Movies with Maury Chaykin

Mousehunt aka Mouse hunt

Genres: Action, Comedy, Family

Starring: Christopher Walken, Maury Chaykin, William Hickey, Nathan Lane, Michael Jeter, Lee Evans, Ernie Sabella

Directors: Gore Verbinski

Country: USA

Year: 1997

A family film about a mouse that lives in an old house where the geriatric owner dies, and Nathan Lane and Lee Evans have plans for, but they have trouble getting rid of the mouse. It's like Home Alone with a mouse.

 

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Genres: Sci-Fi

Starring: Maury Chaykin, Wanda Cannon, Patrick Brymer, Raul Julia, Hadley Kay, Gary Farmer, Helen Carscallen

Directors: Douglas Williams

Country: USA, Canada

Year: 1983

Raul Julia plays Aram Fingal, a very intelligent computer programmer and a very bored man in the employ of Novicorp, a mega-corporation that exists somewhere in the future. When caught watching "Casablanca" at his desk, Fingal is required to undergo rehabilitation therapy called "doppling." Doppled patients find their minds transferred into the bodies of animals for a new outlook on life (and for a number of amusing nature documentary sequences narrated by Julia). However, Fingal's body is misplaced and he is transferred into a computer while the body is located. With the help of Appolonia James, a medical technician played by Linda Griffiths...

 

Cutthroat Island

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Starring: Frank Langella, Rex Linn, Maury Chaykin, Harris Yulin, Geena Davis, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Ken Bones

Directors: Renny Harlin

Country: Germany, USA, Italy, France

Year: 1995

Morgan Adams' father's dying gifts to her are his pirate ship and a one-third part of a map of a treasure island - unusually inscribed on his scalp. Thinking herself in need of a Latin scholar to unravel the map, she buys learned slave William Shaw and sets off in search of the rest of the map. However, it is Shaw, obviously with plans of his own, who gets the second part. He's somewhat easier to deal with, though, than the holder of the last part - Morgan's less-than-loving piratical uncle Dawg.

 

Iron Eagle II

Genres: Action, Romance, Drama

Starring: Alan Scarfe, Colm Feore, Maury Chaykin, Louis Gossett Jr., Stuart Margolin, Jason Blicker, Uri Gavriel

Directors: Sidney J. Furie

Country: Canada, Israel

Year: 1988

Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission. As they begin their assault, Chappy finds that a nuclear strike has been ordered should they fail, which will catch his forces on the ground next to ground zero.

 

Money for Nothing

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Starring: Michael Madsen, Maury Chaykin, Frankie Faison, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Gandolfini

Directors: Ramón Menéndez

Country: USA

Year: 1993

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

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. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

 

Dances with Wolves

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western

Starring: Maury Chaykin, Kevin Costner, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Tony Pierce, Tantoo Cardinal, Mary McDonnell

Directors: Kevin Costner

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1990

Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory during the Civil War. He requests a position on the western frontier, but finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf he dubs "Two-socks" and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways.

 

Mrs. Soffel

Genres: Romance, Drama

Starring: Edward Herrmann, Mel Gibson, Maury Chaykin, Wayne Robson, Jennifer Dundas, Terry O'Quinn, Matthew Modine

Directors: Gillian Armstrong

Country: USA

Year: 1984

Peter Soffel is the stuffy warden of a remote American prison around the turn of the century. His wife, Kate, finds herself attracted to prisoner Ed Biddle. She abandons her husband and children to help Ed and his brother Jack escape and accompanies them into the wintery wasteland.

 

Of Unknown Origin

Genres: Horror

Starring: Bronwen Mantel, Peter Weller, Maury Chaykin, Lawrence Dane, Earl Pennington, Kenneth Welsh, Keith Knight

Directors: George P. Cosmatos

Country: USA, Canada

Year: 1983

Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that promotion, unaware that a certain inhabitant of his basement has other plans for his time. Bart goes a bit bonkers trying to kill this rat, destroying most of his house in the process. Certain allegorical elements tie the household conflict to the "rat race" in his office, but the main event is certainly the night-and-day contest of wills between man and rodent.

 

Intern Academy aka White Coats

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Maury Chaykin, Viv Leacock, Saul Rubinek, Lynda Boyd, Dan Aykroyd, Dave Foley, Dave Thomas

Directors: Dave Thomas

Country: Canada

Year: 2004

The St. Albert's Teaching Hospital, considered the worst in the public health system and administrated by the corrupt Dr. Cyrill Kipp, receives a new group of interns: the clumsy Mike Bonnert, whose parents are prominent doctors and forced him to study in medical school; the wolf Dale Dodd, who has come to the hospital to meet women and falls in love for the nurse Cynthia Skyes; Marlon Thomas, who like to play pranks with his mates; Mira Towers, who aims to be a great surgeon; Christine Lee, a very efficient student and promising doctor; and Mitzi Cole, who works as stripper to pay for her medical school and becomes Mike's girlfriend. Leaded ...

