Michael Lerner’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Michael Lerner has 22 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Barton Fink.
Recurring themes

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990
Thriller · Comedy

Plunkett & Macleane
1999
Action · Comedy

Bulworth
1998
Comedy · Drama

God of Gamblers' Return
1994
Action · Comedy

Citizen Ruth
1996
Drama · Comedy

Striptease
1996
Comedy · Crime

Bob Roberts
1992
Comedy · Drama

King of Beggars
1992
Action · Comedy

The Candidate
1972 · Movie · Actor
Top 45%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Eight Men Out
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%Prime Video · Included

No Escape
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 54%Prime Video · Included

Harlem Nights
1989 · Movie · Actor
Top 65%Paramount+ · Included

Life During Wartime
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 69%Paramount+ · Included

Maniac Cop 2
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 70%Tubi · Free w/ ads

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
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
Dir. Ken Kwapis · With Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Michael Lerner

An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
Dir. Bigas Luna · With Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Dir. Michael Ritchie · With Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas

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

In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
Dir. Martin Campbell · With Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
Dir. Bob Rafelson · With Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.
Dir. Eddie Murphy · With Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx

Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to go on the lam, Brad and Caroline end up in an Amish area of Pennsylvania and decide to pose as members of the religious group to evade the IRS. As the two adapt to the simple Amish lifestyle, they begin to reconnect.
Dir. Bryan Spicer · With Tim Allen, Kirstie Alley, Jay O. Sanders

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
Dir. Todd Solondz · With Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Ally Sheedy

Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.
Dir. William Lustig · With Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner
Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston Waters is fed up with his family — especially their frugality. But he gets his chance to teach them a lesson when a money-laundering criminal nearly bulldozes Preston with his car and compensates the boy with a blank check. Preston makes the check out for $1 million and goes on a spending spree he'll never forget.
Dir. Rupert Wainwright · With Brian Bonsall, Karen Duffy, James Rebhorn

An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick

When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.
Dir. Tony McNamara · With Mickey Rourke, Nat Wolff, Emma Roberts
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.
Dir. Donald Petrie · With Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell a deal.
Dir. E. Max Frye · With Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Michael Lerner

After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White launches an epic battle of good vs. evil...
Dir. Tarsem Singh · With Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
Dir. Roland Emmerich · With Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo

The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Hank Azaria, Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis
Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys.
Dir. Jorge Montesi, Dominique Othenin-Girard · With Faye Grant, Michael Woods, Michael Lerner

as Professor Marcus
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee

A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Dir. Paul Johansson · With Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden