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Michael Dinner is a Director and Writer American

Michael Dinner

Michael Dinner
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Nationality USA
Awards Primetime Emmy Award

Michael Dinner est un producteur et réalisateur américain de cinéma et de télévision, qui a travaillé notamment sur la série télévisée Les Années coup de cœur.

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Fyvush Finkel
Fyvush Finkel
(2 films)
Dan Hedaya
Dan Hedaya
(1 films)
Mel Winkler
Mel Winkler
(2 films)
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Filmography of Michael Dinner (5 films)

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Director

The Crew
The Crew (2000)
, 1h28
Directed by Michael Dinner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Burt Reynolds, Seymour Cassel, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Hedaya, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jeremy Piven
Rating56% 2.800442.800442.800442.800442.80044
Four retired mobsters (Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya and Seymour Cassel) plan one last crime to save their apartment at a retirement home (the owners are forcing them out with a rent increase so that the apartments can be rented to young, affluent South Beach couples). The four steal a corpse from the mortuary to use as the "victim" in a staged murder scene. Unknown to them, the body belonged to the head of a Colombian drug smuggling ring. As a result of the "murder", many of the young renters leave and the four men are given cash and a rent discount by the complex to keep living there. Much of this money is spent on high living and women, which causes a young woman (Jennifer Tilly) to discover that the four men staged the murder - while spending time with the normally-silent "Mouth," he reveals that his mouth is loosened by intimacy with women.
Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
Directed by Michael Dinner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Strauss, Rachel Ticotin, Lynn Whitfield, Bob Dishy, Susan Hogan, Carolyn Dunn
Rating65% 3.2739153.2739153.2739153.2739153.273915
Securities broker Larry McLinden (Peter Strauss) and Diane Middleton (Rachel Ticotin) are experiencing a rocky affair when Diane announces that she's pregnant. When it's discovered that infant Larry Jr. has traces of cocaine in his blood, the couple's romance is over. Except Larry - now far more enthusiastic about parenthood - wants custody of the child, whom Diane has taken to Florida. Larry's attorney (Lynn Whitfield) sues, and a custody arrangement is set up, which Diane soon breaks, explaining that her son needs more time with her. Then she marries David Meadows (Booth Savage), and tells Larry that the two will try to adopt Larry Jr. As the fight drags on, Diane surprises everyone by suddenly truthfully claiming, contrary to everything she'd said before, that Larry is not the child's biological father, causing things to become even more complicated.
Hot to Trot, 1h28
Directed by Michael Dinner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Bobcat Goldthwait, John Candy, Dabney Coleman, Virginia Madsen, Jim Metzler, Cindy Pickett
Rating44% 2.210382.210382.210382.210382.21038
Simpleton bachelor Fred Chaney (Goldthwait) inherits a buck-toothed horse named Don and one half of a stock brokerage firm from his dead mother. He discovers Don is a talking horse (who can also speak the language of several other animals) that belonged to his deceased father. His stepfather Walter Sawyer (Coleman) offers to buy out Chaney's share of the business for a paltry sum, but Chaney refuses. Instead Chaney returns Don to his talking-horse family in the countryside and claims his place as partner at the firm. Chaney takes over an office and begins working as a broker, much to the chagrin of Sawyer. Don the horse overhears a stock tip and calls Chaney, presumably using his teeth to dial the phone. Chaney acts on the investment advice and becomes wealthy overnight.
Off Beat
Off Beat (1986)
, 1h26
Directed by Carey Loftin, Michael Dinner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy
Actors Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks, Harvey Keitel, Joe Mantegna, Fyvush Finkel
Rating50% 2.5067952.5067952.5067952.5067952.506795
Joe Gower is a likable librarian who glides around his job on roller skates. He has a strict boss, Mr. Pepper, and a good friend who's a cop, Abe Washington.
Heaven Help Us, 1h40
Directed by Michael Dinner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about education, Films about religion
Actors Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Dillon, Wallace Shawn, John Heard
Rating68% 3.4451853.4451853.4451853.4451853.445185
In 1965, Boston teenager Michael Dunn (Andrew McCarthy) and his young sister Boo (Jennifer Dundas) have been sent to Brooklyn to live with their Irish-Catholic grandparents (Kate Reid & Richard Hamilton) following the deaths of their parents. He is enrolled at St. Basil's, the strict all-boys Roman Catholic school run by St. Basil's church, where his grandmother is determined to see him fulfill his parents' dream of him joining the priesthood after graduation. Dunn befriends Caesar (Malcolm Danare), an over-weight, bespectacled student. Caesar helps Dunn catch up with the rest of the class, but because of their association, foul-mouthed class bully and underachiever Ed Rooney (Kevin Dillon) bullies Dunn with a prank outside of the soda fountain across the street from school.

Scriptwriter

The Crew
The Crew (2000)
, 1h28
Directed by Michael Dinner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Burt Reynolds, Seymour Cassel, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Hedaya, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jeremy Piven
Roles Writer
Rating56% 2.800442.800442.800442.800442.80044
Four retired mobsters (Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya and Seymour Cassel) plan one last crime to save their apartment at a retirement home (the owners are forcing them out with a rent increase so that the apartments can be rented to young, affluent South Beach couples). The four steal a corpse from the mortuary to use as the "victim" in a staged murder scene. Unknown to them, the body belonged to the head of a Colombian drug smuggling ring. As a result of the "murder", many of the young renters leave and the four men are given cash and a rent discount by the complex to keep living there. Much of this money is spent on high living and women, which causes a young woman (Jennifer Tilly) to discover that the four men staged the murder - while spending time with the normally-silent "Mouth," he reveals that his mouth is loosened by intimacy with women.