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Michael McKean
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Michael McKean - what members say
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Great Moments 15 July 2004
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Who dunit? Where? With what? 7 September 2007
Michael McKean - filmography
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The Words
(2012)
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana
Director: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
Certificate: 
Rory Jansen, a struggling writer, aspires to be the next great literary voice. When he discovers a lost manuscript in a weathered attaché case, he realizes he possesses something extraordinary that he desperately wishes he had created. Rory decides to pass the work off as his own and finally ..read more »
 
62%
from 27 members
Currently unavailable
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Whatever Works
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Ed Begley Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Larry David
Director: Woody Allen
Certificate: 
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After the failure of his career, his marriage, and his suicide attempt, world-class grouch Boris Yellnikoff, spends his days insulting the small children unfortunate enough to study chess with him and irritating his still-loyal friends with his never-ending tirades about the worthlessness of ..read more »
62%
from 5,593 members
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Adventures of Power
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Jenny Barbosa, Nick Kroll, Steven Williams
Director: Ari Gold
Certificate: 
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When hard times hit a small copper town, mineworker Power only wishes one thing -- that he'd learned to play drums. But his father could never afford to buy him a drum set, so Power has embraced the next best thing -- air drumming. Tired of the constant ridicule from his father and the other mine ..read more »
54%
from 27 members
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Loser - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Werner Herzog, Julie Claire, Woody Harrelson
Director: Zak Penn
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Kak Penn directs this semi-improvised mockumentary comedy set during a poker tournament in Las Vegas. The cast, working from a bare-bones script, includes Woody Harrelson, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Cheryl Hines and Richard Kind, as well as legendary film director Werner Herzog, playing a ..read more »
47%
from 39 members
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Loser
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Werner Herzog, Julie Claire, Woody Harrelson
Director: Zak Penn
Certificate:
Kak Penn directs this semi-improvised mockumentary comedy set during a poker tournament in Las Vegas. The cast, working from a bare-bones script, includes Woody Harrelson, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Cheryl Hines and Richard Kind, as well as legendary film director Werner Herzog, playing a ..read more »
54%
from 26 members
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The Guru
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Christine Baranski, Rob Morrow, Malachy
Director: Daisy Mayer
Certificate:
A romantic comedy and satire starring Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry and Heather Graham. Raimu Chandra Gupta (Mistry) arrives in New York from India with dreams. Having been brought up on a diet of Bollywood and Hollywood, Gupta's ambition is to become a big star as a dancer but finds things tough in ..read more »
55%
from 5,277 members
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Slap Her... She's French
(2002)
Starring: Piper Perabo, Mary Portser, Brandon Smith
Director: Melanie Mayron
Certificate:
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Popular Texan high-school student Starla Grady (Jane McGregor) gets more than she bargained for when she plays host to French exchange student Genevieve LePlouff (Piper Perabo). It turns out that Genevieve is as treacherous as she is ambitious, and she soon manages to turn Starla into an outcast, ..read more »
53%
from 3,562 members
Currently unavailable
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Best in Show
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Patrick Cranshaw, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban
Director: Christopher Guest
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
It's time for the annual Mayflower Dog Show; the owners are assembling for the big competition, and what a bizarre bunch they are. There's yuppie couple Meg (Parker Posey) and Hamilton (Michael Hitchcock), who are both concerned that their pooch has been disturbed by seeing them having sex; there's ..read more »
68%
from 14,092 members
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True Crime
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Marissa Ribisi, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Mary McCormack
Director: Clint Eastwood
Certificate:
