MRQE Ranks: Jeff Bridges' Best to Worst Movies

1

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sharon Taggart, Randy Quaid, Joe Heathcock, Bill Thurman, Jessie Lee Fulton, Gary Brockette, Loyd Catlett, John Hillerman, Noble Willingham, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Cloris Leachman

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

Writer: Peter Bogdanovich, Larry McMurtry

Synopsis: High school seniors and best friends, Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges), live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating lo... [MORE]

2

True Grit (2010)

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Barry Pepper

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father'... [MORE]

3

Cutter's Way (1981)

Cast: Arthur Rosenberg, Patricia Donahue, Geraldine Baron, Ann Dusenberry, Lisa Eichhorn, Stephen Elliott, Jeff Bridges, John Heard

Director: Ivan Passer

Writer: Jeffrey Fiskin, Newton Thornburg

Synopsis: Best friends Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) and Alex Cutter (John Heard) are two middle-class guys living in an upper-class town. The Santa Barbara bu... [MORE]

4

Iron Man (2008)

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Terrence Howard, Faran Tahir, Leslie Bibb, Sayed Badreya, Clark Gregg, Bill Smitrovich, Jon Favreau

Director: Jon Favreau

Writer: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway

Synopsis: A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap him to... [MORE]

5

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Cast: David Huddleston, Philip Hoffman, Flea Null, Leon Russom, Sam Elliott, Tara Reid, David Thewlis, Ben Gazzara, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Jeff Bridges, Peter Stormare

Director: Joel Coen

Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Synopsis: Jeff Bridges plays Jeff Lebowski who insists on being called "the Dude," a laid-back, easygoing burnout who happens to have the same name as a mill... [MORE]

6

Seabiscuit (2003)

Cast: Gary Stevens, William Macy, Kingston DuCoeur, Eddie Jones, Ed Lauter, Michael O'Neill, Michael Angarano, Royce Applegate, Annie Corley, Valerie Mahaffey, William H. Macy, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Tobey Maguire

Director: Gary Ross

Writer: Gary Ross

Synopsis: In the midst of the Great Depression, a businessman (Jeff Bridges) coping with the tragic death of his son, a jockey with a history of brutal injur... [MORE]

7

Crazy Heart (2009)

Cast: Tom Bower, James Keane, William Marquez, Ryan Bingham, Paul Herman, Rick Dial, Jack Nation, Colin Farrell, Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Beth Grant

Director: Scott Cooper

Writer: Scott Cooper

Synopsis: With too many years of hazy days and boozy nights,former country-music legend Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is reduced to playing dives and bowling alle... [MORE]

8

TRON (1982)

Cast: Dan Shor, Peter Jurasik, Tony Stephano, David Warner, Barnard Hughes, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, Jeff Bridges

Director: Steven Lisberger

Writer: Steven Lisberger

Synopsis: When talented computer engineer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) finds out that Ed Dillinger (David Warner), an executive at his company, has been steali... [MORE]

9

The Contender (2000)

Cast: William Petersen, Philip Hall, Saul Rubinek, Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Sam Elliott

Director: Rod Lurie

Writer: Rod Lurie

Synopsis: When the sitting Vice President dies, Senator Laine Hanson is chosen by the President to be the first woman to hold the office. The selection meets... [MORE]

10

The Door in the Floor (2004)

Cast: Elle Fanning, Louis Arcella, LeAnna Croom, Claire Beckman, Jeff Bridges, Mimi Rogers, Kim Basinger, Bijou Phillips, Jon Foster

Director: Tod Williams

Synopsis: The lives of Ted (Jeff Bridges) and Marion Cole (Kim Basinger) are thrown into disarray when their two adolescent sons die in a car wreck. Marion w... [MORE]

11

Heaven's Gate (1980)

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston

Director: Michael Cimino

Writer: Michael Cimino

Synopsis: Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's pove... [MORE]

12

Surf's Up (2007)

Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, James Woods

Director: Ash Brannon, Chris Buck

Writer: Don Rhymer, Ash Brannon, Chris Buck, Christopher Jenkins, Shia LaBeouf

Synopsis: Surfing means everything to teenage penguin Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf). Followed by a documentary film crew, he leaves his home in Antarctica for... [MORE]

