Lane Smith’s Typical Vibe
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Lane Smith has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by My Cousin Vinny.
Recurring themes

Class Act
1992
Comedy · Drama

It Could Happen to You
1994
Comedy · Drama

10 Things I Hate About You
1999
Comedy · Romance

Never Been Kissed
1999
Romance · Comedy

Blast from the Past
1999
Drama · Romance

Milk Money
1994
Comedy · Romance

French Kiss
1995
Comedy · Romance

Curly Sue
1991
Comedy · Drama

Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.
Dir. Frank De Felitta · With Charles Durning, Larry Drake, Robert F. Lyons

After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
Dir. Stephen Herek · With Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith

After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
Dir. Stuart Millar · With John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
Dir. Robert Redford · With Matt Damon, Will Smith, Charlize Theron

A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
Dir. Steve Rash · With Pauly Shore, Carla Gugino, Lane Smith

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lane Smith
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the New York Yankees put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Dianne Wiest

A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
Dir. Deborah Joy LeVine · With Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith
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