Michael A. Goorjian
Biography: Michael A. Goorjian (born February 4, 1971; San Francisco) is an American filmmaker, writer and actor. Goorjian won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for his role as David Goodson in the television film David's Mother (1994). He is also known for his role as Justin, Neve Campbell’s love interest on the series Party of Five (1994–2000), as well as Heroin Bob in the film SLC Punk! (1998) and its sequel, Punk's Dead (2016). As a director, Goorjian achieved recognition for his first major independent film, Illusion (2004), which he wrote, directed and starred in alongside Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas. Goorjian was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. His father, Peter, is Armenian, with his paternal grandparents being survivors of the Armenian genocide; his mother, Sarah, is of Scottish-American descent. Goorjian grew up in Oakland, California, and attended Bishop O'Dowd High School, which had a strong drama program. At the age of 14, he decided to audition for a local theatre company, thinking it was a ‘cool way’ to skip class; after successfully landing the lead role in a 'not-so-cool' play called Computer Crazy, Goorjian soon found out that the rest of the cast were all senior citizens and that he would have to perform the play at his own junior high school. Despite this seemingly rather humiliating experience, Goorjian stuck with acting, eventually training at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television. Goorjian’s first big Hollywood break came as a dancer when, in 1992, he was cast as ‘Skittery’ in the Disney film Newsies (starring Christian Bale and Robert Duvall). What followed were roles in numerous subsequent films, including Chaplin (with Robert Downey Jr.), Forever Young (with Mel Gibson), the Oscar-nominated Leaving Las Vegas, Hard Rain (with Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater), SLC Punk! (with Devon Sawa), The Invisibles (with Portia de Rossi), Broken (with Heather Graham) and Conversations with God. Goorjian made his first real foray into directing with the mock-documentary Oakland Underground, a comedy about an underground occult music scene in Oakland, CA. From there, Goorjian made Illusion with Kirk Douglas, which was released theatrically in 2006 after racking up over a dozen festival awards, including Best Screenplay at The Hampton’s International Film Festival, Best Feature at the Lake Tahoe International Film Festival and The Audience Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival. With Illusion Goorjian was critically lauded for his ability to blend great filmmaking with philosophical depth. Soon after Illusion, Goorjian began collaborating with the publishing company Hay House to produce and direct a number of films including the documentary You Can Heal Your Life (2007), starring metaphysical author and teacher, Louise L. Hay and The Shift, starring author Dr. Wayne Dyer, along with Michael DeLuise and Portia de Rossi. His most recent work with Hay House is an original film anthology called Tales of Everyday Magic, which explores meaningful philosophical ideas through intimate character-driven stories.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 04, 1971
Deathday: N/A
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SLC Punk
1998-09-24
SLC Punk
Overview: Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-24
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Broken
2007-10-05
Broken
Overview: A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Amerikana
2001-05-15
Amerikana
Overview: Peter and Chris, two young American friends in their late 20s, go from South Dakota to California on a scooter, and as they travel across the American landscape they see their country through different eyes, ranging from Peter's cynically nihilistic point of view, to Chris' high expectations and romantic notions of the United States.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-15
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Chaplin
1992-12-17
Chaplin
Overview: An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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Around June
2008-10-10
Around June
Overview: A love story set in the shadow of the shipyards of San Francisco. A young woman living with her much adored uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father, meets a penniless illegal immigrant, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally break free and live her own life.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-10
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Illusion
2004-10-25
Illusion
Overview: A once-powerful, but now ailing movie director nears the end of his life. As he awaits death, he slips into a "dream" and is shown three "snippets" of the movie of his son's life. At first suspicious, then curious, and ultimately captivated, he watches his son's growth from mid-teens to mid-thirties as the son pursues his life-long love, Isabelle. The two constants through these snippets are his pursuit of Isabelle and the imagined voice of his father, telling him that he is worthless and unwanted. It is not until the story reaches its conclusion, that the old man discovers the surprising truth about his son and himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-25
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Here Lies Lonely
1999-06-05
Here Lies Lonely
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-05
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Go for Broke
2002-06-27
Go for Broke
Overview: Two men (Pras, Michael Goorjian) in drag purposely get arrested in order to recover their winning lottery-ticket from an inmate at a women's prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-27
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The Invisibles
1999-01-26
The Invisibles
Overview: Jude and Joy escape to her Parisian flat for a private detox. A dark comedy of word games, sex, fantasy and pop tarts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-26
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Life in a Day
1999-05-20
Life in a Day
Overview: A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend. The result is a child that grows through adulthood and will die within days, if a cure cannot be found.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-20
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The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?
