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The Sound Clip icons indicate sound clips. Elizabeth McGovern and Kevin Bacon


Bacon, Kevin

    "John Hughes has great insights into the characters he has created. He is confident and gives very specific direction, which takes off the pressure, but he also lets you bring something to the role. He trusts you to get to know the character, too." -- Kevin Bacon

  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles -- Taxi Cab Racer
  • She's Having a Baby -- Jefferson "Jake" Briggs

Balls / Genitals

  • Class Reunion "Walter, if you come on down I promise if we're ever in the shower together again I won't snap your nuts with my towel." (Hubert Downs)
  • Uncle Buck
    • Miles: "Their dog's a ball-sniffer."
    • Miles and Maisey:
        Miles: "What's the other word for balls?"
        Maisey: "Nuts!" Sound Clip
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles
    • Del: "Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago."
    • Del: "I've never seen a grown man picked up by the testicles before . . ."
    • Neal and Del on the road:
        Del: "You play with your balls a lot."
        Neal: "I do not play with my balls."
        Del: (Chuckles) "Larry Bird doesn't do as much ball-handling in one night as you do in an hour."
        Neal: "Are you trying to start a fight?"
        Del: "No, I'm simply stating a fact, that's all. You fidget with your nuts a lot."
        Neal: "You know what I'd like?"
        Del: "Another set of balls and an extra set of fingers?" (Laughs)
  • Sixteen Candles "You grabbed my nuts..." (Jake)
  • The Breakfast Club -- Bender asks Claire if she would ever date a guy with elephantitis of the testicles (of course she would have to ride in the back seat of his car, because his nuts would ride shotgun).
  • Weird Science
    • Gary shares the story of the 8th grade girl who kneed him in the nuts.
    • Gary: "Well, my nuts are halfway up my ass, but other than that, I'm perfect!"
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    • Jeannie and a Hood talk things out:
        Hood: "There's somebody you should talk to."
        Jeannie: "If you say 'Ferris Bueller' you lose a testicle."
        Hood: "Oh, you know him?"
    • Cameron: "You make me make a phoney phone call to Edward Rooney. The man could squeeze my nuts into oblivion and then then you deliberately hurt my feelings."
  • She's Having a Baby -- "Nobody's touching my balls." (Jefferson)
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation -- "Would you hurry this up, Clark? I'm freezing my baguettes off."
  • Home Alone -- Harry gets shot in the crotch when Kevin sticks a beebee gun through the doggy door.
  • Dutch
    • Natalie and Dutch:
        Natalie: "There's only one thing he has that I want."
        Dutch: "What the heck would you do with a set of tiny little genitals?"
    • The aftermath of Dutch and Doyle's first fight:
        Dutch: "I feel the pain in my crotch in my teeth."
        Doyle: "Does campus security know you're here?"
        Dutch: "Can you say, I'm sorry I hit you with a golf club? Kicked your face, mashed your testes, shot you twice? If that's too much a simple hello will do."
  • Vegas Vacation -- Blackjack Dealer: "Why don't you give me half the money you were going to bet, then we'll go out back, I'll kick you in the nuts and we'll call it a day!" [sound clip]

Barry, Raymond J.

  • Flubber -- Chester Hoenicker
  • New Port South

Belushi, James

  • Curly Sue -- Bill Dancer
  • Only the Lonely -- Sal

Bird, Billie

  • Sixteen Candles -- Grandma Dorothy Sound Clip
  • Home Alone -- Woman in Airport
  • Dennis the Menace -- Edith Butterwell

    Died November 27, 2002 at the age of 94.


Blue Room

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Blue Room's song "I'm Afraid" is in this movie.
  • Some Kind of Wonderful -- "Cry Like This" is featured on the soundtrack.
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles -- Includes a remake of "Every Time You Go Away"


Bracken, Eddie

  • National Lampoon's Vacation -- Roy Walley
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York -- Mr. Duncan
  • Baby's Day Out -- Old Timer

    Died November 14, 2002 at the age of 87. Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller


Broderick, Matthew

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Ferris Bueller [sound clip]
  • She's Having a Baby -- uncredited