Danny DeVitoFilmography

Born:: November 17, 1944 in Neptune, NJ
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer
Birth name:: Daniel Michael DeVito Jr.
Biography:: Perhaps no Hollywood actor continually stirs up more of a gleeful admixture of feelings in his viewers than Danny DeVito. Singlehandedly portraying characters with mile-long, obnoxious jerk streaks that are nonetheless somehow loveable, DeVito -- with his diminutive stature, balding head, and...Read More

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When in Rome

Actors: Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Will Arnett, Alexis Dziena, Jon Heder, Dax Shepard

Synopsis: Disillusioned with romance during her whirlwind trip to Rome, an ambitious New Yorker defiantly swipes a few magic coins from a "foolish" wishing fountain, inadvertently igniting the passions of a motley crew of suitors as she's pursued by a handsome reporter with charm to spare. Beth (Kristen Bell Read More

1/29/10
Crazy Eddie

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: The outrageous story of New York's most arresting TV-commercial personality is brought to the screen by director Danny DeVito in this Peter Steinfeld-scripted biopic. The plot details the life of Eddie Antar, the famed electronics salesman whose rise and spectacular fall made headlines across the Read More

1/1/10
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Morgan Freeman, Pierce Brosnan

Synopsis: A young girl (Saoirse Ronan) is caught in a feud between a captain (Pierce Brosnan) and his crew while on a transatlantic voyage in this adaptation of novelist Avi's young adult best-seller, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Danny DeVito writes and directs the Jersey Films 2nd Avenue film Read More

1/1/09
Housebroken

Actors: Danny DeVito, Katey Sagal

2009
Solitary Man

Actors: Michael Douglas, Mary-Louise Parker, Jenna Fischer, Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots

Synopsis: Michael Douglas stars as a former car dealer who's turned his life upside down from years of infidelity and bad business practices in this Millennium Films production. Brian Koppelman directs from a script he wrote with David Levien; Susan Sarandon, Mary-Louise Parker, Danny DeVito, and Jenna Fischer Read More

2009
Nobel Son

Actors: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A young man's moment of triumph is spoiled when he gets kidnapped before he can impress his father in this black comedy. Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman), a well-respected scientist, has learned that he's won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, which is a mixed blessing for his friends and family; while Read More

12/5/08
Just Add Water

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Tracy Middendorf, Danny DeVito, Justin Long, Jonah Hill

Synopsis: Dylan Walsh, Danny DeVito, Jonah Hill, and Justin Long star in prolific actor-turned-writer/director Hart Bochner's quirky romantic comedy about the efforts of a simple blue collar worker to reconnect with his childhood love and finally clean up his crime infested California neighborhood. Ray Read More

2008
The Good Night

Actors: Penélope Cruz, Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman, Simon Pegg, Danny DeVito

Synopsis: Written and directed by Jake Paltrow, the romantic comedy The Good Night stars Martin Freeman as a onetime pop superstar who has swallowed his pride and now makes a living as a jingle writer. Although he has a steady relationship with a longtime girlfriend (Gwyneth Paltrow), he has become bored Read More

10/5/07
Even Money

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kim Basinger, Nick Cannon, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Ray Liotta

Synopsis: Forest Whitaker, Kim Basinger, Jay Mohr, Danny DeVito, Nick Cannon, and Carla Gugino star in director Mark Rydell's ensemble addiction drama detailing the manner in which gambling and drugs affect a variety of people's lives during the weeks leading up to a championship college basketball game. Read More

5/18/07
Reno 911!: Miami

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lennie Loftin, Danny DeVito, Robert Ben Garant, Niecy Nash, Mary Birdsong

Synopsis: The bumbling cops of Comedy Central's hit television series take a trip to Miami Beach for a national police convention. After the trip there turns out to be much more difficult than anticipated, the bumbling crew must leap into action when the convention center becomes the target of a biological Read More

2/23/07
Freedom Writers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, April Lee Hernandez

Synopsis: Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a gang-infested Long Beach, CA high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventional means of breaking through to her hardened students in director Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Erin Gruwell's best-seller The Freedom Writer's Read More

1/5/07
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 03

Actors: Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito

2007
10 Items or Less

Actors: Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega, Bobby Cannavale, Anne Dudek, Jennifer Echols

