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  • Pete's Dragon
  • Pete's Dragon review by from The Darkest Depths of Wales, Where Dragons may still exist!
    Rated - 3.0 stars It's got a dragon who belong's to Pete! 3 August 2004
    ...only much good for family viewing if nothing else about, Kid's should love it. Mickey Rooney plays the same character he has done all his life (and we critisise Hugh Grant ...   Read customer review
  • Breakfast At Tiffany's
  • Breakfast At Tiffany's review by A customer from Southwick Sussex
    Rated - 2.0 stars Dated and wooden 20 March 2006
    ...product of an era when film stars were chosen on looks not acting ability. And Mickey Rooney as an oriental how cringe making. The story could have been far more interesti...   Read customer review
  • The Fox And The Hound
  • The Fox And The Hound review by A customer from NEWCASTLE
    Rated - 5.0 stars FOX AND THE HOUND! 27 June 2004
    ... become best friends. but nature hasn't intended them that way. they grow uP{as Mickey Rooney & Kirt Russel}. this story of friendship, conflict and the way nature intends i...   Read customer review

Mickey Rooney - filmography


  • A Christmas Too Many on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Elisabeth Z. Lund,  Ruta Lee,  Gary Coleman
    Director: Stephen Wallis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Mickey Rooney co-stars in this comedy for the festive season. When an ageing Hollywood actress invites her estranged family to her California home for the 'perfect' family Christmas, she is soon reminded of why she kept them all at arm's length for so long.
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 145 members
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  • Lilith on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jacqueline Hickel,  Tina Krause,  Mickey Rooney
    Director: Mark Vadik
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Occult horror in which a nun takes a group of students on a college trip they'll never forget. Abducted as a child and subjected to ritualistic abuse by those wishing to invoke the spirit of Lilith, the 'mother of all demons', Sister Katherine (Tina Krause) takes her wards off to the woods to ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 101 members
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  • The Happy Elf on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Mae Whitman,  Carol Kane,  Mickey Rooney
    Director: John Rice
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This animated adventure is the story of Eubie the Elf, one of Santa's helpers whose overly optimistic, rose-tinted outlook on the holiday season is put to the test when he decides to bring Christmas joy to a dreary, sad little town called Bluesville. Features the narration and songs of Harry Connick Jr.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 112 members
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  • Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Jodi Benson,  Scott Wolf,  Alyssa Milano
    Director: Darrell Rooney
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    In this sequel to 'Lady and the Tramp', the original duo's offspring, mischievous pup Scamp (voiced by Scott Wolf), is always getting into trouble. After running away from home he meets lovely stray Angel (Alyssa Milano) and the streetwise Buster (Chazz Palminteri), who enrolls Scamp in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,984 members
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  • Babe - Pig In The City on DVD (1998)
    Starring: James Cromwell,  Mickey Rooney,  Micheline Presle
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Sequel to the hugely successful talking animals pic. When Farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) has an accident, he is unable to run his business and faces bankruptcy. The only solution is to cash in on the fame of his shepherding pig Babe, and the animal is duly dispatched to open a state fair. However, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2,451 members
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  • Maximum Force (1991)
    Starring: John Saxon,  Sherrie Rose,  Jason Lively
    Director: Joseph Merhi
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A powerful crime lord rules L.A. unhindered, until three renegade cops join forces to take him on. Sam Jones, John Saxon, Sherri Rose and Mickey Rooney star.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 71 members
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  • Home for Christmas on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Simon Richards,  Lesley Kelly
    Director: Peter Mccubbin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Festive family film starring Mickey Rooney as an elderly homeless man who is taken in by a family at Christmas. Elmer (Rooney) is offered the chance to stay with the family after volunteering to do chores for them. This is good news for six-year-old Amanda (Chantellese Kent), who only really wants ..read more »
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  • Erik The Viking on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Terry Jones,  Samantha Bond,  Eartha Kitt
    Director: Terry Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and starring Tim Robbins as Erik, a viking who tires of the daily grind of sacking and looting. Gathering together a rag-tag band of squabbling warriors, Erik sets out on a journey to Valhalla where he intends to ask the gods to end the violence which ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,537 member
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  • Bill (1981)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Dennis Quaid,  Largo Woodruff
    Director: Anthony Page
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bill a retarded man ventures out into the world for the first time. Having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city Institution. He is taken in by a kind family and learns what it means to love for the first time in his life.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 20 members
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  • The Black Stallion on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Kelly Reno,  Doghmi Larbi,  Clarence Muse
    Director: Carroll Ballard
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When the ship tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. Alec befriends the horse, so when ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,226 member
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  • Arabian Adventure on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Milo O'Shea,  Elizabeth Welch,  Peter Cushing
