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Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands (1990) more movies like this

directed by Tim Burton
featuring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price, Kathy Baker

Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients for today's standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands. For what is initially thought to be a temporary period, he is fitted with long, scissor-like ...

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Catch-22

Catch-22 (1970) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing missions, but publicity-obsessed commander Colonel ...

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Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
featuring Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin

When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former music video directorial team Jonathan Dayton and ...

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The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn (1982) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
featuring Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein

Only one of the mythological creatures escapes the evil King Haggard's (voice by Christopher Lee) plan to eliminate all unicorns from the land in Rankin-Bass's (Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) sophisticated production of The Last Unicorn. In hopes of rescuing her exiled breed, the last unicorn (voice by Mia Farrow) teams up ...

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The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! (1966) more movies like this

directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters

Just because The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming was vastly overrated by contemporary critics does not make it any less amusing. The story gets under way when a Soviet submarine accidently gets lodged in a sandbar on the coast of a New England town. In his feature film debut, Alan Arkin plays the sub's second-in-command, who is ...

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The Rocketeer

The Rocketeer (1991) more movies like this

directed by Joe Johnston
featuring Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino

After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protege Joe Johnston found success as a director with his debut film, the blockbuster family adventure Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. For his sophomore outing, Johnston helmed this action-adventurer, set in 1930s Hollywood and in the spirit of old pulp ...

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) more movies like this

directed by James Foley
featuring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Jonathan Pryce

David Mamet's award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales contest where the losers will be fired. The agents ...

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Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark (1967) more movies like this

directed by Terence Young
featuring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jack Weston

Wait Until Dark is an innovative, highly entertaining and suspenseful thriller about a blind housewife, Susy Hendrix (Audrey Hepburn). Independent and resourceful, Susy is learning to cope with her blindness, which resulted from a recent accident. She is aided by her difficult, slightly unreliable young neighbor Gloria (Julie Herrod) with whom she ...

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Gattaca

Gattaca (1997) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Niccol
featuring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Alan Arkin, Xander R. Berkeley

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. People are designed to fit into whatever role is ...

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Grosse Pointe Blank

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) more movies like this

directed by George Armitage
featuring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Alan Arkin, Joan Cusack

Most people have trouble deciding what to say when they're asked what they've been doing with their lives at a High School reunion, but Martin Blank (as played by John Cusack) has a different problem than most -- he has to make his career sound less interesting than it actually is. Martin is a former CIA operative who is now a freelance hit man, ...

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Havana (1990) more movies like this

directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian, Raul Julia

A cynical gambler reluctantly comes to the aid of a mysterious beauty in this interpolation of Casablanca and the real-life Cuban revolution. Big-stakes American gambler Jack Weil (Robert Redford) is comfortable in the anything-goes Havana of 1958. But with Fidel Castro out in the wilderness broadcasting revolutionary messages, it seems the good ...

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The In-Laws (1979) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Hiller
featuring Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Arlene Golonka, Penny Peyser

Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk). They are practically relatives already, the wedding is so near. Certainly, Sheldon already despises Vince as if he were already a well-known relative. Nontheless, Vince calls on ...

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968) more movies like this

directed by Robert Ellis Miller
featuring Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach, Chuck McCann

Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan Arkin as John Singer, who is deaf. Singer moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized friend Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann), who is deaf and mentally impaired. Singer rents a room with a family whose father, Mr. Kelly (Biff McGuire), is unable to ...

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13 Conversations About One Thing (2002) more movies like this

directed by Jill Sprecher
featuring Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Alan Arkin, Clea Duvall, Amy Irving, Frankie R. Faison

Following up on her acclaimed debut, Clockwatchers, Jill Sprecher spins this intricate ensemble film about life's big questions. Set in New York City, the film focuses on five different characters with radically different perspectives on life. Gene (Alan Arkin) manages a large insurance company and is a compulsive pessimist, constantly bursting ...

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Indian Summer (1993) more movies like this

directed by Mike Binder
featuring Alan Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Kimberly Payne Williams, Bill Paxton, Vincent Spano

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 group of contemporary youngsters wearing Walkmans on ...

