Michael Rapaport

Michael Rapaport
Date of Birth: 20 Mar 1970
Country: USA
Biography: Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American, actor, director and a comedian. He has acted in more than forty films since the early 1990s. For his television credits he's best known for his roles on the television series Boston Public, Prison Break, Friends, and The War at Home...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 70 (Actor), 2 (Director)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (70) | Director (2)
Bamboozled
An african-american TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
Beautiful Girls
An all-star cast sparks this comedy about a group of old friends whose 10-year high school reunion creates some unexpected surprises. (Miramax)
Cop Land
Sylvester Stallone stars as Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a place everyone calls "Cop Land" -- a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he's long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town's peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action -- and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law. (Buena Vista Entertainment)
Death of a Dynasty
A funny and satirical look behind the closed doors of Damon Dash's and Jay-Z's hip-hop empire.
Deep Blue Sea
Researchers aboard the floating laboratory Aquatica have been playing God and now, the terror of Judgment Day has arrived. (Warner Bros.)
Hitch
In this sophisticated romantic comedy, Alex "Hitch" Hitchens is a legendary - and deliberately anonymous - New York City "date doctor" who, for a fee, has helped countless men woo the women of their dreams. While coaching Albert, a meek accountant who is smitten with a glamorous celebrity, Hitch finally meets his match in the person of the gorgeous, whip-smart Sara, a gossip columnist who is on to him.
King of the Jungle
When his mother is slain by a neighborhood thug as a result of her work as a vocal social activist, Seymour (Leguizamo), a mentally-challenged man, is shattered. The only witness to the murder, he goes looking for revenge. (Urbanworld Films)
Lucky Numbers
A television weatherman scams a local lottery.
Men of Honor
Inspired by the life of Carl Brashear (Gooding, Jr.). The setting of his journey is the little known and dangerous world of deep-sea diving in the U.S. Navy of the 1950s and 60s. (20th Century Fox Films)
Mighty Aphrodite
Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top of that, she is quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus. (imdb)
Palmetto
Woody Harrelson plays a small-timer suckered into a fake kidnapping plot and facing hard time if he can't untangle a mystery involving three women (Shue, Gershon, Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and assorted clues framing him. (Warner Home Video)
Small Time Crooks
Dishwasher and small-fry criminal Ray hits on a plan with his partners in crime to re-open a local pizza place and dig through to the bank down the street. As his wife can't cook pizza but does great cookies, that's what they sell. While the no-hope tunnellers get lost underground, the cookie operation really takes off and the team find themselves rich business people. But the other local money isn't quite ready to accept them. (imdb)
This Girl\
Moon, a female porn star tries to find a balance between the demands of her job, the demands of taking care of her ailing father who suffers from Parkinson's, and the ridicule and scrutiny of her friends about what she does for a living. (Miracle Mile Films)
True Romance
This rock'n'roll adventure story tells of two unlikely lovers who accidentally double-cross the Detroit mob by stealing valuable contraband. Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette flee to Los Angeles where they are sought by both gangsters and cops. (Warner Bros.)
The 6th Day
A provocative, high-octane look at what happens when technology falls into destructive, corrupt hands -- and when one man refuses to be a pawn in the deadly conspiracy. (Columbia TriStar)
America Brown
In America Brown, a coming of age drama, high school football star Ricky Brown (Kwanten) flees his hometown in West Texas to start a new life in New York City. There he begins to cope with the accidental death of his older brother, Daniel (Rapaport) and the lingering pressures of a small town's football-crazed culture. (TLA Releasing)
The Basketball Diaries
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction... (imdb)
Point of No Return
A gang of armed drug-addicts break into a chemist shop to try and steal drugs to fuel their habit. However... (imdb)
Money for Nothing
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run.
The Scout
The story of a baseball scout who discovers a talented but troubled baseball player. (imdb)
Kiss of Death
A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster. (imdb)
Metro
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars. (imdb)
Comic Book Villains
Comic Book Villains (2002) - Direct-to-Video
The story of a rivalry between two comic book shop owners. One does it for the love of comics, while the other shop, run by a husband-and-wife team are in it strictly for the money. The situation brews to a head when a sneak collector discovers a large collection of perfectly-preserved classic comics, leading the two shops to vie to acquire them, along with a "villain" who hopes to steal them first.
Higher Learning
People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus. (imdb)
Grilled
Two meat salesmen (Romano, James) will stop at nothing to get a sale. (imdb)
Kiss Toledo Goodbye
A young man (Michael Rapaport) suddenly learns that the biological father he knew nothing about is a crime lord. Upon witnessing his father's untimely death, he is expected to join forces with his new "family" and is challenged to prove himself. (imdb)
Special
Les Franken leads a painfully unremarkable life as a metermaid until he enrolls in a drug study for an experimental anti-depressant. An unexpected side effect of the drug convinces Les he is developing special powers and must quit his job to answer his new calling in life... Superhero.
