Randy Quaid

All Movies of Randy Quaid

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  Real Time
  REAL TIME is about a hit man (Randy Quaid) who gives a compulsive gambler (Jay Baruchel) one hour to live. The movie takes place in real time and its ultimate subject is what we do with the time we have in this world. The film beg...
   2008

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  5.0
  Goya's Ghosts
  It centers on the historic conflict between artist Francisco De Goya and the Spanish Inquisition in its last years. Stellan Skarsgard will play the painter, who is considered one of the founders of what is called Modern Art; Natal...
  Character: King Carlos IV

   2006

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  The Ice Harvest
  A wickedly funny thriller about thick thieves and thin ice. It's Christmas Eve in rainy, icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy bus...
   2005

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  7.3
  Elvis (TV Miniseries)
  Elvis Presley's dynamic life story begins in Tupleo, Mississippi, where he was born into poverty to Vernon and Gladys Presley. His looks, talent and moves helped to make him the universally proclaimed King of Rock 'n' Roll by the ...
  Character:  'Colonel' Tom Parker 2 episodes, 2005

   2005

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  8.4
  Brokeback Mountain
  The story of two young men, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-l...
  Character: Joe Aguirre

   2005

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  6.1
  Carolina
  Character: Ted Mirabeau

   2003

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  5.2
  Milwaukee, Minnesota
  The past meets the present when Milwaukee’s best fishermen, Albert Burroughs, a young man perceived to be mentally disabled, finds himself the target of two separate con artist out to steal his money. Having lived his entire ...
  Character: Jerry James

   2003

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  3.8
  The Adventures of Pluto Nash
  In the year 2050 in Little America on The Moon, former smuggler Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) saves his good friend Tony from being killed by mobsters over unpaid debts. In return, Pluto agrees to take over Tony’s bar. Seven years l...
  Character: Bruno

   2002

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  Back by Midnight
  Rodney Dangerfield stars in this hilarious comedy as prison warden Jake Puloski. Jake's plans for renovating his rundown prison are ruined when his superior, Eli Rockwood (Randy Quaid) rejects his budget. Without the funds for a p...
   2002

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  4.0
  Not Another Teen Movie
  At John Hughes High School, the students are the same as just about every other teenager in a teen movie. The popular jock, Jake (Chris Evans), takes a bet from Austin, the cocky blonde guy (Eric Christian Olsen), that he can tran...
  Character: Mr. Briggs

   2001

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  Mail to the Chief (TV)
  A humorous and inspiring adventure about an ordinary middle school student who strikes up an online friendship with someone bearing the screen name Average Joe, only to discover that he's been corresponding with and giving politic...
  Character: President A. Thorton Osgood II

   2000

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  The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
  35 years after The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show's cancellation, the 2 have been living off the finances of their reruns on TV. To make matters worse, Rocky has lost his ability to fly, and the trees in Frostbite Falls have all been c...
   2000

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  Purgatory (TV)
  An outlaw band rides into a town that is actually Purgatory, between Heaven and Hell.
   1999

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  4.8
  Hard Rain
  Rising flood waters imperil the residents of a Midwestern town, but to a gang of thieves, the disaster is an opportunity--to waltz off with the contents of a bank vault abandoned by the evacuated townspeople. Something they didn't...
  Character: Sheriff

   1998

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  Gun (TV)
  TV miniseries (1997). 6 episodes. A security guard who is certain an Arab man who has entered the airport is a threat. A bunch of friends in a country club when an abandoned and loaded gun turns up. A young girl stuck with her pas...
  Character:  Bill Johnson 1 episode, 1997

   1997

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  5.4
  Kingpin
  Roy Munson was the state bowling champion in 1979. Unfortunately, soon after he earned that honor, his hand was removed after trying to cheat the wrong guys. For the last 17 years he has been living a very unhappy life selling bow...
  Character: Ishmael

   1996

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  The Siege at Ruby Ridge (TV)
  A mini-series dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the deaths of Weaver's son, wife a...
  Character: Randy Weaver

   1996

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  6.3
  Independence Day
  One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. The spectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's s...
  Character: Russell Casse

   1996

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  Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning (TV)
  In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detective work and clues left at the crime scenes by the psychopathic killer, they are ...
   1995

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  Bye Bye Love
  A comedic drama about the difficulties of divorce for men and their children, BYE BYE LOVE stars likable actors Paul Reiser, Matthew Modine, and Randy Quaid. All three are divorced fathers who get custody of their children on the ...
   1995

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  7.3
  Streets of Laredo (TV Miniseries)
  Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a distance with a rifle. Joined by his old com...
  Character:  John Wesley Hardin 3 episodes, 1995

   1995

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  5.7
  Last Dance
  Cindy Liggett (Sharon Stone), is waiting on death row for a brutal double murder she committed in her teens, 12 years earlier. Clemency lawyer Rick Hayes (Rob Morrow) tries to save her, based on the argument that she was under the...
  Character: Sam Burns

   1995

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  5.6
  Major League II
  The Indians are now a World Series contender. But last year's hunger is now replaced with complacency, and bad decisions by the new owner threaten to tear the team apart.
  Character: Johnny

   1994

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  7.8
  The Paper
  An all-star cast featuring Michael Keaton as an aspiring writer who finds himself in the middle of a possible Pulitzer Prize-winning story only to be continually distracted by a brutal, demanding editor, and his pregnant wife. Aca...
  Character: Michael McDougal

