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  • Griffith quits new comedy over 'creative differences' - 28 February 2012
    -Actress Melanie Griffith has dropped out of upcoming movie The Hot Flashes due to "creative differences".-The Working Girl star was cast as Clementine Winks in the new comedy, about an unlikely basketball team made up of middle-aged women, and she was seen filming the pr


  • Griffith preparing for movie comeback - 22 April 2010
    -Melanie Griffith is preparing to make her movie comeback after years in the Hollywood wilderness - she starts shooting a new film next month (May10).- -The Working Girl star cut back on her film roles in the late 1990s to focus on her family, and has only been seen in a


  • Griffith: 'I feel free after kicking pills' - 18 April 2010
    -Melanie Griffith feels "free" after kicking her drug habit - comparing her new-found sobriety to "getting out of prison".- -The Working Girl star struggled with alcohol and substance abuse for many years before kicking her addictions - but a skiing accident in 2007 left

Melanie Griffith - what members say


  • Body Double
  • Body Double review by from cornwall
    Rated - 4.0 stars good fun 13 January 2005
    ...Bet Melanie Griffith wishes she hadn't done the nude scenes in this movie. Contains a version of the pop video "Relax" with Frankie goes to Hollywood. Good fun, not many surpri...   Read customer review
  • Lolita
  • Lolita review by SAI81 from Tonbridge
    Rated - 3.0 stars Lolita 13 August 2006
    ...blue light may annoy. Sadly there are legion flaws as well. An utterly miscast Melanie Griffith is terrible, her performance simply bad Shelly Winters karaoke and the use of Q...   Read customer review
  • Crazy In Alabama
  • Crazy In Alabama review by granita from Farnham
    Rated - 5.0 stars They love Lucy. 9 January 2008
    ...en't seen this one before, being an admirer of Banderas and also the delightful Melanie Griffiths. Anyway, it's certainly too good to miss, with a great performance by Melanie...   Read customer review

