Cast: Michael Lerner

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Michael Lerner. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Barton Fink

1991 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Joel Coen

Cast John Turturro · John Goodman · Judy Davis · Michael Lerner

Synopsis In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but...

7.4

25K votes

7.4

25K votes

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1981 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Bob Rafelson

Cast Jack Nicholson · Jessica Lange · Anjelica Huston · John Colicos

Synopsis Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and soon begins an affair with Nick's wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick...

6.8

11K votes

6.8

11K votes

The Rockford Files (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Roy Huggins · William Wiard · Lawrence Doheny

Cast James Garner · Lindsay Wagner · William Smith · Nita Talbot

Synopsis TV Series (1974-1980). 123 episodes. Series about an ex-con-turned-private-investigator named Jim Rockford who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward, and he isn't lazy--just a bit on the cautious side,...

6.5

57 votes

6.5

57 votes

Eight Men Out

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction John Sayles

Cast John Cusack · Clifton James · Michael Lerner · Christopher Lloyd

Synopsis Eight Men Out tells the true story of the infamous 'Black Sox' scandal of 1919, in which the White Sox players deliberately lost the World Series. The movie places the scandal in the context of a labor dispute between the...

6.4

484 votes

6.4

484 votes

Celebrity

1998 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Kenneth Branagh · Melanie Griffith · Winona Ryder · Leonardo DiCaprio

Synopsis At 40, Lee Simon feels that he’s not made the most of life. He writes travel features and interviews people from the world of showbiz, but dreams of selling a book or a screenplay to boost his social prestige. Since...

6.4

13K votes

6.4

13K votes

Mockingbird Don't Sing

2001 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Harry Bromley Davenport

Cast Melissa Errico · Joe Regalbuto · Sean Young · Michael Lerner

Synopsis On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still...

6.3

38 votes

6.3

38 votes

Anguish

1987 · Movie · 91 min. · Spain

Direction Bigas Luna

Cast Zelda Rubinstein · Michael Lerner · Talia Paul · Ángel Jove

Synopsis John, a loutish optometrist orderly, louses up on the job and is dismissed. His odd, little mother, using a form of hypnosis, sends him out on a killing spree, starting with Caroline, the woman who caused his dismissal. But this...

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

The Omen Legacy (TV)

2001 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States

Direction Brent Zacky

Cast Jack Palance · David Seltzer · Richard Donner · Mace Neufeld Productions

Synopsis The true stories that spawned the eerie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very name still conjures up thoughts of Satan. This documentary shares spine-tingling information about the the all-too-memorable flick that has terrorized film...

6.2

21 votes

6.2

21 votes

Life During Wartime

2009 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Todd Solondz

Cast Allison Janney · Shirley Henderson · Ally Sheedy · Gaby Hoffmann

Synopsis There is Joy, who discovers her husband Allen is not quite cured of his peculiar “affliction” and runs away, seeking solace and guidance from her mother and sisters; her former suitor Andy, now deceased, but still never giving up in...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

The Other Side of Midnight

1977 · Movie · 165 min. · United States

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast Marie-France Pisier · John Beck · Susan Sarandon · Raf Vallone

Synopsis Beautiful Noelle Page meets dashing WWII American pilot Larry Douglas in France and falls in love. She expects him to marry her, but instead Larry abandons her. In the United States, successful Catherine Alexander meets Larry Douglas and they marry....

6.1

115 votes

6.1

115 votes

Busting

1974 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast Elliott Gould · Robert Blake · Allen Garfield · Antonio Fargas

Synopsis LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just focus on nabbing...

6.0

103 votes

6.0

103 votes

Poster Boy

2004 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Zak Tucker

Cast Karen Allen · Michael Lerner · Matt Newton · Jack Noseworthy

Synopsis With the help of a hot, slightly older new acquaintence (Noseworthy), the closeted son (Newton) of a conservative U.S. Senator (Lerner) puts a shocking spin on his dad's re-election campaign.

5.9

42 votes

5.9

42 votes

5.7

517 votes

Direction Nick Castle

Cast Robert Townsend · Michael Lerner · Craig Richard Nelson · Bridget Sienna

Synopsis Struggling sitcom writer Billy Burliss is suddenly the toast of television, thanks to the typing tendrils of his script-writing spider plant, Lucy - which is fed only by the rays of a black-and-white TV set.

5.6

239 votes

5.6

239 votes

Direction Russell Mulcahy

Cast Bill Paxton · Lainie Kazan · Brad Dourif · Michael Lerner

Synopsis A hot-tempered convict with a butter addiction tries to get revenge, with the help of his mentally challenged brother, on the ice cream trucker who was responsible for his arrest, unaware the driver also has a dark secret too.

5.6

25 votes

5.6

25 votes

Direction Craig R. Baxley

Cast Andrew McCarthy · Bruce Davison · Diane Ladd · Ed Begley Jr.

Synopsis Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital is the haunting new 15-hour drama series created directly for television by the award-winning, bestselling master of horror. Using Lars Von Trier's Danish miniseries Riget (a.k.a. The Kingdom) as a point of inspiration, King tells the...

5.6

831 votes

5.6

831 votes

Threshold

1981 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Richard Pearce

Cast Donald Sutherland · Jeff Goldblum · Allan F. Nicholls · Sharon Acker

Synopsis The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart transplant against the advice of the Ethics Committee.

5.6

25 votes

5.6

25 votes

The Last Time

2006 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Michael Caleo

Cast Michael Keaton · Brendan Fraser · Amber Valletta · Daniel Stern

Synopsis Ted (Michael Keaton), the top salesman at the Bineview sales company is forced to show naive novice Jamie (Brendan Fraser) the ropes. Jamie's optimistic enthusiasm isn't squashed by Ted's cynical and angry personality but after he fails to make sale...

5.4

630 votes

5.4

630 votes

Radioland Murders

1994 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Mel Smith

Cast Brian Benben · Mary Stuart Masterson · Ned Beatty · George Burns

Synopsis 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead.

5.4

67 votes

5.4

67 votes

Atlas Shrugged: Part I

2011 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Paul Johansson

Cast Taylor Schilling · Edi Gathegi · Paul Johansson · Patrick Fischler

Synopsis A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

5.3

222 votes

5.3

222 votes