Brian GrazerFilmography

Born:: July 12, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: In Hollywood, producer Brian Grazer garners respect for his creativity and for his knack for picking box-office winners. He also possesses a rare gift for spotting raw talent. He was the one who helped Ron Howard move from juvenile actor to major director and he helped struggling actors such as Meg Ryan...Read More

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The Incredible Shrinking Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy stars in this new incarnation of Richard Matheson's classic adventure, this time portrayed with a comic slant in the tale of a magician who must break a shrinking hex that's been thrown on him before he grows so small that he ceases to exist. The Reno 911! screenwriting duo of Thomas Lennon Read More

1/1/12
The Rosenthaler Suite

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Wes Anderson adapts Patrice Leconte's 2006 French feature My Best Friend with this Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment co-production. Anderson provides the script, which focuses on a surly antiques dealer who enlists the help of a sweet cab driver to teach him how to make friends in order to Read More

1/1/11
Cowboys & Aliens

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on the graphic novel by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens starts in 1800s Arizona, where the local cowboys, headed by gunslinger Zeke Jackson (Robert Downey Jr.), and the indigenous Apache tribe have been feuding fiercely for quite a while. Their skirmish is interrupted, however, by Read More

1/1/11
Untitled Robin Hood Adventure

Crew: Producer

Actors: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Matthew MacFadyen, Mark Strong

Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott and actor Russell Crowe reunite for their fifth big-screen outing, a retelling of the Robin Hood legend featuring the Gladiator star in the titular role. A bowman in the army of Richard Coeur de Lion, virtuous rogue Robin Hood rises from an unlikely background to become a Read More

5/14/10
The Emperor's Children

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Ron Howard directs this adaptation of Claire Messud's novel about a group of young Ivy League socialites in New York City whose aimless lives are put into turnaround when the events of 9/11 disrupt their self-centered existence. Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) writes the screenplay, with Read More

1/1/10
Stretch Armstrong

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk takes a stab at the action comedy world with his script for the adaptation of the Hasbro action figure Stretch Armstrong. The Universal Pictures production is being produced by Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Cartel

Crew: Producer

Actors: Josh Brolin

Synopsis: A man (Josh Brolin) desperately tries to defend his son against the same drug cartel that took his wife's life in this Asger Leth-directed drama. Peter Craig penned the script for the Universal Pictures/Imagine Entertainment production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
The Invisible Man

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Conceived as a cinematic sequel to author H.G. Wells' landmark science fiction tale, director/screenwriter David Goyer's film follows the British nephew of the original Invisible Man as he discovers his uncle's top-secret invisibility formula and is recruited by British intelligence agency MI5 to Read More

2010
Inside Man 2

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Spike Lee returns to big-budget thriller territory with this sequel to 2006's blockbuster hit Inside Man. Hotel Rwanda's Terry George provides the screenplay, with Brian Grazer onboard to produce. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
East of Eden

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: John Adams' Tom Hooper helms this new version of John Steinbeck's classic novel of inner family dynamics between a rebellious son and his family in the vast Californian farmland. The novel was made famous by James Dean's brooding performance in Elia Kazan's visually arresting adaptation from 1955. Read More

1/1/10
Angels & Demons

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino

Synopsis: Angels and Demons re-teams director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks for the sequel to their international blockbuster adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the Read More

5/15/09
Bra Boys

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe makes his feature directorial debut with this surf drama that follows rough-and-tumble wave riders Sunny, Koby, and Jai Abberton as they spark an underground movement in the Australian seaside suburb of Maroubra. In addition to directing the fictionalized version Read More

1/1/09
Lie to Me [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Inspired by the scientific discoveries of real life body language specialist and criminal investigator Dr. Paul Eikman, the weekly police detective series Lie to Me follows Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his special team of experts as assist local police, government agencies, and federal law Read More

2009
Playboy

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Playboy depicts the life of Hugh Hefner, the controversial mastermind of the title publication, who came from a religious background to become one of the most recognizable figures in the sexual revolution. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/09
Colossus

