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Richard Dysart has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Thing.
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A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter

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

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress
A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
Dir. Arthur Hiller · With George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle

Dir. Todd McFarlane · With Todd McFarlane, Keith David, Richard Dysart

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith
When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to mediate. Chief John Hawks insists the loggers are poisoning the water supply, and, though company man Isley denies it, the Vernes can't ignore the strangely mutated wildlife roaming the woods. Robert captures a bear cub for testing and soon finds himself the target of an angry mutant grizzly.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante

An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.
Dir. Mikael Salomon · With Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Minnie Driver
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
Dir. Robert Wise · With George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe that will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules," but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR, which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
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