Synopsis: A aging Hollywood icon whose fear of failure has smouldered his once-luminous star strikes up an unlikely friendship with an acid tongued checkout clerk while researching his latest role in City of Angels and Moonlight Mile director Brad Siberling's intimate drama. Crippled by his own Read More

12/1/06
Deck the Halls

Actors: Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth, Alia Shawkat

Synopsis: When the spirit of Christmas compels a small-town New Englander to decorate his home with enough lights to make it visible from space, much more is set to be decked than just the halls in this holiday comedy featuring Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick as two warring neighbors determined to outdo Read More

11/22/06
The Oh in Ohio

Actors: Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito, Mischa Barton, Miranda Bailey

Synopsis: A woman gets a belated introduction to the joy of sex in this comedy. Priscilla (Parker Posey) is a thirtysomething public-relations agent with the unenviable job of trying to lure new businesses to Cleveland, OH. Priscilla is married to Jack (Paul Rudd), a high-school teacher who is reaching the Read More

7/14/06
Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman, Sean Astin

Synopsis: Randall Miller's Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School compiles an all-star cast to tell an unabashedly emotional story about life, love, and destiny. Robert Carlyle portrays Frank Keane, a man who has been in a deep depression ever since his wife passed away. One day while driving Read More

3/31/06
Relative Strangers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ron Livingston, Neve Campbell, Danny DeVito, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: A successful psychologist with a picture-perfect family and a best-selling self-help book that's fast racking up sales hires a dogged detective to investigate his brother's claim that he was actually adopted, only to watch as his life falls to pieces in the aftermath in a dark comedy about success Read More

2006
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 02

Actors: Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito, Anne Archer

2006
Be Cool

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André Benjamin

Synopsis: Underworld hipster Chili Palmer is back in the entertainment business in this sequel to the 1995 hit Get Shorty, which like the first film is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (once again played by John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade Read More

3/4/05
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
Garden State

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart

Synopsis: In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing, directing, and starring in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a young man who has just received word of his mother's passing. With this news, Andrew Read More

7/30/04
Along Came Polly

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Hamburg directs his second film (since his 1998 debut Safe Men) with the romantic comedy Along Came Polly. Ben Stiller plays Reuben Feffer, a professional risk assessor who never takes chances in any aspect of his life. When his new bride Lisa (Debra Messing) leaves him for a Read More

1/16/04
Friends: The One Where the Stripper Cries

Actors: Danny DeVito, Donny Osmond, Leslie Charleson, Ellen Pompeo, Gregory Jbara

Synopsis: In the tradition of past "February Sweeps," this episode of Friends originally ran 42 minutes rather than the usual 30. It is more than enough time for the various plot strands to unfold, beginning with a disastrous bachelorette party for Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), wherein the male stripper turns out Read More

2004
Christmas in Love

Actors: Christian de Sica, Massimo Boldi, Danny DeVito, Anna Maria Barbera, Sabrina Ferilli, Ronn Moss

2004
Big Fish

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman

Synopsis: Tim Burton directs the fantasy drama Big Fish, based on the book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Southern writer/illustrator Daniel Wallace. Billy Crudup plays William Bloom, a young man who never really knew his dying father, Edward (Albert Finney) outside of the tall tales he told Read More

12/10/03
Duplex

Crew: Director

Actors: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell

Synopsis: Just how far would you go to have the home of your dreams all to yourself? A couple start asking themselves that very question in this dark comedy directed by Danny DeVito. Alex (Ben Stiller) and Nancy (Drew Barrymore) are a young couple who are happy and successful, but lack one thing that they Read More

9/26/03
Anything Else

Actors: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Danny DeVito, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: A young artist struggling with his career and his muse is getting more than a little aggravation from Cupid in this romantic comedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is a promising 21-year-old comedy writer living in New York City. While Jerry has talent, he's having a Read More

9/19/03
Camp

Crew: Producer

Actors: Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Robin De Jesus, Tiffany Taylor, Sasha Allen

Synopsis: Tony-nominated actor Todd Graff makes his directorial debut with the musical comedy Camp, featuring an ensemble cast of newcomers. Guitarist Vlad (Daniel Letterle) attends Camp Ovation, the summer theater camp for budding actors, dancers, and musicians. Finding himself to be one of the only hetero Read More

