Fred Thompson’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Fred Thompson has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Sinister.
Recurring themes

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Hard to Kill
1990
Action · Drama

Best of the Best 2
1993
Action · Thriller

Out for Justice
1991
Action · Crime

The Rookie
1990
Action · Crime

Stone Cold
1991
Action · Crime

Metro
1997
Action · Comedy

Rapid Fire
1992
Action · Thriller

In the Line of Fire
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Tubi · Free w/ ads

No Way Out
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%MGM+ · Included

Secretariat
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Disney+ · Included

Baby's Day Out
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 49%Disney+ · Included

Curly Sue
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 56%Max · Included
True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.
Dir. Scott Derrickson · With Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Vincent D'Onofrio
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler

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.
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
Dir. Roger Donaldson · With Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Dir. Randall Wallace · With Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Scott Glenn

Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.
Dir. Patrick Read Johnson · With Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano

Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo. But there's one problem—Grey's jealous, conniving boyfriend, Walker.
Dir. John Hughes · With Jim Belushi, Alisan Porter, Kelly Lynch

Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. But with the help of his doctor, Cole just might overcome his injuries-- and his fear.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
Dir. Yves Simoneau · With Anna Paquin, Chevez Ezaneh, August Schellenberg

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels

When the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Dir. Stan Dragoti · With Scott Bakula, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak
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