- Films
- 47
- Avg rating
- 5.80
- Peak run
- 1987’91
- Oscar noms
- 1
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Michael by the numbers
Average
5.80
39 rated films
Vote weighted
5.83
bigger films count more
Median
5.9
half are better
Consistency
±0.68
rating spread
Career
46y
1970 to 2015
Total votes
670K
across every film
Best
7.6
Barton Fink
Worst
4.8
Slipstream
Newest first
Filmography
| 2015 |  Ashby | Entwistle | 6.4 | 16,685 |
| 2011 |  Atlas Shrugged: Part I | Wesley Mouch | 5.6 | 14,939 |
| 2010 | The Bannen Way | The Mensch | 5.2 | 1,913 |
| 2009 | Life During Wartime | Harvey | 6.4 | 8,366 |
| 2008 | Yonkers Joe | Stanley | 6.3 | 1,077 |
| 2007 | Slipstream | Big Mikey | 4.8 | 5,033 |
| 2006 |  Love and Other Disasters | Marvin Bernstein | 6.1 | 15,183 |
| 2005 | When Do We Eat? | Ira | 5.8 | 1,630 |
| 2004 | Poster Boy | Jack Kray | 6.0 | 1,463 |
| 2004 | The Calcium Kid | Artie Cohen | 5.6 | 4,933 |
| 2002 | 29 Palms | The Judge | 4.7 | 1,975 |
| 2001 | Mockingbird Don't Sing | Dr. Stan York | 6.3 | 2,650 |
| 1999 |  My Favorite Martian | Mr. Channing | 5.1 | 15,273 |
| 1998 |  Godzilla | Mayor Ebert | 5.5 | 215K |
| 1998 | Safe Men | Big Fat Bernie Gayle | 5.8 | 3,793 |
| 1998 | Tale of the Mummy | Professor Marcus | 4.1 | 3,816 |
| 1997 |  The Beautician and the Beast | Jerry Miller | 5.5 | 10,726 |
| 1997 |  For Richer or Poorer | Phil Kleinman | 5.9 | 13,209 |
| 1995 | Girl in the Cadillac | Pal | · | 283 |
| 1995 | A Pyromaniac's Love Story | Perry | 5.3 | 1,196 |
Better together?
Michael Lerner's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Michael Lerner
1 nominations, 0 wins
Awards record
- NominatedBest Supporting Actor · Academy Awards 1992Michael Lerner
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