7/25/03
Karen Sisco [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Carla Gugino, Robert Forster, Bill Duke, Patrick Dempsey, Benito Martinez

Synopsis: The ABC cop series Karen Sisco was based on characters created by novelist Elmore Leonard, as visualized in Steven Soderbergh's 1998 theatrical feature Out of Sight. In the role originated on film by Jennifer Lopez, Carla Gugino starred as Karen Sisco, one of the toughest (and certainly the Read More

2003
Austin Powers in Goldmember

Actors: Mike Myers, Beyoncé Knowles, Seth Green, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Mike Myers' phenomenally successful spy spoof gains a few more characters, a slew of celebrity cameos, and even more free-associative laughs in this third installment of the popular franchise. Austin Powers in Goldmember continues the exploits of the swinging-'60s leftover, who, as the film opens Read More

7/26/02
Death to Smoochy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Danny DeVito steps behind the camera for this darkly funny satire that combines elements of Barney and Friends with the real-life Pee-Wee Herman scandal while recalling the director's previously twisted black comedies Throw Momma From the Train (1987) and The War of the Roses (1989). Robin Read More

3/29/02
How High

Crew: Producer

Actors: Method Man, Redman, Obba Babatunde, Mike Epps, Anna Maria Horsford, Fred Willard

Synopsis: A pair of real-life multi-platinum rap artists star in this genial substance abuse comedy recalling the pro-marijuana work of Cheech and Chong and such films as Half Baked (1998). Silas (Method Man) and Jamal (Redman) are buddies who enjoy smoking voluminous amounts of the illegal plant. They end Read More

12/26/01
Heist

Actors: Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay

Synopsis: Esteemed writer/director David Mamet fashioned this homage to the elegant, character-driven "tough guy" genre pictures of Warner Bros. in the 1930s and '40s, even using vintage scores in the soundtrack. Gene Hackman stars as Joe Moore, an accomplished thief whose career is jeopardized after he's Read More

11/9/01
What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Danny DeVito, John Leguizamo, Glenne Headly, Carmen Ejogo

Synopsis: The novel of the same name by crime author Donald E. Westlake becomes this MGM comedy starring Martin Lawrence as Kevin Caffery, a thief who breaks into the supposedly unoccupied beachfront mansion of billionaire Max Fairbanks (Danny De Vito). Max unexpectedly catches the burglar red-handed and Read More

6/1/01
The Caveman's Valentine

Crew: Producer

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, Ann Magnuson, Aunjanue Ellis, Rodney Eastman

Synopsis: A man struggles back from madness to avenge the death of someone he knew in an intelligent thriller based on the acclaimed novel by George Dawes Green. Romulus Ledbetter (Samuel L. Jackson) once had a career as an acclaimed concert pianist, a position at the Juilliard School of Music, and a loving Read More

3/2/01
UC: Undercover [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Vera Farmiga, Oded Fehr, William Forsythe, Bruklin Harris, Jarrad Paul

Synopsis: One of several government-espionage series unveiled during the 2001-2002 TV season, UC: Undercover detailed the exploits of the Special Operations Group, an elite five-person team answerable only to the Justice Department. Using up-to-date technology and advanced martial arts skills, the Group was Read More

2001
Screwed

Actors: Norm MacDonald, Dave Chappelle, Elaine Stritch, Danny DeVito, Daniel Benzali

Synopsis: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the screenwriting team who penned Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, and Man on the Moon, made their debut as directors with this broad comedy. Norm MacDonald stars as a chauffeur who decides to get revenge on his wealthy boss by kidnapping her dog. Read More

5/12/00
The Big Kahuna

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli

Synopsis: Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales. Phil Read More

4/28/00
The Virgin Suicides

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Josh Hartnett, Hanna R. Hall

Synopsis: A dark comedy punctuated by moments of drama, The Virgin Suicides explores the emotional underpinnings of a family starting to come apart at the seams in 1970's Midwestern America. The Lisbons seem like an ordinary enough family; Father (James Woods) teaches math at a high school in Michigan Read More

