Made me realize John Hughes 83-90. Pick your favorite 5 years...
Wrote and/or directed:
83
Mr. Mom
Vacation
84
Sixteen Candles (Directed and wrote)
85
Breakfast Club (Directed, wrote, produced)
European Vacation
Weird Science
86
Pretty in Pink
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Directed, wrote,and produced)
87
Some Kind of Wonderful
Plains, Trains, and Automobiles (Directed, wrote, and produced)
88
She's having a Baby (Directed, wrote and produced)
Great Outdoors
89
Uncle Buck (Directed, wrote and produced)
Christmas Vacation
90
Home Alone

I'd like to formally petition that we change this thread title to "...Best *****6*****-year run..."

That being said, some of these 6 year entries may be okay if the earlier year movie was released later on in the calendar year than the latter year movies, and you look at it from that point of view rather than strictly calendar year based.

Chipotlemonger said:

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I'd like to formally petition that we change this thread title to "...Best *****6*****-year run..."

That being said, some of these 6 year entries may be okay if the earlier year movie was released later on in the calendar year than the latter year movies, and you look at it from that point of view rather than strictly calendar year based.

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Or we could do some research and go by shooting dates

If the same thread were made for specific decades (e.g. 70's, 80's, 90's) maybe that would stop people from doing say 11 years rather than the true 10.

Robert Redford had a couple of nice 5 year spans in the 70's and the 80's.

(For the younger crowd, Redford was v.1 to Brad Pitt b.2 and Leo DiCaprio v.3 ...

A contemporary of Redford's (Paul Newman) would have some nice runs in that same era.

Chipotlemonger said:

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If the same thread were made for specific decades (e.g. 70's, 80's, 90's) maybe that would stop people from doing say 11 years rather than the true 10.

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Ally Sheedy 83 - 87

War Games (83)
The Breakfast Club (85)
St Elmo's Fire (85)
Short Circuit (86)
Maid to Order (87)

Demi Moore 90-94

Ghost (90)
Nothing But Trouble (91)
Mortal Thoughts (91)
A Few Good Men (92)
Indecent Proposal (93)
Disclosure (94)

You could change that to 93 - 97

Indecent Proposal (93)
Disclosure (94)
The Scarlet Letter (95)
Now and Then (95)
The Juror (96)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (96)
Striptease (96)
Beavis and Butthead Do America (96)
GI Jane (97)
Deconstructing Harry (97)

I'll give you a couple of guys - not sure if they were mentioned - great actors but not the big name box office guys:

But as far as varied roles and performances go - pretty impressive.


Philip Seymour Hoffman

2004 Along Came Polly - one of my favorite comedic roles ever
2005 Capote - won Academy Award
2006 Mission: Impossible III
2007 The Savages
2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 Charlie Wilson's War - nominated for Supporting actor
2008 Doubt - nominated for Academy Award

or

1997 Boogie Nights
1998 The Big Lebowski
1998 Patch Adams
1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 Magnolia
2000 Almost Famous
2002 Punch-Drunk Love
2002 Red Dragon


Edward Norton - this is his first 7 films ever

1996 Primal Fear
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt
1998 Rounders
1999 American History X
1999 Fight Club
2000 Keeping the Faith

and another great 5 year run

2002 Death to Smoochy
2002 Red Dragon
2003 The Italian Job
2005 Kingdom of Heaven
2006 The Illusionist
2006 The Painted Veil

On Crowe, if you drop Cinderella Man and go one year before Gladiator you can add "The Insider" which IMO is an incredible performance by Crowe and a pretty good movie all around.

The Insider - 1999
Gladiator - 2000
Proof of Life - 2000
A Beautiful Mind - 2001
Master & Commander - 2003

Both those guys are incredible. On a side note, 2008's "Doubt" has Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Viola Davis all with next level preformances.

NM. Wrong thread.

