Cast: Michael Lerner
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Michael Lerner. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 90
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
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
Newsies
1992 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Kenny Ortega
Cast Christian Bale · Robert Duvall · Ann-Margret · Bill Pullman
5.7
517 votes
5.7
517 votes
The 21-Inch Sun (Amazing Stories) (TV)
1987 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
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
Tales from the Crypt: People Who Live in Brass Hearses (TV)
1993 · Movie · 27 min. · United States
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
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (TV Series)
2004 · Series · 40 min. · United States
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