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  • Matilda
  • Matilda review by JoMc from Wirral
    Rated - 5.0 stars Matilda 21 August 2008
    ...illiant as 'The Trunchbull ' you just wouldn't recognise her from Darling Buds, Danny De Vito plays a blinder as nasty, crooked Dad, It's a great film to watch as a family o...   Read customer review
  • L.A. Confidential
  • L.A. Confidential review by from Worcester, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars !!!Warning HOT!!! 11 April 2005
    ... Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger and not forgetting the little dynamo Danny De Vito, you can tell this is going to be a classy film before you get it out of its ca...   Read customer review
  • The Virgin Suicides
  • The Virgin Suicides review by from Surrey
    Rated - 3.0 stars Odd, but memorable. 4 December 2005
    .... These are unusual roles for Woods and Turner; even more so, the appearance of Danny De Vito in a minor part, almost unrecognisable as a psychiatrist in a droopy moustache....   Read customer review

Danny De Vito - filmography


  • Duplex - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: James Remar,  Ben Stiller,  Justin Theroux
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Alex Rose and Nancy Kendricks are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone house they are giddy with anticipation. The house is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thing: Mrs. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 305 members
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  • Anything Else (2003)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Danny De Vito,  Christina Ricci
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Romantic comedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is an aspiring comedy writer, who lives and has relationship problems with his odd girlfriend (Christina Ricci), an aspiring actress. Falk meets up with teacher-turned-part-time-comedy-writer David Dobel (Allen) who gives ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 6,311 members
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  • Duplex on DVD (2003)
    Starring: James Remar,  Ben Stiller,  Justin Theroux
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Alex Rose and Nancy Kendricks are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone house they are giddy with anticipation. The house is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thing: Mrs. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 16,199 members
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  • Death To Smoochy on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Bruce McFee,  Thomas Lyons,  Bill Lake
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Randolph Smiley (Robin Williams) plays a clown on one of the most successful children's television shows of the network Kidnet. But when he is dismissed from his beloved job for taking backhanders from parents wanting their kids on his show, he becomes increasingly mentally unhinged; and the target ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,261 members
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  • Heist on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Rebecca Pidgeon,  Ricky Jay,  Danny De Vito
    Director: David Mamet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Master thief Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) is ready to retire and has agreed with his fence Mickey Bergman (Danny DeVito) to carry out one last job. Bergman worries that Moore might double-cross him, so he sends his nephew Jimmy Silk (Sam Rockwell) along as insurance. But Silk then becomes involved with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,251 members
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  • The Virgin Suicides on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Michael Pare,  Scott Glenn,  Leslie Hayman
    Director: Sofia Coppola
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    On the surface the Lisbons appear to be a healthy, successful 1970s family living in a middle-class Michigan suburb. Mr. Libson is a math teacher, his wife is a rigid religious mother of five attractive teenage daughters who catch the eyes of the neighborhood boys. However, when 13-year-old Cecilia ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 14,927 members
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  • Man On The Moon on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jim Carrey,  Paul Giamatti,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Milos Forman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey, as the late Andy Kaufman who was considered the most innovative, eccentric and enigmatic comic of his time. A master at provoking audiences, Kaufman could generate belly laughs, stony silence, tears or brawls. Danny DeVito also stars in Man on the Moon as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 11,022 members
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  • Living Out Loud (1998)
    Starring: Queen Latifah,  Elias Koteas,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Richard LaGravenese
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Judith (Holly Hunter) has not been able to move on since her husband left her. However, her life receives a kickstart from the unlikeliest of sources - the lift operator (Danny DeVito) who works in her upmarket apartment complex. He has his own ghosts to lay to rest, and the odd couple begin a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 448 members
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  • Hercules on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Tate Donovan,  Danny De Vito,  Samantha Eggar
    Director: John Musker,  Ron Clements
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Disney's animation team dipped into the rich well of ancient mythology for this musical comedy. The son of Greek gods Zeus (voice of Rip Torn) and Hera (Samantha Eggar), Hercules (voice of Josh Keaton) is stolen as a boy by the minions of Hades (voice of James Woods), lord of the underworld. Forced ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 11,337 members
