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Michael Showalter (born June 17, 1970) is an American director, writer, and producer. He first achieved recognition as a cast member on MTV's The State, which aired from 1993 to 1995. He and David Wain created the Wet Hot American Summer franchise, with Showalter co-writing and starring in Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and the Netflix series. Showalter wrote and directed The Baxter(2005), in which he starred with Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux, and Elizabeth Banks. Both films featured many of his co-stars from The State, and so do several of his other projects. Showalter is also a co-creator, co-producer, actor, and writer for the TV series Search Party. He directed the 2017 film The Big Sick and the 2021 film The Eyes of Tammy Faye, both of which were critically acclaimed.
Most Popular Michael Showalter Trailers
Total trailers found: 37
02 May 2024
40-year-old single mom Solène begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet.
02 August 2002
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
27 October 1995
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
01 October 1998
Four very different female roommates try to stick together while dealing with hectic daily schedules that living in New York City often conditions.
30 September 2026
Lowen Ashleigh gets hired by Jeremy Crawford to ghostwrite novels for his bestselling author wife Verity, who's unable to finish after an accident.
30 March 2017
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash.
27 November 2015
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.
07 August 1998
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island.
23 February 2012
Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.
31 July 2015
Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage offers a glimpse into the comic minds behind a "Wet Hot" summer-camp cult hit featuring many future stars.
27 July 2001
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve.
26 September 2014
After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice.
29 April 2002
Will Nitch is on a mission to achieve a transendental tantric sexual experience: a sustained orgasm. He begins to assemble a Secret Society of Women: women are, afterall, pivotal to helping a man to reach the cosmic blue lights.
03 December 2025
Claire Clauster is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together at the holidays. But this year, after planning a special outing for them, they make a crucial mistake and leave her home alone.
02 December 2022
Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
27 June 2014
A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
17 September 2021
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
23 January 2015
Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and abroad—take on this question, sharing anecdotes and insights with lively enthusiasm.
23 February 2007
A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break.
12 September 2006
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
26 August 2005
Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves.
22 May 2020
A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery.
13 March 2002
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement.
03 August 2007
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
15 December 2008
"Birthday" is a new short film from the unique three-man comedy group STELLA:
17 April 2004
Rod and Cherri are the unmistakable king and queen of Echo High. When new kid Spud arrives, he makes a faux pas so bad that Rod forces him to be his girl's slave.
15 January 1996
A brisk look into the lives of two bomb diffusers. John Hamburg's student film.
13 August 2009
The comedy trio performs live in Boston.
05 February 2019
Ray Romano first cut his stand-up teeth at the Comedy Cellar in New York. Now, in his first comedy special in 23 years, he returns to where it all began.
10 March 2019
This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show.
10 March 2016
The tale of the three fastest drivers in the world and their quest to save Lady Billionaire. Struck "
26 April 2016
No one is better at portraying rehabilitationamalist Giles Vanderhoot than Vanderhoot himself.
28 November 2022
When Julia returns home for her grandmother's funeral, she has a nervous breakdown and vomits up the imaginary friends that have been living inside her stomach since she was seven.
08 June 2025
In 2024, the eleven (!) members of the iconic mid-90’s cult comedy troupe The State reunited for a live tour.
20 December 2002
STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Michael Ian Black.
01 January 1995
In this parody of 1950s horror trailers, a lesbian vampire terrorizes a suburban high school.
20 January 2016
Danny, Jeremy, and Carol are a Wormy cast of three Frenemies shambling through troubling and absurd teenage times.
