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Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer
Born 29 April 1958, in Santa Ana, California

Wise Words: "I still think people will find out that I'm really not very talented. I'm really not very good. It's all just been a big sham."



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Michelle Pfeiffer - news / articles


  • Pfeiffer regrets Catwoman costume mistake - 19 April 2012
    -Michelle Pfeiffer regrets failing to get her claws on her iconic Catwoman costume after she finished filming 1992's Batman Returns.-The screen beauty played the fearsome feline in Tim Burton's dark blockbuster, but the black PVC catsuit proved to be so uncomfortable she c


  • Efron's delight at New Year's Eve co-star Pfeiffer - 8 December 2011
    -Zac Efron jumped at the chance to reteam with his Hairspray co-star Michelle Pfeiffer for New Year's Eve - because he was too "nervous" and "awkward" around the actress on their first film job together.-The 24 year old admits he was a bumbling teenager when he worked with


  • Pfeiffer to play vampire mum opposite Depp? - 16 February 2011
    -Michelle Pfeiffer is in talks to reteam with moviemaker Tim Burton for his movie adaptation of 1960s TV show Dark Shadows.- -The actress played Catwoman in Burton's 1992 film Batman Returns and now she's considering playing Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the matriarch of a v

Michelle Pfeiffer - what members say


  • The Witches of Eastwick
  • The Witches of Eastwick review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Tricky Trio take on Old Nich! 18 March 2009
    ... perfect. The cast is 'top notch' with Cher as Alexandra the artistic widow, Michelle Pfeiffer as the fertile divorcee, Suki and Susan Sarandon as the musical Ms Jane. Add J...   Read customer review
  • Dangerous Liaisons
  • Dangerous Liaisons review by from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars One day when they were young 22 March 2004
    ...It's an erotic feast rather than a morality drama. Michelle Pfeiffer is too lean and vague a character for one to feel sympathy for her falling into prey of the amoral hedonists...   Read customer review
  • Batman Returns
  • Batman Returns review by wolfenchild from London, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Batman Returns 9 February 2004
    ...atman also has to try and fend his way through the seductive claws of Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) whose dual personality tries to seduce and destroy the Dark Knight. In all,...   Read customer review

