The best Ed Asner’s drama movies on Google Play Movies

Ed Asner

Ed Asner

15/11/1929- 29/08/2021
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ed Asner’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Ed Asner.

JFK

JFK
8/10
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Too Big to Fail

Too Big to Fail
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 22/05/2011
  • Character: Warren Buffett
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

Gypsy

Gypsy
7.1/10
A television adaptation of the classic Broadway musical.

Christmas Cottage

Christmas Cottage
6.3/10
Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.

The Slender Thread

The Slender Thread
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/12/1965
  • Character: Det. Judd Ridley
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

Daniel

Daniel
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/08/1983
  • Character: Jacob Ascher
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.

The Parting Glass

The Parting Glass
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/2018
A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.

The Christmas Star

The Christmas Star
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 14/12/1986
  • Character: Horace McNickle
Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.

The Christmas Card

The Christmas Card
6.9/10
Sergeant Cody Cullen is deeply touched by an homemade Christmas card he receives while serving in Afghanistan. Upon his discharge, he treks to the picturesque California town of Nevada City. Cody is soon welcomed into the Spelman home and unexpectedly falls in love with the woman who sent the card, Faith.

Joe's War

Joe's War
3.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/03/2017
  • Character: Harry
After two tours of duty, Joe's life unravels as he waits for PTSD treatment.

The Garden Left Behind

The Garden Left Behind
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/08/2020
Traces the relationship between Tina, a young Mexican trans woman, and Eliana, her grandmother, as they navigate Tina's transition and struggle to build a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City.

The Marva Collins Story

The Marva Collins Story
7.7/10
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children labelled "unteachable" were spotlighted in a 1979 "60 Minutes" segment about how she became disillusioned with the traditional school system and decided to work outside of it, transforming her students into young scholars through her unique teaching style.

Honor Amongst Men

Honor Amongst Men
4.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/07/2018
  • Character: Pop Halmo
"HONOR AMONGST MEN" is a dramatic thriller about a day in the life of John Halmo (Robert Clohessy), a veteran police officer who is trying to juggle his turbulent home life, the daily stresses of his job, and the apparent inevitable biker war that's about to engulf his hometown. While struggling through a particularly tough day, he finds himself on a collision course with Frank LaCarver (Chuck Zito), the leader of a violent biker gang (Satans Few)who is obsessed with avenging the murder of his brother. These are two men from different sides of the tracks, with different missions, but with one thing in common: an old fashioned code of HONOR, RESPECT, LOYALTY.

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