer in the isolated mountain valley of Avalonia.
David ThewlisDennis Quaid plays Bowen, a former knight of the old code who hunts dragons for a living after his pupil grew up to be a tyrant. The film made approximately one hundred and fifteen million dollars worldwide on a fifty-seven…
Andre BraugherA father in 1969 talks to his son in 1999 through a ham radio during an aurora. The film works on a viewer who comes to it cold.
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