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Dennis Quaid
Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s after appearing in several successful films.
Quaid was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" (née Jordan) Quaid, a real-estate agent, and William Rudy Quaid, an electrician. He is...
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American Dreamz
American Dreamz is a 2006 comedy/parody film that satirizes both American politics and popular entertainment.
Director/producer/writer Paul Weitz has stated that the movie is meant to satirize both the TV show American Idol and the Bush...
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Any Given Sunday
Any Given Sunday is a 1999 film directed by Oliver Stone featuring an ensemble cast, consisting of Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, James Woods, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine, John C. McGinley, Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Lauren...
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Bill
Bill is a 1981 CBS television biographical film starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid. A sequel titled Bill: On His Own was released in 1983. The film is based on the life of Bill Sackter.
Bill, a mentally disabled man in his early-60s, ventures...
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Breaking Away
Breaking Away is a 1979 coming of age film that tells the story of four teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana who have graduated from high school and are not sure what they want to do with their lives, other than hang out and go swimming in an abandoned...
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Cold Creek Manor
Cold Creek Manor is a 2003 American/Canadian psychological thriller film directed by Mike Figgis. The screenplay by Richard Jefferies focuses on a family terrorized by the former owner of the rural estate they bought in foreclosure.
When documentary...
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Dragonheart
Dragonheart is a 1996 fantasy–adventure film directed by Rob Cohen. It stars Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, and the voice of Sean Connery.
The music for the film was composed by Randy Edelman, and the main theme song, ...
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Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson.
The film tells the story of Cathy Whitaker, a 1950s housewife, living in suburban Hartford as...
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Flesh and Bone
Flesh and Bone is a 1993 movie starring Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid and James Caan. Gwyneth Paltrow also features in an early role.
A young man witnesses his father brutally murder a family. Thirty years later he meets and falls in love with the baby...
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Flight of the Phoenix
Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 remake of a 1965 film, both based on the book of the same name. The film opened in the US on December 17.
When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns (Quaid) and...
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Frequency
Frequency is a 2000 film, which contains elements of the time travel, thriller, and alternate history film genres. It was directed by Gregory Hoblit and written by Toby Emmerich. The film stars Dennis Quaid and James Caviezel as father and son,...
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Gang Related
Gang Related (1997) is a film written and directed by Jim Kouf which stars Tupac Shakur and James Belushi. The film revolves around two corrupt detectives who attempt to frame a homeless man for the murder of undercover DEA agent they themselves had...
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In Good Company
In Good Company is a 2004 comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Weitz, the co-director of About a Boy. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, Clark Gregg, Selma Blair, and David Paymer.
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Innerspace
Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage. It stars Dennis Quaid,...
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Jaws 3-D
Jaws 3-D (also known as Jaws 3) is an 1983 horror–thriller film directed by Joe Alves and starring Dennis Quaid (in his first lead role). It is the second sequel to 1975's Jaws.
As SeaWorld, a water park with underwater tunnels and lagoons, prepares...
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Savior
Savior is a 1998 war film starring Dennis Quaid, Stellan Skarsgård, Nastassja Kinski, and Nataša Ninković. It is about an American mercenary escorting a Serbian woman and her newborn child to a United Nations safe zone during the Bosnian War.
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Suspect
Suspect is a 1987 mystery/courtroom drama starring Cher as Kathleen Riley, Dennis Quaid as Eddie Sanger, and Liam Neeson as Carl Wayne Anderson. Other notable cast members include John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, and Philip Bosco. The film was directed...
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The Big Easy
The Big Easy (1987) is an American neo-noir crime film directed by Jim McBride and written by Daniel Petrie Jr. The executive producer of the motion picture was Mort Engelberg and the cinematographer was Affonso Beato. The film was later adapted for...
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The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American apocalyptic science-fiction film that depicts the catastrophic effects of both global warming and global cooling, and a storm from the systems that are about to wipe out all life on Earth and dawning a new...
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The Long Riders
The Long Riders is a 1980 western film directed by Walter Hill. It was produced by James Keach, Stacy Keach and Tim Zinnemann and featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder. Cooder won the Best Music award in 1980 from the Los Angeles Film Critics...
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia is a 1981 film, starring Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill, and Don Stroud, directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. It was very loosely inspired by the Vicki Lawrence song of the same name (it shares almost...
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The Parent Trap
The Parent Trap is a 1998 remake of 1961's family film of the same name. This remake is directed by Nancy Meyers. It stars Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson as a couple who divorce soon after marrying, and Lindsay Lohan in a double role as their...
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff is a 1983 American film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 1979 book The Right Stuff about the test pilots who were involved in high-speed aeronautical research at Edwards Air Force Base as well as those selected to be astronauts for Project...
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The Rookie
The Rookie is a 2002 motion picture directed by John Lee Hancock. It is inspired by the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career.
Jim Morris (played by Dennis Quaid) injured his shoulder 12 years before the...
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Traffic
Traffic is a 2000 crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker, whose lives...
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Wilder Napalm
Wilder Napalm is a 1993 romantic comedy film about a pair of pyrokinetic brothers and their rivalry for the same woman. The film was directed by Glenn Gordon Caron, and stars Dennis Quaid, Arliss Howard, and Debra Winger.
Wallace (Dennis Quaid) and...
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Yours, Mine & Ours is a 2005 film starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo. Directed by Raja Gosnell, it was released on November 23 2005, and is a remake of the 1968 film of the same name, starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda.
Frank Beardsley is a...
