Penn Jillette

Total Credits at Criticker: 31 (Actor), 1 (Director), 5 (Writer)
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Walt Disney's dream of creating a "concert film" with a perpetually changing musical repertoire is at last realized with the debut of the animated extravaganza, Fantasia/2000. (Walt Disney Pictures)
A young novelist with a bad case of writer's block clears her mind by answering an ad placed by a man who is driving cross-country and needs a partner. Along the way, she ends up with more writing material than she ever bargained for.
A neophyte "hacker" becomes the target of the FBI after he unknowingly taps into a high-tech embezzling scheme which could cause a horrific environmental disaster in this suspenseful drama. (MGM)
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)
A documentary covering the rise of extremely alternative band Half Japanese: from the early days when Jad and David Fair recorded loud music in their bedroom for distribution via mail order cassette tape (imdb)
Penn & Teller enjoy playing jokes on each other. When Penn says on an interview show that he wishes... (imdb)
Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car, a blond woman's severed head in his marijuana stash, and the new Provincetown police chief, Captain Luther Regency, shacked up with his former girlfriend Madeleine. (imdb)
Casey Meadows (Deborah Foreman) becomes the first woman to ever drive for the exclusive and male dominated Brentwood Limousine company. The company dispatcher Mr. McBride (Howard Hesseman) takes offense to everything about her and gives her the worst driving assignments to be had.
Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to testifying against orgainzed crime in Brooklyn, all the while dealing with their personal lives, overbearing spouses, common criminals, arms dealers, and their officious boss Captain Anderson. (imdb)
Michael Wilson, like the subject of his film, is trying to get an interview with a multi-millionaire; however, in this case, that millionaire is Michael Moore himself. (imdb)
Magic and Mystery Tour (2003) - TV Mini-Series
Penn and Teller take on India, China, and Egypt (imdb)
This Is MST3K (1992) - TV Movie
A documentary about the cult television favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge. (imdb)
Penn & Teller: Off the Deep End (2005) - TV Special
Penn and Tell practice their unique brand of magic and comedy in the Carribean and underwater. (imdb)
Renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss cross the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of science and reason in the modern world. (imdb)
Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.
Theory of Obscurity tells the story of the renegade sound and video collective known as The Residents. A story that spans 40 years and is clouded in mystery. Many details surrounding the group are secret, including the identities of its members. The film takes viewers inside this incredibly private group with unprecedented access to their archives and their recent 40th anniversary tour. (imdb)
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003) - TV Series
The comedy illusionist duo explore various topics and debunk what they consider misconceptions about them. (imdb)
The Moxy Show (1993) - TV Series
The Moxy Pirate Show consisted of classic cartoons divided by 3-D animated interstitials featuring Moxy, a dog, and Flea, a flea.
Penn & Teller: Fool Us (2010) - TV Series
Aspiring magicians are invited to perform a magic trick for magic duo Penn & Teller. If Penn & Teller can't figure out how the trick is done, they invite the contestant to open for their live Las Vegas show.
The Apprentice (2004) - TV Series
A reality-tv based show in which contestants compete for a job as an apprentice to billionaire American Donald Trump. (imdb)
Don't Try This at Home! (1990) - TV Movie
Penn and/or Teller play with mirrors, teach 900 people to make a hankie disappear, play with clear acrylic boxes, turn marshmallows into tools of violence, do some erotic fire-eating, become the King of Animal Traps, produce bees without end, make Jane Curtin do a magic trick with a needle, dental floss, and her pierced ear, and drive a truck filled with concrete over Teller. (imdb)
Penn & Teller Tell a Lie (2011) - TV Series
In every episode Penn and Teller present a number of stories. All but one are true, it's up to the viewers to guess which story is false. (imdb)
This documentary follows the career highs and current health struggles of The Amazing Jonathan, the innovative magician-comedian also known as John Edward Szeles.
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion. (imdb)
Herbert Blount aspires to replace the real director of a movie and make it his own by capturing the lead actress and inflicting much horror upon her in his version. (imdb)
Exploring Psychic Powers Live (1989) - TV Special
With the aide of two experts on psychology and the paranormal, James Randi lets people with self-professed abilities try out under guidelines for a large cash prize (imdb)
The movie "Life Sold Separately" (1997) is about four strangers who meet in a field for different reasons, but for the same purpose: to escape each one's respective life. How they are to escape their world is the key to the film. (imdb)
Biden v Trump: The Choice 2020 (2020) - TV Movie
In the midst of the historic coronavirus pandemic, economic hardship, rising unemployment, race riots and growing insecurity, U.S. citizens were called upon to choose between incumbent President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in November 2020. After four years in office, the Americans had again a choice of who should lead the nation in the future. But who are the two candidates? How was their life proceeding? How were they influenced and what distinguishes them? (imdb)
The G Word with Adam Conover (2022) - TV Mini-Series
Follows Conover introducing the civil servants who make it work and take a satirical look at its shortcomings.