13

Starman (1984)

Cast: Charles Smith, Tony Edwards, John Walter Davis, Ted White, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Robert Phalen, Richard Jaeckel

Director: John Carpenter

Synopsis: Answering a NASA message intended for aliens, a space being tries to contact mankind, but an American missile grounds his ship. Scrambling, the so-... [MORE]

14

The Fisher King (1991)

Cast: Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, David Pierce, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Michael Jeter, Amanda Plummer, Jeff Bridges

Director: Terry Gilliam

Synopsis: After shock jock Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) inadvertently provokes a caller into murdering a group of innocent people in a Manhattan bar, he grows d... [MORE]

15

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

Cast: George Segal, Brenda Vaccaro, Austin Pendleton, Elle Macpherson, Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Mimi Rogers, Pierce Brosnan, Lauren Bacall

Director: Barbra Streisand

Synopsis: Comic tale about the relationship between a frumpy college lecturer specializing in romantic literature and a fellow professor who wants a platonic... [MORE]

16

Arlington Road (1999)

Cast: Mason Gamble, Spencer Clark, Stanley Anderson, Viviane Vives, Lee Stringer, Darryl Cox, Loyd Catlett, Sid Hillman, Auden Thornton, Mary Ashleigh Green, Jenni Tooley, Grant Garrison, Naya Castinado, Laura Poe, Chris Dahlberg, Gabriel Folse, Hunter Burkes, Josh Ridgway, Hans Stroble, Michelle Du Bois, Steve Ottesen, Harris Mackenzie, John Hussey, Charles Sanders, Joan Cusack, Jeff Bridges, Hope Davis, Tim Robbins, Robert Gossett

Director: Mark Pellington

Writer: Ehren Kruger

Synopsis: Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by an extremist group, college professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) becomes obsessed with the culture... [MORE]

17

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

Cast: Robert Patrick, Stephen Root, Glenn Morshower, Waleed Zuaiter, Rebecca Mader, Nick Offerman, Terry Serpico, Tim Griffin, Jacob Brown, Brad Grunberg, Elsa Villafane, Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang

Director: Grant Heslov

Writer: Peter Straughan

Synopsis: Struggling reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) gets the scoop of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who claims to be from a uni... [MORE]

18

K-PAX (2001)

Cast: David Kelly, Saul Williams, Peter Gerety, Celia Weston, Ajay Naidu, Tracy Vilar, Melanee Murray, John Toles-Bey, Kimberly Scott, Brian Howe, Mary Mara, Aaron Paul, William Lucking, Erik Harvey, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, Jeff Bridges, David Patrick Kelly, Kevin Spacey

Director: Iain Softley

Synopsis: Tells the story of a mysterious patient (Kevin Spacey) at a mental hospital who claims to be from a distant planet called K-PAX. As his psychiatris... [MORE]

19

TRON: Legacy (2010)

Cast: James Frain, Beau Garrett, Jeffrey Nordling, Christine Adams, Dale Wolfe, Cillian Murphy, Michael Sheen, Bruce Boxleitner, Olivia Wilde, Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Writer: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz

Synopsis: Sam (Garrett Hedlund), the son of famous video-game developer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), has been haunted for a long time by his father's mysterio... [MORE]

20

The Muse (1999)

Cast: Steven Wright, Bradley Whitford, Mario Opinato, Dakin Matthews, Concetta Tomei, Cybill Shepherd, Lorenzo Lamas, Jennifer Tilly, Rob Reiner, Wolfgang Puck, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Jamie Alexis, Skip O'Brien, Bobby Edner, Stacey Travis, Monica Mikala, Paul Jensen, Marnie Shelton, Aude Charles, Michelle Jones, Catherine MacNeal, Steve Valentine, Greg Grunberg, Ange Billman, Mark Feuerstein, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Jeff Bridges, Albert Brooks

Director: Albert Brooks

Writer: Albert Brooks, Monica Johnson

Synopsis: Screenwriter Steven Phillips (Albert Brooks) seemingly has it all, including an Academy Award for his latest script. But he's hit an artistic dry p... [MORE]

21

The Vanishing (1993)

