Dan Bucatinsky

Acting

Dan Bucatinsky

Born 1965-09-22 · New York City, New York, USA

Dan Bucatinsky (/ˌbʊkəˈtɪnski/) is an American actor, writer and producer, best known for his role as James Novak in the Shonda Rhimes drama series Scandal, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2013. In 2014, Bucatinsky starred on NBC's Marry Me and the revived HBO series The Comeback, which he also executive produced. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Bucatinsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

The Post poster
7.0

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

The Post

2017

Air poster
7.3

Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.

Air

2023

13 Going on 30 poster
NR

A reimagining of the classic 2004 film of the same name.

13 Going on 30

Second Act poster
6.3

Value Shop assistant manager Maya Vargas wants only one thing for her 43rd birthday -- a promotion. While her résumé may not scream upper management, her track record certainly does; she is an innovator who listens to her customers and delivers results. When she loses the job to a college-educated candidate, Maya sets out to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts -- and it's never too late for a second act.

Second Act

2018

The Opposite of Sex poster
6.2

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

The Opposite of Sex

1998

The Highest Stakes poster
5.9

Five strangers are invited to a luxurious hotel for a high-stakes poker game. What begins as a contest for fortune quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. As tensions rise and secrets surface, the players realize the stakes aren’t just about money—they’re about survival. In a night of escalating peril, trust becomes a weapon, and every choice could seal their fate.

The Highest Stakes

2026

Our Little Secret poster
6.2

After discovering their significant others are siblings, two resentful exes must spend Christmas under one roof — while hiding their romantic history.

Our Little Secret

2024

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NR

Two hopeless romantics, Riley and Kyle, are at crossroads in their separate lives and are close to settling for the wrong partner, unaware that they live only blocks apart and could be each other's soulmates.

So Close

2018

All Over the Guy poster
5.8

A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.

All Over the Guy

2001

Every Act of Life poster
6.4

The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay rights, addiction and recovery, finding true love, and the relentless pursuit of inspiration.

Every Act of Life

2018

I Love Your Work poster
4.6

A fictional movie star endures the disintegration of his marriage, a gradual mental breakdown, and an increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds him of his own life before becoming famous.

I Love Your Work

2003

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema poster
5.4

A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

2006

The Sky is Falling poster
8.3

A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for an acting job, and her mother announces that her long presumed dead father is actually a hippie photographer who has come to town to meet her. Sinking into a depression at being a total failure at 28, she starts fantasizing about suicide. In her depths of despair she meets various eccentric characters including a chain-smoking Santa Claus and an obnoxious literary agent. But her belief in herself is only restored when she meets a patient in a hospital where she does volunteer work.

The Sky is Falling

2001

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NR

When Jordan, a NYC-based gay chef, learns that his longtime therapist, Catherine, has suddenly died, his world is upended. Struggling with grief and a flood of unanswered questions, he begins to suspect her death wasn’t accidental. As he launches an amateur investigation, Jordan ropes in fellow patients, pulls his new boyfriend into the chaos, and stalks Catherine’s widow, all in the name of closure. The deeper he digs, the more chaotic things become. His once-promising relationship starts to crack, his friendships wear thin, and his obsession with the truth leads him closer to answers about her mysterious disappearance, whether he is ready for them or not.

August

Another Midnight Run poster
6.9

Jack Walsh tries to track down two of the top con-artists around. But they know every trick in the book and Jack has trouble bringing them back to LA and getting a $45,000 pay day reward.

Another Midnight Run

1994

When Do We Eat? poster
5.3

An old school dad is as tough on his sons as his father is on him. On this night, however, one of the boys slips dad a dose of special, hallucinogenic ecstasy in order "to give him a new perspective."

When Do We Eat?

2006

elle/elle poster
1.0

After hosting a disastrous dinner party, a long term couple fights for their marriage and identities triggered by Elle's recent coming out as a trans woman to her gay husband, Fritz.

elle/elle

2025

The Grotto poster
2.0

When her fiancé dies unexpectedly and she loses her job, 40-something music manager Alice Kendall inherits half ownership of The Grotto, a struggling nightclub in the California desert where she discovers eccentric performers and a heartbreaking secret.

The Grotto

2022

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NR

When the teenage adoptive daughter of two hyper-devoted gay parents seeks a relationship with her nonjudgmental birth mother, they explore the complications and joys of uniting their big, loud, multi-ethnic families.

She Gets It from Me

Directed by Alan Smithee poster
6.2

This documentary on the elusive director Alan Smithee was first shown on the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable channel. We learn where the name came from and why the Directors Guild of America (DGA) first allowed his name to be used on Richard Widmark's western Death of a Gunfighter. The film follows the numerous problems that director Tony Kaye had during the production and post-production of the film American History X and why the DGA refused to allow Alan Smithee to be credited for that film.

Directed by Alan Smithee

2002

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10.0

A look at notable TV pilots that were not picked up as series.

The Best TV Shows That Never Were

2004

Behind the camera