Richard DreyfussFilmography

Leaves of Grass

Actors: Edward Norton, Tim Blake Nelson, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Keri Russell

Synopsis: Edward Norton handles dual acting duties in Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass, a comedic thriller that finds the thesp portraying identical twins on opposite sides of the social spectrum -- one being a free-wheeling criminal, while the other is a respected professor with an Ivy League background. Nelson Read More

My Life in Ruins

Actors: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Harland Williams, Rachel Dratch, Alexis Georgoulis

Synopsis: Georgia (Nia Vardalos) came to Greece to follow a man. A few years later, she's been cast aside -- alone and adrift in a foreign land. Eventually, her passion for history leads her to a job as a tour guide. But Georgia is bored, and has lost her "kefi" (Greek for mojo) to boot. When taciturn Read More

America Betrayed

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: America's national infrastructure was once considered one of our crowning achievements, but in this documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and directed by Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Leslie Cardé, viewers learn how our country's crumbling bridges, dams Read More

Sweetwater

Actors: Henry Simmons, Richard Dreyfuss, Romeo

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss and Henry Simmons star in writer/ director Martin Guigui's biographical take on the life and career of legendary basketball star Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton (Simmons), who became the first African-American player in NBA history when coach (and Harlem Globetrotters founder) Abe Read More

W.

Actors: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in this Oliver Stone biopic that traces the head of state's rise to power from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. Co-written by Stanley G. Weiser, Bush is Read More

Rona Barrett's Hollywood: Nothing But the Truth

Actors: Rona Barrett

Synopsis: Frequent Good Morning America, The Today Show, and Entertainment Tonight contributor Rona Barrett serves as the subject of this documentary profile of the celebrity journalist whose innovative "coffee cliché" style has served as the blueprint for what's now considered mainstream celebrity Read More

Tin Man

Actors: Zooey Deschanel, Neal McDonough, Alan Cumming, Raoul Trujillo, Kathleen Robertson, Richard Dreyfuss, Anna Galvin

Synopsis: Produced for the Sci-Fi Channel, this twisted variation on L. Frank Baum's classic tale follows a young girl named D.G. and her newfound friends as they embark on a wondrous adventure through the Outer Zone (O.Z.) on a mission to locate a powerful wizard known as the Mystic Man, and break the Read More

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

Actors: Sid Levin, Andy Sidaris, Haskell Wexler, William Friedkin, Georgiana M. Alonzo

Synopsis: Axel Schill's non-fiction work The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo joins Light Keeps Me Company, Tell Them Who You Are, and other recent documentaries in paying homage to one of the world's great cinematographers. Active from the early 1960s until just before his death Read More

Poseidon

Actors: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum

Synopsis: Set adrift in the vast waters of the North Atlantic for a luxury New Year's Eve party staged in the ship's magnificent ballroom, the massive ocean-liner Poseidon receives an unexpected jolt when a rogue, 100-foot wave rolls it completely upside down, forcing the surviving passengers to Read More

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

Silver City

Actors: Danny Huston, Maria Bello, Billy Zane, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Daryl Hannah, Kris Kristofferson, Mary Kay Place, Miguel Ferrer, Thora Birch

Synopsis: Celebrated writer and director John Sayles turns his eye to politics in America in this drama. The son of respected Colorado politician Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper) is a charming but half-bright man with a bad habit of mangling the English language and a Read More

Marvin Anderson's Nightmare: Stories from the Innocence Project

Duel: Hamilton vs. Burr

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss

No Joking

Citizen Stan

Actors: Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Robert Scheer, Daniel Ellsberg, Margaret Papandreao, Nicholas Papandreao

Synopsis: Actor Richard Dreyfuss narrates this documentary examining the life and career of Stanley Sheinbaum, an anti-war activist who helped to set up the police force of South Vietnam during the 1950s, and subsequently landed on President Richard M. Nixon's enemies list for his efforts in revealing the Read More

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Actors: Dede Allen, Peter Bart, Andrew Cohen, Tony Bill, Karen Black

Synopsis: Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable onscreen. Influenced by such European Read More

T.R.: An American Lion

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, this two-part cable-TV biography chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, from sickly youth to rugged frontiersman, fearless empire builder, ardent conservationist, crusading political leader, and ultimately President of the United States. Clearly, "T.R." was an Read More