    Director: Kevin Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A fantasy adventure along the lines of `The Thief of Baghdad'. The dictator of Jadur charges a young prince with the task of finding a magic rose in return for the hand of his daughter. Christopher Lee, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms and Mickey Rooney star.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 81 members
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  • Pete's Dragon on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Sean Marshall,  Red Buttons,  Jim Backus
    Director: Don Chaffey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A Disney production mixing animation with live action. Lonely orphan boy Pete (Sean Marshall) finds a new friend in a surprising form: Elliott, a 12-foot tall dragon that has the power to make itself invisible. Together they innocently cause chaos in their sleepy hometown, but their partnership is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,133 members
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  • Pete's Dragon - Blu-ray (1977)
    Starring: Sean Marshall,  Red Buttons,  Jim Backus
    Director: Don Chaffey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A Disney production mixing animation with live action. Lonely orphan boy Pete (Sean Marshall) finds a new friend in a surprising form: Elliott, a 12-foot tall dragon that has the power to make itself invisible. Together they innocently cause chaos in their sleepy hometown, but their partnership is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 9 members
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  • Find The Lady on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Peter Cook,  Alexandra Bastedo,  Dick Emery
    Director: John Trent
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy starring John Candy. The daughter of a wealthy businessman has been kidnapped, and the chief of police, under a lot of pressure to find her as soon as possible, assigns officers Kopek (Candy) and Broom (Lawrence Dane) to track her down and bring her back safe and sound. What nobody on the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 70 members
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  • Pulp on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Robert Sacchi,  Luciano Pigozzi,  Joe Zammit Cordina
    Director: Mike Hodges
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Offbeat 1970s comedy thriller starring Michael Caine as Mickey King, a successful writer of 'pulp' - cheap paperback detective novels. When an agent offers him an extraordinarily generous sum of money to ghost-write the autobiography of a mystery celebrity, King is intrigued, and agrees to the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 196 members
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  • Evil Roy Slade (1972)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Dick Shawn,  Henry Gibson
    Director: Jerry Paris
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The meanest villain in the West falls for a pretty schoolteacher and tries to change his ways, but a determined (and ego-maniacal) singing sheriff is out to capture him.
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 9 members
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  • Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (1970)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Fred Astaire
    Director: Jules Bas,  Arthur Rankin Jr.
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The original TV classic, "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" has been a holiday viewing tradition for over 35 years and stars the vocal talents of the legendary Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney. This heartwarming tale explains how Kris Kringle becomes the world's most famous gift giver, Santa Claus. It ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 253 members
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  • Ambush Bay on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Hugh O'Brian,  Mickey Rooney
    Director: Ron Winston
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    WWII action adventure. The film stars Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney and Robert Mitchum as members of a marine scouting party who uncover a plan to mine the US invasion fleet when it arrives in the Philippines. Cut off from their comrades, the scouting party must find a way to warn the incoming fleet ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 42 members
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  • Requiem For Heavyweight on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Anthony Quinn,  Jack Dempsey,  Stanley Adams
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Boxing drama starring Anthony Quinn. Mountain Rivera (Quinn) is a washed-up heavyweight fighter, badly defeated in a knock-out bout with Cassius Clay (played by himsef, before he changed his name to Muhammed Ali). Rivera's kindly trainer Army (Mickey Rooney) and his social worker (Julie Harris) try ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 90 members
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  • Breakfast At Tiffany's on DVD (1961)
    Starring: George Peppard,  John McGiver,  Martin Balsam
    Director: Blake Edwards
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Blake Edwards' screen adaptation of Truman Capote's novella stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, an eccentric high-class escort working in New York. When young writer Paul Varjack (George Peppard) - the kept man of a wealthy older woman - moves into Holly's apartment block, he finds inspiration ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 38,289 members
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  • Baby Face Nelson (1957)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Carolyn Jones,  Cedric Hardwicke
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the unflinching, trigger-happy member of the infamous Dillinger gang that besieged the Midwest circa 1933. Rooney is Lester Baby Face Nelson Gillis and Carolyn Jones his gun moll, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • The Bold And The Brave on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Race Gentry,  Don Taylor,  Wendell Corey
    Director: Lewis R. Foster
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    World War Two drama. The film traces the destinies of three very different American soldiers stationed on the Italian front: idealistic pacifist Fairchild (Wendell Corey), religious zealot Preacher (Don Taylor) and flamboyant gambler Dooley (Mickey Rooney).
