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Michael Jaffe

Michael Jaffe

Producer · Born January 9, 1945 (81) · New York City, New York, USA

Michael Muir Jaffe (born January 9, 1945) is an American TV and film producer. He started out in the business with his father, producer and former AFTRA lawyer Henry Jaffe (1907–1992). His mother was actress Jean Muir. He has more than 120 producing credits but ventured into writing and directing only for the A&E television series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–02), which he called "the love of my life."

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Born
January 9, 1945 (81)
From
New York City, New York, USA
Works as
Producer
Titles
89 on MovieCove · 112 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 38 days to Oct 27Up 5% in 30 days

What are Michael Jaffe's films like?

Across their 87 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.

Genres

Drama40 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 50th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies
Comedy16 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 44th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies
Biography12 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 44th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Biography movies
Crime6 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 34th percentile
: browse their Crime movies
Action4 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 26th percentile
: browse their Action movies
Horror2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 35th percentile
: browse their Horror movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
31%
Survival
22%
Morality
21%
Self
15%
Society
7%
Power
3%
Ideas
1%
Family bonds36 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love19 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival18 titles, browse their movies with this themeJustice20 titles, browse their movies with this themeDeception11 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity12 titles, browse their movies with this themePurpose9 titles, browse their movies with this themeTrauma8 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 83 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Serious: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their serious movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

A split, not a type: Light 32 · Serious 17 · Dark 34

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 66 · Stylized 14 · Heightened 3

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 20 · Charged 40 · Intense 22

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 40 · Shifting 40 · Whiplash 3

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 51 · Some laughs 24 · Funny 8

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 38 · Even-paced 42 · Relentless 3

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 48 · Engaged 30 · Full focus 5

Affecting: How much it costs you emotionally; whether you need recovery time. Browse their affecting movies.
Demand · Emotional cost
easyheavy

Easy watch 23 · Affecting 33 · Heavy 27

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 72 · Open-ended 10 · Ambiguous 1

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
55
Hopeful
39
Melancholic
37
Warm
21
Romantic
13
Other
62

How their films linger

Hopeful43 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFeel-good29 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking19 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet16 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling16 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting11 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 8 with a twist

  • Happy44
  • Bittersweet31
  • Tragic5
  • Ambiguous6
  • Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Michael Jaffe's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 68 of their 89 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (58).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Michael Jaffe's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

112 credits, 89 with a MovieCove page.

  • Faith, Love & Chocolate(2018)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films

  • The Grim Sleeper(2014)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story(2013)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • Certain Prey(2011)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films

  • Texas Killing Fields(2011)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films

  • Avalon High(2010)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films

  • Bond of Silence(2010)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • The Client List(2010)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films

  • Double Wedding (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Executive Producer

  • Ice Castles(2010)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films

  • The Informant!(2009)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films

  • Stranger with My Face(2009)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films

  • Christmas in Canaan(2009)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films

  • Impact(2009)

    Show Producer

    Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all shows

  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter(2008)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films

  • Jack and Jill vs. the World(2008)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films

  • The Tenth Circle(2008)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films

  • Nature of the Beast(2007)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films

  • Custody (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Executive Producer

  • More of Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Executive Producer

  • The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker(2007)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films

  • Write & Wrong (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Executive Producer

  • Not Like Everyone Else(2006)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • 10.5: Apocalypse(2006)

    Show 2 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows

  • Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone(2006)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films

  • Touch the Top of the World(2006)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life(2005)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films

  • Elvis (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)

    Show 2 episodes · Executive Producer

  • Odd Girl Out (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)

    Executive Producer

  • Faith of My Fathers(2005)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films

  • Recipe for a Perfect Christmas(2005)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films

  • The Engagement Ring(2005)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • Evel Knievel(2004)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • 10.5(2004)

    Show 2 episodes · Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all shows

  • Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Executive Producer

  • The Survivors Club(2004)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films

  • She's Too Young(2004)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • I Want to Marry Ryan Banks(2004)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films

  • It Must Be Love(2004)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films

  • The Brooke Ellison Story(2004)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films

  • Hollywood Wives: The New Generation(2003)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films

  • Ice Bound(2003)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films

  • Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart(2003)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films

  • Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor(2003)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Hunger Point(2003)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films

  • Picking Up & Dropping Off(2003)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films

  • Sounder(2003)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all films

  • Undercover Christmas(2003)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films

  • Too Young to Be a Dad(2002)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • Gilda Radner: It's Always Something(2002)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films

