Michael McElhatton

Michael McElhatton
Date of Birth: 12 Sep 1963
Country: Ireland
Total Credits at Criticker: 28 (Actor), 1 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
Biography submitted by howler19 and picture by MacSwell
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Intermission
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very (very) bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. (IFC Films)
Adam & Paul
Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul - and we never learn which is which - have withered into two hapless, desperate Dublin junkies, tied together by habit and necessity. A stylized, downbeat comedy, the film follows the pair through a single day, which, like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs. The difference today is that Adam and Paul - already near rock bottom - have finally run out of luck, credit and friends. (adamandpaul.com)
The Actors
In this classic comic caper, struggling actors O'Malley (Michael Caine) and Tom (Dylan Moran) are looking for an escape from the nightly humiliation of repertory theatre. One befriends a local gangster and hatches an apparently foolproof plan to make some easy cash. In order to pull off the scam they take on various disguises and characters and discover a talent for crime, that they never had for acting. When the real hoods arrive the actors-cum-criminals find their intricate web of deceit stretched to the limit. (thecia.com.au)
Crush Proof
Out of prison at last, charismatic sociopath Neal tries to visit the baby son he's never seen, his indifferent parents, and the grave of his horse - not in that order. But mainly he wants to rejoin his old gang in the "pony club" subculture of the wild Northside- would be urban cowboys riding horses rough shod and bare back through the streets of Dublin. He then runs into the squealer who set him up. (imdb)
I Went Down
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems. (imdb)
Perrier\
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies
Death of a Superhero
After several cycles of chemotherapy, fourteen-year-old Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) feels he has little left to hope for. Director Ian FitzGibbon's adaptation of Anthony McCarten's novel of the same name is a poignant coming-of-age story with a dark undertone, addressing the most painful of circumstances alongside a rich and often humorous treatment of classic teen preoccupations. (tiff.net)
Shadow Dancer
A young woman who has been a member of the IRA alongside her brothers and husband becomes an informer for Britain's MI5. (imdb)
Parked
Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever. (imdb)
The Hallow
A family who move into a remote milllhouse in Ireland find themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods. (imdb)
Norm of the North
Displaced from their Arctic home, a polar bear named Norm and his three lemming friends wind up in New York City, where Norm becomes the mascot of a corporation he soon learns is tied to the fate of his homeland. (imdb)
Pentecost
Pentecost (2011) - Short Film
Ireland 1977. Eleven-year-old Damian Lynch (Scott Graham) is called in at the last moment to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish. Following his last appearance as an altar boy when he knocked Father O'Toole off the altar, Damien is serving a 3 month ban from his only passion in life...football. To make matters worse, Damian's team, Liverpool FC, are playing in their first European cup final in two weeks time. (imdb)
The Zookeeper\
The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion. (imdb)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious homicide victim with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to identify the beautiful young "Jane Doe", they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets. (imdb)
Genius
Genius (2017) - TV Series
This is an anthology series focusing on the stories of the world's most brilliant innovators. Season 1: Albert Einstein; Season 2: Pablo Picasso; Season 3: Aretha Franklin; Season 4: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X (Disney+)
Handsome Devil
Ned and Conor are forced to share a bedroom at their boarding school. The loner and the star athlete at this rugby-mad school form an unlikely friendship until it's tested by the authorities. (imdb)
The Foreigner
Quan Ngoc Minh is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fuelled vendetta when his teenage daughter dies in a senseless act of politically motivated terrorism. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official Hennessy, whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers. (en.wikipedia.org)
Mammal
A mother grieves over the death of an estranged child while developing a relationship with a homeless youth.
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
A young boy learns to take control over his life when he is shrunk to the size of an insect and has to sail his own toy boat through a flooded café. Morten has to be shrunk down before he can grow up.
Togo
"Togo" is the untold true story set in the winter of 1925 of champion dogsled trainer Leonhard Seppala and his lead sled dog, Togo.
The Last Right
A fateful exchange on a flight has consequences for Daniel Murphy. He's left in charge of a corpse of someone he never knew. He is persuaded to take on the challenge of getting a coffin from his family home in Clonakilty to Rathlin Island. (imdb)
Chernobyl - Season 1
The Winter Lake
When Holly's dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden. (imdb)
Dangerous Liaisons
A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'
Genius - Season 1
The Long Shadow
The Long Shadow (2023) - TV Mini-Series
A desperate cat and mouse hunt ensues when Yorkshire is being haunted by a serial killer.
Fergus\
Fergus and Penny are planning their wedding. While mother and the local priest are helping with the preparations for a traditional good Irish wedding, the young couple are never averse to having a quickie with whoever is available.
Paths to Freedom
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