Joe Grifasi — Actor (29)
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Taking the Heat (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Taking the Heat
director: Tom Mankiewicz actor: Tony Goldwyn / Lynn Whitfield …
other title: Mörderische Hitze
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but before they get there they have to deal with several attacks from killers.
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Perfect Witness (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Perfect Witness
director: Robert Mandel actor: Brian Dennehy / Aidan Quinn …
other title: Testimone d'accusa / Testimonio fatal …
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.
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The Other Me (2000) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Other Me
director: Manny Coto actor: Andrew Lawrence / Mark L. Taylor …
other title: Vi presento l'altro me / Eu e o Meu Clone …
When Will Browning is threatened with military summer school if he doesn't get better grades, he decides to do a science project that will definitely get an A. So he buys some Ocean Pups, unhatched sea creatures that will look spectacular, but he hasn't bargained for the cloning agent that the unscrupulous manufacturers have put in the kit. Next thing he knows there's another him.
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Two Bits (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Two Bits
director: James Foley actor: Jerry Barone / Al Pacino …
other title: Un giorno da ricordare / 25 Cents …
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to have to buy a ticket to the plush new movie theater. But grandpa's not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward: he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
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Still of the Night (1982) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Still of the Night
director: Robert Benton actor: Roy Scheider / Meryl Streep …
other title: Una lama nel buio / In der Stille der Nacht …
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.
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The Elephant Man (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Elephant Man
director: Jack Hofsiss actor: Philip Anglim / Kevin Conway …
other title: Der Elefantenmensch / Der Elefantenmann
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
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Ironweed (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ironweed
director: Héctor Babenco actor: Jack Nicholson / Meryl Streep …
other title: Jernurt / Estranhos na Mesma Cidade …
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Heavy (1995) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Heavy
director: James Mangold actor: Pruitt Taylor Vince / Shelley Winters …
other title: Dolly's Restaurant / Liebeshunger
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college dropout, shows up as a new waitress and steals Victor's heart. But Victor is too shy to do anything about it, and too self-consciously overweight to dream of winning Callie away.
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Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed (2006) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed
director: Paul Miller actor: 刘易斯·布莱克 / Joe Grifasi
Lewis Black stars in his second HBO solo special, an all-new hour of frenetic, take-no-prisoners stand-up comedy, taped before a live audience at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC. Lewis Black: Red, White & Screwed features Black's opinions and insights into such issues as the State of the Union, abortion, frozen embryos, defecation habits, fossils, bad language, FEMA and, of course, Dick Cheney's aim.
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The Flamingo Kid (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Flamingo Kid
director: Garry Marshall actor: Matt Dillon / Héctor Elizondo …
other title: Flamingo Kid / Le Kid de la plage …
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.
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Big Business (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Big Business
director: Jim Abrahams actor: Bette Midler / Lily Tomlin …
other title: Affari d'oro / Alle disse kvinder …
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
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Presumed Innocent (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Presumed Innocent
director: Alan J. Pakula actor: Harrison Ford / Brian Manion Dennehy …
other title: Presunto innocente / Måske Uskyldig …
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
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Auto Focus (2002) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Auto Focus
director: Paul Schrader actor: Greg Kinnear / Willem Dafoe …
other title: Desenfocado
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Pope of Greenwich Village
director: Stuart Rosenberg actor: Eric Roberts / Anna Thomson …
other title: Il papa di Greenwich Village / Nos Calcanhares da Máfia …
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.
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Moonstruck (1987) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge
Moonstruck
7.7 (6 ratings) director: Norman Jewison actor: Ann McDonough / Cher …
other title: Stregata dalla luna / Lunefulde måne …
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.