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Midnight Blue, Vol. 3: Celebrities

Actors: Al Goldstein, Alex Bennett, O.J. Simpson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Crumb

Synopsis: Few television programs have broken as many taboos as Screw publisher Al Goldstein's groundbreaking late-night cable program Midnight Blue, and in this collection of audacious clips, Goldstein takes a look beyond the porn and politics and into the lives of the era's hottest celebrities. From the Read More

The Last Shot

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Tony Shalhoub, Calista Flockhart, Ray Liotta

Synopsis: Directed by Jeff Nathanson, The Last Shot follows what happens when, like so many aspiring entertainers, the FBI gets caught up in the grandeur of showbiz. When Agent Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin) is given a key role in an elaborate scheme to take down the infamous mob boss John Gotti, he gladly Read More

Lisa Picard is Famous

Actors: Daniel London, Griffin Dunne, L.M. Kit Carson

Synopsis: Actor-turned-filmmaker Griffin Dunne directs this mockumentary about the lives of struggling thespians. The film focuses on Lisa Picard (Laura Kirk), a fledgling actress about to burst on the scene thanks to a bit part in a made-for-TV movie. She is followed around by Dunne as she makes her Read More

Town & Country

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Garry Shandling, Jenna Elfman

Synopsis: This long-delayed romantic comedy from director Peter Chelsom stars Warren Beatty as a wealthy New York architect, Porter Stoddard. The revelation that his best friend Griffin (Garry Shandling) is cheating on his wife Mona (Goldie Hawn) leads to a mid-life crisis of sorts for Porter, jeopardizing Read More

A Girl Thing

Actors: Stockard Channing, Elle MacPherson, Kate Capshaw

Synopsis: Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life together as she guides four of her patients through personal turmoil. Lauren Travis (Elle MacPherson), a respected lawyer, finds her sexual identity thrown into question Read More

The Directors: Milos Forman

Synopsis: An acclaimed art house filmmaker in his native Czechoslovakia who found a second act in America, Milos Forman has brought such noted Hollywood fare as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and Man on the Moon to the silver screen. This video profile highlights his long and winding career Read More

Breakfast of Champions

Actors: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly

Synopsis: In a small American town called Midland City, Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) -- a loyal father, a successful car dealer, and a respected member of the community --lives with his wife Celia (Barbara Hershey), who's addicted to pills and TV shows, and his son Bunny (Lukas Haas), who is a weakling. Read More

I'm Losing You

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Amanda Donohoe, Buck Henry, Salome Jens, Frank Langella

Synopsis: This 1998 film about a dysfunctional Los Angeles family is directed by Bruce Wagner, on whose novel this is based. Everyone in this family has a problem. Perry (Frank Langella) is a successful TV producer who has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer just before his 60th birthday. His son Bertie (Andrew McCarthy Read More

1999

Actors: Dan Futterman, Jennifer Garner, Matt McGrath, Amanda Peet, Steven Wright

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Nick Davis, the grandson of famed Hollywood screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), wrote and directed this comedy-drama about young New Yorkers at a party on New Year's Eve in the year 1999. The dawning millennium brings the partygoers to an existential precipice Read More

Curtain Call

Actors: James Spader, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Polly Walker, Buck Henry

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy with supernatural touches, Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) works for a large publishing house, editing and acquiring new projects. Lowe's new boss is after him to buy fewer books that are good and more books that will sell, while his girlfriend Julia (Polly Walker) is trying Read More

The Real Blonde

Actors: Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Maxwell Caulfield, Elizabeth Berkley

Synopsis: This romantic comedy from writer and director Tom DiCillo follows some New York City pals seeking authenticity with the real blonde, a symbol of amorous perfection. Joe (Matthew Modine) is an out-of-work actor struggling for even bit parts in Madonna music videos by groveling in front of a Read More

To Die For

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Alison Folland

Synopsis: The price of fame is murder -- or at least it is in the mind of one woman in New Hampshire. Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has spent most of her life wanting to be famous; she's attractive, speaks well, and imagines herself to be intelligent ("imagines" is the key word here), so she has set her Read More

Harrison Bergeron

Actors: Sean Astin, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Sean Astin stars as the title character in this creepy made-for-cable adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut classic. Set in a future America, where a small, elite group controls the masses, teen Harrison Bergeron is chosen to lead a movement that promotes mediocrity. Christopher Plummer stars as John Read More

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Actors: Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Lorraine Bracco

Synopsis: Writer/director Gus Van Sant's early bid for big-time commercial success -- a success he didn't manage to achieve until Good Will Hunting -- is based on Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist bestseller. Uma Thurman plays Sissy Hankshaw, a woman born with very large thumbs. After her parents (Grace Zabriskie Read More

Grumpy Old Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly elevated by the presence of masterful performers in the lead roles. Jack Lemmon is John Gustafson, an ice-fishing Minnesota native who has been feuding with his neighbor Read More

