Movies by Fred Ward
As part of the cast:
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30 Minutes or Less (2011)
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari …
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Two small-town criminals (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) planning a big-time bank heist wind up abducting pizza delivery driver Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) and forcing him to commit the robbery…
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Armored (2009)
Cast: Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno …
Directed by: Nimród Antal
Three armored truck guards turn against one another after their scheme to steal $10 million from their employer goes haywire. When a witness throws a wrench into their "perfect" plan, each…
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The Wild Stallion (2009)
Cast: Miranda Cosgrove, Danielle Chuchran, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Craig Clyde
A school project to photograph wild mustangs sends young urbanite Hanna Mills (Miranda Cosgrove) to a Utah ranch for the summer, where she becomes an unlikely champion of the vanishing breed…
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Farewell (2009)
Cast: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Alexandra Maria Lara …
Directed by: Christian Carion
In this thinking man's spy thriller, KGB agent Sergei Grigoriev (Emir Kusturica) plans to hand over hard evidence that proves the depth of his agency's penetration of U.S.…
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Management (2008)
Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson …
Directed by: Stephen Belber
Golden Globe winner Jennifer Aniston stars in this comedic tale as a traveling art saleswoman who makes the mistake of her life when she shares a one-night stand with a dim-witted motel…
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Exit Speed (2008)
Cast: Desmond Harrington, Lea Thompson, Julie Mond …
Directed by: Scott Ziehl
Ten passengers traveling across Texas get an unpleasant Christmas surprise when a deranged biker forces their bus off the road. When the group bands together to take him out, they don't…
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Feast of Love (2007)
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Based on the popular Charles Baxter novel, this charming ensemble drama explores the depths of love and loss, joy and pain, and everything in between as lives intersect at a coffee shop in a…
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Funky Monkey (2004)
Cast: Seth Adkins, Matthew Modine, Jeffrey Tambor …
Directed by: Harry Basil, Gene Quintano
A boy genius (Seth Adkins) discovers the meaning of friendship with the help of a chimpanzee called Clemens and its martial-arts expert owner (Matthew Modine) in this comedy directed by Gene…
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10.5 (2004)
Cast: Kim Delaney, Beau Bridges, Dulé Hill …
Directed by: John J. Lafia
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake devastates Seattle, Wash. -- and as a follow-up, the 8.4 aftershock wreaks even more havoc, even swallowing a moving train, with potentially more devastating…
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Coast to Coast (2004)
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis, Selma Blair …
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
A long-married couple (Richard Dreyfuss and Judy Davis) admits to long-simmering resentments and ennui that threaten their relationship in this painfully honest drama directed by Paul…
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Enough (2002)
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen …
Directed by: Michael Apted
Abused wife Slim realizes Mitch isn't the wonderful man she thought she married. She and her daughter try to escape, but Mitch pursues them relentlessly. Fearing for her daughter's…
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Abandon (2002)
Cast: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam …
Directed by: Stephen Gaghan
University student Katie Burke (Katie Holmes) is under the pressure of exams and completion of her senior thesis. Her stress is compounded when she begins having strange visions of her…
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Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey …
Directed by: Andy Tennant
Melanie abandons her Alabama roots and high school-sweetheart husband in favor of Manhattan's glamorous social circles, where she attracts a handsome Park Avenue boyfriend. But when she…
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Joe Dirt (2001)
Cast: David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller …
Directed by: Dennie Gordon
Crowned with a mullet and armed with a mop, redneck janitor Joe Dirt lands in a series of zany misadventures and befriends some eccentric characters as he searches for his parents, who…
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Summer Catch (2001)
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard …
Directed by: Michael Tollin
Ryan Dunne (Freddie Prinze Jr.) is a blue-collar boy who dreams of becoming a Major League baseball player. Dreams aside, he makes it to "second base" when rich girl Tenley Parrish (Jessica…
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Corky Romano (2001)
Cast: Chris Kattan, Peter Falk, Peter Berg …
Directed by: Rob Pritts
Veterinarian's assistant Corky is plucked from his seemingly normal life when his dysfunctional mob family convinces him to go undercover as an FBI agent to destroy evidence against his…
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Road Trip (2000)
Cast: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart …
Directed by: Todd Phillips
