Kevin Pollak

Kevin Pollak
Date of Birth: 30 Oct 1957
Country: USA
Biography: Kevin Elliot Pollak (born October 30, 1957) is an American actor, impressionist, game show host, and comedian. He started performing stand-up comedy at the age of ten and touring professionally at age twenty. In 1988, Pollak landed a role in George Lucas' Willow, directed by Ron Howard, and began an acting career... (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 84 (Actor), 2 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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Buffalo \
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry (and forcing her to say the same). (imdb)
Casino
This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed... (imdb)
Deterrence
The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm (imdb)
Dr. Dolittle 2
Eddie Murphy returns as the doctor who can talk to the animals in this sequel to the 1998 blockbuster comedy. This time, it's Dolittle versus Darwin in the ultimate man vs. nature show down, in the midst of the animal kingdom's first strike.
End of Days
At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him. (imdb)
A Few Good Men
One man is dead. Two are accused of murder. The entire Marine Corps is on trial. Hollywood heavyweights Cruise, Nicholson and Moore ignite the screen in Rob Reiner's acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one's conscience. (Columbia TriStar)
Hostage
Devastated by an unspeakable tragedy while on the job as a hostage negotiator for the LAPD, Jeff Talley (Willis) resigns and accepts a low profile job as the chief of police in a sleepy town. On a slow Monday morning Talley's job becomes anything but quiet and sets him on a course that could change not only his professional but personal life forever. (Miramax)
Juwanna Mann
The story of a professional basketball player who blows his career but gets a chance to bounce back by trading his jock strap for a sports bra. (Warner Bros.)
L.A. Story
Harris Telemacher is the "Wacky Weather" presenter for a Los Angeles television station. He finds himself battling the insane conditions and people caused by the manic chaos that is Los Angeles. Striving to achieve happiness (or at least a date), he finds a helping hand from the last person he expected: the city of Los Angeles itself. (imdb)
Steal This Movie!
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interview's Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others... (imdb)
Stolen Summer
The winning entry in the nationwide scriptwriting contest "Project Greenlight" and subject of the hit HBO documentary series, Stolen Summer chronicles the friendship of two young boys, one Catholic and one Jewish, on a quest to change the world at age 8. (Miramax)
The Usual Suspects
Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them is guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Söze is felt. It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Söze? (imdb)
The Wedding Planner
Jennifer Lopez plays San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamour. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most important rule of all: she falls in love with the groom, Matthew McConaughey. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
The Whole Nine Yards
Nicholas is a nice dentist living in suburban Montreal. His new next door neighbor, Jimmy, is a hit man hiding out from a dangerous Chicago crime family. Despite their differences, Oz and Jimmy have one thing in common: someone's trying to kill them both.
The Whole Ten Yards
Retired hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Willis) is living the quiet life in a beachfront bungalow in Mexico, miles away from his former life. Suddenly, an uninvited and most unwelcome connection to their past shows up on the Tudeskis' doorstep. It's Oz (Perry), their former neighbor, breathless and desperate, begging them to help rescue his wife, Cynthia (Henstridge), from the Hungarian mob. (Warner Bros.)
3000 Miles to Graceland
It's International Elvis Week in Las Vegas, where the strip is flooded by a sea of King wannabes decked out in jumpsuits and sideburns. But five of the impersonators swaggering into the Riviera Hotel and Casino are toting heavy weaponry in their guitar cases. It's the heist of a lifetime, orchestrated by ex-con Michael (Russell) and his cunning former cellmate, Murphy (Costner). (Warner Brothers)
The Aristocrats
Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closet friends (who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Carey to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman) to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their own versions of the world's dirtiest joke, an old burlesque routine, too extreme to be performed in public, called "The Aristocrats." (ThinkFilm)
Niagara Motel
In Niagara Motel, a group of struggling individuals cross paths at a low-rent motel in the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls. They are not tourists and they are all, for various reasons, at crisis points in their lives. In this story, tragedy waltzes with unpredictable comedy in an intense dance of life. (Mongrel Media)
Avalon
A Russian Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. (imdb)
Willow
A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen. (imdb)
That Thing You Do!
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. (imdb)
Wayne\
The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend. (imdb)
Frank McKlusky, C.I.
A clumsy insurance claims investigator goes undercover to expose a conspiracy. (imdb)
Grumpy Old Men
A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood, only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street. (imdb)
She\
A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen. (imdb)
House Arrest
Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement.
Canadian Bacon
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war against Canada. (imdb)
Ricochet
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop. (imdb)
Clean Slate
A private eye who has amnesia must go to court about a kingpin's murder. (imdb)
Truth or Consequences, N.M.
