Michael Keaton
          Director, Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
Night Shift (1982) 
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Shelley Long, Pat Corley, Michael Keaton… 
- Well–delivered comedy concerning a worker at a morgue who is persuaded to start a prostitution racket by a manic co–worker. Whole cast…
 
Mr. Mom (1983) 
- Dir. Stan Dragoti
Feat. Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Christopher Lloyd… 
- Easy–going, if predictable role reversal comedy with a screenplay written by 80's teen icon John Hughes. 
Keaton plays a dad who, after…
 
Beetlejuice (1988)
 
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin… 
- A deceased couple return as ghosts and discover their home has been occupied by an obnoxious family, so decide to enlist the services of…
 
Clean and Sober (1988)
 
- Dir. Glenn Gordon Caron
Feat. Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman… 
- Unflinching, powerful drama with Michael Keaton utterly convincing as a real estate broker who decides to lay low at a drug rehabilitation facility…
 
Batman (1989) 
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger 
- The box–office sensation that almost survived its own hype. Jack Nicholson's Joker and the incredible set designs will ensure it to be…
 
Dream Team, The (1989) 
- Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle 
- Four mental patients are taken by their psychiatrist to see a baseball game and end up lost in New York after he is knocked unconscious while…
 
Pacific Heights (1991)
 
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton 
- Part of a mini–wave of couple–in–peril thrillers, this better example has what it takes to tie your tum in knots.  Melanie Griffith…
 
Batman Returns (1992)
 
- Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer… 
- The lone Bat returns to defend Gotham City from Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) and The Penguin (Danny De Vito). Everything you loved or loathed about…
 
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
 
- Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves… 
- Kenneth Branagh plunders the Bard again and pulls off a rare breed of romantic escapism. Here he somehow modifies the traditional text for an…
 
My Life (1993)
 
- Dir. Bruce Joel Rubin
Feat. Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman 
- Quality weepie is the writer of GHOST and JACOB'S LADDER's directing debut. Themes of death, guilt and redemption are pointedly replayed as a…
 
Paper, The (1993) 
- Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall… 
- Michael Keaton and Glenn Close clash ethics in the cut–throat world of the New York tabloids. A hectic morality play with pace, humour and…
 
Speechless (1994) 
- Dir. Ron Underwood
Feat. Michael Keaton, Geena Davis 
- Michael Keaton and Geena Davis fall in luurve, oblivious to fact that they are speech writers working for opposite political parties. American…
 
Multiplicity (1996) 
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Harris Yulin… 
- This attempt to repeat the successful formula of GROUNDHOG DAY falls short by making less of its high concept. Instead, its left to ride on the comic…
 
Desperate Measures (1997) 
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Andy Garcia, Michael Keaton 
- Cop Andy Garcia needs to secure a bone marrow donor for his son, and finds a perfect match in Michael Keaton, an incarcerated serial killer, who…
 
Jack Frost (1999) 
- Dir. Troy Miller
Feat. Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Mark Addy 
- After a fatal car accident, Michael Keaton returns to life as… a snowman in this rather slushy Christmas movie. Seeking to fulfil his neglected…
 
Shot at Glory, A (The Cup) (2000) 
- Dir. Michael Corrente
Feat. Robert Duvall, Michael Keaton, Brian Cox… 
- Robert Duvall is successfully cast as the manager of a minor Scottish soccor team, which has been bought and remodeled by an American…
 
Live From Baghdad (2002) 
- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard… 
- Media drama set in war–time Iraq tracking a gutsy group of CNN journalists who are among the few to choose to remain in Baghdad to capture the…
 
First Daughter (2004) 
- Dir. Forest Whitaker
Feat. Katie Holmes, Mark Blucas, Michael Keaton 
- Katie Holmes scrubs up nicely as the daughter of the US President heading off to college for an inexperienced taste of freedom, inevitably getting…
 
White Noise (2005) 
- Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Michael Keaton, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice 
- An architect (Keaton) becomes entranced by the possibilities of speaking with his deceased wife (Unger) by tapping into the audiovisual chaos of a TV…
 
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
 
- Dir. Angela Robinson
Feat. Lindsay Lohan, Matt Dillon, Michael Keaton 
- A refit of the 1970s classic about a Volkswagon 'beetle' with a mind of its own, with Lohan playing a the teenage daughter of a race–driver…
 
Game 6 (2005) 
- Dir. Michael Hoffman
Feat. Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, Griffin Dunne… 
- Nicely balanced dramedy about a fretful playwright with a new work opening on Broadway who chooses to instead focus his anxiety on his beloved Red…
 
Cars (2006)
 
- Dir. John Lasseter
Feat. Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt… 
- Another superb Pixar animation, set in a world of talking automobiles, in which a cocky race car ('Lightning McQueen') gets stranded in a small town…
 
Company, The (TV Series) (2007) 
- Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton… 
- Three–part miniseries based on the novel by Robert Littell, set during the Cold War and following the CIA, KGB, MI6 and Mossad, with a…
 
Merry Gentleman, The (2008) 
- Dir. Michael Keaton
Feat. Michael Keaton, Kelly MacDonald, Tom Bastounes 
- Understated drama marks Michael Keaton's directorial debut with Keaton himself taking the lead as a suicidal hitman who strikes up an unlikely…
 
Post Grad (Post Grad Survival Guide) (2009) 
- Dir. Vicky Jenson
Feat. Alexis Bledel, Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch… 
- Innocuous dramedy follows the misfortune of an unemployed graduate who is forced to move back home when the economy starts to pinch a…
 
Other Guys, The (2010) 
- Dir. Adam McKay
Feat. Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Samuel L. Jackson… 
- Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg make for incompatible partners in this absurdist buddy–cop homage from the dir. of STEP BROTHERS and TALLADEGA…
 
Toy Story 3 (2010)
 
- Dir. Lee Unkrich
Feat. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack… 
- Pixar Studios live up to – and arguably exceed – expectations for this, the third and probably final entry in their beloved flagship…
 
Robocop (2014) 
- Dir. José Padilha
Feat. Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton… 
- Paul Verhoeven's electric blockbuster about a tormented robotic supercop is rebooted for the 21st century.
 
Need for Speed (2014) 
- Dir. Scott Waugh
Feat. Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots… 
- Aaron Paul gets in touch with his inner boyracer in this slick illegal road–racing movie. Based loosely on the popular video game series,…
 
Birdman (Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
 
- Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton… 
- A nimble, bravura Oscar–winning black comedy that cannily casts Michael Keaton as a washed–up actor who, having once played an iconic…