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A government-built supercomputer designed to serve as the ultimate protection goes sentient and decides that the only way to protect humankind from itself is to assume complete control over the entire human race in this screen adaptation of author D.F. Jones' Colossus novels. Though Jones' Read More

1/1/09
Frost/Nixon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Matthew MacFadyen, Oliver Platt, Sam Rockwell

Synopsis: Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). At the time Nixon sat down with Read More

12/5/08
Changeling

Crew: Producer

Actors: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, Colm Feore

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events that occurred in 1920s-era Los Angeles, Clint Eastwood's The Changeling tells the story of a woman driven to confront a corrupted LAPD after her abducted son is retrieved and she begins to suspect that the boy returned to her is not the same boy she gave birth to. The Read More

10/24/08
24: Redemption

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Cherry Jones, Robert Carlyle, Gil Bellows, Jon Voight

Synopsis: A made for TV movie that provides a bridge between the sixth and seventh seasons of the hit FOX action series 24, 24: Redemption features series star Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer. As the program opens, Bauer spends his time doing missionary work in Africa, laying low while the United States Read More

2008
American Gangster

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin

Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. There was a time when no one noticed reserved driver Frank Lucas (Washington), but when the Read More

11/2/07
The Da Vinci Code

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found Read More

5/19/06
Inside Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Synopsis: The volatile showdown between a determined cop and a perfectionist bank robber is sent spiraling toward disaster when a scheming power broker steps in to take control of the situation in this hair-raising heist flick directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster Read More

3/24/06
Curious George

Crew: Producer

Actors: Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, Frank Welker, Shane Baumel, Timyra-Joi Beatty

Synopsis: The naughty little monkey from Margret Rey and H.A. Rey's beloved children's stories makes the leap to the big screen in this animated adaptation. Ted (voice of Will Ferrell) is an explorer with a large yellow hat who is good friends with Bloomsberry (voice of Dick Van Dyke), who runs a natural Read More

2/10/06
Treasure Hunters [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Laird Macintosh

Synopsis: This weekly NBC reality/game show combined elements from several similar TV series as well as from such recent theatrical films as National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code. The contestants were divided into ten three-person teams, bearing such designations as "Geniuses," "Miss USA," and "Ex-CIA." Read More

2006
Friday Night Lights [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: One of two football-themed series of the 2006-2007 TV season (the other was The Game, the NBC dramedy Friday Night Lights was based on the H.G. Bissinger book and the 2004 theatrical film of the same name. Like its predecessors, the series took place in a small Texas town (Odessa in the film and Read More

2006
Shark [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Though packaged for CBS by the successful production team of Brian Grazer, David Nevins and Ian Biederman, the weekly, hour-long legal drama Shark might never have seen the light of day had not celebrated stage and film actor James Woods agreed to sign on as star. Woods was cast as famous and Read More

2006
Curious George [Animated TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William H. Macy

Synopsis: Inspired by the series of popular children's books created by H.A. Rey and Margret Rey in 1941, the daily, half-hour Curious George was the second animated TV version of the venerable property. Narrated by actor William H. Macy, the two short cartoon segments per half-hour episode found Read More

2006
Fun with Dick and Jane

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: A not-so-ordinary family finds a new way of paying the bills in this comedy. Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) and his wife, Jane (Téa Leoni), would seem to have it made -- Dick has a high-paying job, they live in an expensive house in the suburbs, they have two luxury cars in the driveway, and a Read More

12/21/05
Flightplan

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby

Synopsis: A woman is forced to prove her own sanity to save the life of her daughter in this taut thriller. Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been dealing with the traumatic death of her husband. After traveling to Berlin on business with her six-year-old daughter Read More

9/23/05
Cinderella Man

Crew: Producer

Actors: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine

Synopsis: The true story of an athlete who achieved his greatest success against the most daunting odds of his life is brought to the screen in this historical drama. In the 1920s, James Braddock (Russell Crowe) from Bergen, NJ, was a promising contender in professional boxing; he had strength, spirit, and Read More

6/3/05
Inside Deep Throat

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato follow up Party Monster by returning to the documentary form of their most popular film The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Rather than examining evangelists-cum-gay icons, this time the duo takes aim at the cultural phenomenon that is and was Deep Throat, the Read More

