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The intriguing 2000 thriller film Under Suspicion stars Gene Hackman as a smug lawyer suspected of a girl’s murder, who becomes involved in mind games with the investigating police officer (Morgan Freeman). Director Stephen Hopkins’s […]
Gene Hackman stars as a crusty burnt-out coach who trains Fifties Indiana high-school boys for basketball success, in the poignant, complex 1986 sports drama classic film Hoosiers [Best Shot]. Director David Anspaugh’s poignant and complex […]
Gene Hackman and Al Pacino light sparks as drifters who hitchhike across the US in the 1973 drama film gem Scarecrow. Time has been kind to this almost forgotten gem of 50 years ago, a box-office […]
Francis Coppola’s tense and suspenseful 1974 thriller film The Conversation won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or. It’s a tour-de-force for director Coppola and star Gene Hackman as a paranoid surveillance expert. Francis Ford Coppola’s […]
The brilliant, controversial 1972 American action crime thriller film Prime Cut stars Lee Marvin as a Chicago mob enforcer sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss (Gene Hackman) who grinds his enemies […]
All the thriller genre’s classic ingredients — lies, secrets, passion, sex and murder — are all brought to the boil in director Roger Donaldson’s truly thrilling 1987 neo film noir distantly based on Charles Laughton’s […]
Clint Eastwood’s dark, violent and complex 1992 Western film Unforgiven triumphed as the winner of four Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman and Best Film Editing. Star-producer-director Clint Eastwood’s […]