Greatest Hits
Over the years, Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek have starred in dozens of movies, including these popular classics. And no, neither of them is ready to retire.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) — Redford and Paul Newman teamed up to play rakish Old West outlaws. The movie won four Oscars, including Best Original Song for “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.”
Badlands (1973) — An impressionable teenage girl (Spacek) and her older boyfriend (Martin Sheen) take off on a killing spree across the South Dakota Badlands in this critically acclaimed wlm loosely inspired by a real-life 1958 murder spree.
The Sting (1973) — Redford reunited with Newman for this Best Picture– winning caper, about a pair of small-time Depression-era grifters who conspire to pull off the ultimate con on a Chicago crime boss.
The Way We Were (1973) — It was all so simple then, when Redford’s Hubbell fell for Barbra Streisand’s political activist Katie. Alas, their oppositesattract marriage was not meant to be.
Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980) — Spacek won raves—and an Oscar—and did her own singing as Loretta Lynn, the strongwilled teen bride who grew up to be country music royalty.
Carrie (1976) — Spacek played the shy highschooler with special telekinetic powers. But after her mean classmates play a cruel trick at the prom, she gets her bloody revenge.
All the President’s Men (1976) — Journalists Bob Woodward (Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) bring down the Richard Nixon administration with their Watergate scoop.
The Natural (1984) — Who could forget Redford’s baseball phenom Roy Hobbs stepping up to the plate and belting one last home run, busting out the lights in the process?
Crimes of the Heart (1986) — Three sisters (Spacek, Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange) reunite in their Mississippi family home to settle their past. Spacek nabbed an Oscar nom for her role.
The Horse Whisperer (1998) — Redford was behind the camera and in front, playing a gifted trainer hired to nurse a girl (a young Scarlett Johansson) and her horse back to health.
The Help (2011) — Spacek was part of this beloved drama’s all-star ensemble cast, playing Missus Walters, the batty mom of Bryce Dallas Howard’s bratty Hilly Holbrook. Oh, how she delighted in seeing her daughter eat that “chocolate” pie!
All Is Lost (2013) — In a tour-de-force solo performance, Redford is all alone and desperately trying to save himself after his sailboat starts to sink.