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Gailard Sartain has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Mississippi Burning.
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Mississippi Burning
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Prime Video · Included

Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Netflix · Included

All of Me
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Prime Video · Included

Elizabethtown
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 62%MGM+ · Included

Ernest Saves Christmas
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 87%Disney+ · Included

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
Dir. Jon Avnet · With Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary-Louise Parker

The story about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.
Dir. Martyn Burke · With Noah Wyle, Anthony Michael Hall, Joey Slotnick

Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant

Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon
In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides.
Dir. Ron Underwood · With Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Bonnie Bedelia
Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex, she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp

A deadly virus threatens to wipe out an entire Rocky Mountain town, leaving the town doctor to find some way to escape the soldiers who enforce the town's quarantine and devise an antidote. Matters take a more deadly turn after the physician is captured by a dangerously unstable band of militia extremists.
Dir. Dean Semler · With Steven Seagal, Gailard Sartain, Silas Weir Mitchell

When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a skeptical kiddie-show host to take over the post of Father Christmas.
Dir. John Cherry · With Jim Varney, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker
Con man Ray is going after one last heist – a stash of rare coins – when his estranged son Timmy unexpectedly shows up. Ray is too preoccupied with his robbery to spend time with his son, so Timmy blackmails him into acting like a father, hiding the coins and promises to return them only after Ray takes him to amusement parks and baseball games.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Macaulay Culkin, Ted Danson, Glenne Headly
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
Dir. John Cherry · With Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon
Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up.
Dir. John Cherry · With Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Bill Byrge
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams
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