Gary Sinise was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Forrest Gump, playing Lieutenant Dan, whose legs were removed digitally using blue fabric.
He co-founded Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and directed Of Mice and Men, in which he also starred. Apollo 13 and Ransom fill out the film work, and CSI: NY gave him a long television lead. He founded a foundation supporting veterans and first responders and performs with a band for military audiences.
Gary SiniseForrest Gump (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A technically remarkable film with a genuinely great performance at its center and a politics it has spent thirty years being argued about, which beat Pulp Fiction and…
David CarusoThe Henry Darius crossover rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two episodes on two shows across two nights, bridged by a killer whose defining trait is that he moves. The premise is genuinely well engineered and the…
David CarusoThe CSI Trilogy rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Three separately produced network shows ran one continuing investigation across three consecutive nights in 2009, with three production teams, three visual styles and one case. Nobody has attempted…
Delroy Lindo1996 Ron Howard thriller with Mel Gibson as a wealthy father whose kidnapped son demands a different kind of response. Ransom is Ron Howard's 1996 American thriller.
Bill PaxtonThe film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
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