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Mercedes Ruehl

Mercedes Ruehl


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  • Married To The Mob
  • Married To The Mob review by from Andover, Hampshire, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Criminal Comedy Capers 19 February 2009
    ... FBI Agents, the ladies of the local Mobsters led by the vengeful Connie Russo (Mercedes Ruehl), the Tiger's wife and a bunch of hoodlums from the Keystone Kops and you have ...   Read customer review
  • The Fisher King
  • The Fisher King review by MrPicky from Shropshire, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Cinematic Milestone 4 October 2007
    ...r-stated, it's almost grim. Wonderful, wonderful performances from all, with Mercedes Ruehl a megastar as Anne Napolitano. It's about our pain, our demons and fears, so...   Read customer review
  • What's Cooking?
  • What's Cooking? review by from Edinburgh, Scotland
    Rated - 3.0 stars Disfunctional families 29 July 2004
    ...own faces there are good performances, but hardly any standouts, except perhaps Mercedes Ruehl, and for once its good to see the women getting the best of the roles in a Holl...   Read customer review

Mercedes Ruehl - filmography


  • Bad Apple (2004)
    Starring: Chris Noth,  Colm Meaney,  Robert Patrick
    Director: Adam Bernstein
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An undercover FBI agent attempts to infiltrate a gang of goodfellas and instead falls in love with his informant's sister. Starring Chris Noth.
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 321 members
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  • Guilt By Association on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Alex Carter,  Karen Glave,  Alberta Watson
    Director: Graeme Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A single mother is sentenced to 20 years behind bars for a crime of which she is virtually innocent. Susan Walker's life has been something of a constant struggle - as a widow with two young children, she has struggled to attain a long-cherished goal: to become a respected nurse. It begins to look ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 57 members
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  • What's Cooking? on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Joan Chen,  Julianna Margulies,  Mercedes Ruehl
    Director: Gurinder Chadha
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    What happens when families come together for Thanksgiving? Almost anything! Sit back, relax and enjoy this generous and charming tale of four very different families, as they cook up some tasty holiday surprises; love, betrayal and even a few outrageous secrets! And, ultimately, discover the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 402 members
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  • Spooky House on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Mercedes Ruehl,  Matt Weinberg
    Director: William Sachs
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Oscar®-winner Ben Kingsley is the Great Zamboni, a magician with a mysterious secret. He lives alone with his black Jaguar, Shadow, in the Spooky House, an old mansion rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers. In spite of all the urban legends about the reclusive Zamboni, young orphan Max ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 113 members
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  • Roseanna's Grave (1997)
    Starring: Jean Reno,  Mercedes Ruehl,  Polly Walker
    Director: Paul Weiland
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A Mediterranean comedy set in an Italian village about the things we do for love.. Our hero, a devoted husband, wants to fulfil his dying wife's wish of being burying her in the same cemetery as her dead child. However space in the cemetery is very limited, so the husband goes to extraordinary ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 76% from 55 members
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  • Last Action Hero on DVD (1993)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Anthony Quinn,  Frank McRae
    Director: John McTiernan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Danny, a dedicated young fan of action star Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger), is given a magic cinema ticket by his local projectionist which transports him into his hero's latest film, in which the good guys always win. However, one of Slater's enemies gets hold of the magic ticket and ends up ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 11,644 members
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  • Last Action Hero - Blu-ray (1993)
    Starring: James Belushi,  Anthony Quinn,  Frank McRae
    Director: John McTiernan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Danny, a dedicated young fan of action star Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger), is given a magic cinema ticket by his local projectionist which transports him into his hero's latest film, in which the good guys always win. However, one of Slater's enemies gets hold of the magic ticket and ends up ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,164 member
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  • Lost In Yonkers on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  David Strathairn,  Mike Damus
    Director: Martha Coolidge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two small Jewish boys, Jay and Arty, are horrified to find that following the death of their mother, their father owes a fortune to the medical companies. As a result the boys are shipped away to their cold-hearted Granny where they meet the beautiful Aunt Bella (Mercedes Ruehl) and Uncle Louie (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 142 members
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  • Another You on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Gene Wilder,  Kevin Pollak,  Vincent Schiavelli
    Director: Maurice Phillips
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Pryor plays a conman who is sentenced to do community service; in this instance to escort a mental patient named George (Gene Wilder) around local museums. George is a compulsive liar and when he is constantly mistaken for a missing rich brewer named Abe Fielding, he cannot help but go ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,048 member
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  • The Fisher King on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Amanda Plummer,  Jeff Bridges,  Robin Williams
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 8,915 members
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  • Crazy People (1990)
    Starring: Dudley Moore,  Daryl Hannah,  J.T. Walsh
    Director: Tony Bill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dudley Moore plays an advertising copywriter who ends up in a mental institution when he decides to tell the truth in his ads. Once inside, he taps into the creative vein of his fellow inmates, whose truth-in-advertising style catches on with consumers.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 615 members
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  • Married To The Mob on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Dean Stockwell,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When her unfaithful gangster husband Frank is murdered, Angela DeMarco (Michelle Pfeiffer) sees it as the perfect opportunity to break free from the tacky world of the mafia wives. But with Frank's old boss Tony the Tiger (Dean Stockwell) trying to make her his mistress and the FBI pressuring her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 773 members
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  • Big on DVD (1988)
    Starring: David Moscow,  Jamie Tirelli,  Tracy Reiner
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be big. That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 25,142 members
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  • 84 Charing Cross Road on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Anthony Hopkins,  Eleanor David,  Maurice Denham
    Director: David Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this 1986 film. The scene is New York, 1949: Anne Bancroft plays a struggling writer and passionate bibliophile, who answers an advertisement from a rare-volumes bookshop at 84 ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,829 members
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  • The Warriors on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Deborah Van Valkenburgh,  James Remar,  Dorsey Wright
    Director: Walter Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After a city-wide gang meeting, a downtown New York gang called the Warriors is forced to make its way back across enemy territory after being framed for the killing of a rival unit's leader. Unarmed and desperate, they come up against one hostile gang after another as they fight their way back ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 8,148 members
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Mercedes Ruehl facts

5 most recent films

Bad Apple - 2.0 stars
Guilt By Association - 2.5 stars
What's Cooking? - 3.0 stars
Spooky House - 3.0 stars
Roseanna's Grave - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Roseanna's Grave - 3.5 stars
The Warriors - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Warriors - 3.5 stars
84 Charing Cross Road - 3.5 stars
Big - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cinema Collection - Vol. 5 and Vol. 6 - 2.0 stars
Subway Stories - Tales From The Underground - 3.0 stars
Bad Apple - 2.0 stars
Subway - 2.5 stars
Guilt By Association - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Thomas G. Waites - 3 times - show films
Austin O'Brien - 3 times - show films
Tom McKitterick - 3 times - show films
F. Murray Abraham - 3 times - show films
Robert Prosky - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Walter Hill - 4 times - show films
John McTiernan - 3 times - show films
Terry Gilliam - 2 times - show films
Gurinder Chadha - 2 times - show films
Bob Balaban - 2 times - show films