Michael Tolkin

Michael Tolkin Headshot

Writer • Director

Birth Date: October 17, 1950

Age: 72 years old

Birth Place: New York City, New York

Michael Tolkin gives a good interview. While clearly an adept Hollywood player, he casually peppers his conversations with allusions to serious literature, philosophy, cultural criticism, art cinema, and American film history. Tolkin's film projects similarly reveal his status as a rare commodity in today's movie industry--a feeling intellectual. As a screenwriter, he pens tough-minded social satires without sacrificing compassion for his characters. Tolkin's worldview reflects a profound and rather refreshing ambivalence. He refuses to scapegoat potentially easy targets because he views all of us as accomplices in society's shortcomings. This journalist turned novelist turned screenwriter began to flex his muscles as a writer-director in several unconventional Hollywood films of the early 1990s. All of his stories to date have been set in Los Angeles, a city as central to his vision as New York is to Woody Allen or Martin Scorsese.

Credits

The OfferStream

Creator
Series
2022
57%

Escape at DannemoraStream

Creator
Series
2018
88%

Escape at Dannemora: Extras

Creator
Show
2018

Michael Tolkin: On Science Fiction

Self
Show
2013

NineStream

Screenwriter
Movie
2009
39%

Masters of Science Fiction

Director
Show
2007

Masters of Science Fiction

Writer
Show
2007

Summerland

Writer
Show
2004

Changing LanesStream

Writer
Movie
2002
77%

Deep ImpactStream

Screenwriter
Movie
1998
44%

The New Age

Director
Movie
1994

The PlayerStream

Producer
Movie
1992
97%

The PlayerStream

Writer
Movie
1992
97%

Deep Cover

Screenwriter
Movie
1992

Deep Cover

Writer
Movie
1992

The Rapture

Director
Movie
1991

The Rapture

Writer (Screenplay)
Movie
1991