John Mahoney’s Typical Vibe
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John Mahoney has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Flipped.
Recurring themes

Mermaids
1990
Comedy · Drama

Heart of Dragon
1985
Action · Comedy

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980
Drama · Comedy

The Party
1980
Drama · Romance

Lucas
1986
Comedy · Drama

Mystic Pizza
1988
Romance · Drama

She's Having a Baby
1988
Comedy · Drama

Dark Eyes
1987
Comedy · Drama

Primal Fear
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 5%Paramount+ · Included

In the Line of Fire
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Frasier
1993 · Series · Actor
Top 18%Hulu · Included

Moonstruck
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Peacock · Included

Dan in Real Life
2007 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Disney+ · Included

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Madeline Carroll, Callan McAuliffe, Rebecca De Mornay

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.
Dir. Gregory Hoblit · With Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Dir. Brad Bird · With Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
Dir. David Angell, Peter Casey, David Clark Lee · With Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce

Average student and eternal optimist Lloyd Dobler seeks to capture the heart of Diane Court, a beautiful but unattainable valedictorian classmate. He surprises just about everyone - including himself - when she returns the sentiment. However, Diane's divorced, over-protective father soon begins to disapprove of the match, and Lloyd realises that it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney

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.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
Dir. Peter Hedges · With Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Dir. Roman Polanski · With Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley

Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Dir. John Sayles · With John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.
Dir. Marshall Brickman · With John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
Dir. Peter Yates · With Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard

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Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that seem to have links to the secrets of Atlantis.
Dir. Victor Cook, Tad Stones, Toby Shelton · With James Arnold Taylor, Cree Summer, John Mahoney

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-way duty Tom, along with new partner Jo Christman, navigate the three rivers looking for clues and discovering bodies. This time the victims are women Tom knows, he must find the killer to prove his innocence.
Dir. Rowdy Herrington · With Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina

After his adventures with Kuzco, Kronk opens his own diner, but struggling business and the impending visit from his father push him to hatch a risky plan for success. When the scheme explodes—literally—Kronk must rely on his many personalities to rediscover that true happiness comes from staying true to himself.
Dir. Saul Blinkoff, Elliot M. Bour · With Patrick Warburton, Tracey Ullman, Eartha Kitt

Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. They disagree on everything, but they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Although both brothers are already married, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry.
Dir. Edward Burns · With Jennifer Aniston, Maxine Bahns, Edward Burns
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