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Every Kevin Costner Movie, Ranked


The actor’s career is full of peaks, valleys, and Waterworlds.

Rumor Has It was plagued with behind-the-scenes drama — screenwriter Ted Griffin was fired as director, replaced by Rob Reiner, who recast several of the roles — and all of that internal discord proved more interesting than the film, which finds Costner and Aniston struggling to have any chemistry. This John Wells drama concerning some downsized white-collar employees isn’t particularly good or noteworthy, but it made some sense to cast Costner as Jack, the working-class regular dude who gives his laid-off, executive-class brother-in-law Ben Affleck a job. This stripped-down Roger Donaldson thriller lets Costner convey calm, square-jawed stability — the movie’s seen from his perspective, not Kennedy’s — and he does a good job of humanizing a tense political drama, reminding us how just a small group of men held the fate of the planet in their hands.

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