Richard Dreyfus
'73-'77

'73 - an episode of Mod Squad
Catch-22 (tv movie)
Dillinger
American Graffiti

'75 - Jaws
'77 - Close Encounters
'77 - The Goodbye Girl

Those were some big parts in big movies, especially Jaws and Close Encounters.

Steve Guttenberg 1984-1989

Police Academy
Police Academy 2
Cocoon
Police Academy 3
Short Circuit
Police Academy 4
Three Men and a Baby
Cocoon 2

aTm2004 said:

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Samuel L. Jackson
(93-97)
Menace II Society
Jurassic Park
Pulp Fiction
Die Hard with a Vengeance
The Great White Hype
A Long Kiss Goodnight
A Time to Kill
Eve's Bayou
Jackie Brown

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We joke about SLJ, but he took that Pulp Fiction success and decided - I'm never not working again. Good for him.

Has to be a strong entry for best 50+ sprint

Sean Connery 1987-1991

The Untouchables
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Hunt for Red October
The Russia House (homeboy was 60 years old getting to play smooch smooch with 32-year old Michelle Pfeiffer)
Great cameo in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

He was great in A Time to Kill. Even sip Matty was great. Highly underrated movie, IMO.

aTm2004 said:

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He was great in A Time to Kill. Even sip Matty was great. Highly underrated movie, IMO.

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I remember that being one of my first "we're all grown ups here" movies in my early 20s. And yes, excellent casting throughout.

That's a good mention

Dark horse?

Jack Black 00-04

High Fidelity
Saving Silverman
Shallow Hal
Orange County
Ice Age
School of Rock
Envy
Anchorman
Shark Tale

Tommy Lee Jones
(93-97)
The Fugitive
The Client
Natural Born Killers
Batman Forever
Men in Black

Woody Harrelson
(92-96)
White Men Can't Jump
Indecent Proposal
Natural Born Killers
The Cowboy Way
The People Vs Larry Flynt
Kingpin

Chiwetel Ejiofor

15 - 19
Z for Zachariah (15)
The Martian (15)
Secret in Their Eyes (15)
Triple 9 (16)
Doctor Strange (16)
Come Sunday (18)
Mary Magdalene (18)
Sherlock Gnomes (18)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (19)
The Lion King (19)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (19)



You lose 12 Years a Slave by starting in 15 but if you start with that in 13 you lose the last 6 movies on that list.

Owen Wilson
(01-05)
Zoolander
The Royal Tenenbaums
Behind Enemy Lines
Starsky & Hutch
Meet the ****ers
Wedding Crashers

Go 02-06, and you lose the above italicized, but you add:
Cars
You, Me and Dupree
Night at the Museum

Quote:

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John Wayne (1968-1972)

Green Berets
True Grit
Chisum
Big Jake
The Cowboys

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I would have mentioned The Duke, but I found at least 4 different periods that met my criteria The one you chose was definitely one of those.

Shirley Jones (1955-1960)

Oklahoma!
Carousel
April Love
Never Steal Anything Small
Elmer Gantry

HtownAg92 said:

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Adam Sandler 1995-1999

Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
The Wedding Singer
The Waterboy
Big Daddy

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All of those are basically the same movie.

Lovable loser wins in the end and gets the girl.

Jack Nicholson (1969-1974)

Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
The Last Detail
Chinatown
One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest (technically 1975)

Lol at the filter, but we could substitute Tommy or Carnal Knowledge

maroon barchetta said:

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HtownAg92 said:

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Adam Sandler 1995-1999

Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
The Wedding Singer
The Waterboy
Big Daddy

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All of those are basically the same movie.

Lovable loser wins in the end and gets the girl.

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Don't forget funny voices and box office $$$. He's the white Tyler Perry.

Can we get a bracket challenger or something? Or we just gonna sit here and jerk off?

Clint Eastwood (1968-1972)

Hang 'Em High
Coogan's Bluff
Where Eagles Dare
Paint Your Wagon
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Kelly's Heroes
Dirty Harry
Joe Kidd

Hard to just pick just 5 years out of 5 decades of work, though