Michael Madsen
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michael Madsen, who admits to being more interested in delivering a good performance than the perks of fame, formerly worked as a gas station attendant in his hometown of Chicago, IL. The older brother of actress Virginia Madsen, Michael's first acting experience took place inside of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, where he studied under the direction of fellow actor John Malkovich. This stage training provided him with the background needed to land a host of small roles, beginning with a bit part in the 1983 film WarGames. After relocating to Los Angeles, Madsen made several television and film appearances, including NBC's Emmy-winning Special Bulletin (1983), and The Natural (1984), director Barry Levinson's celebrated sports drama. Madsen continued to build credibility, gradually going on to land larger parts. Though his profile was raised substantially after appearing in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise, it was his 1989 performance as a psychotic killer in John Dahl's Kill Me Again that caught the attention of Quentin Tarantino, who would later give Madsen his true breakthrough opportunity in 1992's Reservoir Dogs. This ear-splitting performance earned Madsen critical acclaim, as well as further cementing his reputation for playing psychopathic murderers. Sure enough, Madsen would go on to perform in several decidedly evil roles. From the kitten-loving sociopath in The Getaway (1994), to mafia tough guy Sonny Black in Donnie Brasco, Madsen proved himself more than capable of playing a good bad guy. Rather than allowing himself to be typecast, however, Madsen readily accepted the role of a loving foster parent in Free Willy (1993), a seasoned alien assassin in Species (1995), and CIA Agent Damon Falco in director Lee Tamahori's Die Another Day (2002). Over the course of the next decade, however, the veteran actor largely stuck to his tough-guy image, though his reflective role in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films displayed a sense of depth that most filmmakers fail to coax out of him.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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92% | The Garden Left Behind |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 2 Graves in the Desert |
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— | 2020 |
13% | Arctic Dogs |
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— | 2019 |
91% | QT8: The First Eight |
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— | 2019 |
0% | Trading Paint |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Welcome to Acapulco |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | The Key |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Gloves of Stone |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Megalodon |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Christian Audigier the VIF |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Papa |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Rock, Paper, Scissors |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Assassin's Revenge |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | The Lost Tree |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Devil's Domain |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | The Wrong Neighbor |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Grindhouse Nightmares |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Unfallen |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Diamond Cartel |
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— | 2017 |
14% | Vigilante Diaries |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Back In The Day |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | The Natural: The Best There Ever Was |
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— | 2016 |
74% | The Hateful Eight |
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$54.2M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Lumberjack Man |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Deposit |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Along The Roadside |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Sacred Blood |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Flipped |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | The Witching Hour |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Kidnapped in Romania |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Blood Rush |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Hope Lost |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Death in the Desert |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Skin Traffik (A Hitman in London) |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Magi |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Dirty Dealing 3D |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Turnaround Jake |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Skoryy 'Moskva-Rossiya' |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 2047 - Sights of Death |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | The Ninth Cloud |
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— | 2014 |
11% | I'm In Love With A Church Girl |
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$2.4M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Terrible Angels |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Ashley |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | ICE Agent |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Garbage |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Refuge From The Storm |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Lionhead |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Sorrow (A Sierra Nevada Gunfight) |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Desperate Endeavors |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Beyond The Trophy |
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— | 2012 |
22% | Loosies |
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$3.8k | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Portal |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Sins Expiation |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Infected |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Forest |
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— | 2011 |
0% | The Lion of Judah |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Bleeding |
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— | 2011 |
100% | Into Eternity |
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$33.5k | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The 5th Execution (Pyataya kazn) |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Eldorado |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Piranhaconda |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Amsterdam Heavy |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Dirty Little Trick |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | A Cold Day In Hell |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Terror Trap |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | The Kid: Chamaco |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Let the Game Begin |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | The Big I Am |
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— | 2010 |
0% | The Killing Jar |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Krach |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | The Story of Bonnie and Clyde |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | The Brazen Bull |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Corruption.Gov |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Six Days In Paradise |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Not Another Not Another Movie |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Serbian Scars |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Outrage: Born In Terror |
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— | 2009 |
50% | Green Lantern: First Flight |
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— | 2009 |
67% | You Might as Well Live |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Break |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Shannon's Rainbow |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Hired Gun |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Starz Inside |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Road of No Return |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Christmas Crash |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Buttermilk Sky |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Clear Lake WI |
