Austin PendletonFilmography

Raising Flagg

Actors: Alan Arkin, Austin Pendleton, Clifton James, Barbara Dana, Glenne Headly

Synopsis: An elderly community handyman and notorious curmudgeon effectively isolates himself from his friends and neighbors by suing his lifelong best friend over a minor transgression in director Neal Miller's character-driven comedy drama. Flagg Purdy (Alan Arkin) is a cantankerous old coot who prides Read More

Lovely By Surprise

Actors: Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, Dallas Roberts, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: A writer attempting to finish her first novel seeks the wisdom of her mentor and ex-lover in hopes of overcoming a crippling case of writer's block in writer/director Kurt Gunn's enigmatic thriller. Marian (Carrie Preston) is writing an absurdist novel about a par of brothers living in a Read More

The Notorious Bettie Page

Actors: Gretchen Mol, Christopher Bauer, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: Celebrated and vilified in equal measure, the pinup goddess Bettie Page inspired a legion of followers -- and an indecency scandal -- by appearing in a series of nude, sado-masochistic, and/or revealing magazine spreads in the 1950s. An era later, writer/director Mary Harron casts a knowing eye Read More

Piccadilly Jim

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Austin Pendleton, Tom Wilkinson, Allison Janney, Frances O'Connor, Hugh Bonneville, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Jim Crocker (Sam Rockwell) is an American ne'er-do-well living in England with his tolerant father, Bingley (Tom Wilkinson), and his snooty, social-climbing stepmother, Eugenia (Allison Janney). As the film opens, Jim has been fouling up Eugenia's efforts to obtain a peerage with his Read More

Christmas With the Kranks

Actors: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Erik Per Sullivan, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: Based on John Grisham's novel Skipping Christmas, Christmas With the Kranks revolves around Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Luther Krank's (Tim Allen) decision to put their normally fanatical enthusiasm for the holidays aside for a tropical cruise. With their daughter in Peru with the Peace Corps, the Read More

Uptown Girls

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Jesse Spencer

Synopsis: In this comedy from director Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), Brittany Murphy stars as Molly Gunn, the daughter of a dead rock star, who lives off her inheritance and has never worked a day in her life. When her father's estate is swindled away from her, Molly suddenly finds her life of luxury Read More

Finding Nemo

Actors: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett

Synopsis: Andrew Stanton, who helped write Toy Story and Monsters, Inc., co-wrote and directed this computer-animated comedy-adventure about finding a very small fish in a very large ocean. Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son Read More

Manna From Heaven

Actors: Maria Burton, Ursula Burton, Seymour Cassel, Shelley Duvall, Jill Eikenberry, Louise Fletcher, Frank Gorshin, Faye Grant, Harry Groener, Shirley Jones, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Sisters Gabrielle C. and Maria Burton direct the independent comedy Manna From Heaven, written by their mother, Gabrielle B. Burton, and produced by their siblings at Five Sisters Productions. In Buffalo, NY, during the '50s, the wind blows in cash money to the tune of 20 thousand dollars. Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Christmas Watch

Synopsis: In the series' 200th episode, the employees of Piltdown and Sons, a small Manhattan watchmakers shop, are informed on Christmas Eve that the shop is closing and they will all be out of work. Their last assignment is to repair a pocket watch found in the rubble of the Twin Towers after 9/11, and Read More

A Beautiful Mind

Actors: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg

Synopsis: The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as the brilliant but arrogant and conceited professor Nash. The prof seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he marries beautiful Read More

Fast Food Fast Women

Actors: Anna Thomson, Jamie Harris, Louise Lasser, Robert Modica, Lonette McKee

Synopsis: Amos Kollek directs this quiet, understated comedy about lonely hearts and empty pockets in New York. Pushing 40, Bella (Anna Thomson) works as a waitress at small downtown diner in Manhattan. Her elderly regulars include Paul (Robert Modica), a lovelorn retiree who scours the personal ads and his Read More

Queenie In Love

Actors: Victor Argo, Louise Lasser, Mark Margolis, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: An elderly man falls in love with a woman young enough to be his daughter -- and that's not the least of their differences -- in this offbeat romantic comedy. Horace (Victor Argo) is a retired police officer who now works for a travel agency. Outwardly gruff, Horace is at heart a gentle soul, and Read More

3 Erotic Tales

Actors: Victor Argo, Austin Pendleton, Valerie Geffner, Ivan Trojan, Tomas Pavelka

