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Lea Thompson has 16 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 Back to the Future.
1985
Adventure · Comedy
Dinner in America
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Some Kind of Wonderful
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%MGM+ · Included
Thin Ice
2012 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Prime Video · Included
Red Dawn
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Prime Video · Included
Switched at Birth
2011 · Series · Actor
Top 55%Hulu · Included
Back in Time
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 82%Prime Video · Included
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover
Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.
Dir. Adam Rehmeier · With Kyle Gallner, Emily Skeggs, Pat Healy
Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. However, Watts realizes she likes Keith as more than just a friend and tries to convince him to stop pursuing Amanda. Matters are further complicated when Keith's invitation draws the ire of Amanda's rich yet snobby ex-boyfriend, Hardy Jenns, who makes plans to get even.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson
A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
Dir. Jill Sprecher · With Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Billy Crudup
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Dir. John Milius · With Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell
Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.
Dir. Penelope Spheeris · With Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak
The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.
Dir. Lizzy Weiss · With Vanessa Marano, Katie Leclerc, Lucas Grabeel
Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into space. Together, the group -- which includes Kathryn, a pilot-in-training, and Tish, a ditz with a perfect memory -- must work together to operate the spacecraft and return home.
Dir. Harry Winer · With Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston
Cast, crew and fans explore the "Back to the Future" time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture, thirty years after Marty McFly went back in time.
Dir. Jason Aron · With Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.
Dir. Michael Chapman · With Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Dir. Nick Castle · With Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble, Joan Plowright
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Dir. Willard Huyck · With Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins
A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
Dir. Joe Alves · With Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale
A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.
Dir. Vic Armstrong · With Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Lea Thompson
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