Marshall Bell’s Typical Vibe
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Marshall Bell has 24 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Stand by Me.
Recurring themes

The Last Dragon
1985
Action · Comedy

No Retreat, No Surrender
1986
Action · Comedy

The Hoax
2006
Comedy · Drama

It Could Happen to You
1994
Comedy · Drama

EverAfter
1998
Drama · Romance

Lying and Stealing
2019
Crime · Comedy

The Astronaut Farmer
2007
Science Fiction · Adventure

Only the Strong
1993
Action · Drama

Total Recall
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

Rescue Dawn
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%MGM+ · Included

Capote
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Prime Video · Included

Diggstown
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 53%Prime Video · Included

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 54%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Puncture
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 56%Prime Video · Included

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
Dir. Bennett Miller · With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr.

Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. Roy 'Honey' Palmer is that man that, at 48, many say he is too old.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau

A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.
Dir. Adam Kassen, Mark Kassen · With Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, Michael Biehn

Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
Dir. John Landis · With Anne Parillaud, David Proval, Rocco Sisto

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A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
Dir. Jack Sholder · With Mark Patton, Robert Englund, Kim Myers

When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes.
Dir. Steve De Jarnatt · With Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Pamela Gidley

Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Dir. Andrew Fleming · With Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, J. J. Soria

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
Dir. Ivan Reitman · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston

Intrepid teenage private eye Nancy Drew heads to Tinseltown with her father to investigate the unsolved murder of a movie star in this old-fashioned whodunit based on Carolyn Keene's popular series of books for young adults. But can the small-town girl cut through the Hollywood hype to solve the case?
Dir. Andrew Fleming · With Emma Roberts, Max Thieriot, Josh Flitter

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

Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.
Dir. Bruce Robinson · With Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart

The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits.
Dir. Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms · With James Lafferty, Danny Glover, Julie Gonzalo
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Dir. John Bruno · With Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland

Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car chase is being broadcast live on every TV-channel.
Dir. Adam Rifkin · With Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
Dir. Johnny Depp · With Johnny Depp, Marshall Bell, Elpidia Carrillo
When Sara is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose the fortune she amassed with her self-serving Texan husband, she makes an offer to her process server, Joe, that sets them off on a wild trip across the country.
Dir. Reginald Hudlin · With Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Pastore
Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!
Dir. Simon Wincer · With Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary

Neil is torn between two loves: Marina, the European woman who comes to the United States to be with him, and Jane, the old flame from his hometown he reconnects with. Neil’s doubts about his life and loves are reflected in the crisis of faith experienced by Father Quintana, who only sees pain and the loss of hope in the world.
Dir. Terrence Malick · With Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams
It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
Dir. Bud S. Smith · With Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey Jr., Uma Thurman
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