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  • A Bunch of Amateurs
  • A Bunch of Amateurs review by williamsgwynfa from gwaenysgor
    Rated - 5 stars superb....................... 9 May 2009
    ...st ditch attempt to revive Jefferson’s career, his incompetent agent (played by Charles Durning) stumbles upon the perfect role - a prestigious run as King Lear at a theatre i...  

Charles Durning - filmography


  • Deal on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Burt Reynolds,  Charles Durning,  Bret Harrison
    Director: Gil Cates Jr.
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tommy Vinson is an ex-gambler who quit the game of Texas Hold'em over 30 years ago after missing a family emergency and swearing to his wife, Helen, "never again." Tommy tries to be content with his luggage business but while watching a poker tournament on television, he sees someone who reminds ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 33 members
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  • Good Dick on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Martin Starr,  Jason Ritter,  Mark Webber
    Director: Marianna Palka
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A solitary and troubled woman (Marianna Palka) slinks into an independent video store to check out the latest in erotic offerings, catching the eye of one of the shop clerks (Jason Ritter) from the moment she steps in. Taking it upon himself to break down her emotional barriers, the eccentric and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 765 members
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  • Kinky Killers on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Michael Paré,  Charles Durning,  Beverly Lynne
    Director: George Lekovic
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Through a series of horrific murders, the occult, biblical prophecy and sex clash in a melee of gore and mystery, with psychiatrists, attorneys, homicide detectives and rock stars all being suspects.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 50 members
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  • Dirty Deeds on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Milo Ventimiglia,  Lacey Chabert,  Charles Durning
    Director: David Kendal
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An American Pie-style teen comedy in which a high school senior tries to become the first student to complete the coveted "10 Dirty Deeds"...an outrageous series of challenges that must be completed between dusk and dawn on the Friday night of Homecoming weekend.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,566 members
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  • State And Main on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Alec Baldwin,  Philip Seymour Hoffman,  William H. Macy
    Director: David Mamet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the screwball comedy STATE AND MAIN, writer-director David Mamet reveals that the only thing more corrupt than Hollywood moviemaking is a small American town that is willing to stoop to any level to be a part of it. Marshalling an all-star ensemble, Mamet chronicles a movie production's arrival ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,735 members
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  • Justice on DVD (1999)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Charles Durning,  JoBeth Williams
    Director: Joakim Ersgard
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A mole who has lived undercover for years is anxious to smash an organised crime syndicate even if it means going to jail. When he eventually earns the respect of the Chicago crime lord he thinks it's only a matter of time....
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 39 members
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  • The Last Producer on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Burt Reynolds,  Ann-Margret,  Benjamin Bratt
    Director: Burt Reynolds
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Burt Reynolds directs and stars in this expose of the decidedly unglamourous machinations of behind-the-scenes Hollywood filmmaking. Sonny Wexler (Reynolds) is an old-style producer trying to recapture some of the success and respect he commanded in the past. His hope for one more shot at the big ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 39% from 46 members
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  • Hard Time on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Burt Reynolds,  Charles Durning,  Robert Loggia
    Director: Burt Reynolds
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Detectives, Logan McQueen and Charles Duffy stumble onto a drugs deal and decide to intervene. Logan chases the thugs having just snatched a bag full of drug money that belongs to notorious drug baron, Conrad Martin. After the mysterious shooting of one of the thugs and the disappearance of some of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 44% from 51 members
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  • Shelter on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Charles Durning,  Linden Ashby,  Peter Onorati
    Director: Scott Paulin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Government corruption makes strange bedfellows when a straight-arrow Treasury Agent partners with a weapons-trading Greek Mafioso for protection from his agency colleagues, all of whom are on the take and aiming to bump the Mafioso off. Add to the mix the Mafioso's lovely wife, and soon there's no ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 63 members
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  • The Last Supper on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Cameron Diaz,  Annabeth Gish,  Ron Eldard
    Director: Stacy Title
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A tongue-in-cheek examination of both sides of the political spectrum, this black comedy follows the culinary exploits of a group of liberal graduate students who invite right-wingers to dinner to pick their brains--literally, as it turns out. After each dinner, the guest of honor is murdered and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 967 members
