Harry Dean Stanton Movie Rankings
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 3.8894 out of 4 stars for Godfather: Part II
3.8894
The second installment in the Godfather trilogy follows Michael and his position of "Don" in the Corleone family. The film also tells about Vito Corleone's beginnings and how he became one of the most powerful men in New York. ... more about Godfather: Part II
DVD from $6.45 
(1 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 3.6739 out of 4 stars for Alien
3.6739
Space vehicle Nostromo discovers a strange pod. The creature in the pod infects a member of the crew and a strange alien-being bursts from her stomach. The alien hides in the belly of the ship and continues to grow, terrorize and kill the remaining crew. ... more about Alien
DVD from $4.39 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 3.2520 out of 4 stars for Straight Story
3.2520
After hearing about the hospitalization of his estranged brother, 73-year-old Alvin Straight sets on a mission across the country, on his John Deere tractor, to visit. ... more about Straight Story
DVD from $9.35 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 3.2262 out of 4 stars for Repo Man
3.2262
In the wake of losing his job and girlfriend, punk rocker Otto teams up with a seasoned repo man. Just as Otto is getting comfortable in his new profession he becomes tangled in an adventure involving aliens, the government and a $20,000 64' Chevy. ... more about Repo Man
DVD from $5.65 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 3.0659 out of 4 stars for Escape from New York
3.0659
In 1997 the island of Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison. When Air Force One crashes on the island convict Snake Plissken is strong armed into saving the kidnapped President. ... more about Escape from New York
DVD from $3.27 
(7 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 3.0489 out of 4 stars for Green Mile
3.0489
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift. ... more about Green Mile
DVD from $2.25 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 3.0214 out of 4 stars for Last Temptation of Christ
3.0214
A depiction of Christ's life including a vision of what his life might have been like had he not been crucified. ... more about Last Temptation of Christ
DVD from $18.97 
(4 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.9631 out of 4 stars for Paris
2.9631
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before. ... more about Paris
DVD from $9.98 
(0 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.9417 out of 4 stars for Christine
2.9417
When Arnie falls in love with his new car "Christine" she falls in love back and there is little she will let come between them. The more time they spend together the more aggressive and unusual Arnie becomes. ... more about Christine
DVD from $7.48 
(5 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.9271 out of 4 stars for Mighty
2.9271
This is a story of two guys: Max looks like a slow-moving idiot and is almost illiterate and Kevin has a rare disease that physically deformed him. Kevin lives next door to Max and one day is assigned as a reading tutor to him. ... more about Mighty
DVD from $4.78 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.9247 out of 4 stars for Pretty in Pink
2.9247
Rich kid, Blane, becomes enamored with local outsider, Andie, at the record store. The two struggle to break free from societal dating restrictions and are determined to force those around them see beyond class. ... more about Pretty in Pink
DVD from $4.29 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.9039 out of 4 stars for Wild at Heart
2.9039
Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. ... more about Wild at Heart
DVD from $4.48 
(2 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.8918 out of 4 stars for Pledge
2.8918
The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. ... more about Pledge
DVD from $1.91 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.8638 out of 4 stars for Cockfighter
2.8638
Frank Mansfield has wanted to win the Cockfighter of the Year medal for ages. Frank never speaks. ... more about Cockfighter
DVD from $48.94 
(0 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.8213 out of 4 stars for Inland Empire
2.8213
A young actress on the verge of a blooming career in Hollywood is cast in an unfinished movie rumored to be cursed. As she falls in love with her co-star she begins to lose her sense of reality and become lost in her character. ... more about Inland Empire
DVD from $7.49 
(5 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.8112 out of 4 stars for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
2.8112
Former outlaw Pat Garrett is now town sheriff. When Billy the Kid escapes from jail Garrett is commissioned to rally a gang and catch his former riding buddy. Garrett is forced to choose between his former loyalties and his new oath. ... more about Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
DVD from $5.79 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.7365 out of 4 stars for One from the Heart
2.7365
Hank and Frannie don't seem to be able to live together anymore. After a five-year relationship, lustful and dreamy Fanny leaves down-to-earth Hank on the anniversary of their relationship. ... more about One from the Heart
DVD from $10.25 
(3 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.7255 out of 4 stars for Dillinger
2.7255
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. ... more about Dillinger
DVD from $4.02 
(5 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.7035 out of 4 stars for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2.7035
The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... ... more about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
DVD from $6.94 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.6168 out of 4 stars for Cisco Pike
2.6168
Cisko is an ex-rockstar who has become a drug addict. A corrupt cop blackmails Cisco to sell marijuana for him. Cisco has one weekend to sell it to his friends. ... more about Cisco Pike
DVD from $3.95 
(4 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.6126 out of 4 stars for Missouri Breaks
