William Atherton

William Atherton

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 41 (Actor)

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    Bio-Dome
    Bud and Doyle stumble on what appears to be the opening of an ultra-modern shopping mall and duck in. Too late, they discover that they've compromised an experimental environmentally-controlled scientific community and they are sealed in for a solid year.
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    Die Hard
    New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building. (imdb)
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    The Last Samurai
    The paths of two warriors converge when the Emperor of Japan hires a Civil War veteran to train Japan's first modern army. As he encounters the Samurai traditions, the troubled American soldier finds himself at the center of a violent and epic struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his sense of honor to guide him.
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    Mad City
    A network television journalist is banished to a backwater station for bad behavior on the job. He meets a security guard who got laid off and the two form a bond of mutual need which changes the course of their lives forever. (Warner Bros.)
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    Ghostbusters
    Three unemployed parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
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    Die Hard 2
    John McClane is forced to battle mercenaries who sieze control of an airport's communications and threaten to cause plane crashes if their demands are not met. (imdb)
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    The Sugarland Express
    Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child... (imdb)
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    Real Genius
    Teenage geniuses deal with their abilities while developing a laser. (imdb)
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    The Pelican Brief
    A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. (imdb)
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    Buried Alive
    Buried Alive (1990) - TV Movie
    Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money... (imdb)
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    The Crow: Salvation
    Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of. (imdb)
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    The Day of the Locust
    Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love. (imdb)
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    Headspace
    25-year-old Alex Borden is handsome, charming, and intelligent. In fact, he may be too smart for his own good as his life is swiftly becoming a living hell. Alex's nightmare begins when he meets Harry, a mysterious artist and chess-master... (imdb)
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    Looking for Mr. Goodbar
    Theresa is a successful teacher of deaf children during the day but after a short unhappy affair starts to spend her nights cruising bars. Her craving first for sex but later also for drugs leads into increasingly demeaning and dangerous situations completely at odds with her daytime commitment to her children. (imdb)
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    The Girl Next Door
    This film deals with the fictionalized account of the 1965 true story of Sylvia Likens's brutal torture, rape and abuse in the basement of a family member's Indiana home.
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    The Hindenburg
    This film is a compendium of the facts and fiction of the events leading up to the disaster. For dramatic effect, Sabotage was chosen as the cause, rather than electricity lashing out at a couple of tons of hydrogen. (imdb)
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    Into the Sun
    When the governor of Tokyo is killed in his campaign for election, the former CIA agent Travis Hunter is assigned to find the responsible working together with the rookie FBI agent Sean... (imdb)
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    Towards Darkness
    Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him. (imdb)
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    No Mercy
    Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and Jillette's partner wind up very dead, while a stunning blonde in on the setup disappears. He heads south to settle the score and soon finds himself being hunted, with the girl in tow and the local police anything but happy. New Orleans may never be the same again. (imdb)
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    Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror
    Two travelers, one a well to do young clerk on the way to a reunion with his wife, the other a scruffy, feral bounty hunter meet at sundown on a lonely prairie and agree to swap stories to pass the time. This is a portmanteau film featuring four intriguing stories linked by the two story teller's attempts to psych each other out. (imdb)
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    Kush
    A young drug dealer Dusty, is torn between the money and getting out. When his partner Christian, is caught up in a kidnapping and murder scheme. Dusty and King come to his rescue but only after having to pay a hefty price. Christian ends up loosing everything and spending the rest of his life in exile. (imdb)
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    Ghouls
    Ghouls (2008) - TV Movie
    A college student returns with her father to his home country only to discover her family holds a dark secret that involves her. (imdb)
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    Michael Kael contre la World News Company
    International news giant WNC wants to get the U.S. president re-elected for the third term by creating fake "Crazy Guru" story, about the fictional Japanese wacko who plans to drop nuclear weapons on half the planet in days. That fictional Guru is set to make his announcement in the African town of Katango, and WNC sends their naive Paris correspondent Michael Kael there to cover the story. (imdb)
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    Class of \
    Sequel to "Summer of '42" reunites Hermie, Oscy and Benjie as they graduate from high school. Benjie departs shortly to war while Hermie and Oscy go on to college and experience fraternity hazings, cheating on exams, sex scandals and other unsavory college activities. Hermie grows apart from his childhood friend Oscy and begins a relationship with Julie that allows him to settle down into maturity. (imdb)
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    Chrome Soldiers
    Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother. (imdb)
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    Centennial
    Centennial (1978) - TV Mini-Series
    The economic and cultural growth of Colorado spanning two centuries from the mid-1700s to the late-1970s. (imdb)
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    Aces \
    Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished, but retired, gunslinger. (imdb)
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    Gone But Not Forgotten
    When an Oregon woman disappears without a trace, the only clue is a withering black rose with a note that reads "gone but not forgotten." Now, it's up to a tough female attorney to follow the evidence, find a missing private eye and unravel the mystery.
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    bgFATLdy
    A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
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    Saints and Sinners
    After many years Pooch returns to his neighborhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down. (imdb)
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    Jersey Shore Shark Attack
    Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? (imdb)
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    Broken Trust
    Broken Trust (1995) - TV Movie
    Judge Nash is highly regarded for his position and decisions in the courtroom. He's approached by a special agent from a government task force investigating corrupt judges and lawyers, and asked to participate in a sting operation. Initially it's against some people Nash has no trouble believing are corrupt, but as the scope of the sting widens to include some of his friends, he tries to get out. (imdb)
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    Formula for Death
    Who could have deliberately released a rare and deadly African plague that is now spreading uncontrollably throughout America's largest urban areas? A lone determined doctor desperately and fearlessly searches for the truth, but she soon finds herself targeted for death as well. With time running out to save human kind, Dr. Marissa Blumenthal discovers that the strange disease may have actually been unleashed by the medical establishment itself. (imdb)
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    Intrigue
    Intrigue (1988) - TV Movie
    A spy is looking for his old colleague who now works for the other side.
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    The Twilight Zone
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    Ghostheads
    A look at the intense fandom for the media franchise, Ghostbusters (1984). (imdb)
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    Lowlifes
    Troubled teens in a second chance 'bootcamp' program encounter a group of terrorists trying to take out a rural nuclear power plant. Stuck in remote area with no skills or communication to the outside world, the teens find they are the only thing that can stop a nuclear threat. (imdb)
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    Clinical
    A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history. (imdb)
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    Cleanin\
    Cast and crew of Pogromcy duchów (1984) discuss the making of the film. (imdb)
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    Burning Down the House
    A down-on-his-luck film director sets fire to his home so he can collect the insurance money and fund his new movie. But crime apparently does pay, because once the rumor mill gets wind of his plans, everyone suddenly wants a slice of his new project's pie.
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    The Citizen
    An Arab immigrant wins the American green card lottery, arriving in New York City on September 10, 2001.
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