A drug deal goes wrong causing a foursome, led by a lunatic killer, to go on the run. A couple in a recreational vehicle are initially kidnapped, but soon the male hostage is emulating his kidnappers and wants to stay involved in the chase. (imdb)
Indian Summer
Seven friends reunite for a week-long reunion at a summer camp in Ontario they used to attend as children which is now threatened with being closed down. (imdb)
Rolling Kansas
An independent film about a road trip to find a magical forest of marijuana. (imdb)
Another You
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire Abe, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation. (imdb)
Grumpier Old Men
Things don't seem to change much in Wabasha County: Max and John are still fighting after 35 years, Grandpa still drinks, smokes, and chases women , and nobody's been able to catch the fabled "Catfish Hunter", a gigantic catfish that actually smiles at fishermen who try to snare it... (imdb)
Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Holiday magic mixes with comical chaos at the North Pole in The Santa Clause 3 as Santa juggles a full house of family and the mischievous Jack Frost tries to take over the "big guy's" holiday. (Disney)
The Sex Monster
A neurotic L.A. building contractor (Mike Binder in his best Woody Allen imitation) pushes his wife (Mariel Hemingway) into entering into a three way sexual relationship. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he does and becomes a tigress seducing every female she meets including the contractor's secretary. (imdb)
Numb
A chronically depressed screenwriter desperately tries to cure his condition when he meets the girl of his dreams.
The Lost Room
The Lost Room (2006) - TV Mini-Series
A Policeman uncovers a key while working on a murder case. The key can open every door and take him into a motel room, but if you leave there something that doesn't belong to you- it will be gone as soon as the room "restarts"... He discovers that there are objects hidden in whole the world. They don't look special, but they have special powers. (IMDB)
Miami Rhapsody
The film focuses on Gwyn Marcus (Sarah Jessica Parker) as she accepts her boyfriend's (Bellows) marriage proposal. As she learns of each member of her family's infedilities she grows more cynical and jaded about marriage, also she is continually pressured by her mother (Farrow) to set a date.
Otis
Suburban America gone haywire. In the midst of a serial abductor/killer's rampage, a beautiful young teen, Riley Lawson, goes missing. When her desperate parents, Will and Kate, are contacted by her kidnapper, an insufferable FBI Special Agent takes charge of the case.But, from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis, Riley turns the tables on her tormentor, manages to escape and to contact her parents... (imdb)
Tortured
Tortured (2008) - Direct-to-Video
An undercover FBI agent faces a moral dilemma when he's asked to torture a member of one of the world's most powerful crime syndicates (imdb)
Picture This
Picture This (2008) - TV Movie
Bookish and unpopular Mandy's (Ashley Tisdale) luck is finally changing when Drew (Robbie Amell), the school hottie, invites her to the year's biggest party. But with being grounded and Drew's ex-girlfriend bent on thwarting her, she may be destined to remain a geek. Can a little ingenuity and some help from her friends save the day? (netflix.com)
The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them
Jewish Jack-the-lad David seriously fancies smart, rich Anglo-Saxon Carrie as soon as he first offends her in a Boston bar. They run into each other again and though she still says she finds him appalling he works on it and they are soon together. His even more reprehensible best mate and her best friend watch bemused as the two fall deeply in love and then apparently as fatally out again. (imdb)
Our Time Is Up
Our Time Is Up (2004) - Short Film
When therapist Dr. Leonard Stern discovers he has six weeks to live, he adopts a fresh method of treatment: brutal honesty. (imdb)
Cop Out
Bruce Willis pairs with Tracy Morgan in this Kevin Smith-directed buddy flick about two cops trying to track down a stolen mint-condition (read valuable) baseball card from the 1950s. Along the way, the guys tangle with the mob, a Mexican beauty and countless other characters in this comedic action flick co-starring Adam Brody, Jason Lee, Michelle Trachtenberg and Seann William Scott.
Middle Men
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.
Hoods
An inept group of small-time hoods has just six hours to carry out a hit for the local crime boss. But there's one major problem: The group's target -- an elusive mobster named Carmine Dellarosa -- doesn't seem to exist. Will the hoods be able to scare up a body before 5 p.m.?
The Staircase Murders
When Michael Iver Peterson, a successful novelist and aspiring politician in Durham, North Carolina, finds his wife Kathleen's body on the staircase, bloody but still breathing, he calls 911 in panic. His son Todd confirms his parents were in true love, would never harm each-other... (imdb)
Outside Ozona
A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station. (imdb)
Red State
A horror film in which a group of misfits encounter fundamentalism gone to the extreme in Middle America.
