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Michael Gruskoff est un producteur américain, actif depuis les années 1970.
(1974)
(Producer)
(1981)
(Executive producer)
Biography
Michael Gruskoff a créé une société de production dans les années 1970 et produit des films ambitieux, notamment Silent Running de Douglas Trumbull. Il a produit aussi quelques films européens comme Nosferatu, fantôme de la nuit ou La Guerre du feu.Best films
(1974)(Producer)
(1981)(Executive producer)
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Stalkers (2013)
, 1h30Directed by Mark Tonderai
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Mena Suvari, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Drea de Matteo, Tahmoh Penikett, Lela Loren, April Telek
Roles Co-Producer
Rating51%
Lieutenant de police, Diane Harkin désire se consacrer aux affaires de harcèlement. Il y a une raison bien personnelle à ce choix : elle-même subit depuis quelques temps les menaces de son ex-mari. Récemment mutée à Seattle, elle commence donc une nouvelle vie avec son jeune fils. La première victime dont elle s'occupera, accompagnée de Julia Whitman, une brillante substitut au procureur, sera une jeune femme poursuivie par son ancienne maîtresse...
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
, 1h41Directed by Norman René
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Sydney Walker, Kathy Bates, Ned Beatty, Stanley Tucci
Roles Producer
Rating55%
Despite her pessimistic outlook on life, Rita Boyle (Meg Ryan), a liberal, free-spirited aspiring graphic designer and communist who earns a living as a bartender, falls in love with and marries Peter Hoskins (Alec Baldwin), the conservative employee of a Chicago publishing house. At their wedding, the couple is approached by Julius (Sydney Walker), a lonely, elderly man who requests permission to kiss Rita. When he does, their spirits switch places, leaving Peter with an aged man's soul inside his newlywed bride. Whether or not he can see beyond the physical and embrace the beautiful soul he loves, Julius will agree to return to his cancer-riddled flesh by kissing her again.
Article 99 (1992)
, 1h40Directed by Howard Deutch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, John Mahoney, John C. McGinley
Roles Producer
Rating60%
When Dr. Peter Morgan (Kiefer Sutherland) begins his medical internship at a Veteran's Administration hospital, he expects to breeze through on his way to a cushy practice. Instead, he's thrust into a bizarre bureaucratic maze where the health of patients is secondary to politics. And the temperature really rises when he teams up with some freewheeling physicians, led by Dr. Richard Sturgess (Ray Liotta), who think they've learned how to break the rules-and save lives-without getting caught.
Pink Cadillac (1989)
, 2h2Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Musical films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Bernadette Peters, Timothy Carhart, Jim Carrey, Geoffrey Lewis, Bill McKinney
Roles Executive Producer
Rating54%
A white supremacist group is chasing Lou Ann (Bernadette Peters), whose no-good husband Roy (Timothy Carhart) is a member. She has inadvertently taken counterfeit money from them by running away with his car (the pink Cadillac), which held the supremacists' stash.
Until September (1984)
, 1h35Directed by Richard Marquand
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Karen Allen, Thierry Lhermitte, Christopher Cazenove, Jean-Claude Montalban, Gérard Caillaud, Patrick Braoudé
Roles Producer
Rating57%
Moe Alexander (Allen) is an American tourist in Paris. When she misses her plane home, she ends up being stuck in Paris for a while until her visa gets approved and goes to stay at the apartment of a friend who is away for the summer. There she meets Xavier de la Perouse (Thierry Lhermitte), a wealthy French banker. Xavier is married but his wife and family are away. As he spends time with Moe, their mutual attraction is overwhelming and they fall in love.
My Favorite Year (1982)
, 1h32Directed by Richard Benjamin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about television
Actors Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan
Roles Producer
Rating72%
Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker), the narrator, tells of the summer (in his "favorite year" of 1954) he met his idol, swashbuckling actor Allan Swann (Peter O'Toole). In the early days of television, Benjy works as a junior comedy writer for a variety show starring Stan "King" Kaiser (Joseph Bologna). As a special upcoming guest, they get the still famous (though largely washed-up) Swann. However, when he shows up, they realize that he is a roaring drunk. Kaiser is ready to dump him, until Benjy intervenes and promises to keep him sober during the week leading up to the show.
Quest for Fire (1981)
, 1h36Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Robert Lavoie
Roles Executive producer
Rating72%
The film begins with a raid by the apelike Wagabu tribe on the early Homo sapiens Ulam tribe, who possess fire in the form of a carefully guarded small flame which they use to start larger bonfires. Obtained from a natural source, the flame is kept in a fabricated bone satchel and must be fed constantly to keep it alive, because the Ulam don't know how to start a fire. Driven out of their home after a bloody battle with the Wagabu, the surviving Ulam escape but are chased into a marsh by a pack of wolves. The Ulam's bald-headed fire tender escapes with the tribe's remaining fire; however, while crossing a marsh, he all but douses the embers, leaving the tribe doomed to die from exposure and starvation. The Ulam elder decides to send three men, Naoh (Everett McGill), Amoukar (Ron Perlman) and Gaw (Nameer El-Kadi), on a quest to find fire.