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— | 2009 |
0% | House |
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$0.6M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 45 R.P.M. |
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— | 2008 |
10% | Hell Ride |
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$0.2M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Deep Winter |
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— | 2008 |
29% | Vice |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Crash and Burn |
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— | 2008 |
32% | Boarding Gate |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Los Angeles |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Portal |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Tomb |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Cosmic Radio |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Bad Days |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Lost Treasure of the Maya |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Eyes Front |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Being Michael Madsen |
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— | 2007 |
33% | Tooth and Nail |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | All In |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Croc |
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— | 2007 |
6% | Strength and Honour |
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$52.4k | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Afghan Knights |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Living & Dying |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | UKM: Ultimate Killing Machine |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Machine |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Last Drop |
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— | 2006 |
35% | Scary Movie 4 |
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$90.7M | 2006 |
4% | BloodRayne |
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$1.6M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Canes |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Last Hour |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | All In |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | L.A. Dicks |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Chasing Ghosts |
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— | 2005 |
77% | Sin City |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Jacked$ |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Velvet Revolution |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Hoboken Hollow |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Firedog |
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— | 2005 |
84% | Kill Bill: Volume 2 |
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— | 2004 |
22% | Renegade |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Frankenstein |
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— | 2004 |
85% | Kill Bill: Volume 1 |
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— | 2003 |
8% | My Boss's Daughter |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | 44 Minutes |
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— | 2003 |
56% | Die Another Day |
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$160.3M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Pressure Point |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Real Deal |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Primal Instinct |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Extreme Honor |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Choke |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Vampires Anonymous |
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— | 2000 |
50% | High Noon |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Sacrifice |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Ghost |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Stray |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Luck of the Draw |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Inspectors 2: A Shred of Evidence |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Alternate |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | The Primal Instinct |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 42K |
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— | 2000 |
0% | The Price of Air |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Supreme Sanction |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Florentine |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Fait Accompli |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Trail of a Serial Killer |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Detour |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Maker |
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— | 1998 |
9% | Species II |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Executive Target |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Final Reckoning |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Strip 'N' Run |
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— | 1998 |
17% | The Winner |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Diary of a Serial Killer |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Catherine's Grove |
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— | 1997 |
88% | Donnie Brasco |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Last Days of Frankie the Fly |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Girl Gets Moe |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Sender |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Surface to Air |
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— | 1997 |
31% | Mulholland Falls |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Red Line |
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— | 1995 |
50% | Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home |
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— | 1995 |
43% | Species |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Blue Tiger |
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— | 1995 |
46% | Wyatt Earp |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Man with a Gun |
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— | 1994 |
32% | The Getaway |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Dead Connection |
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— | 1994 |
20% | Money for Nothing |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Almost Blue |
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— | 1993 |
70% | Free Willy |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | A House in the Hills |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Baby Snatcher |
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— | 1992 |
42% | Straight Talk |
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— | 1992 |
92% | Reservoir Dogs |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Trouble Bound |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Beyond the Law |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | To Kill For |
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— | 1992 |
85% | Thelma & Louise |
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— | 1991 |
57% | The Doors |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | The End of Innocence |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Le Dernier Cow-Boy |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Kill Me Again |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Blood Red |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Iguana |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Shadows in the Storm |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | The Killing Time |
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— | 1987 |
82% | The Natural |
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— | 1984 |
60% | Racing With the Moon |
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— | 1984 |
93% | WarGames (War Games) |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Special Bulletin |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Against All Hope |
