Adam RifkinFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A screenwriter, director, producer, and occasional actor whose unabashed taste for the bizarre has resulted in such wildly diverse efforts as the indescribably outlandish three-armed comic opus The Dark Backward and the kid-friendly DreamWorks hit Small Soldiers, Chicago native Adam Rifkin got his...Read More

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National Lampoon's Stoned Age

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Rifkin, Ali Larter, Hayes MacArthur, David Carradine, Gary Busey

Synopsis: A philosophical caveman discovers that there's more to life than sticks, stones, and brontosaurus burgers in this prehistoric comedy from cult director Adam Rifkin (The Dark Backward). Ishbo (Rifkin) isn't your average hunter/gatherer; in a world dominated by Neanderthals, his fellow tribe members Read More

2008
Look

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jamie McShane, Spencer Redford, Hayes MacArthur, Nichelle Hines, Ben Weber

Synopsis: At times, it seems video surveillance is omnipresent in America, and Adam Rifkin (Underdog) spends the better part of two hours asserting just that in his fiction feature Look. This motion picture gains a historical footnote as the first U.S. mainstream movie to depict events solely through the Read More

12/14/07
Underdog

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: James Belushi, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Warburton, Alex Neuberger, Taylor Momsen

Synopsis: Bestowed with superpowers when a lab experiment goes unexpectedly awry, an average beagle becomes the savior of Capitol City as everyone's favorite canine do-gooder embarks on his first-ever live-action adventure. The maniacal Dr. Simon Barsinister (Peter Dinklage) was on the verge of a Read More

8/3/07
National Lampoon's Homo Erectus

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Rifkin, Ali Larter, David Carradine, Talia Shire

Synopsis: Detroit Rock City's Adam Rifkin writes, directs, and stars in National Lampoon's Homo Erectus, a prehistoric comedy surrounding a caveman and his plight to find love while leading his clan. Ali Larter plays the love interest, with David Carradine and Talia Shire portraying Rifkin's parents. Cameos Read More

2007
Garbanzo Gas

Crew: Producer

Actors: Miles Dougal, Walt Dongo, Vietnam Ron, Robert Tyree, Tiffany Naylor

Synopsis: Underground filmmaker Giuseppe Andrews returns to the helm to direct this surreal statement against animal abuse produced by Adam Rifkin. Dougal and Dongo are two small-time criminals who have just scammed an unsuspecting woman's social-security check. Their plan for the cash: to rent a local Read More

2007
Zoom

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tim Allen, Courteney Cox Arquette, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin, Kevin Zegers

Synopsis: When Earth is faced with certain destruction, an over-the-hill superhero is charged with the task of training four super-powered kids to harness their powers and save the planet in an out-of-this-world comedy adventure for the whole family from director Peter Hewitt. Tim Allen, Spencer Breslin, Courteney Cox Read More

8/11/06
Touch Me in the Morning

Crew: Producer

Actors: Giuseppe Andrews, Bill Nowlin

Synopsis: In this comedy from Troma Entertainment (The Toxic Avenger, Killer Condom), entitled Touch Me in the Morning, writer-director Giuseppe Andrews stars as a young man named Coney Island, who struggles against the problems that plague him. Faced with unemployment, feelings of sexual incapability, an Read More

2005
Getting Hal

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brian Doyle-Murray, Delicia Lanza, Carlo Glorioso, DeAnna Steele, Jonathan Kay

Synopsis: Tony Markes' second film, Getting Hal, was funded by auctioning off acting jobs and the executive-producer credit. Dixie (Delicia Lanza) wants revenge on her boyfriend Hal (Brad Rowe), who has stolen from her money she planned on using to buy a roller skating rink. She strikes a deal with a Read More

2003
Night at the Golden Eagle

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Vinny Argiro, Donnie Montemarano, Vinnie Jones, Natasha Lyonne, Ann Magnuson

Synopsis: A pair of elderly career criminals may have ended their old lives before they can start a new one in this streetwise drama. Tommy (Donnie Montemarano) and Mic (Vinnie Argiro) are a pair of aging wiseguys who used to work on the fringes of the New York mob. Now in their mid-sixties, Tommy has just Read More

4/26/02
Detroit Rock City

Crew: Director

Actors: Edward Furlong, Giuseppe Andrews, James DeBello, Sam Huntington, Lin Shaye

Synopsis: Are you ready for the hottest band in the land? It's 1978 in Detroit, and pretty much any teenager who isn't a total wimp is totally stoked for the upcoming Kiss concert (as anyone who ever listened to {^Kiss Alive!} knows, Detroit has always loved this band). But four proud members of the Kiss Read More

8/13/99
Something About Sex

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jonathan Silverman, Leah Lail, Ryan Alosio, Amy Yasbeck, Patrick Dempsey

Synopsis: Adam Rifkin wrote and directed this comedy that begins at a Los Angeles dinner party when unmarried, unattached novelist Art Witz (Jason Alexander with hair) argues that couples actually live in a state of denial and cannot maintain monogamous relationships. The plotline diverges to examine the Read More

