On the last day of summer vacation in 1962, friends Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), Steve (Ronny Howard) Read More »
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Bitter Harvest (1981) Roger Young, Ron Howard, Art Carney, Tarah Nutter
A farmer’s herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill Read More »
The Spikes Gang (1974) Richard Fleischer, Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Ron Howard
After escaping home, three young friends form a dynamic alliance of untamed youth. Read More »
Fire on the Mountain (1981) Donald Wrye, Buddy Ebsen, Ron Howard, Julie Carmen
The story of one man’s defiance of the United States government. Read More »
The Wild Country (1970) Robert Totten, Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Read More »
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963) Vincente Minnelli, Glenn Ford, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, Comedy, Drama, Family
Who will be the next Mrs. Corbett? Will it be the chic designer? The Miss Montana Pageant hopeful? Read More »
The Shootist (1976) Don Siegel, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Drama, Western
John Books an aging gunfighter goes to see a doctor he knows for a second opinion after another doctor told him he has a cancer which is terminal. Read More »
More American Graffiti (1979) Bill Norton, Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Comedy, Drama, War
Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Charles Martin Smith and Paul Le Mat return in this laugh-filled follow-up look into the lives of the gang from George Lucas’ original coming-of-age classic, American Graffiti. Set a few years later, the film traces the continuing hopes, dreams and romances of these high school friends. Read More »
Cocoon (1985) Ron Howard, Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Sci-fi
A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they’d left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they’d rented in a small Florida town. Their mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons.
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Splash (1984) Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a young mermaid. Years later, he returns to the same location, and once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by the mermaid (Allen isn’t sure what he has seen and what he has imagined). Using maps from a sunken ship, the mermaid decides to search for Allen in New York City, sprouting legs when her tail dries. On finding Allen, they fall in love, but she has a secret, which will no longer be a secret if she gets her legs wet.
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Backdraft (1991) Ron Howard, Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Action, Crime, Drama
A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and other firefighters while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson/murders. This detailed look into the duties and private lives of firemen naturally features widespread pyrotechnics and special effects.
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