Melanie Griffith - filmography


  • The Night We Called It a Day on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Dennis Hopper,  Melanie Griffith,  Portia De Rossi
    Director: Paul Goldman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Rod Blue, a down-on-his-luck Aussie rock promoter, struggles to find the one act that will turn his life and business around. Just as a relationship starts to bloom with his assistant Audrey, Rod secures the coup of his career; bringing the legendary Frank Sinatra to tour Australia. The Night We ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 832 members
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  • Tempo (2003)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Rachael Leigh Cook,  Hugh Dancy
    Director: Eric Styles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Melanie Griffith stars in this thriller as Sarah, an expatriate American living dangerously in France for a black market dealer. Along with her much younger boyfriend, fellow American Jack (Hugh Dancy), Sarah hatches a plot to rob a jewellery shop. However, when a beautiful and seemingly innocent ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 1,266 member
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  • Shade on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Sylvester Stallone,  Melanie Griffith,  Gabriel Byrne
    Director: Damian Nieman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in the underground world of Los Angeles card sharks and gamblers, this slick neo-noir is a gripping ensemble drama that pays homage to hard-boiled heist directors like Mamet and Scorsese. SHADE, a gambling term for deception and trickery, revolves around a ring of small-time hustlers with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 2,637 members
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  • Stuart Little 2 on DVD (2002)
    Starring: James Woods,  Michael J. Fox,  Nathan Lane
    Director: Rob Minkoff
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Lovable talking mouse Stuart Little (voiced by Michael J. Fox) lives with his human family in a quaint brownstone near Central Park in an idyllic New York City. In this sequel to the 1999 blockbuster, Stuart deals with growing pains. His mother (Geena Davis) is overprotective of her fearless ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,604 members
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  • Along For The Ride on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Patrick Swayze,  Penelope Ann Miller
    Director: John Kaye
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Along for The Ride Two Ex-Lovers, One Open Road. Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing) and Melanie Griffith (Working Girl) are Ben and Lulu. Years ago, they had an intense passionate affair, a relationship that ended very badly. Now, fifteen years later, he's a successful married writer who gets a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 186 members
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  • Crazy In Alabama on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  David Morse,  Lucas Black
    Director: Antonio Banderas
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Lucille, with only her hatbox and its mysterious contents, travels across America intent on finding fame and fortune in Hollywood. Her twelve-year-old nephew, Peejoe, left behind in Alabama, possesses one explosive secret he has difficulty keeping...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 233 members
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  • Another Day In Paradise on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  James Woods,  Vincent Kartheiser
    Director: Larry Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    'Another Day in Paradise' follows the exploits of Bobbie, a teenage runaway and thief who is happy making money the hard way -- stealing it by breaking into vending machines. He is approached by the funny and charismatic uncle of a drug buddy, Mel. Mel offers to bring Bobbie into the big-time of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 855 members
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  • RKO 281 on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Liev Schreiber,  James Cromwell,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Benjamin Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Orson Welles arrives in Hollywood hailed as the boy genius but is stuck for the subject of his first movie. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle he has an argument with Hearst and decides to make a film about him. Some time later he gets the green light and starts to make his movie but Hearst gets ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 218 members
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  • Shadow Of Doubt (1998)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Tom Berenger,  Craig Sheffer
    Director: Randal Kleiser
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Kitt Devereux (Melanie Griffith) is a Los Angeles defense attorney who takes on a headline-caliber murder case. The prosecution is led by her former lover, Assistant District Attorney, Jack Campioni (Tom Berenger). As Kitt and her high-tech investigator search for the evidence to prove a young boy'..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 119 members
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  • Celebrity (1998)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Judy Davis,  Judy Davis
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay-or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,605 members
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  • Lolita (1997)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Melanie Griffith,  Frank Langella
    Director: Adrian Lyne
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Lyne (FATAL ATTRACTION) tries his hand at a more faithful adaptation of Nabokov's novel than Kubrick was allowed to attempt in 1962. In the process, Irons gives an amazing, tortured performance as Humbert Humbert, the professor who can not control his physical desires for 12 year-old Dolores Haze (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 2,411 members
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  • Mulholland Falls on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Melanie Griffith,  Chazz Palminteri
    Director: Lee Tamahori
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The murder of a well-connected seductress swings the true-life maverick 1950's L.A. police unit known as the "Hat Squad" into action in this atmospheric thriller. Unconcerned with protocol, this group of tough cops makes up their own rules, but when one of them is implicated in the murder they may ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,269 member
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  • Now And Then (1995)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Demi Moore,  Rosie O'Donnell
    Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Four women who have been friends since childhood reunite when one of them is about to give birth. This gives them the chance to reminisce about the summer of 1970, a time when they first experienced puppy love, shared girlish secrets, discussed sex and boys, battled bullies, and attempted to solve ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,071 members
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  • Milk Money on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Ed Harris,  Michael Patrick Carter
