Biography: David Paymer |
A former theatre and psychology major at the University of Michigan, actor David Paymer's first Broadway success was in the long-running musical Grease. He tentatively launched his film career in the tiny but telling role of a cabbie in 1979's The... more
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Cast: Mel Gibson David Paymer Deborah Kara Unger
Tags: Action Thriller Crime Thriller Gangster Film Crime
Length: 90min
Seven years after seeing his original vision butchered under studio interference as well as his star's, director Brian Helgeland finally was given the chance to piece together his director's cut under the name Payback: Straight Up. Along with...
Cast: Kenneth Branagh Kathy Bates Cynthia Nixon
Length: 120min
In the tradition of Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, the made-for-cable iopic Warm Springs focuses on one of the least publicized aspects in the life of America's most-publicized (and longest-serving) president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, here...
Cast: Sam Raimi
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 99min
Evil Dead director Sam Raimi takes the helm for this "spook-a-blast" shocker about an ambitious L.A. loan officer who incurs the wrath of a malevolent gypsy by refusing to grant her an extension on her home loan. Determined to impress her boss and get...
Tags: Message Movie Comedy Drama
Length: 110min
A small-town history teacher with a decidedly different approach to public education raises the ire of a stuffy biology teacher who's looking to win the "Teacher of the Year" award in this made-for-television family-oriented comedy starring Ryan...
Cast: Peter Falk Laura San Giacomo
Tags: Comedy Drama Reunion Films
Length: 94min
A feisty octogenarian on the verge of his ninetieth birthday invites his three grown children to his upcoming birthday celebration with the explicit understanding that when the festivities end, so does his life, in a dark but light-hearted family...
Cast: Dennis Quaid Topher Grace Malcolm McDowell
Tags: Workplace Comedy Comedy of Manners Comedy Drama
Length: 110min
A middle-aged man finds a callow twentysomething usurping his professional life and worming his way into his family in this alternately funny and poignant comedy drama. Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is a middle-aged man who has spent 20 years as the head...
Cast: Sophie Marceau Rob Reiner Rip Taylor
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 96min
Rob Reiner directs Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson in Alex & Emma, a omantic comedy about an author and his secretary. Gangsters will kill Alex (Wilson) in 30 days if he doesn't pay back his gambling debts. The only way he can do that is to finish his...
Cast: Laura Dern William H. Macy
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Social Problem Film
Length: 106min
Focus is based on a little-known novel by playwright Arthur Miller, written when he was a very young man, just after WWII. Produced by media mogul Michael Bloomberg, and directed by Neal Slavin, the film takes place in New York, during the war....
Cast: Linus Roache Martin Donovan
Tags: Drama Biopic Political Drama
Length: 90min
The first biographical film produced by the FX cable channel, RFK covers the last five years in the life of Robert F. Kennedy, here played by British actor Linus Roache. The narrative begins in 1963, with the assassination of Bobby's brother,...
Tags: Comedy Drama Workplace Comedy
Length: 82min
Herman Melville's short story -Bartleby the Scrivener gets a slightly surreal update in this offbeat comedy drama. The manager (David Paymer) of the city records department in a mid-sized California community decides that his staff of three -- flirty...
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