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M.C. Gainey has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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Orange County
2002
Comedy · Drama

Bringing Down the House
2003
Comedy · Drama

The Proposal
2009
Comedy · Romance

Wild Child
2008
Comedy · Drama

100 Girls
2000
Comedy · Drama

View from the Top
2003
Comedy · Romance

I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
Comedy · Drama

Sky High
2005
Adventure · Comedy

Starman
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Tangled
2010 · Movie · Voice
Top 18%Disney+ · Included

Greater
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Prime Video · Included

Tangled: Before Ever After
2017 · Movie · Voice
Top 33%Disney+ · Included

Breakdown
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Paramount+ · Included

Citizen Ruth
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 59%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Dir. Alexander Payne · With Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith

Feisty teenager Rapunzel, who has long and magical hair, wants to go and see sky lanterns on her eighteenth birthday, but she's bound to a tower by her overprotective mother. She strikes a deal with Flynn Rider, a charming wanted thief, and the duo set off on an action-packed escapade.
Dir. Byron Howard, Nathan Greno · With Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy

The incredible true story of the greatest walk-on in the history of college football.
Dir. David Hunt · With Christopher Severio, Neal McDonough, Leslie Easterbrook

Rapunzel grapples with the responsibilities of being a princess and the overprotective ways of her father. While she wholeheartedly loves Eugene, Rapunzel does not share his immediate desire to get married and settle down within the castle walls. Determined to live life on her own terms, she and her tough-as-nails Lady-in-Waiting Cassandra embark on a secret adventure where they encounter mystical rocks that magically cause Rapunzel's long blonde hair to grow back. Impossible to break and difficult to hide, Rapunzel must learn to embrace her hair and all that it represents.
Dir. Tom Caulfield, Stephen Sandoval · With Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Eden Espinosa

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker ― who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff then begins a desperate, frenzied search for Amy.
Dir. Jonathan Mostow · With Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan

Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.
Dir. Wayne Kramer · With William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello

"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.
Dir. Alexander Payne · With Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith

Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky -- after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in 'badass cool' from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?
Dir. Ed Decter · With DJ Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
Dir. Peter Yates · With Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins

Restless and ready for an adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del Fuegos.
Dir. Walt Becker · With Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence

Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracles' with the help of his friend and manager, Jane, and their entourage.
Dir. Richard Pearce · With Steve Martin, Debra Winger, Lolita Davidovich

Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.
Dir. Mark Illsley · With Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn, William H. Macy

During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to prepare for a showdown the following year.
Dir. Jay Chandrasekhar · With Erik Stolhanske, Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme

Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?
Dir. James Cox · With Jared Leto, Selma Blair, Jake Gyllenhaal

Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Their efforts constantly find the 'Duke Boys' eluding authorities in 'The General Lee', their 1969 orange Dodge Charger that keeps them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town's Sheriff, Roscoe P. Coltrane.
Dir. Jay Chandrasekhar · With Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson
The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Years Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to the city from Portland, Oregon. The kids, who have never liked any of the men their mom dates, are determined to turn the trip into a nightmare for Nick.
Dir. Brian Levant · With Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen
For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near foreclosure. Beary hightails it over the river and through the woods to get the Bears in the Band back together for an all-out reunion concert to save Country Bear Hall.
Dir. Peter Hastings · With Haley Joel Osment, James Gammon, Christopher Walken
After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her soul mate. Because his job takes him hither and yon, she crisscrosses the country following Steve, with the encouragement of a reporter, turning up at media events he's at to convince him they are perfect for each other. Along the way, she befriends an assortment of misfits who accept her for who she is, leading her to reassess her reasons for this strange journey.
Dir. Phil Traill · With Bradley Cooper, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church
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