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  • Harlem Nights
  • Harlem Nights review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4.0 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
    ...mbined efforts of Quick and Sugar Ray to prevent white gangster Bugsy Calhoune (Michael Lerner) from muscling in on their operation. The film's now-notorious streak of misogy...   Read customer review

Michael Lerner - filmography


  • A Serious Man - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Adam Arkin,  Richard Kind,  George Wyner
    Director: Joel Coen,  Ethan Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 194 members
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  • A Serious Man (2009)
    Starring: Adam Arkin,  Richard Kind,  George Wyner
    Director: Joel Coen,  Ethan Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 834 members
    Not available for rental
  • Love and Other Disasters (2006)
    Starring: Brittany Murphy,  Matthew Rhys,  Catherine Tate
    Director: Alek Keshishian
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Emily Jackson lives a fast-paced life. Always on the go, able to talk around the clock, with a sensitive soul she loves playing matchmaker for her friends. It's Emily's gay room mate and frequent companion Peter, who becomes again the subject matchmaking skills when handsome new photographer ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 17 members
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  • 29 Palms on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook,  Jeremy Davies,  Chris O'Donnell
    Director: Leonardo Ricagni
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's big trouble for an undercover FBI agent when he discovers some illegal gambling activity at an Indian casino. He hits the road to escape the bullets of the mob's chief hit man and winds up with the hit man's bag of money in the small town of 29 Palms. How's he gonna get out of this one?
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 367 members
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  • My Favourite Martian on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jeff Daniels,  Christopher Lloyd,  Elizabeth Hurley
    Director: Donald Petrie
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The 1960s television series is updated for the 1990s in this computer-effects heavy family effort. Television reporter Tim O' Hara (Daniels) thinks he has the story of the century when he stumbles across a real-life Martian (Lloyd). While trying to gain evidence of the landing, however, the alien ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 487 members
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  • Godzilla - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Jean Reno,  Maria Pittillo
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nuclear testing once again awakens a green behemoth. However, this large iguana-like creature seems to be unrelated to its Japanese counterpart. The lizard proceeds to demolish large portions of New York as the US military attempts to destroy it.
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,851 member
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  • Celebrity on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Kenneth Branagh,  Judy Davis,  Hank Azaria
    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 2,585 members
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  • Godzilla on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Matthew Broderick,  Jean Reno,  Maria Pittillo
    Director: Roland Emmerich
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Nuclear testing once again awakens a green behemoth. However, this large iguana-like creature seems to be unrelated to its Japanese counterpart. The lizard proceeds to demolish large portions of New York as the US military attempts to destroy it. Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno star.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 11,579 members
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  • The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
    Starring: Fran Drescher,  Timothy Dalton,  Ian McNeice
    Director: Ken Kwapis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A hairdresser is sent to the land of Slovetzia to tutor three children. Thinking that she's been hired as a beautician she has no idea that her boss the widowed autocrat Boris Pochenko thinks she's a science teacher...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 540 members
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  • No Way Back - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Helen Slater,  Etsushi Toyokawa
    Director: Frank Cappello
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The FBI, the Mafia, and the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters) fight to the death in this nonstop action thriller starring Russell Crowe (Gladiator). FBI agent Zack Grant (Crowe) sends beautiful rookie operative Seiko (Kelly Hu) on a sting operation against the depraved, skinhead son of a Mafia kingpin. ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 284 members
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  • No Way Back on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Helen Slater,  Etsushi Toyokawa
    Director: Frank Cappello
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The FBI, the Mafia, and the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters) fight to the death in this nonstop action thriller starring Russell Crowe (Gladiator). FBI agent Zack Grant (Crowe) sends beautiful rookie operative Seiko (Kelly Hu) on a sting operation against the depraved, skinhead son of a Mafia kingpin. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 334 members
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  • The Road To Wellville (1994)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Matthew Broderick,  Bridget Fonda
    Director: Alan Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the best-selling novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle, THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE satirises late-19th-century health fads and medical procedures. The story focuses on Will Lightbody (Matthew Broderick) and his wife, Eleanor (Bridget Fonda), guests at the health spa of eccentric and toothy cereal mogul ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,036 member