4/21/00
Erin Brockovich

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones

Synopsis: Julia Roberts stars in this legal drama based on the true story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is a single mother of three who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit, asks her lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), if he Read More

3/17/00
Drowning Mona

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell

Synopsis: Rage, jealousy, murder, and Eastern European automotive engineering combine in this offbeat black comedy. Verplanck, NY, is a small town north of Manhattan that has the dubious distinction of being the Yugo capital of America; the ill-fated import compact was first test-marketed in Verplanck, and Read More

3/3/00
Man on the Moon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti, Vincent Schiavelli

Synopsis: Comedian Andy Kaufman gave performances that were bizarre and difficult to categorize, in which he might do or say almost anything: show cartoons, impersonate Elvis Presley, play conga drums while singing children's songs, read aloud from The Great Gatsby, or take the audience out for milk and Read More

12/22/99
Intimate Portrait: Marilu Henner

1999
Saturday Night Live: Danny DeVito [5]

Actors: Danny DeVito, R.E.M.

Synopsis: This 1999 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Danny DeVito and features musical guest R.E.M. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Living Out Loud

Crew: Producer

Actors: Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, Martin Donovan, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: Noted screenwriter Richard LaGravenese made his directorial debut with this dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan) Read More

10/30/98
Out of Sight

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh directed this crime caper adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard. When ex-con Jack Foley (George Clooney) robs a bank, his car goes dead, and Foley lands in a Florida prison. His escape from prison doesn't go as planned, since it's witnessed by deputy federal marshal Karen Read More

6/26/98
The Pentagon Wars

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Cary Elwes, Olympia Dukakis, John C. McGinley, Tom Wright

Synopsis: Excessive military spending provides the impetus behind this sharp, satirical account of an honest Air Force colonel who is so shocked at government spending in its development of a troop transport vehicle that he decides to launch a personal investigation as to why it has taken the military 17 Read More

1998
The Rainmaker

Actors: Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser Stone (Mickey Rourke), he learns ambulance-chasing Read More

1997
Gattaca

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Alan Arkin, Xander Berkeley

Synopsis: New Zealand screenwriter Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) made his feature directorial debut with this science fiction drama, set in a future when one's life is determined by genetic engineering rather than education or experience. The wealthy can choose the genetic makeup of their descendants. Read More

1997
Hercules

Actors: Tate Donovan, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart, Danny DeVito, James Woods

Synopsis: Disney's animation team dipped into the rich well of ancient mythology for this musical comedy. The son of Greek gods Zeus (voice of Rip Torn) and Hera (Samantha Eggar), Hercules (voice of Josh Keaton) is stolen as a boy by the minions of Hades (voice of James Woods), lord of the underworld. Read More

1997
L.A. Confidential

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of Read More

1997
Sunset Park

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rhea Perlman, Fredro Starr, Carol Kane, Terrence Howard, Camille Saviola

Synopsis: A Jewish high school teacher, Phyllis Saroka (Rhea Perlman), steps in to take on the thankless job of coaching the school's inept basketball team, which is filled with ne'er-do-wells from the slums. She takes the job to get extra money to fulfill her dream of opening a restaurant on the Caribbean Read More

1996
Feeling Minnesota

Crew: Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Vincent D'Onofrio, Cameron Diaz, Delroy Lindo, Courtney Love

Synopsis: It's not unusual in the movies for a woman to be torn between two brothers, but she usually doesn't change her mind on her wedding day. Then again, hardly anything goes the way one might expect in this black comedy. Freddie (Cameron Diaz), a pretty but hard-as-nails stripper, dreams of some day Read More

1996
Matilda

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris

Synopsis: Based on the book Matilda, by British children's author Roald Dahl, this film moves the setting from the U.K. to the U.S.; otherwise it follows the original closely. Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson) is an extremely curious and intelligent little girl who is very different from her low-brow Read More

1996
Mars Attacks!

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown

Synopsis: This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s Read More

1996
Space Jam

Actors: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Theresa Randle, Muggsy Bogues, Billy West, Bill Murray, D. Bradley Baker

Synopsis: Warner Bros. attempted to revitalize its animation division with this family adventure that blended live action and animation in the style of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), reportedly coming in with a price tag of $100 million. Basketball legend Michael Jordan stars as himself, a retired sports Read More

1996
Get Shorty

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to Read More

1995
The Larry Sanders Show: Gift Episode

Synopsis: Everything seems to be falling apart on The Larry Sanders Show as Danny DeVito cancels an upcoming appearance and the L.A. earthquake prompts Larry (Garry Shandling) to consider relocating the show and shooting on a new stage. As Larry hammers out the details, he can't help but be distracted by Read More

1994
Renaissance Man

Actors: Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, Cliff Robertson, Lillo Brancato Jr.

