D. B. Sweeney’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
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D. B. Sweeney has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Brother Bear.
Recurring themes

Rambo: Last Blood
2019
Action · Thriller

Patriot Games
1992
Drama · Action

Mercury Rising
1998
Action · Crime

Beyond the Law
1993
Action · Crime

Colt 45
2014
Drama · Thriller

Collateral Damage
2002
Action · Thriller

Marked for Death
1990
Action · Crime

Assassination Games
2011
Action · Crime

Brother Bear
2003 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Disney+ · Included

The Cutting Edge
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Prime Video · Included

Fire in the Sky
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 29%MGM+ · Included

Lonesome Dove
1989 · Mini · Actor
Top 31%Prime Video · Included

Speak
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Paramount+ · Included

Dinosaur
2000 · Movie · Voice
Top 43%Disney+ · Included

When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, including the lovable bear cub Koda, hilarious moose Rutt and Tuke, woolly mammoths and rambunctious rams.
Dir. Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker · With Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Jason Raize

Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...
Dir. Paul Michael Glaser · With D. B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly, Roy Dotrice

After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.
Dir. Rob Lieberman · With D. B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer

A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging-up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
With Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Lane

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.
Dir. Jessica Sharzer · With Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Zahn

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Dir. Ralph Zondag, Eric Leighton · With D. B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis

In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Dir. Olivier Megaton · With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Dir. John Sayles · With John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner

The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the briefing before their last flight, the crew discover that the target for the day is Bremen.
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones · With Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan
A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.
Dir. Scott Mann · With Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Robert De Niro, Kate Bosworth
A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.
Dir. Peter Werner · With Charlie Sheen, D. B. Sweeney, Lara Harris

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
Dir. Brian Robbins · With Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes

At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable to return to war himself, he mentors Jackie Willow—the idealistic son of a fallen comrade—hoping to prepare him for the realities of Vietnam and the cost of duty.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones

Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
Dir. Rupert Wyatt · With John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors
After being murdered by corrupt colleagues in a covert government agency, Al Simmons makes a pact with the devil to be resurrected to see his beloved wife Wanda. In exchange for his return to Earth, Simmons agrees to lead Hell's Army in the destruction of mankind.
Dir. Mark A.Z. Dippé · With Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, John Leguizamo

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Dir. Spike Lee · With Teyonah Parris, Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes

Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continues to spread its control over the national economy.
Dir. John Putch · With Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Esai Morales

When a former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists, his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved—so he launches his own rescue operation.
Dir. Steven C. Miller · With Bruce Willis, Gina Carano, Kellan Lutz