Biography: Dennis Franz |
Chicago-born Dennis Franz (originally Dennis Schlachta) spent 11 months in an airborne division during the Vietnam War. Afterwards, Franz became a postman -- and, by his own admission, not a very good one. Short, bald, overweight and scrappy, he... more
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The Heat: Behind the Badge (2000)
Tags: Biography Careers Law & Crime Culture & Society
Length: 104min
The Heat: Behind the Badge is an insightful look at the many dangerous aspects of being a police officer in various parts of the world. Viewers are also informed about law enforcement procedures that are still being used in many countries. Find out...
Cast: Nicolas Cage Meg Ryan Brad Silberling
Tags: Heavenly Drama Romance Fantasy Romantic Fantasy
Length: 117min
An angel must decide if love is more important than eternal peace in this Americanized adaptation of Wim Wenders' modern classic Wings of Desire. Seth (Nicholas Cage) is an angel who hovers over the city of Los Angeles, listening to people's thoughts,...
Cast: Dustin Hoffman
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: 88min
David Mamet's play about three losers planning a robbery is brought to the screen in an admirably simple, straightforward manner. Don (Dennis Franz) is the owner of an "antique store" (read: junk shop) who discovers that the buffalo head nickel he...
Cast: Bruce Willis John Amos
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 124min
"Another basement, another elevator...how can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks John McClane (Bruce Willis), in what is doubtless the key question of this film. A year after foiling the terrorist takeover of a high-rise office...
Cast: John Heard Tommy Lee Jones Gene Hackman
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller
Length: 108min
The Package, a hriller involving political assassination and intrigue, is an excellent action feature using a familiar theme and providing good performances by the cast. Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) is a prisoner entrusted to Gallagher (Gene Hackman)...
Cast: Anthony Perkins Jerry Goldsmith Robert Loggia
Tags: Slasher Film Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 113min
A sequel to one of the most popular horror films of all time, this psychological thriller received a pleasantly surprised, positive critical reception. Anthony Perkins returns as Norman Bates, who has just been released from an insane asylum after 22...
Cast: John Travolta John Lithgow
Tags: Political Thriller Thriller Paranoid Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 107min
Brian De Palma's homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's classic art movie Blow-Up (1966) blends suspense and political paranoia when a Philadelphia soundman inadvertently records a murder. Former police technician Jack Terri (John Travolta) makes his...
Cast: Michael Caine Brian De Palma Angie Dickinson Dennis Franz Nancy Allen
Tags: Slasher Film Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 105min
One of Brian De Palma's most divisive films, Dressed to Kill is a spine-chilling Alfred Hitchcock update for the late 1970s. Sexually frustrated wife and mother Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) visits her New York psychiatrist, Dr. Elliott (Michael...
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