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Dan Hedaya has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Usual Suspects.
Recurring themes

The Cable Guy
1996
Comedy · Drama

Curdled
1996
Comedy · Crime

The Cowboy Way
1994
Action · Comedy

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Mo' Money
1992
Action · Comedy

Two Hands
1999
Comedy · Crime

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Red Rock West
1993
Crime · Drama

The Usual Suspects
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Clueless
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Paramount+ · Included

The Addams Family
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Paramount+ · Included

The Hurricane
1999 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Netflix · Included

The Hunger
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Blood Simple
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Max · Included

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Dir. David Lynch · With Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
Dir. Amy Heckerling · With Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld · With Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger

Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Dir. Joel Coen · With John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik · With Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
Dir. Mark L. Lester · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Dir. Hugh Wilson · With Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton

Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with Richard Grieco gets them inside the swank Roxbury club. Mistaken for high rollers, they meet their dream women, Vivica and Cambi, and resolve to open a club of their own.
Dir. John Fortenberry · With Chris Kattan, Will Ferrell, Dan Hedaya

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Dir. Matthew Bright · With Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon, Wolfgang Bodison

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Dir. Jerry Zaks · With Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Leonardo DiCaprio

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon

A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.
Dir. Rob Cohen · With Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen

Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
Dir. Gus Van Sant · With Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix

A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.
Dir. Danny Boyle · With Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
Dir. John Singleton · With Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright

Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nixon's dog Checkers, and become his secret advisors during the Watergate scandal.
Dir. Andrew Fleming · With Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya

12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in that arm heals too tightly, allowing Henry to throw pitches that are as fast as 103 mph. Henry is spotted at nearby Wrigley Field by Larry "Fish" Fisher, the general manager of the struggling Chicago Cubs, after Henry throws an opponent's home-run ball all the way from the outfield bleachers back to the catcher, and it seems that Henry may be the pitcher that team owner Bob Carson has been praying for.
Dir. Daniel Stern · With Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Amy Morton

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Dir. Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman · With Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
Dir. Richard Tuggle · With Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
Dir. Ulu Grosbard · With Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
Dir. John Patrick Shanley · With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel
After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman and reporter Jennifer Evans begin separate investigations. Newman gets resistance from superiors at his company, which manufactured the elevator, while additional elevator incidents cause several gruesome deaths. The police get involved and suspect that terrorists are responsible, but a far stranger explanation looms.
Dir. Dick Maas · With James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Eric Thal
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the new girl in town, quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more ... much more.
Dir. John Polson · With Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby
Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Dylan Baker