![]() Watch it: Promised Land on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Hulu, Tubi, Vudu, YouTube ![]() The sweetheart moment: Ryan brings such a crackling magnetism to the wedding chapel scene, in which she giggles drunkenly through the whole ceremony, that you can almost understand why Danny decides to marry Bev after only knowing her for three days. Troubled and troublemaking, Bev is a refreshing departure from the “good girls” that would later come to define Ryan’s career. Hancock (Jason Gedrick, now 56) was a basketball star who loses his athletic scholarship and becomes a cop Danny (Kiefer Sutherland, now 54) was a nerd who returns to town as a drifter with a pink-haired, wild-child wife named Bev (Ryan). A tale of dreams deferred in small-town Utah, the movie follows two classmates a few years after they graduate. ![]() The plot: After appearing as Goose’s wife Carole in Top Gun and before her string of Nora Ephron hits, Ryan earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for this gritty drama, the first film commissioned by the Sundance Film Festival. Vestron Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Watch it: Courage Under Fire on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Hulu, YouTube The sweetheart moment: Even though you know Walden’s fate from the start, you can’t help but find yourself rooting for a different outcome every time you see Ryan in danger. Ryan is a veritable recruiting poster, whether she is looking dashing in uniform or doing push-ups in the presence of a pretty young daughter,” wrote New York Times critic Janet Maslin (now 72). Nathaniel Sterling (Denzel Washington, now 66) is tasked with investigating her case to see if she deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor, he begins to uncover conflicting narratives about her final battle: Did she die a hero or a coward? In a series of Rashomon-like flashbacks, we see all the different possibilities of what may have happened that day, each rendered believable by Ryan’s honest and nuanced performance. Karen Walden, a medevac pilot who was killed in action during a failed rescue mission. The plot: Ryan haunts the periphery of this twisty Gulf War drama as Capt. Watch it: Joe Versus the Volcano on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Playĭon’t Miss This: Tom Hanks on the Power of Friendship ![]() The sweetheart moment: Patricia displays a winning heroism as she tries to steer their ship out of a typhoon, though it doesn’t exactly go as planned. Ryan gets to have all the fun in three very different roles: as factory coworker DeDe and as Graynamore’s two daughters, socialite Angelica and yacht skipper Patricia - or, as Roger Ebert described them in his 3.5-star review, “grungy, waspish and delectable.” After he learns that he will die of something called a “brain cloud,” hypochondriac factory worker Joe (Hanks) is convinced by a mysterious industrialist named Graynamore (Lloyd Bridges) to throw himself into a volcano as a human sacrifice to appease the tribe living on his island. The plot: Ryan and Tom Hanks, kicked off their decades-long cinematic collaboration with this goofy box office flop–turned–cult classic by Moonstruck writer John Patrick Shanley (now 71). Watch it: Kate & Leopold on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Pluto TV, YouTube And if I have to sell a little pond scum to get it, then so be it!” He says the fat-free butter substitute tastes like pond scum, to which she replies, “I've been paying dues all of my life, and I'm tired, and I need a rest. The sweetheart moment: Kate shows off her business skills when she casts Leopold (whom she at first thinks is an actor) to star in a margarine commercial. Sorry, Stu: When you’re competing against Victorian chivalry and a Mr. Unfortunately for our unsuspecting scientist, the very dashing nobleman Leopold, the third Duke of Albany (Hugh Jackman, now 53), finds himself transported from 1876 to the 21st century, where he catches the eye of Stuart’s ex, the cynical market research executive Kate McKay (Ryan). The plot: Let’s do the time warp again with this whimsical romantic comedy that’s set in motion when a New York inventor named Stuart (Liev Schreiber, now 54) discovers a portal to the past.
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