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Enemy Mine
Enemy Mine is a 1985 science fiction film based on the story of the same title by Barry B. Longyear. It was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and starred Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr. The original music score is...
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Come See the Paradise
Come See the Paradise is a 1990 film directed by Alan Parker, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita. Set before and during World War II, the film depicts the treatment of Japanese people in America following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the...
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Vantage Point
Vantage
Point is a 2008 thriller film. It is directed by Pete Travis and stars
Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox, William Hurt and Sigourney
Weaver. The release date is set at February 15, 2008. In Columbia
Pictures' Vantage Point, Thomas...
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All Night Long
All Night Long is a 1981 comedy movie starring Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Diane Ladd, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Dobson, and William Daniels, and directed by Jean-Claude Tramont.
Hackman, as a man nearing middle age, is demoted after a temper tantrum...
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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 semi-biographical Western film, written by Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Kasdan. It stars Kevin Costner in the title role as lawman Wyatt Earp, and features an ensemble cast that includes Dennis Quaid, Gene...
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D.O.A.
D.O.A. is a 1988 remake of the 1950 film noir of the same name. The film was directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, the creators of Max Headroom. It starred Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, and Charlotte Rampling and featured Timbuk 3 playing one of...
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Everybody's All-American
Everybody's All-American is a motion picture directed by Taylor Hackford and based on the novel Everybody's All-American by longtime Sports Illustrated contributor Frank Deford.
The film covers 25 years in the life of college football hero Gavin...
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Caveman
Caveman is a 1981 slapstick comedy film financed by George Harrison, written and directed by Carl Gottlieb and starring Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Shelley Long and Dennis Quaid.
Atouk is a bullied and scrawny caveman living in "One Zillion BC -...
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Undercover Blues
Undercover Blues is a 1993 movie about a family of secret agents, starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid. The film was written by Ian Abrams and directed by Herbert Ross.
Turner and Quaid play Jane and Jefferson Blue, a wise-cracking couple of...
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Dreamscape
Dreamscape is a 1984 science fiction film directed by Joseph Ruben and written by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell and Ruben co-writing. The first draft was written by Bill Sweet as a student in Screenwriting at Columbia College in Chicago in 1979...
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Switchback
Switchback is a 1997 thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, Jared Leto, Ted Levine, with William Fichtner and R. Lee Ermey, set in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, and Amarillo Texas USA.
FBI agent Frank LaCrosse (Dennis Quaid) was in...
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The Express
The Express (also known as The Express: The Ernie Davis Story) is an American sports film directed by Gary Fleder released by Universal Pictures on October 10, 2008. It is based on the life of Syracuse University football player Ernie Davis, the...
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Great Balls of Fire!
Great Balls of Fire! (1989) is an American biographical film, directed by Jim McBride and features Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis. It was written by McBride and Jack Baran, based on an autobiography by Myra Lewis and Murray M. Silver Jr.
The...
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Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical novel by Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. It was later adapted, by Fisher herself, into a motion picture directed by Mike Nichols which was released by Columbia Pictures in 1990.
The novel...
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Playing by Heart
Playing by Heart is a 1998 comedy-drama film, which tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters.
Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows (Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands); an anti-social woman (Gillian...
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Smart People
Smart People is a 2008 comedy film starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Page and Thomas Haden Church. The film was directed by Noam Murro and written by Mark Poirier. It was filmed on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including...
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The Alamo
The Alamo is a 2004 American war film about the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. It is the second major studio film about the battle, following John Wayne's 1960 film of the same name. The film was directed by Texan director John Lee...
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Something to Talk About
Something to Talk About is a 1995 film directed by Lasse Hallström, from a screenplay written by Callie Khouri. It stars Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid as an estranged couple, Kyra Sedgwick as Roberts's sister and Robert Duvall and Gena Rowlands as...
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Gorp
Gorp is a 1980 comedy film starring Michael Lembeck and Dennis Quaid, and featuring early acting work of Roseanna Arquette and Fran Drescher in supporting roles. Directed by Joseph Ruben, with both story & screenplay by Jeffrey Konvitz & A. Martin...
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Battle for Terra
Battle for Terra, originally screened as Terra, is a 2007 computer animated science fiction film, based on a short film of the same name about a peaceful alien planet which faces destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human...
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Pandorum
Pandorum is a 2009 German/American science fiction/horror film written by Travis Milloy and directed by Christian Alvart. The film stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Filming began in Berlin in August 2008. Pandorum was released on September 25, 2009...
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Legion
Legion is an upcoming apocalypse themed fantasy-thriller film directed by Scott Stewart, written by Stewart and Peter Schink, and starring an ensemble cast headed by Paul Bettany. The film is set to be released on January 22, 2010.
After God loses...
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a 2009 American live-action film adaptation of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy franchise. The film is directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and co-written by Stuart Beattie, based on a...
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The Horsemen
Horsemen is a 2009 horror/thriller film directed by Jonas Åkerlund and starring Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi. It was released on March 6, 2009. It was filmed in Toronto, Winnipeg and Chicago.
Aidan Breslin (Dennis Quaid) is a bitter detective...
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Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 American dramedy film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Carrie Fisher is based on her 1987 semi-autobiographical novel of the same title.
Actress Suzanne Vale is a recovering drug addict trying to pick up...
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The Special Relationship
The Special Relationship is an American political television movie directed by Richard Loncraine from a screenplay by Peter Morgan. It is the third film in Morgan's informal "Blair trilogy", which dramatizes the political career of Prime Minister of...
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