John Heard’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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John Heard has 34 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Home Alone.
Recurring themes

Red Corner
1997
Crime · Drama

The Star Chamber
1983
Drama · Thriller

Guilty by Suspicion
1991
Drama · Thriller

Hellion
2014
Thriller · Drama

Not Without My Daughter
1991
Drama · Thriller

Eye for an Eye
1996
Thriller · Drama

Sugar Mountain
2016
Drama · Thriller

In Too Deep
1999
Drama · Action

Home Alone
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included

Awakenings
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Gladiator
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 12%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

White Chicks
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Netflix · Included

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Disney+ · Included

The Tale
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Max · Included

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Dir. Penny Marshall · With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, John Heard

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Dir. Penny Marshall · With Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight, he's noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing — where punches can kill.
Dir. Rowdy Herrington · With James Marshall, T.E. Russell, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich European-American women.
Dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans · With Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Frankie Faison

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
Dir. Denzel Washington · With Denzel Whitaker, Denzel Washington, Nate Parker

as Ace Morgan (voice) · Voice
The human race is threatened by a powerful creature, and only the combined power of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and The Flash can stop it. But can they overcome their differences to thwart this enemy using the combined strength of their newly formed Justice League?
Dir. Dave Bullock · With David Boreanaz, Miguel Ferrer, Neil Patrick Harris

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
Dir. Alan J. Pakula · With Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard

An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
Dir. Jennifer Fox · With Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Dir. Garry Marshall · With Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard

A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Adam Baldwin

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt

The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
Dir. Neil Burger · With Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Peña

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Dir. Ed Harris · With Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Dir. Andrew Davis · With Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard

When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but the same student stabs Trevor soon after. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as his old one—including four Latin Americans and a European American claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.
Dir. Kevin Reynolds · With Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan

They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two on-the-lam former Presidents of the United States. Framed in a scandal by the current President and pursued by armed agents, the two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperately frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence.
Dir. Peter Segal · With Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd

A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Dir. Douglas Cheek · With John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry

Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather" hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Dir. David Guy Levy · With Brittany Snow, Jeffrey Combs, Jonny Coyne

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.
Dir. Ivan Passer · With Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn

The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne tries to discover what he did on her own. She finds that she knew little about the man she was married to. The more she learns about her husband's possible illegal activities and double life, the more she places her daughter, and herself, in grave danger.
Dir. Damian Harris · With Goldie Hawn, John Heard, Ashley Peldon

Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
Dir. Steve Buscemi · With Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her. Soon, Paul will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they revert into predatory jungle cats.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
Dir. Nicole Conn · With Barbara Niven, Jessica Clark, John Heard

All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. Determined to solve the crime, he quickly learns that his search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy, intrigue, and danger.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino

Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Dir. Barbet Schroeder · With Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong

Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player Odin James has the adoration of all, including the team's coach and the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi. Odin's troubled friend Hugo, the coach's son, deeply resentful of his father's preference of Odin on and off the court, plots a diabolical scheme to sow the seed of mistrust between O and Desi, setting in motion a disturbing chain of events which erupts into a firestorm of breathtaking intensity.
Dir. Tim Blake Nelson · With Mekhi Phifer, Martin Sheen, Josh Hartnett
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