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
, 1h47Directed by Werner Herzog
Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Films about viral outbreaks
Actors Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Jacques Dufilho, Walter Ladengast
Roles Producer
Rating73%
Jonathan Harker is an estate agent in Wismar, Germany. His boss, Renfield, informs him that a nobleman named Count Dracula wishes to buy a property in Wismar, and assigns Harker to visit the count and complete the lucrative deal. Leaving his young wife Lucy behind in Wismar, Harker travels for four weeks to Transylvania, to the castle of Count Dracula. He carries with him the deeds and documents needed to sell the house to the Count. On his journey, Jonathan stops at a village, where locals plead for him to stay clear of the accursed castle, providing him with details of Dracula's vampirism. Harker ignores the villagers’ pleas as superstition, and continues his journey unassisted ascending the Borgo Pass. Harker arrives at Dracula's castle, where he meets the Count, a strange, ancient, almost rodent-like man, with large ears, pale skin, sharp teeth, and long fingernails.
, 1h31Directed by Dick Richards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Alan Arkin, Alex Rocco, Harry Dean Stanton, Charles Martin Smith
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Idiotic driving instructor and former United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty (Alan Arkin) lives in poverty near Hollywood, California. He allows two women (Sally Kellerman and Mackenzie Phillips) to kidnap him after hitching a ride in an attempt to reach New Orleans. He eventually enjoys their company and the three take a road trip to Las Vegas and end up in Tucson, Arizona.
Lucky Lady (1975)
, 1h58Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis, John Hillerman, Robby Benson
Roles Producer
Rating53%
During the Prohibition era, a young widow, Claire, gets involved in liquor smuggling and romance with two men, Walker and Kibby, off the San Diego coast. Organized crime controls bootlegging back east and wants to do the same here, so a hit man named McTeague is sent to deal with these amateur crooks, as is the Coast Guard, leading to various battles at sea.
Lucky Lady (1975)
, 1h58Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Films about sexuality, Gangster films
Actors Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis, Robby Benson, John Hillerman
Roles Producer
Rating53%
En pleine prohibition, Claire, une jeune veuve, tente de reprendre les affaires de son compagnon avec la complicité de Walker. Une opération de trafic de travailleurs clandestins à la frontière mexicaine échoue lamentablement. Un américain, Kibby propose au couple une association et le trio se lance dans la contrebande d'alcool. Ils utiliseront pour ce faire un bateau voguant dans la baie de San-Francisco, le Lucky Lady. L'affaire n'est pas si simple puisqu'il faut compter avec la mafia dirigée par l'inquiétant McTeague et aussi par des gardes côtes incorruptibles. La première opération réussit, le trio dépense son argent dans un hôtel de luxe. Les relations entre les trois personnages tournent vite au ménage à trois. Mais Claire pense à son avenir, et sait qu'une fois l'argent dépensé, ils n'auront plus rien, il leur faut donc refaire une nouvelle grosse opération, mais cette fois McTeague n'est pas décidé à se laisser faire et compte bien éliminer ce trio qui le gène dans son propre trafic. On va donc vers une confrontation majeure où tous les moyens vont être bons pour éliminer l'adversaire.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
, 1h41Directed by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Frankenstein films, Comedy horror films, Cyberpunk films, Children's films
Actors Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr
Roles Producer
Rating79%
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) is a physician lecturer at an American medical school and engaged to the tightly wound socialite Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn). He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather, the infamous mad scientist. To disassociate himself from his forebear, Frederick insists that his surname is pronounced "Fronkensteen."
Silent Running (1972)
, 1h29Directed by Douglas Trumbull
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Environmental films, Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera, Robot films
Actors Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Joseph Campanella, Roy Engel
Roles Producer
Rating65%
In the future all plant life on Earth has become extinct. A few specimens have been preserved in enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes attached to a fleet of American Airlines space freighters, currently just outside the orbit of Saturn. Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern), one of four crewmen aboard the Valley Forge, is the resident botanist and ecologist who carefully preserves a variety of plants for their eventual return to Earth and the reforestation of the planet. Lowell spends most of his time in the domes, both cultivating the crops and attending to the animal life.
The Last Movie (1971)
, 1h48Directed by Dennis Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Dennis Hopper, Julie Adams, Sylvia Miles, Toni Basil, Samuel Fuller, Peter Fonda
Roles Executive Producer
Rating60%
Kansas (Hopper) is a stunt coordinator in charge of horses on a western being shot in a small Peruvian village. Following a tragic incident on the set where an actor is killed in a stunt, Kansas decides to quit the movie business and stay in Peru with a local woman. Kansas thinks he has found paradise, but is soon called in to help in a bizarre incident: the Peruvian natives are "filming" their own movie with "cameras" made of sticks, and acting out real western movie violence, as they don't understand movie fakery. The film touches on the ideas of fiction versus reality, especially in regards to cinema. The movie is presented in a way that challenges the viewer's traditional cinematic understanding of storytelling, by presenting the story in a non-chronological fashion, and by including several devices typically only seen behind the scenes of filmmaking (rough edits and "scene missing" cards), and the use of jarring jump cuts.
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Quest for Fire (1981)
, 1h36Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Robert Lavoie
Roles Presenter
Rating72%
The film begins with a raid by the apelike Wagabu tribe on the early Homo sapiens Ulam tribe, who possess fire in the form of a carefully guarded small flame which they use to start larger bonfires. Obtained from a natural source, the flame is kept in a fabricated bone satchel and must be fed constantly to keep it alive, because the Ulam don't know how to start a fire. Driven out of their home after a bloody battle with the Wagabu, the surviving Ulam escape but are chased into a marsh by a pack of wolves. The Ulam's bald-headed fire tender escapes with the tribe's remaining fire; however, while crossing a marsh, he all but douses the embers, leaving the tribe doomed to die from exposure and starvation. The Ulam elder decides to send three men, Naoh (Everett McGill), Amoukar (Ron Perlman) and Gaw (Nameer El-Kadi), on a quest to find fire.