Six Movies of Kevin Bacon

Written by Rob Salem

Thu, 05/03/12 - 14:17

Recently, on the geneology reality series Finding Your Roots, Kevin Bacon and his wife of 23 years, actress Kyra Sedgewick, discovered that they were actually distant cousins. Which brings the once-popular party game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” to a whole new level.

The point of the game is to link up a named actor through various connecting films to one that co-starred the prolific Mr. Bacon.

We’re running six Bacon movies this month on the Suite channels – in the event the game enjoys a revival, these will give you a leg up on the competition. 

Interestingly, there are in inordinate number of Canadian actors. 

Flatliners (1990):

Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt and Canadian Kiefer Sutherland co-star in a creepy tale of five curious medical students experimenting with death and resurrection, which you know never works out well at the movies. In this case, their post-mortem visions start to affect their waking world. One further real-life nightmare for Sutherland was being stood up at the altar by fiancée Roberts. (Storm)

Wild Things (1998):

Bacon is a suspicious cop investigating a teacher charged – and then cleared – with the rape of two students, played by Denise Richards (Charlie Sheen’s ex) and Canadian actress Neve Campbell (the Scream franchise. The three-way scene is deservedly notorious). The movie is a goldmine for connectable names: Bill Murray, Robert Wagner, Theresa Russell, Carrie Snodgrass and Daphne Rubin-Vega. (Storm)

A Few Good Men (1992):

Kiefer Sutherland reunites with Bacon in an all-star cast that will make the Six Degrees game a walk in the park. Bacon is the prosecutor in this Rob Reiner film of military justice, with Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Noah Wyle, Cuba Gooding Jr., Joshua Malina, Christopher Guest, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin in a cameo . . . and Canadian Matt Craven. “You can’t handle the truth!” (Storm)

Murder In The First (1995):

If I ran the Academy, I’d have given Bacon the Oscar for his harrowing portrayal of an Alcatraz inmate traumatized by three years in solitary confinement after an escape attempt. He did win a Critic’s Choice Award, so there’s that. I mean, he actually had himself locked up to research the role. That’s dedication to craft. Christian Slater is a gung-ho lawyer who takes on the case, and there is another treasure trove of playable names in the cast: Gary Oldman, William H. Macy, R. Lee Ermy, Brad Dourif, director Herb Ritts, Bacon’s wife/cousin Kyra Sedgewick and Canadian Mia Kirschner. (WarnerFilms) 

Sleepers (1996):

One of Bacon’s best villain roles as an abuser of young boys while a guard at a juvenile detention center. The boys come back as adults to exact their revenge. It isn’t pretty. Brad Pitt, Jason Patric, Billy Crudup are former victims, and Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman appear in somewhat smaller roles. (WarnerFilms)

Stir of Echoes (1999):

Hypnotized at a party by his sister-in-law, Bacon’s phone-company lineman suddenly starts seeing dead people. Well, a dead person – the ghost of a murdered young woman. Illeana Douglas (Grace of My Heart) is the mesmerizing sister-in-law. (Storm)

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