2/11/05
The Inside [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rachel Nichols, Jay Harrington, Adam Baldwin, Katie Finneran, Nelsan Ellis

2005
Iconoclasts: Grazer on Redstone

2005
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Actors: George Clooney, Danny DeVito, Peter Bogdanovich, David Brown, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Take a walk on the fine line between box-office blockbusters and instantly forgettable bombs as Oscar and Emmy-winning producer/director Bill Couturie sets out to explore just what separates such high-profile hits as Jaws from such room-clearing disasters as Howard the Duck. Executive produced by Read More

2005
24: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, William Devane, Alberta Watson, Nestor Serrano, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Synopsis: Season four of the wildly successful "real-time" adventure series 24 begins some 18 months at the end of season three. John Keeler (Geoff Pierson) has succeeded David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) as president of the United States, and the new secretary of defense is James Heller (William Devane) Read More

2005
Friday Night Lights

Crew: Producer

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund

Synopsis: H.G. Bissinger's best-selling true-life account of a few months in the life of a high-school football team comes to the screen in this adaptation written and directed by Peter Berg. Odessa, TX, is an oil town in the western part of the state that's home to the Permian High School Panthers, the Read More

10/8/04
The Alamo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Jordi Mollà, Emilio Echeverria

Synopsis: Re-teaming Dennis Quaid with John Lee Hancock, the director of 2002's The Rookie, The Alamo retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers -- including William Travis (Patrick Wilson), Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton Read More

4/9/04
Arrested Development: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: The Bluth family of Orange County, CA, once again forces the media critics to come up with new variations on the word "dysfunction" as the cult-favorite sitcom Arrested Development launches its second season. For those who came in late, straight-arrow Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is still trying Read More

2004
The Big House [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Hart, Faizon Love, Keith David, Arnetia Walker, Yvette Nicole Brown

2004
The Missing

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Eric Schweig, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd, Aaron Eckhart

Synopsis: Director Ron Howard turns to the Western genre in this tale of a father and daughter who are brought together under difficult circumstances. Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) is a man living in New Mexico in the 1880s. He had abandoned his family years before to live and travel with a band of Read More

11/26/03
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, Dakota Fanning, Spencer Breslin

Synopsis: Following up on the success of 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Imagine Entertainment presents The Cat in the Hat, their second live-action adaptation of a classic Dr. Seuss book. Starring Mike Myers, the film follows the adventures of Conrad (Spencer Breslin) and Sally Walden (Dakota Fanning Read More

11/21/03
Intolerable Cruelty

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: Joel and Ethan Coen take on the classic battle-of-the-sexes screwball comedy with Intolerable Cruelty. George Clooney plays Miles Massey, a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis . While representing wealthy client Rex Rexroth (Edward Herrmann), Miles meets his match in Read More

10/10/03
Arrested Development: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: As Arrested Development leaps into its first season, hard-working Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is on the brink of starting a new life in Arizona with son George Michael (Michael Cera) when he is dragged kicking and screaming back to California, there to take charge of his family's business when Read More

2003
Miss Match [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alicia Silverstone, Ryan O'Neal, James Roday, David Conrad, Lake Bell

Synopsis: An all-grown-up Alicia Silverstone starred on this lightweight NBC comedy drama series as attorney Kate Fox. A divorce lawyer by day, Kate moonlighted as a matchmaker, finding suitable mates for her recently broken-up clients. Sometimes, Kate's good intentions were nullified by the disastrous Read More

2003
Arrested Development [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Making its Fox network bow on November 2, 2003, the weekly, half-hour Arrested Development would seem to meet all the qualifications of a "cult favorite." It was smart, hip, and savagely funny; it developed a fiercely loyal circle of fans; it was almost universally beloved of the critical Read More

2003
8 Mile

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Evan Jones

Synopsis: Controversial rap star Eminem makes his acting debut in this hard-edged urban drama, inspired in part by incidents from the musician's own life. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit's Read More

