Charles GrodinFilmography

Clifford

Actors: Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Dabney Coleman, G.D. Spradlin

Synopsis: Versatile Canadian comedian Martin Short plays a 10-year old boy in this comedy aimed at younger audiences. The tale is told in flashback to another little boy. Clifford is a manipulative brat. Clifford really wants to visit Dinosaur World in Los Angeles. Clifford wants to go so badly that he Read More

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It Runs in the Family

Actors: Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Kieran Culkin, Christian Culkin, Al Mancini

Synopsis: My Summer Story is the video title for It Runs in the Family. Based on the writings of humorist/raconteur Jean Shepherd, the film was the long-awaited sequel to the 1984 "sleeper" A Christmas Story. Set in the 1940s, the story is told from the point-of-view of Ralphie Parker (Kieran Culkin), who Read More

Dave

Actors: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: The ghost of Frank Capra must have smiled when he saw Dave, an amusing and effective update of one of Capra's favorite themes -- the scrupulously honest little guy who becomes a force for good against a corrupt system. Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) runs an employment agency and seems to genuinely enjoy Read More

Heart and Souls

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Director Ron Underwood follows up his crowd-pleasing hit City Slickers (1991) with this likable, feel-good comedy drama about a selfish businessman who discovers that he's permanently being followed by a group of ghosts. In 1959, a bus accident links the spirits of four fatally injured passengers Read More

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Actors: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Comic actor and former Saturday Night Live stock player Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title character in Wayne's World (1992) (and its sequel) into a romantic leading man with this box office disappointment. Myers stars as Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet who Read More

Beethoven's 2nd

Actors: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Nicholle Tom, Christopher Castile, Sarah Rose Karr

Synopsis: The gargantuan St. Bernard finds love in this sequel to the box-office hit. Beethoven happens to meet Missy, another St. Bernard, in the park and the two find they share a certain chemistry. Unfortunately, Missy is being held captive by Regina (Debi Mazar), a spiteful ex-wife attempting to Read More

Beethoven

Actors: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Nicholle Tom, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Castile

Synopsis: Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of Read More

Taking Care of Business

Actors: James Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne de Salvo, Loryn Locklin, Veronica Hamel, Stephen Elliott

Synopsis: James Belushi and Charles Grodin team up for this variation on the Prince and the Pauper. Belushi plays Jimmy Dworski, a convicted car thief, serving time in a minimum security prison. But when Jimmy wins a pair of tickets to the World Series from a radio call-in show, he can't resist walking out Read More

Midnight Run

Actors: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to the wimpy Mardukas, Walsh assumes that the Read More

You Can't Hurry Love

Actors: David Packer, Scott McGinnis, Bridget Fonda, David Leisure, Anthony Geary

Synopsis: A young Ohio man moves to Los Angeles in search of a career and a girlfriend in this romantic comedy, whose action centers on the '80s singles scene. Eddy (David Packer) heads to California after his cousin, Skip (Scott McGinnis), promises him a job in the ad biz, but Eddy ends up with the Read More

The Couch Trip

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, David Clennon, Donna Dixon

Synopsis: Michael Ritchie's The Couch Trip follows a long line of Hollywood films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Disorderly Orderly) in which the psychos are seen as saner than the psychiatrists. Charles Grodin plays Dr. George Maitlin, a pompous radio self-help guru, who is having his own personal Read More

Ishtar

Actors: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston

Synopsis: Considered one of the great box-office turkeys of its decade, Ishtar was an attempt by writer/director Elaine May and stars Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty to do a modern-day road picture in the style of the much-loved Bob Hope and Bing Crosby comedy classics. Beatty is Lyle Rogers, a Read More

The Last Resort

Actors: Charles Grodin, Robin Pearson Rose, John Ashton, Ellen Blake, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: George Lollar (Charles Grodin) overrides his wife's judgment and takes his family for a vacation on a sunny Caribbean island that just happens to be on the verge of a revolution. Their hotel is not the usual Hilton on the beach but a pick-up joint for singles where the main activities are sex Read More

Grown Ups

Synopsis: Adapted from the play by Jules Feiffer, Grown Ups was produced for cable television. A pre-talkshow Charles Grodin plays the Feifferesque central character, a writer facing a mid-life crisis. He turns to his family for support, but, to put it mildly, they're no help at all. Feiffer is a writer of Read More

Film House Fever

Synopsis: This compilation tape is a collection of clips and trailers from low-budget, cult-type movies. The "framing" device of having two guys on a couch (one of whom is future cult-icon Steve Buscemi) watching TV and making cracks about the movies is fairly lame, and many of the films showcased have been Read More

Movers and Shakers

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Vincent Gardenia, Tyne Daly, Bill Macy

Synopsis: The "movers and shakers" in this weak comedy limned by Charles Grodin do not refer to a religious sect, but the big-wigs in Hollywood who determine how the next many millions are to be spent. Two parallel stories occupy center stage. On the one hand, Joe Mulholland (Walter Matthau) has made a Read More

The Lonely Guy

Actors: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence, Robyn Douglass

Synopsis: In a comedy as flat as the cardboard cut-outs of movie stars that appear in one scene, Steve Martin plays Larry Hubbard, a wild and lonely guy who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Since misery loves company, he takes up with Warren, a fellow Lonely Guy (Charles Grodin), and eventually both Read More

The Woman in Red

Actors: Gene Wilder, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, Michael Huddleston

Synopsis: Gene Wilder's remake of this 1976 French comedy is a Hollywood version of what happens when Theodore (Wilder), an ordinary ad agency executive, is captivated by a gorgeous woman (Kelly Le Brock). The woman just happens to be standing on a grate when her skirt blows up over her waist (a scene first Read More

