Michael McKeanFilmography

imps*

Synopsis: Produced in the 1980s but held from release until the dawn of the new millennium, imps* (*The Immoral Minority Picture Show) is a episodic, absurdist comedy spoof in the tradition of The Kentucky Fried Movie and The Boob Tube. Prepare for an unrelenting celebration of sheer stupidity as you get a Read More

The Grand

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Dennis Farina, Richard Kind

Synopsis: Incident at Loch Ness director Zak Penn takes the helm for this mockumentary that finds film and television star Woody Harrelson entering the Grand Championship of Poker in hopes of saving his late grandfather's popular hotel casino from a scheming real estate developer. As the wrecking ball Read More

Joshua

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston, Dallas Roberts, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga star in director George Ratliff's uncomfortable psychological thriller Joshua, as Brad and Abby Cairn, an affluent young stockbroker and his wife, raising children in New York City. Their firstborn, the nine-year-old Joshua (Jacob Kogan) is a frighteningly intelligent Read More

Adventures of Power

Actors: Ari Gold, Michael McKean, Jane Lynch, Shoshannah Stern, Adrian Grenier

Synopsis: A twenty-something misfit dedicates his life to giving the drummer some, even when the drums are only imaginary, in this comedy written and directed by comic Ari Gold. Power (Gold) grew up in a small mining town in New Mexico, where his father (Michael McKean) always imagined his son would one day Read More

For Your Consideration

Actors: Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Mockumentary mastermind Christopher Guest turns his satirical eye away from dog shows, small-town theater, and folk music to offer a hilarious take on Hollywood award season in this comedy focusing on trio of actors whose lives are turned upside down when they discover that their performances in Read More

The Year Without a Santa Claus

Actors: John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Ethan Suplee, Eddie Griffin, Carol Kane

Synopsis: Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.'s 1974 animated classic comes to vivid life for a whole new generation of viewers in this live action holiday adventure starring John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Eddie Griffin, Ethan Suplee, and Carol Kane. When a depressed Santa Claus (Goodman) announces plans to take Read More

The Producers

Actors: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach

Synopsis: After transforming his first motion picture into a smash Broadway musical, Mel Brooks brings the story of two would-be theatrical moguls turned con men back to the screen in this musical comedy. Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) was once one of Broadway's most successful producers, but a string of Read More

The Aristocrats

Synopsis: "A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians for decades. An intentionally "bad" joke, the laughs in The Aristocrats aren't in the punch-line (one of the only elements that's the same every time), but in the set-up Read More

Hopeless Pictures [Animated TV Series]

Arnie the Doughnut

Nature: Condition Black

Synopsis: As a massive storm crept off the coast of Japan and began ominously moving eastward towards Hawaii's North Shore, surfers marveled at the prospect of taking on monstrous waves despite the Coast Guard's announcement of "Condition Black" - an emergency contingent that intended to deny all access to Read More

Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)

Actors: They Might Be Giants, Frank Black, Dave Eggers, Joe Franklin, Janeane Garofalo

Synopsis: John Flansburgh and John Linnell are a pair of musicians who met when they were fellow junior-high misfits in the town of Lincoln, MA. Sharing a fondness for off-center pop music and absurdist humor, the pair decided to form a band, and later moved to Brooklyn, NY, in search of their big break. Read More

A Mighty Wind

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins

Synopsis: The writing and directing team who created Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to Read More

The Guru

Actors: Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Michael McKean, Christine Baranski

Synopsis: A visitor from the mysterious East arrives in New York -- not to offer the wisdom of the ages, but to make it big as a dancer in this "fish-out-of-water" comedy. Ramu Chandra Gupta (Jimi Mistry) grew up in India on a steady diet of movie musicals, particularly local Bollywood spectaculars and Read More

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey

Synopsis: Antonio Banderas plays the title role in this cable-TV reenactment of a little-known chapter in the life of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. The year is 1914: With Villa's war of rebellion against the Huerta forces going badly, he hits upon a brilliant method to finance his crusade. Actually Read More

Auto Focus

Actors: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: The life and sordid, untimely death of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane are explored by director Paul Schrader in this biopic, which marks one of the few times the filmmaker has not scripted his own film. Auto Focus chronologically traces the meteoric rise of Crane's show business career, beginning Read More