 

Death Hunt

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Angie Dickinson, Maury Chaykin, Charles Bronson, Jon Cedar, Ed Lauter, Lee Marvin, Carl Weathers

Directors: Peter R. Hunt

Country: USA

Year: 1981

Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest - but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible.

 

Casino Jack

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Starring: Barry Pepper, Kevin Spacey, Maury Chaykin, Kelly Preston, Jon Lovitz, Daniel Kash, Rachelle Lefevre

Directors: George Hickenlooper

Country: Canada

Year: 2010

A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.

 

The Sweet Hereafter

Genres: Drama

Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, David Hemblen, Alberta Watson, Ian Holm, Simon Baker

Directors: Atom Egoyan

Country: Canada

Year: 1997

A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way to the sweet hereafter.

 

The Vindicator

Genres: Action, Horror

Starring: Maury Chaykin, Richard Cox, Pam Grier, Stephen Mendel, Micki Moore, Teri Austin, Catherine Disher

Directors: Jean-Claude Lord

Country: USA, Canada

Year: 1986

An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him.

 

My Cousin Vinny

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Maury Chaykin, Bruce McGill, Lane Smith, Austin Pendleton, James Rebhorn

Directors: Jonathan Lynn

Country: USA

Year: 1992

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Two teenage boys from New York are travelling down south when a series of coincidences lands them in jail charged with first degree murder. They can't afford the $50K for an attorney so they call the lawyer cousin of one of the boys. Vinny is a stereotypical New Yorker who is initially a complete disaster, but can he get them off the hook ?

 

Heavens Fall

Genres: Crime, Drama

Starring: Bill Smitrovich, Maury Chaykin, Leelee Sobieski, Anthony Mackie, Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Azura Skye

Directors: Terry Green

Country: USA

Year: 2006

Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train. In the spring of 1931 nine black hoboes were pulled off an Alabama freight train and arrested for allegedly raping two young white women in a gondola car. Ranging in ages from twelve to twenty years, they were quickly tried and sentenced to the electric chair. News of their convictions spread and the plight of the Scottsboro Boys became a 'cause celebre' that fueled the fire of socialism worldwide, forcing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and resulting in new trials for all...

 

Entrapment

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Maury Chaykin, Kevin McNally, Sean Connery, Terry O'Neill, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Will Patton, Ving Rhames

Directors: Jon Amiel

Country: Germany, USA, UK

Year: 1999

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod

Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief. Connery's burglar takes her on suspiciously and demands rigorous training before their first job together--stealing a highly-valued mask from a chichi party. Their deepening attraction and distrust could tear apart their partnership but the promise of a bigger prize (some eight billion odd dollars) by Zeta-Jones keeps the game interesting. Only, who's playing with whom?

 

It's a Boy Girl Thing

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Maury Chaykin, Robert Joy, Brooke D'Orsay, Kevin Zegers, Sherry Miller, Samaire Armstrong, Mpho Koaho

Directors: Nick Hurran

Country: UK, Canada

Year: 2006

The next door neighbors Nell Bedworth and Woody Deane have opposite behaviors and hate each other: the virgin geek Nell is polite, sensitive and well-prepared to go to Yale, while Woody is rude and his greatest expectation is to join a mediocre university due to his abilities playing football. When Nell and Woody are assigned to visit together a museum, they argue in front of the statue of an Aztec god. During the night, their souls swap bodies, bringing difficult situations to them. They first try to damage the reputation of the other in the high-school, but sooner they discover that their dream of joining college would only happen with mutu...

 

Jerry and Tom

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Starring: William H. Macy, Maury Chaykin, Sam Rockwell, Ted Danson, Joe Mantegna, Sarah Polley, Charles Durning

Directors: Saul Rubinek

Country: USA

Year: 1998

Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.

 

Static aka Glitch

Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Starring: Steve Byers, Maury Chaykin, Cedric Smith, Darryn Lucio, Kathleen Robertson, Matthew Edison, Darrell Hicks

Directors: Randy Daudlin

Country: USA

Year: 2008

Three young people try to pitch a new technology for communication to a large cellular company in order to receive funding to further test their product. Upon rejection from that company, one of the three makes the rash decision to test the products on themselves. Upon the initial test, the new technology seems to work fine, but soon after the three discover that the technology has a 'Glitch'. The story revolves around the effects of the glitch, which seem to give some of the friends 'super' powers or abilities. Eventually, it turns into a battle with inventor of the technology against the other two friends in a fight against good and evil.

 

Curtains

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Horror

Starring: Maury Chaykin, Samantha Eggar, John Vernon, Michael Wincott, Lesleh Donaldson, Lynne Griffin, Kate Lynch

Directors: Richard Ciupka

Country: Canada

Year: 1983

Samantha Sherwood has worked with the well-known director Jonathan Stryker on all his major films. She naturally assumes she has been given the title role in his latest venture, "Audra". He tells her that she nn needs to do some background research on the part, so arranges to have her committed to an asylum (as Audra is a former psychiatric patient). She goes along with this, not realising that he intends to leave her there indefinitely and audition six young women of various professions for the part instead. She finally manages to escape, and returns to the spooky old mansion where the auditions are taking place. But who is causing the disap...