12/4/98
Small Soldiers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips. After the defense industry firm Globotech takes over a small toy company, Heartland Play Systems' CEO Gil Mars (Denis Leary) gives the green light to develop a new line of Read More

7/10/98
Welcome to Hollywood

Crew: Director

Actors: Tony Markes, Adam Rifkin, Angie Everhart, David Andriole, Nicolas Cage

Synopsis: Film director Adam Rifkin spoofs Hollywood's star machine in concocting this fictional "mockumentary" about a director (Rifkin playing himself) who wants to make a documentary film about a rising young star. Anton Markwell (Tony Markes, who co-directed the film) is the object of Rifkin's inquiring Read More

1998
Dying to Get Rich

Actors: Michael Biehn, Lisa Edelstein, Nastassja Kinski, Adrian Paul, Rob Schneider, Billy Zane, Dan Aykroyd, Stuart Gordon, Randal Kleiser, Adam Rifkin

Synopsis: John Landis directed this comedy suspense-thriller about a woman plotting to murder her ex-husband for insurance money. When Susan (Nastassja Kinski) and insurance salesman Sam (Billy Zane) decide to kill her ex, Paul (Adrian Paul), Sam contacts Bill (Michael Biehn) and Steve (Rob Schneider) to do Read More

1998
Mouse Hunt

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Vicki Lewis, Maury Chaykin, Eric Christmas

Synopsis: Gore Verbinski, the TV-commercials director responsible for the Budweiser frogs, directed this Adam Rifkin screenplay about two brothers (Nathan Lane and Lee Evans) who inherit a string factory and a decaying country home after the death of their father (the late William Hickey, in his last role). Read More

1997
The Chase

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, Wayne Grace

Synopsis: This high-speed action comedy stars Charlie Sheen as Jack Hammond, who has been given a life sentence for a bank robbery that he didn't commit. Hammond manages to escape, and while trying to avoid capture at a gas station, he ends up kidnapping Natalie Voss (Kristy Swanson); he threatens her with Read More

1994
Psycho Cop II

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbara Lee Alexander, Julie Strain

Synopsis: A commendably gruesome title sequence gets this slasher sequel off on the right foot, and Bobby Ray Shafer returns as Satanist killer-cop Joe Vickers, this time chasing strippers and businessmen through an office building during an after-work bachelor party. Director Adam Rifkin (under the Read More

1993
Bikini Squad

Actors: Lucky O'Boyle, J.C. Palermo, Rebecca Rocheford, Clayton Halsey, Maureen Flaherty

Synopsis: A popular television lifeguard show faces cancellation when the crew is forced to find a new director on short notice in this sexy satire filled with skimpy bikinis and lots of fun in the sun. Thanks to a healthy display of skin and a cast that includes some chiseled hunks and lovely lifeguards Read More

1993
The Nutt House

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Kearney, Traci Lords, Amy Yasbeck

Synopsis: Traci Lords and Amy Yasbeck star in this anarchic comedy about a pair of identical twins separated at birth. One goes on to be a politician, while the other suffers from a bizarre multiple personality disorder. When the two are reunited and not everyone is sure who is whom, heads start to roll and Read More

1992
The Dark Backward

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: Writer/director Adam Rifkin's The Dark Backward is set in a dark, grimy, garbage-strewn urban netherworld, where a company named "Blump's" apparently owns everything. Marty Malt (Judd Nelson of The Breakfast Club) is an unhappy garbageman who moonlights as an atrociously unfunny standup comic. His Read More

1991
Disturbed

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Pointer, Pam Gidley, Irwin Keyes

Synopsis: The terror in this erotic horror thriller begins in the past when Dr. Russell, the director of a mental hospital, rapes a patient who afterward kills herself. Many years pass and the main story begins when a lovely model checks into the asylum. Dr. Russell feels those old lustful, violent Read More

1990
Going Overboard

Actors: Adam Sandler

Synopsis: Two years before he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler starred in this comedy as Shecky Moskowitz, who wants to get a job as a comedian on a cruise ship, but when that job is taken, signs on as a waiter instead, hoping fate will lend a hand. The cast also includes Burt Young, Peter Berg Read More

1989
Tale of Two Sisters

Crew: Director

Actors: Valerie Breiman, Claudia Christian, Sidney Lassick

Synopsis: Valerie Breiman and Claudia Christian play the two sisters of the title. Containing very little dialogue, the film details the ambitions and sensual yearnings of the two heroines. The whole production has the rhythm and texture of a poem--and for good reason. Tale of Two Sisters was based on a Read More

1989
Never on Tuesday

Crew: Director

Actors: Claudia Christian, Andrew Lauer, Peter Berg, Gilbert Gottfried, Charlie Sheen

Synopsis: Two dudes endeavor to exchange the slow lane life of their midwestern hometown for life in the fast lane of exciting LA and so hop into a car and begin the long drive out West. This comedy chronicles their exploits when a head-on collision leaves them stranded in a desert with beautiful Tuesday. Read More

1988