Nick Cassavetes’s Typical Vibe
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Nick Cassavetes has 17 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 The Notebook.
Recurring themes

Runaway
1984
Science Fiction · Thriller

Point of No Return
1993
Action · Crime

F/X2
1991
Action · Thriller

The Protégé
2021
Action · Thriller

The Real McCoy
1993
Action · Crime

Honest Thief
2020
Thriller · Action

Double Impact
1991
Thriller · Action

The Amateur
2025
Thriller · Action

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Dir. John Woo · With John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
Dir. Ted Demme · With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente

Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Denzel Washington, James Woods, Kimberly Elise

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Dir. Ted Demme · With Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatundé

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Brandon Call
Shaw Landon has loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule, a fiery-tempered rebel tattoo artist, doesn’t have time for a good girl pre-med student like Shaw — even if she’s the only one who can see the person he truly is. She lives by other people’s rules; he makes his own. But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule must figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love…or each other.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Chase Stokes, Sydney Taylor, Ella Balinska

Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death after finding him with his girlfriend, a mysterious power creates Jake Kesey, an extremely cool motor-biker who has a car which is invincible. Jake befriends Jamie's girlfriend Keri Johnson, takes Jamie's sweet brother Bill under his wing and manages what Sheriff Loomis couldn't; eliminate Packard's criminal gang the hard way...
Dir. Mike Marvin · With Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn

Bored and frustrated suburban homemaker Connie and her best pal JoJo, a vlogger with dreams, turn a hobby into a multi-million-dollar counterfeit coupon caper. After firing off a letter to the conglomerate behind a box of cereal gone stale, and receiving an apology along with dozens of freebies, the duo hatch an illegal coupon club scheme that scams millions from mega-corporations and delivers deals to legions of fellow coupon clippers. On the trail to total coupon dominance, a hapless Loss Prevention Officer from the local supermarket chain joins forces with a determined U.S. Postal Inspector in hot pursuit of these newly minted “Queenpins” of pink collar crime.
Dir. Aron Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly · With Kristen Bell, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Vince Vaughn

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton

Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and hold him hostage.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Emile Hirsch, Bruce Willis, Amanda Seyfried

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Maika Monroe, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Karl Glusman
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Dir. Harley Cokeliss · With Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn
After being released from a psychiatric institution, a man tries to redeem himself in the eyes of his now-ex wife from the events that led up to his incarceration.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Sean Penn, Robin Wright, John Travolta
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.
Dir. Sion Sono · With Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes

When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?
Dir. Rand Ravich · With Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton
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