Kurtwood Smith’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
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Kurtwood Smith has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Dead Poets Society.
Recurring themes

No Escape
1994
Action · Drama

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

The Edge
1997
Action · Adventure

Jack Reacher
2012
Crime · Drama

Red Rock West
1993
Crime · Drama

Murder at 1600
1997
Action · Drama

The King of the Kickboxers
1990
Action · Crime

Point of No Return
1993
Action · Crime

That '70s Show
1998 · Series · Actor
Top 7%Peacock · Included

The Crush
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

Patriot
2015 · Series · Actor
Top 34%Prime Video · Included

Citizen Ruth
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 59%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

To Die For
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 65%Netflix · Included

True Believer
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 70%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Dir. Peter Weir · With Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy

Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric’s basement, life in the ‘70s isn’t always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they’ve learned one thing for sure: they’ll always get by with a little help from their friends.
Dir. Mark Brazill, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner · With Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, Laura Prepon

After a high school lab experiment goes horribly wrong, Mordecai and Rigby must go back in time to battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe — and their friendship.
Dir. J.G. Quintel · With J.G. Quintel, William Salyers, Sam Marin

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Test pilot Hal Jordan finds himself recruited as the newest member of the intergalactic police force, The Green Lantern Corps.
Dir. Lauren Montgomery · With Christopher Meloni, Victor Garber, Michael Madsen

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
Dir. Alan Shapiro · With Cary Elwes, Alicia Silverstone, Jennifer Rubin

To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
Dir. Steven Conrad · With Michael Dorman, Terry O'Quinn, Kurtwood Smith

A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.
Dir. Tab Murphy · With Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
Dir. Peter MacDonald · With Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge

"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.
Dir. Alexander Payne · With Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith

In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
Dir. Stuart Gordon · With Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
Dir. Gus Van Sant · With Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix

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

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
Dir. Joseph Ruben · With James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin

A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Dir. Miguel Arteta · With Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche

Hello, Wisconsin! It's 1995 and Leia Forman, daughter of Eric and Donna, is visiting her grandparents for the summer where she bonds with a new generation of Point Place kids under the watchful eye of Kitty and the stern glare of Red. Sex, drugs and rock 'n roll never dies, it just changes clothes.
Dir. Gregg Mettler, Bonnie Turner, Lindsay Turner, Terry Turner · With Kurtwood Smith, Debra Jo Rupp, Callie Haverda
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
Dir. Keith Thomas · With Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon

The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear.
Dir. Aaron Zelman · With Omar Epps, Frances Fisher, Matt Craven
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her mother isn't telling her everything and soon learns they moved into the infamous Amityville house.
Dir. Franck Khalfoun · With Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan, Jennifer Jason Leigh
A young man seeking a father he has never met, through no fault of his own, ends up barricaded in a liquor store with five other people on Christmas Eve in the fictitious town of El Camino, NV.
Dir. David E. Talbert · With Vincent D'Onofrio, Jessica Alba, Dax Shepard
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
Dir. Jennifer Lynch · With Julian Sands, Sherilyn Fenn, Bill Paxton
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