Mike BinderFilmography

Born:: Detroit, MI
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: One cannot deny comedian-turned-actor-turned-writer/director Mike Binder's success as a Hollywood filmmaker when measured solely in terms of output (nine directorial credits and a pay-cable series in the 17 years following his first onscreen credit). The efforts themselves, however, have...Read More

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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Actors: Robin Wright Penn, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello, Zoe Kazan, Winona Ryder

Synopsis: Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack & Rose) adapts her own novel with this comedy drama about a woman who begins a second life after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder, Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci, Maria Bello, and Keanu Reeves headline the Read More

11/27/09
Reign Over Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows

Synopsis: A chance run-in with an old college roommate becomes the catalyst for healing in writer/director Mike Binder's tale of friendship and understanding in post-9/11 New York. When the Twin Towers went down on that fateful morning in 2001, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) lost everything that he had to Read More

3/23/07
The Upside of Anger

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell

Synopsis: Two friends wonder if there might be more between them when their lives both take a left turn in this romantic comedy. Terry (Joan Allen) is a middle-aged housewife and mother of four teenaged daughters and gets the shock of her life when her husband, without a word of warning, leaves them behind Read More

3/11/05
Man About Town

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn, John Cleese, Samuel Ball, Mike Binder

Synopsis: An unscrupulous Hollywood agent seeks to balance the success of his professional status with the abysmal reality of his personal life in director Miek Binder's existential comedy drama. When it comes to playing the Hollywood game, no one does it better than Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck). Yet despite Read More

2005
Minority Report

Actors: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for "Precrime," a Read More

6/21/02
The Mind of the Married Man: Season 02

Actors: Mike Binder, Sonya Walger, Jake Weber, Taylor Nichols, Ivana Milicevic

2002
The Mind of the Married Man: Season 01

Actors: Mike Binder, Sonya Walger, Jake Weber, Taylor Nichols, Ivana Milicevic

2001
Fourplay

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Mike Binder, Colin Firth, Irène Jacob, Jack Dee, Stephen Marcus, Christopher Lawford

Synopsis: Comic and actor Mike Binder wrote, directed, and stars in this romantic comedy. Ben Greene (Binder) is an American comedy writer who moves to London when he's hired to work on a British television series called Tedford Gate. Tedford Gate stars Carly Matthews-Portland (Mariel Hemingway), a Read More

2001
The Search For John Gissing

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mike Binder, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Rickman, Sonya Walger, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: Alan Rickman and Janeane Garofalo headline writer/director Mike Binder's comedy about an American businessman who is summoned to London under the auspice of overseeing an impending business merger, only to discover that he is actually being groomed to replace his British counterpart - who Read More

2001
The Mind of the Married Man [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Advertised as a male variation on the cutting-edge HBO comedy series Sex and the City, The Mind of the Married Man was produced in 1999 (as My Dirty Little Mind), but did not make its broadcast debut until September 23, 2001 (and at that, it was unveiled one week later than its scheduled September Read More

2001
The Contender

Actors: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott, Christian Slater

Synopsis: The hard-ball gamesmanship and casual character assassination of American politics sets the stage for this thriller from writer and director Rod Lurie. When the Vice President of the United States unexpectedly dies, all eyes in Washington D.C. are on President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) as he Read More

10/13/00
The Sex Monster

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Mike Binder, Renee Humphrey, Taylor Nichols, Missy Crider

Synopsis: A man convinces his wife to participate in one of his sexual fantasies and lives to regret it in the farcical comedy The Sex Monster. Marty (Mike Binder) is a building contractor who is married to a beautiful woman named Laura (Mariel Hemingway). While reasonably happy in his marriage, Marty has Read More

1999
Blankman

Crew: Director

Actors: Damon Wayans, David Alan Grier, Robin Givens, Christopher Lawford, Lynne Thigpen, Jon Polito, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: Are you ready for a new kind of superhero -- a thirty-something virgin in long underwear? Darryl Walker (Damon Wayans) is a bright but socially inept man with a gift for inventing things but little skill for functioning in the real world. His brother Kevin (David Alan Grier) works on a low-class Read More

1994
Indian Summer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Kimberly Williams, Bill Paxton, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Mike Binder wrote and directed this reunion story in The Big Chill vein about of group of ex-campers, now in their twenties, who return to their old summer camp to get together again. Alan Arkin plays Uncle Lou, the old camp counselor and resident sage at Canadian summer camp Tamakwa. Leading a Read More

1993
Crossing the Bridge

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Josh Charles, Jason Gedrick, Stephen Baldwin, Cheryl Pollak, Rita Taggart

Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama, three recent high school graduates from Detroit must make a difficult choice when they are offered a fortune to smuggle hashish from Canada into the US. As they are quickly going nowhere in their grimy suburban town, the three buddies are sorely tempted. Each of them Read More

9/11/92
Coupe De Ville

Crew: Co-producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Annabeth Gish, Rita Taggart

Synopsis: Three rebellious bickersome brothers reunite to drive their father's title car from their Detroit homes to Florida. The auto is to be a gift to celebrate their mother's birthday party. Along the way, their adventures are punctuated by pop tunes from 1963 that include "Louie, Louie," a song that Read More

3/9/90
Full House: Misadventures in Baby-Sitting

Synopsis: In order to afford her own telephone, DJ (Candace Cameron) accepts a babysitting job. Unfortunately, her youthful charge Brian (Malachi Pearson) is an incorrigible brat--and even worse, the kid manages to get his head stuck in a staircase. Will DJ be able to extricate Brian before his highly Read More

1990