   1994

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  5.7
  Freaked
  A company that produces a toxic chemical tries to improve its image via a popular spokesperson, Ricky Coogan. Ricky travels to South America to get a first-hand look at the chemical's effects and finds himself at a mutant freak fa...
  Character: Elijah C. Skuggs

   1993

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  Murder in the Heartland (TV Miniseries)
  A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree.
  Character:  Elmer Scheele 2 episodes, 1993

   1993

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  Davis Rules (TV Series)
  (1991-1992). 2 seasons. Dwight Davis, a widower and grammar school principal, has the task of raising his three sons, along with the help of his wacky father Gunny.
   1991

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  6.2
  Quick Change
  Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.
  Character: Loomis

   1990

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  5.2
  Days of Thunder
  Cole Trickle enters the high-pressure world of Nascar racing. He's a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other drivers, but members of his own team as well.
  Character: Tim Daland

   1990

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  Out Cold
  Sunny is married to the butcher Ernie; their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs. Thus Sunny hires Lester Atlas as private investigator in order to collect proofs for the divorce. One evening drunken Ernie and hi...
   1989

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  6.0
  Parents
  Michael Laemie (played by Brian Madorsky) is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Especially his father, Nick Laemie (p...
  Character: Nick Laemle

   1989

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  Bloodhounds of Broadway
  This film, which incorporates the plots of four Damon Runyon stories, takes place in and around a grand New Year's Eve party in 1928. The guests, many of whose lives intertwine during the evening, include Harriet (Julie Hagerty), ...
   1989

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  6.3
  Christmas Vacation
  It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family gues...
  Character: Cousin Eddie Johnson

   1989

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  2.8
  Martians Go Home
  Song writer Mark Devereaux accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they aren't dangerous, just wise-cracking, intrusive, pain in neck, annoyances. No one can escape their distracting influence. It's up to...
  Character: Mark Devereaux

   1989

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  6.2
  Moving
  Arlo Pear (Richard Pryor) is a family man with a loving wife, a rebellious daughter, twin sons, and a half-dead dog, he's also got a nice job with the city in New Jersey. He's a mass transit engineer. But one day Arlo is fired so ...
  Character: Frank / Cornall Crawford

   1988

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  3.8
  Caddyshack II
  When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park.
  Character: Peter Blunt

   1988

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  Sweet Country
   1987

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  LBJ: The Early Years (TV)
  Prodded by both personal ambition and a sincere desire to help the people of Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson (Randy Quaid) rises from congressional staffer to member of the House of Representatives to senator through a mixture of per...
  Character: Lyndon Baines Johnson

   1987

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  The Slugger's Wife
  This routine film should have been called the "rock singer's husband" because it is about the life of a baseball player affected by his love for a singer. Darryl Palmer (Michael O'Keefe) plays for the Atlanta Braves, and...
   1985

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  6.3
  Fool for Love
  Character: Martin

   1985

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  4.7
  The Wild Life
  Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
  Character: Charlie

   1984

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  A Streetcar Named Desire (TV)
  Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged...
   1984

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  Inside the Third Reich (TV)
  A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon Speer's own monograph of the same title.
   1982

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  4.2
  Heartbeeps
  Val and Aqua are two household servant robots who start feeling emotions for each other. After falling in love, they decide to escape from their servitude and attempt to start a family of their own.
  Character: Charlie

   1981

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  Foxes
   1980

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  7.5
  Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (TV)
  Based upon the true story of Jim Jones, a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people, who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came t...
  Character: Clayton Ritchie

   1980

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  The Long Riders
  The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
   1980

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  6.8
  Midnight Express
  Based on William Hayes's autobiography, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS tells the harrowing story of a young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison by Turkish authorities for trying to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of t...
   1978

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  6.6
  The Missouri Breaks
  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.
  Character: Little Tod

   1976

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  7.9
  Bound for Glory
  This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering and strength of America's working class.
  Character: Luther Johnson - Migrant Worker

   1976

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  4.0
  Breakout
  Jay Wagner is framed by the mob and sent to prison in Mexico. His wife, Ann tries to get him out. She then turns to bush pilot Nick Colton for help. And Colton is all to eager to do it. But the men who framed Jay will do what they...
   1975

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  6.9
  The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  It took a pair of Canadian ex-pats to beat Hollywood at its own game. The nascent Canadian film industry of the seventies suffered from two shortcomings when it came to making commercial films that could compete in the marketplace...
  Character: Virgil

   1974

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  8.3
  The Last Detail
  After being convicted of petty thievery, a young sailor finds himself in the care of two escorts assigned to take him to military prison. But the journey turns out to be more leisurely than expected, with several side trips and ex...
  Character: Meadows

   1973

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  8.2
  Paper Moon
  Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath," the film is set in the depression-era ...
  Character: Leroy

   1973

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  7.8
  What's Up Doc?
  Trouble seems to follow know-it-all Judy Maxwell wherever she goes. This time it takes the form of Howard Bannister, a musicologist attending a convention where he's competing for a grant that will allow him to study the musical p...
  Character: Professor Hosquith

   1972

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  8.1
  The Last Picture Show
  This coming-of-age tale set in the 50s focuses on best friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) and their relationships. Duane is dating the beautiful but fickle Jacy Farrow (Cybill Shepherd), a go...
  Character: Lester Marlow

   1971