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Indiana J. and the Dial of Destiny. It’s time to look back at his filmography, and find some of the underrated Harrison Ford films. During the Cold War of the 1960s, Russia rushes to compete with United States’ nuclear sub capabilities. The Russians have built their own nuclear sub in a hurry, but on the first voyage they discover that it is not seaworthy. The crew must figure out how to cool down the nuclear reactor to prevent a global incident. The wife was in an accident a year ago, and the daughter is now away at college. She is now hearing voices and seeing strange things in their home. Her husband begins to worry that her car accident was worse than they thought. She begins to suspect that her friends are hiding a dark secret. Robert Zemeckis made this film in the middle of Cast away

to give Tom Hanks time to lose the weight he would need for the later scenes. A creepy, underrated Harrison Ford film. Harrison Ford is Branch Rickey, the owner of the Dodgers. He wants to bring an African American baseball star to the major leagues. He tells Jackie (played superbly by Chadwick Boseman), that he is going to face racism on a level unmatched, but he must keep his composure. The film shows his struggles in the game, and how they changed acceptance outside the game of baseball. A great movie that has a fantastic message. After her boss breaks her ankle in a skiing accident she finds out that her boss plans to take her idea forward and claim it for herself. She takes over her boss’s role and proceeds with the merger by herself. She falls in love with Jack Trainer (Ford) along the way. Her boss accuses her on the day of merger of stealing her idea. The movie is a lot of fun, and at the time, it was interesting to see Ford in a different role than we had been used to.

Before he ended up in one of the biggest movies of all time, Ford would play some great supporting parts like he does here in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation. Gene Hackman plays an expert sound engineer who is hired by a boss to spy on a female. He does his job but follows a set of strict rules. Once he starts to deviate from the rules, he spirals out of control. Ford plays a Corporate Man, who tries convincing Hackman to reveal the results that he discovered. Hackman refuses and a cat-and mouse situation ensues. Ford plays grumpy reporter Mike Pomery. Ford is the epitome grumpy old men and he gets to really sink into that role in this film. Rachel McAdams plays Becky, a producer hired to run a failing morning TV show. She starts to shake things by changing hosts but finds out that the show will be cancelled in six weeks if the ratings don’t increase. She tries everything to increase ratings, but nothing works. Check out these great performances. Detective John Book (Ford), is assigned to keep the boy and his mom safe. When he learns that his life is in danger, Ford returns with the boy and mother to their community. He tries to blend into the Amish community, while keeping the boy safe. The men who are after him soon find his location. Book is worried because the community believes in nonviolence. It will be up him to protect everyone and himself. Peter Weir has directed a beautiful movie. While he is taking a shower, the wife mysteriously leaves their hotel room. He searches for his wife in the hotel, but discovers that she may have been forced out. He is left to search for her alone after the police and French government refuse to help. He teams up with an 18-year-old woman who is a heroin dealer and may have some ties to the kidnapping of his wife. As they plunge into the Parisian underground, he realizes that this situation is much more serious than he had imagined. This is one Roman Polanski’s most accessible films. As he begins to investigate her death, the evidence that is left behind starts to point towards him as the murderer. He must now find out who killed his wife when he becomes the number-one suspect. He uncovers a series of blackmails and motives that could be used to identify her killer. It’s always entertaining to watch Ford as a man who is backed into a crouch and searching for the truth. This is being remade into an Apple TV show with Jake Gyllenhaal.

A llie is a brilliant inventor who believes that modern life has destroyed civilization. He takes his family to the jungles in Central America and lives there. He plans to create a utopia here for himself and his entire family. They will start from scratch. Their attempts are soon thwarted by rebels who claim that the battle has destroyed the area. Allie is determined to build a Utopia and will not give in. This re-teams him with his

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director, Peter Weir. The film received mixed reviews, but has been reevaluated in the last few years. Ford’s performance is the highlight of this film. River Phoenix, who played young Indiana Jones in the

Last crusade, is also excellent as his son. It also teamed him with Helen Mirren decades before Taylor Sheridan’s 1923

. What do you consider to be the best underrated Harrison Ford films? Comment below.

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