Movies starring Michael Douglas
During the Spring of 1990, I remember being transfixed in front of the television set for an hour each Sunday night over a period of five weeks. The occasion was the "Masterpiece Theater" presentation of the British mini-series "Traffik", a comple...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Drugs, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Michael Douglas, Jacob Vargas, Dennis Quaid, ...
When it comes to dark satires of the romantic comedy genre, few films are more vicious than Danny DeVito's 1989 offering, The War of the Roses. The film revels in its blackness in a way that few films during the last several decades have; even th...
U.S. Release Date: 1989-12-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Danny DeVito
Cast: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
Recently, Barry Levinson's career has been on the skids. After two critical and popular disasters (the overblown, overbudgeted Toys and the lackluster Jimmy Hollywood), the director is in need of a success. With this adaptation of Michael Crichton...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-12-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, ...
Alfred Hitchcock used the term "refrigerator movie" to describe certain films. According to the great director, refrigerator movies are well-paced thrillers that work effectively while being watched, but fall apart upon later examination (whil...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, ...
Back in mid-'90s, director Curtis Hanson was known as a B-list filmmaker - someone who could cull a fair amount of tension out of workmanlike stories such as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The River Wild. All of that changed in 1997, however, ...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, ...
One phrase - perhaps the best-known one from any 1987 release - encapsulates a critical component of '80s culture that once again crept to the fore in the late-'00s. I am, of course, referring to Gorden Gekko's "Greed… is good." A vice transfor...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-12-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen, ...
Gordon Gekko lives! But then we all know that - Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas have filmed a sequel to Wall Street that is currently sitting on shelves awaiting its late September 2010 release. However, Douglas gives us a preview of what an alt...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-05-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Cast: Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, ...
Steven Soderbergh's Haywire exhibits a remarkable economy of screen time - unusual in an era of bloated action films in which even throw-aways challenge the two hour mark. In fact, one could argue that Haywire is too short. It's enjoyable enough,...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-01-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, ...
Bill (Michael Douglas) is having a bad morning. He's stuck in his car in a traffic jam, his air conditioner isn't putting out any cold air, his windows won't work, and there's a fly buzzing around his head. Taken as a whole, all of this is enough...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-02-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, ...
King of California is the second movie opening this month to feature Evan Rachel Wood and, while it's better than the other one (Across the Universe), it's not that much better. Wood's performance is at about the same level, albeit without the sing...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Mike Cahill
Cast: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood