Michael Douglas Movies-Best to Worst-With Inflated Box Office Results/Grosses
84Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in 1984's Romancing the Stone.....one of three very successful movies they starred in together.
When trying to figure which movie hub to do next, I was getting numerous suggestions for one of the most famous father/son actors in Hollywood history, Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas. So I decided to do both of them. You can check out the Kirk Douglas hub here
Before doing this hub, I was aware that Michael Douglas' big break was on the television show, The Streets of San Francisco(1972-1976). I did not know that Douglas was nominated for a Golden Globe as best newcomer in the 1969 movie Hail, Hero! It would be 15 years before he would become a movie star. In 1984, he starred in the box office smash, Romancing the Stone, co-starring Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. From 1984-2000, Douglas would become one of the biggest and most bankable movie stars acting in movies. He would appear in the monster box office hits like....Fatal Attraction(1987), War of the Roses(1989), Basic Instinct(1992), Disclosure(1994) and A Perfect Murder(1998)....and critically acclaimed movies like Wall Street(he won an Oscar for his role), The American President, and Traffic(won Oscar for Best Picture).
It was announced on August 16, 2010, that Douglas was suffering from throat cancer and underwent chemotherapy and radiation treatment. After losing 32 pounds due to the treatment, Douglas went back to work. He has completed a new movie called Haywire co-starring Ewan McGregor due in 2012, and will next film Liberace opposite Matt Damon due in 2013.
Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in 1987's Fatal Attraction(318.80 million in 2011 U.S. inflated dollars)
Michael Douglas' Top Ten Box Office Movies in 2012 Inflated Dollars.
Movie Year
| 2012 Inflated Box Office(millions)
| Co-Stars
|
|---|---|---|
#1 Fatal Attraction (1987)
| 318.80 million
| Glenn Close
|
#2 Basic Instinct (1992)
| 225.80 million
| Sharon Stone
|
#3 Traffic (2000)
| 182.80 million
| Dennis Quaid
|
#4 Romancing the Stone (1984)
| 181.30 million
| Kathleen Turner
|
#5 The War of the Roses (1989)
| 174.10 million
| Kathleen Turner
|
#6 The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
| 170.10 million
| Kathleen Turner
|
#7 The China Syndrome (1979)
| 163.80 million
| Jack Lemmon
|
#8 Disclosure (1994)
| 161.40 million
| Demi Moore
|
#9 A Perfect Murder (1998)
| 114.50 million
| Gwyneth Paltrow
|
#10 The American President (1995)
| 109.70 million
| Annette Bening
|
Michael Douglas in 1995's The American President....one of my wife's favorite movies...ranked # 2 by critics and audiences.
Michael Douglas's Top Ten Movies based on critics and audience voting.
Movie Year
| Critics Audience Score
| Co-Stars
|
|---|---|---|
#1 Traffic (2000)
| 85%
| Dennis Quaid/Catharine Zeta-Jones
|
#2 The American President (1995)
| 79%
| Martin Sheen/Michael J. Fox
|
#3 Romancing the Stone (1984)
| 78%
| Kathleen Turner
|
#4 The China Syndrome (1979)
| 78%
| Jane Fonda/Jack Lemmon
|
#5 Wonder Boys (2000)
| 78%
| Tobey Maguire/Robert Downey Jr.
|
#6 Wall Street (1987)
| 76%
| Charlie Sheen
|
#7 Falling Down (1993)
| 76%
| Robert Duvall
|
#8 Fatal Attraction (1987)
| 74%
| Anne Archer/Glenn Close
|
#9 The War of the Roses (1989)
| 74%
| Kathleen Turner
|
#10 The Game (1997)
| 74%
| Sean Penn
|
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone in 1992's Basic Instinct....ranked by Movie Score as his 3rd best movie.
Michael Douglas' 38 Movies ranked by Movie Score. Movie Score is box office results + critical reception + award recognition. Perfect score would be 100.