The John Garfield Story

Actors: Julie Garfield

Synopsis: According to this made-for-cable documentary, stage and film star John Garfield set the standard for naturalistic acting that blazed the trail for such future "method" types as Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. Lovingly narrated by Garfield's actress daughter, Julie Garfield, the film details the Read More

Coast to Coast

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Judy Davis

Synopsis: Paul Mazursky's Coast to Coast features a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. Barnaby (Richard Dreyfuss) and Maxine (Judy Davis) are attempting to salvage what might be left of their broken marriage by taking a road trip together. As they stop at various places and interact with a variety of Read More

Johnstown Flood

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss and directed by Mark Bussler, Johnstown Flood, tells the story of the massive flood that destroyed the town of Johnstown, PA, on May 31, 1889. Using old photos, etchings, recreated footage, and dramatic readings of first-hand accounts, this black-and-white film Read More

Who Is Cletis Tout?

Actors: Christian Slater, Tim Allen, Portia de Rossi, Richard Dreyfuss, Billy Connolly

Synopsis: Standup comedian turned director Chris Ver Weil makes his debut with this wild and woolly romantic comedy cum noir crime thriller. The film centers on Trevor Finch (Christian Slater), a master counterfeiter and career con who learns that he has a price on his head from mob hitman Critical Jim (Tim Allen Read More

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion, Part 1

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion, Part 2

In Search of Peace Part One: 1948-1967

Synopsis: The difficult birth of the nation of Israel is the subject of this documentary feature, the first in a projected three-part series that explores how the nation came to be formed in the wake of World War II, and the frequent skirmishes between Arab and Israeli forces, leading up to the Six-Day War Read More

The Old Man Who Read Stories

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Spall, Hugo Weaving

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Luis Sepulveda, this drama stars Richard Dreyfuss as Antonio Bolivar, an elderly man who lives in a small village along the Amazon River. Many years ago, Bolivar and his young wife came to the village as part of an effort to colonize the area; the couple was welcomed by Read More

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Oliver Stone served as executive producer for this made-for-cable drama that looks back at the events of March 30, 1981, when John Hinckley, Jr. attempted to assassinate then-president Ronald Reagan. Richard Crenna stars as Reagan, Christian Lloyd plays Hinckley, Richard Dreyfuss portrays Read More

The Education of Max Bickford [TV Series]

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Ian Goldberg, Katee Sackhoff, Helen Shaver

Synopsis: Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss made his long-awaited weekly TV series bow in CBS' weekly, 60-minute The Education of Max Bickford. In the tradition of Dreyfuss' theatrical feature Mr. Holland's Opus, the series focuses on an irascibly liberal-minded but rigidly tradition-bound professor of Read More

The Crew

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, a group of retirees wants to save their homes -- but they're not typical senior citizens trying to make the most of their Social Security checks. Four aging former mobsters -- Joey "Bats" Pistella (Burt Reynolds), Bobby Bartellemeo (Richard Dreyfuss), Mike the Brick (Dan Hedaya Read More

Fail Safe

Actors: George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfuss, Hank Azaria, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: A seemingly-minor electronic error sets the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (which was previously filmed in 1964). Due to the burn-out of a piece of circuitry, a computer orders a U.S. Air Force jet on a Read More

In the Wild: Galapagos Islands with Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Come find out why so many who travel down to South America's Ecuador and Peru try to make a side trip off the coast to the Galapagos Islands. The talented, Academy award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss serves as the tour guide. He narrates this video that was shot during his three-week journey to Read More

Lansky

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Beverly D'Angelo

Synopsis: Scripted by David Mamet, this made-for-HBO outing dramatizes the brutal life and career of Meyer Lansky (Richard Dreyfuss), one of the key figures in American organized crime. The tale begins with Lansky's youth, when he was just another Jewish immigrant, and chronicles his rise from petty gambler Read More

Krippendorf's Tribe

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, Gregory Smith, Carl Michael Lindner

Synopsis: Todd Holland directed this Charlie Peters adaptation of Frank Parkin's novel. Respected anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) and his wife, Jennifer (Barbara Williams), bring their three children along during their failed search in New Guinea for a lost tribe. After Jennifer's death Read More

NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude

Synopsis: This television documentary follows the search for the key to navigating the seas. It is based on the novel by Dava Sobel, Lost at Sea -- The Search for Longitude. It begins with Will Andrewes, as he joins a crew to try out a replica of a typical log and line of the early 1700s. It was a crude Read More

Night Falls on Manhattan

Actors: Andy Garcia, Lena Olin, Richard Dreyfuss, Ian Holm, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: A lawyer discovers just how fine the line between good and evil can be in this drama based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley. When a carefully-planned bust of drug dealer Jordan Washington (Shiek Mahmud-Bey) goes sour, a shootout between Washington and officers from three precincts Read More

Addicted to Love

Actors: Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick, Kelly Preston, Tchéky Karyo, Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis: In this slightly dark comedy about romantic obsession, Sam (Matthew Broderick) is an astronomer who likes his life in the small New England town he calls home and loves his fiancée, Linda (Kelly Preston). But one day, Linda tells Sam that she's moving to New York because she has found a new job Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Elijah Wood, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Produced for television by Disney, this production of the often filmed Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist stars Elijah Wood as the Artful Dodger and Richard Dreyfuss as Fagin. The familiar tale follows the title character as he attempts to escape from the poverty and crime that surrounds him. Read More

Call of the Wild

Actors: Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss narrates this made-for-cable adaptation of the classic novel by Jack London. This particular version of the tale has been hailed as one of the most accurate dramatic presentations of London's work. The story tells the exciting and often brutal tale of Buck, a dog who is stolen Read More

James and the Giant Peach

Actors: Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Pete Postlethwaite, Miriam Margolyes, Paul Terry, Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: A young boy's discovery of a gigantic peach triggers an eventful journey across the sea in this strikingly designed and surprisingly twisted animated adventure. A live-action framing device establishes the dark yet fanciful mood one might expect from an adaptation of a Roald Dahl story, as young Read More

Mad Dog Time

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane

Synopsis: A group of mobsters fight for control in this satirical comedy-drama. Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a not-especially-stable crime boss who -- following a spell in a mental hospital after being diagnosed with schizophrenia -- is sent home and is ready to resume his place as supreme leader of the mob. Read More

The Universal Story

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Utilizing archival footage, personal interviews and film clips, This compilation film, recounts the colorful history of and pays tribute to one of Hollywood's most enduring studios, Universal Studios. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: This documentary from the American Film Institute salutes Hollywood's premiere director Steven Spielberg by awarding him a lifetime achievement award. The most prolific filmmaker of all time, this video displays his three-minute childhood films through to his three-hour epic masterpiece Schindlers Read More

Mr. Holland's Opus

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy

Synopsis: A teacher belatedly discovers just how important his job really is in this emotional drama. Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is a man with a deep love of music and a desire to write at least one piece of lasting significance. However, playing piano in cocktail lounges while he works on his own Read More

The American President

Actors: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, David Paymer, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: This earnest, intelligent, and well-written romantic comedy is enjoyable and optimistic in classic Hollywood style, even if its idealism doesn't seem quite so credible against the cynical political backdrop of the Nineties. President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly liberal Read More

Silent Fall

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, John Lithgow, Linda Hamilton, J.T. Walsh, Ben Faulkner

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers psychodrama about a child psychologist trying to discern the truth behind a pair of murders stars Richard Dreyfuss as Dr. Jake Rainer, a child psychologist living in an upscale community. Rainer retired when a patient committed suicide, but the local sheriff (J.T. Walsh) calls Read More

Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust

Synopsis: Hosted by Richard Dreyfuss, this interfaith concert was initiated by Pope John Paul II and performed at the Vatican in commemoration of the Holocaust and the Vatican's official recognition of Israel as a state. The London Royal Philharmonic, conducted by Gilbert Levine and joined by the Choir of Read More

The Last Word

Synopsis: A reporter tries to balance his loyalty to friends with his personal integrity in this drama. Martin (Timothy Hutton) is a newspaperman from Detroit who has just published a book on organized crime. Doc (Joe Pantoliano), his close friend, has low-level connections to the Mob, and helped him get Read More