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— | 1982 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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48% |
Powers
2015-2016
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75% |
Big Time in Hollywood, FL
2015
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Hawaii Five-0
2010-2020
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58% |
Golden Boy
2013
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No Score Yet |
Blue Bloods
2010
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21% |
The Mob Doctor
2012-2013
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87% |
24
2001-2014
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Miami
2002-2012
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No Score Yet |
Cribs
2000-2009
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15% |
Vengeance Unlimited
1998-1999
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No Score Yet |
Quantum Leap
1989-1993
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No Score Yet |
St. Elsewhere
1982-1988
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No Score Yet |
War and Remembrance
1988-1989
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Quotes from Michael Madsen's Characters
John "The Hangman" Ruth: | No offense, cowboy-fella, just gettin' your attention. |
Joe Gage: | Yeah well, you got it. |
John "The Hangman" Ruth: | Whatchyu writin' friend? |
Joe Gage: | The only thing I'm qualified to write about. |
John "The Hangman" Ruth: | What's that? |
Joe Gage: | My life story. |
John "The Hangman" Ruth: | You're writing your life story..? |
Joe Gage: | You bet I am. |
John "The Hangman" Ruth: | Am I init? |
Joe Gage: | ....you just entered it. |
Detective Ben Nolan: | We are all angels....we just do terrible things! |
Jimmy: | I just want you to be happy. |
Louise Sawyer: | I am happy, sweetie. Happy as I can be. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite? |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Are you gonna bark all day, lil' doggie, or are you gonna bite? |
Mr. Brown: | Let me tell you what "Like a Virgin" is about. It's all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The entire song. It's a metaphor for big dicks. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | No, no. It's about a girl who is very vulnerable. She's been fucked over a few times. Then she meets some guy who's really sensitive... |
Mr. Brown: | Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... Time out Greenbay. Tell that fucking bullshit to the tourists. |
Joe Cabot: | Toby... Who the fuck is Toby? Toby... |
Mr. Brown: | "Like a Virgin" is not about this sensitive girl who meets a nice fella. That's what "True Blue" is about, now, granted, no argument about that. |
Mr. Orange/Freddy: | Which one is "True Blue"? |
Nice Guy Eddie: | "True Blue" was a big ass hit for Madonna. I don't even follow this Tops In Pops shit, and I've at least heard of "True Blue". |
Mr. Orange/Freddy: | Look, asshole, I didn't say I ain't heard of it. All I asked was how does it go? Excuse me for not being the world's biggest Madonna fan. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Personally, I can do without her. |
Mr. Blue: | I like her early stuff. You know, "Lucky Star", "Borderline" - but once she got into her "Papa Don't Preach" phase, I don't know, I tuned out. |
Mr. Brown: | Hey, you guys are making me lose my... train of thought here. I was saying something, what was it? |
Joe Cabot: | Oh, Toby was this Chinese girl, what was her last name? |
Mr. White/Larry: | What's that? |
Joe Cabot: | I found this old address book in a jacket I ain't worn in a coon's age. What was that name? |
Mr. Brown: | What the fuck was I talking about? |
Mr. Pink: | You said "True Blue" was about a nice girl, a sensitive girl who meets a nice guy, and that "Like a Virgin" was a metaphor for big dicks. |
Mr. Brown: | Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick. |
Mr. Blue: | How many dicks is that? |
Mr. White/Larry: | A lot. |
Mr. Brown: | Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in "The Great Escape", he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain. |
Joe Cabot: | Chew? Toby Chew? |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know, her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence - "Like a Virgin". |
Joe Cabot: | Wong? |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Eddie, if you keep talkin' like a bitch, I'm gonna slap you like a bitch. |
Emil Matasarenu: | I surrender... |
Frank McGregor: | Shoot to kill!!!! |
Frank McGregor: | Shoot to kill! |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Are You Going To Bark All Day Little Buddy? |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite? |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Are you gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite? |
Budd: | That woman deserves her revenge...and we deserve to die. |
Budd: | I don't dodge guilt, and I don't jew out of paying my comeuppance. |
Bill: | Can't we just forget the past? |
Budd: | That woman deserves her revenge... And we deserve to die. (laughs) But, then again, so does she. So I guess we'll just see...Wont we? |
Budd: | That woman deserves her revenge... And we deserve to die. [laughs] But, then again, so does she. So I guess we'll just see...Wont we? |
Budd: | You tellin' me she cut her way through 88 bodyguards 'fore she got to O'Ren? |
Bill: | Nah, there really wasn't 88 of them, they just called themselves "The Crazy 88" |
Bill: | Nah, there really wasn't 88 of them, they just called themselves 'The Crazy 88'. |
Budd: | How come? |
Bill: | I don't know.. I guess they thought it sounded kinda cool. |
Bump Bailey: | [after failing to catch a fly ball] I lost it in the sun. |
Pop Fisher: | [looks up at the cloudy sky] Blinding. |
Mr. Pink: | "I don't tip, I don't believe in it. She don't make enough money she can quit. I don't tip because society says I have to, I'll tip if someone really puts forth the effort. Tipping automatically is for the birds....She only filled my coffee cup 3 times, I want it filled 6 times." |
Mr. Pink: | I don't tip, I don't believe in it. She don't make enough money she can quit. I don't tip because society says I have to, I'll tip if someone really puts forth the effort. Tipping automatically is for the birds....She only filled my coffee cup 3 times, I want it filled 6 times. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | "What if she is too busy to fill your coffee cup..." |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | What if she is too busy to fill your coffee cup... |
Mr. Pink: | "Words, "Too Busy," shouldn't be in a waitresses vocabulary." |
Mr. Pink: | Words, 'Too Busy,' shouldn't be in a waitresses vocabulary. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | I don't like alarms, Mr. White. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | are you gonna bark all day little doggy or are you gonna bite |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Are you gonna bark all day little doggy or are you gonna bite. |
Budd: | This is for breaking my brother's heart. |
Bill: | You hocked a Hattori Hanzon Sword? |
Budd: | Yep. |
Bill: | It was priceless. |
Budd: | Well, not in El Paso, it ain't. In El Paso I got me $250 for it. |
Will: | "not really" |
Will: | Not really. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Was that as good for you as it was for me? |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | (saying to Mr.white)Are you going to bark all day little doggie or are you going to bite |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | [saying to Mr. White] Are you going to bark all day little doggie, or are you going to bite? |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get. [He removes his razor] |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Look kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, O.K.? I don't really give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get… Ha ha ha ha… Ah God! You ever listen to K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies? It's my personal favorite. [He removes his razor] |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | You ever listen to K-Billy's "Super Sounds of the Seventies" weekend? It's my personal favorite. |
Budd: | Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | If they hadn't of done, what i said not to do, they'd still be alive. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | You Gonna bark all day little dogie? or are ya gonna bight? |