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  • L.A. Confidential - Blu-ray (1997)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Russell Crowe,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Fifties Los Angeles, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) are three very different cops. Ed is ambitious and incorruptible, Bud takes pleasure in beating up wrong-doers, and Jack works as technical advisor to the television show 'Badge of Honour'. Ed ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 3,480 members
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  • L.A. Confidential on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Russell Crowe,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Fifties Los Angeles, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) are three very different cops. Ed is ambitious and incorruptible, Bud takes pleasure in beating up wrong-doers, and Jack works as technical advisor to the television show 'Badge of Honour'. Ed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 59,499 members
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  • Matilda (1996)
    Starring: R.D. Robb,  Pam Ferris,  Tracey Walter
    Director: Danny DeVito,  Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Matilda (Mara Wilson) is an exceptionally gifted and intelligent child, but is ignored by her stupid parents Harry (Danny DeVito) and Zinnia (Rhea Perlman). A keen reader, her dearest wish is to be sent to school, but the establishment Harry selects is Crunchemhall, run by the brutal Miss ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 13,096 members
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  • Mars Attacks! on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Glenn Close,  Annette Bening
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 12,961 members
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  • Space Jam on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Danny De Vito,  Tweety Pie,  Sylvester
    Director: Joe Pytka
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    NBA star Michael Jordan teams up with Bugs Bunny and the rest of his pals in a basketball game that is more important than any that has ever come before - the fate of the Earth hangs on the result. The problem has arisen because an invading alien race, the Nerclucks, want to kidnap Bugs and the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,973 members
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  • Mars Attacks! - Blu-ray (1996)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Glenn Close,  Annette Bening
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    When Martians arrive on planet Earth, American President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) is persuaded to extend the hand of friendship. One of the President's advisers, Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan), has been studying the aliens, and is keen to make peaceful contact. However, the Martians gleefully ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 805 members
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  • Get Shorty - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: John Travolta,  David Paymer,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Film-mad mobster Chili Palmer (John Travolta) goes AWOL from his intended assignment to track down B-Movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), who has racked up gambling debts all over Las Vegas. Dazzled by the Hollywood lights, Palmer forgets his debt-collecting duties, deciding instead to pitch ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 17 members
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  • Get Shorty on DVD (1995)
    Starring: John Travolta,  David Paymer,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 13,630 members
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  • Renaissance Man (1994)
    Starring: Stacey,  Gregory Hines,  James Remar
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Danny De Vito stars as divorced, out-of-work ad executive Bill Drago who is offered a six-week placement in the army teaching basic English comphrehension to eight no-hopers at a local military base. Drago arrives and finds he has to sleep next to the training ground where the soldiers begin ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 818 members
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  • Junior on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Pamela Reed,  Emma Thompson,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dr Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has perfected the technology to impregnate a man, and has a willing volunteer in line to test it - himself. Dr Arbogast (Danny DeVito), his assistant, strives to keep the project under wraps as his mentor begins to 'show', whilst the unwitting 'father' of the child (..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 7,788 members
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  • Look Who's Talking Now on DVD (1993)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Olympia Dukakis,  George Segal
    Director: Tom Ropelewski
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Third outing for the Ubriacco family, only this time it is two dogs who get the voices, courtesy of Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton. When Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is fired from her job, she takes a position in the toy department as a Christmas elf. James (John Travolta) has taken a job as private pilot ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 4,880 members
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  • Batman Returns - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Cristi Conaway,  Pat Hingle,  Michael Gough
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sequel to Tim Burton's hugely successful 'Batman' (1989). Oswald Cobblepot was abandoned by his parents as a baby. Thirty three years later, bent on revenge, he returns to Gotham City as the Penguin (Danny DeVito). First he begins a warped campaign to become Mayor, helped by millionaire businessman ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,379 members