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  • I.Q. (1995)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  Tim Robbins,  Walter Matthau
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    On a sunny afternoon in Princeton, New Jersey, of the 1950s, love strikes in the oddest way: Albert Einstein's niece Catherine (Meg Ryan), and her uptight fiance James (Stephen Fry), stop at a gas station for car repairs, and when dim-witted grease monkey Ed Walters (Tim Robbins) appears, he falls ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 2,391 members
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  • The Music Of Chance on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Mandy Patinkin,  James Spader,  Joel Grey
    Director: Philip Haas
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A man on a yearlong road trip across the U.S. teams up with a young card shark against two rich amateurs in a game of poker that seems to represent the opportunity of a lifetime. But things don't turn out quite as planned for the partners when, after losing all their money, they find themselves at ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 326 members
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  • Dick Tracy on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Warren Beatty,  Madonna,  Charlie Korsmo
    Director: Warren Beatty
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Once again, director Beatty assembles an all-star cast. Dick Tracy, America's top crimestopper, goes up against a mob of colourful gangsters in this rich production. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Supporting Actor--Al Pacino. Academy Awards: 3, including Best Makeup, Best Art ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 2,342 members
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  • Brenda Starr on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Brooke Shields,  Timothy Dalton,  Charles Durning
    Director: Robert Ellis Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The exciting premise of BRENDA STARR is based around a comic strip character and her 'director', who have a mutual distrust for each other. When Brenda comes to life, she realises that Mike doesn't appreciate her and sets off round the world in search of better storylines.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 37% from 75 members
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  • Tough Guys on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Burt Lancaster,  Charles Durning
    Director: Jeff Kanew
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Action comedy tale of two legendary bank robbers who are released on parole after their thirty year imprisonment. Together they face the 1980's as they plan a daring train heist, eagerly pursued by a stubborn old cop and a myopic hitman...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 509 members
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  • Big Trouble on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Alan Arkin,  Beverly D'Angelo
    Director: John Cassavetes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A troubled production history notwithstanding, BIG TROUBLE remains a lighthearted updating of the classic film noir DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Alan Arkin stars as Leonard Hoffman, an insurance salesman and father of triplets. When it becomes apparent that his dream of sending his three sons to Yale is ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 39% from 99 members
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  • Death Of A Salesman on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Charles Durning,  Dustin Hoffman,  Kate Reid
    Director: Volker Schlöndorff
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Volker Schlondorff's tragic film is an outstanding stage production of Arthur Miller's 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Dustin Hoffman recreates his Broadway role of Willy Loman, a tired, emotionally bankrupt salesman. The award-winning cast also features John Malkovich as Willy's son, Biff.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 862 members
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  • Working (1982)
    Starring: Barry Bostwick,  Rita Moreno,  James Taylor
    Director: Kirk Browning,  Stephen Schwartz
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint...showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people - construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries and cleaning women, Working is both an ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 16% from 3 members
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  • Tootsie on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Dustin Hoffman,  Jessica Lange,  Teri Garr
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When theatrical mastermind Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself blacklisted by just about every producer in the acting business, he decides to thwart the entertainment industry by disguising himself as an older woman and auditioning for a daytime soap opera. Dorsey arrives for the audition ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,782 members
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  • Sharky's Machine (1981)
    Starring: Burt Reynolds,  Rachel Ward,  Henry Silva
    Director: Burt Reynolds
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Someone, it would appear, has taken over the underworld activities of Atlanta, Georgia - Drugs, call-girls, political pay-offs and murder - and a new kingpin is calling all the shots. Undercover cop Tom Sharky (Burt Reynolds) knows him only as 'The Ace'. The trouble is that Sharky, once the best, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 40 members
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  • The Final Countdown on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Martin Sheen,  Katharine Ross
