Best Adam Arkin movies
Today we present the best Adam Arkin movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen ... and that you love! Let's go there with the best movies from Adam Arkin:
TOP 17: Full Moon High
Adam Arkin as: Tony
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 1981
A teenager becomes a werewolf after a family vacation in Transylvania.
TOP 16: Halloween: Resurrection
Adam Arkin as: Will Brennan (archive footage) (uncredited)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 2002
Serial Killer Michael Myers is not finished with Laurie Strode, and their rivalry finally comes to an end. But is this the last we see of Myers? Freddie Harris and Nora Winston are reality programmers at DangerTainment, and are planning to send a group of 6 thrill-seeking teenagers into the childhood home of Myers. Cameras are placed all over the house and no one can get out of the house... and then Michael arrives home!
TOP 15: Hanging Up
Adam Arkin as: Joe Marks
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 2000
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
TOP 14: Under the Rainbow
Adam Arkin as: Henry Hudson
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1981
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 intrigue and confusion.
TOP 13: Kids in America
Adam Arkin as: Ed Mumsford
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2005
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.
TOP 12: Graduation
Adam Arkin as: Dean Deeley
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Release: 2007
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 day than they ever did in school.
TOP 11: Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Adam Arkin as: Gabe Difranco
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Release: 2005
Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck, who was on his way to a fateful reunion.
TOP 10: Lake Placid
Adam Arkin as: Kevin
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Release: 1999
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...and people!
TOP 9: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Adam Arkin as: Will Brennan
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 1998
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 her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.
TOP 8: Stark Raving Mad
Adam Arkin as: Don Partridge (uncredited)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 2002
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
TOP 7: Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Adam Arkin as: Bookstore Manager
Genre: Drama
Release: 1993
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.
TOP 6: The Doctor
Adam Arkin as: Eli
Genre: Drama
Release: 1991
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.
TOP 5: Hitch
Adam Arkin as: Max
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2005
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's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.
TOP 4: Pig
Adam Arkin as: Darius
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Release: 2021
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.
TOP 3: A Serious Man
Adam Arkin as: Divorce Lawyer
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2009
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.
TOP 2: The Sessions
Adam Arkin as: Josh
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Release: 2012
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, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
TOP 1: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Adam Arkin as: Other Voices (voice)
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2004
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.