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 14 members
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  • The Bridges At Toko-Ri on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Willis B. Bouchey,  Richard Shannon,  Robert Strauss
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    During the Korean War, happily married and retired fighter pilot Lt. Harry Brubaker (William Holden) is convinced to take to the skies once more to help stop the spread of Communism. Feeling that he has already done more than enough for his country in World War II, he resents having to spend long ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 327 members
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  • Quicksand on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Barbara Bates,  Jeanne Cagney,  Peter Lorre
    Director: Irving Pichel
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Drama about a good-natured mechanic whose life is destroyed in less than a week. Danny (Mickey Rooney) finds himself short of cash when he's supposed to take out waitress Vera (Jeanne Cagney) on a date. He borrows 20 dollars from the cash register, planning on paying it back with 20 dollars that a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 73 members
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  • Love Laughs At Andy Hardy (1947)
    Starring: Bonita Granville,  Sara Haden,  Lewis Stone
    Director: Willis Goldbeck
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic American comedy. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) returns from service in World War Two and decides to enroll in college on the GI Bill. There he meets attractive student Kay Wilson (Bonita Granville) and falls in love, but is heartbroken when she decides to marry someone else. Andy's spirits are ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 35 members
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  • National Velvet (1945)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Angela Lansbury,  Reginald Owen
    Director: Clarence Brown
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to Mickey Rooney in the showier role of Mike Taylor, a headstrong English ex-jockey. Soured on life by a serious accident, Mike plans to steal from the country family that has ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 662 members
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  • Babes in Arms (1939)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Judy Garland
    Director: Busby Berkeley
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Mickey Moran, son of an old vaudeville-team puts on his own show to avoid being sent with other vaudevillians' children to a work farm, but that isn't that easy.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 11 members
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  • Boys Town on DVD (1938)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Mickey Rooney,  Henry Hull
    Director: Norman Taurog
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for his portrayal of Father Flanagan, who opens Boys Town and dedicates himself to helping juvenile delinquents go straight. Mickey Rooney plays one of the tougher kids, figuring out early on that Flanagan is nobody's fool.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 258 members
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  • Love Finds Andy Hardy on DVD (1938)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney,  Lewis Stone,  Fay Holden
    Director: George B Seitz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Andy's girlfriend Polly is planning to spend Christmas at her grandmother's, which puts a kink in his plans to take her to the country club Christmas party. He agrees (for a fee) to pretend to be the boyfriend of his buddy Beezy's girl Cynthia to discourage other suitors (Beezy is also leaving for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 75 members
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  • Captains Courageous on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Melvyn Douglas,  Lionel Barrymore
    Director: Victor Fleming
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A boy learns life-changing lessons about the importance of friendship and the dignity of labor in this adventure saga based on a story by Rudyard Kipling. Young Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is the working definition of a spoiled brat; the only child of a wealthy widowed businessman, Harvey ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 514 members
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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
    Starring: James Cagney,  Mickey Rooney,  Gary Cooper
    Director: Max Reinhardt
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A film adaptation of Shakespeare's tale of foolish mortals, squabbling fairies and mismatched lovers. Most of the play takes place deep in the forest, where a quartet of human lovers have fled: Hermia and Demetrius, happily in love, do not wish to be split up by the law of their land. Hot on their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 27 members
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  • The Big Chance (1933)
    Starring: Mickey Rooney
    Director: Albert Herman,  Albert Herman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Frankie, a young prizefighter, wins a fixed boxing match as part of a crime boss's plan to have him build up a reputation and then have him throw a championship fight. Frankie then meets Mary as she is going to church with her family, and they begin dating. The crime boss orders him to stay away ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 2 members
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Mickey Rooney facts

5 most recent films

A Christmas Too Many - 2.0 stars
Lilith - 1.5 stars
The Happy Elf - 2.5 stars
Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure - 3.0 stars
Babe - Pig In The City - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Simpsons - Season 7 - 4.0 stars
Captains Courageous - 3.5 stars
Breakfast At Tiffany's - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Lady And The Tramp / Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Boys Town - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Home for Christmas - 3 stars
Baby Face Nelson - 3 stars
My Outlaw Brother - 1.5 stars
The Big Chance - 2.0 stars
Love Laughs At Andy Hardy - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Scott Wolf - 4 times - show films
Chazz Palminteri - 4 times - show films
Alyssa Milano - 4 times - show films
Jeff Bennett - 4 times - show films
Kath Soucie - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Susie Dietter - 5 times - show films
none - 5 times - show films
Bill Brown - 5 times - show films
Wesley Archer - 5 times - show films
Darrell Rooney - 4 times - show films