  • The Rosa Parks Story(2002)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films

  • Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within(2001)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films

  • A Nero Wolfe Mystery(2001)

    Show 27 episodes · Executive Producer · Teleplay

    Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows

  • Class Warfare(2001)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • South Pacific (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    Executive Producer

  • The Sons of Mistletoe(2001)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • The Stalking of Laurie Show(2000)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films

  • Deliberate Intent (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Executive Producer

  • Daydream Believers: The Monkees Story(2000)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films

  • The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery(2000)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • In the Name of the People (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Executive Producer

  • A Holiday Romance(1999)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films

  • Secret of Giving (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)

    Executive Producer

  • As Time Runs Out(1999)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films

  • Small Vices (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)

    Executive Producer

  • Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story(1999)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films

  • Mind Prey(1999)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films

  • I'll Be Home for Christmas(1997)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films

  • Flood: A River's Rampage(1997)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films

  • Lies He Told (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Executive Producer

  • ...First Do No Harm(1997)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • All the Winters That Have Been(1997)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films

  • A Holiday for Love(1996)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films

  • To Brave Alaska(1996)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • Undue Influence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Show 2 episodes · Executive Producer

  • Shattered Mind(1996)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all films

  • Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14(1995)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films

  • A Holiday to Remember(1995)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films

  • Against Their Will (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

    Executive Producer

  • The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story(1994)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films

  • Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story(1994)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films

  • A Christmas Romance(1994)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films

  • Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story(1993)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • Acting on Impulse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)

    Executive Producer

  • Body Snatchers(1993)

    Co-Producer

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films

  • Gregory K(1993)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • Survive The Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)

    Producer

  • Amy Fisher: My Story(1992)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films

  • Mad at the Moon(1992)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story(1992)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films

  • In the Nick of Time(1991)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • Wedlock(1991)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films

  • On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story(1990)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro(1989)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films

  • The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Show 2 episodes · Executive Producer

  • The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Executive Producer

  • 18 Again!(1988)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films

  • Disorderlies(1987)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films

  • One Crazy Summer(1986)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films

  • Better Off Dead(1985)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films

  • Bad Medicine(1985)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films

  • The Seduction of Gina(1984)

    Executive Producer

    Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films

  • Citizen: The Political Life of Allard K. Lowenstein (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)

    Executive Producer

  • I Was a Mail Order Bride(1982)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films

  • Incident at Crestridge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)

    Executive Producer

  • Escape(1980)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films

  • Aunt Mary(1979)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films

  • When She Was Bad...(1979)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films

  • A Woman Called Moses(1978)

    Show 2 episodes · Producer

    Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all shows

  • Battered (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)

    Producer

  • The Death of Richie(1977)

    Producer

    Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films

  • Rules of Prey (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Show 1 episode · Executive Producer

Career shape

A full career of 84 titles, 83 of them dated from 1977 to 2018.

Biggest box office

The Informant! (2009)

$42M worldwide

Highest rated

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within (2001)

Midcredits 83rd

Most popular right now

Better Off Dead (1985)

By role

only this rolewith another role
Writing1 of 84: 0 only writing, 1 with another roleProducing84 of 84: 83 only producing, 1 with another role · typical Midcredits score38th

By decade

1970s5 · crew1980s10 · crew1990s27 · crew2000s32 · crew2010s9 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Michael Jaffe's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 42nd percentile, the median of all 84; across their 83 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 39th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

39thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 83

Approval · how many liked their films

44thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 83

Reach · how many have seen their films

44thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 83

Midcredits score across 89 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up7
  • 50th to 74th29
  • 25th to 49th39
  • Below 25th14

Shape of the crowd

55 of their 89 titles are Mixed.

  • Universally Loved2
  • Divisive1
  • Cult Classic6
  • Crowd Pleaser22
  • Broadly Agreed3
  • Mixed55

Most divisive · producer

Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)

93rd percentile spread · 62% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · producer

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000)

Midcredits 94th · 81% liked

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Is Michael Jaffe's work okay for kids?

Across up to 9 MovieCove titles with content scores, 1 of the 3 categories sits near the median of all films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles
Violence & Gore3 titlesmedian 36 · moderateMedian of all films: 44
Sex & Nudity9 titles18–54 · median 31 · mildnear the median of all filmsMedian of all films: 32
Profanity4 titlesmedian 48 · moderateMedian of all films: 36

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.

Who does Michael Jaffe work with?

People who share at least 2 of Michael Jaffe's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Howard Braunstein shares the most, 55.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers and editors

Producers

Mixed roles