Connection
Do You Know the Muffin Man? is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gilbert Cates released in USA on 22 october 1989 with Pam Dawber
Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listDo You Know the Muffin Man? is a CBS Network docudrama starring Pam Dawber. It was directed by Gilbert Cates and also stars Stephen Dorff, John Shea, Anthony Geary, Dee Dee Rescher and Brian Bonsall.
The critically praised film, about child abuse in a community day care center, was ranked as the 8th most-watched television program of the week by the Nielsen Ratings after its initial airing on October 22, 1989. It was released at the height of the day-care sex-abuse hysteria in the United States.
Actors
Pam Dawber
(Kendra Dollison)
Brian Bonsall
(Teddy Dollison)
Stephen Dorff
(Sandy Dollison)
John Shea
(Roger Dollison)
Dee Dee Rescher
(Helen Wells)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Do You Know the Muffin Man?
There are 89 films with the same actors, 10 films with the same director, 77840 with the same cinematographic genres (including 3 with exactly the same 4 genres than Do You Know the Muffin Man?), 2138 films with the same themes (including 117 films with the same 2 themes than Do You Know the Muffin Man?), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Do You Know the Muffin Man?, you will probably like those similar films :
Achchamundu Achchamundu (2009)
, 2h15Directed by Arun Vaidyanathan
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about children, Films about child abuse
Actors Prasanna, Sneha, John Shea, Mark Stolzenberg
Rating59%
Senthil Kumar (Prasanna) and Malini (Sneha) are a happily married couple in New Jersey, living life like any other born-in-India, arrived-in-the-US couple do. He submerges himself in the office and eats sambhar rice at home and she never misses a bhajan at the temple and shops at Indian stores. They have a daughter Rithika (Akshaya Dinesh), 10 years old, the apple of their eyes (their car's registration number carries the name of their daughter.)
The Gate (1987)
, 1h25Directed by Tibor Takács
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Demons in film, Musical films
Actors Stephen Dorff, Kelly Rowan, Jennifer Irwin, Ingrid Veninger, Andrew Gunn
Rating60%
Glen (Stephen Dorff) returns home to find his house abandoned. Nobody answers his calls, but there is a half-eaten dinner in the kitchen and the eerie sound of laughter from somewhere nearby. He goes into the backyard and climbs into the treehouse, where he finds a lit lantern and a doll. The tree is abruptly struck by lightning and collapses.
Blank Check (1994)
, 1h34Directed by Rupert Wainwright
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Brian Bonsall, Karen Duffy, Miguel Ferrer, James Rebhorn, Tone Loc, Jayne Atkinson
Rating53%
The story begins when convicted bank robber Carl Quigley (Miguel Ferrer) escapes from prison. Soon after his prison break, Quigley enters a warehouse and recovers $1,000,000 he had hidden there sometime before his arrest (although it is unclear exactly how he illegally obtained the money). The film then cuts to 12-year-old Preston Waters (Brian Bonsall), whose father (James Rebhorn) works as an investor for a living and is very frugal with money—so much so that when he is given a blank check from his grandmother for his birthday, his dad fills it out for only $11.00. Plus, when invited to a friend's birthday party at an amusement park, he only has enough tokens to go on the kiddie rides.
Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011)
, 1h36Directed by Benjamin Nolot
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about prostitution, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Bill Oberst Jr.
Rating73%
The first scene of the film is a reenactment of a kidnapping. A girl is kidnapped and brought to the apartment of a criminal organization, where she is confined with other girls in a room with a creaky ceiling lit by a flickering lightbulb. The girls are naked and cry from fear as men examine them and shout commands and threats at them. One girl is dragged away into another room. The girls are then brutally abused until they become sexually submissive. These events take place in a small European town, possibly in Moldova. The film asserts that 10% of the population of Moldova has been sexually trafficked. From there, the film tracks the girls through Serbia and Croatia to Amsterdam's red-light district and markets in Berlin and Las Vegas. Among legal prostitution in cities, the slavery goes undetected. Slaves are depicted in confinement, at their places of work, and as they are sold. Many of the girls are orphans and all are either initially kidnapped or tricked into forced prostitution. The methods that the traffickers use to keep the girls include hard drugs, mind control, and both sexual and physical abuse.