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A romantic comedy in which 12 years-old Frank and his friends pool their savings to find a lady who will satisfy their curiosity about the naked female body. They find a willing "working girl" in the form of V, a warm-hearted girl with a beautiful figure. But unfortunately, Frank sees her as a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 560 members
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  • Buffalo Girls on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Anjelica Huston,  Melanie Griffith,  Gabriel Byrne
    Director: Rod Hardy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A rollicking, fictionalised account of the life of Martha Jane Canary, better known as Calamity Jane, as she cuts a wide swathe through the Old West. Based on Larry McMurtry's novel, this story also features Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull and other Western legends. Recieved ten Emmy ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 168 members
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  • Nobody's Fool (1994)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Jessica Tandy,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 111 members
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  • A Stranger Among Us (1992)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Tracy Pollan
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In Sidney Lumet's A STRANGER AMONG US, an undercover police detective, Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith), integrates into a Hasidic neighborhood in New York City in order to identify a murderer who is suspected to be a member of the community.
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 22 members
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  • Born Yesterday on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Don Johnson,  John Goodman
    Director: Luis Mandoki
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The story of a Las Vegas showgirl whose lack of sophistication worries her boyfriend. He fears her ignorance will ruin his business opportunities. He hires an intelligent journalist to educate her in the ways of the world, but she soon learns there is more to life than mink coats and diamond rings.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 281 members
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  • Shining Through on DVD (1992)
    Starring: John Gielgud,  Michael Douglas,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: David Seltzer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In 1940, a half-Irish, half-Jewish woman from Queens (Melanie Griffith) takes a posh secretarial job for an attorney who turns out to be a US government spy (Michael Douglas). Despite her lower-class status, the two become lovers, and the lawyer reluctantly allows her to go to Berlin to spy on a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 477 members
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  • The Bonfire Of The Vanities on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Melanie Griffith,  Bruce Willis
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brian De Palma (SCARFACE) directed this lavish adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling satirical novel, featuring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis. Hanks stars as Sherman McCoy, a distinctly 1980s brand of wealthy Wall Street wizard who takes a mighty fall from his glitzy lifestyle ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,720 member
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  • Working Girl on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Sigourney Weaver,  Harrison Ford,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,709 members
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  • Stormy Monday on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  Tommy Lee Jones,  Sting
    Director: Mike Figgis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer-director Mike Figgis's remarkably understated first feature concerns a young man named Brendan (Sean Bean) who becomes involved in the seedy underworld politics of small Newcastle, England. Brendan takes a job at a local nightclub run by a man named Finney; he also meets Kate, a cocktail ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 676 members
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  • Cherry 2000 on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Melanie Griffith,  David Andrews,  Ben Johnson
    Director: Steve De Jarnatt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The year is 2017 and romance is a thing of the past, having long been replaced by robotic playmates. When Sam's Cherry 2000 robot develops a short-circuit he enlists the help of a woman tracker to locate the scarce parts needed to resurrect her. And through their adventure, he finds true love.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 514 members
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  • Something Wild on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Melanie Griffith,  Ray Liotta
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels star in this quirky road movie from director Jonathan Demme (MARRIED TO THE MOB, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). Charlie Driggs (Daniels) is a timid New York investment broker who lets himself be abducted during his lunch hour by an attractive nut named Lulu (Griffith). ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,137 member
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  • Fear City on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Tom Berenger,  Billy Dee Williams,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Abel Ferrara
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This seedy saga of pre-Disney Times Square stars Tom Berenger as Matt Rossi, an ex-boxer and stripper talent agent who finds his life closing in around him when a psychopathic martial artist starts stabbing and slashing his girls on their way home from nightclubs. His former girlfriend and star ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 197 members
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  • Body Double on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Craig Wasson,  Deborah Shelton,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 775 members
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Melanie Griffith facts

5 most recent films

A Turtle's Tale - Sammy's Adventures - 3.5 stars
A Turtle's Tale - Sammy's Adventure - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Lethal Seduction - 1.5 stars
The Night We Called It a Day - 2.5 stars
Tempo - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Nobody's Fool - 3.5 stars
Working Girl - 3.5 stars
Now And Then - 3.5 stars
A Turtle's Tale - Sammy's Adventures - 3.5 stars
Pacific Heights - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Lethal Seduction - 1.5 stars
Ultimate 80s Collection - Vol. 1 - 2.0 stars
A Stranger Among Us - 2.5 stars
Roar - 3.0 stars
RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Woods - 4 times - show films
John Hurt - 3 times - show films
Malcolm McDowell - 3 times - show films
Nathan Lane - 3 times - show films
Yuri Lowenthal - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ben Stassen - 3 times - show films
Richard Benjamin - 3 times - show films
Rob Minkoff - 3 times - show films
Brian De Palma - 2 times - show films
John Waters - 2 times - show films