
June 22, 1941 · 85 years old
Michael Charles Lerner (June 22, 1941 – April 8, 2023) was an American actor. He was best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance in Barton Fink, as well as appearing in the films Elf, Godzilla, Eight Men Out, and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

A man raised by Santa's elves travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.

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

An evil queen steals control of a kingdom and an exiled princess enlists the help of seven resourceful rebels to win back her birthright.

The fortunes of a husband and wife differ drastically after they divorce.

The sensuous wife of a roadside diner proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordid, steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

During the 1930s, a New York City illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters, and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts.

After a bike accident, a young boy inadvertently gains possession of a check for $1 million and proceeds to spend it, unaware that the gangsters it belongs to are in pursuit.

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

High-school student Ed Wallis enters into a friendship with his neighbor, Ashby, a retired CIA assassin who only has a few months left to live.

A Martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter.

An American intern at U.K. Vogue helps her friends find love.

Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.

An unhappily-married Manhattan socialite couple flee from the IRS and end up in Amish country, where they pretend to be visiting relatives.

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

A New York City cosmetologist, mistakenly thought to be a science teacher, is offered a job to teach the children of an Eastern European dictator.

A Pulitzer-Prize-winner author buys a cabin. The neighbors get suspicious when a strange Black man "breaks in" and call the police, who shoot at him. The sheriff tries a cover-up involving a white petty crook. Bad idea.

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

Two attorneys adopt a mysterious orphan girl as their daughter, unaware she is the new Antichrist, next in line to Damien Thorn.

Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, who enlists him on a publicity campaign.

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.

While working on a murder-mystery script, unaware that his brain is about to implode, aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer becomes baffled when his characters start to appear in his life.

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

A salesman (Keaton) rediscovers a lust for life after falling for the fiancée of his new business partner (Fraser), a Midwest transplant finding his footing in New York City.

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Ancient Egyptian tomb's curse awakens when archaeologists break its seal. All vanish except a logbook. Years later, the leader's granddaughter follows their path, finds an amulet, and battles the immortality-seeking Talos in London.

Two bad singers are mistaken for top safe-crackers at a bar; a gangster boss orders them to break into three safes or else.

When an op goes wrong and FBI agent Zack's partner dies, his search for the one responsible takes him to a yakuza in Japan. A mob boss wants revenge for his son's death and Zack's his target.

A crime novelist is hired by a shady character to negotiate the return of stolen confidential documents.

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

It's been 10 years since Lizzie Borden High School's class of '72 graduated, and the preppies, the hippies and the in-crowd have returned to reminisce over good times past. Classmate Walter Baylor has returned too, but with a veng...

Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl who was locked in a room for over 12 years.

A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.

Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.

A charming con-man navigates a complex life between his police chief father and mob boss uncle while struggling to leave his criminal past behind.