Actor: Richard Gere

Richard Gere broke through in American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman, and Pretty Woman made him one of the largest commercial stars of the 1990s.

Chicago won Best Picture with him singing and dancing, which surprised audiences who knew him only as a dramatic lead, and he won a Golden Globe for it.

He is a Buddhist and a prominent advocate for Tibet, and made a statement at the Academy Awards in 1993 that led to a long ban from the ceremony. Days of Heaven is the early one worth seeing.

Primal Fear (1996) film posterEdward Norton

Primal Fear (1996)

1996 Gregory Hoblit thriller with Richard Gere as a Chicago defense attorney and Edward Norton's breakthrough as an altar boy accused of murder. Primal Fear is Gregory Hoblit's 1996 American courtroom thriller adapting William Diehl's 1993 novel.

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