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North (1994) more movies like this

directed by Rob Reiner
featuring Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, Matthew McCurley, Alan Arkin, Richard Belzer

A boy divorces his parents in this comic fantasy for the family. North (Elijah Wood) is the sort of kid most parents dream of -- he's bright, well-behaved, a good student, and a great baseball player. But North's Mom and Dad (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander) are so busy with their lives and careers that they barely have time for him. A man ...

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Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) more movies like this

directed by Tamara Jenkins
featuring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Corrigan, Eli Marienthal

Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed this comedy-drama depicting the experience of growing up poor in the 90210 zip code, told from the point of view of Vivian Abramowitz (Natasha Lyonne), a teen who lives a nomadic existence in the outskirts of Beverly Hills with her single, divorced father, Murray (Alan Arkin) and her two young brothers (David ...

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The Jerky Boys (1995) more movies like this

directed by J. Miller Tobin, James Melkonian
featuring Johnny Brennan, Kamal Ahmed, Alan Arkin, William Hickey, Alan North

Two guys from Queens wind up in trouble with the mob because of their fondness for prank phone calls in this quickie comedy. Stars Johnny Brennan and Kamal Ahmed first found fame as "The Jerky Boys" thanks to a series of comedy albums featuring real prank calls in which the duo assumed a variety of abrasive and often extremely foul-mouthed ...

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Jakob the Liar (1999) more movies like this

directed by Peter Kassovitz
featuring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber, Mark Margolis

This remake of the 1975 German film Jakob der Lügner stars Robin Williams in a dramatic role as a man who uses his active imagination to bring a ray of hope where hope was all but unknown. Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) is the owner of a small café during the Nazi occupation of Poland; he has little money and is struggling to keep body and soul ...

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Popi (1969) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Hiller
featuring Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Miguel Alejandro, Ruben Figueroa, John Harkins

Striving for a better life for his two sons, a Puerto Rican immigrant named Popi (Alan Arkin) goes about his mission in a singularly eccentric fashion in this comedy from director Arthur Hiller. So intent is Harlem resident Abraham "Popi" Rodriguez (Arkin) upon providing his boys with the American dream, that he puts off marrying his beautiful ...

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Eros (2005) more movies like this

directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-Wai
featuring Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tin Fung, Robert Downey, Jr., Alan Arkin

Three of the world's most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film. The initial episode, "The Hand," was directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and tells the story of Zhang (Chang Chen), a young, virginal dressmaker's assistant who finds it difficult to control his desire when he is sent to the home of Hua ...

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Steal Big, Steal Little (1995) more movies like this

directed by Andrew Davis
featuring Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin, Joe Pantoliano, Ally Walker

Director Andrew Davis followed up the action blockbuster The Fugitive (1993) with this Capra-esque box office dud that nevertheless featured engaging dual performances by Andy Garcia. Garcia stars as Ruben and Robby, twin brothers who were raised separately and have become total opposites. Ruben has recently inherited a 40,000-acre Santa Barbara ...

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Four Days in September (1997) more movies like this

directed by Bruno Barreto
featuring Fernanda Torres, Pedro Cardoso, Alan Arkin

Bruno Barreto returned to his native Brazil after a ten-year absence to direct this fact-based political thriller that was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Pedro Cardoso stars as Rio de Janeiro journalist Fernando Gabeira, who decides with his friend Cesar (Selton Mello) to take up arms with a radical leftist organization, MR-8, ...

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Improper Channels (1981) more movies like this

directed by Eric Till
featuring Alan Arkin, Mariette Hartley, Sarah Stevens, Monica Parker, Harry Ditson

Alan Arkin plays a hapless architect named Jeffrey Martley, separated from his sprightly writer wife Diana (Mariette Hartley) and his wise-beyond-her-years five-year-old daughter Nancy (Sarah Stevens). When Nancy is injured in Jeffrey's camper, she is taken to the hospital where a misunderstanding leads doctors to believe she is the victim of ...

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Hearts of the West (1975) more movies like this

directed by Howard Zieff
featuring Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin

Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey or Peter B. Kyne. He arrives in Nevada to seek out the correspondence school that has "graduated" him. After learning that he's been taken to the cleaners by crooks, he stumbles ...

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