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Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Footloose, Flatliners, A Few Good Men, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, and Tremors.
Bacon has been nominated for Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild...
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Quicksilver
Quicksilver is a 1986 feature film starring Kevin Bacon. Written and directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly, the film also includes Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Louie Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, and Rudy Ramos.
Bacon's character is Jack Casey, a...
Starting Over
Starting Over is a 1979 film comedy starring Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen and Jill Clayburgh which tells the story of a recently divorced man who is torn between his new girlfriend and his ex-wife. It co-stars Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen,...
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National Lampoon's Animal House
National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis. The screenplay was adapted by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller and Harold Ramis from stories written by Miller and published in National Lampoon magazine based on...
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Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a 1995 film that dramatized the ill-fated lunar mission of the same name in 1970. The movie was adapted by William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert from the book Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, and was directed by Ron Howard. It...
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Beauty Shop
Beauty Shop is a 2005 comedy film, directed by Bille Woodruff. The film is a spin-off of the Barbershop film franchise, and stars Queen Latifah as Gina, a character which was first introduced in the 2004 film Barbershop 2: Back in Business. This...
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Criminal Law
Criminal Law is a film directed by Martin Campbell, released in 1989.
Attorney Ben Chase successfully defends Martin Thiel, a wealthy young playboy, getting him acquitted of a series of brutal murders — only to find out later that Thiel is indeed a...
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Diner
Diner is a 1982 comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson which along with Avalon, Tin Men, and Liberty Heights constitutes his series of "Baltimore films". Diner is the first film Levinson directed. His screenplay was nominated for...
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Flatliners
Flatliners is a 1990 movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt as medical students experimenting with near-death experiences. The movie is directed by Joel Schumacher.
The movie opens with a shot...
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Footloose
Footloose is a 1984 American film that tells the story of Ren McCormack, played by Kevin Bacon, a teenager who was raised in Chicago. McCormack moves to a small town where the local government has banned dancing and rock music. Ren and his...
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Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is a 1980 American independent horror film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. The film stars Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby and Kevin Bacon in one of his earliest roles. The film concerns a group...
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He Said, She Said
He Said, She Said is a 1991 romantic comedy starring Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Nathan Lane and Sharon Stone.
It is the story of the relationship between journalists Dan Hanson (Bacon) and Lorie Bryer (Perkins) twice – once from each...
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Hollow Man
Hollow Man is a 2000 science fiction thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon and Josh Brolin. The film is about a scientist who renders himself invisible, a story inspired by H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man....
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Murder in the First
Murder in the First is a largely fictitious 1995 film, directed by Marc Rocco, about a petty criminal named Henri Young (played by Kevin Bacon) who is put on trial for murder in the first degree.
As a 17-year old orphan, Henri Young stole $5.00 from...
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Mystic River
Mystic River is a 2003 American drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Emmy Rossum. The film was written by Brian...
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Picture Perfect
Picture Perfect is a 1997 romantic comedy film, starring Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon, Illeana Douglas, Olympia Dukakis, and Anne Twomey.
Kate (Jennifer Aniston) is struggling in the advertising business in New York, believing in her...
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She's Having a Baby
She's Having a Baby is an American movie, released in 1988, which was directed by John Hughes.
The movie portrays a young newlywed couple, Kristy and Jake Briggs played by Elizabeth McGovern and Kevin Bacon, who try to cope with being married and...
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Sleepers
Sleepers is a 1996 legal drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of the same name.
Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra, Thomas "Tommy" Marcano, Michael Sullivan and John Reilly are four childhood...
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Stir of Echoes
Stir of Echoes is a supernatural horror / thriller released in the United States in 1999, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by David Koepp. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Richard Matheson.
Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon) is a...
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The Air Up There
The Air Up There is a 1994 comedic film directed by Paul Michael Glaser.
For scenes taking place in the United States, the film was actually shot in Toronto & Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Copps Coliseum sat in for the University's arena. Scenes in...
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The River Wild
The River Wild is a 1994 American thriller film directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, John C. Reilly, and Joseph Mazzello. The story involves a family on a whitewater rafting trip who encounter two...
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The Woodsman
The Woodsman is a 2004 film directed by Nicole Kassell. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after prison.
Bacon plays Walter, a convicted child molester returning home to Philadelphia after a 12-year...
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Tremors
Tremors is a 1990 dark comedy monster film about a group of people from a small Nevada town fighting subterranean worm-creatures dubbed "Graboids". It was directed by Ron Underwood, and stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross and...
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Where the Truth Lies
Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 Canadian/British drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It stars Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth and Alison Lohman and is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Rupert Holmes.
The film alternates between 1957,...