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2012 U.S. Box Office (Millions)
| Opening Weekend Rank
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Rating
| Cogerson Movie Score
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st
| Fatal Attraction (1987)
| $318.80
| 1
| 13
| 21
| 74%
| 72.98
|
2nd
| Traffic (2000)
| $182.80
| 3
| 4
| 13
| 85%
| 71.79
|
3rd
| Basic Instinct (1992)
| $225.80
| 1
| 10
| 14
| 66%
| 66.98
|
4th
| The War of the Roses (1989)
| $174.10
| 1
| 8
| 10
| 74%
| 66.41
|
5th
| Romancing the Stone (1984)
| $181.30
| 4
| 9
| 12
| 78%
| 64.22
|
6th
| The China Syndrome (1979)
| $163.80
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 78%
| 62.90
|
7th
| Wall Street (1987)
| $89.00
| 3
| 3
| 7
| 76%
| 62.11
|
8th
| Disclosure (1994)
| $161.40
| 1
| 5
| 8
| 61%
| 56.32
|
9th
| The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
| $170.10
| 2
| 7
| 9
| 54%
| 54.39
|
10th
| The American President (1995)
| $109.70
| 3
| 1
| 7
| 79%
| 51.74
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2012 U.S. Box Office (Millions)
| Opening Weekend Rank
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Rating
| Cogerson Movie Score
|
11th
| Coma (1978)
| $108.90
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 72%
| 46.98
|
12th
| Black Rain (1989)
| $92.20
| 1
| 5
| 7
| 61%
| 46.65
|
13th
| Falling Down (1993)
| $78.70
| 1
| 3
| 5
| 76%
| 45.93
|
14th
| The Game (1997)
| $83.50
| 1
| 3
| 4
| 74%
| 44.62
|
15th
| A Perfect Murder (1998)
| $114.50
| 2
| 3
| 5
| 60%
| 44.05
|
16th
| The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
| $69.20
| 1
| 4
| 6
| 59%
| 40.56
|
17th
| Wonder Boys (2000)
| $28.60
| 7
| 0
| 2
| 78%
| 36.84
|
18th
| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
| $52.50
| 1
| 2
| 4
| 59%
| 36.63
|
19th
| Don't Say a Word (2001)
| $77.10
| 1
| 3
| 4
| 43%
| 33.32
|
20th
| You Me and Dupree (2006)
| $91.40
| 3
| 2
| 4
| 39%
| 31.76
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2012 U.S. Box Office (Millions)
| Opening Weekend Rank
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Rating
| Cogerson Movie Score
|
21st
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
| $58.80
| 2
| 3
| 5
| 42%
| 29.08
|
22nd
| It's My Turn (1980)
| $39.80
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 60%
| 28.78
|
23rd
| Haywire (2012) Still in theaters
| $18.83
| 6
| 0
| 2
| 73%
| 28.48
|
24th
| A Chorus Line (1985)
| $31.80
| 8
| 0
| 4
| 49%
| 25.75
|
25th
| Shining Through (1992)
| $41.30
| 3
| 2
| 3
| 46%
| 25.36
|
26th
| The Star Chamber (1983)
| $14.30
| 9
| 0
| 1
| 67%
| 25.07
|
27th
| The Sentinel (2006)
| $43.70
| 3
| 1
| 2
| 47%
| 25.04
|
28th
| Solitary Man (2010)
| $4.00
| 14
| 0
| 0
| 73%
| 24.96
|
29th
| Running (1979)
| $19.10
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 58%
| 23.94
|
30th
| Summertree (1971)
| $7.20
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 63%
| 23.32
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| Inflated 2012 U.S. Box Office (Millions)
| Opening Weekend Rank
| Top 5 Weeks
| Top 10 Weeks
| Critics Audience Rating
| Cogerson Movie Score
|
31st
| Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
| $17.50
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 52%
| 22.30
|
32nd
| The In-Laws (2003)
| $27.00
| 5
| 1
| 3
| 46%
| 22.01
|
33rd
| Adam At Six A.M. (1970)
| $4.80
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 60%
| 21.96
|
34th
| King of California (2007)
| $.00
| 58
| 0
| 0
| 65%
| 21.50
|
35th
| One Night at McCool's (2001)
| $8.70
| 11
| 0
| 0
| 48%
| 17.39
|
36th
| It Runs in the Family (2003)
| $9.50
| 9
| 0
| 2
| 42%
| 16.49
|
37th
| Hail Hero! (1969)