Synopsis: Penny Marshall's feel-good comedy, invoking parts of Dead Poet's Society, Sister Act, and Private Benjamin, features Danny DeVito as Bill Rago, a divorced advertising man who is fired from his job. During an appointment at the unemployment office, a counselor finds him a job as a civilian Read More

1994
8 Seconds

Crew: Producer

Actors: Luke Perry, Stephen Baldwin, James Rebhorn, Carrie Snodgress, Red Mitchell

Synopsis: Luke Perry stars in this biography of the late Lane Frost, a champion bull rider who in 1987 won a rodeo world championship at the tender age of 21. In Eight Seconds (the title refers to the minimum amount of time a rider must stay on a bull in competition), Lane Frost is a young man from Oklahoma Read More

1994
Junior

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, Frank Langella, Pamela Reed

Synopsis: Ultimate manly man Arnold Schwarzenegger learns what it's like to be an expectant mother in director Ivan Reitman's high-concept comedy. Schwarzenegger plays Dr. Hess, a medical researcher working on a revolutionary drug to help mothers carry endangered infants to term. When government regulations Read More

1994
Reality Bites

Crew: Producer

Actors: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn

Synopsis: This film was one of the more mainstream offerings in the array of films that emphasized the overly hyped "Generation X" phenomenon, a list that ranges from Slacker to Singles and includes a host of other films. Winona Ryder stars as Lelaina, a recent college graduate. Out on her own and Read More

1994
Pulp Fiction

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious Read More

1994
Saturday Night Live: Danny DeVito [4]

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bon Jovi

Synopsis: This 1993 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Danny DeVito and features musical guest Bon Jovi. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Jack the Bear

Actors: Danny DeVito, Robert J. Steinmiller, Miko Hughes, Gary Sinise, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Synopsis: Marshall Herskovitz directed this tearjerking schizophrenic combination of The Wonder Years and To Kill a Mockingbird. It is 1972, and John Leary (Danny De Vito) and his two sons Jack (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.) and Dylan (Miko Hughes) have just moved to Oakland, California. John is a television Read More

1993
Last Action Hero

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Frank McRae, Anthony Quinn, Charles Dance, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a Read More

1993
Look Who's Talking Now

Actors: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Lysette Anthony, David Gallagher, Tabitha Lupien, Danny DeVito, Diane Keaton

Synopsis: This final installment in the Look Who's Talking trilogy is a combination of Make Room For Daddy and The Lady and the Tramp. In the six years since the original Look Who's Talking, Mikey and Julie are now old enough to speak for themselves, so the producers came up with a new gimmick -- talking Read More

1993
Hoffa

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly

Synopsis: The life of powerful union leader Jimmy Hoffa is the subject of this biographical drama. The focus is strongly on Hoffa's public and political life, from his early days as a labor organizer to his later conflicts with the Federal government -- and, eventually, his mysterious disappearance. ~ Judd Read More

12/25/92
Batman Returns

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

6/19/92
Other People's Money

Actors: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie, Dean Jones

Synopsis: Norman Jewison directed Alvin Sargent's adaptation of Jerry Sterner's off-Broadway satire of the excess of the '80s, with Danny DeVito as corporate raider Lawrence Garfield -- or, as he is better known, Larry the Liquidator. Larry spends his waking hours searching for companies to take over. One Read More

10/18/91
Money

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Maryam D'Abo, Bruno Cremer, Christopher Plummer, F. Murray Abraham, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Stars and famous locations abound in this multinational production, a would-be "financial thriller" about swindles and betrayals among jet-set gazillionaires, which takes place in glamor spots all over the globe. Somebody has stolen millions of dollars from his father, and Frank Cimballi (Eric Stoltz Read More