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  • Batman Returns on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Cristi Conaway,  Pat Hingle,  Michael Gough
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 20,626 members
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  • Hoffa on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Danny De Vito,  J.T. Walsh,  Robert Prosky
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danny DeVito tries hard to give his biopic Hoffa an epic scope, yet he just misses the mark. Starring Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa, the film traces the life, career and mysterious disappearance of the labor leader. Hoffa follows the rise of the controversial figure through his early work during ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 769 members
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  • War Of The Roses on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Marianne Sagebrecht,  David Wohl,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver Rose (Michael Douglas) seem to have the perfect marriage, until one day Barbara imagines what life would be like without Oliver and decides she would prefer it. A bitter custody battle for their dream house ensues, with their lawyer (Danny DeVito) caught in the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,752 members
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  • Twins on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Marsha,  Kelly Preston,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger play twins (the result of a government genetic experiment) separated at birth. While one is the 'perfect' human specimen, the other is a pint-sized car-thief. When reunited many years later, they both teach each other a thing or two as they set out to find ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 11,580 members
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  • Tin Men on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Richard Dreyfuss,  Barbara Hershey,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Barry Levinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the year 1963, Bill 'B.B.' Babowsky (Richard Dreyfuss) accidentally backs his car into that of Ernest Tilley (Danny DeVito), who has been distracted by an argument he is having with his wife, Nora (Barbara Hershey). Each man blames the other for the collision, and when it transpires that they ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 731 members
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  • Throw Momma From The Train on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Kate Mulgrew,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Danny De Vito
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Danny DeVito's directorial debut is a spoof of Hitchcock's 'Strangers on a Train'. Larry (Billy Crystal) is an embittered writing lecturer, whose wife ran off with his only completed script, claimed it as her own and became a millionaire. Owen (DeVito) is one of his students, whose life is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,253 member
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  • Ruthless People on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Danny De Vito,  Helen Slater,  Bette Midler
    Director: Jerry Zucker,  David Zucker,  Jim Abrahams
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sam Stone (Danny DeVito) is a hard-nosed, highly obnoxious money man whose wife Barbara (Bette Midler) is kidnapped by bungling youngsters Sandy (Helen Slater) and Ken Kessler (Judge Reinhold). The problems arise when the kidnappers discover that their victim's husband does not want her back.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,173 members
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  • The Jewel Of The Nile on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Michael Douglas,  Kathleen Turner,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Lewis Teague
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An action-packed sequel to the popular Romancing the Stone. Novelist Joan Wilder and her adventurous boyfriend Jack Colton are sailing in the Mediterranean, when the writer is asked to ghost the biography of Eastern potentate Omar. The lovers become embroiled in another crazy escapade, in search of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 5,056 members
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  • Goin' South (1978)
    Starring: Mary Steenburgen,  Christopher Lloyd,  Danny De Vito
    Director: Jack Nicholson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Comedy western starring Jack Nicholson as Henry Moon, an outlaw who narrowly escapes a lynch mob by marrying local spinster Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) and taking advantage of a local by-law which states that married men are exempt from hanging. However, after the danger passes, Julia insists ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 501 members
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Danny De Vito facts

5 most recent films

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Series 1 - 4.5 stars
Duplex - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Anything Else - 2.5 stars
Duplex - 2.5 stars
Death To Smoochy - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Series 1 - 4.5 stars
L.A. Confidential - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Matilda - 4.0 stars
L.A. Confidential - 3.5 stars
Batman Returns - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Get Shorty - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
War Of The Roses - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Drowning Mona - 2.5 stars
Anything Else - 2.5 stars
Junior - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kathleen Turner - 7 times - show films
Pee-Wee Herman - 7 times - show films
Jack Nicholson - 7 times - show films
Michael Douglas - 6 times - show films
Gene Hackman - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tim Burton - 9 times - show films
Barry Sonnenfeld - 5 times - show films
Danny DeVito - 4 times - show films
Joe Pytka - 4 times - show films
David Mamet - 2 times - show films