| $4.80
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 39%
| 16.32
|
38th
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
| $.00
| 63
| 0
| 0
| 32%
| 10.61
|
10 Possibly Interesting Facts on Michael Douglas.
1. Michael Douglas has won two Academy Awards, his first Oscar came as the producer of the 1975's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, which won the Oscar for Best Picture. Twelve years later he won the Best Actor Oscar for 1987's Wall Street.
2. Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones both share the same birthday...September 25th......just 25 years apart.
3. Douglas has co-starred with Kathleen Turner in three box office hits.....Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile and The War of the Roses.....Danny Devito costars in all three movies and directed their third and final pairing.
4. He has been a major supporter of gun control since John Lennon was murdered in 1980.
5. Douglas got the part of Jack T. Colton in Romancing the Stone only after Sylvester Stallone and Christopher Reeve passed on the part.
6. His character from Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, is on the list of 50 greatest villians in movie history.
7. Douglas originally declined the role of Robert Wakefield in Traffic, and it was offered to Harrison Ford, who accepted. Ford worked with director to improve the character, but then decided not to do the movie. Douglas liked the change in the character so much, he accepted the revamped part.
8. Robert Redford was originally cast in the lead role in The American President, but was replaced with Douglas after falling out with director Rob Reiner.
9. Michael Douglas turned downed the following roles....Ocean's Eleven(Clooney part), Sin City(Willis part), Misery(Caan part), Love Story, Yentl, and Starman(Bridges part).
10. Michael Douglas is the 59th actor/actress to receive a Cogerson career review hub page. My Greatest Actors/Actress Table has two separate tables....the first table ranks the 59 actors using all of their movies. Michael Douglas comes in at #35 on that table one spot behind of Sean Connery. The second table only looks at the actor's Top Ten Movie Score Movies. On that table Michael Douglas comes in at #32....just behind Brad Pitt.
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Execellent hub, Michael Douglas is a great actor, I was sorry to see him and his fight with cancer. But at least it looks like he is currently winning that battle. I have always liked him since he was in Streets of San Fran, the Romancing the Stone movies are great, lately he seems to be in supporting roles, but I thought he was funny in Ghosts of Girlfriends.
PS. I know the answer Steve Lensman to your quote, but I had to google the answer so I will not share the answer.
I never missed an epsiode of The Streets Of San Francisco! Michael and Karl Malden were a dashing duo! Basic Instinct, Falling Down and Romancing The Stone were my favorites BUT I enjoyed every one of his movies! I didn't know that him and Catherine shared the same birthday....that's fun news!!!
I'm wishing the best for Michael to continue to beat throat cancer. I was sad to see photos of him today smoking...not sure if it was cigarettes but regardless not a good idea after having radiation to his throat tissue. Makes my heart sad. On a lighter note EXCELLENT HUB to a exceptionally multi-talented actor!!
Hey Cogerson - another wonderful HUB. I like most of Michael Douglas's films. Such great work. I like The American President. Looking forward to plenty more movies and I also wish him the best of health in the years to come. THANKS AGAIN FOR THE TWO DOUGLAS HUBS.
I must say that my favourite Michael Douglas work is The Streets of San Francisco. I wish it would come back to a channel I get.
Here are my favourite five performances (..and no, Coma isn't on the list though I do enjoy watching MD and RW together.):
Alphabetically:
The American President
The China Syndrome
A Chorus Line
Fatal attraction
Wall Street
Hey SteveLensman.....well I have no idea about the quote....my guess would be Fatal Attraction...am I correct? I would highly recommend The American President...it is a movie that my wife always seems to be putting in the DVD....I have been looking for it on Blu-Ray...I do not think it is available on Blu-Ray...Michael J. Fox is excellent in the movie. As for Kathleen Turner....I think I saw her recently...hard to believe she is the same lady....that made men so uncomfortable in the 1980s....I have vivid memories of her performance in Body Heat. I appreciate the compliment and the votes.
