Results for : Alan Arkin

Pour le professeur d'art dramatique Sandy Kominsky et son meilleur ami Norman Newlander, ce n'est pas parce qu'on vieillit qu'on doit arrêter de bien s'amuser.

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Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin, Nancy Travis, Sarah Baker, Melissa Tang

Alan Arkin, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-wierding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, overcoated hitchhiker buddy.

Director: Vernon Zimmerman

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Alan Arkin, Paul Benedict, Charles Durning, Héctor Elizondo, Bruce Bennett

Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.

Director: Chazz Palminteri

Genres: Drama , Romance

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Paul Walker, Penélope Cruz, Alan Arkin, Marcus Thomas

Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized and given exceptional benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed ashore as cuban immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos.

Director: Arthur Hiller

Genres: Drama , Comedy

Actors: Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Reuben Figueroa, Miguel Alejandro, Arny Freeman

A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.

Director: David Frankel

Genres: Comedy , Family

Actors: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Genres: Drama , Romance

Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Ele Keats

Two con men take advantage of an emperor's vanity.

Director: Peter Medak

Genres: Comedy , Fantasy

Actors: Dick Shawn, Art Carney, Alan Arkin, Georgia Brown

From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

Director: Jules Bass

Genres: Fantasy , Animation , Family , Adventure

Actors: Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash is a 1981 comedy film starring Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Ruth Buzzi, and Danny Aiello. It was released in 1981 by 20th Century Fox. Arkin plays a down-his-luck former baseball player and Burnett plays a Carmen Miranda-style performer. The film was panned by critics and was not a box office success. Many of the scenes, particularly the exterior scenes of "Chu Chu" home, were filmed in San Francisco's Potrero Hill district.

Director: David Lowell Rich

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Danny Aiello, Adam Arkin

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

Director: Peter Kassovitz

Genres: Comedy , Drama , History

Actors: Robin Williams, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Éva Igó, István Bálint

Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.

Director: Peter Berg

Genres: Comedy , Action , Thriller

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger, Michael Gaston

In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith (Colm Feore), interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey) to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.

Director: Bruce Beresford

Genres: Drama , History , War , Western , TV Movie

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent, Matt Day

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller

Genres: Drama

Actors: Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach, Chuck McCann

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

Director: Tamara Jenkins

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Eli Marienthal, David Krumholtz

A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.

Director: Peter Segal

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin, Jon Bernthal, Kevin Hart

A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.

Director: Christine Jeffs

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin, Clifton Collins Jr.

Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But then he gets a chance to study medicine abroad in a small Latin American dictatorship governed by the dictator Ramon Madera who has a big interest in how the medical students behave.

Director: Harvey Miller

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Alan Arkin, Julie Hagerty, Bill Macy, Curtis Armstrong

This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. The documents in question would eventually become famous as the Pentagon Papers, which revealed the true reasons for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Director: Rod Holcomb

Genres: Drama , Thriller , History

Actors: James Spader, Claire Forlani, Paul Giamatti, Alan Arkin, Kenneth Welsh

Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.

Director: Bud Yorkin

Genres: Comedy , Crime

Actors: Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid

Benny and his wife Ruthie a getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russel. While Russel doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.

Director: Alan Arkin

Genres: Comedy , Family

Actors: Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Vincent Gardenia, Sid Caesar, Sally Marr

Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.

Director: Menahem Golan

Genres: Drama

Actors: Alan Arkin, Valerie Perrine, Shelley Winters, Louise Fletcher, Lou Jacobi

Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish he'd never become Santa.

Director: Michael Lembeck

Genres: Comedy , Family , Adventure

Actors: Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd, Liliana Mumy, Judge Reinhold

Fifteen-year-old Chris Mills isn't too happy with his divorcing parents. In fact, he doesn't want them to split at all, so he hires car repair shop owner -- and former attorney -- Archie Corelli to run interference for him and put a stop to the proceedings. It's a match made in heaven because Chris and Archie both have a deep desire to see the right thing done.

Director: Gwen Arner

Genres: Family , Drama , TV Movie

Actors: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Taylor Fry, Julie Hagerty, Geoff Pierson, Danielle Marcot

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchange for his life.

Director: Bruno Barreto

Genres: Thriller , Drama , History

Actors: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Cláudia Abreu, Luiz Fernando Guimarães

A retired baseball player reflects on the mistakes and problems of the past 35 years when he is overlooked for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Director: Charles Haid

Genres: Drama

Actors: Alan Arkin, Hope Lange, Charles Haid, Paul Dooley, Josh Charles

Hapless driving instructor and former Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty, living in squalor near Hollywood, California, doesn't put up too much of a fight when two ladies hitch a ride and attempt to kidnap him in their attempt to get to New Orleans; while initially put off, Rafferty finds he's charmed by the kooky pair of misfits and the three of them drive to Las Vegas, Nevada and later Tucson, Arizona, where their bond eventually unravels.