Sorceress

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Lynette Harris, Bob Nelson, David Millbern, Bruno Rey

Synopsis: The action-adventure scenes of unconvincing sword fights, passable martial arts, and other macho displays alternate with the feminine displays of twins Mira and Mara (Leigh Harris and Lynette Harris) in this prehistoric fantasy. Mira and Mara were raised as boys -- for awhile, anyway -- to protect Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Friendly Persuasion

Synopsis: Charles Grodin appears as himself in this episode, endeavoring to spread some genuine Christmas cheer throughout cynical, jaded Hollywood. When Grodin shows up at Bardwell's Department Store, Laverne (Penny Marshall) jumps to the wrong conclusion that the actor wants to date her, while Shirley Read More

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, Elizabeth Wilson, Maria Smith

Synopsis: The Incredible Shrinking Woman, directed by Joel Schumacher, is an attempted social satire focusing on the position of women in our society and our social values. After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer (Lily Tomlin) begins to shrink. While this baffles Read More

The Great Muppet Caper

Actors: Charles Grodin, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie, which was essentially just a road movie. As the film begins, Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear are reporters who have failed to bag a story of a London jewel heist, which Read More

Seems Like Old Times

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume, Harold Gould

Synopsis: For the first (and thus far the only) time in his career, Chevy Chase plays a genuinely sympathetic character in Neil Simon's Seems Like Old Times. This time around, Chase is a divorced novelist who is abducted by crooks and set up as the fall guy in a bank robbery. Arrested, Chase manages to Read More

It's My Turn

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Claudia Weill's second feature is a romantic look at the humorous and tragic sides of love, starring Jill Clayburgh as Kate Gunzinger, a mathematics professor who lives with perpetually sunny architect Homer (Charles Grodin) in Chicago. But during a trip to New York City, Kate becomes romantically Read More

Sunburn

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, Eleanor Parker, William Daniels

Synopsis: Jake (Charles Grodin), an insurance investigator, is assigned to probe the killing of a wealthy businessman in Acapulco. To help him, he hires a beautiful New York model, Ellie (Farah Fawcett), to act as his wife, and they pretend to be tourists on vacation. Art Carney plays Marcus, a local Read More

Real Life

Actors: Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain, J.A. Preston, Matthew Tobin, Albert Brooks

Synopsis: Albert Brooks made his feature-length debut as a writer and director with this wickedly funny satire, in which Albert Brooks plays "Albert Brooks," an arrogant and self-centered comedian who has decided to make a documentary film. Following the lead of the infamous pre-Real World PBS series An Read More

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

Actors: Charles Grodin

Synopsis: While the made-for-TV The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank sure looks like a pilot film, nobody involved would fess up to this. Based on the writings of humorist Erma Bombeck, the film stars Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin as an upwardly mobile New York couple who move themselves and Read More

Heaven Can Wait

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

Just Me and You

Actors: Louise Lasser, Charles Grodin, Julie Bovasso, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Louise Lasser, who wrote the script, stars in this made-for-TV comedy as a flaky New Yorker who finds romance with a staid computer salesman when the two are thrust together on a cross-country trip. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Charles Grodin

Actors: Charles Grodin, Paul Simon

Synopsis: This 1977 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Charles Grodin and features musical guest Paul Simon. One of the highlights of the show is Grodin's stunning impression of Art Garfunkel, as he attempts to sing a duet with Simon. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Paul Simon Special

Synopsis: Enjoy the sounds of Paul Simon, joined by Art Garfunkel on several songs, in this Lorne Michael ("Saturday Night Live") produced special highlighted by "SNL" star appearances. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Thieves

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Hector Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: In this comedy based on a play by Herb Gardner, a zany, disparate couple tries to beat the odds and stay together. The man runs a posh private school and cannot see why his lover prefers teaching in the Lower East Side where they were raised. The two temporarily split, and each of them has an Read More

King Kong

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: Famed producer Dino De Laurentiis tries to steal the thunder from Jaws, then the top-grossing film of all-time, in this big budget remake of King Kong. (De Laurentiis related his tactics to Tom Snyder: "When Jaws dies, nobody cries. When Kong dies, they all cry.") Updated to the 1970s, the Read More

11 Harrowhouse

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, James Mason

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Gerald A. Browne, 11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 heist spoof with an all-star cast. The story concerns millionaire Clyde Massey (Trevor Howard) pressuring diamond merchant Howard R. Chesser (Charles Grodin) into robbing a London diamond exchange owned by Meecham (John Gielgud. Read More

The Heartbreak Kid

Actors: Tim Browne, Jean Scoppa, Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley

Synopsis: In Elaine May's second directorial outing, Charles Grodin stars as Lenny, a slick salesman who, while honeymooning with his new bride, Lila (Jeannie Berlin, May's daughter), begins to have second thoughts about his marriage. Once Lenny spots the gorgeous Kelly (Cybill Shepherd), he is lost 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

Rosemary's Baby

Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans

Synopsis: In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City Read More

The F.B.I.: Sky on Fire

Synopsis: Escaped killer George Bellamy (Bradford Dillman) covers his tracks by setting a series of forest fires. Bellamy's strategy is to throw the FBI off the trail; while they're searching for an unknown arsonist, he will be able to flee the country. It is up to Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) to capture Read More

The Meanest Men in the West

Synopsis: Meanest Men in the West is basically a pair of episodes of The Virginian, chopped up by Universal Pictures' editing department and mashed together (with help from some voice doubles) into what could almost pass for a coherent plot. Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb), owner of Shiloh ranch, becomes Read More

Sex and the College Girl

Synopsis: A cad who goes through women faster than his laundry finally meets his match while vacationing in Puerto Rico. ~ All Movie Guide Read More