Hey hinton1966....I am also glad his fight with cancer has gone well so far....his roles lately have not been as great as his awesome run from 1984-2000....I liked Solitary Man....except for the ending....but his supporting roles have been funny....Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and One Night At McCools(although I might be the only person in the world that liked that movie)....glad you know which movie Steve references....thanks for the compliment.
Hey Sunshine625....one of the things I read in my research on this hub....was how close Douglas was to Karl Malden....and how they close they remained until Malden died.....my mom loved The Streets of San Francisco....I remember her watching that show all the time. Well hopefully it is not cigarettes he is smoking....maybe it is the new smokeless tobaccoless air cigarettes some people are using...seen in the Johnny Depp movie The Tourist. Thanks for stopping by.
Hey BERN1960...thanks for the compliment....so do you think Robert Redford would have made a better President than Douglas in The American President? I am glad you liked the Michael Douglas hub that you requested. Thanks for reading and stopping by.
Michael Douglas is one of my favorites, I did not know that he had made so many movies before Romancing the Stone. I had heard about him winning an Oscar for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Great hub, I would say Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct are my favorites of us. Voted up and useful, and speaking of Basic Instinct, I do believe the quote "She knows where I live and breathe" is from Basic Instinct.
Hey Flora, well I am sure since the new Hawaii Five-O is a tv hit....CBS will be looking to reboot The Streets of San Francisco.....and when that happens I image the old series will reappear on one of your Canadian cable networks.
I am indeed surprise the Michael Douglas/Richard Widmark movie Coma did not make your Top 5. Well 4 of the 5 movies you mention made the Movie Score Top 10....as for Chorus Line....I remember when it first came out....the Hollywood industry was shocked when it failed at the box office....I think they thought it would be another All That Jazz. As always your comments and Tops list are always greatly appreciated.
Hey Yankees Rule...I am right there with you about not knowing about his four movies before The Streets of San Francisco...on Box Office Mojo...they do not mention them....but when I was on IMDB....they showed up....and he was the lead actor in all the movies....hard to believe he passed on Love Story way back then. As for your two favorites...they finished one and two on box office hits for him...and they both captured the attention of movie goers for months...did you notice that Fatal Attraction was in the Top 10 for 21 weeks...that is incredible.....thanks for the comments and for stopping by.
I had to include A Chorus Line as I love it. Coma is my #6th. I believe Michael actually appeared as an extra as a child in one of kirk's films. I think it was The Heroes of Telemark, but I may be confusing this movie with another.
YankeesRule got the quote, Hinton googled. I suppose the quote could have come from Fatal Attraction too Cogerson.:)
I forgot about Ghost and the Darkness, good film. A true story about two lions in Africa that killed and ate over 100 people before they were shot dead. Val Kilmer co-starred with Douglas. Worth seeking out.
Hey Flora...I think(thanks to IMDB)...the movie that Michael appeared in was 1966's To Cast A Giant Shadow....he played Jeep Driver. Did you know Tom Selleck plays one of the corpses in Coma? Thanks for the clarification on Coma.
Hey Steve...Thanks for the answer to the quote. I was just guessing about Fatal Attraction...as it would seem to fit the storyline....about a stalker/psycho messing with the hero.
Ghost and the Darkness is a great film.....remember when Val Kilmer was a star? He made some good movies.
Val Kilmer was excellent as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. He could have been a huge star, it just didn't happen.
I remember when I first saw the announcement that Michael Douglas was making the War of the Roses and thinking he was off his rocker making a historical film about the English Civil War. :)
Michael Douglas is a great actor. He is also pretty easy on the eyes, too, so thanks for posting all the pictures! Great hub and voted up!
Ah, it wasn't The hEroes of Telemark. I cuoldn't be sure. Cast a Giant Shadow. I remember that film. I haven't seen it in ages.
