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Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American actor and director. His father was the Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin and his brother is the actor Matthew Arkin. Adam Arkin is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Actor, 1991, I Hate Hamlet) as well as three ... more

Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American actor and director. His father was the Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin and his brother is the actor Matthew Arkin. Adam Arkin is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Actor, 1991, I Hate Hamlet) as well as three primetime Emmys, four SAG Awards (Ensemble, Chicago Hope), and a DGA Award (My Louisiana Sky). Beginning in 1990, he had a recurring guest role on Northern Exposure playing the angry, paranoid Adam, for which he received an Emmy nomination. In 2002, Arkin won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special for My Louisiana Sky. Between 2007 and 2009, he co-starred in the drama series Life. In 2009, he portrayed villain Ethan Zobelle, a white separatist gang leader, in Sons of Anarchy, and Principal Ed Gibb in 8 Simple Rules (2003–2005).

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A Serious Man
(2009)
Comedy, Drama
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast:
Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed
7.1
89%
84
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Hitch
(2005)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch'...
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Andy Tennant
Cast:
Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta, Julie Ann Emery
6.6
69%
58
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The Sessions
(2012)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away,...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Ben Lewin
Cast:
John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Moon Bloodgood
7.2
93%
79
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
(1998)
Horror, Thriller
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers ...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Steve Miner
Cast:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams
5.8
52%
52
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Lake Placid
(1999)
Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals....
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Steve Miner
Cast:
Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White
5.7
47%
34
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The Doctor
(1991)
Drama
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
Runtime:
122 min
Director:
Randa Haines
Cast:
William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin
6.9
86%
N/A
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Stark Raving Mad
(2002)
Comedy, Crime
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
David Schneider, Drew Daywalt
Cast:
Seann William Scott, Timm Sharp, Suzy Nakamura, Patrick Been, Lou Diamond Phillips
6.3
20%
N/A
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Prohibition
(2011)
Documentary
The story of the American activist struggle against the influence of alcohol, climaxing in the failed early 20th century nationwide era when it was banned.
Runtime:
330 min
Director:
Lynn Novick, Ken Burns
Cast:
Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Conway, Peter Coyote
8.2
N/A
N/A
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Hanging Up
(2000)
Comedy, Drama
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Diane Keaton
Cast:
Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Myndy Crist
4.9
12%
33
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Kids in America
(2005)
Comedy, Drama
Inspired by real events, this ribald comedy pits an unlikely gang of students against their principal after she bars safe-sex activities on campus. Protesting Principal Weller's muzzling of free speech, the teens stage a bold and hilarious rebellion.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Josh Stolberg
Cast:
Gregory Smith, Stephanie Sherrin, Caitlin Wachs, Nicole Richie, Julie Bowen
5.7
N/A
38
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Graduation
(2007)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Four best friends, about to graduate from high school, must find a way to raise money to help a family member in need. When one of them discovers her banker father having an affair, the foursome plots to rob his bank during graduation ceremonies. When things don't go according to plan, they end up learning more about themselves in one ...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Michael Mayer
Cast:
Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Chris Marquette, Chris Lowell, Adam Arkin
6.4
N/A
N/A
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A Slight Case of Murder
(1999)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator, who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli, a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's g...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Steven Schachter
Cast:
William H. Macy, Adam Arkin, Felicity Huffman, James Cromwell, Julia Campbell
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Under the Rainbow
(1981)
Comedy
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the i...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Steve Rash
Cast:
Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, Joseph Maher, Robert Donner
5.4
N/A
N/A
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In Security
(2014)
Action, Comedy
The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Adam Beamer, Evan Beamer
Cast:
Ethan Embry, Michael Gladis, Clea DuVall, Cary Elwes, Adam Arkin
5.2
N/A
N/A
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A Year in the Life
(1986)
Drama, TV Movie
Miniseries that follows a family, a year after the death of the matriarch. Her husband tries to cope by cycling. And one of the daughters is going through a rough patch in her second marriage. And the other daughter is about to give birth. And one son is still trying to find himself. And the younger son is engaged but when he meets a g...
Runtime:
180 min
Director:
Thomas Carter
Cast:
Richard Kiley, Eva Marie Saint, Adam Arkin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Jessica Parker
8.7
N/A
N/A
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Summer Eleven
(2010)
Drama, Family
The poignant, coming of age story about a group of eleven year old girls in their final summer before middle school.
Director:
Joseph Kell
Cast:
Alice Ziolkoski, Meaghan Hughes, Deborah Theaker, Rebecca Butterworth, Sarah Butterworth
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Murder on Pleasant Drive
(2006)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but without a body, neither Deanna or Sherrie can prove that murder, much less a crime, has even been commit...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Michael Scott
Cast:
Kelli Williams, Amy Madigan, Susan Hogan, Vincent Gale, Brian Markinson
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Full Moon High
(1981)
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A teenager becomes a werewolf after a family vacation in Transylvania.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Larry Cohen
Cast:
Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon, Joanne Nail, Bill Kirchenbauer
4.7
N/A
N/A
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Tell-Tale
(2010)
Celebrity photographer Greg Williams together with an impressive cast lead by Carla Gugino, take on the concept of the Femme Fatale in this stylish erotic-noir.
Runtime:
9 min
Director:
Greg Williams
Cast:
Carla Gugino, Adam Arkin, Jesse Spencer, Clifton Collins Jr
6.5
N/A
N/A
Dropping Out
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Dropping Out
(2000)
Emile Brockton enjoys TV, chicken pot pies, and...well, not much else. His life has become a meaningless procession of banal activities that prompt him to spice things up the only way he can devise: by killing himself. However, the road to suicide is filled with many distractions, and these create the ultimate conundrum for Emile.
Runtime:
109 min
6.5
N/A
N/A
In the Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice
(1995)
Crime, Drama, TV Movie, Thriller
When a state trooper is gunned down on a New Jersey highway, his friend and colleague sets out to track down the killers. Realizing the murder is connected to an extensive underground terrorist ring, he joins forces with the FBI on a massive five-state hunt. Based on a true story.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Dick Lowry
Cast:
Adam Arkin, Nicholas Turturro, Melissa Leo, Stephen Root, Dean Norris
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Thirst
(1998)
Drama, Thriller
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Bill L. Norton
Cast:
Adam Arkin, Joely Fisher, Giancarlo Esposito
4.7
N/A
N/A
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It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
(1974)
Comedy, TV Movie
A beautiful woman decides to play a prank on a random man from the street by kidnapping him at gunpoint to her house. After forcing him to strip, she sends him on his way naked. He reports the incident to the authorities, but they either don't believe him, or, if they do, can't understand why he would consider it a crime - a reaction h...
Runtime:
74 min
Director:
Cy Howard
Cast:
Paul Sorvino, Michael Learned, Bob Dishy, Adam Arkin, Eddie Barth
6.0
N/A
N/A
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People Soup
(1969)
Comedy, Drama
People Soup is a 1969 short film written and directed by Alan Arkin, with Adam Arkin and Matthew Arkin. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Runtime:
12 min
Director:
Alan Arkin
Cast:
Adam Arkin, Matthew Arkin
7.0
N/A
N/A