Never Again

Actors: Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Michael McKean, Caroline Aaron, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: Two singles in their early fifties who are convinced love has passed them by find each other -- and then try to figure out what to do next -- in this romantic comedy. Grace Minor (Jill Clayburgh) is a social worker whose personal life has hit the skids. Prompted by her friends Natasha (Sandy Duncan Read More

Teddy Bears' Picnic

Synopsis: Actor and comedian Harry Shearer makes his directorial debut with this mock documentary about the slightly sordid pastimes of some of America's wealthiest and most powerful men. Zambesi Glen is a private resort in Northern California whose highly exclusive membership rolls includes high-echelon Read More

She Gets What She Wants

Actors: Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor, Trent Ford, Michael McKean, Julie White

Synopsis: Starla Grady (Jane McGregor), the most popular girl at Splendona High School in Splendona, TX, is on top of the world. That is, at least, until foreign-exchange student Genevieve LePlouff (Piper Perabo) moves in with Starla's family. Starla's parents had hoped that Genevieve's tutoring would help Read More

Family Guy: Road to Europe

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the "Road to Rhode Island" episode, Peter (voice of Seth MacFarlane) sees a commercial for "Kiss-Stock" while watching "Kiss Forum" on Rhode Island Public Access. He decides that since he and Lois (voice of Alex Borstein) have always been huge fans of the group, they'll go to Read More

100 Mile Rule

Actors: Jake Weber, Maria Bello, David Thornton, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Following in the vein of (Roger Dodger and In the Company of Men), director Brent Huff presents a crash course on the relationship between sexual and corporate power plays in The 100 Mile Rule. The infamous rule states that one is well within his rights to sexually indulge himself with someone Read More

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II

Synopsis: This direct-to-video sequel to Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame finds Quasi (voiced once again by Tom Hulce) falling in love with a magician's assistant while attempting to foil that same magician's plan to steal his bells. Previous cast members return (Kevin Kline, Demi Moore, Jason Read More

My First Mister

Actors: Albert Brooks, Leelee Sobieski, Desmond Harrington, Carol Kane, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: A first feature from acclaimed actress Christine Lahti (who won an Academy Award for her short film Lieberman in Love in 1995), My First Mister explores the delicate relationship between two unlikely individuals who bring each other out of their protective shells. Jennifer (Leelee Sobieski), the Read More

On Edge

Actors: Jason Alexander, John Glover, Scott Hamilton, Chris Hogan, A.J. Langer

Synopsis: The world of competitive figure skating takes a pratfall in this satiric comedy. Professor Robinson (Chris Hogan) is a documentary filmmaker whose latest project presents an in-depth look at three figure skaters hoping to someday rise from the lowest rungs of amateur competition into the ranks of Read More

Primetime Glick [TV Series]

Actors: Martin Short, Michael McKean

Little Nicky

Actors: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.

Synopsis: The youngest child of the family often has the most problems -- so why should things be different for the Prince of Darkness and his offspring? Satan (Harvey Keitel) is considering retirement, and is pondering which of his sons should take over the family business -- ambitious Adrian (Rhys Ifans) Read More

Best in Show

Actors: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, Michael Hitchcock, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard

Synopsis: After parodying the idiosyncrasies of community theater devotees in the mock documentary Waiting for Guffman, actor/director Christopher Guest returns with another semi-improvised comedy that casts a satirical gaze on the world of championship dog breeding and training. A television crew is on Read More

Beautiful

Actors: Minnie Driver, Joey Lauren Adams, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Kathleen Turner, Leslie Stefanson

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field makes her debut as a director of a theatrical feature with this gently satiric comedy. Mona Hibbard (Minnie Driver) is a woman from a small town in Illinois who never enjoyed much of a rapport with her parents. Looking for approval and validation, Mona Read More

Law & Order: Mega

Synopsis: Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole, husband and wife in real life, guest star as a couple of high-rolling and none-too-honest monetary advisers. When six people are killed in a helicopter bombing, the detectives follow a lead provided by the wife of one of the victims. The D.A.'s office Read More

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Actors: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor, Barry Watson, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: After the success of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and television's Dawson's Creek, screenwriter Kevin Williamson made his directorial debut with this screwball thriller in which an honor roll student and two friends kidnap their witchy teacher. Although her single mom (Lesley Ann Read More

