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Joe Dante

Joe Dante

American Filmmaker
November 28, 1946 (78 years old)
Runtime: 119 min.
U.S. 2009. Horror by Joe Dante with Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett, Nathan Gamble. Exploring a hole in the basement of their new home leads two teenage brothers into a world where they must confront their deepest fears.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 2003. Fantasy comedy by Joe Dante with Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, Steve Martin. The son of a secret agent gets help from a producer and the cartoon heroes Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny to rescue his kidnapped father.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1998. Fantasy comedy by Joe Dante with Gregory Smith, Kirsten Dunst, Jay Mohr. Due to a manufacturing defect, military figures come to life and cause havoc in a small community.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1998. Science-fiction by Joe Dante with John Corbett, Carolyn McCormick, John Pyper-Ferguson. In 2419, on a distant planet, a renegade gets the help of a retired general to rescue his sister who has been kidnapped.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 1997. Satire by Joe Dante with Beau Bridges, James Coburn, James Earl Jones.
U.S. 1993. Fantasy comedy by Joe Dante with John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton. During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the premiere of a science fiction film causes quite a stir in a small town in Florida.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1990. Fantasy comedy by Joe Dante with Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover. A skyscraper is taken over by a multitude of mischievous little monsters.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1989. Comedy by Joe Dante with Tom Hanks, Rick Ducommun, Carrie Fisher. A suburban resident takes advantage of the apparent absence of his strange neighbours and enters their home, where he makes odd discoveries.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1987. Fantasy comedy by Joe Dante with Martin Short, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan. To escape from spies, a submarine and its pilot are miniaturized and injected into the body of a passer-by.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1986. Sketches by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss with Steve Forrest, Joey Travolta, Rosanna Arquette. Various strange incidents occur during the presentation of a science fiction film by a television station.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1985. Fantasy comedy by Joe Dante with Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson. Three young boys, who succeeded in creating with a computer a ball of energy, which can transport them in space, reach a spationef.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1984. Horror comedy by Joe Dante with Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton. A young man receives a curious animal as a gift, which then gives rise to predatory monsters.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1983. Sketches by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller with Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan. Four extraordinary stories inspired by a successful television series from the 1960s.
U.S. 1980. Horror by Joe Dante with Dee Wallace, Dennis Dugan, Patrick Macnee.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1978. Horror by Joe Dante with Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Keenan Wynn.
Runtime: 94 min.
Runtime: 83 min.
U.S. 1968. Documentary by Joe Dante. A collage of excerpts from films and television shows that are as unsuccessful as they are fascinating, celebrating the exploitation cinema and popular culture of the 1950s and 60s.
Runtime: 420 min.

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