Live Free or Die
Taking its title from the state motto of New Hampshire, Live Free or Die is a deadpan comedy about a clueless, aspiring criminal named John "Rugged" Rudgate (Stanford). (ThinkFilm)
The Pallbearer
Chaos unfolds as Tom is roped into being a pallbearer (and delivering the eulogy!) by the mother of a recently deceased "friend" from high school that he just can't remember. In the meantime, an unrequited love from high school (NOT the dead guy's girlfriend) reappears in his life. (imdb)
29 Palms
This is the story of a bag of money and the people who come into contact with it. (imdb)
Chain of Fools
Salma Hayek plays an avid detective assigned to the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber. (imdb)
Big Fan
Paul Aufiero, a hardcore New York Giants football fan, struggles to deal with the consequences when he is beaten up by his favorite player. (imdb)
Zebrahead
This is a Romeo and Juliet type tale based in Detroit, Michigan. Two young men, Zack, a white teen accused of "acting black" and Dee, an African American teen, defy racial lines and form a strong friendship. When Zack begins dating Dee's cousin Nikki, his white friends presume he's seeing her because of sexual stereotypes about black women, while her black friends can't believe her interest in him. (imdb)
Assassination of a High School President
At a Catholic high school, the popular girl teams up with a sophomore reporter to investigate a case of stolen SAT exams. Once the duo target their suspects, a larger conspiracy is unearthed.
Some Girl
Four unstable twenty-something women search for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Angeles. (imdb)
A Good Night to Die
Hit man August (Michael Rapaport) is in deep trouble with his mentor, Ronnie (Gary Stretch), after botching a hit. Having recruited August for the job, Ronnie must now find a way to right the situation before their boss takes care of it -- and them!
Hand Gun
George is a small-time crook. His brother Michael makes a living scamming the elderly by selling them nonexistent burial plots. When their father steals half a million dollars, the brothers find themselves on the run from the police and a local crime boss. But when Dad is killed, George and Michael have to team up to find the hidden loot (imdb)
Kicked in the Head
Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with Jack, low-key criminal. After that tough guy Stretch wants Redmond to take part in his illegal beer business, but before Redmond gets involved, the business ends in a bad way. Redmond is also having affair with flight attendant Megan (imdb)
A Day in the Life
A man suffers a crisis of conscience throughout a bloody day of gang warfare.
Inside Out
An ex-con gets sucked back into a life of crime immediately after serving a 13-year prison sentence for manslaughter, and fights to protect the woman he loves and her young daughter from his dangerous former best friend. Back in the day, AJ (Triple H) would have done anything to protect his best friend, Jack (Michael Rapaport), a two-bit gangster and the son of Dr. Vic (Bruce Dern) -- the city's toughest crime boss. (allrovi.com)
Illtown
Dante and his girlifrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a corrupt cop who's on the take. Their downfall comes when they suspect one of the boys, Pep, of ripping them off, and his accidental death causes disloyalty among the teens, who suspect Dante offed them. (imdb)
The Baytown Outlaws
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters. (imdb)
Kiss of the Damned
The vampire Djuna resists the advances of Paolo, but soon gives in to their passion. When her trouble-making sister unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna's love is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered. (imdb)
The Heat
Uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn is paired with testy Boston cop Shannon Mullins in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. The hitch: neither woman has ever had a partner -- or a friend for that matter. (imdb)
The Naked Man
A man takes matters into his own hands when a pharmaceutical kingpin moves into his town to cause some real trouble. (imdb)
Little Boy
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible...bring his father back from World War II. (imdb)
My Man Is a Loser
Two married friends employ a single playboy to help them get their mojo back to save their marriages. (imdb)
Boston Public
The lives of 10 faculty members at a high school in Boston, Mass. weave in and out of dealing with trouble-makers, having a personal life, and keeping sanity.
Public Morals
Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them. (imdb)
A Stand Up Guy
A low-level mobster takes a stab at stand-up comedy while in the Witness Protection Program. (imdb)
Sully
On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career. (imdb)
Chuck
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner. (imdb)
The New Edition Story
A 3 night miniseries chronicling the ups and downs of legendary music group New Edition from their humble beginnings in Boston to individual solo success and everything in between. (imdb)
Atypical
Atypical (2017) - TV Series
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it's time to find a girlfriend, a journey that sets Sam's mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence. (imdb)
The Foot Shooting Party
The lead singer of a band gets drafted for war in Vietnam. So as not to break up the band, he decides to shoot his own foot. (imdb)
Pound Puppies
Lucky, Cookie and the rest of the dogs in Shelter 17 have an important secret mission: to help every dog that comes to the pound find a new home. (themoviedb.org)
A Brother\
Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent youth years in reformatory because of injustice after he confronted the cop who tried to sodomize Mick on the street, is living with his wife Debbie trying to make ends meet and failing. One day Lex calls Mick - he has a problem...
Atypical - Season 1
Atypical - Season 2
Atypical - Season 3
Justified - Season 5
Life & Beth - Season 1
Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story
The Brooklyn-native street basketball legend Jackie Ryan. (themoviedb.org)
Glisten and the Merry Mission
Follows Marzipan, a young elfling, and her mother Cinnameg, as Marzipan must believe in the magic of the season and goes on an adventure to rediscover the enchanted snow deer named Glisten and save Christmas.
The Daily Show - Season 4
The War at Home
When Dave and Vicky were growing up, their parents had it easy. Back then, there were no "timeouts," no one had any "boundaries" and "parenting" wasn't even a word. Parents also had no idea what their kids were really up to. Now Dave and Vicky have teenagers of their own, and anything their kids might even think about doing, Dave and Vicky have already done (at least twice). (rottentomatoes)
Fallout - Season 1
Once Upon a Time in Queens
Recently released from prison, an ex-mafia boss tries not to fall into his old habits, but surviving outside of the mafia is harder than it seems.
I\
A woman navigates the challenges of her pregnant daughter's wedding, her mother's health, her son's uncertain future, and her own romantic dilemmas.
October 8
The emergence of anti-Semitism on college campuses, in social media and on the streets since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel. (imdb)