Quiz Show

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer

Synopsis: It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to "take a dive" and allow Charles Read More

Lost in Yonkers

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth, Brad Stoll, Mike Damus, David Strathairn

Synopsis: An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, semi-autobiographical stage play by popular dramatist Neil Simon, this comedy-drama focuses on the difficulties faced by two young brothers forced to live with a group of eccentric relatives. Arty (Mike Damus) and Jay (Brad Stoll) are young teenagers Read More

Another Stakeout

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Farina, Marcia Strassman

Synopsis: In Stakeout, cop Richard Dreyfuss fell in love with Madeline Stowe, the woman he and his partner Emilio Estevez were watching during a police stakeout. Stowe's back in Another Stakeout, but her part is fleeting and unbilled. On the other hand, we get plenty of Dreyfuss and Estevez, still both as Read More

Indian Summer

Actors: Alan Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Kimberly Payne Williams, Bill Paxton, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Mike Binder wrote and directed this reunion story in The Big Chill vein about of group of ex-campers, now in their twenties, who return to their old summer camp to get together again. Alan Arkin plays Uncle Lou, the old camp counselor and resident sage at Canadian summer camp Tamakwa. Leading a Read More

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War [Video Series]

Synopsis: A seven-part series that reviews and recreates the battles and sieges of the Civil War. Included are numerous artifacts and the words of participants. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 7

Synopsis: Each episode in this series presents different battles from the war. Each uses re-enactments, expert commentary, and readings by actors such as Burt Reynolds, Charlton Heston, and Richard Dreyfuss to bring the events of the war to vivid life. This particular episode covers the final days of the Read More

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 4

Synopsis: Each episode of this series presents different battles of the war. Each uses reenactments, expert commentary, and readings by actors such as Burt Reynolds, Charlton Heston, and Richard Dreyfuss to bring the events of the war to vivid life. This episode of the series concentrates primarily on the Read More

Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Each episode of this series examines different battles of this war. Each uses re-enactments, expert commentary, and readings by actors such as Burt Reynolds, Charlton Heston, and Richard Dreyfuss, to bring the events of the war to vivid life. This first episode covers the first months of the war. Read More

What About Bob?

Actors: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe

Synopsis: In this comedy about a doctor-patient relationship pushed way beyond the office, Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, a neurotic New Yorker struggling with a whirlwind of paralyzing phobias. When an exasperated colleague pawns the handful off on Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), the psychologist has no Read More

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Roth

Synopsis: Much as he would later do with Shakespeare in Love (1998), writer Tom Stoppard delivered a tale of Shakespearean origin from a skewed and unexpected perspective. In this case, it's the perspective of two relatively minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz (Gary Oldman) and Guildenstern (Tim Read More

Once Around

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands

Synopsis: Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom made his American movie debut with this romantic comedy, starring Holly Hunter as Renata Bella, an aimless Bostonian thirtysomething who attends a seminar for aspiring condo salespersons. Here she meets hotshot salesman Sam Sharpe (Richard Dreyfuss), who Read More

Remember Pearl Harbor

Synopsis: This program chronicles the events of December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and the event that brought America into World War II. The events of that day are chronicled here, effectively and dramatically bringing across the horror and heroism Read More

Prisoner of Honor

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed, Peter Firth, Jeremy Kemp, Brian Blessed

Synopsis: Directed by Ken Russell, Prisoner of Honor is a made-for-cable retelling of the 1894 court-martial of French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus. The historical drama stars Richard Dreyfuss (no relation) as the head of counter-intelligence who uncovers several damning pieces of evidence. It turns out that Read More

Postcards From the Edge

Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point Read More

Always

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn

Synopsis: For all its state-of-the-art special effects, Always is essentially a remake of the 1943 Spencer Tracy-Irene Dunne fantasy vehicle A Guy Named Joe--minus the wartime context. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Read More

Let It Ride

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, David Johansen, Teri Garr, Jennifer Tilly, Allen Garfield

Synopsis: Joe Pytka's comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss as Trotter, a cab driver who gets a hot tip on a horse race and soon finds himself on the gambling hot streak of his life. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Moon over Parador