11/8/02
Blue Crush

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Sanoe Lake

Synopsis: Move over, Gidget -- a new breed of female surfers with style, guts and attitude hit the screen in this feature, which combines romance with a sports drama. Anne Marie (Kate Bosworth) is a young woman living in Hawaii who has been surfing since she was a little girl, and over the past year has Read More

8/16/02
Undercover Brother

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eddie Griffin, Chris Kattan, Aunjanue Ellis, Dave Chappelle

Synopsis: Undercover Brother began life as an animated series on the Internet. The satirical cartoon was created by novelist and screenwriter John Ridley (Three Kings) for the website urbanentertainment.com. Ridley wrote the screenplay with Michael McCullers, co-writer of the Austin Powers sequels, and it Read More

5/31/02
A Beautiful Mind

Crew: Producer

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

12/21/01
The Beast

Crew: Executive Producer

2001
24 [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Employing split screens and kinetic pacing, the real-time action thriller-drama 24 became a fast cult hit when it premiered on FOX in late 2001. Each one-hour episode covers an hour in a single day that unfolds over the course of a season. Kiefer Sutherland stars as über-hero Jack Bauer, a daring Read More

2001
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Clint Howard, Taylor Momsen, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: He's mean, he's green, and he's doesn't like the Yuletide season one bit -- Jim Carrey stars in this live-action adaptation of the classic children's story by Dr. Seuss (aka Theodore Geisel). High atop Mt. Crumpet, the Grinch (Carrey) observes the residents of Whoville joyously preparing to Read More

11/17/00
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales

Synopsis: Overweight scientific genius Sherman Klump and his extended family are back in this sequel to the 1996 comedy smash The Nutty Professor. Sherman (played once again by Eddie Murphy) has come up with a discovery that ought to make him a multimillionaire: a youth serum that turns back the user's body Read More

7/28/00
Wonderland [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Billy Burke, Joelle Carter, Patricia Clarkson, Martin Donovan, Michelle Forbes, Ted Levine

Synopsis: This series is a gritty hard-driving look at an insane asylum. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

2000
Beyond the Mat

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barry W. Blaustein, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Terry Funk, Vince McMahon, Mick Foley

Synopsis: In a rare foray into documentary filmmaking, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's Imagine Entertainment produced this behind-the-scenes look at professional wrestling, shot on digital video by director (Barry W. Blaustein), screenwriter of several hit Eddie Murphy comedies. An unabashed wrestling fan Read More

10/22/99
Bowfinger

Crew: Producer

Actors: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Jamie Kennedy

Synopsis: A group of wanna-be filmmakers and actors concocts a scheme to make a movie with a major star without having to pay him in this comedy. Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) has struggled for years to make it in Hollywood with no real success; he's convinced that he has to make his big break soon or it Read More

8/13/99
Life

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatunde, Ned Beatty, Bernie Mac

Synopsis: Comedians Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence team up for a story that wouldn't appear to have many immediate humorous possibilities -- two men serving life sentences in prison for a crime they did not commit. Life opens in Harlem in 1932, where Ray Gibson (Eddie Murphy) is a small-time con man in Read More

4/16/99
EDtv

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The turning point in the life of Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey) comes thanks to the misfortunes of the NorthWest Broadcasting Company. After two years on the air, their flagship cable channel, True TV, has slid into obscurity due to competition from the The Gardening Channel. Program director Read More

3/26/99
The PJs [Animated TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Loretta Devine, James Black, Michael Paul Chan, Ja'net DuBois

1999
Psycho

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy

Synopsis: Independent film director Gus Van Sant attempts a first in American film history: a shot-by-shot remake of the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. With a few minor, modern-day changes (including filming it in color), his version is essentially the same film with a different cast and the Read More

12/4/98
Mercury Rising

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens

Synopsis: In this action-suspense thriller, orphaned nine-year-old autistic savant Simon (Miko Hughes) deciphers a government code hidden in a puzzle magazine. Calling for his prize, Simon triggers an alarm at the National Security Agency: NSA chief Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), who says the code protects Read More

1998
From the Earth to the Moon

Crew: Producer

Actors: David Andrews, Bryan Cranston, Tim Daly, Al Franken, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Originally aired on HBO and directed by Apollo 13 star and space enthusiast Tom Hanks, among others, From the Earth to the Moon explores the ups and downs of space travel, beginning with President Kennedy's famous speech before Congress on May 25, 1961, and chronicling the journey to putting the Read More

