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James Brolin has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Catch Me If You Can.
Recurring themes

The Spanish Apartment
2002
Drama · Comedy

Avenue Montaigne
2006
Comedy · Drama

Chocolat
2000
Comedy · Drama

High School Musical 3: Senior Year
2008
Comedy · Drama

Bride & Prejudice
2004
Drama · Comedy

Russian Dolls
2005
Comedy · Drama

Mother's Day
2016
Comedy · Drama

Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack
2017
Comedy

Catch Me If You Can
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

The Amityville Horror
1979 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%Prime Video · Included

Capricorn One
1977 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Prime Video · Included

Life in Pieces
2015 · Series · Actor
Top 57%Hulu · Included

Lightyear
2022 · Movie · Voice
Top 75%Disney+ · Included

Sisters
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 75%Starz · Included

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken

The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
Dir. Elliot Silverstein · With James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · With James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Dir. Michael Crichton · With Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Dir. Mark Robson · With Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro

Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.
Dir. Justin Adler · With Thomas Sadoski, Dianne Wiest, James Brolin
Jackie Foster, a dynamic Assistant District Attorney and single mom, is looking forward to wrapping up her latest case and spending Christmas with Gracie, her adorable and precocious, eight-year old daughter. But when Jackie’s estranged dad, Jack , a gruff retired police officer, unexpectedly shows up at her door, they will be forced to confront old wounds.
Dir. James Brolin · With James Brolin, Mena Suvari, Giselle Eisenberg
Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked when he wakes up in bed with a beautiful girl named Becky and can't remember the night before. Desperate to keep his fiancée, Karen, from finding out what may or may not be the truth, he tells her a teensy lie. Soon his lies are spiraling out of control and his life is a series of comical misunderstandings.
Dir. Chris Koch · With Jason Lee, Selma Blair, Julia Stiles

Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.
Dir. Angus MacLane · With Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn

Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
Dir. Jason Moore · With Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Dir. Patricia Riggen · With Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Kate del Castillo

In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.
Dir. Joel Hopkins · With Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins

Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant others. It seems that the streetwise Ray has found his calling, until he unexpectedly becomes a murder suspect in a case involving one of his most influential customers. Now, as the police and an assassin called "The Mormon" track Ray, he and his attractive assistant, Lola, must clear their own names.
Dir. Kurt Mattila, Matt Checkowski · With Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn, Selma Blair
Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he and his ragtag team dive in to save the day. But what Ready doesn't count on is falling in love and finding his soul.
Dir. Neal Brennan · With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin

A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.
Dir. Dermot Mulroney · With Mandy Moore, Kellan Lutz, James Brolin

A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC. Sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?
Dir. David O. Russell · With Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden

After the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman in an attempt to steal the most precious treasures from around the world, Italian waiter Pistachio Disguisey utilizes his supernatural ability to disguise himself in an attempt to stop him.
Dir. Perry Andelin Blake · With Dana Carvey, Brent Spiner, Jennifer Esposito