Griffin Dunne
Date of Birth: 08 Jun 1955
Country: USA
Biography: Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955) is an American actor and film director. Dunne starred in An American Werewolf in London (1981) as Jack Goodman, Johnny Dangerously (1984) as Tommy Kelly, After Hours (1985) as Paul Hackett, Who's That Girl (1987) as Loudon Trott, My Girl (1991) as Jake Bixler, Quiz Show (1994) as an Account Guy, Game 6 (2005) as Elliott Litvak and I Like It Like That (1994) as Stephen Price...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 46 (Actor), 7 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (46) | Director (7) | Writer (1)
- The Girls on the Bus: Pilot (2024) - S1 E1
- She's with Her (2024) - S1 E2
- The Audacity of Nope (2024) - S1 E3
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This mockumentary is a roller coaster ride through the rose-tinted glasses of an aspiring actress's dreams and dramas. (First Look Pictures)
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Ever since the second grade when he first saw her in "E.T. The Extraterrestrial," Brian Herzlinger has had a crush on Drew Barrymore. Now, 20 years later he's decided to try to fulfill his lifelong dream by asking her for a date. There's one small problem: She's Drew Barrymore and he's, well, Brian Herzlinger, a broke 27-year-old aspiring filmmaker from New Jersey. But that doesn't stop Brian and his film school pals from doing everything they can think of to convince Barrymore to go out with him -- and documenting their quest along the way. (DEJ Productions)
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After his latest relationship disaster, Matt, a guy who's never been able to finish anything, decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever. For 40 straight days. (Miramax)
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Written by acclaimed writer Don DeLillo, Game 6 is an intelligent, witty, unsettling tale of one man's encounter with his demons, his passions and his infatuation with failure. (Kindred Media Group)
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Set in the 1930's, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills (imdb)
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Paul meets Marcy at a coffee shop after work, and gets her phone number. He calls her, she asks him to come over (imdb)
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Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher... (imdb)
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Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
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A spoof 1950's sci-fi movie, interspersed with various comedy sketches.
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A woman ditches her small town life for big city Chicago, where she becomes a sensation as a radio show host. (imdb)
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Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has designs on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette gets a good job uptown. Can this marriage be saved? (imdb)
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A would-be movie producer (Griffin Dunne) strives to convince a self-help guru (Dennis Hopper) to let him film his book. As the guru is only interested in money, the producer solicits the help of a shady businessman (Christopher Walken) and the guru's own secretary (Ileana Douglas), who wants to write movie scripts (a horror story about brain-scraping monsters). (imdb)
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His soon-to-be father in law has the dopey lawyer Louden to give the pretty and no less self conscious Nikki Finn a ride from the prison to the bus station to ensure that she leaves town immediately. However Nikki has different plans: after being in prison many years for a murder she didn't commit, she wants to find out who really killed her friend Johnny. Unscrupulously she uses Louden for her objectives. (imdb)
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A drama that interweaves the life of a teenager, with his old baby sitter, her estranged husband, and their daughter. (imdb)
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Laura's parents divorced when she was eight. Now, at thirteen, she lives with her mother, her stepfather, two stepbrothers, a stepsister, and a half-brother. She used to visit her father, stepmother (third stepmother) and half-sister, but now *another* divorce is in the works, so Laura visits her father and his pregnant girlfriend -- who's only six years older than she is. Who should she feel loyalty to? And is it any wonder she wants to run away from home? (imdb)
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While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years... (imdb)
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Sounds from a Town I Love (2001) - Short Film
This short played on one of the Support New York City telethons that took place shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. New Yorkers talk to each other on cell phones
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Warning: Parental Advisory (2002) - TV Movie
The story of the 1985 Senatorial hearings to place "Warning: Parental Advisory" labels on music albums with "obscene" lyrics and themes - and the rockers who tried to fight it. (imdb)
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A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane. (imdb)
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A magician/illusionist in decline and his assistant seek to re-invigorate his career.
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Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
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The Android Affair (1995) - TV Movie
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his memory erased.) She soon realizes that Teach is much more than an assignment, and is drawn to his desire for a very human life. When Karen takes Teach into the outside world, they soon discover that there is something far more mysterious and dangerous than a medical experiment planned for them. (imdb)
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Sam Manning (Fisher Stevens) wants nothing more than to make it big as a writer and finally see his novel published. But he's not getting anywhere, so to deal with the threat of complete failure, he lets himself get roped into one sexual relationship after another, even as his devoted girlfriend, Cass (Annabella Sciorra), waits in vain for him to get his act together and finally commit to her. When he does, however, it may just be too late.
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Twenty five years on, the original cast and crew look back on the John Landis classic, An American Werewolf In London. (imdb)
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The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love. (imdb)
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Hotel Room (1993) - TV Mini-Series
The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room. The hotel room undergoes minor changes through the century, but the employees of the hotel remain unchanged, never aging. (imdb)
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An ex-cop trailing the wife of New York City's mayor finds himself immersed in a larger scandal. (imdb)
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Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s. (imdb)
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The story of Texas electrician Ron Woodroof and his battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies after being diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986, and his search for alternative treatments that helped established a way in which fellow HIV-positive people could join for access to his supplies. (imdb)
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A Queens couple who specialize in robbing mafia social clubs stumble upon a score bigger than they could ever imagine, becoming targets of both the mob and the FBI in the process.
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A road movie about a dysfunctional family who embark on a Lewis and Clark re-enactment trek and discover themselves and each other in the process.
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Filming for Your Life: Making 'After Hours' (2004) - Short Film
The making of Martin Scorsese's cult film "After Hours" is discussed by the director himself, Griffin Dunne, editor Thelma Schoonmaker and producer Amy Robinson, almost 20 years later of its release. They share stories about the movie's inception, the filming process and curious behind the scenes stories about the movie. (imdb)
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When her son's persistent rash won't subside, a mother begins investigating and finds herself pulled into the battle between small town organic farmers and Clonestra, a corporation profiting from GMOs. (imdb)
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An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher. (imdb)
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I Love Dick (2016) - TV Series
A married couple's relationship is put to the test when both the husband and wife fall for the same male professor. (imdb)
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A rock musician enrolls in college after she breaks up with her boyfriend and her band falls apart. (imdb)
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The Romanoffs (2018) - TV Series
A contemporary anthology series set around the globe featuring eight separate stories about people who believe themselves to be descendants of the Russian royal family. (imdb)
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Secret Weapon (1990) - TV Movie
The story of nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli pacifist and government employee, who committed an act of treason in 1986 by informing the British press that his country is working on a nuclear bomb.
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A man falls for the physical therapist treating his wife after an accident. (imdb)
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A musician who has just completed her first soundtrack to a Hollywood feature finds her personal life getting complicated.
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The Girls on the Bus (2024) - TV Series
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Trust Me (2009) - TV Series
A look at the private and professional lives of employees at the Chicago advertising agency Rothman, Greene & Moore. (imdb)
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