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Best Gerald McRaney movies

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TOP 13: The Disappointments Room

Gerald McRaney as: Judge Ernest Blacker
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2016
A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.


TOP 12: Hansel & Gretel

Gerald McRaney as: Father
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Release: 2002
Hansel and Gretel is a 2002 film adaptation of the Brothers Grimm children's story. It stars Jacob Smith and Taylor Momsen as the eponymous characters. It includes the Sandman, played by Howie Mandel and Sinbad as a raven.

TOP 11: Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors

Gerald McRaney as: Rev. Jake Owens
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Release: 2015
"Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" is based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing. This once-in-a-lifetime movie special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make Parton who she is today. The film is set in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955. It is neither a biopic nor a musical about Dolly's whole life and performing career, but rather a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in her and her family's life around the time she was nine years old.


TOP 10: Red Tails

Gerald McRaney as: Lieutenant General Luntz
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, History, War
Release: 2012
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.


TOP 9: The A-Team

Gerald McRaney as: General Morrison
Genre: Thriller, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Release: 2010
A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck help out various people they encounter.

TOP 8: Heart of the Country

Gerald McRaney as: Calvin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2013
With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried emotions of sudden death of Faith’s mother years ago, and learn to be a family again. Like the Prodigal story, Heart of the Country is a tale of a father’s unconditional love. He simply wants a relationship with his children, and once that relationship is restored, he begins to create healing for his broken daughter. Her marriage has to be rebuilt, her belief in herself, and her peace with her mother’s death all come together through the quiet, selfless guidance of her loving father. The novel, written by Rene Gutteridge from the original screenplay by filmmaker John Ward, takes us from the glamour of Manhattan to the open beauty of the fields of rural Columbus County, North Carolina as the timeless tale of the Prodigal Son is reborn!


TOP 7: Get Low

Gerald McRaney as: Rev. Gus Horton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2010
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.


TOP 6: Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Gerald McRaney as: Lieutenant General George S. Patton
Genre: Drama, War, History, TV Movie
Release: 2005
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.

TOP 5: Deadwood: The Movie

Gerald McRaney as: George Hearst
Genre: Western, TV Movie
Release: 2019
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.


TOP 4: Focus

Gerald McRaney as: Owens
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2015
Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.


TOP 3: A Violent Separation

Gerald McRaney as: Tom Campbell
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Release: 2019
1983. In a quiet Midwestern town, a young deputy covers up a murder at the hands of his brother triggering a series of events that sends them and the victim's family towards a shattering climax.

TOP 2: The NeverEnding Story

Original Title: Die unendliche Geschichte
Gerald McRaney as: Bastian's Father
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Release: 1984
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.


TOP 1: The Best of Me

Gerald McRaney as: Tuck Hostetler
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2014
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.


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