1998
Felicity [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Beginning on September 29, 1998, as a "teen angst" romantic drama, the weekly, 60-minute WB series Felicity evolved into a "young adult angst" affair by the time the series ran its course on May 22, 2002. Each of the series' four seasons represented a different year in the college life of its Read More

1998
Sports Night [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This highly acclaimed but shortly lived half-hour comedy focused on the staff of a cable sports news program called "Sports Night." As the anchors and producers duck and weave through their career goals, workplace romances, rough divorces, and a love/hate relationship with professional sports, the Read More

1998
Liar Liar

Crew: Producer

Actors: Krista Allen, Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe

Synopsis: An attorney who tells the truth for 24 hours straight? This has got to be the movies! Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey) is a lawyer obsessed with his career, and he's devoted his life to bending the truth to his advantage. This habit has broken up his marriage to Audrey (Maura Tierney) and isn't doing Read More

1997
Inventing the Abbotts

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup, Liv Tyler, Will Patton, Kathy Baker, Joanna Going

Synopsis: The lives of two closely linked, small town Illinois families dangerously intersect in this domestic drama set in the 1950s, based on a short story by Sue Miller and directed by Pat O'Connor. Though they are from the wrong side of the tracks, the working class brothers Jacey (Billy Crudup) and Read More

1997
The Nutty Professor

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy gives one of Jerry Lewis' best-remembered vehicles a 1990s overhaul in this hit comedy. Sherman Klump (Murphy) is a college professor and respected biochemistry researcher who is kind, considerate, and a genuinely nice guy. Sherman is also appallingly overweight; coupled with the fact Read More

1996
Sgt. Bilko

Crew: Producer

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

1996
Ransom

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise, Brawley Nolte, Delroy Lindo, Lili Taylor

Synopsis: Ron Howard directed this thriller which stars Mel Gibson as Tom Mullen, a former fighter pilot who built a ramshackle one-plane airline into a major multinational service fleet. Mullen has a multi-million dollar fortune, a beautiful wife, Kate (Rene Russo) and a nine-year-old son, Sean (Brawley Nolte Read More

1996
Fear

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William L. Petersen, Amy Brenneman, Alyssa Milano

Synopsis: Mark Wahlberg stars in one of his first features as a hoodlum drug dealer from the wrong side of the trackswho falls in love with Nicole Walker, an upper-middle-class high school girl (Reese Witherspoon). In this psycho-drama (with the emphasis on psycho), Nicole happily loses her virginity to her Read More

1996
The Chamber

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky, Lela Rochon, Millie Perkins, Raymond J. Barry

Synopsis: Based on a novel by John Grisham, this drama deals with a man trying to come to terms with his family and their ugly secrets. Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell) is a successful attorney based in Chicago who travels to Mississippi to look into the case of Sam Cayhall (Gene Hackman). An outspoken racist Read More

1996
Apollo 13

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: "Houston, we have a problem." Those words were immortalized during the tense days of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis, and the suspense, fear, and excitement of those days are captured in Ron Howard's epic recreation of the 1970 crisis. When the commander of the original mission Ken Read More

6/30/95
My Girl 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Anna Chlumsky, Austin O'Brien, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christine Ebersole, Richard Masur

Synopsis: In this sequel to My Girl, Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) is now thirteen and at the crossroads of adolescence, beginning to question her past. Her father Harry (Dan Aykroyd) is now married to Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis) and preoccupied with an expectant child. Vada feels left out and decides to Read More

1994
Greedy

Crew: Producer

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

1994
The Paper

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Director Ron Howard's drama follows a beleaguered reporter during a hectic 24 hours at a New York City tabloid. Michael Keaton stars as Henry Hackett, a metro editor for the struggling New York Sun. Hackett is being wooed by the Sentinel, a more upscale paper, but he's addicted to the Read More