Good actor. Not in the same league as his legendary father, but he's very good. I remember him from when I was a kid. My parents used to watch "the Streets of San Fransico" every week. Some people have told me that I looked a little like him (the way he looked in "the Ghost & the Darkness" specifically) but I never noticed it myself.
I'm more a fan of his father than him, but he's a talented performer.
Rob
I agree with Rob , I like the father better, I know the answer to the qoute I just verified the answer, do I still get points?
Hey Steve, I agree Kilmer was excellent as Doc Holiday in Tombstone....I even liked Kilmer in Willow.....I guess he is still making movies but they are all low budget direct to DVD movies....so sad. I imagine War of the Roses could cause some confusion.
Thanks for stopping by Jeannieinabottle....I agree he is a pretty good actor....and I know my is in love with him as the President in The American President....thanks for the comments.
Yep Flora, Cast A Giant Shadow with John Wayne and his dad....I am sure he learned lots from his role as Jeep Driver....I wonder what he did in that movie?.....lol.
Thanks for stopping by Robwrite....I have the same exact memories of my mom watching The Streets of San Francisco....I do not think having people comparing you to how Michael Douglas looks is a bad thing...lol....I sometimes get...."You look like a young Robin Williams"...I will trade you Robin for Michael. Thanks as always for stopping by and reading the hub.
Yep hintoon1966, you get points and a prize....SteveLensman has the prize...he lives right around the corner in London....just send him an email when you get there.
Wall Street is his must-see...Gekko is an alarmingly close portrait of the economic values industry and political leaders have.;)
I agree with you 100%, Gordon Gekko/Bernie Madoff .....could be the same guy....although the reality was much worse than the fiction. Thanks for stopping by.
Never been a big fan of either Douglas, but I will say of the younger one, I always thought The War of the Roses was funny, still can not beleive there was no happy ending. Good stuff, thanks for posting. Voted up.
The ending of War of the Roses is not your normal Hollywood ending....I like the last shot....Douglas reaches for her and she pulls away...classic. Thanks for the vote up.
I read somewhere that Kathleen Turner had gotten ill, can't remember the specifics but it put her out of the movie business for awhile.
I consider Micheal a good actor, this is a good hub.
Kathleen Turner is suffering from a bad case of rheumatoid arthritis....a tough break for a very pretty lady. Thanks for checking out my Michael Douglas hub....
I am glad I could help you out with the quote.
You are the man. Yankees Rule.
Nice list, I have seen almost everyone of the movies on the list, he pretty much makes quality movie after quality movie. I would say Wall Street is easily is best movie, and his Oscar for the role proves that point
Hey Shaun I agree, the Oscar kind of makes it hard to argue against Wall Street, thanks for stopping by.
congraulations on your hubbie award for Best Avatar!
Thank you Flora, a very big surprise when I heard about winning this hubbie award.
Great hub. I never had really thought about just how many big movies Douglas has been in over his long career. Wall St. and Gordon Gekko would be the role that I personally most associate with him most.
The "Greed is Good" speech/rant to the shareholders of Teldar Paper is a classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muz1OcEzJOs.
Thanks for stopping by KickStart1....I agree it is really hard to seperate Douglas from Gekko.....although Wall Street Money Never Sleeps....probably took away some of that luster of Gekko...thanks for posting the link.
Steve Lensman Level 7 Commenter 9 months ago
"She knows where I live and breathe"
Bet no one knows which film that quote is from. :)
Son of Kirk, Michael is a good actor who has managed to do something his legendary dad couldn't, win an Oscar for Best Actor. I liked him in Wall Street and I liked him Romancing the Stone. I haven't watched Fatal Attraction in a long while, but did see Basic Instinct on blu-ray a few months ago.
You know I've never seen American President, somehow it passed me by. I'll keep an eye out for it.
I wasn't that impressed with Traffic, but did like Douglas in Falling Down.
I saw Kathleen Turner in a film recently and barely recognised her, wow she really let herself go. So sexy back in the 80's.
Another epic hub Cogerson, well done sir.
Voted Up and Interesting.