Best John Heard movies
Today we present the best John Heard movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from John Heard:
TOP 25: The Lucky Ones
John Heard as: Bob
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 2008
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
TOP 24: The Milagro Beanfield War
John Heard as: Charlie Bloom
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Release: 1988
In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs.
TOP 23: The Chumscrubber
John Heard as: Officer Lou Bratley
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2005
The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get through their days.
TOP 22: Cutter's Way
John Heard as: Alex Cutter
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Release: 1981
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
TOP 21: The Pelican Brief
John Heard as: Gavin Vereek
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action
Release: 1993
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
TOP 20: One Eight Seven
John Heard as: Dave Childress
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 1997
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.
TOP 19: Beaches
John Heard as: John Pierce
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 1988
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
TOP 18: Pollock
John Heard as: Tony Smith
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2000
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
TOP 17: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
John Heard as: Peter
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Release: 1992
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
TOP 16: Justice League: The New Frontier
John Heard as: Ace Morgan
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction, Family
Release: 2008
The human race is threatened by a powerful creature, and only the combined power of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and The Flash can stop it. But can they overcome their differences to thwart this enemy using the combined strength of their newly formed Justice League?
TOP 15: White Chicks
John Heard as: Warren Vandergeld
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 2004
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich white women.
TOP 14: In the Line of Fire
John Heard as: Professor Riger
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Release: 1993
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
TOP 13: Mindwalk
John Heard as: Thomas Harriman
Genre: Drama
Release: 1990
A US politician visits his poet friend in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medieval island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja, a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen to the ideas of this brilliant woman and discuss how her ideas can work in their own politician and poet lives.
TOP 12: Radio Flyer
John Heard as: Daugherty
Genre: Drama
Release: 1992
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.
TOP 11: Too Big to Fail
John Heard as: Joe Gregory
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Release: 2011
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
TOP 10: The Tale
John Heard as: Older Bill Allens
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Release: 2018
An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
TOP 9: The Guardian
John Heard as: Capt. Frank Larson
Genre: Drama, Action
Release: 2006
A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
TOP 8: Battlestar Galactica: Razor
John Heard as: Commander Barry Garner (archive footage) (uncredited)
Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
Release: 2007
A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.
TOP 7: Big
John Heard as: Paul
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Family
Release: 1988
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
TOP 6: The Great Debaters
John Heard as: Sheriff Dozier
Genre: Drama
Release: 2007
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
TOP 5: The Trip to Bountiful
John Heard as: Ludie Watts
Genre: Drama
Release: 1985
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."
TOP 4: Home Alone
John Heard as: Peter McCallister
Genre: Comedy, Family
Release: 1990
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before Christmas Day.
TOP 3: After Hours
John Heard as: Tom the Bartender
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Drama
Release: 1985
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
TOP 2: Gladiator
John Heard as: John Riley
Genre: Action, Drama
Release: 1992
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing - where punches can kill.
TOP 1: Awakenings
John Heard as: Dr. Kaufman
Genre: Drama
Release: 1990
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.