Michelle Pfeiffer - filmography


  • People Like Us (2012)
    Starring: Chris Pine,  Elizabeth Banks,  Olivia Wilde
    Director: Alex Kurtzman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Sam is a twenty-something, fast-talking salesman. His latest deal collapses on the day he learns that his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home, where he must put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. In the course of fulfilling his father'..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Dark Shadows (2012)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Eva Green,  Bella Heathcote
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In 1752, the Collins family sails from Liverpool, England to North America. The son, Barnabas, grows up to be a wealthy playboy in Collinsport, Maine and is the master of Collinwood Manor. He breaks the heart of a witch, Angelique Bouchard, who turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. In 1972,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 163 members
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  • Dark Shadows - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Johnny Depp,  Eva Green,  Bella Heathcote
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Entombed for 200 years after betraying vengeful witch Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), 18th Century vampire Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) returns to Collinwood Manor in 1972, only to find his estate in ruins and his family plagued by macabre secrets in Tim Burton's re-boot of the popular ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 22 members
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  • Cheri on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Frances Tomelty,  Kathy Bates,  Rupert Friend
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A romantic drama set in 1920s Paris, where the son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,904 members
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  • Personal Effects on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ashton Kutcher,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Kathy Bates
    Director: David Hollander
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ashton Kutcher stars as a broken man who sets off on a vengeance-filled search for his sister's murderer, only to fall into the arms of a gorgeous older woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) who may share the same torment in this romantic drama from Insight Studios. TV veteran David Hollander directs from his ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,332 member
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  • Stardust - HD (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Charlie Cox,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,608 member
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  • Hairspray - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Queen Latifah,  Amanda Bynes
    Director: Adam Shankman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    After finding success on Broadway, the hilarious John Waters 1988 classic comes to the big screen once again with this Adam Shankman remake featuring an star-studded cast led by newcomer Nicole Bronsky in the part originally played by Ricki Lake.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,830 member
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  • I Could Never Be Your Woman on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer,  Paul Rudd,  Saoirse Ronan
    Director: Amy Heckerling
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    This movie follows a mother (Pfeiffer) who falls for a younger man (Rudd) while her daughter (Ronan) falls in love for the first time. Ullman plays Mother Nature, who messes with their fates.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 12,851 members
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  • Stardust - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Sienna Miller,  Jason Flemyng,  Ricky Gervais
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 2,973 members
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  • Stardust on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Claire Danes,  Charlie Cox,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Matthew Vaughn (LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS) takes his experience with credible crime capers and applies it to the fantasy genre in this charming but not too precious adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel. The many threads of the story intertwine seamlessly, unfolding at an unforced ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 97,239 members
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  • White Oleander on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Alison Lohman,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Billy Connolly
    Director: Peter Kosminsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    WHITE OLEANDER, is the tale of an intense and toxic mother-daughter relationship, coupled with a look at the fundamentally skewed U.S. foster care system. When the beautiful photographer Ingrid Magnusson (Michelle Pfeiffer) is imprisoned for allegedly murdering a philandering boyfriend, her ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 3,730 members
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  • I Am Sam on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Scott Paulin,  Loretta Devine,  Richard Schiff
    Director: Jessie Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Actor Sean Penn displays another facet of his versatility as the title character of this inspirational tearjerker--a mentally handicapped father fighting for custody of his young daughter (Dakota Fanning). The child welfare board of his native Santa Monica has taken her from him, worried that at ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 8,154 members
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  • What Lies Beneath on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Harrison Ford,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Joe Morton
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Zemeckis takes a page right out of Hitchcock and runs with it in the spooky supernatural thriller WHAT LIES BENEATH. Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), seem to have the perfect life: a loving marriage, a daughter just entering college, and a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 11,754 members
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  • The Story Of Us on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Colleen Rennison
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Told in an engaging collage of direct camera confessionals, flashbacks, roundtable discussions, and montages, Rob Reiner's THE STORY OF US, a sweet romantic comedy featuring solid performances by Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer, examines the difficulty of preserving marriage in America and the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 1,090 member
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  • A Thousand Acres on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Jessica Lange,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Kevin Anderson
    Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A THOUSAND ACRES, director Jocelyn Moorhouse's screen adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, finds skeins of KING LEAR-like conflict running through the bedrock of a midwestern family. Jason Robards stars as Larry Cook, a powerful, stoic Iowa farmer who decides to retire and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 495 members
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  • One Fine Day on DVD (1996)
    Starring: George Clooney,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Charles Durning
    Director: Michael Hoffman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Melanie Parker (Pfeiffer) is juggling single parenthood with a career as an architect. Jack Taylor (Clooney) is a commitment-shy newspaper columnist who only has his daughter every other weekend. When their kids miss a school field trip, Melanie and Jack agree to take shifts babysitting for the day,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 10,350 members
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  • Up Close And Personal on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Robert Redford,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Stockard Channing
    Director: Jon Avnet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this network news romance, a beautiful neophyte reporter rises through the ranks to become a national star with the help of a veteran newscaster. "Suggested" by Alanna Nash's 1988 biography of newswoman Jessica Savitch, "Golden Girl." Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Song ("Because You ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,717 members
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  • Dangerous Minds on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Courtney B. Vance,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  George Dzundza
    Director: John N. Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A Marine officer leaves her military career behind to become an inner-city English teacher. With a style all her own she gets her class of tough-as-nails kids to trust her and to believe in themselves. This true-life drama is based on "My Posse Don't Do Homework," a novel by educator LouAnne Johnson.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 6,769 members
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  • Wolf on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  James Spader
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One dark and snowy night Will Randall collides with a wolf on a mountain road. The injured animal runs off into the night, but not before giving Bill a deep bite on the wrist. From then on his life begins to change as he is drawn into the mystical spirit of the wolf. The werewolf is re-born...