True Crime

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton, James Woods

Synopsis: Investigative reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has just relocated to the west coast after getting fired from the New York Times. Thanks to his old friend, Alan Mann (James Woods), the editor-in-chief of The Oakland Tribune, Everett still has a job, but that's hardly the end of his Read More

Boy Meets World: State of the Unions

Synopsis: Real-life husband and wife Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole appear as Topanga's parents Jedediah and Rhianna (roles played in subsequent episodes by Mark Harelik and Marcia Cross). Arriving in town for the wedding of Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel), Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence put a Read More

Kill the Man

Actors: Luke Wilson, Joshua Malina, Paula Devicq, Phil LaMarr, Phillip Rhys

Synopsis: Premiering in the Midnight Movie section of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, Kill the Man poses the question: "What would you do if you won $100,000 during a half-time basketball free-throw contest?" Stanley Luke Wilson and Bob Josh Malina decide to open a small copy center. The problem is that a Read More

Short 3: Authority

Synopsis: The third volume in this ongoing series of videos collecting outstanding short films includes notable featurettes both old and new. Titles in this volume include: Alain Resnais's classic Night and Fog, a subtle yet harrowing look at the holocaust. Flying Over Mother follows a Russian cosmonaut as Read More

Small Soldiers

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

The Closer

Actors: Tom Selleck, Ed Asner, Penelope Ann Miller, David Krumholtz, Hedy Burress

Synopsis: This TV sitcom series centers around Denver advertising man Jack McLaren (Tom Selleck), such a powerhouse that he's nicknamed "The Legend." In the opening episode, his agency's biggest client is the U.S. Army, but after Jack beats the President of the United States on the golf course, he's out of Read More

With Friends Like These...

Actors: Adam Arkin, Robert Costanzo, Beverly D'Angelo, Elle MacPherson, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Life among insecure, middle-aged character actors, former New Yorkers in L.A., is the main plot focus of this Philip Frank Messina comedy about four friends who want the same role in the next Martin Scorsese gangster flick. Balding Johnny DiMartino (Robert Costanzo) is so excited by the news of a Read More

Final Justice

Actors: Michael McKean, Annette O'Toole

Synopsis: Enraged when a jury acquits the obviously guilty man who murdered her brother, a young woman abducts the attorney responsible for his freedom. Made especially for the Lifetime cable network, this drama follows what happens when the woman herself is caught and sent to trial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Murphy Brown: Second Time Around

Synopsis: After Murphy (Candice Bergen) generously arranges a reunion between her cancer support-group friend Lisa (Tracy Nelson) and Lisa's high school crush Wally (Eric Allan Kramer), the "FYI" gang decides to do the same for our heroine. It seems that Murphy once carried a torch for Dennis Page (Michael Read More

Archibald The Rainbow Painter

Actors: Dorian Harewood, Michael McKean, Patti D'Arbanville, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Amie Carey

Synopsis: The husband-and-wife team of Laura Landau and Les Landau made this drama about Vietnam vets in LA. Vietnam vet and house painter Archibald Wright (Dorian Harewood) can't commit to his waitress girlfriend Diana (Vanessa Bell Calloway). Hired by Elaine (Patti D'Arbanville) to work on a Beverly Hills Read More

The Sunshine Boys

Actors: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Neil Simon adapted this 1997 comedy from his 1972 play, first filmed in 1975 with Walter Matthau and George Burns as two feuding veteran vaudevillians reuniting to do a television special. For this new version, Simon updated the period and characters into a tale of two comedians (Woody Allen, Peter Falk Read More

Casper: A Spirited Beginning

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Brendon Ryan Barrett, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Billed as a prequel to the 1995 family film Casper, which in turn is based on an enduring Harvey cartoon character "Casper the Friendly Ghost," this direct-to-video entry is aimed at younger kids (though some of the scenes may be inappropriate for really young children). The story begins as Read More

Still Breathing

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Joanna Going

Synopsis: This romantic fantasy from writer, director, and producer James F. Robinson, stars Brendan Fraser as Fletcher McBracken, a starry-eyed San Antonio puppeteer who, like his father and grandfather before him, has a mystical vision of the woman he's fated to marry. Believing that she'll be found in Read More