    Director: Don Taylor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When the US aircraft carrier Nimitz collides with an unnatural storm, the crew are transported from the present to Pearl Harbour - December 6th, 1941. Captain Kirk Douglas must decide whether to interfere with the past and stop the Japanese Fleet attacking the US base or let history run its course...
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  • The Fury on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  John Cassavetes,  Carrie Snodgress
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In THE FURY, former government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) searches for his son (Andrew Stevens), kidnapped by a secret agency hoping to exploit the young man's telekinetic powers for their own ends. Meanwhile a young woman, Gillian (Amy Irving), begins to display her own psychic abilities ..read more »
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  • Breakheart Pass on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Ben Johnson,  Richard Crenna
    Director: Tom Gries
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A muscular Western featuring the fisticuffs of Bronson. In 1870, the soldiers at an Army outpost in Utah are supposedly suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. A train heads toward the fort filled with soldiers, medical supplies and Bronson, an undercover agent posing as an arrested criminal. There, ..read more »
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  • Dog Day Afternoon on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Charles Durning,  James Broderick
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Before Peter Finch was 'mad as hell' in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American television industry, Al Pacino played an equally ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart and tough if self-..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 11,217 members
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  • The Sting on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Robert Redford,  Robert Shaw
    Director: George Roy Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 10,774 members
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  • iMurders
    Starring: Gabrielle Anwar,  William Forsythe,  Tony Todd
    Director: Robbie Bryan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    From the producers of the cult hit, Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth, comes a horror thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end. When the members of an online social networking website are brutally murdered in succession, one person's past holds the key to the ..read more »
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  • Local Color
    Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl,  Trevor Morgan,  Ron Perlman
    Director: George Gallo
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. He befriends an elderly alcoholic genius painter who has turned his back not only on art, but on life. The two form what appears to be a tenuous relationship at first, between a student and master. The ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
    Due for release on 22nd February 2010
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  • Cop on DVD
    Starring: James Woods,  Lesley Ann Warren,  Charles Durning
    Director: James B. Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An explosive detective is driven to catch a serial killer who has already committed fifteen grisly murders. Unfortunately for the detective, the police department wants no part of his offbeat tactics. So he's in this one alone and unrestrained - unfortunately for the killer.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 357 members
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  • Break
    Starring: Frank Krueger,  Sarah Thompson,  Chad Everett
    Director: Marc Clebanoff
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    "Break" is a stylistic noir drama about an introverted hit man named Frank who is contracted to carry out an unusual job. When the city's crime boss, known only as "The Man", discovers that he's terminally ill, he enlists Frank to carry out his own assassination. "The Man", however, is selfish and ..read more »
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  • Kinky Killers to Watch Now (2007)
    Starring: Michael Paré,  Charles Durning,  Beverly Lynne
    Director: George Lekovic
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
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    Run time: 85 minutes
    7 Murders, 7 Suspects, 7 Churches of Revelation. Patients of sexy psychiatrist Dr. Jill Kessey and eccentric attorney Alexander Hathaway are being murdered in bloody, satanic rituals. Law enforcement investigations reveal that sex and mutilation are the signatures of a serial killer who likes to ..read more »
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Charles Durning facts

5 most recent films

Deal - 3.0 stars
Good Dick - 2.5 stars
Bunch of Amateurs, A - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
A Bunch of Amateurs - 3.0 stars
Kinky Killers - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Everybody Loves Raymond - Series 9 - 4.0 stars
The Sting - 4.0 stars
Dog Day Afternoon - 3.5 stars
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 3.5 stars
The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

iMurders - 3 stars
Break - 3 stars
Unbeatable Harold - 3 stars
L.A. Riot Spectacular - 1.5 stars
Working - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Burt Reynolds - 9 times - show films
George Clooney - 4 times - show films
Ron Perlman - 3 times - show films
Holly Hunter - 3 times - show films
Tim Blake Nelson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Brian De Palma - 4 times - show films
Burt Reynolds - 3 times - show films
Joel Coen - 3 times - show films
George Lekovic - 2 times - show films
Andy Cadiff - 2 times - show films