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Actor: Charles Durning

Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)

2 April 20043 July 2019

Rating: ★★

Nuclear Missile Silo Hijacking

Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Richard Widmark, Paul Winfield, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Fury (1978)

10 June 20028 February 2022

Rating: ★★

Psychic Powers

Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, John Cassavetes, Andrew Stevens, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

The Muppet Movie (1979)

2 February 20016 September 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Muppet Movie

Director: James Frawley
Actors: Charles Durning, Mel Brooks, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, …
Category: Fantasy

When a Stranger Calls (1979)

17 August 200222 March 2021

Rating: ★★½

Babysitter Stalker

Director: Fred Walton
Actors: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Tony Beckley, Colleen Dewhurst
Category: Horror

The Final Countdown (1980)

29 July 200226 January 2023

Rating: ★★

Aircraft Carrier Time-Travels Back to Pearl Harbor

Director: Don Taylor
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Charles Durning, …
Category: Science Fiction

Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)

15 January 202015 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Scarecrow Enacts Supernatural Retribution

Director: Frank De Felitta
Actors: Charles Durning, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith, Larry Drake
Category: Horror

Two of a Kind (1983)

25 June 200924 December 2022

Rating: ★

Angelic Intervention Comedy

Director: John Herzfeld
Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Oliver Reed, …
Category: Fantasy

Solarbabies (1986)

20 January 200520 July 2019

Rating: 0­

Post-Holocaust Teen Sports Team

Director: Alan Johnson
Actors: Jason Patric, Jami Gertz, Lukas Haas, James Le Gros, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Rosary Murders (1987)

2 May 20053 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Catholic Serial Killings

Director: Fred Walton
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Belinda Bauer, Charles Durning, Josef Sommer
Category: Horror

Cop (1988)

6 April 200316 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Disturbed Cop Hunts Serial Killer

Director: James B. Harris
Actors: James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Raymond Barry, …
Category: Horror

Brenda Starr (1989)

1 August 20006 March 2020

Rating: ★

Girl Reporter Comic-Strip Adaptation

Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Actors: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid, …
Category: Fantasy

Dick Tracy (1990)

13 August 20015 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Comic-Book Detective

Director: Warren Beatty
Actors: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo, …
Category: Fantasy

When a Stranger Calls Back (1993)

3 June 20203 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Babysitter Stalker

Director: Fred Walton
Actors: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen, Gene Lythgow, …
Category: Horror

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

10 September 20018 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Black Comedy/Divine Intervention

Director: Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Charles Durning, …
Category: Fantasy

The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1995)

31 December 199530 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Animation/Talking Dinosaurs

Director: Roy Allen Smith
Actors: Scott McAfee, Charles Durning, Linda Gray, Juliana Hansen, …
Category: Fantasy

Spy Hard (1996)

13 December 200231 March 2019

Rating: ½

Spy Movie Spoof

Director: Rick Friedberg
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Andy Griffith, Charles Durning, …
Category: Science Fiction

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

2 February 200125 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Depression-Era Version of The Odyssey

Director: Coen Brothers
Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, …
Category: Fantasy

Desperation (2006)

20 October 20096 January 2020

Rating: ★★★

Stephen King Adaptation/Possessed Sheriff

Director: Mick Garris
Actors: Tom Skerritt, Ron Perlman, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish, …
Category: Horror

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