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Play this bracketThe Nicolas Cage Movie You Defend to Everyone
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| # | Preview | Candidate | Win rate | Match win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — |  | Valley GirlMartha Coolidge, 1983. The punk from Hollywood who talked his way across town | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | BirdyAlan Parker, 1984. Two friends home from Vietnam, one of them convinced he can fly | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Peggy Sue Got MarriedFrancis Ford Coppola, 1986. The voice he invented for this one got him in trouble on set | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Raising ArizonaJoel Coen, 1987. A career criminal, a stolen baby, and the fastest ninety minutes he ever ran | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MoonstruckNorman Jewison, 1987. A one-handed baker yelling about opera and bad luck | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Vampire's KissRobert Bierman, 1988. The performance every Cage reaction image comes from | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Wild at HeartDavid Lynch, 1990. Snakeskin jacket, Palme d'Or, Elvis on the highway | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Honeymoon in VegasAndrew Bergman, 1992. He loses his fiancee in a poker game and the sky fills with Elvises | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Red Rock WestJohn Dahl, 1993. Mistaken for a hitman, and too broke to correct anybody | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | It Could Happen to YouAndrew Bergman, 1994. A cop tips a waitress half a lottery ticket and means it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Leaving Las VegasMike Figgis, 1995. The one that won him the Oscar, and the hardest to sit through twice | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The RockMichael Bay, 1996. A chemical weapons nerd dragged onto Alcatraz by Sean Connery | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Con AirSimon West, 1997. Put the bunny back in the box | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Face/OffJohn Woo, 1997. He plays Travolta playing him, and both of them commit completely | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | City of AngelsBrad Silberling, 1998. An angel gives up eternity, and the soundtrack outlived the film | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Snake EyesBrian De Palma, 1998. A corrupt cop in a loud shirt, opening on one long unbroken take | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | 8MMJoel Schumacher, 1999. A private investigator who cannot unsee what he was hired to find | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Bringing Out the DeadMartin Scorsese, 1999. Three nights in an ambulance with a paramedic who has stopped sleeping | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Gone in 60 SecondsDominic Sena, 2000. Fifty cars in one night, and the last one is called Eleanor | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Family ManBrett Ratner, 2000. A banker wakes up in the life he decided against | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | WindtalkersJohn Woo, 2002. A marine assigned to guard a Navajo code talker, and the code before the man | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | AdaptationSpike Jonze, 2002. He plays a screenwriter and the twin brother that screenwriter invented | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Matchstick MenRidley Scott, 2003. A con man with compulsions he cannot con his way around | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | National TreasureJon Turteltaub, 2004. He is going to steal the Declaration of Independence | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Lord of WarAndrew Niccol, 2005. An arms dealer narrating his own rise without once apologising | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Weather ManGore Verbinski, 2005. A forecaster whose life is going wrong and who keeps getting hit with fast food | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | World Trade CenterOliver Stone, 2006. Two port authority officers trapped under the rubble, waiting | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Wicker ManNeil LaBute, 2006. Not the bees, and everything else that made it immortal | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Ghost RiderMark Steven Johnson, 2007. A stunt rider who sold his soul and got a flaming skull out of it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | NextLee Tamahori, 2007. A magician who sees two minutes ahead and would rather be left alone | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | National Treasure: Book of SecretsJon Turteltaub, 2007. This time he kidnaps the President to get at a book | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | KnowingAlex Proyas, 2009. A list of numbers from a time capsule that keeps being right | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansWerner Herzog, 2009. A detective, a crack pipe, and iguanas only he can see | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Kick-AssMatthew Vaughn, 2010. Big Daddy, doing an Adam West voice while things get very dark | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Sorcerer's ApprenticeJon Turteltaub, 2010. A thousand-year-old wizard loose in Manhattan with a physics student | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Drive AngryPatrick Lussier, 2011. He breaks out of hell to get his granddaughter back, in 3D | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Ghost Rider: Spirit of VengeanceNeveldine and Taylor, 2012. The sequel where he stopped pretending it was a normal role | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The CroodsChris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco, 2013. An overprotective cave father voiced at full volume | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | JoeDavid Gordon Green, 2013. An ex-con who takes in a teenager and tries very hard to stay calm | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Mom and DadBrian Taylor, 2017. Parents everywhere turn on their children, and he gets a pool table | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MandyPanos Cosmatos, 2018. A chainsaw duel bathed in red, and the bathroom scene before it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Color Out of SpaceRichard Stanley, 2019. Lovecraft on an alpaca farm, with a man losing it about tomatoes | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Willy's WonderlandKevin Lewis, 2021. He fights animatronics all night and does not speak a single line | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | PigMichael Sarnoski, 2021. Everyone expected a revenge film and got something much quieter | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Prisoners of the GhostlandSion Sono, 2021. A leather suit rigged to explode, and a samurai western built around it | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Unbearable Weight of Massive TalentTom Gormican, 2022. He plays Nick Cage, who is haunted by a younger Nicolas Cage | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | RenfieldChris McKay, 2023. His Dracula, played as the worst boss anybody has ever had | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Dream ScenarioKristoffer Borgli, 2023. A professor starts appearing in the dreams of strangers, then it sours | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | LonglegsOsgood Perkins, 2024. Barely on screen, and the marketing knew exactly why to hide him | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The SurferLorcan Finnegan, 2025. A man wants to surf at one beach and the beach will not have him | — win | — match wins |