Anthony LaPaglia

Anthony LaPaglia

Date of Birth: 31 Jan 1959

Country: Australia

Total Credits at Criticker: 67 (Actor)

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    Analyze That
    As mob boss Paul Vitti (De Niro) is nearing the end of his term in Sing Sing, his former psychotherapist Ben Sobel (Crystal) gets called in to consult on the case. (Warner Bros.)
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    Autumn in New York
    He fell in love for the first time... she fell in love forever.
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    The Bank
    When young mathematician Jim Doyle discovers a formula that accurately predicts fluctuations of stock prices, he is bamboozled by ruthless CEO Simon O'Reilly as they develop a get-rich-quick scheme that quickly turns deadly.
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    Company Man
    A satirical romp set in the early sixties, Company Man is the story of a nerdy Connecticut grammar school teacher who stumbles into becoming a legendary international spy hero in an effort to avoid his nagging wife. (Paramount Pictures)
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    The Guys
    In this powerfully moving and unexpectedly humorous film, a New York City journalist (Weaver) is called upon to help a fire captain (LaPaglia) with a series of eulogies for the men he lost at the World Trade Center. (Focus Features)
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    Happy Hour
    A literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Set in present day New York, this is the dramatic and emotional story of a gifted writer and the two people who come the understand him best - his best friend who idolizes his talent, and the woman who come to love him. (Davis Entertainment Filmworks)
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    The House of Mirth
    Lily Bart (Anderson) is a ravishing socialite at the height of her success who quickly discovers the precariousness of her position when her beauty and charm start attracting unwelcome interest and jealousy. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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    Lantana
    The life of various people in Australia are intertwined by the disappearance of a female psychiatrist who was, in turn, connected, directly or indirectly to all of them
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    The Salton Sea
    After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Fin (Peter Sarsgaard) and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette (Debra Kara Unger) from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents (Anthony Lapaglia and Doug Hutchison) and sadistic dealer Pooh Bear (Vincent D'Onfronio). (imdb)
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    Sweet and Lowdown
    Woody Allen's latest film is the fanciful biography of a legendary jazz guitarist, Emmet Ray, who clashed with lovers, gangsters, musicians and success itself in the 1930's Jazz scene. Sean Penn stars as the fictional musical genius who during the Swing Era was on his way up but could never settle down. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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    Winter Solstice
    A poignant look at the impact a woman's love and support has on a father struggling with his sons setting out to explore their independence. (Paramount Classics)
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    Trees Lounge
    Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register... (imdb)
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    He Said, She Said
    Dan and Lorie are journalists working in the same office. More often than not they have opposing view of the issue in question... (imdb)
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    The Client
    A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the district attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family. (imdb)
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    Empire Records
    The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain. (imdb)
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    So I Married an Axe Murderer
    A San Francisco poet who fears commitment has a girlfriend who he suspects may not be who she appears. (imdb)
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    Happy Feet
    A tone-deaf, tap dancing penguin proves that by being true to yourself, you can make all the difference in the world. (Warner Bros.)
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    The Architect
    An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed. (IMDB)
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    Phoenix
    All is not well at the local cop station as some of the colleagues of good at heart, superstitious cop Harry are on the take. He is forced to rip off local pimp and overall bad guy (Louie) to pay off gambling debts run up with "bookie" Chicago. Things do not go exactly to plan, however, and tensions build up between the other cops. Romance and relief from violence is provided by Leila, Harry's on and off girlfriend. (imdb)
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    One Good Cop
    When cop Artie's colleague and friend is shot in a police operation, he and his wife Rita want to adopt his three little children. But they have to realize that their income doesn't suffice for the required larger apartment. So Artie decides to take the money from the drug-dealing mobster Benjamino. (imdb)
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    Mixed Nuts
    Philip runs a crisis hotline with Catherine and Mrs Munchnik. That's the easy part, now it gets tricky... (imdb)
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    29th Street
    Frank Pesce is the luckiest man alive in spite of his bad luck. Based on a true story, a man growing up in a tough New York neighborhood has a gift for finding himself in the worst possible jams...and always getting out. He is the first New York Lottery winner. (imdb)
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    Commandments
    Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City... (imdb)
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    Looking for Alibrandi