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  • Amos and Andrew on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Samuel L. Jackson,  Dabney Coleman
    Director: E. Max Frye
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When African-American professional Andrew Sterling (Samual L. Jackson) moves into a summer home on an up-tight all-white New England resort island, the snoopy white neighbors are sure he must be breaking and entering. They call the cops who get too rambunctious and break into Sterling's limo, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 261 members
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  • Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
    Starring: Laurene Landon,  Bruce Campbell,  Robert Z'Dar
    Director: William Lustig
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Surviving the attempts of his superiors to frame him and leave him for dead, a heroic cop teams up with a vicious serial killer to avenge his treatment. These unlikely allies mete out a new brand of justice and retribution across a city gripped by fear.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 490 members
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  • Harlem Nights on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Eddie Murphy,  Richard Pryor,  Jasmine Guy
    Director: Eddie Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) became Quick's (Eddie Murphy) adopted father when an adolescent Quick saved his life. Twenty-five years later, in 1938, Ray runs the most popular club in Harlem, with Quick as his right-hand man. Before long, Bugsy, a white mobster (Michael Lerner) comes knocking for a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,223 member
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  • Eight Men Out on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Charlie Sheen,  D.B. Sweeney,  Christopher Lloyd
    Director: John Sayles
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 935 members
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  • The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Jessica Lange,  John Colicos
    Director: Bob Rafelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Drifter Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson), is headed nowhere. Then he drifts into a job at a roadside diner and sees his boss's alluring young wife Cora (Jessica Lange). They are both compelled by agonising passions they can neither control or completely understand, to become lovers with savage ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 277 members
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  • A Christmas Without Snow on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Michael Lerner,  John Houseman,  Ramon Bieri
    Director: John Korty
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    A newly divorced and jobless woman in a strange city far from home joins a church choir and under the direction of a stern but gifted choir master, she becomes part of a group striving toward a common goal: to shape a ragtag assembly of amateurs into a chorus capable of performing Handel's "Messiah"..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 105 members
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  • Borderline on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Charles Bronson,  Wilford Brimley,  Michael Lerner
    Director: Jerrold Freedman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Charles Bronson stars as a U.S. Border Guard who is trying to protect the country from the millions of illegal Mexican immigrants who attempt to cross the border annually. He becomes involved in a murder hunt when his partner and a poor youth are murdered...
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 110 members
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  • The Other Side Of Midnight (1977)
    Starring: Noelle Page,  Susan Sarandon,  Michael Lerner
    Director: Charles Jarrott
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Based on Sidney Sheldon's bestseller, "The Other Side of Midnight" is the story of Noelle, a naïve young French woman who falls for a handsome American aviator during World War II. But when the war ends, Noelle waits in vain for her handsome flyer to return. Alone and abandoned, the young woman ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 46% from 9 members
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  • Firehouse on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Michael Lerner,  Sheila Frazier,  Richard Rowntree
    Director: Alex March
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A rookie fireman (Richard Roundtree) is faced with the challenge of his life, being the first African American among an all-white squad filled with hostility and race rage. He discovers soon enough that he is filling the shoes of a much beloved colleague who lost his life in a fire believed to be ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 6 members
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Michael Lerner facts

5 most recent films

A Serious Man - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
A Serious Man - 3.5 stars
Love and Other Disasters - 4.0 stars
29 Palms - 2.5 stars
My Favourite Martian - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Serious Man - 3.5 stars
A Serious Man - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Eight Men Out - 3.0 stars
The Postman Always Rings Twice - 3.0 stars
For Richer Or Poorer - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Yonkers Joe - 1.5 stars
Firehouse - 1.5 stars
The Other Side Of Midnight - 2.0 stars
Busting - 2.5 stars
Love and Other Disasters - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Matthew Broderick - 4 times - show films
Hank Azaria - 4 times - show films
Jean Reno - 3 times - show films
Kevin Dunn - 3 times - show films
Doug Savant - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joel Coen - 2 times - show films
E. Max Frye - 2 times - show films
Jerrold Freedman - 2 times - show films
Frank Cappello - 2 times - show films
Leonardo Ricagni - 2 times - show films