Nothing to Lose

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston

Synopsis: Two men with nothing in common become unlikely companions in this comedy. Advertising executive Nick Beame (Tim Robbins) is not having a good day when he comes home from work to discover that his wife Ann (Kelly Preston) is having an affair with another man -- who, adding insult to injury, happens Read More

Jack

Actors: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Brian Kerwin, Fran Drescher

Synopsis: In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of school for years, the neighborhood children Read More

Edie & Pen

Actors: Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly, Scott Glenn, Beverly D'Angelo, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her. Edie and Pen meet while leaving Read More

That Darn Cat

Actors: Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, Dean Jones, George Dzundza, Dyan Cannon, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: The original Disney feature film, That Darn Cat, was a feel-good hit in 1965, thanks largely to stars such as Hayley Mills, Roddy McDowall, and William Demarest. This 1996 remake also closely follows the novel Undercover Cat by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon and features Christina Ricci in the Hayley Mills Read More

Waiting for Guffman

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Bob Balaban, Parker Posey

Synopsis: The city of Blaine, Missouri is celebrating its sesquicentennial, and what better reason could there be to put on a show? Corky St. Claire (Christopher Guest), current leader of Blaine's community theater group and creator of a stage musical version of Backdraft that led to the unfortunate Read More

Dream On: Season 06

Actors: Brian Benben, Wendie Malick, Chris Demetral, Dorien Wilson, Michael McKean

Friends: The One with the List

Synopsis: Using Chandler's (Matthew Perry) new computer, Ross (David Schwimmer) draws up a list of plusses and minuses to decide between Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Julie (Lauren Tom). Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Chandler try to help compile the list, and guess what happens next. Elsewhere, Monica (Courteney Cox Read More

No Strings Attached

Actors: Vincent Spano, Cheryl Pollak

Synopsis: A reporter discovers both his writing and his sexual appetites can have deadly consequences in the thriller No Strings Attached. Vincent Spano plays Mark Demetrius, a journalist who is pressuring his editor, Elliot (Michael McKean), to run an investigative piece he's written on a psychiatrist with Read More

The Brady Bunch Movie

Actors: Christine Taylor, Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Michael McKean, Jean Smart, Henriette Mantel

Synopsis: The Brady Bunch Movie pays tribute to the 1970s TV show while poking gentle fun at it. The Brady family, led by father Mike (Gary Cole), still live in their suburban, split-level home and are still throwbacks to the era that spawned them. Eternally perky wife Carol (Shelley Long) is the perfect Read More

The Pompatus of Love

Actors: Jon Cryer, Tim Guinee, Adrian Pasdar, Mia Sara, Kristin Scott Thomas

Synopsis: This lively and complicated romantic comedy-drama centers on four fellows. Runyon is a poet carrying a torch for Kathryn; he flies to LA to talk about scripting a movie and is accompanied by the lovely Tarzaan. Gadabout Josh is seen having a fling with a Chinese hat-check girl and pursuing Read More

Clean Slate

Actors: Dana Carvey, Valeria Golino, James Earl Jones, Kevin Pollak, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Dana Carvey plays a private detective who forgets everything when he goes to sleep at night, waking up each morning with a "clean slate," in this hit-and-miss comedy that plays like a companion piece to the much funnier Groundhog Day. Pogue (Carvey) is afflicted with his unique form of amnesia Read More

Dream On: Season 05

Actors: Brian Benben, Wendie Malick, Chris Demetral, Dorien Wilson, Michael McKean

Saturday Night Live: Season 20

Actors: Morwenna Banks, Ellen Cleghorne, Chris Elliott, Chris Farley, Janeane Garofalo, Norm MacDonald, Michael McKean, Mark McKinney, Tim Meadows, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, David Spade

Radioland Murders

Actors: Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty, George Burns, Scott Michael Campbell

Synopsis: A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer George Lucas. In 1939, Penny Henderson (Mary Stuart Masterson) is the harried general secretary and de facto manager of a new fourth radio network, WBN. On the night that the Read More

Across the Moon

Actors: Elizabeth Peña, Christina Applegate, Tony Dean Fields, Peter Berg, Michael Aniel Mundra

Synopsis: Elizabeth Pena and Christina Applegate play Carmen and Kathy, two women from Los Angeles with practically nothing in common. Carmen is a working-class Latina and single mother from the East Side barrio, while Kathy comes from a wealthy family in Beverly Hills. However, both of their boyfriends Read More