1994
The Cowboy Way

Crew: Producer

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono

Synopsis: In this action comedy, director Gregg Champion relies on the premise that, indeed, "country boys can survive," as Sonny (Kiefer Sutherland) and Pepper (Woody Harrelson, always game) head off to the Big Apple in order to rescue a mutual friend's daughter from the clutches of an evil sweatshop Read More

1994
CB4: The Movie

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D, Chris Elliott, Phil Hartman

Synopsis: Comedian Chris Rock stars in this scattershot satire of rap music in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap. This film within a film begins with A. White (Chris Elliot) screening a rough cut of a documentary he has made of the notorious CB4 rap group -- consisting of group leader Albert, also know as MC Read More

1993
For Love or Money

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Gabrielle Anwar, Anthony Higgins, Michael Tucker, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Michael J. Fox stars as Doug Ireland in this romantic comedy about a brash concierge at a swanky New York hotel who always makes it a point to go out of his way for the hotel guests. But Doug doesn't want to be a concierge forever. What he would really like to do is build a swanky hotel of his Read More

1993
Boomerang

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, Robin Givens, David Alan Grier, Grace Jones, Martin Lawrence

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy plays Marcus Graham, a hotshot ad exec who's also an insatiable womanizer. He is thus hardly prepared for his new boss, Jacqueline, played by Robin Givens. In terms of things romantic, Jacqueline is nothing more or less than a female version of Marcus -- and now, for the first time Read More

7/1/92
Housesitter

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy from director Frank Oz, Steve Martin plays Boston architect Newton Davis, an impulsive dreamer who builds a bucolic dream home for his girlfriend (Dana Delany) as a means of proposing to her -- only she turns him down. Three months later, the depressed Davis meets a Read More

6/12/92
Far and Away

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock

Synopsis: In this epic Ron Howard film, Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an impoverished 19th-century Irish tenant farmer who has recently lost both his father and his home to the agents of his unscrupulous landlord. On a mission to avenge his family's injustice at the hands of the ruthless land baron Joseph Read More

5/22/92
My Girl

Crew: Producer

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Masur, Griffin Dunne

Synopsis: Howard Zieff directed this comedy-drama about the emotional awakening of a young girl in a small Pennsylvania town during the summer of 1972. Anna Chlumsky plays eleven-year-old Vada, a quiet child living with her widowed father Harry Dultenfuss (Dan Aykroyd), a local mortician who prepares bodies Read More

11/27/91
Backdraft

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: The sons of a Chicago fireman who gave his life in the performance of his duties, firefighting brothers Kurt Russell and William Baldwin carry their lifelong sibling rivalry into their work. Russell is convinced that Baldwin hasn't got what it takes to remain in the fire department. Baldwin is Read More

5/24/91
Closet Land

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman

Synopsis: Indian-born, American-educated director Radha Bharadwaj based her allegorical thriller on the work of her husband with Amnesty International. The story concerns The Woman (Madeleine Stowe), a children's book writer who, in an unspecified country, is abducted from her bed in the middle of the night Read More

3/6/91
The Doors

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon

Synopsis: Val Kilmer delivers what was considered one of 1991's best performances as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's hallucinatory bio-pic of the seminal 1960s rock group The Doors. Stone cuts a jagged swath through Morrison's life, starting with a childhood memory where Morrison sees an elderly Indian dying Read More

3/1/91
Kindergarten Cop

Crew: Producer

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger sheds his action image in Ivan Reitman's police comedy Kindergarten Cop, where he plays an undercover cop teaching a class of hyperactive six-year-olds. As the film begins, John Kimble (Schwarzenegger) and his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) are in pursuit of notorious Read More

12/21/90
Problem Child

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden

Synopsis: An adoptive parent discovers that some children are given up by their biological parents for very good reasons in this dark comedy. Ben Healy (John Ritter) is a pleasant but brow-beaten yuppie working for his father Big Ben (Jack Warden), a tyrannical sporting goods dealer. Ben would love to have Read More

7/27/90
Cry-Baby

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Ricki Lake, Iggy Pop

Synopsis: John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Depp is pure charisma as a juvenile delinquent with a Read More