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Wild Things
Wild Things is a 1998 erotic thriller film starring Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards, Neve Campbell and Bill Murray. It was directed by John McNaughton. In some countries the film was released as Sex Crimes. An uncut version of the movie,...
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JFK
JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (played by...
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The Magic 7
The Magic 7 is an animated TV movie written and directed by Roger Holzberg. It centers on the adventures of two children and a dragon as they fight the arch-enemies of Earth. It was originally slated to air on Earth Day (April 22) in 1997, but was...
Digging to China
Digging to China is a 1998 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Timothy Hutton and the screen debut of Evan Rachel Wood. The screenplay by Karen Janszen focuses on the friendship forged between a precocious pre-teenaged...
The Air I Breathe
The Air I Breathe is a 2008 directorial film debut of Korean-American filmmaker Jieho Lee, who co-wrote the script with Bob DeRosa. It stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brendan Fraser, Cecilia Suárez, Clark Gregg, Emile Hirsch, Forest Whitaker, John Cho,...
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White Water Summer
White Water Summer is an American drama movie directed by Jeff Bleckner that was released in 1987, but mostly filmed two years earlier. The action of the film is framed by commentary from the now older character of Alan (Sean Astin), as he remembers...
Death Sentence
Death Sentence is a 2007 film loosely based on the 1975 novel by Brian Garfield. The film is directed by Saw director James Wan, and stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a man who becomes a vengeful vigilante killer after his son is murdered by a gang as...
The Big Picture
The Big Picture is a 1989 movie starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Christopher Guest.
In a fictionalized version of Tinseltown itself, Nick Chapman is an up and coming film director hot off the win of a student academy award for his short film. No...
My Dog Skip
My Dog Skip is a 2000 film, directed by Jay Russell. It is based on the autobiographical book My Dog Skip by Willie Morris. The movie was released January 14, 2000.
The movie recounts a few anecdotes about 9-year-old Willie growing up in Yazoo City,...
Telling Lies in America
Telling Lies in America is a 1997 drama film directed by Guy Ferland. Written by Joe Eszterhas.
Tagline: Dress sharp. Drive fast. Look cool. Laugh last.
Karchy Jonas (Brad Renfro) is a 17 year old high school student (who migrated from Hungary 7...
Rails & Ties
Rails & Ties is a 2007 drama film that marks the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood, the daughter of Clint Eastwood. The film stars Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden and was written by Micky Levy.
The film tells the story of the aftermath of a...
Queens Logic
Queens Logic is a 1991 comedy from Seven Arts Pictures and starring Kevin Bacon and Linda Fiorentino.
The film was released on DVD twice. Once in 1999 under the Pioneer label, the second time in 2002 under the Platinum Disc label, and the third time...
Trapped
Trapped is a suspense/thriller film starring Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Kevin Bacon and Dakota Fanning, and is directed by Luis Mandoki. It was released on September 20, 2002.
The movie is based on Greg Iles's bestselling novel...
We Married Margo
We Married Margo is a 2000 American independent comedy film directed by J. David Shapiro and co-written by Shapiro and William Dozier. The film tells a story of two friends who were married to the same woman and is loosely based on real events in...
My One and Only
My One and Only is a 2009 comedy feature film loosely based on a story about George Hamilton's early life on the road with his mother and brother, with anecdotes that Hamilton had told to Merv Griffin. Griffin pitched the idea for the script, and...
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon is a 2008 historical drama film based on the eponymous play by Peter Morgan which dramatizes the Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. The film version was directed by Ron Howard and produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment and Tim...
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A Few Good Men
A Few Good Men is a 1992 drama film, directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore. It was based from a play of the same name by Aaron Sorkin. A courtroom drama, the film revolves around the trial of two US Marines...
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Taking Chance
Taking Chance is a 2009 historical drama based upon the experiences of Lt. Col. Michael Strobl (Kevin Bacon) escorting the body of a Marine, PFC Chance Phelps (posthumously promoted to LCpl), back to his hometown from the Iraq War.
The film was...
Destination Anywhere: The Film
Destination Anywhere: The Film is a feature film short inspired by and featuring music from and inspired by the themes on Jon Bon Jovi's second solo record Destination Anywhere. The film stars Jon Bon Jovi and Demi Moore as a young couple struggling...
Pyrates
Pyrates is an 1991 comedy film, starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick about a couple who experience pyromania after having sex. Directed and written by Noah Stern, the film was released on VHS on January 11, 1998.
Reviews for Pyrates were generally...
Forty Deuce
Forty Deuce is a 1982 American drama film directed by Paul Morrissey. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.
In the Cut
In the Cut (2003) is an erotic thriller film, written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Campion's screenplay is an adaption of the novel of the same name.
Frannie (Meg Ryan) is a lonely New...
