Movies by John C. McGinley
As part of the cast:
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Alex Cross (2012)
Cast: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols …
Directed by: Rob Cohen
Detective/psychologist Alex Cross faces off against a disturbing serial killer in this exciting action thriller based on James Patterson's best-selling novels. As the stakes keep getting…
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Starz Inside: The Face Is Familiar (2009)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Joan Cusack, Luis Guzmán …
Directed by: Kevin Burns
Writer-director Kevin Burns takes a closer look at the familiar faces of character actors we all recognize but might not be able to name -- the lesser-known stars who take a backseat to the…
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Are We Done Yet? (2007)
Cast: Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley …
Directed by: Steve Carr
Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne (Ice Cube and Nia Long) move into a big fixer-upper in the suburbs, but their happy new life together is thrown into disarray by an oddball contractor (John C.…
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American Crude (2007)
Cast: Rob Schneider, Ron Livingston, Michael Clarke Duncan …
Directed by: Craig Sheffer
Johnny (Ron Livingston) finds his entire life yanked out from under him when he throws a disastrous bachelor party for his friend Bill (Rob Schneider). Over the next 24 hours, twists of fate…
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Puff, Puff, Pass (2006)
Cast: Danny Masterson, Ronnie Warner, Mekhi Phifer …
Directed by: Mekhi Phifer
As the title implies, two potheads (Danny Masterson and Mekhi Phifer, who also directs) take a sabbatical from the daily boring grind of rehab and, along the way, concoct a plan to bilk a…
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Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
Cast: John C. McGinley, Ed Harris, Vanna White …
Directed by: D.B. Sweeney
A trio of washouts -- clinging to dreams of the past and facing midlife crises -- hit the road to attend a college championship football game and to escape their troubles in this zany comedy…
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Alien Planet (2005)
Cast: George Lucas, John C. McGinley, Stephen Hawking …
Directed by: Pierre de Lespinois
Sent to investigate the planet Darwin IV -- which is about 6.5 light years away -- a pair of artificial-intelligence probes nicknamed "Ike" and "Leo" discovers a richly populated ecosystem…
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Justice League Unlimited: Joining Forces (2004)
Cast: Kevin Conroy, George Newbern, Maria Canals-Barrera …
Directed by: Dan Riba, Joaquam Dos Santos
In this cool collection of animated episodes, D.C. Comics superheroes star in story lines tailored for younger audiences. In "For the Man Who Has Everything," Superman's birthday bash is…
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Identity (2003)
Cast: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet …
Directed by: James Mangold
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on…
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Highway (2002)
Cast: Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selma Blair …
Directed by: James Cox
In 1994, two 19-year-olds (Jared Leto and Jake Gyllenhaal) with a couple of hoods hot on their tail flee Las Vegas and head to Seattle. Along the way, they pick up an abused prostitute (Selma…
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Stealing Harvard (2002)
Cast: Jason Lee, Tom Green, Leslie Mann …
Directed by: Bruce McCulloch
John. John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
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Crazy as Hell (2002)
Cast: Eriq La Salle, Michael Beach, Ronny Cox …
Directed by: Eriq La Salle
Ty Adams (Mike Beach) is an outlaw psychiatrist whose nontraditional approach has made him a hero in some circles and a kook in others. He meets his intellectual match in a male patient (Eriq…
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The Animal (2001)
Cast: Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley …
Directed by: Luke Greenfield
After loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, a deranged scientist saves him with organ transplants from assorted animals -- giving Marvin amazing new powers. But their…
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Scrubs (2001)
Cast: Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Ken Jenkins …
Follow the slapstick antics of young attending physician J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff) and his fellow doctors (including Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison) as they practice mischief and medicine…
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Get Carter (2000)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook …
Directed by: Stephen T. Kay
When his brother is killed in an accident, cold-blooded gun for hire Jack Carter (Sylvester Stallone) returns home to make peace with his past. But when evidence of foul play surfaces,…
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Office Space (1999)
Cast: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman …
Directed by: Mike Judge
In a comedy that jabs at corporate life, Peter conspires with his cubicle cohorts to embezzle money from their soulless employer. With help and hindrance from his peers, including quotable…
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The Jack Bull (1999)
Cast: John Cusack, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones …
Directed by: John Badham
John Cusack stars as honest Wyoming horse rancher Myrl Redding, who sacrifices it all in a quest for justice. When a land baron (L.Q. Jones) erects a tollgate to keep Redding's horses…
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Three to Tango (1999)
Cast: Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott …
Directed by: Damon Santostefano
When up-and-coming architect Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) sets out to befriend wealthy business tycoon Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott) in the hopes of landing a high-profile, lucrative…
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A.W.O.L. (1999)
Cast: David Morse, John C. McGinley, Caroline Kristiahn …
Directed by: Jack Swanstrom
An American soldier flies to Cambodia during the height of the Vietnam War, sent by the CIA to sniff out allegations of black magic. But after he's kidnapped and tortured -- and…
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The Pentagon Wars (1998)
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, Viola Davis …
Directed by: Richard Benjamin
In this sharp military satire, Lt. Col. James Burton (Cary Elwes) is assigned to oversee the development a troop transport vehicle, which, he soon discovers, has been 17 years in the making…
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Nothing to Lose (1997)
Cast: Tim Robbins, Martin Lawrence, Kelly Preston …
Directed by: Steve Oedekerk
An advertising executive thinks he's having a bad day when he discovers his wife in bed with his boss. But the day goes from bad to worse when he drives around aimlessly and soon finds…
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Flypaper (1997)
Cast: Lucy Liu, Craig Sheffer, Robert Loggia …
Directed by: Klaus Hoch
Unscrupulous Californians will do anything to get their hands on a million bucks in this twisted tale, which intertwines three story lines. Bobby Ray (Craig Sheffer) abducts a meth-lab…
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Colin Fitz Lives! (1997)
Cast: John C. McGinley, Matt McGrath, William H. Macy …
Directed by: Robert Bella
Knowing her rock star husband's grave will attract unwanted attention on the anniversary of his death, a widow (Julianne Phillips) hires two easily distracted security guards (Matt…
