Results for : Alan Arkin

Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.

Director: Rob Reiner

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Family , Fantasy , Science Fiction

Actors: Elijah Wood, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jon Lovitz, Bruce Willis

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

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

The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.

Director: Jill Sprecher

Genres: Drama

Actors: John Turturro, Clea DuVall, Matthew McConaughey, Amy Irving, Alan Arkin

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.

Director: Rebecca Miller

Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance

Actors: Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin (Daniel Stern), the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy (Arye Gross), the middle child, is a timid dreamer. Bobby (Patrick Dempsey), the youngest, is a handsome rebel in reform school. As kids, they fought a lot and as adults, they barely speak. In the summer of 1963, their tough and eccentric father, Fred (Alan Arkin), gives them a task: to bring a 1954 Cadillac, bought for their mother, Betty (Rita Taggart), from Detroit to Miami. As the trip goes on, the three brothers fight and begin to reconnect with each other, while trying to keep the Caddy in mint condition.

Director: Joe Roth

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Annabeth Gish, Rita Taggart

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

A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers it's in fact a closed world where brutality is an everyday occurrence.

Director: Ján Kadár

Genres: Drama , TV Movie

Actors: Alan Arkin, Richard Riehle, Roger E. Mosley, Morgan Woodward, Seamon Glass

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

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

The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.

Director: Adam Beamer

Genres: Comedy , Action

Actors: Ethan Embry, Michael Gladis, Clea DuVall, Cary Elwes, Adam Arkin

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

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

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

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

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

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

A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

Director: Tim Burton

Genres: Adventure , Family , Fantasy

Actors: Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Alan Arkin

Alfred Chamberlain, who suffers from an inability to feel or to be passionate about anything, meets Patsy Newquist, who takes it upon herself to mold him into "a strong, vital, self-assured man, that I can protect and take care of."

Director: Alan Arkin

Genres: Comedy

Actors: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Jon Korkes

A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)

Director: Neal Miller

Genres: Comedy , Drama

Actors: Alan Arkin, Lauren Holly, Glenne Headly, Barbara Dana, Austin Pendleton

Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.

Director: Richard Rush

Genres: Action , Comedy , Crime

Actors: Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Jack Kruschen, Mike Kellin

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

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

Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

Director: George Armitage

Genres: Action , Comedy , Thriller , Romance

Actors: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Alan Arkin

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

Director: Terence Young

Genres: Horror , Crime , Thriller

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston

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

In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. Young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.

Director: Andrew Niccol

Genres: Thriller , Science Fiction , Mystery , Romance

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

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 three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Genres: Drama , Romance

Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Ele Keats, Christopher Buchholz, Regina Nemni

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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