Used Cars (1980)

Used Cars (1980)

[7] Before they struck box office gold with Back to the Future, co-writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale offered up this wacky dark comedy about used car salesmen trying to save their run-down lot from a hostile takeover. Kurt Russell…
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)

[9] Quentin Tarantino's ninth film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as a television actor and his care-taker stunt-man. The men are close-knit and more dependent on each other than either are able to admit. During the span of just…
The Best of Times (1986)

The Best of Times (1986)

[4] Robin Williams and Kurt Russell star in this alleged comedy about a loser (Williams) who decides to recreate the high school football game in which he dropped the ball and lost the game, sentencing his community to years and…
Silkwood (1983)

Silkwood (1983)

[7] Meryl Streep stars in the true story of a plutonium processing worker who is purposefully contaminated with the lethal substance after she initiates a whistle-blowing campaign about the company's safety standards. Kurt Russel plays the love interest and Cher…
The Fox and the Hound (1981)

The Fox and the Hound (1981)

[7] Disney's The Fox and the Hound opens with a young fox being chased by a hunting dog. It scrambles through the woods and finds a hiding place to ditch the baby fox it's carrying in its mouth. Then it…
Deepwater Horizon (2016)

Deepwater Horizon (2016)

[7] Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell headline this true story about the largest oil drilling disaster in American history. Deepwater Horizon is essentially a disaster movie in the grand tradition of that subgenre, but director Peter Berg is sensitive to the…
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

[7] Everyone in front of and behind the camera is back for another go-round in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, a fun time at the movies, even if it falls a tad short of the first film's humor and…
The Hateful Eight (2015)

The Hateful Eight (2015)

[8] Quentin Tarantino's eighth film (because he's counting) is a three-hour long claustrophobic western about eight characters holed up in a lodge during a snowstorm who all have reason to kill one another. Leading the ensemble cast are Kurt Russell…
Tequila Sunrise (1988)

Tequila Sunrise (1988)

[3] Mel Gibson plays a drug dealer trying to come clean. Kurt Russell plays a cop assigned to bring Mel down. Trouble is, they're kinda friends. And now they're both sort of in love with the same woman, a restaurant…
Overboard (1987)

Overboard (1987)

[6] A nasty heiress (Goldie Hawn) falls off her yacht and gets amnesia, only to be discovered by a handyman (Kurt Russell) she once screwed over. To get revenge, he convinces her that she's his wife and the mother of…