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John Cariani is a Actor American born on 23 july 1969

John Cariani

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Nationality USA
Birth 23 july 1969 (54 years)

John Edward Cariani (born July 23, 1969) is an award-winning American actor and an accomplished playwright. Cariani is best known to television viewers as the unwavering forensic expert Julian Beck in Law & Order. On stage, he earned a Tony Award nomination for his role as Motel the Tailor in the 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. As a playwright, he is best known for his first play, Almost, Maine, which has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the United States.
He is currently starring in the Tony Award winning musical "Something Rotten!" as Nigel Bottom.

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Dick Maas
Dick Maas
(1 films)
Greg Pak
Greg Pak
(1 films)
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Filmography of John Cariani (9 films)

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Deliver Us from Evil, 1h58
Directed by Scott Derrickson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Biography, Fantastic, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Olivia Munn, Eric Bana, Joel McHale, Sean Harris, Édgar Ramírez, Chris Coy
Roles Zookeeper
Rating61% 3.0999853.0999853.0999853.0999853.099985
The film opens in a 2010 firefight in a palm grove in the Diyala Province of Iraq. Three Marines discover an underground cavern and start to scream as their helmet video feed goes black. In The Bronx in 2013, NYPD officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) stands over the corpse of an infant in a darkened alley. He and his partner Butler (Joel McHale) resume their nocturnal patrol for the 46th Precinct. A domestic disturbance call comes in over the radio. Sarchie probes the dispatcher for more information and finds out that the male at the address is a former Marine. He tells Butler that his "radar" is going off because maybe the former Marine still thinks he is fighting in the war.
Sleeping with the Fishes
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Steven Strait, Ana Ortiz, Taylor Gildersleeve, Orfeh, John Cariani, Priscilla Lopez
Roles Louis Belsky
Rating56% 2.8137152.8137152.8137152.8137152.813715
Alexis "Lexi" Fish lives in L.A. and works as a mascot and occasional phone sex operator, struggling to get by after the death of her husband. After an estranged aunt dies she returns to New York to attend her funeral and while there butts heads with her overly critical mother, Estella. Her well-meaning older sister, Kayla, meanwhile arranges a last-minute job for Lexi to plan the Bat Mitzvah party for the daughter of one of their acquaintances, Mrs. Wasserstein.
Certainty
Certainty (2011)