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss) is all actor: Self-possessed, obsessive, vulnerable, and an addict for praise, his soul burns with "the craft." Having just finished a grade-Z straight-to-cable crime thriller in the fictional South American country of Parador, he gets the ultimate acting challenge Read More

Nuts

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: High-priced hooker Barbra Streisand has been arrested for the murder of one of her clients. The attorney engaged by Streisand's parents hope to cop an insanity plea so that she can avoid a trial and manslaughter conviction. But she refuses this, citing a proviso in New York law that may result in Read More

Stakeout

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, Dan Lauria

Synopsis: Though John Badham's Stakeout doesn't flinch in the violence department, the film concentrates primarily on characterization. Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez play a pair of Seattle detectives, assigned to capture escaped hood Aidan Quinn. The twosome spends much of the film on stakeout in a Read More

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

Stand by Me

Actors: John Cusack, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: Based on the Stephen King short story The Body, Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome Read More

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Actors: Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, Little Richard, Tracy Nelson

Synopsis: Down and Out in Beverly Hills is an updated remake of the 1932 Jean Renoir film Boudu Saved From Drowning. Philandering businessman Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) rescues scraggly tramp Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) from drowning himself in Dave's swimming pool. Much against his will, Jerry is Read More

The Buddy System

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen, Jean Stapleton, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: A cautious single mom and a frustrated writer dance around the prospect of getting together in this romantic comedy. Caustic, difficult Emily (Susan Sarandon) lives with her potty-mouthed son, Tim (Wil Wheaton), and her obnoxiously bossy mother (Jean Stapleton). Her social life consists of Read More

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban, Kenneth McMillan

Synopsis: Stepping into the role made famous on Broadway by Tom Conti, Richard Dreyfuss stars as a profoundly handicapped sculptor in Whose Life is it Anyway? Left a quadraplegic after an auto accident, the embittered Dreyfuss feels utterly useless, as both an artist and a human being. He doesn't want his Read More

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

Synopsis: This is the made-for-TV version of the romantic drama that chronicles the exploits of a group of glamorous women caught up in the entertainment industry. This version contains material author Jacqueline Susann omitted from her original novel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Competition

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker, Joseph Cali, Ty Henderson

Synopsis: Can two prodigies fall in love and stay in love, even when they are competing against one another in an international piano competition? Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving attempt to answer that question in The Competition. Richard Dreyfuss plays Paul Dietrich, a shabby prodigy slouching past the Read More

Suzanne

Actors: Jennifer Dale, Winston Rekert, Gabriel Arcand, Ken Pogue, Michelle Rossignol

Synopsis: This drama is set in Montreal when in the mid-'50s a young woman is impregnated by a petty thief who is caught and given ten years in the slammer. In the meantime, the woman bears a son and marries another. The time passes quickly and the thief is eventually released. He immediately goes to her Read More

The Big Fix

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, Ofelia Medina

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss plays Moses Wine, an ex-Sixties radical who pays the bills as a private eye. Wine is hired to stem a smear campaign against a popular political candidate. Gradually the plot thickens into a murder case, involving a hippie leader whose values, like Wine's, have been severely Read More

Saturday Night Live: Richard Dreyfuss

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Jimmy Buffett

Synopsis: This 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Richard Dreyfuss and features musical guest Jimmy Buffett. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Bob Balaban

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witnesses Read More

The Goodbye Girl

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades

Synopsis: Marsha Mason is known as "The Goodbye Girl" because of all the live-in boyfriends who have said ta-ta to her in the past few years. A former Broadway chorus dancer, the divorced Mason lives in the Manhattan apartment of her latest lost love with her daughter Quinn Cummings. Enter arrogant actor Richard Dreyfuss Read More

Victory at Entebbe

Actors: Julius Harris, Helen Hayes, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: Within months after the spectacular July 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport, there were two competing TV movies on the subject. The longest (and least) of the two was Victory at Entebbe, hurriedly shot on videotape. The story begins when Arab terrorist capture a civilian Read More

Inserts

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Stephen Davies, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Writer/director John Byrum filmed this bizarre and controversial period picture on one massive set. It takes place in the 1930s, and stars Richard Dreyfuss as Boy Wonder, a once-great Hollywood director, who spends all of his time in decrepitude in his rococo mansion (which will soon be leveled Read More