1990
Likely Stories, Vol. 2

Synopsis: This made-for-cable series features comedy performers starring in various skits and satires. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
The Earth Day Special

Synopsis: A cast of celebrities gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. It is an entertaining special that points out the crisis state of our planet's environment. It provides scientific facts and detailed analysis. The show provides ways in which everyone can participate in saving the Read More

1990
The War of the Roses

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin

Synopsis: Divorce lawyer Danny De Vito warns his prospective client that the story he's about to tell isn't a pretty one, but the client listens with eager intensity -- as do the folks out there in the movie in the audience. The War of the Roses can best be described as a slapstick tragedy concerning the Read More

12/8/89
Twins

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: The central "gimmick" of the comedy-adventure Twins is established early on. Unbeknownst to one another, king-sized Arnold Schwarzenegger and gnomeish Danny De Vito are twin brothers. Even better: Schwarzenegger is a mild-mannered, bookish type, while De Vito is a vitriolic troublemaker. The film Read More

12/9/88
Saturday Night Live: Danny DeVito [3]

Actors: Danny DeVito, The Bangles

Synopsis: This 1988 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Danny DeVito and features musical guest the Bangles. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Throw Momma From the Train

Crew: Director

Actors: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Anne Ramsey, Kim Greist, Kate Mulgrew

Synopsis: The "exchange murders" plot gambit, played with utter solemnity in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, is used as the launching pad for raucous laughter in Throw Momma From the Train. Director/star Danny DeVito plays Owen Lift, a middle-aged bachelor, totally dominated by his gorgon mother, played Read More

12/11/87
Tin Men

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney, Jackie Gayle

Synopsis: The second of director Barry Levinson's Baltimore Trilogy (the first was Diner, the third Avalon), Tin Men seems at first glance to be much ado about nothing. Set in 1963, the story begins when two aluminum siding salesmen, played by Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito, are involved in a traffic Read More

3/6/87
Joe Piscopo: New Jersey Special

1987
Saturday Night Live: Danny DeVito [2]

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bryan Ferry

Synopsis: This 1987 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Danny DeVito and features musical guest Bryan Ferry. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Ruthless People

Actors: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris

Synopsis: The last film to be co-directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, Ruthless People stars Bette Midler (capitalizing on her comeback performance in Down and Out in Beverly Hills) as Barbara, a spoiled rich woman who is kidnapped by the kindly Ken and Sandy Kessler (Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater Read More

6/27/86
My Little Pony: The Movie

Actors: Danny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Rhea Perlman, Tony Randall

Synopsis: In this entertaining feature for the 3- to10-year-old set, the wicked witch Hydia (voice of Cloris Leachman) and her two nasty daughters, Reeka and Draggle (voices of Rhea Pearlman and Madeline Kahn) are scheming to flood Ponyland with a strange liquid called Smooze. The ponies find allies in the Read More

6/6/86
Wise Guys

Actors: Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel, Ray Sharkey, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: The "wise guys" referred to in the title, Harry Valentini (Danny DeVito) and Moe Dickstein (Joe Piscopo), turn out to be not so wise after all in this crime-oriented comedy. Harry and Moe run the risk of certain death when they steal money from a Mafia don (Dan Hedaya) and then try to multiply Read More

4/18/86
Head Office

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Jane Seymour, Don King, Rick Moranis, Danny DeVito, Don Novello, Lori-Nan Engler

Synopsis: With a script that is too anemic for the red-blooded actors featured here, this anorexic comedy moves slowly up and down the corporate ladder with the fortunes and misfortunes of several company men. Jack Issel (Judge Reinhold) gets a VIP position at INC in the PR department (business-speak). Read More

1/3/86
Amazing Stories: The Wedding Ring

Crew: Director

Actors: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman

1986
My Little Pony [Animated TV Series]

1986
The Jewel of the Nile

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focas, Avner Eisenberg

Synopsis: The Jewel of the Nile takes up where Romancing the Stone left off, with romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) traveling around the world with her boyfriend, Jack Colton (Michael Douglas). But Joan is becoming bored with Jack and all the romantic attention; as she asks, "How much romance Read More

