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Michael Almereyda

Highest Rated: 90% Escapes (2016)

Lowest Rated: 32% Cymbeline (2014)

Birthday: Apr 7, 1959

Birthplace: Overland Park, Kansas, USA

Though his startlingly original work has remained largely unseen, the Kansas-born writer-director Michael Almereyda has consistently elicited complex, arresting performances from name actors and non-actors alike in a series of films where narrative has remained secondary to emotional and visual impact. After dropping out of Harvard, he moved to NYC and began writing screenplays, quickly securing an agent and soon after his first Hollywood job rewriting the unproduced "Mandrake the Magician" for Embassy Pictures. Almereyda provided the tongue-in-cheek screenplay for Steve de Jarnette's sci-fi action feature "Cherry 2000" (1988), starring Melanie Griffith as a female mercenary hired to bust into a 21st-century robot warehouse operated by psychos in what used to be the American Southwest. He then escaped the trouble surrounding his yet-to-be filmed first feature as director, "Twister" (1989), to go to Australia and collaborate with director Bruce Beresford on an early draft of what would eventually become "Total Recall" (1990).

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Highest rated movies

90% 83% Escapes Watchlist 89% 61% Marjorie Prime Watchlist
89% 64% This So-Called Disaster
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89% 65% William Eggleston in the Real World
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85% 61% Experimenter
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64% 67% Nadja
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59% 46% Hamlet
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58% 43% Tesla Watchlist
50% 43% Happy Here and Now
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38% 41% Cherry 2000
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
58% 43% Tesla Director,
Screenwriter
$93.0K 2020
89% 61% Marjorie Prime Director,
Screenwriter
$179.2K 2017
90% 83% Escapes Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 2016
85% 61% Experimenter Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$155.1K 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mondo Cane Director - 2015
32% 16% Cymbeline Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet New Orleans, Mon Amour Director,
Screenwriter
- 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paradise Director - 2008
89% 65% William Eggleston in the Real World Director,
Writer,
Producer,
Cinematographer
$44.4K 2005
89% 64% This So-Called Disaster Director $45.2K 2003
50% 43% Happy Here and Now Director,
Writer
$2.4K 2002
59% 46% Hamlet Director,
Screenwriter
$1.6M 2000
33% 24% The Eternal Director,
Writer
- 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet At Sundance Director - 1995
33% 41% Search and Destroy Writer - 1995
64% 67% Nadja Director,
Screenwriter
- 1994
No Score Yet 83% Another Girl Another Planet Director,
Writer
- 1992
No Score Yet 44% Twister Director,
Screenwriter
- 1989
38% 41% Cherry 2000 Screenwriter - 1988

TV

Credit
92% 95% Deadwood Director 2005