Joe Dante

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Movies Counted: 15
Fresh: 9 Rotten:6
Average Rating: 5.4/10

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Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 91%
Number of Movies: 26

Box Office Since 2001: $20.9M

Bio: Joe Dante (born Joseph Domenick Dante on November 28, 1946 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American film director and producer of films generally with humorous and scifi content. His films include Piranha (1978) and The Howling (1981), both from scripts by John Sayles; Segment 3 of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); Gremlins (1984), his first major hit, and its sequel [More...]

Movie Snapshot

Highest Rated

Matinee (1993)

91%

Credit: Director

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Lowest Rated

The Silence of the Hams (1994)

Credit: Actor

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Filmography
Rating	Title	Credit	Trailers	Photos	Box Office	Year
N/A	4 Film Favorites: Family Comedies	Director	0	0	N/A	2007
N/A	Masters of Horror: Joe Dante - The Screwfly Solution	Director	0	0	N/A	2007
N/A	100 Years of Horror: The Complete Collection	Featured	0	0	N/A	2006
40%	Trapped Ashes	Director	0	0	N/A	2006
N/A	Trapped Ashes	Director	0	0	N/A	2006
N/A	Masters of Horror - Joe Dante: Homecoming	Director	0	0	N/A	2005
57%	Looney Tunes - Back in Action	Director	0	33	$20,904,494	2003
N/A	Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens	Featured	0	0	N/A	2000
48%	Small Soldiers	Director	0	0	N/A	1998
N/A	The Second Civil War	Director	0	0	N/A	1997
N/A	100 Years of Horror	Featured	0	0	N/A	1996
N/A	Runaway Daughters	Director	0	0	N/A	1994
0%	The Silence of the Hams	Actor	0	0	N/A	1994
91%	Matinee	Director	0	0	N/A	1993
65%	Gremlins 2 - The New Batch	Director	0	0	N/A	1990
36%	The Burbs	Director	0	0	N/A	1989
64%	Amazon Women on the Moon	Director	0	0	N/A	1987
79%	Innerspace	Director	0	0	N/A	1987
71%	Explorers	Director	0	0	N/A	1985
78%	Gremlins	Director	0	0	N/A	1984
64%	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Director	0	0	N/A	1983
N/A	Police Squad, Help Wanted	Director	0	0	N/A	1982
60%	The Howling	Director, Editor	0	0	N/A	1981
64%	Piranha	Director	0	0	N/A	1978
20%	Grand Theft Auto	Editor	0	0	N/A	1977

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