Broke Even

Actors: Kevin Corrigan, Elizabeth Berridge, Michael Lowry

Synopsis: Recalling the work of John Cassavetes, this film focuses on a trio of down-and-out gambling slackers. Dot (Kevin Corrigan), Lem (Mick Cunningham), and Curry (Michael Lowry) spend much of their time sucking down beer and making back bets on Yankees games, until they stumble upon the investment Read More

Homicide: The Movie

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Ed Begley, Jr., Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher

Synopsis: Some six months after the cancellation of the popular, hard-hitting TV cop series Homicide, most of the cast members were reunited for a two-hour TV movie, which deftly (and somewhat surprisingly) combines stark, raw realism with Sartre-esque flights of fantasy. Several members past and present of Read More

Joe the King

Actors: Noah Fleiss, Val Kilmer, Karen Young, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: Actor Frank Whaley makes his directorial debut with Joe the King, a downbeat drama about a 14-year-old boy coming of age in an abusive and uncaring environment. When he was nine, Joe Henry (Noah Fleiss) lied to his friends about his father's job because he was ashamed that his father was the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Truth Will Out

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: All her life, Josephine Pitt (Brooke Smith) has been told that she was responsible for the death of her brother in 1972, when she was only three years old. Now she wants to know for certain -- and to do that, she appeals to Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), who handled the original case. Meanwhile Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Self Defense

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto) is fed up with the liberties taken by the homicide squad's FBI liaison -- never mind that his own son Mike (Giancarlo Esposito) is himself an FBI agent. Elsewhere, the detectives resent the preferential treatment afforded ADA Eleanor Burke (Haviland Morris), who intends Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Zen and the Art of Murder

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: While investigating the beating death of a Buddhist monk, Lewis (Clark Johnson) worries that his born-again-Buddhist partner, Bayliss (Kyle Secor), will not be able to remain objective -- thus Lewis teams with the prickly Munch (Richard Belzer). In another case, a street shooting investigated by Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Bones of Contention

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A case that has remained unsolved for two decades is reopened when the decomposed body of an unidentified woman is found buried at a construction site. Meanwhile, a convalescing Sheppard (Michael Michele) is confined to desk duty until further notice. And the romance between Falsone (Jon Seda) and Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Same Coin

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: The hit-and-run death of a Vietnam veteran prompts Stuart Gharty (Peter Gerety) to once again flash back to his own wartime experiences. Fed up with Gharty's ramblings, Munch (Richard Belzer) tells his colleagues that he has serious doubts about Stuart's war record. Ultimately, the two men have a Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Homicide.com

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A ritual murder is played out on the Internet, but the homicide detectives aren't certain whether the killing is real or an elaborate hoax. Whatever the case, the detectives "stake out" the Web when it is announced that another murder will occur at midnight. In the course of the investigation, the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Identity Crisis

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A man is found murdered -- with his nose removed -- in his own backyard. To solves this case, Mike Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) plumbs the depths of the Federal Witness Protection program, only to conclude that his FBI bosses aren't being up-front with him. Elsewhere, a bartender at a strip club Read More

The 4th Floor

Actors: Juliette Lewis, William Hurt, Shelley Duvall, Austin Pendleton, Tobin Bell, Artie Lange

Synopsis: A woman discovers the downside of getting to know your neighbors in this suspense thriller. Jane Emelin (Juliette Lewis) is a young interior decorator who has inherited an apartment in New York City from a relative who has passed on. While she loves the building and the price is right, she Read More

Sue

Actors: Anna Thomson, Matthew Powers, Tahnee Welch, Tracee Ross, John Ventimiglia

Synopsis: Troubled, unemployed New York office worker Sue (Anna Thomson) lives in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. However, job interviews lead nowhere, and she's behind in the rent, forced to accept a prostitute as a roommate. Meanwhile, she veers close to a mental precipice as she wanders the city Read More

Men of Means

Actors: Austin Pendleton, Michael Paré, Ray Serra

Synopsis: A couple of decades after ruining his brilliant football career, Rico "Bullet" Burke must decide whether to continue working as a mobster's tool or turn over a new leaf and make a better life for himself and his dependent brother Joey. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Wanted Dead or Alive, Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, bounty hunters Knoll (Christopher Meloni) and Lichte (Vic Noto) descend upon Baltimore in search of fugitive killer Joe Errico -- and promptly shoot and kill the wrong man. Elsewhere, Al and Mike Giardello (Yaphet Kotto, Giancarlo Esposito) find Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Kellerman, P.I. Part 1

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, former homicide detective Mike Kellerman (Reed Diamond) returns to Baltimore. Now a private detective, Kellerman has been hired by a prominent family to prove that their daughter Debbie (Jena Malone) did not murder her newborn baby. It so happens that Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Twenty Percent Solution