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After the death of fellow journalist Michelle, reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) inherits her last assignment: a human interest story about the last eight hours of death row inmate Frank Beechum (Isaiah Washington), convicted of the murder of a supermarket checkout girl. However, after the ..read more »
63%
from 2,724 members
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Teaching Mrs Tingle
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Katie Holmes
Director: Kevin Williamson
Certificate:
Leigh Ann Watson (Katie Holmes) is the brightest student at Grandsboro High, but her dreams of winning a college scholarship are ruined when her history teacher, Mrs Tingle (Helen Mirren), falsely accuses her of cheating. Leigh is desperate to prove her innocence, and with the help of her closest ..read more »
53%
from 1,083 member
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Final Justice
(1998)
Starring: Annette O'Toole, Michael McKean, Brian Wimmer
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
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Merle Hammond, (Michael McKean) a sleazy attorney uses corrupt tactics and convinces a jury to acquit his client who is a killer. Gwen, the murdered victim's sister, (Annette O' Toole) knows the real truth and plots revenge against the attorney. Out of desperation, she kidnaps the attorney in an ..read more »
56%
from 5 members
Not currently released
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That Darn Cat
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: John Ratzenberger, Dyan Cannon, Dean Jones
Director: Bob Spiers
Certificate: 
The original Disney feature film, That Darn Cat, was a feel-good hit in 1965, thanks largely to stars such as Hayley Mills, Roddy McDowall, and William Demarest. This 1996 remake also closely follows the novel Undercover Cat by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon and features Christina Ricci in the ..read more »
54%
from 663 members
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Jack
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Diane Lane, Jeremy Lelliott, Todd Bosley
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Certificate: 
Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who ages at four times the rate of a normal child. Aged 10, he has the body of a 40-year-old man, and when sent to school is shunned by his class-mates as a freak. They gradually come to realise the advantages of having a friend who looks like a grown-up, however,..read more »
60%
from 5,173 members
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Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys
(1995)
Starring: Peter Falk, Woody Allen, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: John Erman
Certificate:
For years Lewis and Clark were the funniest comedy team around, despite the fact that their off-stage relationship was less than harmonious. Then Lewis (Woody Allen) had enough, and broke up the act. Now, eight years later, Willy Clark (Peter Falk) is bitter and unemployed; the only paying work his ..read more »
51%
from 302 members
Currently unavailable
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The Brady Bunch Movie
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Florence Henderson, Davy Jones, Jesse Lee
Director: Betty Thomas
Certificate:
Film version of the kitsch 1970s television comedy. It is now the 90s and the Brady Bunch need $20,000 to pay off back taxes or they will lose their house. So the kids enter a talent contest where the prize is.... yes, you've guessed it - $20,000! The comedy derives from the fact that the Bradys ..read more »
59%
from 881 members
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Airheads
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Joe Mantegna, Michael McKean
Director: Michael Lehmann
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The Lone Rangers are heavy metal band who cannot get any airplay so go for an extreme solution - they take an entire radio station hostage and demand their records are played. They quickly become icons for the disillusioned youth of the town and become celebrities, but the police want to shoot them...read more »
62%
from 6,824 members
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Coneheads
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Dave Thomas, Laraine Newman, Michelle Burke
Director: Steve Barron
Certificate:
Spin-off from the popular 'Saturday Night Live' television series, starring Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as Beldar and Prymaat, two aliens sent on a mission to prepare the way for the invasion of planet Earth. The mission gets off to a bad start when their spacecraft crash-lands, leaving Beldar and ..read more »
52%
from 4,596 members
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Memoirs Of An Invisible Man
(1992)
Starring: Sam Neill, Daryl Hannah, Michael McKean
Director: John Carpenter
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In this romantic comedy updating of the invisible man story, Chevy Chase plays a stock analyst accidentally made invisible at a laboratory research presentation. He is relentlessly pursued by a corrupt CIA agent who means to auction him off as the ultimate spy.