2.6126
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time. ... more about Missouri Breaks
DVD from $3.83 
(7 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.5248 out of 4 stars for Chrystal
2.5248
Set in the Ozark mountains, Chrystak combines red-dirt realism with the fabulist Southern literary tradition – part Flannery O'Connor, part Johnny Cash – to tell a wild and haunting tale of the power of true love. ... more about Chrystal
DVD from $3.18 
(4 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.5058 out of 4 stars for One Magic Christmas
2.5058
Gideon (Harry Dean Stanton), a Christmas angel, is sent, by Santa, to help Ginny Grainger (Mary Steenburgen). Ginny is a cynic, and she hates Christmas. ... more about One Magic Christmas
DVD from $8.96 
(5 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.4936 out of 4 stars for She's So Lovely
2.4936
Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. ... more about She's So Lovely
DVD from $3.77 
(4 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.4511 out of 4 stars for Private Benjamin
2.4511
When her husband dies in the wedding night Judy decides to join the army. What looks like a bad decision at first, turns out not so bad at all. That is, until her superior makes sexual advances. ... more about Private Benjamin
DVD from $3.57 
(7 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.3902 out of 4 stars for Farewell
2.3902
This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - _Murder, My Sweet (1944)_ (qv), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's ... more about Farewell
DVD from $63.00 
(0 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.3741 out of 4 stars for Alpha Dog
2.3741
When Jake refuses to pay his debt to his drug dealer Johnny, Johnny kidnaps Jake's younger brother, Zach, and holds him hostage. Zach is treated less like a prisoner and more like one of the gang. Until the fun and games stop and law catches up with them. ... more about Alpha Dog
DVD from $1.03 
(7 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.2855 out of 4 stars for Down Periscope
2.2855
Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days. ... more about Down Periscope
DVD from $4.32 
(5 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.2847 out of 4 stars for Big Bounce
2.2847
Surfer/drifter/con man Jack Ryan (Wilson) makes his way to Hawaii and lands a job caring for an Walter Crewes (Freeman), a judge on the island. His new gig leads to an involvement with an beautiful, enterprising woman (Foster). ... more about Big Bounce
DVD from $0.97 
(7 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.2505 out of 4 stars for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
2.2505
Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier tv series "Twin Peaks". The first half-hour or so concerns the investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond into the murder of waitress Teresa Banks. ... more about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
DVD from $3.99 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.1155 out of 4 stars for Straight Time
2.1155
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer. ... more about Straight Time
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.0955 out of 4 stars for Fool for Love
2.0955
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. ... more about Fool for Love
DVD from $3.00 
(4 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.0681 out of 4 stars for Black Marble
2.0681
Pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmermann is paired with Valnikov, a romantic detective of Russian origin who is going through a midlife crisis. They fall in love while solving the case of the kidnapping of a socialite's pet dog. ... more about Black Marble
DVD from $4.48 
(1 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.0476 out of 4 stars for Wendell Baker Story
2.0476
In a comedy directed by Luke and Owen Wilson, Luke stars as Wendell Baker, an ex con-man, whose latest scam only lands him in jail. This leads him to lose his longtime girlfriend Doreen (Eva Mendes) as well as his close friends. While incarcerated he makes the decision to turn his life around. ... more about Wendell Baker Story
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.0295 out of 4 stars for Sonny
2.0295
New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. ... more about Sonny
DVD from $5.65 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 2.0045 out of 4 stars for Red Dawn
2.0045
At the outbreak of World War III, midwestern high school students turned refugees slowly organized themself into an effective guerilla force to turn back the tide of Soviet invaders. ... more about Red Dawn
DVD from $3.70 
(7 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.9798 out of 4 stars for UFOria
1.9798
Sheldon Bart is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud, a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. ... more about UFOria
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.9591 out of 4 stars for Man Who Cried
1.9591
A girl whose name and language are taken away, who loses everything and everyone she loves and is driven into silence, nevertheless finds a singing voice and finally manages to find her long lost father. ... more about Man Who Cried
DVD from $6.43 
(5 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.9277 out of 4 stars for Fire Down Below
1.9277
Environmental protection agent Jack Taggart is fighting big business types led by Orin Hanner who are dumping toxic waste somewhere in the Kentucky hills region. They also killed his fellow agent and are killing the nature of the region. ... more about Fire Down Below
DVD from $2.77 
(7 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.7396 out of 4 stars for Blue Tiger
1.7396
Gena witnesses the murder of her son by a Japanees hit-man. He accidentally shoots the boy during a hit on a rival gang of bus operators. Gena then dedicates her life to revenge, and seeks out the gunman. ... more about Blue Tiger
DVD from $98.95 
(0 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.5975 out of 4 stars for Never Talk to Strangers
1.5975
Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telefon calls. ... more about Never Talk to Strangers
DVD from $1.91 
(4 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.5867 out of 4 stars for Man Trouble
1.5867
Jack Nicholson stars as a guard dog trainer who gets involved with one of his clients (Ellen Barkin). Beverly D'Angelo plays Barkin's sister, a classic airhead, who is spilling all she knows about her gangster boyfriend (Harry Dean Stanton). ... more about Man Trouble
DVD from $2.41 
(5 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.4931 out of 4 stars for Ginostra
1.4931
Matt Benson, an FBI investigator, has been posted to the island of Panarea in the Lipari archipelago within the framework of an agreement between the USA and Italy. ... more about Ginostra
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.4456 out of 4 stars for Young Doctors in Love
1.4456
An 'Airplane'-style spoof of hospital soap operas: a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman - in other ... more about Young Doctors in Love
DVD from $3.48 
(3 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.4246 out of 4 stars for Good Life
1.4246
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.3999 out of 4 stars for Mr. North
1.3999
Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments. ... more about Mr. North
DVD from $3.75 
(5 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.2690 out of 4 stars for Stars and Bars
1.2690
A British art expert travels across America in order to purchase a rare Renoir painting in the South but comes across some crazy characters in the process. ... more about Stars and Bars
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.2552 out of 4 stars for Zandy's Bride
1.2552
Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love. ... more about Zandy's Bride
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.1214 out of 4 stars for Bear
1.1214
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.0909 out of 4 stars for Wise Blood
1.0909
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 1.0041 out of 4 stars for Rose
1.0041
Bette Midler plays "Rose", an artist strikingly similar to 'Janis Joplin' (qv). The film follows Rose's career during her last tour. Her rock and roll lifestyle of Drugs, Sex, and Rock and Roll and constant touring lead her to an inevitable breakdown. ... more about Rose
DVD from $4.20 
(6 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.9452 out of 4 stars for Twister
0.9452
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch (Harry Dean Stanton) of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist (Lois Chiles). ... more about Twister
DVD from $6.00 
(4 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.6785 out of 4 stars for Dream a Little Dream
0.6785
An unfortunate bike accident leaves the minds of an elderly man and a young teenager swapped over - and the teenager uses the mind of the elderly man to win the girl of his dreams. ... more about Dream a Little Dream
DVD from $4.20 
(4 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.4639 out of 4 stars for Slam Dance
0.4639
A cartoonist (Hulce) who had an affair with a girl who is murdered (Madsen) gets himself embroiled in a high-level cover-up of a sex scandal involving his lover. ... more about Slam Dance
DVD from $3.00 
(3 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
0.0001
A documentary on the life of famed character actor and rodeo star 'Ben Johnson (I)' (qv), featuring interviews with his fellow actors and cowboys, as well as directors and film critics. ... more about Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Cry for Me
0.0001
In the Wild West, the American Army are fighting the Indians, in a succession of brutal massacres. A small group of soldiers led by a Sergeant, captures and rapes a squaw, who puts up a brave fight against superior numbers. ... more about Cry for Me
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Midnight Blue
0.0001
Twins Martine/Georgine dupe a love-stricken executive (Martin) into helping them steal $5 million from Georgine's husband. ... more about Midnight Blue
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Monte Hellman: American Auteur
0.0001
This documentary persuasively positions cult figure Monte Hellman as emblematic of an entire generation of American directors. ... more about Monte Hellman: American Auteur
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Playback
0.0001
The marriage of David Burgess ('Charles Grant' (qv)), a senior executive, and his beautiful wife, Sara Burgess ('Tawny Kitaen' (qv)), an interior designer, is under great strain because David is in the process of putting together the biggest ... more about Playback
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Rebel Rousers
0.0001
In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J. ... more about Rebel Rousers
DVD from $1.43 
(2 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Win
0.0001
Not Available on DVD
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Sand
0.0001
When Ty's mother dies, he leaves Barstow for the coast, where his mother grew up and where the beach gives him solace. He gets work, makes friends with some local guys, and falls for Sandy, the sister of one of them. ... more about Sand
DVD from $8.98 
(0 sellers)
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Harry Dean Stanton scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Renaldo and Clara
0.0001
This epic is a mass amalgamation of three separate film-types that is, contrary to popular opinion, coherent and a unified whole. Bob Dylan is shown in concert, often masked, during the Rolling Thunder Revue. ... more about Renaldo and Clara
Not Available on DVD
 
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Harry Dean Stanton
Birthdate:
July 14, 1926

Harry Dean Stanton

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1950s
1
No Reviews
1960s
1
total ranking of 0.2399  0.2399
1970s
20
total ranking of 2.0568  2.0568
1980s
19
total ranking of 2.3784  2.3784
1990s
20
total ranking of 2.3263  2.3263
2000s
13
total ranking of 2.1014  2.1014
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score:
2.3557
Harry Dean Stanton is ranked overall as 2.3557 of of 4 stars
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