Frank Hoyt Taylor films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 14 films on Boxlist

Known for Hidden Figures, Big Fish and October Sky.

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Starring Frank Hoyt Taylor

Hidden Figures
2016 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn...
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Big Fish
2003 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a...
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October Sky
1999 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
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Walk the Line
2005 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
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Junebug
2005 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the...
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Boy Erased
2018 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and...
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Sommersby
1993 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus...
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Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
2005 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.
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The Crazies
2010 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.
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Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. However, after two trials, De La Beckwith is acquitted twice by a jury of...
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28 Days
2000 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment...
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Poms
2019 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A woman moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents.
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Above Suspicion
2019 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her...
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