The Big Year
Three avid bird watchers compete to spot the rarest birds in North America at a prestigious annual event. (imdb)
Choose
A journalism student tracks a killer with the help of her detective father and a therapist (imdb)
Columbus Circle
An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation. (imdb)
The Magic of Belle Isle
In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
Two Thirteen
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer leaves on the faces of his victims. He must face his own demons along with the killer to save his small eroding existence. (imdb)
3 Geezers!
Follow actor J Kimball as he researches what it's like to be old for a role in an upcoming movie. When he meets the residents at The Coconuts convalescent home, he quickly discovers that his perceptions of the elderly may be off from today's reality. After being on the wrong end of some pranks, J enlists the help of his Hollywood friends to turn the tides. Mayhem ensues. (imdb)
Grace Unplugged
Grace Trey is the ideal Christian teen who is also a phenomenal singer. But at the tender age of eighteen, after she gets the music break of a lifetime and is thrust into the "real world" - her faith is put to the test.
The One I Wrote For You
A singer/songwriter who gave up his dream is entered into a Reality TV songwriting contest. But after losing the first two rounds, he takes on a win-at-all-costs attitude, even if winning means losing himself.
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges (1998) - TV Movie
The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, (and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only one there, period), and though she faced a crowd of angry white citizens every day, she emerged unscathed, physically or emotionally. (imdb)
Borealis
Jonah, an unemployed gambler, takes his estranged pot-smoking teenage daughter, Aurora, on a dangerous road trip to Churchill, Manitoba to show her the magnificent Northern Lights, before her vision disorder renders her completely blind. (imdb)
Max Rose
A jazz pianist makes a discovery days before the death of his wife that causes him to believe his sixty-five year marriage was a lie. He embarks on an exploration of his own past that brings him face to face with a menagerie of characters from a bygone era. (imdb)
Special Correspondents
A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead. (imdb)
Compadres
As former cop Garza seeks revenge on Santos, the crime lord who framed him, he forms an unlikely team with a young hacker who successfully stole $10 million from Santos.
War Dogs
Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan. (imdb)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Set in 1950s Manhattan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a 60-minute dramedy that centers on Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a sunny, energetic, sharp, Jewish girl who had her life mapped out for herself: go to college, find a husband, have kids, and throw the best Yom Kippur dinners in town. Soon enough, she finds herself exactly where she had hoped to be, living happily with her husband and two children in the Upper West Side. (imdb)
Perversions of Science
A science-fiction anthology series with all the twists and turns of "The Twilight Zone", but with all the sex and violence that cable TV allows. Hosted by the sexy, but metallic Chrome, each episode presents a tour to the edges of the unknown, where the realities we have come to know and love turn sinister and unpredictable. (imdb)
Three Christs
Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ. What transpires is both comic and deeply moving. (imdb)
The Tiger Hunter
A young Indian man relocates to 1970s Chicago to become an engineer, but when his job falls through, resorts to an elaborate charade with misfit friends in order to woo his childhood sweetheart.
The Front Runner
American Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.
Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis
Celebrities, comics and friends poke fun at actor Bruce Willis. (imdb)
Angel From Hell
Allison isn't quite sure if her new friend, Amy, is her guardian angel or a crazy person. (imdb)
Lez Bomb
A still closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate. (imdb)
The Night Is Young
This is the story of the night Matt and Dave met Amy and Syd. All feeling a bit fed up with their jobs and Los Angeles, luck would have it that they decide to go to the same bar on the same night. Thankful to meet anyone who isn't painfully self absorbed, the drinks pile up as the four twenty-somethings find unexpected friendships, and maybe something more. (imdb)
Benjamin
A family calls in an intervention for Benjamin, a kid who is doing drugs. Soon, it becomes clear that those who are confronting Benjamin's problem also have many problems of their own.
Teacher
A high school English teacher goes to disturbing lengths to protect his favorite students from bullies.
Apparition
A group of young people, guided by an APP that connects living with the dead, find themselves at an abandoned castle. A place with a horrific history tied to each of them, for reasons they'll soon discover.
Goalie
Biopic about legendary NHL goaltender Terry Sawchuk.
Angie Tribeca
Axis
On the morning he is set to star in a career-changing blockbuster film, an Irish actor trying to live down his rocky past confronts a series of devastating events that threaten his sobriety. (imdb)
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time, Parts 1-3
Time Warp The Mini Series.
Sweetwater
Hall of Famer, Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton, makes history as the first African American to sign an NBA contract, forever changing how the game of basketball is played. (imdb)
The Daily Show
The Daily Show (1996) - TV Series
The Girl in the Pool
A well-to-do family man is forced to struggle through a surprise birthday party moments after hiding the murdered corpse of his mistress. (imdb)