Airheads

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Chris Farley

Synopsis: Airheads is a variation on Dog Day Afternoon, as well as a comic look at the trials and tribulations of both the music business and Generation X. A hapless rock trio consisting of Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler) hits a brick wall with their attempts to get their Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 19

Actors: Ellen Cleghorne, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman, Melanie Hutsell, Michael McKean, Tim Meadows, Mike Myers, Kevin Nealon, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Julia Sweeney

Coneheads

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: "The Coneheads" were a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to feature-length proportions with this film. The story concerns Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin), who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth. Read More

Dream On: Season 04

Actors: Brian Benben, Wendie Malick, Chris Demetral, Dorien Wilson, Michael McKean

Man Trouble

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Paul Mazursky, Harry Dean Stanton, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Actor Jack Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman, and director Bob Rafelson re-team 22 years after their classic Five Easy Pieces, for this romantic comedy. Nicholson plays Harry Bliss, a small potatoes security expert unhappily married to a Japanese woman (he sarcastically calls her Iwo Jima during Read More

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Actors: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: Chevy Chase stars, though not always visibly, as Nick Halloway, a low-level businessman with an acerbic approach to life and work, whose humdrum existence utterly bores him. Nick gets an unexpected jolt of excitement when, nursing a hangover, he's the only one not to evacuate an office building Read More

The Return of Spinal Tap

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, June Chadwick, Bob Geldof

Synopsis: The mock heavy-metal band Spinal Tap (actually comedians Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer) return to duty in this made-for-TV sequel to Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, filmed to promote the group's album Break Like the Wind. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Dream On: Season 03

Actors: Brian Benben, Wendie Malick, Chris Demetral, Dorien Wilson, Michael McKean

True Identity

Actors: Lenny Henry, Frank Langella, Charles Lane, J.T. Walsh, Anne-Marie Johnson

Synopsis: Charles Lane directed Andy Breckman's script, based on an old "Saturday Night Live" sketch of Breckman's that featured Eddie Murphy. Comic Lenny Henry takes Murphy's place in True Identity as a black man forced to don white face in order to save his life. Henry plays Miles Pope, an agreeable Read More

Book of Love

Actors: Chris Young, Keith Coogan, Josie Bissett, Beau Dremann, Aeryk Egan, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Jill Jaress

Synopsis: A teenager in the '50s moves to a new neighborhood and has to deal with all the problems that come with it in this lighthearted feature--complete with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Dream On: Season 02

Actors: Brian Benben, Wendie Malick, Chris Demetral, Dorien Wilson, Michael McKean

Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Davy Crockett

Synopsis: His unmistakable coonskin cap has served as a symbol of pioneer life for generations of adventurous youngsters, and now the story of frontiersman Davy Crockett comes to life as never before in this installment of the acclaimed children's series Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends. No one Read More

Murder in High Places

Synopsis: Murder in High Places is a made-for-TV whodunit set at a Colorado ski resort ("High Places." Get It?). Adam Baldwin, an ex-football pro turned cop, is the investigating officer in a homicide case. He is aided and abetted by Ted Levine, an alcoholic ex-newsman (what price Hunter Thompson?) who is Read More

Megaville

Actors: Billy Zane, J.C. Quinn, Grace Zabriskie, Kristen Cloke, Daniel J. Travanti

Synopsis: In a futuristic world, the U.S. is ruled by a repressive government that bans most forms of media. As part of the enforcement, a cop (Billy Zane) is sent to the rebel state of Megaville on an undercover mission to infiltrate an unlawful media organization. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Flashback

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Paul Dooley, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: A yuppie and a hippie are the offbeat pairing of this character comedy in the tradition of earlier mismatched buddy films such as Midnight Run (1988). Kiefer Sutherland is uptight, 26-year-old FBI agent John Buckner, who's been assigned to escort an aging counterculture radical named Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Return of Preston Giles

Synopsis: For the first time in Murder She Wrote history, a murderer whom Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) had turned over to the police in a previous episode makes a comeback appearance. The man in question is Jessica's first publisher (and erstwhile sweetheart!) Preston Giles (Arthur Hill), who had been Read More

Dream On: Season 01

Actors: Brian Benben, Wendie Malick, Chris Demetral, Jeffrey Joseph, Michael McKean