1993-10-10
The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?
Overview: In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-10
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Conversations with God
2006-01-25
Conversations with God
Overview: "Conversations with God" is the true story of Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions. The journey begins after he unexpectedly breaks his neck in a car accident and loses his job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-25
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David's Mother
1994-04-10
David's Mother
Overview: Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-10
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Do Not Disturb
1999-11-04
Do Not Disturb
Overview: Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond takes his wife and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa , to the Netherlands -- where Melissa inadvertently witnesses a murder. Unable to tell anyone what she's seen, the frightened girl vanishes in an attempt to elude the killers. Meanwhile, her parents try desperately to piece together the puzzle leading to Melissa's disappearance.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-04
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The Mesmerist
2002-03-11
The Mesmerist
Overview: Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on tormenting the living. When a medical experiment leaves the grouch hovering between life and death (and able to describe the world beyond), things get tricky for his daughter (Jessica Capshaw) and her beau (Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser, M.D." fame), who can't get their hands on his estate.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-11
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Amerikatsi
2022-07-21
Amerikatsi
Overview: In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window - the home of a prison guard.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 2022-07-21
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Forever Young
1992-12-16
Forever Young
Overview: A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-16
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Hard Rain
1998-01-16
Hard Rain
Overview: An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-16
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The Wizard of Lies
2017-05-11
The Wizard of Lies
Overview: A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.
Genres: Crime Drama History Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-11
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Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2
2016-02-11
Punk's Dead: SLC Punk 2
Overview: Punk's Dead, the sequel to 1999 cult hit SLC Punk, is a punk romp through the Utah hinterlands. Ross, Penny and Crash, young outsiders from different tribes, embark on a road trip to a huge punk show. Ross, 19, is the love child of Trish and Heroin Bob, who died before Ross was born. During their odyssey, and with the help of a healthy dose of drugs, alcohol and punk music, Ross shreds his darkly Gothic outlook and embraces life. His mother Trish, who raised Ross alone in her steam punk shop, discovers that he is in a crisis. She recruits his 'uncles,' Bob's old SLC gang, to help find him. When all collide at the concert, they are forced to deal with their unresolved relationships with Bob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-11
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Deal of a Lifetime
2000-10-31
Deal of a Lifetime
Overview: The agent for the Devil takes the soul of a high school sophomore in exchange for a date with the most popular girl on campus.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Science Fiction Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-31
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Leaving Las Vegas
1995-10-27
Leaving Las Vegas
Overview: Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Something More
2000-11-28
Something More
Overview: When Sam and his friend fall for the same woman, their friendship is put at risk.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-28
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Newsies
1992-04-10
Newsies
Overview: A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Genres: Drama Music History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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Art House
1998-01-01
Art House
Overview: Ray McMichael is a part time coffee shop employee and part time filmmaker who teams up with film festival darling Weston Craig to make the greatest independent film ever. Through their struggles, they encounter agents, starlets, lesbians, porn stars, extraterrestrials and an enigmatic auteur named Dagmar Geech.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Pin-Up
2018-08-17
Pin-Up
Overview: Uninspired and in her forties, celebrated photographer, Lana Freeman, searches for the elusive visual "perfect moment." When a young waitress saves her life, Lana believes she's found the perfect muse. But as she becomes more and more obsessed with the young woman Lana pulls away from her husband, her work, and the people who love her, not realizing that the muse could destroy her life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-17
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Land of Dreams
2022-09-16
Land of Dreams
Overview: Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to control its citizens, has begun a program to record their dreams. Unaware of this devious plot, Simin is torn between her compassion for those whose dreams she is recording and a truth she must find within.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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