    A teenage Australian girl deals with the traumas of everyday life. These include her difficult relationship with her single mother, the unexpected return of her long-lost father, the disapproving nuns at her strict Catholic school, the acceptance of her schoolmates,and romantic dilemmas over two very different boys. (imdb)
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    Spinning Boris
    American Republicans travel to Moscow to help Boris Yeltsin with his reelection campaign.
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    Innocent Blood
    When a vampire decides to dine on La Cosa Nostra, it shakes things up for the whole family--and a cop who's been undercover for years.
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    Whispers in the Dark
    A psychiatrist is helping a patient who has a submissive and very satisfying sexual relationship with her lover. A new man the psychiatrist is seeing turns out to be her patient's lover. When someone is murdered, the psychiatrist must decide whether the lover is a homicidal maniac or someone she loves. (imdb)
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    Black and Blue
    After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly. (imdb)
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    Betsy\
    A father anxious to throw a lavish wedding for his not so keen daughter falls foul of his depleted finances and has to enlist the help of his brother in law, who has Mob connections.
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    I\
    Dumped by the man she thought was perfect, newly-single Lucy continues her search for Mr. Right through a series of blind dates. (DVD Case)
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    Dead Heat
    Heart problems force Boston cop Pally LaMarr to retire; he's in a funk and his wife Charlotte sends him packing. At Charlotte's insistence, Pally's half-brother Ray pays Pally a visit and suggests he buy a race horse to cheer up. Ray's always playing the angles, and he's got his eye on a horse that's cheap because it's been misdiagnosed. Ray knows the horse is a champion.
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    Played
    An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score. (imdb)
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    $9.99
    A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Syndey apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.
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    Black Magic
    Black Magic (1992) - TV Movie
    A man is having dreams of his dead cousin who tells him he's been killed by a witch in Istanbul, North Carolina. He goes there and meets the woman and confronts her. He begins having spells of clumsiness as he pursues his cousin, who has been missing, and is convinced that the witch has put a curse on him. Meanwhile he's falling in love with her. (imdb)
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    Killer
    A professional assassin, having just "cleaned up" a botched "job," is pressured into another new assignment by his boss. He is beginning to find himself off-balanced and self-questioning about his chosen career, when he is thrown into complete turmoil by the unusual nature of this latest "hit." . (imdb)
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    Balibo
    War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975. (imdb)
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    Jack the Dog
    Aptly nicknamed "Jack the Dog" for his womanizing ways, married photographer Jack (Nestor Carbonell) spends much of his time trying to hide his affairs from his wife, Faith (Barbara Williams), who finally gets fed up and walks out on him. Forced to face his faults while raising his young son, Sam (Andrew J. Ferchland), alone, Jack soon learns some important life lessons in this moving indie comedy.
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    Lansky
    Lansky (1999) - TV Movie
    Famed American playwright David Mamet penned this biopic about the infamous Meyer Lansky (Richard Dreyfuss), a big-city crime boss with a razor-sharp intellect. The film delves into Lansky's youth as a Jewish immigrant, who uses his brainpower to eventually rule the organized crime world. Along with his old friend, Ben "Bugsy" Siegel (Eric Roberts), Lansky dreams up the city of Las Vegas to make sure crime will always pay.
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    Criminal Justice
    Denise Moore is robbed and her face is slashed as she is leaving a crack house. At the police station she picks Jessie Williams mug shot and ID's him at a line up. Jessie Williams says he didn't do it. From that point on, everyone is pushing him to make a deal, and plea to a lesser crime, to avoid a possible long term sentence. (imdb)
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    Past Tense
    Past Tense (1994) - TV Movie
    A former cop who is now a novelist notices an attractive young woman move in next door to him. He strikes up a conversation, one thing leads to another and he spends the night. She asks him to come back the next evening, but when he does he discovers that she has been killed. When he reports the murder, he is told that no such woman ever lived there, and when he gets back to the house there's a completely different woman staying there... (imdb)
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    All-Star Superman
    All-Star Superman (2011) - Direct-to-Video
    Fueled by hatred and jealousy, Lex Luthor masterminds an elaborate plot to kill the Man of Steel - and it works. Poisoned by solar radiation, Superman is dying. With weeks to live, he fulfills his life's dreams - especially revealing his true identity to Lois Lane - until Luthor proclaims his ultimate plan to control the world with no alien hero to stop him. Powers fading, Superman engages in a spectacular deadly battle with Luthor that could truly trigger the end of Earth's Greatest Protector. (viewclips.net)
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    Keeper of the City
    A mad killer is murdering the mafia bosses of Chicago. Jim Dela is the cop investigating the crimes and thus gets into contact with Vickie Benedetto who is the wife of Vince, a psychotic man who hates his father's mafia past. (imdb)
