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Michael McKean

Michael McKean


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  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • This Is Spinal Tap review by from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Great Moments 15 July 2004
    ... 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...   Read customer review
  • Clue
  • Clue review by JokerJules from Rochester, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Who dunit? Where? With what? 7 September 2007
    ...ristopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, and especially Michael McKean as Mr Green, and of course Mr Curry. Watch out for the red herrings, and don...   Read customer review

Michael McKean - filmography


  • The Words (2012)
    Starring: Olivia Wilde,  Bradley Cooper,  Zoe Saldana
    Director: Brian Klugman,  Lee Sternthal
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 27 members
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  • Whatever Works on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ed Begley Jr.,  Patricia Clarkson,  Larry David
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 27 members
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  • Loser - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Werner Herzog,  Julie Claire,  Woody Harrelson
    Director: Zak Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 39 members
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  • Loser on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Werner Herzog,  Julie Claire,  Woody Harrelson
    Director: Zak Penn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 26 members
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  • The Guru on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Christine Baranski,  Rob Morrow,  Malachy
    Director: Daisy Mayer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3,562 members
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  • Best in Show on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Patrick Cranshaw,  Christopher Guest,  Bob Balaban
    Director: Christopher Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,083 member
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  • Final Justice (1998)
    Starring: Annette O'Toole,  Michael McKean,  Brian Wimmer
    Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 5 members
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  • That Darn Cat on DVD (1997)
    Starring: John Ratzenberger,  Dyan Cannon,  Dean Jones
    Director: Bob Spiers
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 663 members
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  • Jack on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Diane Lane,  Jeremy Lelliott,  Todd Bosley
    Director: Francis Ford Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: U
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 302 members
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  • The Brady Bunch Movie on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Florence Henderson,  Davy Jones,  Jesse Lee
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 881 members
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  • Airheads on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Steve Buscemi,  Joe Mantegna,  Michael McKean
    Director: Michael Lehmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 6,824 members
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  • Coneheads on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Dave Thomas,  Laraine Newman,  Michelle Burke
    Director: Steve Barron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,145 member
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  • Man Trouble on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Bob Rafelson,  Beverly D'Angelo,  Ellen Barkin
    Director: Bob Rafelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 222 members
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  • The Return Of Spinal Tap (1992)
    Starring: Christopher Guest,  Harry Shearer,  Michael McKean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 397 members
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  • Book Of Love (1992)
    Starring: Chris Young,  Keith Coogan,  Michael McKean
    Director: Robert Shaye
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 4 members
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  • Hider In The House on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Gary Busey,  Mimi Rogers,  Michael McKean
    Director: Matthew Patrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: PG
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,715 member
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  • Clue on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Eileen Brennan,  Christopher Lloyd,  Madeline Kahn
    Director: Jonathan Lynn
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 910 members
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Michael McKean facts

5 most recent films

The Words - 3.0 stars
Whatever Works - 3.0 stars
Adventures of Power - 2.5 stars
Loser - 3D Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Loser - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Planes, Trains And Automobiles - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
This Is Spinal Tap - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Clue - 3.5 stars
Planes, Trains And Automobiles - 3.5 stars
This Is Spinal Tap - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Book Of Love - 2.0 stars
Loser - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
MacShayne - Final Roll Of The Dice - 2.5 stars
Teaching Mrs Tingle - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Adventures of Power - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Christopher Guest - 10 times - show films
Ed Begley Jr. - 7 times - show films
Rob Reiner - 7 times - show films
Ed Begley - 5 times - show films
Jason Alexander - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rob Reiner - 9 times - show films
none - 5 times - show films
Betty Thomas - 5 times - show films
Arlene Sanford - 3 times - show films
John Landis - 3 times - show films