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Michael Laughlin is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American

Michael Laughlin

Michael Laughlin
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Birth name Michael S. Laughlin
Nationality USA
Death 20 october 2021

Michael Laughlin est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste américain. Il a été marié avec l'actrice Leslie Caron de 1969 à 1980.

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Bill Condon
Bill Condon
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Floyd Mutrux
Floyd Mutrux
(3 films)
Dan Shor
Dan Shor
(3 films)
Fiona Lewis
Fiona Lewis
(3 films)
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Filmography of Michael Laughlin (11 films)

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Director

Mesmerized
Mesmerized (1985)
, 1h34
Directed by Michael Laughlin
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy, Harry Andrews, Dan Shor, Reg Evans
Rating47% 2.3621852.3621852.3621852.3621852.362185
An orphaned New Zealand girl marries a wealthy and much older businessmen, but strains soon begin to develop between them, causing great emotional and physical toil on them, as well as those around them, from family to servants, and business and trade associates and clientele.
Strange Invaders, 1h34
Directed by Michael Laughlin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner, Louise Fletcher, Wallace Shawn
Rating53% 2.6977952.6977952.6977952.6977952.697795
In 1958, the town of Centerville, Illinois was invaded by a race of aliens. The invaders could fire lasers from their eyes and hands and reduce humans to "crystallized" glowing blue orbs. They took over the form of the humans who were either captured or killed.
Dead Kids
Dead Kids (1981)
, 1h34
Directed by Michael Laughlin
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Arthur Dignam, Fiona Lewis, Dey Young
Rating55% 2.7999152.7999152.7999152.7999152.799915
Several teenage boys in Galesburg, Illinois are murdered, each apparently by a different killer. Local policeman John Brady (Murphy) investigates. The victims are sons of men who previously collaborated with John to investigate the unethical experiments of Galesburg University professor Dr. Le Sange (Dignam), who reportedly died years previously but still gives lectures via old films. Le Sange's research is being continued by Gwen Parkinson (Lewis). John, whose late wife had worked for Le Sange, becomes convinced that Le Sange is still alive and is waging a vendetta against those who wronged him. Unbeknownst to John, Gwen has enlisted his son Pete (Shor) as a research subject. Gwen's "experiments" involve mind control, turning the subject into a programmed killer.

Scriptwriter

Town & Country, 1h44
Directed by Peter Chelsom
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Andie MacDowell, Garry Shandling, Jenna Elfman
Roles Writer
Rating45% 2.2527852.2527852.2527852.2527852.252785
Porter Stoddard is so prosperous an architect, he has New York homes on Park Avenue and in the Hamptons, as well as a vacation lodge out west in Sun Valley. He has been married for 25 years to the equally successful Ellie, an interior designer, but has been having an affair with Alex, a beautiful young cellist.
Mesmerized
Mesmerized (1985)
, 1h34
Directed by Michael Laughlin
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy, Harry Andrews, Dan Shor, Reg Evans
Rating47% 2.3621852.3621852.3621852.3621852.362185
An orphaned New Zealand girl marries a wealthy and much older businessmen, but strains soon begin to develop between them, causing great emotional and physical toil on them, as well as those around them, from family to servants, and business and trade associates and clientele.
Strange Invaders, 1h34
Directed by Michael Laughlin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner, Louise Fletcher, Wallace Shawn
Roles Story
Rating53% 2.6977952.6977952.6977952.6977952.697795
In 1958, the town of Centerville, Illinois was invaded by a race of aliens. The invaders could fire lasers from their eyes and hands and reduce humans to "crystallized" glowing blue orbs. They took over the form of the humans who were either captured or killed.
Dead Kids
Dead Kids (1981)
, 1h34
Directed by Michael Laughlin
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Arthur Dignam, Fiona Lewis, Dey Young
Roles Writer
Rating55% 2.7999152.7999152.7999152.7999152.799915
Several teenage boys in Galesburg, Illinois are murdered, each apparently by a different killer. Local policeman John Brady (Murphy) investigates. The victims are sons of men who previously collaborated with John to investigate the unethical experiments of Galesburg University professor Dr. Le Sange (Dignam), who reportedly died years previously but still gives lectures via old films. Le Sange's research is being continued by Gwen Parkinson (Lewis). John, whose late wife had worked for Le Sange, becomes convinced that Le Sange is still alive and is waging a vendetta against those who wronged him. Unbeknownst to John, Gwen has enlisted his son Pete (Shor) as a research subject. Gwen's "experiments" involve mind control, turning the subject into a programmed killer.