Hider in the House

Actors: Gary Busey, Mimi Rogers, Michael McKean, Kurt Christopher Kinder, Candy Hutson, Elizabeth Ruscio

Synopsis: Hider in the House is a well-made and produced but ultimately unsatisfying and formulaic slasher thriller. Tom (Gary Busey) was an abused child who learned to avoid the abuse by hiding under sinks, in closets or anywhere he could be out of sight. After spending 10 years in a mental institution for Read More

The Big Picture

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Another "get even with Hollywood" satire in the tradition of SOB and Movers and Shakers, The Big Picture is an elongated inside joke complete with un-billed celebrity cameos. In this first feature-film directorial effort by actor/writer Christopher Guest, Kevin Bacon plays a "boy wonder" director Read More

Earth Girls Are Easy

Actors: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans

Synopsis: In this madcap comedy, Geena Davis plays Valerie, a manicurist living in the valley with her cold fiancé, Dr. Ted Gallagher (Charles Rocket). At the Curl Up and Dye beauty salon where she works, Valerie enlists the help of her boss, Candy Pink (Julie Brown), for some style advice to try and win Read More

Short Circuit 2

Actors: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Tim Blaney

Synopsis: Fisher Stevens reprises his role of Ben Jahrvi, the co-inventor of the cute robot Number Five, in this sequel to Short Circuit. Since the last film, Ben has moved to the city, where he lives in a truck and sells toy Number Fives as a street vendor. Ben plies his trade until one day luck strikes in Read More

Portrait of a White Marriage

Synopsis: Portrait of a White Marriage is an outgrowth of Martin Mull's wickedly satirical The History of White People in America, with a bit of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman tossed in. Mull plays a self-involved TV talk host who journeys to Hawkins Falls, Ohio, to reactivate his flagging career. While Read More

A Father's Homecoming

Actors: Nana Visitor

Synopsis: Comic actor Michael McKean delivers a powerful dramatic performance in Father's Homecoming. Long separated from his teenaged son (Jonathan Ward) and daughter (Marcianne Warman), Michael (McKean) comes into contact with them in a most unexpected fashion. He is appointed headmaster of the exclusive Read More

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Actors: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, William Windom, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon

Synopsis: Were it not for its profanity-laden opening scenes, John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles might have been suitable family entertainment: certainly it's heaps less violent and mean-spirited than Hughes' Home Alone. En route to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family, easily annoyed Read More

Light of Day

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett, Michael McKean, Thomas G. Waites

Synopsis: A brother and sister grapple with family and lifestyle issues in this rock-n-roll drama. Real-life rocker Joan Jett stars as Patti Resnick, an unwed mother who sings and plays guitar in a Cleveland bar band with her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Estranged from her parents and struggling to make Read More

Double Agent

Actors: Lloyd Bochner, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Double Agent stars Michael McKean in a dual role as the Starbinder twins. One twin is a cool, nerveless secret agent; the other (the one with glasses) is a mild-mannered veterinarian and family man. It must needs be that the spy twin is incapacitated, forcing the veterinarian twin to take his Read More

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Jonathan Pryce, James Belushi, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Penny Marshall in her feature film directing debut, four screenwriters, and a ebullient Whoopi Goldberg join forces to make Jumpin' Jack Flash, a modern espionage comedy. Goldberg plays Terry Doolittle, a computer operator in a large New York City bank who picks up a cry of help on her computer. Read More

Classified Love

Synopsis: To spice up their tepid social lives three ad execs from Manhattan place ads in the personals column of a local magazine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Clue

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael McKean

Synopsis: In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Read More

History of White People in America, Vol. 2

Synopsis: A sequel to Martin Mull's spoof about the hardships of white life in middle America. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

D.A.R.Y.L.