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Patti D'Arbanville guest stars as Darlene Everett, who shows up at the squad room with a videotape that "proves" that her husband, a bestselling author of espionage thrillers, was killed by his agent. Trouble is, there's no corpse -- and for the moment at least, it looks like there was no crime. Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Red, Red Wine

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Coroner Griscom (Austin Pendleton) alerts the homicide unit to the fact that several recent deaths have been caused by a poison named phospozine. FBI agent Mike "McGee" Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) is put in charge of investigating this possible act of terrorism, whereupon tension develops Read More

Trial and Error

Actors: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Wentworth, Austin Pendleton, Jessica Steen, Rip Torn, Dale Dye, Lawrence Pressman, Max Casella

Synopsis: This comedy features TV's Seinfeld regular Michael Richards in his first starring role, opposite Jeff Daniels. Daniels plays Charlie Tuttle, an up-and-coming attorney engaged to Tiffany Whitfield (Alexandra Wentworth), the daughter of the law firm's boss (Lawrence Pressman). His boss sends him to Read More

Amistad

Actors: Jeremy Northam, Arliss Howard, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by the event. Filmed in New England and Puerto Read More

Frasier: Three Days of the Condo

Synopsis: Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) decides that the time has come to replace the worn-out knocker on his apartment door with a brand new one of elaborate design. In doing so, however, Frasier runs afoul of the condo's board of directors, who tyrannically refuse to grant permission for this improvement. Read More

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, Pierce Brosnan, Mimi Rogers, George Segal, Elle MacPherson

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy-drama, a couple learns that the relationship between the mind and the body can take many different forms. Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) is a plain and pudgy middle-aged college English professor who shares a house with her mother, Hannah (Lauren Bacall). Rose got the Read More

Sgt. Bilko

Actors: Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, Glenne Headly, Daryl Mitchell

Synopsis: The classic 1955-59 sitcom The Phil Silvers Show (also known as "You'll Never Get Rich" in its first few episodes) became this high concept comedy with an all-star cast. Steve Martin stars as U.S. Army Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko, a conniving motor pool supervisor who uses his position to Read More

2 Days in the Valley

Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to Read More

The Associate

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: In this comedy, a woman discovers that it's impossible to get ahead in business without a man to guide her -- so she invents one. Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) is an expert financial analyst with a top Wall Street brokerage; however, she keeps getting passed over for raises and promotions, and she's Read More

The Proprietor

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Sean Young, Josh Hamilton, Austin Pendleton, Sam Waterston, Christopher Cazenove, Nell Carter

Synopsis: Noted producer Ismail Merchant stepped up to the director's chair for this drama. Adrienne Mark (Jeanne Moreau) is the most acclaimed French novelist of her generation, whose best known work, Je M'Appelle France, was an international best-seller made into an award-winning French film (and a Read More

Home for the Holidays

Actors: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares Read More

Two Much

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Danny Aiello

Synopsis: This Spanish-American production stars Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, whose romance on the set helped the film set box-office records in Spain. Director Fernando Treuba, who won an Oscar for Belle Epoque, made his English-language debut with Two Much, an updated screwball comedy. Banderas Read More

Guarding Tess

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths

Synopsis: A man trained for a life of excitement and danger is given a new and unexpected challenge -- minding a grouchy old woman -- in this comedy. Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage) is a Secret Service agent who takes great pride in his job, performing his duties with the utmost professionalism and always Read More

Greedy

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis, Olivia D'Abo, Phil Hartman

Synopsis: It's been said that nothing can bring two men closer together than a dollar placed between them, and a large family finds themselves becoming far closer than they'd like over several million dollars in this satiric comedy. Uncle Joe McTeague (Kirk Douglas) is an elderly man with a multi-million Read More

Don't Drink the Water

Actors: Mayim Bialik, Michael J. Fox, Edward Herrmann, Julie Kavner, Woody Allen, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made-for-television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself. The fish-out-of-water premise remains the same: Allen plays Walter Hollander Read More

Four Eyes and Six Guns

Synopsis: Made for cable television, this frothy western spoof chronicles the exploits of a citified optometrist who exchanges his well-ordered Big Apple life for a wild and woollier version in Tombstone, Arizona. Once there, he is thrilled to meet his hero Wyatt Earp. Unfortunately, the heroic Earp he Read More

My Boyfriend's Back

Actors: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Danny Zorn, Edward Herrmann, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Actor Bob Balaban directed this black comedy for Disney concerning a young zombie's love for a pretty high school girl. Johnny Dingle (Andrew Lowery) is a sweet-natured soul who has been in love with Missy McCloud (Traci Lind) ever since first grade, but he's always been reluctant to ask her out Read More