Director: Dick Richards

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Alex Rocco, Charles Martin Smith

Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

Director: Jack Shea

Genres: Comedy , Science Fiction

Actors: Guy Stockwell, Sherry Jackson, Keenan Wynn, Susan Oliver, Ed Begley

Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts a battle between brothers that soon leads to madness, mayhem, and even attempted murder. On Ruben's side is Lou Perilli an ex-Chicago cop and used car dealer who knows the law - and how to get around it. On Robby's side is ruthless businessman Reed Tyler, who is out to turn a swift profit on Mona's property. Walking a shifty line between them is Eddie Agopian, the family lawyer, who doesn't care which side wins as long as he's on the winner's side. But whether they're stealing big or stealing little, they're all stealing in this hilarious comedy about greed, power... and brotherly love.

Director: Andrew Davis

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Andy García, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin, Joe Pantoliano, Ally Walker

When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.

Director: Gavin Hood

Genres: Drama , Thriller

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Meryl Streep

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

Director: Ben Affleck

Genres: Drama , Thriller

Actors: Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Scoot McNairy

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was later discovered and verified that his mother had been born in Brooklyn and gone to Lithuania at a young age, which meant she was a U. S. citizen. As a result, Kudirka was declared a U. S. citizen and in 1974 released by the Soviets.

Director: David Lowell Rich

Genres: TV Movie , Drama

Actors: Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence, George Dzundza, John McMartin

After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in crime, Doc and Hirsch, for a night on the town. As the three men revisit old haunts, reflect on their glory days and try to make up for lost time, one wrestles with a terrible quandary: Doc has orders to kill Val, and time is running out for him to figure out a way out of his dilemma.

Director: Fisher Stevens

Genres: Thriller , Comedy , Action

Actors: Christopher Walken, Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Addison Timlin

Naive Iowa farm boy Lewis Tater dreams of being a famous Western novelist like his hero, Zane Grey. He leaves home to answer a writing correspondence course's ad for on-campus classes, only to discover that the school consists of a row of postboxes at an isolated Nevada train depot. On the run from the con men responsible, Lewis stumbles across "real" cowboys--cowboy actors shooting a movie in the desert. The would-be writer soon finds himself instead acting in Westerns, for the rundown Tumbleweed Productions studio, in Depression-era Hollywood.

Director: Howard Zieff

Genres: Comedy , Western

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, Blythe Danner, Andy Griffith, Alex Rocco

A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.

Director: Kyle Balda

Genres: Family , Animation , Action , Adventure , Comedy

Actors: Pierre Coffin, Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Alan Arkin, Taraji P. Henson

The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.

Director: Murray Robinson

Genres: Drama , Romance

Actors: Jacob Pitts, Amy Acker, Alan Arkin, Matthew Carey, Julian Rojas

Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Director: Ted Kotcheff

Genres: Drama

Actors: James Woods, Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, Robert Joy, Michael Sarrazin

When an office full of Chicago real estate salesmen is given the news that all but the top two will be fired at the end of the week, the atmosphere begins to heat up. Shelley Levene, who has a sick daughter, does everything in his power to get better leads from his boss, John Williamson, but to no avail. When his coworker Dave Moss comes up with a plan to steal the leads, things get complicated for the tough-talking salesmen.

Director: James Foley

Genres: Crime , Drama , Mystery

Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris

A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child abuse. Child welfare agencies commit grossly unfair over-reactions to remove the child forcibly from the Father (Arkin), who must brave the arcane system to reclaim his daughter.

Director: Eric Till

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Alan Arkin, Mariette Hartley, Monica Parker, Martin Yan, Sarah Stevens

When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but before they get there they have to deal with several attacks from killers.

Director: Tom Mankiewicz

Genres: Action , Thriller , TV Movie

Actors: Tony Goldwyn, Lynn Whitfield, George Segal, Will Patton, Peter Boyle

Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making things any easier. Blanche Rickey is also worried about money; her husband is a millionaire with a weak heart, and she worries that he'll blow through all his cash before he finally dies. When Blanche meets Leonard, she devises a murderous plan that she claims will fix both their problems.

Director: John Cassavetes

Genres: Action , Comedy

Actors: Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Robert Stack

Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II.

Director: Lionel Chetwynd

Genres: Drama

Actors: William Hurt, Julia Ormond, Matt Craven, Maury Chaykin, Alan Arkin

A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwash experiment. After that they try to convince him that he was a living-being from another planet.

Director: Marshall Brickman

Genres: Comedy , Science Fiction

Actors: Alan Arkin, Madeline Kahn, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright

When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.

Director: James Melkonian

Genres: Comedy , Crime

Actors: John G. Brennan, Kamal Ahmed, Alan Arkin, William Hickey, Vincent Pastore

In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.

Director: Craig Gillespie

Genres: Drama

Actors: Jon Hamm, Bill Paxton, Lake Bell, Suraj Sharma, Aasif Mandvi

Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.

Director: Thomas Schlamme

Genres: Comedy , Crime , Romance

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