In director Todd Phillips's raucous comedy, college student Josh (Breckin Meyer) makes two big mistakes: He cheats on his girlfriend -- and videotapes it. When his roommates accidentally…
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The Crow: Salvation (2000)
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Eric Mabius, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Bharat Nalluri
After being framed and executed for the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Alex Corvis returns from the dead as the Crow, becoming a hunter determined to solve the mystery behind his…
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Circus (2000)
Cast: John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare …
Directed by: Robert Walker, Rob Walker
Scam artist Leo Garfield (John Hannah) and his wife, Lily (Famke Janssen), are anxious leave their life of crime behind. But Leo has a hard time saying no when Bruno (Brian Conley), a…
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The Crimson Code (2000)
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Tim Thomerson, Cathy Moriarty …
Directed by: Jeremy Haft
FBI Agent Jason Chandler (Patrick Muldoon) gets more than he bargained for when he probes a string of homicides committed against … serial murderers. He discovers a pattern among the…
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Full Disclosure (2000)
Cast: Nicholas Campbell, Virginia Madsen, Penelope Ann Miller …
Directed by: John Bradshaw
When several old friends persuade him to take in and hide wanted Palestinian operative Armiti Khalq (Rachel Ticotin), who was involved in a messy and high-profile assassination plot,…
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The Chaos Factor (2000)
Cast: Antonio Sabato Jr., Fred Ward, Kelly Rutherford …
Directed by: Terry Cunningham
When he unearths evidence that the CIA carried out a raid of a Cambodian medical facility that led to the loss of innocent lives, intelligence officer Jack Poynt (Antonio Sabato Jr.) sets out…
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Red Team (2000)
Cast: Patrick Muldoon, Cathy Moriarty, Tim Thomerson …
Directed by: Jeremy Haft
When FBI agent Chandler rescues his partner from a kidnapping attempt, he is invited to join the Red Team, a gang of rogue agents who attack alleged criminals. As Chandler delves into Red…
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Forgotten City (1999)
Cast: Robert Patrick, Fred Ward, Chiara Caselli …
James Wheeler (Robert Patrick) travels to Central America to deliver a Mayan artifact to his brother. When he arrives, his brother has been murdered. Teaming up with beautiful Italian…
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Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Cast: Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline Bisset …
Directed by: Marshall Herskovitz
Prevented from marrying her nobleman lover (Rufus Sewell) because of her commoner status, real-life historical heroine Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) is left with two choices: join a…
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Best Men (1997)
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Luke Wilson, Dean Cain …
Directed by: Tamra Davis
On the way to his wedding, ex-con Jesse (Luke Wilson) stops at a bank so his groomsman Billy (Sean Patrick Flanery) can make a withdrawal. No problem, except Billy is a bank robber, and soon,…
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First Do No Harm (1997)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Fred Ward, Seth Adkins …
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Meryl Streep stars as a mother who goes to extraordinary lengths to help find treatment for her epileptic son. When insurance coverage runs out, she immerses herself in medical research in a…
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Chain Reaction (1996)
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz …
Directed by: Andrew Davis
When a team of scientists discovers a clean, low-cost energy alternative, their lab is destroyed, the research head is killed, and student machinist Eddie Kasalivich gets framed for both…
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Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1995)
Cast: Fred Ward, Christopher Gartin, Helen Shaver …
Directed by: Andy Wilson, S.S. Wilson
Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can…
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Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Cast: George Kennedy, Leslie Nielsen, Anna Nicole Smith …
Directed by: Peter Segal
Police Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) gets called out of retirement and sent to prison on an undercover assignment. His mission: Learn how terrorist Rocco Dillon (Fred Ward) plans to blow…
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Short Cuts (1993)
Cast: Frances McDormand, Bruce Davison, Anne Archer …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Robert Altman's mosaic masterpiece, based on Raymond Carver's short stories, presents a variety of characters -- including a baker, a phone-sex provider and a clown -- whose stale…
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The Player (1992)
Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg …
Directed by: Robert Altman
Director Robert Altman's wickedly funny masterpiece about a slick Hollywood studio executive named Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) -- a hotshot whose life is falling apart -- is packed with…
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Thunderheart (1992)
Cast: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene …
Directed by: Michael Apted
When the FBI can't crack a string of murders on an Indian reservation, they send in untested field agent Ray Levoi, who holds a trump card: his Sioux heritage. But as he gets closer to…
