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Michael Murphy
Filmography
Michael Murphy - filmography
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Away from Her
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent
Director: Sarah Polley
Certificate: 
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A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
 
66%
from 8,075 members
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May Day
(2005)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Dean Cain, Kelly Hu
Director: T.J. Scott
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When a stray U.S. Navy test missile hits a jumbo airliner, killing most of its passengers and crew, the remaining survivors must safely land the crippled plane. Pacific Global Flight 52 is on a routine trip from the United States to Tokyo, when it is hit by the wayward missile, causing severe ..read more »
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from 87 members
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Phase IV
(2001)
Starring: Dean Cain, Michael Murphy, Brian Bosworth
Director: Bryan Goeres, Saul Bass
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Saul Bass had a fascinating career as an animator and as designer of title sequences for a number of notable films, including Psycho, Vertigo, Anatomy Of A Murder and Seconds. However, Phase IV was his only credit as director of a feature film. A visually inventive science-fiction story, Phase IV ..read more »
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from 26 members
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Sleeping Dogs Lie
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Wendy Crewson, Joel Keller, Jack Murphy
Director: Stefan Scaini
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Based on a true story, this is the tale of Ambrose Small a theatre impresario who sells his business for over one million dollars. After the cheque has been banked Ambrose vanishes without a trace... Who is responsible for his disappearance? And will he return to reclaim his money?...
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from 31 members
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Private Parts
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Gary Dell'Abate, Althea Cassidy, Bobby Borriello
Director: Betty Thomas
Certificate: 
Radio's larger-than-life bad boy, and self-proclaimed "King of All Media," Howard Stern exposes his "Private Parts" in this adaptation of his best-selling autobiography. Tracing his evolution from hopelessly geeky student to top-rated shock jock, the film not only chronicles his legendarily off-..read more »
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from 1,860 member
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Ultimate Lie
(1996)
Starring: Kristin Davis, Michael Murphy, George Eads
Director: Larry Shaw
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A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a client and discovers to her horror that the client is none other than her father.
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from 7 members
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Extreme Behaviour
(1996)
Starring: Michael Murphy, Kirsten Davies, Blair Brown
Director: Larry Shaw
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At first glance Malcolm McGrath and his wife have the perfect family. Malcolm is next in line to become head of a highly respected university, but when the dark secrets of daughter Claire are revealed their lives become a living hell...
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from 5 members
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Clean Slate
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Dana Carvey, Valeria Golino, James Earl Jones
Director: Mick Jackson
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Based on pulp master Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon is a sardonic thriller that remains true to its source's spirit, even as it transposes the action from the American South to colonial West Africa. Lucien (Philippe Noiret) is the bumbling police chief of Bourkasa, a ..read more »
54%
from 169 members
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Batman Returns - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Tim Burton
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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 »
71%
from 2,233 members
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Batman Returns
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
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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 »
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from 20,171 members
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Shocker
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Richard Brooks
Director: Wes Craven
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After a series of unusual dreams, young football star Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg) captures serial killer Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), a diabolical television repairman responsible for the deaths of several families. Pinker is sentenced to die in the electric chair, but the execution goes awry ..read more »
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from 1,105 member
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Salvador
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: James Woods, James Belushi, John Savage
Director: Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stone's first overtly political film, SALVADOR is a passionate protest against the savagery unleashed by fascist thugs in El Salvador during the early 1980s with the complicity of the U.S. government. It stars James Woods as combat photojournalist Richard Boyle, an erratic, cynical character ..read more »
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from 3,241 members
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Mesmerised
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Harry Andrews
Director: Michael Laughlin
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An 18-year-old orphan is trapped in an arranged marriage to a cruel middle-aged man. While she initially hoped for a better life, she soon realised that she wants out of the arrangement. When he turns up murdered, she is the prime suspect, arousing the ire of a nation. Based on the true story of ..read more »
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from 196 members
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Cloak & Dagger
(1984)
Starring: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy
Director: Richard Franklin
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Fantasy and reality merge in this espionage movie for kids and adults. A boy discovers that there's a sinister plot afoot to smuggle top-secret military information out of the U.S. inside a cassette of his favorite video game, "Cloak and Dagger." Unable to convince his dad that he's telling the ..read more »
69%
from 11 members
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Manhattan
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway
Director: Woody Allen
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On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued Allen's romantic obsessions in a slightly darker, more pessimistic vein. Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a TV comedy writer sick of the pap he is forced ..read more »
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from 14,149 members
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Cicely Tyson, Michael Murphy, Odetta
Director: John Korty
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This highly acclaimed drama, based on the epic novel by Ernest J. Gaines, eloquently covers the story of the Black Experience - from the Civil War to the civil rights movement - all told from the memories of a fictional 110 year-old slave played by Cicely Tyson. Ms.Tyson's tour-de-force performance,..read more »
61%
from 47 members
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