Kevin Bacon has appeared in a very large number of films across every genre, which is what generated Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, a game he initially found irritating and later turned into a charitable foundation.
Footloose made him famous and is the least representative thing he has done. JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River and A Few Good Men show what he actually does.
Murder in the First and The Woodsman are the difficult performances, the latter playing a paedophile released from prison, which almost no actor of his standing would take.
He has never been nominated for an Academy Award, which is among the more frequently remarked omissions.
Adrienne KingCounselors at a summer camp reopening after a drowning tragedy are stalked and killed by an unseen attacker. Cunningham's 1980 American slasher film depicting counselors at a summer camp reopening after a child's drowning tragedy who are stalked and killed…
Cuba Gooding Jr1992 Rob Reiner courtroom drama with Tom Cruise as a Navy lawyer and Jack Nicholson as the Marine colonel who can't handle the truth. A Few Good Men is Rob Reiner's 1992 American courtroom drama and one of the strongest…
Brad Pitt1996 Barry Levinson drama with Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon. Hell's Kitchen friends face their abusers in court.
Donald Sutherland1991 Oliver Stone conspiracy drama with Kevin Costner as New Orleans DA Jim Garrison prosecuting Clay Shaw for the Kennedy assassination. JFK is Oliver Stone's 1991 American historical drama.
John CandyJohn Hughes had directed Sixteen Candles in 1984, The Breakfast Club in 1985, Weird Science in 1985, Pretty in Pink in 1986, Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986, and Some Kind of Wonderful in 1987 before Planes, Trains and Automobiles.…
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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