Directed by Peter Askin
Origin USA
Actors Adelaide Clemens, Kristen Connolly, Valerie Harper, Bobby Moynihan, Tammy Blanchard, Giancarlo Esposito
Roles Odd Interviewer
Rating44% 2.202882.202882.202882.202882.20288
Certainty tells the story of Dom and Deb who are attending their Pre-Cana engagement encounter weekend, the process a couple must go through in order to get married in the Catholic church.
Robot Stories, 1h25
Directed by Greg Pak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Robot films
Actors Tamlyn Tomita, James Saito, Tim Kang, Sab Shimono, Greg Pak, Cindy Cheung
Roles Salesman
Rating59% 2.994942.994942.994942.994942.99494
My Robot Baby A young Marsha hides in the closet from her parents' fighting due to a mistake she has made. Marsha apologizes when her mother finds her in the closet; her mother tells Marsha to never fall in love, get married, and have children. Twenty-five years later, Marsha is married to Ray and they are looking towards adopting a child. After going to an adoption clinic, they apply for an adoption trial where they take care of a robotic baby before they can adopt a human child. Marsha begins to struggle when she is alone to take care of the robot baby, as she becomes flustered with what to do when the baby cries. Marsha brings the robot baby to her father, a handyman, and sees if he can tamper with the electronics of the robot. However, Marsha’s father worries that the doctors of the adoption clinic will detect the alteration of the robot. Nonetheless, Marsha persists on getting the baby reprogrammed and leaves the baby to her father while Marsha goes to work. As Marsha comes home to the robot baby now automated, she attempts to talk to the baby. However, the robot baby goes berserk and attacks Marsha. Marsha finds the robot baby in the closet, then remembers her young self hiding in the closet as her own mother was angry. Marsha then cries and is able to hug her robot baby, finding closure to her past.
Kissing Jessica Stein, 1h37
Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Scott Cohen, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jackie Hoffman, Heather Juergensen, Tovah Feldshuh, Brian Stepanek
Roles Chuck
Rating65% 3.2963153.2963153.2963153.2963153.296315
Twenty-eight-year-old Jessica Stein, a copyeditor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement containing a quote from Rilke that she had read and admired earlier. The advertisement has been placed by Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething bisexual art gallerist who is seeking a lesbian relationship to replace her unsatisfying and meaningless sex with men.
Showtime
Showtime (2002)
, 1h36
Directed by Tom Dey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about television
Actors Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rachael Harris, Rene Russo, William Shatner, Pedro Damián
Roles Charlie Hertz
Rating55% 2.7500852.7500852.7500852.7500852.750085
The film centers on two cops, Det. Mitch Preston (Robert De Niro) and Officer Trey Sellars (Eddie Murphy), who are paired for a reality police show and run into real trouble with a crime lord. The beginning of the story closely parallels that of the 1988 film The Dead Pool, in which Harry Callahan intentionally breaks a news camera and is subject to favors for the news channel as a result. In this film, Mitch breaks a news camera after a failed confrontation with a drug lord, who escapes by using a custom-built gun. Maxxis Television, the network that employed the cameraman, decides to sue the police department for $10 million, but will drop the lawsuit if Mitch agrees to star in a reality cop television show, which Trey later calls Showtime!.
Down
Down (2001)
, 1h50
Directed by Dick Maas
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Transport films
Actors James Marshall, Naomi Watts, Michael Ironside, Edward Herrmann, Dan Hedaya, Ron Perlman
Roles Security Guard Gary
Rating47% 2.357892.357892.357892.357892.35789
The film takes place at the Millennium building in New York City, which has 102 floors and 73 elevators. One evening, lightning strikes the building, which causes the elevators to begin acting strangely, resulting in a guard's flashlight being crushed. The next day, a group of pregnant women are held up between floors 20 and 21. The elevator overheats rapidly, causing two women to give birth and hospitalizing the rest. Reporter Jennifer Evans (Naomi Watts) is called to write a report on the incident. After an investigation by METEOR elevator company technicians Jeff (Eric Thal) and Mark Newman (James Marshall), they determine that nothing is wrong with the elevators, a large part being Jeff's inability to actually admit there is something wrong (he states throughout his scenes that the computer controlling the elevators has absolutely no defects).
Scotland, PA, 1h45
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Maura Lynn Tierney, James LeGros, Christopher Walken, Kevin Corrigan, James Rebhorn, Tom Guiry
Rating65% 3.29713.29713.29713.29713.2971
In 1975, Duncan’s, a fast-food restaurant owned by Malcolm in the tiny hamlet of Scotland, Pennsylvania, hosts a variety of workers. Joe “Mac” McBeth is passed over for a promotion to manager by Douglas McKenna, who has been embezzling the restaurant’s money. Three stoned hippies, one a fortune teller, inform Mac that they see a bank drive-thru style restaurant in his future as management. Mac and Pat McBeth then play informants on McKenna, and Duncan recognizes the value of Mac's efforts on behalf of the restaurant. Duncan shares with the McBeths his plans to turn his failing burger joint into a drive-through, and Mac realizes how profitable the drive-through could be. Duncan is promoted to assistant manager but is hit in the head with a refrigerator door. Pat then decides to murder Duncan in a staged robbery. Mac and Pat attack Duncan to acquire the combination to the restaurant's safe, and Mac assaults Duncan, but is distracted by a vision of the three hippies, allowing Duncan to fall head first into a deep fryer that splatters and burns Pat’s hand. Investigator McDuff arrests a local homeless man, to whom Pat has given Duncan's jewelry, and the restaurant is willed to Mac. The McBeths immediately realize Mac’s ideas, and the restaurant's business takes off.