Jaws

Actors: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. One early summer night on fictional Atlantic resort Amity Island, Chrissie decides to take a Read More

The Second Coming of Suzanne

Actors: Gene Barry, Jared Martin, Paul Sand, Richard Dreyfuss, Sondra Locke

Synopsis: Based on a song by Leonard Cohen, this peculiar experimental film set in late-'60s San Francisco was executive-produced by game-show mogul Gene Barry, the director's father. It concerns Suzanne (Sondra Locke), who gets crucified in a film-within-a-film which receives much of the screen time. Read More

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss put himself on the map with his performance in this movie about how ambition and greed can drive someone at the expense of his own happiness. Duddy Kravitz (Dreyfuss) is an 18-year-old Jewish kid from Montreal whose mother is dead, and whose father drives a cab and does a little Read More

American Graffiti

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark

Synopsis:
It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are Steve (Ron Howard) and Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy Terry "The Toad" (Charles Martin Smith Read More

Dillinger

Actors: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: John Milius's first directorial effort in its own small way set the stage in the 1970s for a subgenre of action films that depict a nostalgia for historical figures tinged with a hard-edged skepticism. Warren Oates stars as John Dillinger, whose short-lived career as Public Enemy No.1 was, at Read More

Two for the Money

Synopsis: In this drama, two private investigators must find a serial killer after the 12-year investigation of the police fails miserably. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hello Down There

Actors: Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Roddy McDowall, Jim Backus, Ken Berry

Synopsis: When irascible boss T.R. Hollister (Jim Backus) threatens to pull the plug on an underwater environmental living project, employee Fred Miller (Tony Randall) and his wife, Vivian (Janet Leigh), take their family down in the deep to live for 30 days. With all the modern conveniences of a home on Read More

The Young Runaways

Actors: Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Lloyd Bochner, Patty McCormack, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Three teenage runaways leave home for life in the big city. Shelly (Brooke Bundy) runs away from her father (Lloyd Bochner), when communication breaks down between the success-minded dad and his daughter. Dewey (Kevin Coughlin) leaves behind life on the farm when his girlfriend suggests she may be Read More

Valley of the Dolls

Actors: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Tony Scotti

Synopsis: A cinematic take on a 1960s best-seller, Valley of the Dolls traces the ups and downs of three young women as fame, booze, pills, and men consume their lives. Well-bred, small-town Anne Welles (Peyton Place star Barbara Parkins) arrives in New York eager for fame but settles for a job assisting Read More

The Graduate

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

Bewitched: Man's Best Friend

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Dreyfuss, Mary Grace Canfield

Synopsis: A young Richard Dreyfuss guest stars as Rodney, a warlock who wants to marry Samantha. Hoping to disrupt the relationship between Sam and her husband, Darrin, Rodney transforms himself into a dog and invades the Stephens household. Using his own special brand of witchcraft, the "shaggy" Rodney Read More

Gidget: Ego-A-Go-Go

Synopsis: Yes, that's 19-year-old Richard Dreyfuss guesting in this episode as neurotic teenager Durf the Drag. Hoping to bolster Durf's confidence, kindhearted Gidget (Sally Field) agrees to go out on a date with him. The plot thickens when Gidge is afforded the opportunity to date handsome UCLA student Ed Read More

Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys

Actors: Rick Moranis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Dreyfuss, Kathleen Barr, Scott McNeil, Garry Chalk

Synopsis: This Christmas musical, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys, relates the adventures of everyone's favorite reindeer and his beloved owner, Santa, when they come across an island populated by broken toys. Hollywood heavy-hitters Jamie Lee Curtis, Rick Moranis, and Read More

Time Machine: Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss

Biography: Audrey Hepburn - The Fairest Lady

Synopsis: Part of the Biogrpahy television series from A&E, this documentary revies the career and personal life of Academy Award winning actress, Audrey Hepburn. Born Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, in Brussels, Belgium. She trained as a ballet dancer in Amsterdam, and at the Marie Rambert Read More

The Shadow of a Gunman

Synopsis: Richard Dreyfuss stars in this story about an Irish tenement in the 1920's that suffers a stir when a soft spoken poet who lives there is suspected of being an IRA gunman. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More