Producer

Nicole
Nicole (1978)
, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Leslie Caron, Ramon Bieri, Catherine Bach
Roles Producer
Rating36% 1.806461.806461.806461.806461.80646
Caron is a wealthy, reclusive widow who enjoys controlling every aspect of her servants' lives. When she falls for a dashing gentleman suitor and makes friends with a young dancer, things begin to turn out for the better. However, when she begins to suspect that her gentleman caller is cheating on her, she snaps and slips into an "alternate reality of violence, sex and paranoia".
Two-Lane Blacktop, 1h42
Directed by Monte Hellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Rudy Wurlitzer, Harry Dean Stanton, David Drake
Roles Producer
Rating71% 3.597033.597033.597033.597033.59703
The premise involves two street racers (played by Taylor and Wilson) who live on the road in their highly modified, grey-primered, brutal 1955 Chevrolet 150 two-door sedan drag car and drift from town to town, making their income by challenging local residents to impromptu drag races. The movie follows them driving east on Route 66 from Needles, California. They pick up a female hitchhiker in Flagstaff, Arizona (played by Bird), although it is more accurate to say that she picks them up by simply getting into their car. In New Mexico, they encounter another car driver (played by Oates, driving a 1970 Pontiac GTO). An atmosphere of hostility develops between the two parties. Although Oates is not an overt street racer, and, in fact, seems to know little about cars, a cross-country race to Washington, D.C. is suggested. Taylor proposes that the prize should be "for pinks," or legal ownership of the loser's car. Characters are never identified by name in the movie; instead they are named "The Driver," "The Mechanic," "GTO," and "The Girl". The movie follows the group east through small towns in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee, but no character makes it to Washington, D.C. during the film.
Chandler
Chandler (1971)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Warren Oates, Leslie Caron, Mitch Ryan, Gordon Pinsent, Charles McGraw, Richard Loo
Roles Producer
Rating44% 2.2183952.2183952.2183952.2183952.218395
In a deliberate throwback to 1940s films noir, a former private eye from that period, Chandler, takes up his old work again, and finds himself constantly driving old cars. He is ostensibly hired by the government to protect a witness, Katherine Creighton, from a gangland leader, John Melchior, who wants to kill her. But Chandler is in fact working for a corrupt government agent, Ross J. Carmady, who is using him as a dupe so that Carmady can murder Melchior and put his own double agent at the top of the racket.
The Christian Licorice Store, 1h30
Directed by James Frawley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Tennis films
Actors Beau Bridges, Maud Adams, Gilbert Roland, Allan Arbus, McLean Stevenson, Jean Renoir
Roles Producer
Rating52% 2.6398452.6398452.6398452.6398452.639845
Promising tennis pro Franklin Cane lives in Los Angeles and is mentored by his coach, Jonathan "J.C." Carruthers, who warns him of the perils of success. J.C. advises him to concentrate on his game and not on outside interests, such as a lucrative offer to endorse a hair spray in a TV ad.
Dusty and Sweets McGee, 1h32
Directed by Floyd Mutrux
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors William A. Fraker, Billy Gray
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.1550253.1550253.1550253.1550253.155025
Joanna
Joanna (1968)
, 1h48
Directed by Mike Sarne
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Geneviève Waïte, Christian Doermer, Calvin Lockhart, Donald Sutherland, Marda Vanne, Caroline Munro
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.8562552.8562552.8562552.8562552.856255
Joanna, an art student in London, has a romantic fling with her teacher, aspiring painter Hendrik Casson. She eventually leaves him for impoverished Dominic, while her gold-digging friend Beryl takes up with the quite wealthy Lord Sanderson.
The Whisperers, 1h45
Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Edith Evans, Ronald Fraser, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird, Gerald Sim
Roles Producer
Rating71% 3.587563.587563.587563.587563.58756
Mrs. Ross, an impoverished elderly eccentric living in a ground floor flat in an unnamed town in the North and dependent on welfare, is visited by her criminal son, who hides a package containing a large sum of stolen money in an unused bedroom. Thinking the money is a windfall intended for her, Mrs. Ross makes elaborate plans which she casually confides to a stranger, who pretends to befriend her but actually kidnaps her to obtain the money. Rendered drunk and turned into the elements by her captors, Mrs. Ross contracts pneumonia and barely recovers in hospital. Her sympathetic agent at the welfare bureau finds her and reunites her with her ne'er-do-well husband who deserted her decades ago. Motivated by his own need for stability, he moves back in with her but soon turns to crime, which forces him to flee and desert her again. Having been on the verge of a return to decent living, Mrs. Ross resumes her decayed status as a reclusive derelict of society.