4/6/90
Parenthood

Crew: Producer

Actors: Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Jr., Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This feel-good ensemble comedy tracks a quartet of suburban siblings and their families over the course of a single summer. Hardworking Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) and his stay-at-home wife, Karen (Mary Steeenburgen), have just a few months to help their oldest son, Kevin (Jasen Fisher), overcome Read More

8/2/89
The Dream Team

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris

Synopsis: The eponymous team consists of four residents of a New Jersey psychiatric hospital: ex-postal worker Henry Sikorsky (Christopher Lloyd), who fancies himself a doctor; one-time ad agency exec Jack McDermott (Peter Boyle), suffering from a Messiah/martyr complex; writer Billy Caulfield (Michael Keaton Read More

4/7/89
The 'Burbs

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Together with their perfect son, Hanks and Fisher are so clean that they squeak. Thus, when new neighbors Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore and Courtney Gains begin evincing bizarre behavior, Hanks is slightly put out. Fisher Read More

2/17/89
Clean and Sober

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Benben, Tate Donovan

Synopsis: The directorial debut of Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of the television series Moonlighting (1985-89), this intense, gritty drama was received as one of the best-ever cinematic treatments of substance abuse. Michael Keaton stars as Daryl Poynter, a hustling, successful Philadelphia real estate Read More

8/10/88
Vibes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Falk, Googy Gress, Julian Sands

Synopsis: Two hapless psychics unwittingly aid a criminal in his quest to obtain a mystic relic in this farcical adventure. Street smart beauty-school dropout Sylvia Pickel (Cyndi Lauper) navigates life with the counsel of a spirit named Louise, while genteel Nick Deezy (Jeff Goldblum) has the ability to Read More

8/5/88
Like Father, Like Son

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dudley Moore, Kirk Cameron, Sean Astin, Patrick O'Neal, Margaret Colin, Catherine Hicks

Synopsis: Dr. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) is a noted heart surgeon whose personality is switched with his teenage son Chris (Kirk Cameron) in this uninspired comedy. The ingestion of a brain transference serum is the catalyst for the comic catastrophe and the confusion that follows. Sean Astin and Patrick O'Neal Read More

10/2/87
Armed and Dangerous

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy costars as a disbarred lawyer. The two outcasts take low-paying jobs as security officers at a company controlled by mob boss Robert Loggia. In their own stumblebum fashion, Candy Read More

8/15/86
Shadow Chasers

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this adventure a professor of anthropology and a reporter join forces to look into a strange occurrence with supernatural implications. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Spies Like Us

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Director John Landis helmed this Cold War farce starring Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase as Austin Millbarge and Emmett Fitz-Hume -- two loser misfits who dwell in the lower ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency. Convinced despite much evidence to the contrary that they're prime secret agent Read More

1985
Real Genius

Crew: Producer

Actors: Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton, Jon Gries, Patti D'Arbanville

Synopsis: Martha Coolidge directed this comedy taking place at fictional Pacific Tech, concerning incoming freshman Mitch (Gabe Jarret), a high school student whose Science Fair project made important inroads into laser beam technology. Mitch has been recruited by famed physics professor Hathaway (William Read More

1985
Splash

Crew: Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dody Goodman

Synopsis: "I'm in love with a mermaid!" read the opening line of Leonard Maltin's original review for Splash. And with the delightful Darryl Hannah in the lead, who could fault Maltin for his public declaration of ardor? The story begins in 1959, when a young boy is rescued from a watery grave by an Read More

1984
Night Shift

Crew: Producer

Actors: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht, Pat Corley

Synopsis: Straight-laced Henry Winkler takes a night-shift job as a morgue attendant. Winkler falls under the spell of wheeler-dealer coworker Michael Keaton, whose catchphrase "Is this a great country or what?" is the clarion call for his many get-rich-quick schemes. His latest plan is to turn the morgue Read More

1982
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

Crew: Producer, Teleplay By

Synopsis: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery was the first in an intended series of TV-movies inspired by the Ten Commandments (the series came a premature end with 1981's Thou Shalt Not Kill). Louise Fletcher plays the wife of paralytic Robert Reed. Though she tries to remain loyal, Reed's incapacitation puts Read More

1978

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