Tony Shalhoub

Tony Shalhoub

Date of Birth: 09 Oct 1953

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 60 (Actor), 1 (Director)

Biography submitted by Dunstan-xxx

Find more information about Tony Shalhoub at The Internet Movie Database

Titles you haven't rated - Actor (60) | Director (1)

    Against the Ropes
    Meg Ryan stars as Jackie Kallen, the most successful female manager in boxing history. A smart, gutsy woman who wants to break out of a dead-end job, Kallen gets her chance when she sees Luther Shaw (Epps) in a brawl and knows he is a champion in the raw. (Paramount Pictures)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Barton Fink
    In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Big Night
    Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    A Civil Action
    Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious lawyer, is addressed by a group of families. When investigating the seemingly non-profiting case, he finds it to be a major environmental issue that has a lot of impact potential. A leather production company could be responsible for several deadly cases of leukemia, but also is the main employer for the area... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Galaxy Quest
    Nearly twenty years after their hit TV series was canceled, the five stars of "Galaxy Quest" are still in costume, making appearances at science fiction conventions for their legions of die-hard fans. They unexpectedly find themselves back in action when a group of aliens arrive at a convention and whisk Commander Taggart (Allen) and his crew into space to help them in their all-too-real war against a deadly adversary. (Dreamworks)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Gattaca
    An engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection.  (Sony)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Impostor
    A psychological thriller from the future in which one man (Sinise) faces a disorienting nightmare as he becomes a fugitive from the law, as well as friends and family, all of whom believe he is a danger to humanity. (Dimension Films)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Last Shot
    Based on the hilarious true story of the greatest motion picture never made, The Last Shot shows how everybody - even the FBI - can get caught up in the allure, glamour and glitz of Hollywood.
    Your probable score
    ?
    A Life Less Ordinary
    Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels" who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The "angels" are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Life or Something Like It
    What's the most important thing in life? Is it love or is it your career? Is it work or is it your family? Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) must ponder these questions after a street savant tells her that she will die in seven days. (20th Century Fox)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Made-Up
    What starts as a mother-daughter documentary turns into a film about beauty and aging, passion and creativity, seeing and being seen -- a coming of middle age comedy. (Sister Films)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Man Who Wasn\
    A noirish tale set in 1949, about a dissatisfied barber who hears from a customer about a speculative business venture. The barber, Ed Crane, is prompted to reflect on the direction he wishes his life to take, and on what he might do to change his current direction.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Men in Black
    Jones is K, a veteran of a government agency so secretive no one in power knows it exists; Smith is J, a former New York cop turned rookie operative. The two dress like the FBI but better, and drive a Ford that moves like the Stealth bomber. And, when not hanging out in their bachelor pad-cum-mission control, they flex muscle like the INS - albeit toward aliens with multiple, mutating heads.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Men in Black II
    For Agent J, it is another day at the office, monitoring all alien activity on Earth. One day, J receives a report of an unauthorized landing of an alien spacecraft near New York. J investigates and realizes he is going to need help and decides to bring back K.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Primary Colors
    John Travolta leads an all-star cast on a wild race to the presidency in this savagely funny comedy. (Universal Pictures)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Siege
    A political thriller, a cautionary fiction that is chillingly close to leading news stories of the day. (Fox)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Spy Kids
    Prior to their retirement nine years ago, Gregorio (Banderas) and Ingrid (Gugino) were the two greatest secret agents the world had ever known. Now, as the two are called back to duty, their adventures put them into such danger that the only two people who can rescue them (and maybe the world) are their children! Sometimes the biggest heroes are the smallest ones. (Miramax)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Tic Code
    A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both come to learn that each suffers from Tourette's Syndrome (thus the film title). The older man has developed mannerisms to cover up his own fallibilities and resents the boy and his mother's acceptance of the disease.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Thirteen Ghosts
    A state-of-the-art remake of the classic William Castle horror film about a family that inherits a spectacular old house from an eccentric uncle. There's just one problem: the house seems to have a dangerous agenda all its own. (Warner Bros.)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Quick Change
    Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Addams Family Values
    A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Honeymoon in Vegas
    On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    I.Q.
    Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Heartburn
    Rachel and Mark are both Washington journalists. They meet at a wedding and not long after they get married themselves... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Impostors
    In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stowaway on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has sworn to kill them for belittling his talents. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Cars
    This is a fast-paced comedy adventure set inside the world of cars. Fueled with plenty of humor, action, heartfelt drama and amazing new technical feats, Cars is a high octane delight for moviegoers of all ages. (Disney)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Great New Wonderful
