George Miller
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George Miller (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is probably most well known for his work on the Mad Max movies, but has been involved in a wide range of projects, including the Oscar-winning Happy Feet.
Miller is the older brother of producer Bill Miller.
He is a also co-founder of the Production House Dr.D Studios and Kennedy-Miller Mitchell Films formerly known as Kennedy-Miller Productions.
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Tom Hardy | Nicholas Hoult | Charlize Theron | Hugh Keays-Byrne | Josh Helman
Happy Feet Two (2011)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Elijah Wood | Robin Williams | Pink | Johnny A. Sanchez | E.G. Daily
Happy Feet (2006)
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Elijah Wood | Nicole Kidman | Brittany Murphy | Robin Williams | Hugh Jackman
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Magda Szubanski | James Cromwell | Mickey Rooney | Mary Stein | E.G. Daily
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder. Frustrated at the failings of doctors and medicine in this area, the Odones begin to educate themselves
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Nick Nolte | Susan Sarandon | Ann Hearn | Peter Ustinov | Maduka Steady
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Susan Sarandon | Veronica Cartwright | Michelle Pfeiffer | Cher | Jack Nicholson
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: George Miller | George Ogilvie
Stars: Mel Gibson | Bruce Spence | Tina Turner | Angelo Rossitto | Helen Buday
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the originals, where eerie and disturbing situations gradually spin out of control. "A Quality of Mercy", "Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life", and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Landis | Steven Spielberg | George Miller | Joe Dante
Stars: Dan Aykroyd | John Lithgow | Albert Brooks | Vic Morrow | Scatman Crothers
The Dismissal (1983)
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister.
Directed by: Phillip Noyce | George Miller | George Ogilvie | Carl Schultz | John Power
Stars: Bill Hunter | John Hargreaves | John Meillon | John Stanton | Max Phipps
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Mel Gibson | Bruce Spence | Vernon Wells | Max Phipps | Michael Preston
Mad Max (1979)
In a postapocalyptic future, jaded cop Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) is ready to retire. But his world is shattered when a malicious gang murders his family as an act of retaliation, forcing a devastated Max to hit the open road seeking vengeance. As he travels the Australian outback's empty stretches of highway, he tours the bloodstained battlegrounds ruled by marauding bikers who feed on violence.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Mel Gibson | Steve Bisley | Hugh Keays-Byrne | Joanne Samuel | Tim Burns
Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 (1971)
What at first seems like a serious psychological assessment of violence in the cinema by a professor or lecturer, turns into a bloody orgy of human destructiveness.
Runtime: 20 min.
Directed by: George Miller
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