Mr. Nanny

Actors: Hulk Hogan, Sherman Hemsley, Austin Pendleton, Robert Hy Gorman, Madeline Zima

Synopsis: A has-been wrestler (Hulk Hogan) spends most of his time fishing, but decides to become a bodyguard to make some money. He is hired by a rich professor (Austin Pendleton) to supervise his children, but the wrestler finds that the kids are more than he bargained for. An evil scientist (David Johansen Read More

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Max Pomeranc, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Searching for Bobby Fischer was inspired by the life of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, as written by his father Fred Waitzkin. Josh (Max Pomeranc) is a "regular kid" who begins evincing signs of being a genius at chess. His father (Joe Mantegna) encourages this, hoping that it won't fundamentally Read More

Rain Without Thunder

Actors: Carolyn McCormick, Ali Thomas, Betty Buckley, Iona Morris, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Rain Without Thunder is a "pro-choice" tract, expertly packaged in the form of speculative fiction. In a futuristic society, abortion is a crime punishable by a harsh prison term, and all female sexual activity is electronically monitored. When young Ali Thomas chooses not to bring her unborn Read More

My Cousin Vinny

Actors: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: When sweet Northern college kid Bill (Ralph Macchio) and his buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are picked up and thrown into the slammer in a hick Southern town, at first it looks like no big deal. Then they are informed that they are accused of murder. Penniless and without a single friend in the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Angel of Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to Carmel, California, to console her old friend, playwright Martin Tremaine (Darren McGavin), whose wife has recentlhy committed suicide. Before long, an attempt is made on Tremaine's life--but another member of his family ends up as the victim. Can it be that the Read More

Charlie's Ear

Actors: Austin Pendleton, Catherine Hyland, Tony Dean Fields

Synopsis: Whatever else turns out to be real or false in this film, the antipathy that the office-worker therein has for his overbearing wife is clearly real. Everything else is up for grabs, including the two men whom he discovers in the house when he gets home from work. They claim that he hired them to Read More

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Rod Steiger, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: This first film directorial effort of actor Simon Callow is based on a novel by Carson McCullers -- which, in turn, was adapted for the stage by Edward Albee in 1964. Vanessa Redgrave plays a powerful Southern matriarch who, sequestered in her café/general store, holds her home town in the palm of Read More

Lethal Innocence

Actors: Blair Brown, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: There oughta be a law against TV-movie "title thinker uppers." Lethal Innocence is not a crime or judicial melodrama, but instead an innocuous family-oriented effort about a Cambodian refugee child. Adopted by an American couple, the child presses her new family to bring the rest of her Cambodian Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Kyra Sedgwick, Blythe Danner, Margaret Welsh, Simon Callow, Robert Sean Leonard

Synopsis: Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (played by real-life "Mr. and Mrs." Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward) are well-to-do residents of Kansas City in the 1940s. So far as the Bridges are concerned, however, it's the 1920s, with Mr. Bridge treating his wife like property, regarding his grown children as if they're Read More

B.L. Stryker: Blind Chess

The Cosby Show: Mrs. Huxtable Goes to Kindergarten

Synopsis: Clair (Phylicia Rashad) appears on a Sunday TV panel show, where she debates a few fine historical points with a trio of stuffy and arrogant male professors. The other panelists either ignore her comments or grandiosely condescend to her--but in the end Clair makes such an impression that the Read More

Hello Again

Actors: Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry of Compromising Positions re-team for this unsuccessful resurrection fantasy comedy. Shelley Long plays Lucy Chadman, the accident-prone wife of plastic surgeon Jason Chadman (Corbin Bernsen). When she chokes to death after eating a South Korean chicken Read More

Short Circuit

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Tim Blaney

Synopsis: Struck by lightning, an endearing little robot known only as "Number 5" escapes from an experimental electronics firm. Technician Newton Crosby (Steve Guttenberg) and his indecipherable East Indian assistant, Ben Jabituya (Fisher Stevens), set out to locate Number 5 before the military can go Read More

Off Beat

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna, Jacques D'Amboise

Synopsis: In this charming comedy that lives up to its title, Judge Reinhold stars as Joe Gower, a librarian's assistant posing as a police officer and trying to win the heart of a beautiful police officer, Rachel Wareham (Meg Tilly). A complex chain of events is put in place when Joe agrees to help out a Read More

My Man Adam

Actors: Raphael Sbarge, Page Hannah, Veronica Cartwright, Dave Thomas

Synopsis: Adam Swit (Raphael Sbarge) is hounded by his consumer parents in their plush L.A. home, beset by his sexually deprived sister, and faces agony at school at the hands of the tougher kids. In order to escape his troubles, he daydreams about a fantastic young woman. Lo and behold, a dead-ringer for Read More

Say Goodnight, Gracie

Crew: Director

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Kate Burton, Richard Burton, Zeljko Ivanek, Colleen Dewhurst, Geoffrey Holder

Synopsis: Part of the Broadway Theater Archives, this stage production of Lewis Carroll's children's fantasy Alice in Wonderland was directed by Kirk Browning. Kate Burton plays young Alice, the little girl who wanders into a bizarre wonderland that just gets more and more curious. Her real-life father, Richard Burton Read More

Talk to Me

Actors: Austin Pendleton, Michael Murphy, Barbara Eda-Young, Dan Shor, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: While staying at the Hollins Communication Institute, a stuttering accountant fittingly falls for a squirrel huntress who has a similar speech impediment. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Simon

Actors: Alan Arkin, Austin Pendleton, Judy Graubart, William Finley, Jayant

Synopsis: In this far-out comedy that slams it to academia, television, and the military, Simon (Alan Arkin) is a puffed-up professor who is boondoggled by a group of geniuses in a think tank. Becker (Austin Pendleton) leads the wacked-out thinkers as they invent off-the-wall games to keep themselves amused Read More

First Family

Actors: Gilda Radner, Bob Newhart, Madeline Kahn, Richard Benjamin, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: Gilda Radner, Bob Newhart, and Madeline Kahn star in this comedy. The farce sends up an idiotic First Family in the persona of a bumbling president (Newhart), his semi-alcoholic wife (Kahn), and his oversexed daughter (Radner). Satirizing the artificial, formal speech of real-life First Families Read More

Starting Over

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: Scripted by James L. Brooks from Dan Wakefield's novel, Alan J. Pakula's romantic comedy follows the tribulations of a freshly divorced man as he looks for love with a wary single woman. Phil Potter (Burt Reynolds sans mustache) can't quite believe it when his aspiring songbird wife Jessica (Candice Bergen Read More

The Muppet Movie

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More

The Great Smokey Roadblock

Actors: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Robert Englund, John Byner, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: Not everything Henry Fonda did was Grapes of Wrath or Mister Roberts. In the enjoyable low-budget "road" flick The Great Smokey Roadblock, Fonda plays a worn-out trucker named Elegant John. Anxious to make one last, big haul before retiring, Fonda loses his 18-wheeler to the repo men. He steals Read More

Good Times: The I.Q. Test

Synopsis: It is virtually a "given" that Michael (Ralph Carter) is the smartest member of the Evans family, and indeed one of the most brilliant youngsters in his school. Why, then, did Michael post the lowest IQ score in class? It turns out that Michael flunked the intelligence test deliberately -- his own Read More

The Front Page

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: This third film version of the 1928 Ben Hecht/Charlie MacArthur Broadway hit The Front Page was the first one permitted to utilize all the salty profanities in the original play. Director Billy Wilder cast his two favorite leading men, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, as ace reporter Hildy Johnson Read More

June Moon

Synopsis: Two giants of American humor, Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, collaborated for this stage comedy (a major success on Broadway when it was first staged in 1929) about a young tunesmith's struggle to succeed in the dog-eat-dog world of Tin Pan Alley. An up-and-coming songwriter (Tom Fitzsimmons) Read More

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Bud Yorkin directed this middling comedy, written by Walter Hill from a novel by Terrence Lore Smith. Ryan O'Neal plays a computer expert named Webster, who alleviates on-the-job doldrums by moonlighting as a successful jewel thief. Webster invites himself to upscale soirees, where he cases out Read More

Every Little Crook and Nanny

Actors: Phillip Graves, Katherine Victory, Lynn Redgrave, Victor Mature, Paul Sand, Maggie Byle, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman's dancing school is overrun by gangster's who begin using it for a betting parlor. As a result, she becomes the nanny for the mob boss's son. Soon she kidnaps him. Trouble and action ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

What's Up, Doc?

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Booke

Synopsis: With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in What's Up, Doc? (1972). When wacky co-ed Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand, in the Katharine Hepburn part) spies nebbishy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal Read More

Catch-22

Actors: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing Read More

Petulia

Actors: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Arthur Hill, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were square, nor those who were hip, really had it right. George C. Scott is Archie Bollen, a divorced San Francisco doctor in the midst of "discovering himself." Julie Christie is Read More

Skidoo

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this notorious comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays Tony, a mid-level gangster and former hired killer not very happy with his life. He bickers a lot with his wife Flo (Carol Read More