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Stephen Hopkins has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson

Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades

Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis

A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge success as one of the greatest film comedians of all time; an obsessive artist so dedicated to his work that neglected his loved ones and sacrificed part of his own personality to convincingly create that of his many memorable characters.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, John Lithgow

Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, Idris Elba

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The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Lisa Wilcox, Robert Englund, Erika Anderson
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Mimi Rogers