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Phil Hartman has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 1990s.
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1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Prime Video · Included

CB4
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 63%Starz · Included

So I Married an Axe Murderer
1993 · Movie · Actor
Top 64%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Brave Little Toaster
1987 · Movie · Voice
Top 65%Disney+ · Included

Jingle All the Way
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 83%Disney+ · Included

With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
Dir. Bill Murray, Howard Franklin · With Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid

When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Dir. Joe Dante · With Gregory Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Denis Leary

The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Paul Reubens, E. G. Daily, Mark Holton

Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis

A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't appear to know as much about rap music as they claim... but a lack of musical ability in an artist never hurts sales, does it? You've just got to play the part of a rap star...
Dir. Tamra Davis · With Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D

Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.
Dir. Thomas Schlamme · With Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia

as Air Conditioner / Hanging Lamp (voice) · Voice
Disney+ · Included
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
Dir. Jerry Rees · With Deanna Oliver, Jon Lovitz, Timothy Stack

When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingly average blind date turns into a chaotic night on the town. Walter's brother, Ted, tells him not to let Nadia drink alcohol, but he dismisses the warning and her behaviour gets increasingly wild. Walter and Nadia's numerous incidents are made even worse as her former lover David relentlessly follows them around town.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette

as Baseball Announcer (segment "Murray in Videoland")
Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
Dir. Peter Horton, Carl Gottlieb, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss, Joe Dante · With Arsenio Hall, Donald F. Muhich, Monique Gabrielle

The US army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Sergeant Ernie Bilko is the leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.
Dir. Jonathan Lynn · With Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
Dir. Brian Levant · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman
The young blond boy with a cowlick and a mischievous personality, Dennis the Menace, gets into numerous scrapes and adventures with his dog Ruff and his friends Joey, Margaret, Gina, Tommy, PeeBee and Jay.
With Phil Hartman, Jeannie Elias, Marilyn Lightstone

as Calaboose Cal (voice) · Voice
Tom and Jerry in their childhood days, playing cat-and-mouse games even then.
Dir. Carl Urbano, Don Lusk, Paul Sommer · With Frank Welker, Don Messick, Charlie Adler
A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France.
Dir. Steve Barron · With Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michael McKean
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