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Joe Dante
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Joe Dante

11/28/1946 (77 years old) | Morristown, USA | Actor | Male
Joseph Joe Dante, Jr. is an American film director and producer of films generally with humorous and science fiction content. His films include Piranha (1978) and The Howling (1981), both from scripts by John Sayles; Segment 3 of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); Gremlins (1984), his first major hit, and its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990); Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Runaway Daughters (1994), The Second Civil War (1997), The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998), Small Soldiers (1998), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), and Homecoming (2005). In 1995-1996, Dante worked on The Phantom, and when he was removed from the film, he chose screen credit (as executive producer) rather than pay. He was creative consultant on Eerie, Indiana (1991–1992) and directed five episodes. He played himself in the series finale.

Joe Dante Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

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Piranha

Movie | United States | 08/03/1978 | Horror | Animal Attack
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
5.9/10
70%
903

Beverly Hills Cop III

Movie | United States | 05/24/1994 | Action | Buddies
Back in sunny southern California and on the trail of two murderers, Axel Foley again teams up with LA cop Billy Rosewood. Soon, they discover that an amusement park is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring – and it's run by the same gang that shot Billy's boss.
5.5/10
11%
192

The 'Burbs

Movie | United States | 02/17/1989 | Comedy | Mystery
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
6.8/10
53%
118

Small Soldiers

Movie | United States | 07/10/1998 | Science Fiction | Robots
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
48%
122

Looney Tunes: Back In Action

Movie | United States | 11/14/2003 | Comedy | Family
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are up to their feuding ways again. Tired of playing second fiddle to Bugs, Daffy has decided to leave the Studio for good. He is aided by Warner Bros.' humor impaired Vice President of Comedy, Kate Houghton, who releases him from his contract and instructs WB security guard/aspiring stunt man DJ Drake to capture and \escort\ Daffy off the studio lot.
5.8/10
57%
415

The Howling

Movie | United States | 04/03/1981 | Horror
6.6/10
67%
51

Nightmare Cinema

Movie | United States | 06/21/2019 | Horror
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
5.5/10
77%
139

Gremlins

Movie | United States | 06/07/1984 | Horror | Horror Comedy
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
7.3/10
86%
1,704

Sleepwalkers

Movie | United States | 04/10/1992 | Horror | Supernatural
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.
5.3/10
12

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Movie | United States | 06/15/1990 | Horror | Horror Comedy
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
6.4/10
71%
61

The Butterfly Room

Movie | Italy | 08/04/2012
Ann, a reclusive elegant lady, with an obsession for butterflies, is befriended by the eerily beautiful young Alice. Using her seductive innocence, Alice establishes a disturbing mother daughter relationship with Ann. Lured into her twisted world, Ann soon discovers that she is not the only recipient of the girl's affections. Confronted by Alice's other lady friends, Ann's shock awakens a dark, hidden past, unchaining a spiral of madness: a series of brutal and bizarre crimes that Ann will have to commit to preserve her harmless and deceptive appearances. The only one who recognizes there's something unsettling about Ann, is nine year old Julie, her next door neighbour's daughter. With the inevitable curiosity of a child, Julie begins to explore the corners of Ann's apartment, discovering a dark secret hidden in the walls of the forbidden butterfly room. No one believes what she's seen except for Ann's daughter. Horrified, she realises that the fate of the young girl lies in her hands.
5.6/10

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

TV Show | United States | 01/21/2016 | Superhero | DC
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
6.8/10
89%
2,317

Innerspace

Movie | United States | 06/30/1987 | Comedy | Shrinking
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
82%
170

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