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Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy


Filmography

Michael Murphy - filmography


  • Away from Her on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Julie Christie,  Michael Murphy,  Gordon Pinsent
    Director: Sarah Polley
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 8,075 members
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  • May Day (2005)
    Starring: Aidan Quinn,  Dean Cain,  Kelly Hu
    Director: T.J. Scott
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 87 members
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  • Phase IV (2001)
    Starring: Dean Cain,  Michael Murphy,  Brian Bosworth
    Director: Bryan Goeres,  Saul Bass
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 26 members
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  • Sleeping Dogs Lie on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Wendy Crewson,  Joel Keller,  Jack Murphy
    Director: Stefan Scaini
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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?...
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 31 members
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  • Private Parts on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Gary Dell'Abate,  Althea Cassidy,  Bobby Borriello
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,860 member
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  • Ultimate Lie (1996)
    Starring: Kristin Davis,  Michael Murphy,  George Eads
    Director: Larry Shaw
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    1.5 stars out of 5 25% from 7 members
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  • Extreme Behaviour (1996)
    Starring: Michael Murphy,  Kirsten Davies,  Blair Brown
    Director: Larry Shaw
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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...
    2 stars out of 5 22% from 5 members
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  • Clean Slate on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Dana Carvey,  Valeria Golino,  James Earl Jones
    Director: Mick Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 169 members
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  • Batman Returns - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Michael Keaton,  Danny De Vito,  Michelle Pfeiffer
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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: Certificate: 15
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 20,171 members
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  • Shocker on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael Murphy,  Peter Berg,  Richard Brooks
    Director: Wes Craven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,105 member
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  • Salvador on DVD (1985)
    Starring: James Woods,  James Belushi,  John Savage
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,241 members
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  • Mesmerised on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  John Lithgow,  Harry Andrews
    Director: Michael Laughlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 196 members
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  • Cloak & Dagger (1984)
    Starring: Henry Thomas,  Dabney Coleman,  Michael Murphy
    Director: Richard Franklin
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11 members
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  • Manhattan on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Diane Keaton,  Mariel Hemingway
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 47 members
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Michael Murphy facts

5 most recent films

Surviving Summer - 3.0 stars
Away from Her - 3.5 stars
May Day - 2.5 stars
Make It Funky! - 3.0 stars
The Day Reagan Was Shot - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Manhattan - 3.5 stars
Batman Returns - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Salvador - 3.5 stars
The Front - 3.5 stars
Away from Her - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Ultimate Lie - 1.5 stars
Extreme Behaviour - 2.0 stars
Sleeping Dogs Lie - 2.0 stars
Phase IV - 2.0 stars
The Day Reagan Was Shot - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Pat Hingle - 5 times - show films
Christopher Walken - 5 times - show films
Andrew Bryniarski - 5 times - show films
Pee-Wee Herman - 5 times - show films
Cristi Conaway - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tim Burton - 5 times - show films
John Korty - 3 times - show films
Betty Thomas - 2 times - show films
Nancy Bardawil - 2 times - show films
Robert Altman - 2 times - show films