Michael Murphy
Actor
Films to Rent
- What's Up Doc? (1972)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn…
- Creditable homage to the screwball farces of Hawks and Sturges, with Barbara Streisand as the wildcard in the life of musicologist Ryan O’Neal.…
- Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The (1974)
- Dir. John Korty
Feat. Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, Michael Murphy
- Notable classic tele–drama based on the novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines, set in the early 1960's, where a woman born into slavery in…
- An Unmarried Woman (1978)
- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy…
- Jill Clayburgh endeared herself to a generation of women with this well–loved character study of a divorced New Yorker navigating the single…
- Dead Kids (Strange Behaviour) (1981)
- Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher
- Minor cult item concerning a series of nasty murders in a small town, which may be connected to a deranged scientist and his psychology experiments.…
- Year of Living Dangerously, The (1983)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt…
- Multi–layered, vivid yarn posits Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver as foreign officials in 1965 Indonesia at the time of the communist coup.…
- Cloak and Dagger (1984)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy
- A boy with a reputation for "crying wolf" is convinced he's just witnessed an espionage plot by Russian spies in America, only no one believes his…
- Mesmerized (1985)
- Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy…
- Jodie Foster plays a young woman in colonial NZ who flees an orphanage but finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to a much older business man…
- Shocker (1990)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Michael Murphy, Peter Berg
- Horace Pinker, a psychotic TV repair man meets his maker on death row...or has he? A frenetic mix of coal black humour and graphic violence from the…
- Greta (According to Greta) (2009)
- Dir. Nancy Bardawil
Feat. Hilary Duff, Ellen Burstyn, Melissa Leo…
- Hilary Duff, in a serious turn, delivers a commendable performance as a suicidal teen sent to her grandparents house for the summer. Ellen Burstyn…
- High School Revolution (The Trotsky) (2009)
- Dir. Jacob Tierney
Feat. Jay Baruchel, Domini Blythe, Emily Hampshire…
- Smart teen comedy with Baruchel taking the lead as an intensely politicised high–schooler convinced he's the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky.
- White House Down (2013)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- Conveniently on a tour of the White House, action hero beefcake Channing Tatum scrambles to save the President (Jamie Foxx) from an invading…