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Equinox (1992)
Cast: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph writes and directs this atmospheric tale about a young woman named Beverly Franks (Lara Flynn Boyle), who discovers an unopened letter that leads her to explore the lives of…
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The Dark Wind (1991)
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Ward, Gary Farmer …
Directed by: Errol Morris
After a horribly mutilated Navajo Indian is found on Hopi land, Navajo policeman Jim Chee (Lou Diamond Phillips) is plunged into a mystery filled with drug dealers, FBI agents, witchcraft,…
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Henry & June (1990)
Cast: Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros, Uma Thurman …
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
A sensual masterwork based on real events, this rich evocation of wild expatriate nights in 1930s Paris begins when writer Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) embarks on a professional…
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Miami Blues (1990)
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fred Ward …
Directed by: George Armitage
Veteran criminal Junior (Alec Baldwin), just out of prison, moves to Miami to get a fresh start; right after landing at the airport, though, he inadvertently causes the death of a Hare…
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Tremors (1990)
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter …
Directed by: Ron Underwood
Hick handymen Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite am admonition from a…
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Backtrack (1990)
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell …
Directed by: Dennis Hopper, Alan Smithee
Jodie Foster stars as Anne Benton, an artist who witnesses a mob assassination and reports it to the police. But when the mob comes after Anne, she's forced to go on the lam, hotly…
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Big Business (1988)
Cast: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Jim Abrahams
Upscale New Yorkers Sadie (Bette Midler) and Rose (Lily Tomlin) think they're twin sisters, but what they don't know is they were separated at birth from their true identical twins…
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Ron Nyswaner
The Marshettas are one dysfunctional family. Rupert (Keanu Reeves) is a misfit teen who refuses to take up the coal-mining career that his father (Fred Ward) wants for him, and his mom…
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Off Limits (1988)
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Gregory Hines, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Christopher Crowe
Buck McGriff (Willem Dafoe) and Albany Perkins (Gregory Hines) have jobs that are among the toughest in the military: As plainclothes cops in Saigon, they're supposed to police other…
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
Cast: Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley …
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Given a new face and identity, street-smart NYC cop Remo Williams is recruited into a secret organization that roots out powerful crooks. With the help of a mischievous martial arts trainer,…
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Secret Admirer (1985)
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston …
Directed by: David Greenwalt
Three's a crowd in this classic 1980s teen movie. Michael (C. Thomas Howell) lusts for Deborah (Kelly Preston), a popular girl at his school. When Michael finds a love letter from a…
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Swing Shift (1984)
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
During World War II, a young woman (Goldie Hawn) takes a Rosie the Riveter-type job on a home-front factory assembly line while her husband is away defending democracy. Directed by Jonathan…
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Silkwood (1983)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
While working at a nuclear power plant, Karen Silkwood becomes heavily involved in union work, but her evidence of the company's safety violations may never make it to the right people.
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Uncommon Valor (1983)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Jason Rhodes is at his wit's end not knowing what has happened to his son, who's been missing in action for over a decade. After useless appeals to the government, Rhodes takes…
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The Right Stuff (1983)
Cast: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris …
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Director Philip Kaufman and a stellar cast -- including Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris -- chronicle NASA's early transition from breaking the sound barrier in 1947 to the…
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Cast: Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote …
Directed by: William Dear
Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the…
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Southern Comfort (1981)
Cast: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward …
Directed by: Walter Hill
A weekend training camp turns into a fight for survival for nine National Guardsmen in this action drama by Walter Hill. Deep in the Louisiana bayou, a troop of soldiers (played by Keith…
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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom …
Directed by: Don Siegel
Sent to Alcatraz for life, hardened crook Frank Morris plans his unauthorized departure from the island prison. Enlisting two bank-robber brothers as accomplices, Morris meticulously works…