1985
The Mogul

Crew: Director

Actors: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Gerritt Graham, Kevin McCarthy, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Made for cable television, The Ratings Game was directed by Danny DeVito, who co-starred in the film with his wife Rhea Perlman. DeVito plays the owner of a New Jersey trucking firm who yearns for a televison career. He offers several TV-series ideas to a receptive network programming head. On the Read More

1984
Johnny Dangerously

Actors: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: This spoof of the 1930s and '40s crime stories ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime as it tells the story of Johnny Dangerously (Byron Thames as the young Johnny, Michael Keaton as the older), a devoted son to his ailing mother (Maureen Stapleton), so ill that she needs money for several Read More

1984
Romancing the Stone

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau

Synopsis: Kathleen Turner plays a writer of adventure stories, Joan Wilder, who has been having trouble selling her works of late because they aren't remotely believable. The basic problem is that the mousy Joan has never had any real adventure in her life. All this changes when she receives a frantic phone Read More

1984
Taxi: Sugar Ray Nardo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Single mom Elaine (Marilu Henner) is having problems at home with her son Jason (David Mendenhall), who has just declared that he's "had it" with his oboe lessons. Sensing that a man's influence might help Jason get his head on straight, Elaine follows the advice offered her by Alex (Judd Hirsch) Read More

1983
Saturday Night Live: Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman

Actors: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Eddy Grant

Synopsis: This 1983 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman and features musical guest Eddy Grant. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Taxi: Jim's Mario's

Crew: Director

Synopsis: For those unfamiliar with Taxi, it should be noted herein that the cabbie's favorite hangout is a joint called Mario's. Having undergone an acute attack of "entrepreneur fever," burned-out Reverend Jim (Christopher Lloyd) has convinced himself that he could run Mario's, and to that end he buys the Read More

1983
Terms of Endearment

Actors: Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow

Synopsis: Terms of Endearment covers three decades in the lives of widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Debra Winger). Fiercely protected by Aurora throughout childhood, Emma runs into resistance from her mother when she marries wishy-washy college teacher Flap (Jeff Daniels). Read More

1983
Taxi: Elaine and the Monk

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Former Fridays regular Mark Blankfield guest stars as Zifka, a monk who hails from the same foreign land as Latka (Andy Kaufman) and Simka (Carol Kane). Though bound to a lifelong vow of silence and sacrifice, Zifka is allowed one day every ten years to "cut loose" and indulge in all worldly Read More

1982
Taxi: Season 05

Synopsis: Although Taxi had earned scores of industry awards and the unflagging loyalty of its fans during its four-year lifespan on ABC, the series had never posted the sort of ratings that would qualify it as a hit. Thus, ABC dropped the show at the end of season four -- but the song wasn't quite over Read More

1982
Saturday Night Live: Danny DeVito [1]

Actors: Danny DeVito, The Sparks Brothers

Synopsis: This 1982 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Danny DeVito and features musical guest Sparks. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Going Ape!

Actors: Tony Danza, Jessica Walter, Stacey Nelkin, Danny DeVito, Art Metrano

Synopsis: In this comedy, the death of his rich father leaves Foster (Tony Danza) as the sole heir to a five-million-dollar estate -- if he can keep his dad's three pet orangutans safe and sound for the next five years. With the help of his disgruntled girlfriend (Stacey Nelkin), Foster must struggle keep Read More

1981
Taxi: Season 04

Synopsis: Taxi remained a succès d'estime for ABC as it entered its fourth season, gathering scores of industry awards and garnering the love of its most loyal fans and the respect of Hollywood insiders, while still continuing to post lukewarm ratings. The series hadn't cracked the "Top 25" shows Read More

1981
Taxi: Season 03

Synopsis: Although Taxi had built up a loyal band of followers and accumulated several industry awards during its first two seasons on ABC, the ratings had steadily declined, prompting the network to mark the series' third season by moving the show from Tuesdays at 9:30 to Wednesdays at 9:00, opposite NBC's Diff'rent Strokes Read More

1980
Valentine

Synopsis: Valentine stars Mary Martin, making her TV movie debut as a septuagenarian, terminally ill widow. She falls in love with Jack Albertson, a 70 year old charmer with a history of breaking female hearts. Casting propriety to the four winds, Martin and Albertson shack up together, then take a Read More

