James Cromwell’s Typical Vibe
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James Cromwell has 39 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Green Mile.
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Los Bandoleros
2009
Action · Drama

The Bodyguard
1992
Action · Drama

Crazy in Alabama
1999
Comedy · Drama

Biker Boyz
2003
Action · Drama

The Notorious Bettie Page
2006
Comedy · Drama

Foxfire
1996
Action · Drama

A World Without Thieves
2004
Action · Drama

Tai-Chi Master
1993
Action · Comedy

Big Hero 6
2014 · Movie · Voice
Top 1%Disney+ · Included

Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Paramount+ · Included

Becoming Jane
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%BritBox · Included

Six Feet Under
2001 · Series · Actor
Top 10%Max · Included

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

Marshall
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Starz · Included

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt

A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
Dir. Chris Williams, Don Hall · With Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
Dir. Jonathan Frakes · With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner

In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
Dir. Alex Proyas · With Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk

Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union will destroy her creativity and sense of self-worth. Instead, she becomes involved with Tom Lefroy, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.
Dir. Julian Jarrold · With Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
Dir. Alan Ball · With Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius · With Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman

A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
Dir. Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook · With Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi

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

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Dir. Reginald Hudlin · With Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson

A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.
Dir. Charles Martin Smith · With Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell

Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Jude Law, Diane Keaton, Silvio Orlando

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco

When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.
Dir. Simon West · With John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
Dir. Phil Alden Robinson · With Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell

Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the US Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland

Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed, Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Dir. J. A. Bayona · With Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
Dir. Mimi Leder · With Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood

A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
Dir. Carl Reiner · With Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Dir. Jonathan Mostow · With Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Dir. Chris Noonan · With Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, James Cromwell

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
Dir. Benjamin Ross · With Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan

Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.
Dir. Justin Marks · With J.K. Simmons, Nazanin Boniadi, Harry Lloyd

A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
Dir. Peter Medak · With Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra
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