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Adam Rifkin

Highest Rated: 100% Giuseppe Makes a Movie (2014)

Lowest Rated: 5% Zoom (2006)

Birthday: Dec 31, 1966

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Refused admission to a variety of film schools, writer-director Adam Rifkin moved to Los Angeles to try his luck amidst the professional ranks of filmmaking. Struggling to make ends meet as a cartoonist for greeting-card companies and local publications, he finally attracted the attention of youthful producer Brad Wyman with his script for the decidedly off-beat "The Dark Backward" (1991), about a failing comedian whose career takes off when he grows a third arm out of his back, which would eventually become his first feature to get a theatrical release. Prior to directing it, he wrote and helmed "Never on Tuesday" and "Tale of Two Sisters" (both 1989), working with actors like Charlie Sheen, Peter Berg, Nicolas Cage and Claudia Christian, among others, and receiving praise for his handling of varied film techniques, though neither film had a prayer of attracting anything but a cult audience. Reteaming with Sheen, writer-director Rifkin proved with "The Chase" (1994) that he was not just about circus freaks, and TV offered him the chance to work in the genres of sci-fi (as supervising producer on USA Network's "The Swamp Thing" 1990-93) and horror (as creator and co-executive producer of ABC's "Bone Chillers" 1996-97).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 72% Giuseppe Makes a Movie
Watchlist 80% 84% Director's Cut Watchlist 61% 73% The Last Movie Star Watchlist 61% 67% Willy's Wonderland Watchlist
60% 56% Look
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51% 82% Detroit Rock City
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49% 45% Small Soldiers
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45% 60% The Dark Backward
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44% 49% Mouse Hunt
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43% 37% The Chase
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Adam Rifkin Adam Rifkin Adam Rikfin at arrivals for AFI Fest Centerpiece Gala - The Company Men Premiere, Grauman''s Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, CA November 10, 2010. Photo By: Robert Kenney/Everett Collection THE CHASE, Charlie Sheen, director Adam Rifkin, 1994, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. DETROIT ROCK CITY, Sam Huntington, Edward Furlong, Adam Rifkin, James DeBello, iuseppe Andrews, 1999, (c)New Line Cinema View more photos

Filmography

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Willy's Wonderland 61% 67% 2021 Executive Producer The Last Movie Star 61% 73% 2017 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Director's Cut 80% 84% 2016 Adam Rifkin Actor, Director, Producer Shooting the Warwicks 43% 2015 Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer Giuseppe Makes a Movie 100% 72% 2014 Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer Reality Show 2013 Mickey Wagner Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer Chillerama 33% 44% 2011 Miles Munson Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer Knucklehead 11% 35% 2010 Screenwriter Look 60% 56% 2007 Director, Writer National Lampoon's Homo Erectus 17% 10% 2007 Ishbo Actor, Director, Writer Underdog 14% 42% 2007 Writer Zoom 5% 33% 2006 Screenwriter Getting Hal 2003 Producer Night at the Golden Eagle 41% 63% 2002 Director, Writer, Producer Touch Me in the Morning 80% 1999 Producer Detroit Rock City 51% 82% 1999 Director Small Soldiers 49% 45% 1998 Writer Welcome to Hollywood 60% 1998 Self, Director Denial 42% 1998 Reuben Actor, Director, Writer Mouse Hunt 44% 49% 1997 Writer The Nutt House 33% 1995 Director Psycho Cop 2 39% 1994 Director The Chase 43% 37% 1994 Director, Screenwriter The Dark Backward 45% 60% 1991 Director The Invisible Maniac 33% 1990 Director
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