The 22 Best Kevin Bacon Movies

Leading-man dance numbers, slimy villains and quiet prestige dramas all came from the same busy career. Pick the role that made you a fan.

1. 1
   Footloose

   The 1984 musical drama that made Bacon a star as Ren McCormack, the city kid who brings dancing back to a small town.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Animal House

   John Landis's 1978 frat comedy, Bacon's film debut as the uptight pledge Chip Diller.
   694pts
3. 3
   Apollo 13

   Ron Howard's 1995 space-disaster drama, with Bacon as astronaut Jack Swigert, his best-reviewed film.
   636pts
4. 4
   Hollow Man

   Paul Verhoeven's 2000 sci-fi thriller about a scientist who turns himself invisible and loses his morals.
   615pts
5. 5
   She's Having a Baby

   John Hughes's 1988 comedy-drama with Bacon as a young husband adjusting to marriage and fatherhood.
   598pts
6. 6
   Stir of Echoes

   David Koepp's 1999 ghost story with Bacon as a Chicago lineman who starts seeing visions after being hypnotized.
   555pts
7. 7
   A Few Good Men

   Rob Reiner's 1992 military courtroom drama, with Bacon as prosecutor Captain Jack Ross opposite Tom Cruise.
   508pts
8. 8
   X-Men: First Class

   Matthew Vaughn's 2011 prequel with Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, the villain who forged Magneto.
   454pts
9. 9
   Cop Car

   Jon Watts's 2015 thriller with Bacon as a corrupt sheriff hunting two boys who stole his patrol car.
   394pts
10. 10
    Flatliners

    Joel Schumacher's 1990 thriller about medical students who stop their hearts to glimpse the afterlife.
    394pts
11. 11
    Diner

    Barry Levinson's 1982 Baltimore ensemble comedy, with Bacon as the hard-drinking, aimless Fenwick.
    394pts
12. 12
    Frost/Nixon

    Ron Howard's 2008 drama about the Nixon interviews, with Bacon as the former president's loyal aide Jack Brennan.
    394pts
13. 13
    Wild Things

    The twisty 1998 Florida neo-noir with Bacon as a detective caught up in a web of sex and scams.
    394pts
14. 14
    The River Wild

    The 1994 rafting thriller in which Bacon plays a charming but dangerous fugitive menacing Meryl Streep's family.
    324pts
15. 15
    Mystic River

    Clint Eastwood's 2003 Boston crime drama, with Bacon as detective Sean Devine alongside Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.
    324pts
16. 16
    Tremors

    The 1990 creature comedy where Bacon and Fred Ward play handymen fighting giant underground worms in Nevada.
    245pts
17. 17
    JFK

    Oliver Stone's 1991 conspiracy drama, with Bacon in a memorable supporting turn as the fictional prisoner Willie O'Keefe.
    245pts
18. 18
    Sleepers

    Barry Levinson's 1996 revenge drama with Bacon as a sadistic reform-school guard.
    245pts
19. 19
    The Woodsman

    The 2004 drama with Bacon's acclaimed performance as a convicted abuser trying to rebuild his life after prison.
    245pts
20. 20
    Murder in the First

    The 1995 prison drama with Bacon as Henri Young, an Alcatraz inmate broken by years in solitary confinement.
    245pts
21. 21
    Friday the 13th

    The 1980 summer-camp slasher in which a young Bacon plays Jack, a counselor with one of the genre's most famous death scenes.
    151pts
22. 22
    Crazy, Stupid, Love.

    The 2011 romantic comedy in which Bacon plays the coworker who has an affair with Julianne Moore's character.
    0pts

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