The best Ed Lauter’s movies

Ed Lauter

Ed Lauter

30/10/1938- 16/10/2013
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True Romance

True Romance
7.9/10
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/05/2005
  • Character: Duane
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.

Raw Deal

Raw Deal
5.6/10
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.

Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/12/2001
  • Character: The Coach
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.

King Kong

King Kong
6/10
In this remake of the 1933 classic, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/10/1995
  • Character: Mobster 3
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

The Artist

The Artist
7.9/10
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
3.6/10
In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/08/2006
  • Character: John Hanafin
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.

Trouble with the Curve

Trouble with the Curve
6.8/10
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.

Born on the Fourth of July

Born on the Fourth of July
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 20/12/1989
  • Character: Legion Commander
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Death Wish 3

Death Wish 3
5.8/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/11/1985
  • Character: Insp. Richard S. Shriker
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.

The Number 23

The Number 23
6.4/10
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard
7.1/10
In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

The Magnificent Seven Ride!
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 01/08/1972
  • Character: Scott Elliot
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.The last in the original series of four "Magnificent Seven" movies.

Cujo

Cujo
6.1/10
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 22/07/2003
  • Character: Charles Strub
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

Mulholland Falls

Mulholland Falls
6.3/10
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Real Genius

Real Genius
6.9/10
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.

Youngblood

Youngblood
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 31/01/1986
  • Character: Murray Chadwick
A skilled young hockey prospect hoping to attract the attention of professional scouts is pressured to show that he can fight if challenged during his stay in a Canadian minor hockey town. His on-ice activities are complicated by his relationship with the coach's daughter.

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