Joel McHale
Actor
Actor
Joel Edward McHale (born November 20, 1971) is an Italian-American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, television producer, television personality, and voice artist. He is best known for hosting The Soup and for his role as Jeff Winger on Community.
McHale's role as a voice actor includes Elliot in Open Season 2, filling in for Ashton Kutcher. He also appeared in Spider-Man 2 in a cameo appearance as bank manager Mr. Jacks, CSI: Miami as Greg Welsh, and Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World as Wilbur.
As: Jeff
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Cary Murnion | Jonathan Milott
Stars: Kevin James | Robert Maillet | Joel McHale | Amanda Brugel | Lulu Wilson
Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed on the job and left for dead. In a vintage Psych-style Hitchcockian nod, he begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn and Gus return to Lassie's side in Santa Barbara and are forced to navigate the personal, the professional, and possibly the supernatural.
Directed by: Steve Franks
Stars: Maggie Lawson | James Roday | Dulé Hill | Timothy Omundson | Kirsten Nelson
As: Johnny Cage (voice)
After the vicious slaughter of his family by stone-cold mercenary Sub-Zero, Hanzo Hasashi is exiled to the torturous Netherrealm. There, in exchange for his servitude to the sinister Quan Chi, he’s given a chance to avenge his family – and is resurrected asScorpion, a lost soul bent on revenge. Back on Earthrealm, Lord Raiden gathers a team of elite warriors – Shaolin monk Liu Kang, Special ...
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Ethan Spaulding
Stars: Joel McHale | Jennifer Carpenter | Patrick Seitz | Jordan Rodrigues | Steve Blum
As: Himself
The handsome and funny host of The Soup on E! and star of the hit NBC show, Community, brings you his first stand-up special ever. Joel McHale discusses everything from feeding alligators in the south to wanting to change the San Francisco 49er’s name to something a little more relevant. This is not actually filmed in Pyongyang, but it’s definitely a stand-up special and it's 100% really filmed ...
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Brian Volk-Weiss
Stars: Joel McHale
As: Norbert (voice)
A pampered dog named Trouble must learn to live in the real world, while trying to escape from his former owner's greedy children.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Kevin Johnson
Stars: Joel McHale | Pamela Adlon | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Lucy Hale | Big Sean
As: Agent Campbell
When the puppet cast of an '80s children's TV show begins to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Brian Henson
Stars: Melissa McCarthy | Maya Rudolph | Elizabeth Banks | Joel McHale | Leslie David Baker
As: Judge Lepetri
Darby finds herself in trouble with the law, and is sentenced to house arrest. Now she must serve thirty days in the home she used to share with her ex-boyfriend, that he now shares with his new fiancee.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Jillian Armenante
Stars: Kirsten Vangsness | Joel McHale | Christina Moore | Heather Matarazzo | Felicia Day
As: Himself
Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Kyle Newacheck
Stars: Utkarsh Ambudkar | Adam Devine | Blake Anderson | Anders Holm | Jamie Demetriou
As: Chevy Chase
The National Lampoon name became globally recognized after the monumental success of Animal House—but before the glory days, it was a scrappy yet divinely subversive magazine and radio show that introduced the world to comedic geniuses like Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner. The driving force behind National Lampoon was Doug Kenney (Will Forte), and his truly wild and crazy story ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: David Wain
Stars: Will Forte | Domhnall Gleeson | Thomas Lennon | Martin Mull | Joel McHale
As: Nick
In a small suburb, four teenage girls become the focus of unwanted, world-wide media attention after their personal information is leaked by an anonymous hacker.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Sam Levinson
Stars: Bill Skarsgård | Suki Waterhouse | Odessa Young | Hari Nef | Abra
As: Narrator
With the rapid emergence of digital devices, an unstoppable, invisible force is changing human lives in ways from the microscopic to the gargantuan: Big Data, a word that was barely used a few years ago but now governs the day for many of us from the moment we awaken to the extinguishing of the final late-evening light bulb. This massive gathering and analyzing of data in real time is allowing us ...
Runtime: 56 min.
Directed by: Sandy Smolan
Stars: Joel McHale | Lisa Coronado | Lexie Butler | Miles Dewar | Chris Grounds
As: Himself - Special Guest
Mad TV's Brooks McBeth is articulate, but he definitely isn't Shakespeare. He has a lot of bathroom jokes, but good ones. He's trying to follow his mother's advice. He's got some raunchy stories. Hear it all in this stand-up set.
Runtime: 53 min.
Directed by: Michael-Ryan Fletchall
Stars: Joel McHale | Brooks McBeth
As: Boyd Mitchler
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Tristram Shapeero
Stars: Jeffrey Tambor | Wendi McLendon-Covey | Lauren Graham | Robin Williams | Joel McHale
As: Hudson
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Ross Katz
Stars: Bobby Cannavale | Rose Byrne | Nick Kroll | Joel McHale | Caitlin Fitzgerald
As: Butler
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest, Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of ...
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Scott Derrickson
Stars: Eric Bana | Sean Harris | Joel McHale | Olivia Munn | Edgar Ramírez
As: Mark
After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attractions grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Stars: Terry Crews | Bella Thorne | Wendi McLendon-Covey | Drew Barrymore | Adam Sandler
As: Rex
John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Seth MacFarlane
Stars: Giovanni Ribisi | Mila Kunis | Seth MacFarlane | Mark Wahlberg | Joel McHale
As: Barry Loomis
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: David Frankel
Stars: Owen Wilson | Rashida Jones | Steve Martin | Jack Black | Jim Parsons
As: Roger the Boss
Ally Darling (Anna Faris) is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of women who've been with 20 or more lovers are unlikely to find a husband. Determined to turn her life around and prove the article wrong, Ally embarks on a mission to ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Mark Mylod
Stars: Chris Evans | Anna Faris | Chris Pratt | Martin Freeman | Ari Graynor
As: Wilber Wilson
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) must team up ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Jessica Alba | Rowan Blanchard | Jeremy Piven | Joel McHale | Mason Cook
As: Robert Herndon
A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Matt Damon | Melanie Lynskey | Scott Bakula | Ann Dowd | Joel McHale
As: Elliot (Voice)
After falling head over hooves in love with Giselle, Elliot's road to the altar takes a slight detour when Mr. Weenie is kidnapped by a group of pampered pets determined to return him to his owners.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Matthew O'Callaghan
Stars: Mike Epps | Crispin Glover | Jane Krakowski | Billy Connolly | Joel McHale
As: TV Reporter
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta (John Robinson), Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk) and Jay Adams (Emile Hirsch) are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Stars: Rebecca De Mornay | Michael Angarano | Victor Rasuk | Emile Hirsch | John Robinson
As: Mr. Jacks
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Stars: Alfred Molina | Rosemary Harris | James Franco | Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst