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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) more movies like this

directed by Joel Coen
featuring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John Goodman

The writing, directing, and producing team of Joel Coen and Ethan Coen created this picaresque comedy (inspired in part by Homer's The Odyssey ) set in the Deep South during the Depression. Suave and fancy-talking Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney), dim-witted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson), and easily-excitable Pete (John Turturro) are serving ...

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The Sting

The Sting (1973) more movies like this

directed by George Roy Hill
featuring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston

Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer/gambler Doyle ...

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The Muppet Movie

The Muppet Movie (1979) more movies like this

directed by James Frawley
featuring Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Kermit, but friends accumulate along the way, and ...

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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) more movies like this

directed by Colin Higgins
featuring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors

In this filmization of the hit Broadway musical, a popular brothel is threatened with a shutdown by Texas authorities. Burt Reynolds plays the Sheriff, while Dolly Parton portrays the Chicken Ranch madam. While this film has its moments, it never reaches the entertainment heights of its stage predecessor. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays (1995) more movies like this

directed by Jodie Foster
featuring Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chaplin

It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares to fly from her home in Chicago to her parent's ...

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Tootsie

Tootsie (1982) more movies like this

directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Geena Davis

Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant but troublesome New York actor, has managed to alienate every producer on both coasts. Michael's agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack) can't even get his client a commercial since Michael complained that the tomato he was playing wasn't properly motivated. "You were a tomato!" screams George in ...

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Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Sully Boyar, Chris Sarandon

Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York City. Shortly before closing time, scheming loser Sonny (Al Pacino) and his slow-witted buddy, Sal (John Cazale), burst into a Brooklyn bank for what should be a run-of-the-mill robbery, but everything goes wrong, beginning ...

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The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) more movies like this

directed by Joel Coen
featuring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen concocted this stylish screwball comedic amalgam of Frank Capra and Howard Hawks. Tim Robbins stars as Norville Barnes, a dull-wit from Muncie, Indiana who wrangles a job with the big Hudsucker Industries. He has a singular idea for a new children's toy that he wants to present to corporate executive Sidney J. Mussberger ...

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One Fine Day

One Fine Day (1996) more movies like this

directed by Michael Hoffman
featuring Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Robert Klein

Even without money problems, many divorced single parents have a hard row to hoe. At the drop of a hat, a competent, responsible professional person can be reduced to a frazzled, bumbling parent, when his or her children become unexpected daytime wards. This is what happens to Jack Taylor (George Clooney) when his ex-wife suddenly decides to elope ...

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Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman (1985) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning

In 1984, actor Dustin Hoffman starred in a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of playwright Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Death of a Salesman. A year later, Hoffman and most of his fellow cast members starred in this made-for-TV production, the first English-language film by German director Volker Schlondorff. Hoffman ...

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Two of a Kind (1983) more movies like this

directed by John Herzfeld
featuring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning, Beatrice Straight, Scatman Crothers

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John attempt to rekindle the box office sparks of Grease with this screwball fantasy comedy. The tale begins during a golf match in heaven among four angels --Charlie (Charles Durning), Earl (Scatman Crothers), Gonzales (Castulo Guerra), and Ruth (Beatrice Straight)-- who have been in charge of heaven for the last ...

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A Boyfriend for Christmas (2004) more movies like this

directed by Kevin Connor
featuring Kelli Williams, Patrick Muldoon, Martin Mull, Charles Durning, Bruce Thomas

Way back when she was 13 years old, lonely Holly Grant (Kelli Williams), envying the busy social lives of her best friends, made a wish to receive a boyfriend for Christmas. Instead, Holly was given a glass globe, ostensibly by "Santa Claus" himself, with the attached message that her wish would be granted within the next two decades. Flash ...

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When a Stranger Calls (1979) more movies like this

directed by Fred Walton
featuring Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst, Tony Beckley, Rachel Roberts, Rutanya Alda

In this thriller, a baby-sitter is terrorized by an anonymous telephone caller who turns out to be a particularly persistent serial killer. When a stranger calls to ask, "Have you checked the children lately?" teenaged sitter Jill Johnson (Carol Kane) is understandably spooked. After a series of increasingly creepy calls culminates in a request ...

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The Fury (1978) more movies like this

directed by Brian De Palma
featuring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Amy Irving, Andrew Stevens

Brian De Palma returns to the mind-blowing potential of telekinesis in the follow-up to his 1976 horror hit Carrie. While vacationing with his psychic son Robin (Andrew Stevens) and close associate Childress (John Cassavetes), government agent Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) survives a terrorist attack, only to discover that it was staged by Childress ...

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True Confessions (1981) more movies like this

directed by Ulu Grosbard
featuring Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Burgess Meredith, Cyril Cusack

Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder as the foundation for a devastating attack on big-city corruption -- in which it appears that many of the perpetrators wear clerical collars. In, 1948 Los Angeles detective Tom Spellacy (Robert Duvall) is assigned to ...

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Mass Appeal (1984) more movies like this

directed by Glenn Jordan
featuring Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek, Charles Durning, Louise Latham

Jack Lemmon stars in Mass Appeal as a popular Los Angeles parish priest, who has retained the good will of his parishioners by cracking jokes and never taking a stand on crucial matters. Enter young seminarian Zeljko Ivanek, whose rebellious reputation threatens to earn him an expulsion. Lemmon is expected to bring Ivanek around to the Church's ...

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North Dallas Forty (1979) more movies like this

directed by Ted Kotcheff
featuring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman, Dayle Haddon

In a society in which major league sporting events have replaced Sunday worship as the religion of choice, North Dallas Forty appears like a desecration at the altar. In this film, directed by Ted Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), the National Football League is revealed to be more about the money than the game. Nick Nolte is North ...

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The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) more movies like this

directed by Stan Dragoti
featuring Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher

In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (Tom Hanks) is a bicycling violinist who is innocently drawn into a nasty struggle for control of the CIA. Cooper (Dabney Coleman) is the unscrupulous current head honcho of the notorious U.S. agency, Ross (Charles Durning) is his nemesis, and ...

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To Be or Not to Be (1983) more movies like this

directed by Alan Johnson
featuring Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Tim Matheson, José Ferrer

Mel Brooks and his real-life wife Anne Bancroft play Frederick and Anna Bronski, musical comedy stars in 1939 Poland. The highlight of the Bronskis' act is Frederick's imitation of Adolf Hitler, but he is forced to eliminate this turn for fear of offending the Nazis. Meanwhile, Anna enters into a harmless flirtation with Polish bomber pilot Andre ...

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State and Main (2000) more movies like this

directed by David Mamet
featuring Alec Baldwin, Charles Durning, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patti LuPone, William H. Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon

Echoing the themes of Living in Oblivion and Irma Vep, David Mamet's seventh feature centers on the havoc wrought on the inhabitants of a small town by a troubled film production. After its leading man's propensity for teenage girls gets them banished from their New Hampshire location, a film crew relocates to the small town of Waterford, VT, to ...

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Where the River Runs Black (1986) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Cain
featuring Charles Durning, Alessandro Rabelo, Ajay Naidu, Peter Horton, Conchata Ferrell

This drama concerns the clash of two worlds in the person of a young boy. The small boy (Alessandro Rabelo) is the offspring of a missionary who died before the he was born, and a Native American who is later killed by white prospectors. Father O'Reilly (Charles Durning) comes to hear about the legend of the orphan born to a holy man and a ...

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Sisters (1973) more movies like this

directed by Brian De Palma
featuring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Lisle Wilson

A reporter gets more than she bargained for when she tries to prove that a murder has occurred in Brian De Palma's disturbing thriller. Danielle (Margot Kidder) meets Phillip (Lisle Wilson) on a "Peeping Tom"-themed game show and, dodging her ex-husband Emil (William Finley), takes him back to her apartment. But Danielle has a separated Siamese ...

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Stephen King's Desperation (2006) more movies like this

directed by Mick Garris
featuring Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Ron Perlman, Annabeth Gish, Charles Durning, Henry Thomas, Shane Haboucha

Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris joins forces with literary horror icon Stephen King for this, the pair's sixth onscreen collaboration. In the wind-swept Nevada town of Desperation, a malevolent sheriff (Ron Perlman) delivers arrestees to a jail cell from which, by all accounts, no one has emerged alive. The streets are littered with the ...

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Breakheart Pass (1976) more movies like this

directed by Tom Gries
featuring Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Jill Ireland, Richard Crenna, Charles Durning

Posing as a fugitive from justice, frontier undercover agent John Deakin (Charles Bronson) boards a train to go after a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ingredients essential to the action include an anti-military conspiracy involving gunrunners and Indians, a phony epidemic, and a down-and-dirty traintop fight between Deakin and Carlos (boxer-turned ...

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When a Stranger Calls Back (1993) more movies like this

directed by Fred Walton
featuring Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen, Gene Lythgow, Karen Austin

Another psychopath haunts another baby sitter in this made-for-TV sequel to the 1979 feature When a Stranger Calls. When prim schoolgirl Julia (Jill Schoelen) accepts a last-minute baby-sitting assignment from a doctor and his wife (Kevin McNulty and Cheryl Wilson), she follows all the rules: She studies diligently, checks often on the kids, and ...

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