Editing Kevin Bacon (section)

=== 1990s ===
In 1990, Bacon had two successful roles. He played a character who saved his town from under-the-earth "graboid" monsters in the comedy/horror film ''[[Tremors (1990 film)|Tremors]]'',<ref>{{cite news|title=Tremors Review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE2DE1631F93AA25752C0A966958260|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=October 12, 2014|date= January 19, 1990|author=Vincent Canby}}</ref> and he portrayed an earnest medical student experimenting with death in [[Joel Schumacher]]'s ''[[Flatliners]]''.<ref name="bio"/>

In Bacon's next project he starred opposite [[Elizabeth Perkins]] in ''[[He Said, She Said (film)|He Said, She Said]]''. Despite lukewarm reviews and low audience turnout, ''He Said, She Said'' was illuminating for Bacon. Required to play a character with sexist attitudes, he admitted that the role was not that large a stretch for him.<ref name="bio"/>

By 1991, Bacon began to give up the idea of playing leading men in big-budget films and to remake himself as a character actor. "The only way I was going to be able to work on 'A' projects with really 'A' directors was if I wasn't the guy who was starring", he confided to ''[[The New York Times]]'' writer Trip Gabriel. "You can't afford to set up a $40&nbsp;million movie if you don't have your star."<ref name="nyt94">{{cite news|title=A Second Wind Is Blowing For Kevin Bacon|author=Trip Gabriel|work=The New York Times|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6D91F3BF936A1575AC0A962958260 |date=September 25, 1994}}</ref> He performed that year as gay prostitute Willie O'Keefe in [[Oliver Stone]]'s ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=Kevin Bacon|url=http://www.jfk-online.com/jfkbacon.html|access-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref> and went on to play a prosecuting attorney in the military courtroom drama ''[[A Few Good Men (film)|A Few Good Men]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=A few good men|url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/143158|publisher=tcm|access-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref> Later that year he returned to the theater to play in ''Spike Heels'', directed by [[Michael Greif]].<ref name="bio" />

In 1994, Bacon earned a [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]] nomination for his role in ''[[The River Wild]]'',<ref name="bio"/> opposite [[Meryl Streep]]. He described the film to Chase in ''Cosmopolitan'' as a "grueling shoot", in which "every one of us fell out of the boat at one point or another and had to be saved".

His next film, ''[[Murder in the First (film)|Murder in the First]]'', earned him the Broadcast Film Critic's Association Award in 1995,<ref name="bio"/> the same year that he starred in the [[blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbuster]] hit ''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kevin Bacon Reprises His Roles from FOOTLOOSE, A FEW GOOD MEN, APOLLO 13, and More in UK Commercials|date=February 28, 2014 |url=http://collider.com/kevin-bacon-commercials-footloose/|publisher=collider|access-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref> Bacon played a trademark dark role once again in ''[[Sleepers (film)|Sleepers]]'' (1996).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ebert|first1=Roger|title=Sleepers|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sleepers-1996|access-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref> This part starkly contrasted with his appearance in the lighthearted romantic comedy, ''[[Picture Perfect (1997 film)|Picture Perfect]]'' (1997).<ref name="bio" />

Bacon made his debut as a director with the television film ''[[Losing Chase]]'' (1996), which was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, and won one.<ref name="austin">{{cite web |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/1997-02-07/283342/ |title=Losing Chase |last1=Macor |first1=Alison |date=February 7, 1997 |work=[[The Austin Chronicle]] |access-date=April 17, 2013}}</ref> Bacon again resurrected his oddball mystique that year as a mentally-challenged houseguest in ''[[Digging to China]]''<ref name="bio" /> and as a disc jockey corrupted by [[payola]] in ''[[Telling Lies in America (film)|Telling Lies in America]]''.<ref name="bio" /> As the executive producer of ''[[Wild Things (film)|Wild Things]]'' (1998), Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself and went on to star in ''[[Stir of Echoes]]'' (1999), directed by [[David Koepp]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Under the Radar—Horror Movies You May Have Missed: Stir of Echoes|date=September 13, 2013 |url=http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2013/09/under-the-raderhorror-movies-you-may-have-missed-stir-of-echoes|publisher=criminal element.com|access-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref>