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Jack Thompson has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s.
Reservation Road
2007
Drama · Crime
Wake in Fright
1971 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Breaker Morant
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Max · Included
Flesh + Blood
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Prime Video · Included
Mystery Road
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 49%Prime Video · Included
Original Sin
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 57%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Mao’s Last Dancer
2009 · Movie · Actor
Top 58%Prime Video · Included
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Dir. Nagisa Ōshima · With David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Dir. Ted Kotcheff · With Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Dir. Derek Cianfrance · With Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from the irregular practices of the war. The trial does not progress as smoothly as expected by the General Staff, as the defence puts up a strong fight in the courtroom.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet.
Dir. George T. Miller · With Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Terence Donovan
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson
A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.
Dir. Ivan Sen · With Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
Dir. Michael Cristofer · With Angelina Jolie, Antonio Banderas, Thomas Jane
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen
A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.
Dir. Marco Brambilla · With Alicia Silverstone, Benicio del Toro, Christopher Walken
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
Dir. John Woo · With John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.
Dir. Niels Mueller · With Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up some dirt on the war hero... everyone could lose out.
Dir. George Clooney · With George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Dir. Troy Nixey · With Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatch plans of their own breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.
Dir. Russell Crowe · With Russell Crowe, Liam Hemsworth, RZA
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
Dir. Rod Hardy · With Daniel Radcliffe, Lee Cormie, Christian Byers
A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.
Dir. Brett Leonard · With Alex O'Loughlin, Patrick Thompson, Gabby Millgate
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while the date for her execution draws nearer.
Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
Dir. Brett Leonard · With Matthew Le Nevez, Rachael Taylor, Jack Thompson
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