Mikey (1992)
, 1h30Directed by Dennis Dimster
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Brian Bonsall, Ashley Laurence, John Diehl, Josie Bissett, Whit Hertford, Lyman Ward
Rating56%
A young boy, Mikey, sets newspapers on fire in his basement. He blames his younger sister, Beth, when his foster mother admonishes him. His foster mother Grace Kelvin disciplines him and he yells at Beth, taking her doll and throwing it in the pool. When Beth reaches to get it, Mikey causes her to fall into the pool and drown. Mikey is secretly taping everything. He goes upstairs and overhears his mother telling a friend on the phone that adopting Mikey was a bad idea. The phone dies and Mikey walks in. Startled, his mother yells at him to get out. Mikey picks up her blow dryer and turns it on, and begins to taunt her. He throws it and she is instantly electrocuted. Mikey goes downstairs and pours a bunch of marbles onto the floor. When his foster father Harold arrives home, he rushed out to greet him as if nothing has happened. They sit and chat for a moment when he sees his dead daughter floating lifeless in the pool. In a frantic state he rushes towards the door but slips on the marbles Mikey had laid down earlier. Mikey proceeds to beat him in the head with a baseball bat. Soon after, the police have arrived to find Mikey "hiding" in a closet. He tells them a man came in and killed his family.
Singapore Sling (1990)
, 1h51Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about slavery, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about child abuse, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Rating64%
Two mentally ill women who are clearly suffering from not otherwise specified delusional disorders, a mother and a (grown) daughter, live together in a secluded mansion. They are in a relationship and both are recognised for their beauty. They spend their days playing perverse BDSM-related incestuous games in memory of their sadistic patriarch who, when he was still alive, raped his daughter when she was eleven, murdered several servants, and is now a mummified corpse with which the daughter is shown having sex. They occasionally kill their servants and bury their bodies in the garden.
Redlight (2009)
Directed by Adi Ezroni
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about slavery, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about prostitution, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Lucy Liu, Reena
Rating73%
Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2000)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about child abuse
Rating69%
Whitney, at the time a Wall Street executive, returns to his rural hometown of Carlotta, California, and interviews his family members about his maternal stepgrandfather, Melvin E. Just. Just sexually abused 10 of Whitney's relatives, including his mother, uncle, aunts and step-aunts, some as young as 2 years old. The consequeneces have resulted in dysfunction spanning three generations of the family. Whitney reveals he was also molested by his uncle, who now lives incestuously with his half-sister. Whitney's aunts discuss their struggles with alcohol and drug addiction, and bouts of homelessness and prostitution.
Thieves of Innocence (2005)
Directed by Paul Arcand
Genres Drama, Documentary, Romance
Themes Films about children, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Paul Arcand, Dan Bigras
Rating68%
Film choc au style pamphlétaire, le documentaire brosse un portrait critique de la protection de la jeunesse au Québec. Il utilise des chiffres alarmants comme le nombre de signalements à la Direction de la protection de la jeunesse, les estimés du nombre de bébés victimes d’infanticide, le nombre d’enfants placés, etc. pour questionner la responsabilité citoyenne et institutionnelle face aux enfants en besoin de protection. Avec des extraits d’entrevues de victimes, il réfère à des exemples de situations graves et très médiatisés de maltraitance ou d’abus sexuels, comme ceux de Nathalie Simard ou celui du « Bourreau de Beaumont », qui a aussi fait les manchettes et qui a été l’objet d’une enquête de la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse dans ce questionnement. Vingt-cinq ans après l’avènement de la Loi sur la protection de la jeunesse, le documentaire critique le système de protection de la jeunesse pour sa grosseur, ses lourdeurs administratives et certaines de ses pratiques.
Baga Beach (2013)
, 1h43Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Films about child abuse
Actors Paoli Dam, Sadiya Siddiqui
Rating63%