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This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) more movies like this

directed by Rob Reiner
featuring Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, R.J. Parnell, Tony Hendra

Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The "group" started as an informal ...

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Short Circuit 2

Short Circuit 2 (1988) more movies like this

directed by Kenneth Johnson
featuring Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, Tim Blaney

Fisher Stevens reprises his role of Ben Jahrvi, the co-inventor of the cute robot Number Five, in this sequel to Short Circuit. Since the last film, Ben has moved to the city, where he lives in a truck and sells toy Number Fives as a street vendor. Ben plies his trade until one day luck strikes in the form of Sandy (Cynthia Gibb), a toy buyer in ...

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Clue

Clue (1985) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Lynn
featuring Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael McKean

In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy's butler, Wadsworth ...

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Best in Show

Best in Show (2000) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Guest
featuring Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, Michael Hitchcock, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard

After parodying the idiosyncrasies of community theater devotees in the mock documentary Waiting for Guffman, actor/director Christopher Guest returns with another semi-improvised comedy that casts a satirical gaze on the world of championship dog breeding and training. A television crew is on hand to document the prestigious Mayflower Kennel Club ...

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Laverne & Shirley: Season 01

Laverne & Shirley: Season 01 (1976) more movies like this

Exploiting the overwhelmingly positive audience response to the 1975 Happy Days episode in which Richie (Ron Howard) and Potsie (Anson Williams) found themselves on a riotous date with brash but lovable "older women" Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams), executive producer Garry Marshall obligingly whipped up a ...

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Coneheads

Coneheads (1993) more movies like this

directed by Steven Barron
featuring Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander

"The Coneheads" were a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to feature-length proportions with this film. The story concerns Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin), who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth. But due to a malfunction, they find themselves ...

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) more movies like this

directed by John Hughes
featuring Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, William Windom, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon

Were it not for its profanity-laden opening scenes, John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles might have been suitable family entertainment: certainly it's heaps less violent and mean-spirited than Hughes' Home Alone. En route to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family, easily annoyed businessman Neal Page (Steve Martin) finds his first ...

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Used Cars

Used Cars (1980) more movies like this

directed by Robert Zemeckis
featuring Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Frank McRae, Gerritt Graham, Deborah Harmon, Michael McKean

Used Cars is one of Robert Zemeckis' pre-Roger Rabbit and pre-Forrest Gump efforts starring Kurt Russell is a devious car salesman who goes to work for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Jack Warden. Warden's principal rival is his more prosperous twin brother, also played by Warden, who schemes to take over the "good" brother's ...

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The Brady Bunch Movie

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) more movies like this

directed by Betty Thomas
featuring Christine Taylor, Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Michael McKean, Jean Smart, Henriette Mantel

The Brady Bunch Movie pays tribute to the 1970s TV show while poking gentle fun at it. The Brady family, led by father Mike (Gary Cole), still live in their suburban, split-level home and are still throwbacks to the era that spawned them. Eternally perky wife Carol (Shelley Long) is the perfect homemaker, while the kids' behavior is as wholesome ...

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A Mighty Wind

A Mighty Wind (2003) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Guest
featuring Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins

The writing and directing team who created Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of ...

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Young Doctors in Love (1982) more movies like this

directed by Garry Marshall
featuring Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Macnee, Hector Elizondo

In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their blunders. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) more movies like this

directed by Simon Wincer
featuring Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Kathryn Walker, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer

Barret Oliver stars as robot boy Daryl (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform). The film begins with an intense chase through hairpin mountain roads as a helicopter chases after a racing automobile and the driver of the car shoves a young boy out of the door. The child is rescued and is adopted by Joyce (Mary Beth Hurt) and Andy (Michael McKean) ...

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The Big Picture (1989) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Guest
featuring Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael McKean

Another "get even with Hollywood" satire in the tradition of SOB and Movers and Shakers, The Big Picture is an elongated inside joke complete with un-billed celebrity cameos. In this first feature-film directorial effort by actor/writer Christopher Guest, Kevin Bacon plays a "boy wonder" director whose willingness to compromise his ideals allows ...

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For Your Consideration (2006) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Guest
featuring Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard

Mockumentary mastermind Christopher Guest turns his satirical eye away from dog shows, small-town theater, and folk music to offer a hilarious take on Hollywood award season in this comedy focusing on trio of actors whose lives are turned upside down when they discover that their performances in an independent film are generating a sizable buzz in ...

