John Lee Hancock’s Typical Vibe
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John Lee Hancock has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Blind Side.
Recurring themes

Saving Mr. Banks
2013 · Movie · Director
Top 7%Disney+ · Included

The Founder
2016 · Movie · Director
Top 24%Netflix · Included

The Highwaymen
2019 · Movie · Director
Top 47%Netflix · Included

The Rookie
2002 · Movie · Director
Top 50%Disney+ · Included

Mr. Harrigan's Phone
2022 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 76%Netflix · Included

The Alamo
2004 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 95%Prime Video · Included

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron

Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates

Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez

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

Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Donald Sutherland, Jaeden Martell, Kirby Howell-Baptiste

Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto

After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
Dir. Rupert Sanders · With Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Dir. John Lee Hancock · With Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric
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