Cast: Bernard-pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Gwen Eckhaus, Johanna ter Steege, Bernard Pierre Donnadieu

Director: George Sluizer

Synopsis: Rex (Gene Bervoets) and Saskia (Johanna Ter Steege) are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Con... [MORE]

22

Blown Away (1994)

Cast: Tommy Jones, Stephi Lineburg, John Finn, Caitlin Clarke, Chris de Oni, Loyd Catlett, Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Writer: Joe Batteer, John Rice

Synopsis: After staging a particularly gory jailbreak, Irish Republican Army agent Ryan Gaerity (Tommy Lee Jones) makes his way to Boston and begins systemat... [MORE]

23

White Squall (1996)

Cast: Ryan Phillippe, David Lascher, Eric Michael Cole, Jeff Bridges, John Savage, Caroline Goodall, Jeremy Sisto, Scott Wolf

Director: Ridley Scott

Synopsis: In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon (Jeff Bridges) at the helm, the... [MORE]

24

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

Cast: Gillian Anderson, Miriam Margolyes, Bill Paterson, Max Minghella, Diana Kent, Margo Stilley, Jeff Bridges, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Simon Pegg, Danny Huston

Director: Robert Weide, Robert B. Weide

Writer: Peter Straughan

Synopsis: Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, at... [MORE]

25

King Kong (1976)

Cast: Rene Auberjonois, Julius Harris, Jack O'Halloran, Ed Lauter, Jessica Lange, Charles Grodin, Jeff Bridges, John Randolph

Director: John Guillermin

Synopsis: When a research ship is sent to explore an island thought to be rich in oil, paleontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) sneaks aboard, having hear... [MORE]

26

The Giver (2014)

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, Alexander Skarsgård, Odeya Rush, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift, Cameron Monaghan, Emma Tremblay

Director: Phillip Noyce

Synopsis: The story of The Giver centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and conte... [MORE]

27

Stick It (2006)

Cast: John Amedori, Tarah Paige, Gia Carides, Christine Cameron, Kellan Lutz, Jon Gries, Brian Gattas, Mio Dzakula, Jeff Bridges, Vanessa Lengies, Nikki Soohoo, Maddy Curley, Missy Peregrym

Director: Jessica Bendinger

Writer: Jessica Bendinger

Synopsis: Haley (Missy Peregrym) is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a fin... [MORE]

28

Simpatico (1999)

Cast: Shawn Hatosy, Liam Waite, Kimberly Williams, Nick Nolte, Sharon Stone, Jeff Bridges, Catherine Keener, Albert Finney

Director: Matthew Warchus

Writer: Matthew Warchus, David Nicholls

Synopsis: Carter receives a collect call from Vinnie, and a dark event from the past threatens to destroy his current success. Once a good friend of Carter's... [MORE]

29

R.I.P.D. (2013)

Cast: Robert Knepper, James Hong, Marisa Miller, Mike O'Malley, Devin Ratray, Larry Campbell, Stephanie Szostak, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon, Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds

Director: Robert Schwentke

Writer: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi

Synopsis: Veteran lawman Roy Pulsifer (Jeff Bridges) works for the R.I.P.D., a legendary police force charged with finding monstrous spirits who are disguise... [MORE]

30

Masked and Anonymous (2003)

Cast: Penélope Cruz, Angela Bassett, Steven Bauer, Michael Chan, Bruce Dern, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Cheech Marin, Chris Penn, Giovanni Ribisi, Mickey Rourke, Richard Sarafian, Christian Slater, Susan Tyrrell, Fred Ward, Robert Wisdom, Jeff Bridges, Bob Dylan, Luke Wilson, John Goodman, Jessica Lange

Director: Larry Charles

Synopsis: A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest is looking forward to a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive concert promoter Uncle Swee... [MORE]

31

Tideland (2005)

Cast: Alden Adair, Sally Crooks, Harry Gilliam, Dylan Taylor, Jodelle Ferland, Brendan Fletcher, Janet McTeer, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly

Director: Terry Gilliam

Writer: Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni

Synopsis: Little Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) has a very warped childhood. Her parents (Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Tilly) are both drug addicts, and one of her ... [MORE]