Short Cuts

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins, Bruce Davison, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Synopsis: Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

Keep the Change

Actors: Jack Palance, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Thomas McGuane, this made-for-TV feature stars William Petersen as Joe Starling, a painter suffering from creative block. For inspiration, he returns to his family's Montana home, only to find the land coveted by a malevolent developer (Jack Palance). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Read More

The Linguini Incident

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, David Bowie, Marlee Matlin, Eszter Balint, Buck Henry, Andre Gregory

Synopsis: A magic-obsessed New York waitress (Rosanna Arquette) is persuaded by a colorful group of characters to help her rob the restaurant where she works. Along the way, she falls in love with the eatery's bartender (David Bowie), who just so happens to be looking for someone who will make him a Read More

Defending Your Life

Actors: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Albert Brooks wrote, directed, and stars in this philosophical comedy about a man having a hard time making a case for himself in the afterlife. When advertising executive Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) finds himself in a fatal car crash minutes after taking delivery on a new BMW, he's whisked away Read More

Tune in Tomorrow

Actors: Peter Falk, Keanu Reeves, Barbara Hershey, Hope Lange, Bill McCutcheon, Peter Gallagher, Patricia Clarkson

Synopsis: Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news writer for a local radio station, Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves), meets and falls in love with his aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), a divorced woman who is looking for a new Read More

Rude Awakening

Actors: Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts play two draft-dodging hippies who flee to a commune in Central America where they stay for 20 years. When they return in 1989 and seek out some of their old NYC buddies, they find they've turned yuppie and things just aren't what they'd expected. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dark Before Dawn

Actors: Sonny Gibson, Doug McClure, Reparata Mazzola, Ben Johnson, Billy Drago

Synopsis: The good people of Milo, Kansas (pop. 1,972) combine forces to battle against the evil agribusiness Farmco that conspires to drive up the price of bread to six dollars a loaf. Farmer Jeff Parker (Sonny Gibson) and the crusading journalist Charlie Stevens (Buck Henry) recruit former Farmco Read More

The Best of Gilda Radner

Synopsis: Within a single year, Gilda Radner rose from talented but obscure improv comedienne to "America's Sweetheart" thanks to NBC's Saturday Night Live. The 60-minute video The Best of Gilda Radner is culled from SNL's vintage years, 1975 to 1980. Included are such beloved Radner creations as Roseanne Read More

Murphy Brown: My Dinner with Einstein

Synopsis: Murphy (Candice Bergen) is getting tired of accusations that she dates men solely on the basis of their looks, especially since the accusations are true. To prove something not only to her friends but to herself, Murphy agrees to go out with her new acquaintance, nerdish-but-brilliant physicist Read More

Aria

Actors: Theresa Russell, Nicola Swain, Jack Kyle, Buck Henry, Marianne McLoughlin, Julie Hagerty, Tilda Swinton, Marion Peterson

Synopsis: An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard's segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising Read More

The Best of John Belushi

Actors: John Belushi

Synopsis: Assembled long after John Belushi's death in 1982, The Best of John Belushi is at once hilarious and melancholy. From 1975 to 1979, Belushi was a member in excellent standing of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on NBC's Saturday Night Live. This 60-minute video covers those amazing years Read More

Protocol

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: In this routine spoof of government and media foibles, Sunny (Goldie Hawn) is an ordinary cocktail waitress, someone who graduated in the top 75% of her class. When she dramatically prevents the assassination of a visiting dignitary, an Emir (Richard Romanus) from an Arab country. the event puts Read More

Eating Raoul

Actors: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: Eating Raoul was celebrated at the time of its release as the perfect marriage between mainstream moviemaking and the so-called "underground" cinema. Cult-film icons Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel (both of whom directed) play a married couple who decide to cash in on the sexual perversions of Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [10]

Actors: Buck Henry, Andrew Gold

Synopsis: This 1980 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guest Andrew Gold. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

First Family

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Gloria

Actors: Gena Rowlands, John Adames, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, Lupe Garnica

Synopsis: Gloria (Gena Rowlands), a self-involved woman in her forties who was once a mobster's mistress, is asked to look after Philip (Juan Adames), the son of her Mafia-connected Puerto Rican neighbors. This temporary set-up becomes permanent when the neighbors are killed in a mob hit. Philip has in his Read More

The Nude Bomb

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Don Adams, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Dana Elcar, Pamela Hensley

Synopsis: Maxwell Smart, the infamous Agent 86 from the '60s television sitcom Get Smart makes his feature-film debut in this goofy espionage spoof. This time, Smart and his cohorts must stop enemy spies from detonating a bomb that would destroy all the world's clothing. On television, the film was renamed Read More

Old Boyfriends

Actors: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine, John Belushi, John Houseman

Synopsis: Noted screenwriter Joan Tewksbury made her directorial debut with this bittersweet comedy-drama. Diane Cruise (Talia Shire), a psychologist going through a severe depression, takes a long look at her life after attempting to commit suicide. Diane decides to pay a visit to her former boyfriends in Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [8]

Actors: Buck Henry, Bette Midler

Synopsis: This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guest Bette Midler. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Strong Medicine

Actors: Raul Julia, Wallace Shawn, Kate Manheim

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1986 TV miniseries of the same name, Strong Medicine is the bizarre tale of a bizarre young woman, played bizarrely by Kate Manheim. Shunted aside by society in general, she loses all touch with reality. It helps not at all that she comes in contact with several equally Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [9]

Actors: Buck Henry, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Synopsis: This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guest Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Steve Martin Live!