1979
Swap Meet

Actors: Ruth Cox, Debi Richter, Danny Goldman, Cheryl Rixon, Jonathan Gries

Synopsis: This low-brow, low-budget comedy walks a thin line between parody and earnestness which emphasizes its effective tweaking of the teen side of the fence. Up for target practice are punks, sexual adventures, flashy women, and the teen infatuation with cars: car racing, car maintenance, car Read More

1979
Taxi: Season 02

Actors: Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza

Synopsis: Securely imbedded as the ninth most popular program on American television, Taxi inaugurated its second season on the same network (ABC), but in a new timeslot (Wednesday rather than Thursday). A few changes had been made in the cast as well. Randall Carver, who spent all of season one playing Read More

1979
Taxi [TV Series]

Synopsis: A true classic of the "ensemble sitcom" genre, Taxi ran for five years on two different networks, accumulating dozens of industry awards (including several Emmys) and a comparatively small but intensely vocal corps of loyal and loving viewers along the way. Most of the action took place in the Read More

1978
Goin' South

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the Read More

1978
The Van

Actors: Stuart Getz, Deborah White

Synopsis: A teenager tries to win the girl of his dreams with the hottest van in town in this '70s sex comedy. Bobby (Stuart Goetz) has just graduated from high school, but he's too preoccupied with girls to think much about his future. Bobby hasn't had much luck with the ladies, and he's convinced it's Read More

1977
The World's Greatest Lover

Actors: Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise, Fritz Feld, Carl Ballantine

Synopsis: After writing, directing, and starring in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Gene Wilder added the producer's hat to his three-headed beast in The World's Greatest Lover. Wilder plays Rudy Valentine, a Milwaukee baker who enters a talent search in the Hollywood of the 1920s Read More

1977
Deadly Hero

Actors: Don Murray, Diahn Williams, James Earl Jones, Lilia Skala, George Irving

Synopsis: Don Murray plays Lacy, a blatantly bigoted New York cop who finds that his rabid hatred forces him into a bloody rampage in order to save himself and his job in the derivative cop melodrama Deadly Hero. At one point in the film, Lacy rehearses a speech to be given to a cadre of right-wingers by Read More

1976
Car Wash

Actors: Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar, Richard Brestoff, George Carlin, Irwin Corey

Synopsis: Michael Schultz directed this kinetic, hyperventilating comedy (scripted by Joel Schumacher) concerning the crazed events that go on within a single 10-hour period at a Los Angeles car wash. The cast of colorful car-wash employees includes Lonnie (Ivan Dixon), an ex-con; Duane (Bill Duke), a Read More

1976
Atlantic City Jackpot

Actors: Laurence Luckinbill, Graham Beckel, Regina Baff, Elizabeth Richards, Sam Levene

Synopsis: A young thug needs money, so he visits his girlfriend while she's baby-sitting. While there, he plans to tie up the girl, kidnap the child, and hold him for ransom in the hope that his wealthy father will pay up. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Dean R. Brooks, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to the Read More

1975
Hurry Up, or I'll Be 30

Actors: John Lefkowitz

Synopsis: A Brooklyn bachelor's (John Lefkowitz) thirtieth birthday forces him to come to terms with his lack of success--in business, in love and in general. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Scalawag

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, based on a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson and shot in Yugoslavia, a one-legged pirate must rely on the memory of a boozy, uncooperative parrot if he is to find the location of a tremendous treasure. He is later assisted by two plucky youths who help him battle it out Read More

1973
Mortadella

Actors: Sophia Loren

Synopsis: The well-known short-story writer Ring Lardner, Jr. wrote the screenplay for La Mortadella, an Italian/French production with mostly English dialogue. The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Madelena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country Read More

12/22/71
Dreams of Glass

Actors: John Denos, Caroline Barrett, Paul Micale, Margaret Rich

Synopsis: Teenager Tom Parsegian (John Denos) falls in love with a Japanese girl, Ann Murakoshi Caroline Barrett. Though both Tom and Ann's families oppose the union, true love cuts through any and all racial barriers. For a film about racial tolerance, Dreams of Glass is surprisingly devoid of genuine Read More

1968

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