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    Happy Feet Two
    Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right. (imdb)
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    Frank Nitti: The Enforcer
    Al Capone may be the most famous Chicago mobster, but his successor, Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti, was just as ruthless. This biopic goes to great lengths to accurately trace Nitti's rise to the top of the Windy City's underworld, amid corruption, betrayal and violence. (TV guide)
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    Overnight
    After breaking up with her boyfriend on Valentine's Day, Jenny shares a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York with a love-damaged group of passengers - a pilot with anger management issues, some oversexed flight attendants, a hip-hop superstar trying to keep it real in coach and a handsome young professor who's been unlucky in romance. Along with a tiny dog named Kaz, these strangers buckle up for love's bumpy ride. (imdb)
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    The Ride
    The Ride (2011) - Short Film
    A lift from a strange soon turns into a nightmare for a young hitchhiker.
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    Underground
    Anthony LaPaglia and Rachel Griffiths star alongside newcomer Alex Williams, who plays a young Julian Assange in this biopic about the WikiLeaks founder's formative years as a teenage hacker. (tiff.net)
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    Mental
    A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity. (imdb)
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    The Garden of Redemption
    A Catholic priest finds his beliefs tested by his desire to defeat fascism and his love for a woman. Don Paolo is a priest during World War II. While he espouses pacifism and non-violence, his words fall on increasingly less receptive ears as the anti-fascist Partisans, led by Capt. Zito (Dan Hedaya), become a greater force in the community. When an American solider parachutes into the village to encourage the Partisans to keep up their fight ... (movies.msn.com)
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    A Good Marriage
    After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret? (imdb)
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    Crazy Kind of Love
    A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household. (imdb)
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    The Eichmann Show
    Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.
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    Without a Trace
    The cases of an FBI unit specializing in missing persons investigations. (imdb)
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    Holding the Man
    In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge burden which will affect every aspect of their lives.
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    Newcomer
    When a rookie operative's mistake costs the lives of his entire team, he's forced on the run and must piece together the truth by re-creating the events of the ill-fated mission with only the audio recording to guide him. (imdb)
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    The Assignment
    Following an ace assassin who is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman now a hitwoman sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets. (imdb)
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    Annabelle: Creation
    Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle. (imdb)
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    A Month of Sundays
    Miserable real estate agent Frank, whose business is failing and his relationship with his family is at an all-time low, meets by chance Sarah, a nice woman who reminds him of his mother. Their friendship starts healing him emotionally.
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    Bad Blood
    Bad Blood (2017) - TV Series
    A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
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    Toy Gun
    THE TOY GUN is a funny dark comedy about a character who looks to show the world the despair his ex-wife has left him in through a poorly thought out gesture, only to find himself worthy to move on thanks to the advice of his reformed ex-con neighbor and his newfound, albeit stolen, cash injection. (imdb)
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    This Isn\
    A stand-up comedian plagued by anxiety finds kinship in a juicebar manager who feels like a failure, but their young love faces serious challenges
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    The Code
    The Code (2014) - TV Series
    Two Canberra based brothers become entangled in a cover up that involves a remote outback community and key members of the Australian Government.
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    Nitram
    Events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre on Tasmania in an attempt to understand why and how the atrocity occurred. (imdb)
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    Halifax: Retribution
    Halifax: Retribution (2020) - TV Mini-Series
    A sniper is on the loose, as Jane Halifax comes back to the rescue to find the sniper before its too late. 20 years on the race for answers is more important than ever. (imdb)
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    Pearl
    After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
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    Boy Swallows Universe
    Boy Swallows Universe (2024) - TV Mini-Series
    In 1980s Brisbane, a precocious boy and his selectively mute brother embark on a suburban odyssey of love, redemption and retribution after their family is torn apart by a drug lord
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    Florida Man
    Florida Man (2023) - TV Mini-Series
    When an ex-cop returns to his home state of Florida to find a mobster's runaway girlfriend, what should've been a quick gig turns into a wild odyssey. (imdb)
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