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The Best Wilford Brimley Movies
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List of the best Wilford Brimley movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Wilford Brimley'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 Wilford Brimley movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Wilford Brimley movies will be at the top of the list. Wilford Brimley has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Wilford Brimley movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Wilford Brimley films to end the squabble once and for all.
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1Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Brian Dennehy- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Ron Howard
Oscar-winning fantasy in which the residents of a Florida rest home get a new lease of life when they stumble across an alien "fountain of youth" in a disused holiday home. Unbeknown to them, aliens ...more
2Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban- Released: 1981
- Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his supposed crime was committed but it involves an innocent ...more![The Natural]()
3Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close- Released: 1984
- Directed by: Barry Levinson
On the way to a tryout with the Chicago Cubs, young baseball phenom Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) is shot by the unstable Harriet Bird (Barbara Hershey). After 16 years, Hobbs returns to pro baseball as ...more![The Firm]()
4Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Sydney Pollack
A young lawyer joins a small but prestigious law firm only to find out that most of their clients are on the wrong side of the law. The company is helping to launder mob money, get clients off ...more![The Electric Horseman]()
5Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Willie Nelson- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Sydney Pollack
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse that he discovers is ...more![The China Syndrome]()
6Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas- Released: 1979
- Directed by: James Bridges
A news reporter (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman (Michael Douglas) are unintentional witnesses to a SCRAM incident, an emergency core shutdown procedure at a nuclear power plant in California. The crew ...more![The Thing]()
7Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter- Released: 1982
- Directed by: John Carpenter
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings ...more![Tender Mercies]()
8Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley- Released: 1983
- Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Down-on-his-luck country singer Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall) has nowhere to turn when he wakes up in a motel, short on cash. So he takes a job from Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), the kindly widow who runs the ...more![Brubaker]()
9Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
Posing as an inmate at a small Arkansas prison, the new warden of the penitentiary, Henry Brubaker (Robert Redford), witnesses firsthand the corruption and abuse inflicted upon the prisoners by the ...more![Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins]()
10Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Kate Mulgrew- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Guy Hamilton
A New York cop wakes up from a mysterious accident with a new identity. He finds himself in the employ of a secret unit which was set up to investigate a dangerous industrialist whose organization ...more![Cocoon: The Return]()
11Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Five years after the first "Cocoon," the friendly aliens from the planet Anterea return to Earth to rescue some incubation pods, which have been found by a team of scientists. The elderly people (Don ...more![My Fellow Americans]()
12Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Peter Segal
Ex-presidents Kramer (Jack Lemmon) and Douglas (James Garner) have hated each other for years. But when the current administration of President Haney (Dan Aykroyd) -- Kramer's former vice president ...more![Harry & Son]()
13Morgan Freeman, Paul Newman, Ellen Barkin- Released: 1984
- Directed by: Paul Newman
Harry & Son is a 1984 American drama film directed by Paul Newman, who also stars. The screenplay by Newman and Ronald Buck focuses on the relationship between a blue-collar worker and his son, who ...more![Crossfire Trail]()
14Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Simon Wincer
Rafe Covington (Tom Selleck), a hardened drifter, makes a promise to a dying friend to care for his Wyoming ranch and his wife, Anne (Virginia Madsen). Covington travels to Wyoming with his friends, ...more![Hard Target]()
15Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo- Released: 1993
- Directed by: John Woo
Chance Boudreaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a sailor skilled in martial arts, is employed to guard Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler) as she tracks down her father, an itinerant Vietnam veteran living in ...more![In & Out]()
16Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Frank Oz
Upon winning an Academy Award, actor Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon) honors his high school teacher, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline), who he announces, before millions of viewers, is gay. This comes as ...more![Where the Red Fern Grows 2]()
17Lisa Whelchel, Wilford Brimley, Chad McQueen- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Jim McCullough Sr.
This sequel to the 1974 family film Where the Red Fern Grows tells the story of a man named Billy Coleman (Doug McKeon), who returns from duty in WWII to the home of his crotchety grandfather ...more![10 to Midnight]()
18Charles Bronson, Andrew Stevens, Lisa Eilbacher- Released: 1983
- Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
An outraged police detective (Charles Bronson) and his rookie partner (Andrew Stevens) skirt the law to catch a killer of women.![Ewoks: The Battle for Endor]()
19Warwick Davis, Wilford Brimley, Carel Struycken- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Ken Wheat, Jim Wheat
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor is a 1985 made-for-TV movie set in the Star Wars galaxy co-written and directed by Jim and Ken Wheat who wrote the screenplay, with George Lucas writing the story. AÂ ...more![High Road to China]()
20Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston- Released: 1983
- Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
A spoiled heiress (Bess Armstrong) hires a tipsy biplane pilot (Tom Selleck) and his sidekick (Jack Weston) to find her father in 1920s China.![Country]()
21Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley- Released: 1984
- Directed by: Richard Pearce
Jewell (Jessica Lange) and Gil Ivy (Sam Shepard) run a farm in Iowa that has been in the family for generations. The Ivy's make enough to get by until two devastating events threaten to take their ...more![Did You Hear About the Morgans?]()
22Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Marc Lawrence
New Yorkers Paul (Hugh Grant) and Meryl (Sarah Jessica Parker) Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compared to the ...more![End of the Line]()
23Kevin Bacon, Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Jay Russell
End of the Line is a 1987 drama film directed by Jay Russell. Leo Pickett and Will Haney, railroad workers in Little Rock, Arkansas, find out the parent company of the Southland railroad is about to ...more![The Hotel New Hampshire]()
24Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe- Released: 1984
- Directed by: Tony Richardson
Based on the novel by John Irving, this unusual comedic drama follows the exploits of the eccentric hotel-operating Berry family. While there are many strange dynamics between the various members of ...more![A Place to Grow]()
25Wilford Brimley, John Beck, Boxcar Willie- Directed by: Merlin Miller
A Place to Grow is a 1998 television drama film written and directed by Merlin Miller.
