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The Best Tom Skerritt Movies
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List of the best Tom Skerritt movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Tom Skerritt's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Tom Skerritt movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Tom Skerritt movies will be at the top of the list. Tom Skerritt has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Tom Skerritt movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Tom Skerritt films to end the squabble once and for all.
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- The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick (Tom Cruise) is sent to the school, his reckless ...more
- M'Lynn (Sally Field) is the mother of bride-to-be Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), and as friend Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) fixes the women's hair for the ceremony, they welcome a helping hand from ...more
- In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The ...more
- The Maclean brothers, Paul (Brad Pitt) and Norman (Craig Sheffer), live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister (Tom Skerritt), the ...more
- MASH is a 1970 American satirical black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker's novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. The picture is ...more
- When Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) awakens from a coma caused by a car accident, he finds that years have passed, and he now has psychic abilities. Heartbroken that his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) ...more
- In this Zemeckis-directed adaptation of the Carl Sagan novel, Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) races to interpret a possible message originating from the Vega star system. Once first contact with an ...more
- Wealthy Richard Trainor (Robert Culp) publishes a calendar featuring sexy nude women and is pleased when it's a big success. But at his party celebrating the event, the models start dying: Miss ...more
- The Nigerian government has fallen, and the country is on the verge of civil war. Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) has been assigned to lead a team of soldiers into the Nigerian jungle to rescue Dr. ...more
- Forced to give up ballet after becoming pregnant, Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) moved from New York to Oklahoma to raise a family with her husband (Tom Skerritt). When her old friend and fellow ...more
- Her father, her boyfriend (Robby Benson) and a rink operator (Colleen Dewhurst) help a partly blinded Iowa figure skater (Lynn-Holly Johnson) aim for the Olympics.
- An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner (Tommy Chong) ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas (Cheech Marin). ...more
- In Seattle during the era of grunge music, the lives and relationships of a group of young people, all living in the same apartment building, go through a period of flux. Among them are waitress and ...more
- Cult classic pairs Cort as a dead-pan disillusioned 20-year-old obsessed with suicide and a loveable Gordon as a fun-loving 80-year-old eccentric. They meet at a funeral, and develop a taboo romantic ...more
- Police Det. Nick Pulovski (Clint Eastwood) isn't so happy when he gets paired with young rookie David Ackerman (Charlie Sheen). Ackerman should have cause for concern too: Most of Pulovski's partners ...more
- The Heist is a 1989 HBO made-for-TV movie, starring Pierce Brosnan.
- This film is a dramatization of the decision-making behind the Johnson administration's escalation of the Vietnam War in the mid 1960s. As Lyndon Johnson (Michael Gambon) agonizes over sending more ...more
- A trapper's (Tom Skerritt) bride (Ellen Burstyn) joins him and starts a family in the harsh wilderness of early 1900s Canada.
- Stephen King's Desperation is a 2006 television movie that Stephen King adapted from his novel of the same name. The film was directed by frequent King collaborator Mick Garris and stars Ron Perlman ...more
- John Wisdom (Emilio Estevez) cannot land a job, dogged as he is by having served time in prison. Frustrated with his situation and in need of some cash, he sets off on a cross-country journey with ...more
- A murdered family's patriarch seeks revenge upon an Arizona coven that captures souls and worships Satan.
- Fallen is a 2006 ABC Family miniseries based on the four-book series of novels by Thomas Sniegoski The Fallen, and broken into three parts. The first part was originally advertised as an "ABC Family ...more
- Toward the end of the Korean War, young Pvt. Roy Loomis (Robert Redford) joins the soldiers at the front line. In Loomis' new infantry company, he encounters Pvt. Raymond Endore (John Saxon), a man ...more
- Sam Brodie (Tom Skerritt) is the sheriff of a small town called China Lake, where a series of violent murders has shocked the local population. During his investigation, Brodie comes across Officer ...more
- Investment adviser Bernie Madoff.