Synopsis: Culled from a 1979 comedy concert, this sampling of the Wild and Crazy Guy at his wildest and craziest may be familiar to his older fans, but is well worth another go-round. "Happy Feet," "King Tut," the arrows and the bunny ears are all in attendance; by this time, Martin's catchphrase and stock Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [7]

Actors: Buck Henry, The Grateful Dead

Synopsis: This 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guest the Grateful Dead. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Heaven Can Wait

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Opting for light entertainment after the critical satire of Shampoo (1975), producer-director-writer-star Warren Beatty remade the 1941 comic fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Dimly amiable L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Beatty) is prematurely called to Heaven by an over-eager escort (Buck Henry Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [6]

Actors: Buck Henry, Sun Ra

Synopsis: This 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guest Sun Ra. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [5]

Actors: Buck Henry, Leon Redbone

Synopsis: This 1977 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guest Leon Redbone. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Absent Minded Waiter

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [4]

Actors: Buck Henry, Kenny Vance, Jennifer Warnes

Synopsis: This 1977 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guests Kenny Vance and Jennifer Warnes. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Actors: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth achieved cult film status for David Bowie's performance as Thomas Jerome Newton, aka "Mr. Sussex," and the imagery of director Nicholas Roeg, a former cinematographer. In this deeply allegorical science-fiction drama, Newton is an alien Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [1]

Actors: Buck Henry, Bill Withers, Toni Basil

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guests Bill Withers and Toni Basil. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [2]

Actors: Buck Henry, Gordon Lightfoot

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guest Gordon Lightfoot. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry [3]

Actors: Buck Henry, The Band

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Buck Henry and features musical guest the Band. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Day of the Dolphin

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pat Englund, George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, Jon Korkes

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry team up again (after collaborating on The Graduate and Catch-22) for this adaptation of Robert Merle's best-selling adventure novel concerning dolphins who become pawns in a plot to kill the president. George C. Scott plays Dr. Jake Terrell, a Read More

What's Up, Doc?

Crew: Screenwriter

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

Taking Off

Actors: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Linnea Heacock, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey

Synopsis: Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter. Larry and his best Read More

I Miss Sonia Henie

Crew: Director

Is There Sex After Death?

Actors: Alan Abel, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Alan Abel, best known as a purveyor of hoaxes, codirected this porno movie spoof with his wife Jeanne. Alan also stars as an itinerant sex specialist who travels around asking just-folks opinions about the possibility of post-mortem cohabitation. Among the guest stars are satirist Buck Henry and Read More

Catch-22

Crew: Screenwriter

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

The Owl and the Pussycat

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield, Roz Kelly

Synopsis: The Owl and the Pussycat began life as a two-character Broadway play by Bill Manhoff, about a stuffy author who entered into an explosive relationship with his neighbor, a foulmouthed, freewheeling prostitute. Manhoff wrote the part of the hooker for a black actress, but all that changed when Barbra Streisand Read More

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

Actors: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Tom Bosley, Andrew Duggan, John Williams

Synopsis: This World War II comedy finds Harry Frigg (Paul Newman) as the unwilling volunteer slated to rescue five generals from the clutches of the Germans and Italians. Frigg would rather spend his time goofing off than fighting the war, but his superiors make him a fake general and pack him off to Read More

Candy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, John Huston

Synopsis: In this big-budget adaptation of Terry Southern's satiric sex farce (the sort of project that could get an immediate green light in the late 1960's and at practically no other time before or since), Ewa Aulin is Candy, a sweet young woman who doesn't seem entirely aware of the powerful sexual Read More

The Graduate

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Elizabeth Wilson, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: "Just one word: plastic." "Are you here for an affair?" These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebellion seeped into the California upper middle-class in Mike Nichols' landmark hit. Mentally adrift the summer after graduating from college, suburbanite Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman Read More

Get Smart [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon

The Troublemaker

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Aldredge, Joan Darling, Theodore J. Flicker, James Frawley, Charles White

Synopsis: A midwestern hayseed takes on the Big Apple in this comedy. He goes because he is tired of running a chicken farm and thinks it might be more fun to own a coffee house. But before he can, he must deal with a myriad of crooked city bureaucrats who won't issue the necessary license until he pays Read More