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Dabney Coleman has 20 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s.
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Bomber
1982
Action · Comedy

Romancing the Stone
1984
Romance · Comedy

The Last Dragon
1985
Action · Comedy

Coming to America
1988
Comedy · Romance

Sixteen Candles
1984
Comedy · Romance

Overboard
1987
Comedy · Romance

Just One of the Guys
1985
Comedy · Romance

Loverboy
1989
Comedy · Romance

Tootsie
1982 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Netflix · Included

Nine to Five
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Peacock · Included

On Golden Pond
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

WarGames
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%MGM+ · Included

Bite the Bullet
1975 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Scalphunters
1968 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%Prime Video · Included

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
Dir. Colin Higgins · With Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton

For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years.
Dir. Mark Rydell · With Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Dir. Nora Ephron · With Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Greg Kinnear

High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Dir. John Badham · With Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood

as President George Richmond
Duncan is just an ordinary high school student. Hallie dreams of an ordinary life, but is actually the daughter of the president of the United States, living with a high profile and a rigid schedule. The unlikely pair happen to meet at the local mall, and Duncan nervously asks Hallie out, unaware of her family situation. When their eventual date is ruined by the intrusive Secret Service, the young lovebirds cut loose for a night of mischief.
Dir. Alex Zamm · With Dabney Coleman, Will Friedle, Elisabeth Harnois

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas

The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp — until T.J. uncovers an evil plot to do away with summer vacation! A crazy former principal, Dr. Benedict, is planning to use a laser beam to alter the weather and create permanent winter. Faced with the dire threat of year-round school, T.J. rounds up the RECESS gang and bands together with some unexpected allies — Miss Finster and Principal Prickly — in a nonstop adventure to save everyone's summer break. As the kids discover the heroes inside themselves, a platoon of wacky characters, far-out music, and sci-fi surprises turn this madcap mission into a major victory for fun!
Dir. Chuck Sheetz · With Andrew Lawrence, Rickey D'Shon Collins, Pamela Adlon

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
Dir. John Flynn · With William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes
Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.
Dir. Penelope Spheeris · With Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak

Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playing video games and pretending to be a spy with his imaginary father-figure, Jack Flack - a substitute for his real father, who is struggling with the recent death of Davey's mother. However, fantasy becomes reality for Davey after he witnesses the murder of an FBI agent, who in his dying breath, gives Davey a mysterious video game cartridge called Cloak & Dagger, which in actuality contains top-secret government information. With the help of his younger friend Kim, the tech savvy Morris, and even a little help from his fictional secret agent mentor, Davey must stay one step ahead of pursuers as he tries to survive a real-life game of espionage in the streets of San Antonio, Texas.
Dir. Richard Franklin · With Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy

Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.
Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson

LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.
Dir. Tom Mankiewicz · With Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Dir. Stan Dragoti · With Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer

as Chief of Police Cecil Tolliver
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
Dir. E. Max Frye · With Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Michael Lerner

An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
The unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her ambitious driver, and their eccentric boss, the legendary billionaire Howard Hughes.
Dir. Warren Beatty · With Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich

When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, makes plans to take him. But, when Clifford reveals himself to be a first-rate brat, his uncle goes bonkers, and a loony inter-generational standoff ensues.
Dir. Paul Flaherty · With Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen

John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.
Dir. David Kellogg · With Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher
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