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,302 members
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  • Wolf - Blu-ray (1994)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  James Spader
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When a mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor gets bitten by a wolf, it gives him a shot of confidence over younger colleagues, highly tuned senses and a few new lycanthropic appetites. Like a clever New Yorker cartoon, this urbane horror film satirizes middle age in New York's cutthroat social and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 158 members
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  • Batman Returns - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Michael Keaton,  Danny De Vito,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In director Tim Burton's sequel to his successful BATMAN (1989), the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is pitted against the demented, ravenous Penguin (Danny DeVito), a pitiful, orphaned psychopathic freak who once went on a baby-killing spree, and a 'power' hungry capitalist villain Max Shreck (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,233 members
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  • Love Field on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer,  Dennis Haysbert,  Brian Kerwin
    Director: Jonathan Kaplan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Michelle Pfieffer plays a hairdresser who is obsessed with Jackie Kennedy. She goes to see the President's motorcade when it comes to Dallas on that fateful day in November 1963. She relates so deeply to the first lady that she decides to take a pilgrimage to Washington, DC to attend JFK's funeral. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 208 members
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  • Batman Returns on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Michael Keaton,  Danny De Vito,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    In director Tim Burton's sequel to his successful BATMAN (1989), the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is pitted against the demented, ravenous Penguin (Danny DeVito), a pitiful, orphaned psychopathic freak who once went on a baby-killing spree, and a 'power' hungry capitalist villain Max Shreck (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 20,171 members
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  • Frankie And Johnny on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Hector Elizondo
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this adaptation of Terrence McNally's play, Johnny (Al Pacino), an ex-con turned short order cook, woos Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer), a reluctant plain jane waitress. Set in a dingy Manhattan diner, the story revolves around Johnny's eager, won't-stop-at-anything attempt to draw the embittered, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,536 members
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  • The Russia House on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Director: Fred Schepisi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer ignite the screen in this enchanting adaptation of John Le Carre's suspenseful espionage drama. Connery portrays Barley Blair -- a lonely, middle aged, hard-drinking, London publisher -- who has a love for all things Russian. While in Russia, Barley captures the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 997 members
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  • The Fabulous Baker Boys on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Beau Bridges,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Steve Kloves
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Real-life siblings Beau and Jeff Bridges star as the eponymous Fabulous Baker Boys. Musical prodigies both, the Bakers have long been teamed as a twin-piano act, with the less talented Frank (Beau Bridges) coasting on the skills of his brilliant younger brother Jack (Jeff Bridges). Their career ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 2,865 members
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  • Married To The Mob on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Matthew Modine,  Dean Stockwell,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Michelle Pfeiffer established herself as an adept actress with this colorful comedy from director Jonathan Demme (SOMETHING WILD, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). The wife of Mafia hitman Frank "Cucumber" De Marco (Alec Baldwin), the irrepressibly brassy Angela (Pfeiffer) finds herself unhappy with their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 742 members
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  • Tequila Sunrise on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Mel Gibson,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Kurt Russell
    Director: Robert Towne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A former drug dealer trying to leave the business once and for all comes up against his best friend, a narcotics cop. Also caught in the net of suspicion is the beautiful restaurant owner with whom they're both in love. Academy Award Nominations: Best Cinematography.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,156 members
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  • Dangerous Liaisons on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Glenn Close,  John Malkovich,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Adapted for stage and screen several times over the past century, French author Francois Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liasons Dangeureuses was the basis for this Academy Award-winning Stephen Frears film. The plot is motivated by a cruel wager between the beautiful but debauched Marquise de ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 8,502 members
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  • Sweet Liberty on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Alan Alda,  Bob Hoskins,  Saul Rubinek
    Director: Alan Alda
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A history professor's life and peaceful college town are turned upside down when a film crew turns up to make a movie out of his best-selling novel about the American Revolution.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 150 members
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  • Ladyhawke on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Rutger Hauer,  Rutger Hauer,  Matthew Broderick
    Director: Richard Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In medieval France, knight Rutger Hauer and lady fair Michelle Pfeiffer both run afoul of evil-bishop John Wood. Through the auspices of bishop's confessor Leo McKern, Hauer and Pfeiffer are placed under a curse. During the night, Hauer takes the form of a wolf, while Pfeiffer assumes the form of a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,664 members
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  • Scarface (1983)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Robert Loggia,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 38,763 members
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  • Scarface - Blu-ray (1983)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Robert Loggia,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Brian De Palma
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 131 members
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  • Grease 2 on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Maxwell Caulfield,  Lorna Luft,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Patricia Birch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It's the early 1960s, and new Brit in town Michael Carrington (Maxwell Caulfield) has just arrived at Rydell High School. Michael, a bookish, sappy milquetoast, immediately becomes smitten with Stephanie Zinone (Michelle Pfeiffer), the gorgeous leader of the Pink Ladies, the hippest clique of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 4,221 members
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  • Falling In Love Again on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Susannah York,  Elliott Gould,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Steven Paul
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mid-life crisis sufferer Harry Lewis (Elliot Gould) is on a cross-country trip to New York, where his high school reunion will take place. During the trek, Harry reminisces about the "good old days" of his 1940's youth, the time when he first fell in love with childhood sweetheart Sue, now his wife ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 110 members
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Michelle Pfeiffer facts

5 most recent films

People Like Us - 3.0 stars
Dark Shadows - 3.5 stars
Dark Shadows - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cheri - 2.5 stars
Personal Effects - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Scarface - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Scarface - 4.0 stars
Stardust - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Stardust - HD - 4.0 stars
Stardust - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Power, Passion And Murder - 2.0 stars
People Like Us - 3.0 stars
Dark Shadows - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Falling In Love Again - 2.0 stars
Charlie Chan And The Curse Of The Dragon Queen - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Christopher Walken - 9 times - show films
Michael Gough - 7 times - show films
Michael Keaton - 6 times - show films
Danny De Vito - 6 times - show films
Pat Hingle - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tim Burton - 8 times - show films
Stephen Frears - 4 times - show films
Brian De Palma - 4 times - show films
Adam Shankman - 4 times - show films
Matthew Vaughn - 3 times - show films