Michael Christopher White (born June 28, 1970) is an American writer, actor and producer. He is known as the co-creator of the HBO comedy-drama series Enlightened (2011–2013), as well as the screenwriter for films, such as Chuck & Buck (2000), Orange County (2002), The Good Girl (2002), The School of Rock (2003) and Beatriz at Dinner (2017).
Gru and Lucy and their girls—Margo, Edith and Agnes—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru also faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, forcing the family to go on the run.
Release Date: 2024-06-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2572
After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, the Mallard family embarks on a family road trip, from New England, to New York City, to tropical Jamaica.
Release Date: 2023-12-06
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 1941
When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a storybook life. The talented Apolonia was born in an underground theater in Paris and grew up in an artists’ community—the ultimate bohemian existence. In her 20s, she studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, one of the most prestigious art academies in Europe. Over the years, Lea Glob kept returning to film the charismatic Apolonia and a special bond developed between the two young women.
Release Date: 2023-03-23
Character: Self
Vote Count: 16
Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.
Release Date: 2021-07-11
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 21
Vote Count: 892
A gorilla named Ivan who’s living in a suburban shopping mall tries to piece together his past, with the help of other animals, as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.
Release Date: 2020-08-21
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Character: Frankie (voice) / Passing Driver
Vote Count: 588
After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music with your mouth. But when they get the chance to reunite for an overseas USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time.
Release Date: 2017-12-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 3310
Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his college glory days. When he accompanies his musical prodigy son on a university tour, he can't help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends who seemingly have more wealthy and glamorous lives. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if their lives are actually more flawed than they appear.
Release Date: 2017-09-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Nick Pascale
Vote Count: 408
Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.
Release Date: 2017-07-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 3122
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.
Release Date: 2017-06-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 179
Pierre Bismuth hires a private detective and a duo of screenwriters to investigate on an enigmatic artwork.
Release Date: 2016-05-01
Character: Self
Vote Count: 2
With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his reputation when a wild night takes an unexpected turn.
Release Date: 2015-05-08
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Jerry
Vote Count: 230
Overbearing mom, Jackie, travels cross-country to be with her son, Angelo, after he drops out of college to become a surfer. She meets a surf instructor who convinces her to try to accept her son's wishes and allow him to follow his dreams.
Release Date: 2014-11-08
Character: Roger
Vote Count: 137
Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders, for example), to discuss their development before fame, their passions beyond their careers, and gives them a space to open up about their insight into their business and their own abilities. Filmed in black and white, with a few deep cushion chairs and sparse set, the show relies on Sam's ability to relate to the guests and their will to speak freely with him.
Release Date: 2014-02-06
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 4
In remote Chile, a vacationing young woman begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.
Release Date: 2013-07-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 204
After a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, Amy tries to get her life back together.
Release Date: 2011-10-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Tyler
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 90
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.
Release Date: 2009-10-02
Character: Toilet Victim / Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Vote Count: 12385
A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.
Release Date: 2009-09-30
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Character: Dusty
Vote Count: 169
After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young couple.
Release Date: 2008-09-26
Character: Myron Stubbs
Vote Count: 51
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.
Release Date: 2007-11-04
Character: Self
Vote Count: 49
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.
Release Date: 2007-10-03
Character: Billy Balsam
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 402
A secretary's life changes in unexpected ways after her dog dies.
Release Date: 2007-04-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 67
Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed.
Release Date: 2006-06-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1665
A man with a clipboard asks passersby a survey question: "Are you the favorite person of anybody?" He has a scale, from "very certain" on down. His manner is open. He offers oranges to one respondent. He talks, one at a time, to three people. Their answers, however brief, are revealing.
Release Date: 2005-01-23
Vote Count: 16
With this satirical series, the E! Entertainment Network returns to a format they helped create with the popular '90s show Talk Soup. Only this time instead of just poking fun at talk shows, they're setting their sights on all things in entertainment, reality TV, pop culture, and politics.
Release Date: 2004-07-01
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 24
What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.
Release Date: 2004-06-10
Character: Hank
Vote Count: 1326
Cracking Up is an American television sitcom created by School of Rock writer Mike White, who also served as the series' head writer. It aired on the Fox Network on Monday nights from March to May 2004. The title of the program and the name of the psychiatrist, Dr. Bollas, are comic allusions to Christopher Bollas, a psychoanalyst, and to his book Cracking UP.
Release Date: 2004-03-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
Release Date: 2003-10-03
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Character: Ned Schneebly
Vote Count: 5704
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Release Date: 2002-01-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Corny
Vote Count: 632
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
Release Date: 2002-01-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Mr. Burke
Vote Count: 461
Lily McAllister has lived a charmed life as part of the most powerful family in the upscale Southern California enclave of Pasadena. All that changes, however, when a murder and coverup in her own mansion thrusts Lily into a search to unlock her family's long-buried secrets.
Release Date: 2001-09-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 6
Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation—on Chuck's life.
Release Date: 2000-07-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Buck
Vote Count: 62
A reality show contest where sixteen or more castaways split between two or more “Tribes” are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for roughly 39 days. Frequent physical challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for “Immunity”, forcing the other tribe to attend “Tribal Council”, where they must vote off one of their players.
Release Date: 2000-05-31
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 388
High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
Release Date: 1999-09-25
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Chip Kelly
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 761
The Shadow Warriors hire on to reclaim the daughter of a woman whose ex-husband kidnapped the child after a custody battle. At the same time, they uncover a terrorist plot to attack Seattle.
Release Date: 1999-04-04
Character: Derek
Vote Count: 15
Two college roommates venture out to identify a fellow student, who is most likely to commit suicide as it will help them pass the semester.
Release Date: 1998-08-21
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 147
Character: Self
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.
Release Date: 1998-01-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 9
Vote Count: 549
Carlos wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father's boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood.
Release Date: 1997-07-23
Character: Carmel County Writer
Vote Count: 17