Daniel Stern’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Daniel Stern has 23 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Wonder Years.
Recurring themes

A Christmas Story
1983
Comedy · Family

Moving
1988
Comedy · Family

Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994
Comedy · Family

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
Comedy · Family

Father of the Bride Part II
1995
Comedy · Family

Blank Check
1994
Comedy · Family

Monkey Trouble
1994
Comedy · Family

I'll Be Home for Christmas
1998
Comedy · Family

Home Alone
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included

The Wonder Years
1988 · Series · Actor
Top 3%Hulu · Included

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Disney+ · Included

Stardust Memories
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

C.H.U.D.
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 66%Prime Video · Included

Rookie of the Year
1993 · Movie · Actor · Director
Top 71%Netflix · Included

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.
Dir. Neal Marlens, Carol Black · With Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Alley Mills
When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Barret Oliver, Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Dir. Paul Haggis · With Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Ty Simpkins

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper

Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.
Dir. Peter Yates · With Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
Dir. Ron Underwood · With Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby

Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...
Dir. Peter Berg · With Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau

In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
Dir. Drew Barrymore · With Elliot Page, Alia Shawkat, Marcia Gay Harden

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack

Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.
Dir. Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton · With Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling

A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Dir. Douglas Cheek · With John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry

12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in that arm heals too tightly, allowing Henry to throw pitches that are as fast as 103 mph. Henry is spotted at nearby Wrigley Field by Larry "Fish" Fisher, the general manager of the struggling Chicago Cubs, after Henry throws an opponent's home-run ball all the way from the outfield bleachers back to the catcher, and it seems that Henry may be the pitcher that team owner Bob Carson has been praying for.
Dir. Daniel Stern · With Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Amy Morton

Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Dir. Cheech Marin · With Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern, Paul Rodríguez

Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.
Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays

A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.
Dir. Richard Greenberg · With Fred Savage, Howie Mandel, Daniel Stern

Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
Dir. John Badham · With Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark
Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.
Dir. Tom DeCerchio · With Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd
A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and leads a scout group on a hike through the mountains.
Dir. Greg Beeman · With Daniel Stern, Jon Polito, Brad Sullivan

Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.
Dir. Kyle Newacheck · With Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson

as Phil Berquist
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.
Dir. Paul Weiland · With Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz
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