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Barret Oliver stars as robot boy Daryl (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform). The film begins with an intense chase through hairpin mountain roads as a helicopter chases after a racing automobile and the driver of the car shoves a young boy out of the door. The child is rescued and is adopted by Read More

Saturday Night Live: Michael McKean

Actors: Michael McKean, Chaka Khan

Synopsis: This 1984 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Michael McKean and features musical guests Chaka Khan. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

This Is Spinal Tap

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Tony Hendra, R.J. Parnell

Synopsis: Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Season 08

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Eddie Mekka, Michael McKean, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Laverne & Shirley was Laverne & Shirley in name only as the series entered its eighth and final season. For a variety of reasons, chief among them her feelings that she was being overshadowed by co-star Penny Marshall (Laverne) and that the producers were insensitive to the work limitations Read More

Laverne & Shirley: The Playboy Show

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hoping to be selected as a Playboy Bunny, Rhonda (Leslie Easterbrook) sends Laverne out to pick up an application. Not surprisingly, Laverne ends up trying to earn her own set of bunny ears, competing against her new friend Cathy (played by none other than Carrie Fisher). During the final Read More

Young Doctors in Love

Actors: Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Macnee, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their blunders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Season 07

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Here's the status quo as Laverne & Shirley enters its seventh season. Ex-Milwaukeeans Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) are still living in Burbank, CA, still working at Bardwell's Department Store, and still trying to break into the movies. The girls' zany pals Lenny (Michael McKean Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Season 06

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: To counteract a precipitous drop in its ratings during its previous season, Laverne & Shirley launched season six by shifting the series' locale from Milwaukee, WI, to Burbank, CA. Fired from their jobs when Shotz Brewery decides to switch to automation, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams Read More

Likely Stories

Laverne & Shirley: Season 05

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Season five of Laverne & Shirley begins with the conclusion of a two-part story inaugurated on its "sister" series Happy Days: "Shotgun Wedding, Part 2," wherein big-hearted Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) become engaged to hapless teenagers Richie (Ron Howard) and Potsie (Anson Williams Read More

Used Cars

Actors: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Frank McRae, Gerritt Graham, Deborah Harmon, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Used Cars is one of Robert Zemeckis' pre-Roger Rabbit and pre-Forrest Gump efforts starring Kurt Russell is a devious car salesman who goes to work for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Jack Warden. Warden's principal rival is his more prosperous twin brother, also played by Read More

1941

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Nancy Allen

Synopsis: It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that comprise the "plot" of this strange period Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Season 04

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Eddie Mekka, Michael McKean, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Season four of Laverne & Shirley found the series' time frame progressing from the late '50s to the early '60s. The season opener is the two-part "Festival," wherein Laverne (Penny Marshall), Shirley (Cindy Williams), and the other series regulars leave their familiar Milwaukee environs for a trip Read More

More Than Friends

Actors: Penny Marshall, Rob Reiner, Phillip Richard Allen

Synopsis: This made-for-TV ancestor to When Harry Met Sally stars the then-married Rob Reiner and Penny Marshall in what was essentially a replay of their own courtship. Covering a timespan from 1958 to 1971, the teleplay (written by Reiner and his frequent collaborator Phil Mishkin) asks the musical Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Season 03

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: When Laverne & Shirley signed on in January of 1976, America's top-rated program was Happy Days -- of which Laverne & Shirley was, of course, a spin-off. By the time the last-named series entered its third season, it had climbed to the coveted number one slot, while Happy Days had retreated to Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Season 02

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Ending its first season as America's second most popular TV series (its "inspiration," Happy Days, was the first), Laverne & Shirley held fast to the second-place slot throughout season two. Still set in the late '50s, the series continues to star Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as Milwaukee Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Hi, Neighbor Book 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Surprise! Lenny (Michael McKean) and Squiggy (David L. Lander) have managed to persuade a couple of girls to go on a date. No surprise! Lenny and Squiggy are stood up. On condition that no one ever find out, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) agree to accompany the boys to a Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Season 01

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Exploiting the overwhelmingly positive audience response to the 1975 Happy Days episode in which Richie (Ron Howard) and Potsie (Anson Williams) found themselves on a riotous date with brash but lovable "older women" Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams), executive Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Hi, Neighbor

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) despair when the troublesome Lenny (Michael McKean) and Squiggy (David L. Lander) move into the apartment just above their own. Things get worse for the girls when, after a quarrel with Squiggy, Lenny moves in with them. His efforts to Read More

Daniel and the Towers

Synopsis: This drama is from the Wonderworks series and centers upon the mischievous Daniel and his pals who have great fun taunting the artist Sam Rodia as he endeavors to construct the famous glass towers in Watts, the notorious Los Angeles ghetto. One day young Daniel accidentally breaks a shop window Read More