Kieran Culkin Filmography

Born:: September 30, 1982
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: One of the Culkin clan of child actors, Kieran Culkin emerged from older brother Macauley Culkin's considerable shadow in the late 1990s. Born and raised in New York, Culkin made his movie debut playing his sibling's cousin in the blockbuster family comedy Home Alone (1990). Along with returning...Read More

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Lymelife

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Emma Roberts, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton

Synopsis: Nearly a decade after impressing audiences at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival with their engaging coming of age story Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish, filmmakers Derick and Steven Martini return to deliver this period drama following two families whose lives are profoundly affected by Read More

2008
Stanford Prison Experiment

Actors: Kieran Culkin, Paul Dano, Jesse Eisenberg, Charlie Hunnam, Ben McKenzie, Giovanni Ribisi, Channing Tatum

Synopsis: A study in the psychology of incarceration goes horribly awry in this film based on the notorious 1971 Stanford University experiment that placed undergraduate students in the roles of prisoner and guard, only to fall apart within 24 hours. Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie (The Way of the Gun) Read More

2007
Igby Goes Down

Actors: Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: The cynical son of an upper-class New York family bedeviled by booze, pills and mental illness strikes out on his own in this caustic, darkly comic drama. Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) and his older brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), are are in the process of killing their mother, Mimi (Susan Sarandon Read More

9/13/02
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

Actors: Kieran Culkin, Jena Malone, Emile Hirsch, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jodie Foster

Synopsis: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys brings Chris Fuhrman's well-received, posthumously published teen novel to the screen. Set in the 1970s, the film concerns two rebellious Catholic schoolboys -- bashful, pensive Francis (Emile Hirsch) and whip-smart, impulsive Tim (Kieran Culkin) -- who spend Read More

6/14/02
The Cider House Rules

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Michael Caine

Synopsis: John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an orphan who spent most of his childhood at the St. Cloud Orphanage in rural Maine, where he grew up under the strong but affectionate care of Dr. Read More

12/10/99
Music of the Heart

Actors: Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett, Cloris Leachman, Gloria Estefan

Synopsis: After devoting his career to such horror films as Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Last House on the Left, director Wes Craven makes a dramatic change of pace with this inspiring drama about a teacher who helps change the lives of her students. Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras (Meryl Streep) Read More

10/29/99
She's All That

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Synopsis: If Hollywood can shoehorn William Shakespeare into the teen-movie treatment with Romeo and Juliet, and Jane Austen with Clueless (from her novel, Emma), why not George Bernard Shaw? While his Pygmalion has been staged and filmed endless times, most famously as the musical My Fair Lady, here Shaw Read More

1/29/99
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Actors: Randy Quaid, Whoopi Goldberg, Roger Daltrey, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin

Synopsis: An American businessman rents a cottage in Ireland, only to find the cottage is also inhabited by leprechauns as well. Soon, the American finds himself embroiled in a fierce dispute between the leprechauns and their enemies, the fairies, that only he can help settle. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1999
The Mighty

Actors: Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin, Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman Philbrick's popular young-adult novel Freak the Mighty. Although burly, slow-paced eight-grader Maxwell Kane (Elden Hensen), who narrates, is learning disabled, he Read More

10/23/98
Frasier: The Impossible Dream

Synopsis: Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) has never had any reason to question his inherent masculinity. Why, then, has he been experiencing a recurring dream of an erotic nature--involving the radio station's food critic Gil Chesterton (Edward Hibbert). Blanching at the prospect that his subconscious may be Read More

1996
Father of the Bride II

Actors: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Payne Williams, George Newbern

Synopsis: Just as the original 1950 version of Father of the Bride spawned a sequel, so did the 1991 remake; like its counterpart four decades earlier, this story concerns a father who learns that his anxieties are just beginning after his daughter takes the big walk down the aisle. George Banks (Steve Martin Read More

1995
It Runs in the Family

Actors: Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Kieran Culkin, Christian Culkin, Al Mancini

Synopsis: My Summer Story is the video title for It Runs in the Family. Based on the writings of humorist/raconteur Jean Shepherd, the film was the long-awaited sequel to the 1984 "sleeper" A Christmas Story. Set in the 1940s, the story is told from the point-of-view of Ralphie Parker (Kieran Culkin), who Read More

1994
Nowhere to Run

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Joss Ackland, Ted Levine, Tiffany Taubman, Kieran Culkin

Synopsis: An escaped convict fights for his rights while hiding out from the law in this action drama. Sam Gillen (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thief who, despite his criminal past, is an essentially decent man; he ended up behind bars after taking a murder rap for his partner. Sam escapes from prison in a Read More

1993
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard

Synopsis: John Hughes and Chris Columbus repeat their best-selling formula from the first Home Alone film with this sequel. Once again Kevin McCallister's (Macaulay Culkin) family leave him behind, only now he gets on a flight to New York instead of going with his family to Miami. Kevin manages to hail a Read More

11/20/92
Father of the Bride

Actors: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Payne Williams, Kieran Culkin, George Newbern

Synopsis: Steve Martin stars in this remake of the 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic as shoe executive George Banks, whose happily married existence hits a bump when he greets his daughter Annie (Kimberly Williams), home from a semester studying in Europe. She tells her father that she is engaged to be Read More

12/20/91
Only the Lonely

Actors: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Kevin Dunn, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: Writer-director Chris Columbus mines Paddy Chaveysky's Marty for this bittersweet comedy about a lonely 38-year old Chicago cop dominated by his harridan mother. Danny Muldoon (John Candy), in spite of being well known and well liked in his neighborhood, still lives at home with his mother Rose (Maureen O'Hara Read More

5/24/91
Home Alone

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard

Synopsis: Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he realizes they've left him "home alone," he learns to fend for himself Read More

12/25/90