59%
from 1,145 member
Currently unavailable
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Man Trouble
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Bob Rafelson, Beverly D'Angelo, Ellen Barkin
Director: Bob Rafelson
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Opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) moves into her sister Andy's (Beverly D'Angelo) Hollywood home after her own house is mysteriously ransacked. But with Andy just about to publish a kiss-and-tell memoir which reveals uncomfortable information about her mobster ex-boyfriend (Harry Dean ..read more »
43%
from 222 members
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The Return Of Spinal Tap
(1992)
Starring: Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean
Certificate:
They're back, and they're one louder. Spinal Tap return with this feature-length 'rockumentary', in which the band members - Nigel Tufnel, David St Hubbins and Derek Smalls - reveal where they are now, and take us back to where it all began; Squatney, London. Also on hand are familiar faces from ..read more »
59%
from 397 members
Currently unavailable
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Book Of Love
(1992)
Starring: Chris Young, Keith Coogan, Michael McKean
Director: Robert Shaye
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Jack Twiller, a writer, reminisces about his adolescent years in the 1950s. Back then Jack (Chris Young) was in love with Lily - who was dating local hard boy Angelo - and trying to be like James Dean, in spite of his mother's insistence that he take tap dancing lessons. As the high school prom ..read more »
40%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Hider In The House
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Gary Busey, Mimi Rogers, Michael McKean
Director: Matthew Patrick
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
The Dryers have just moved to a new house in the suburbs. It seems to be the perfect home, offering everything they had ever dreamed of. But as they begin the long, slow process of settling in, they start to hear noises and notice various strange anomalies. Soon the truth becomes unavoidable - ..read more »
54%
from 268 members
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Short Circuit 2
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Jack Weston, Cynthia Gibb, Michael McKean
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Certificate:
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Johnny Five, the living war robot with pacifist sensibilities from 'Short Circuit', joins his co-creator, (Fisher Stevens), in the big city and soon gets into trouble. Much humour is derived from Johnny Five's naivety as he inadvertently helps rob a bank, and from his attempts to fix up Stevens ..read more »
68%
from 5,068 members
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Planes, Trains And Automobiles
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Dylan Baker, William Windom, Laila Robins
Director: John Hughes
Certificate:
A stressed executive (Steve Martin) and a bluff travelling salesman (John Candy) form an uneasy alliance when their plane is grounded due to bad weather. Candy offers to share a hotel room with Martin while they wait for the storm to subside, and Martin accepts. But from this point on the two seem ..read more »
71%
from 15,168 members
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D.A.R.Y.L.
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Kathryn Walker, Josef Sommer, Mary Beth Hurt
Director: Simon Wincer
Certificate:
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A couple take in a small boy who seems to be suffering from amnesia and soon find him to be extraordinarily clever for his age. Their happy family is threatened, however, when it is revealed that little Daryl is in fact a sophisticated military device which the army wants for its own purposes. Mary ..read more »
63%
from 1,715 member
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Clue
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn
Director: Jonathan Lynn
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A film based on the famous boardgame 'Cluedo'. There are three different endings to the film, all of which are featured on the video release (although at the cinemas at the time, the gimmick was that you only saw one). Tim Curry plays the butler.
72%
from 3,294 members
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This Is Spinal Tap - Blu-ray
(1984)
Starring: Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Ed Begley
Director: Rob Reiner
Certificate:
Ageing Brit-rockers Spinal Tap embark on a tour of the United States, hampered by the usual tour hassles - banned albums, technical problems, a diminutive Stonehenge, spontaneously combusting drummers... Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary' spoofs the genre and is reliably reported to be popular viewing in ..read more »
73%
from 1,343 member
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This Is Spinal Tap
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Ed Begley
Director: Rob Reiner
Certificate:
Ageing Brit-rockers Spinal Tap embark on a tour of the United States, hampered by the usual tour hassles - banned albums, technical problems, a diminutive Stonehenge, spontaneously combusting drummers... Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary' spoofs the genre and is reliably reported to be popular viewing in ..read more »
70%
from 25,416 members
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Used Cars
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Frank McRae, Joe Flaherty, Kurt Russell
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Certificate:
Used car salesman Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) is happy to get a job at the dealership owned by Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), but he is unaware what he's letting himself in for. Luke is in hot competition with his twin brother Ray (Warden again), a fellow car dealer who is dead set on taking over Luke's ..read more »
56%
from 910 members
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Michael McKean facts
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... tour in years. The film has some treasured moments and has aged rather well. Michael McKean and Christopher Guest are excellent in their protrayal of the leaders of the ba...
