Gary Busey’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
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Gary Busey has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Lethal Weapon.
Recurring themes

Stone Cold
1991
Action · Crime

Hard to Kill
1990
Action · Drama

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Payback
1999
Action · Drama

Desperado
1995
Thriller · Action

The Gauntlet
1977
Drama · Action

The Enforcer
1995
Action · Crime

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Point Break
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Peacock · Included

Lost Highway
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

The Buddy Holly Story
1978 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Surviving the Game
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Rookie of the Year
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 71%Netflix · Included

A veteran cop and an unstable detective become partners who must put their differences aside in order to bring down a heroin-smuggling ring run by ex-Special Forces.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow · With Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Dir. David Lynch · With Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty

The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
Dir. Dan Attias · With Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Tovah Feldshuh

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Dir. Ulu Grosbard · With Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy

A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his band, the Crickets, are first invited to record in Nashville, where they encounter creative differences with the producing staff. Later they play a major booking at the Apollo Theater, scheduled there under the mistaken assumption that they're a black band. Holly's career eventually goes solo -- until the tragic day the music dies.
Dir. Steve Rash · With Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith

Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors who lead out a peaceful existence. The peace is broken as the new soldiers land on the planet to eliminate the colony, which Sergeant Todd must defend.
Dir. Paul W. S. Anderson · With Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs

Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
Dir. John Milius · With Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey

A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades

A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback—an error that could be fatal.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.
Dir. Ernest R. Dickerson · With Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton

When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets the experience of a lifetime when he tries to take Mike out of town during the election.
Dir. Penelope Spheeris · With Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson

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
It’s been 20 years since the corporations took over the world’s governments. Their thirst for power and profits led to the Corporate Wars, a fierce global battle that laid waste to society as we know it. Born from the ash, the Council of Nine rose as a new law and order for this dark age. To avenge the corporations’ reckless destruction, the Council issues death warrants for all white collar criminals. Their hunters—the bounty killer. From amateur savage to graceful assassin, the bounty killers now compete for body count, fame and a fat stack of cash. They’re ending the plague of corporate greed and providing the survivors of the apocalypse with retribution. These are the new heroes. This is the age of the BOUNTY KILLER.
Dir. Henry Saine · With Christian Pitre, Matthew Marsden, Kristanna Loken
A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
Dir. John Badham · With Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler

Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon proves that she's craftier than most inmates.
Dir. Dennis Hopper · With Tom Berenger, William McNamara, Erika Eleniak

Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer Esther Hoffman after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing a few songs at one of his shows and she becomes the talk of the music industry. Esther's star begins to rise, while John's continues to fall. She tries desperately to get John to sober up and focus on his music, but it may be too late to save him.
Dir. Frank Pierson · With Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.
Dir. Joel Schumacher · With Mr. T, Max Gail, Adam Baldwin

The new installment of the Sharknado franchise takes place 5 years after Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! There have been no Sharknados in the intervening years, but now they’re appearing again in unexpected ways.
Dir. Anthony C. Ferrante · With Ian Ziering, Ryan Whitney, Tara Reid

An evil yet adorable Gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer, and this real life cookie monster wreaks havoc on the girl who sent the killer to the electric chair.
Dir. Charles Band · With Gary Busey, Robin Sydney, Ryan Locke