Best movies of Michael Lerner

Barton Fink(1991)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.



Eight Men Out(1988)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.



When Do We Eat?(2005)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A family's Passover gets screwy after the patriarch unknowingly ingests a hit of Ecstasy.



Yonkers Joe(2008)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Family life gets in the way of a con man's search for the perfect scam.



For Richer or Poorer(1997)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A real estate hustler and his wife hide from the IRS among the Amish.



Amos & Andrew(1993)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, ...



Poster Boy(2004)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 32

With the help of a hot, slightly older new acquaintence (Noseworthy), the closeted son (Newton) of a conservative U.S. Senator (Lerner) puts a shocking spin on his dad's re-election campaign.



The Postman Always Rings Twice(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.



Vibes(1988)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Psychics hired to find lost temple...



Safe Men(1998)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves ...



Maniac Cop 2(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.



The Calcium Kid(2004)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Following a bizarre series of events, Jimmy, a local amateur boxer, finds himself pitted in a match against the world champion.



Strange Invaders(1983)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up--a rural town in the Midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the ...



Immigrant(2013)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 16

The coming of age story of a young Russian immigrant in search of the American dream.



Angustia(1987)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree.



No Way Back(1995)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When F.B.I. Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafiaso Frank Serlano believes Zack is responsible for his only ...



Class Reunion(1982)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Lizzie Borden High's class of 1972 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sadistic senior-year prank, escapes from ...



Mockingbird Don't Sing(2001)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los ...



Borderline(1980)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

On the U.S.-Mexican border, border cop Jeb Maynard is hunting for a human smuggler responsible for Jeb partner's murder.



Coast to Coast(1980)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Madie Levrington is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York mental institution where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of an expensive divorce. She ...




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