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Never Again (2002) more movies like this

directed by Eric Schaeffer
featuring Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Michael McKean, Caroline Aaron, Sandy Duncan

Two singles in their early fifties who are convinced love has passed them by find each other -- and then try to figure out what to do next -- in this romantic comedy. Grace Minor (Jill Clayburgh) is a social worker whose personal life has hit the skids. Prompted by her friends Natasha (Sandy Duncan) and Elaine (Caroline Aaron), Grace takes the ...

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The Guru (2003) more movies like this

directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer
featuring Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei, Jimi Mistry, Michael McKean, Christine Baranski

A visitor from the mysterious East arrives in New York -- not to offer the wisdom of the ages, but to make it big as a dancer in this "fish-out-of-water" comedy. Ramu Chandra Gupta (Jimi Mistry) grew up in India on a steady diet of movie musicals, particularly local Bollywood spectaculars and vintage American song-and-dance films. Ramu grew up ...

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Casper - A Spirited Beginning (1997) more movies like this

directed by Sean McNamara
featuring Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Brendon Ryan Barrett, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael McKean

Billed as a prequel to the 1995 family film Casper, which in turn is based on an enduring Harvey cartoon character "Casper the Friendly Ghost," this direct-to-video entry is aimed at younger kids (though some of the scenes may be inappropriate for really young children). The story begins as Casper, who is new to the ghostly plane, rides a death ...

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Man Trouble (1992) more movies like this

directed by Bob Rafelson
featuring Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Paul Mazursky, Harry Dean Stanton, Michael McKean

Actor Jack Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman, and director Bob Rafelson re-team 22 years after their classic Five Easy Pieces, for this romantic comedy. Nicholson plays Harry Bliss, a small potatoes security expert unhappily married to a Japanese woman (he sarcastically calls her Iwo Jima during therapy sessions). Harry's life is coming apart at ...

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Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) more movies like this

directed by John Carpenter
featuring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tobolowsky

Chevy Chase stars, though not always visibly, as Nick Halloway, a low-level businessman with an acerbic approach to life and work, whose humdrum existence utterly bores him. Nick gets an unexpected jolt of excitement when, nursing a hangover, he's the only one not to evacuate an office building that becomes a disaster area after a mishap involving ...

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Final Justice (1998) more movies like this

Enraged when a jury acquits the obviously guilty man who murdered her brother, a young woman abducts the attorney responsible for his freedom. Made especially for the Lifetime cable network, this drama follows what happens when the woman herself is caught and sent to trial. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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100 Mile Rule (2002) more movies like this

directed by Brent Huff
featuring Jake Weber, Maria Bello, David Thornton, Michael McKean

Following in the vein of (Roger Dodger and In the Company of Men), director Brent Huff presents a crash course on the relationship between sexual and corporate power plays in The 100 Mile Rule. The infamous rule states that one is well within his rights to sexually indulge himself with someone other than his wife or girlfriend, provided that he is ...

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She Gets What She Wants (2002) more movies like this

directed by Melanie Mayron
featuring Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor, Trent Ford, Michael McKean, Julie White

Starla Grady (Jane McGregor), the most popular girl at Splendona High School in Splendona, TX, is on top of the world. That is, at least, until foreign-exchange student Genevieve LePlouff (Piper Perabo) moves in with Starla's family. Starla's parents had hoped that Genevieve's tutoring would help raise Starla's French grade, which had dropped ...

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Laverne & Shirley: Season 02 (1977) more movies like this

Ending its first season as America's second most popular TV series (its "inspiration," Happy Days, was the first), Laverne & Shirley held fast to the second-place slot throughout season two. Still set in the late '50s, the series continues to star Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as Milwaukee brewery workers and best friends/roommates Laverne De ...

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The Return of Spinal Tap (1992) more movies like this

The mock heavy-metal band Spinal Tap (actually comedians Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer) return to duty in this made-for-TV sequel to Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, filmed to promote the group's album Break Like the Wind. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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The Sunshine Boys (1997) more movies like this

directed by John Erman
featuring Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber

Neil Simon adapted this 1997 comedy from his 1972 play, first filmed in 1975 with Walter Matthau and George Burns as two feuding veteran vaudevillians reuniting to do a television special. For this new version, Simon updated the period and characters into a tale of two comedians (Woody Allen, Peter Falk), once popular in the 1950s. Their ...

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