John Badham Movies
by BaxterCallow | created - 05 Aug 2017 | updated - 05 Aug 2017 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Sport
In the late 1930s during racial segregation, a star of the Negro League Baseball, Bingo Long, leaves his team and convinces other stars of the league to join him as free agent players touring the towns of the Midwest.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Rico Dawson
Votes: 2,164
Bingo Long is fun, it's pleasant to watch, but it cakewalks too much on its way to the box office.
2. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
R | 118 min | Drama, Music
Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
Director: John Badham | Stars: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali
Votes: 87,547 | Gross: $94.21M
Boasting a smart, poignant story, a classic soundtrack, and a starmaking performance from John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever ranks among the finest dramas of the 1970s.
3. Dracula (1979)
R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan
Votes: 11,114 | Gross: $20.16M
A handsome, moody rendition, more romantic than menacing.
4. Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he ... See full summary »
Director: John Badham | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban
Votes: 3,553 | Gross: $8.21M
Talky, depressing, ranting.
5. Blue Thunder (1983)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern
Votes: 23,359 | Gross: $42.31M
As a cop-action flick this isn't bad, but it fits the mold so thoroughly that it feels more familiar than it should.
6. WarGames (1983)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 110,816 | Gross: $79.57M
Part delightfully tense techno-thriller, part refreshingly unpatronizing teen drama, WarGames is one of the more inventive -- and genuinely suspenseful -- Cold War movies of the 1980s.
7. American Flyers (1985)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, Sport
Marcus takes his kid brother, David, with him for a physical test and a brain scan, suspecting cerebral aneurysm like their dad died of. They head off on bikes for the big Rockies bike race with Marcus' Sarah driving the van.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul
Votes: 6,650 | Gross: $1.40M
American Flyers is shaky at the core, because it tries to tap-dance around its own central issues.
8. Short Circuit (1986)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton
Votes: 66,366 | Gross: $40.70M
Amiable and good-natured but also shallow and predictable, Short Circuit is hardly as deep or emotionally resonant as E.T. -- though Johnny Five makes for a charming robot protagonist.
9. Stakeout (1987)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 28,525 | Gross: $65.67M
Dreyfuss and his style are the two best things in "Stakeout," a movie that consists of a good idea surrounded by a bad one.
10. Bird on a Wire (1990)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An old flame discovers her ex-boyfriend from the past is a relocated FBI informant out to stop the bad guys.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, Bill Duke
Votes: 47,958 | Gross: $70.98M
Witless and Insulting.
11. The Hard Way (1991)
R | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An action movie star researching a role is allowed to tag along with a hardboiled New York City policeman, who finds him superficial and irritating.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Stephen Lang, Annabella Sciorra
Votes: 22,303 | Gross: $25.90M
The Hard Way's overly familiar formula is enlivened by a witty script and the excellent comedic chemistry between Michael J. Fox and James Woods.
12. Point of No Return (1993)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A government fakes the death of a criminal to turn this young woman into a killer on its service.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 30,173 | Gross: $30.04M
It's not awful, but I wouldn't want to watch it again. I would just to gawk at Fonda.
13. Another Stakeout (1993)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Crime
Two immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Farina
Votes: 15,397 | Gross: $20.21M
Sillier and less entertaining than the original.
14. Drop Zone (1994)
R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A tough cop teams up with a professional skydiver to capture a renegade computer hacker on the run from the law.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter
Votes: 21,575 | Gross: $28.72M
Reasonably exciting.
15. Nick of Time (1995)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An unimpressive, everyday man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Courtney Chase, Charles S. Dutton
Votes: 45,181 | Gross: $8.17M
The most preposterous movie in theaters isn't the Ace Ventura sequel (or even Money Train) but this wanna-be nail-biter.
16. Incognito (1997)
R | 108 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints a fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. Marieke, the woman he meets in Paris and gets into bed with, turns out to be the art expert whom Harry's ... See full summary »
Director: John Badham | Stars: Jason Patric, Irène Jacob, Thomas Lockyer, Ian Richardson
Votes: 4,081
Pretty good thriller, actually.
17. Brother's Keeper (2002 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ex-cop covers for her mentally ill brother's crimes. As his apparent involvement in a murder she is investigating grows, she discovers how far she'll go to protect him.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Jeanne Tripplehorn, Corin Nemec, Leland Orser, Evan Parke
Votes: 381
Just shy of torture.
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