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Johns (1996)
Cast: David Arquette, Lukas Haas, Tony Epper …
Directed by: Scott Silver
Writer-director Scott Silver's unflinching drama chronicles 24 hours in the life of two male prostitutes. Sick of cruising for johns, John (David Arquette) wants to treat himself to a…
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Set It Off (1996)
Cast: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox …
Directed by: F. Gary Gray
Sick of being victims of circumstance and fighting a system that keeps them from realizing their dreams, four black women from the Los Angeles projects opt to knock over a bank. Emboldened…
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Mother (1996)
Cast: Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds, Laura Weekes …
Directed by: Albert Brooks
Divorced novelist John (Albert Brooks) needs to know the reason his relationships with women don't work. To learn, he goes to the source: his mother (Debbie Reynolds). John moves in with…
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Seven (1995)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow …
Directed by: David Fincher
A seasoned homicide detective and his new partner are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose gruesome crimes are based on the Seven Deadly Sins: greed, gluttony, sloth, lust, pride,…
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Born to Be Wild (1995)
Cast: Wil Horneff, Jean Marie Barnwell, Helen Shaver …
Directed by: John Gray
When teenager Rick's (Wil Horneff) scientist mother punishes him by forcing him to clean up her animal lab, he doesn't expect to form a tight bond with a gorilla named Katie…
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Mother's Boys (1994)
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley …
Directed by: Yves Simoneau
After abandoning her family, Jude Madigan (Jamie Lee Curtis) abruptly returns home three years later to discover another woman (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) has taken her place. Obsessed with…
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On Deadly Ground (1994)
Cast: Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, John C. McGinley …
Directed by: Steven Seagal
Government agent Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal) has uncovered gross environmental misconduct in Alaska, where a huge oil company helmed by a wicked CEO (Michael Caine) is strangling Mother…
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Surviving the Game (1994)
Cast: Charles Dutton, Ice-T, Gary Busey …
Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson
Mason (Ice-T) is a man down on his luck with nothing to lose when he's approached to lead a group of wealthy hunters on an expedition in the Pacific Northwest. But things get really…
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Wagons East (1994)
Cast: John Candy, Richard Lewis, Ellen Greene …
Directed by: Peter Markle
Comedians John Candy and Richard Lewis saddle up and give new meaning to the ol' Wild West. Unlike Julius Caesar, Candy and Lewis came, they saw ... and they changed their minds! When…
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Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
Cast: David Johansen, John C. McGinley, Fran Drescher …
Directed by: Bill Fishman
Based on the wacky early-1960s television sitcom, this film is a madcap look at the boys in blue careering around the less-than-mean streets of Gotham while trying to control the craziness…
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The Last Outlaw (1994)
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine …
Directed by: Geoff Murphy
In the Wild West, being an outlaw was a lot less glamorous than the dime novelists made it out to be. In the company of thieves, mutual trust was a commodity in very short supply; it was an…
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Hear No Evil (1993)
Cast: Marlee Matlin, D.B. Sweeney, Martin Sheen …
Directed by: Robert Greenwald
The plot's twists and turns and an excellent cast led by Martin Sheen ("The West Wing," The American President, Apocalypse Now) and Oscar winner Marlee Matlin make Hear No Evil worth a…
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A Midnight Clear (1992)
Cast: Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross …
Directed by: Keith Gordon
In 1944 France, an American intelligence squad locates a German platoon that prefers to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from…
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Article 99 (1992)
Cast: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker …
Directed by: Howard Deutch
Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland star in this medical thriller about a band of renegade doctors at Kansas City's Veteran's Administration Hospital who decide to circumvent the…
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Point Break (1991)
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey …
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
To nab the culprits behind a string of bank heists, brash young G-man Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) poses as a wave rider to infiltrate a group of surfers who may have pulled off the robberies…
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Highlander 2: Renegade Version (1990)
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen …
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy
This sequel to the cult sci-fi action film largely discards the original's premise of mysterious immortal swordsmen, revealing Connor MacLeod and Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobo Ramirez to be…
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Fat Man & Little Boy (1989)
Cast: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia …
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Helming the Manhattan Project, flinty Gen. Leslie R. Groves clashes with head scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer as they race to build the first nuclear bomb. With the deadline looming,…
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Talk Radio (1988)
Cast: Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope …
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Acerbic radio talk-show host Barry (Eric Bogosian) discovers that his controversial, late-night program is about to be picked up for national syndication. But the news doesn't comfort…
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Shakedown (1988)
Cast: Peter Weller, Sam Elliott, George Loros …
Directed by: James Glickenhaus
A public defender (Peter Weller) is torn between doing the right thing and fattening his wallet when he's offered big bucks to defend a scumbag drug dealer who shot a crooked cop.…
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Clinton and Nadine (1988)
Cast: Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman …
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Even if you're not looking for love, it finds you. Just ask Clinton (Andy Garcia), a small-time crook who makes a living by smuggling birds, and Nadine (Ellen Barkin), a former…
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Wall Street (1987)
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie …
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Enterprising stockbroker Bud Fox falls under the enticing spell of Gordon Gekko, an unscrupulous Wall Street arbitrageur. But when Gekko embroils his protégé in an insider-trading…
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Platoon (1986)
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe …
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Helmed by Oliver Stone, this searing autobiographical drama chronicles the Vietnam experiences of naive volunteer soldier Chris Taylor, whose view of the conflict starts to change after…