Joe Grifasi — Actor (20)
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Benny & Joon (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Benny & Joon
director: Jeremiah S. Chechik actor: Johnny Depp / Mary Stuart Masterson …
other title: Benny & Joon: El amor de los inocentes / Benny and Joon …
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData Melon Log
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
7.8 (13 ratings) director: David Zucker actor: Leslie Nielsen / Priscilla Presley …
other title: Una pallottola spuntata / Høj pistolføring …
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
1980s 1988 comedon comedy leslienielsen
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The Deer Hunter (1978) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
The Deer Hunter
director: Michael Cimino actor: Robert De Niro / Christopher Walken …
other title: Il cacciatore / O Caçador …
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos — not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend — and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
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Batman Forever (1995) [Movie] IMDb Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData
Batman Forever
4.8 (5 ratings) director: Joel Schumacher actor: Val Kilmer / Tommy Lee Jones …
other title: Batman Para Sempre
Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, and the Riddler, a disgruntled ex-Wayne Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents. As the caped crusader also copes with tortured memories of his parents' murder, he has a new romance, with psychologist Chase Meridian.
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13 Going on 30 (2004) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
13 Going on 30
director: Gary Winick actor: Jennifer Garner / Mark Ruffalo …
other title: 30 anni in un secondo / 13 snart 30 …
A girl who's sick of the social strictures of junior high is transformed into a grownup overnight. In this feel-good fairy tale, teenager Jenna wants a boyfriend, and when she's unable to find one, she fantasizes about being a well-adjusted adult. Suddenly, her secret desire becomes a reality, and she is transformed into a 30-year-old, but adulthood, with its own set of male-female challenges, isn't as easy as it looks.
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Matewan (1987) [Movie] NeoDB Sukkertoppen Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Matewan
director: John Sayles actor: Chris Cooper / James Earl Jones …
other title: Matewan-massakren
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.
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Moonstruck (1987) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
Moonstruck
director: Norman Jewison actor: Cher / Nicolas Cage …
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.
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Splash (1984) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Splash
director: Ron Howard actor: Tom Hanks / Daryl Hannah …
other title: Splash - Una sirena a Manhattan / Splash, a Sereia …
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) [Movie] TMDB
The Pope of Greenwich Village
director: Stuart Rosenberg actor: Eric Roberts / Mickey Rourke …
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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Auto Focus (2002) [Movie] 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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Presumed Innocent (1990) [Movie] TMDB
Presumed Innocent
director: Alan J. Pakula actor: Harrison Ford / Brian 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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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.
1980s bettemidler comedy fredward jimabrahams
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The Flamingo Kid (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb
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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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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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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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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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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Still of the Night (1982) [Movie] IMDb WikiData 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.