    The Great New Wonderful is populated by people you know: New Yorkers you see on the elevator, in the supermarket, at the gym. Without a trace of sentimentality, director Danny Leiner, a Brooklyn native, and his extraordinary cast paints five portraits of life in this city a year after the attacks of 9/11. (First Independent Pictures)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Sacco and Vanzetti
    This documentary tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story. (Willow Pond Films)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Paulie
    Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    1408
    Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin (Cusack) only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project, "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms." (MGM)
    Your probable score
    ?
    That Championship Season
    Four former high school basketball champions and their coach come together annually to celebrate the year they won the Pennsylvania State Basketball Championship. But this year, instead of the usual whimsical nostalgia they usually experience, the former friends and teammates unleash all their secrets on each other so that the foundation of their lives begins to crumble. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    T for Terrorist
    T for Terrorist (2003) - Short Film
    T for Terrorist, a new and timely short film that explores one possible - and darkly comedic - ramification of typecasting Arab actors in Hollywood.The story begins with meek character actor Sayed, once again playing the "bad guy." This time in T for Terrorist, a studio production ruled over by a dictatorial young Director. Pushed past his limit for abuse and encouraged by a mysterious Man in White... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    AmericanEast
    A family man (Badreya) opens an authentic Middle Eastern restaurant with his best friend, who's Jewish. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Careless
    An offbeat comedy in the style of "Bottle Rocket" and "After Hours". Wiley Roth finds a severed human finger in his kitchen one night. Understandably freaked out, Wiley and his best friend Mitch try to figure out the mystery of the finger, in a search across Los Angeles that brings them in contact with psychics, ineffectual police, crooked taxidermists, mysterious neighbors who might be on drugs, and a nine-fingered woman named Cheryl who might, improbably, end up being the girl of his dreams. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    How Do You Know
    Feeling a bit past her prime at 27, former athlete Lisa Jorgenson finds herself in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with Lisa's current, baseball-playing beau. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Too Big to Fail
    Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Hemingway & Gellhorn
    A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Pain & Gain
    A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Valentino\
    The documentary exposes the ways in which America's foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives the U.S. media's portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. The film lays bare the truths behind taboo subjects that are conspicuously avoided, or merely treated as sound bites, by the mainstream American media. Valentino's Ghost provides a fresh inquiry which challenges the media's daily barrage of rhetoric and misinformation about our complex and vital relationship with this part of the world. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Alone in the Neon Jungle
    A by the book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Four mutant warriors fight to save their city from an evil kingpin. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Adventures of Beatle
    Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal blonde with a secret. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Wings
    Wings (1990) - TV Series
    Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett and friend Helen attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Monk
    Your probable score
    ?
    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)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Final Portrait
    The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
    Set in 1950s Manhattan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a 60-minute dramedy that centers on Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a sunny, energetic, sharp, Jewish girl who had her life mapped out for herself: go to college, find a husband, have kids, and throw the best Yom Kippur dinners in town. Soon enough, she finds herself exactly where she had hoped to be, living happily with her husband and two children in the Upper West Side. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Cars 3
    Lightning McQueen sets out to prove to a new generation of racers that he's still the best race car in the world.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Tales from Radiator Springs
    A series of shorts featuring the characters made famous in the "Cars" movies. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Breakable You
    The film follows the Wellers, a dynamic New York City family, as they come to terms with themselves and each other. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    We Are Men
    We Are Men (2013) - TV Series
    A young guy finds camaraderie living among the more experienced guys he meets in a short-term rental complex. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Rosy
    A socially awkward young man kidnaps an aspiring actress with the hope that they will fall in love. A psychosexual noir that explores power dynamics between men and women. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Men in Black III
    Agent J travels in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s, to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Searching for Bobby Fischer
    A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Rumble
    In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father's footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Linoleum
    When the host of a failing children's science show tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, a series of bizarre events occur that cause him to question his own reality.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Flamin\
    Flamin' Hot is the inspiring true story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channeled his Mexican American heritage and upbringing to turn the iconic Flamin' Hot Cheetos into a snack that disrupted the food industry and became a global pop culture phenomenon.
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Company You Keep
    Your probable score
    ?
    Mr. Monk\
    It follows Monk, a brilliant detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He returns to solve one last case involving his stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding.
    Your probable score
    ?