Richard Edson films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 15 films on Boxlist

Known for Do the Right Thing, Platoon and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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Starring Richard Edson

Do the Right Thing
1989 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a...
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Platoon
1986 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to...
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Stranger Than Paradise
1984 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an...
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Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his...
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Strange Days
1995 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the...
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Eight Men Out
1988 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
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Black Dynamite
2009 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to...
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Desperately Seeking Susan
1985 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline...
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The Astronaut Farmer
2006 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to...
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Starsky & Hutch
2004 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear...
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3 from Hell
2019 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Winslow, the demented Firefly clan escape...
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Super Mario Bros.
1993 · Film
4.2/10 · TMDB
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
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Howard the Duck
1986 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him...
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