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Benny & Joon

Benny & Joon (1993) more movies like this

directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik
featuring Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt

Johnny Depp was nominated for a Golden Globe for his astonishing performance in Benny & Joon, though the entire cast is equally impressive. Benny (Aidan Quinn) runs a small car repair shop. He must also take care of his mentally ill sister Juniper, better known as Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson). After losing a bet, Benny is forced to bring another ...

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Simon Birch

Simon Birch (1998) more movies like this

directed by Mark Steven Johnson
featuring Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn

This comedy-drama features a narration by Jim Carrey, looking back to childhood in a manner similar to the narration on TV's The Wonder Years. The film is the directorial debut of writer Mark Steven Johnson, scripter of Grumpy Old Men and its sequel. Johnson adapted only a small portion of John Irving's 600-page novel A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989 ...

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Flatliners

Flatliners (1990) more movies like this

directed by Joel Schumacher
featuring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt

Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation, electronically inducing a near-deathlike state and then ...

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Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man (1999) more movies like this

directed by Chris Columbus
featuring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Embeth Davidtz, Oliver Platt

If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Portia (Embeth Davidtz); before long, the Martins ...

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Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal (1993) more movies like this

directed by Adrian Lyne
featuring Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Seymour Cassel

Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving husband of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his wife to spend one night with a billionaire who looks like Robert Redford. All the cynics please take a number and form a line at the right. ...

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Casanova

Casanova (2005) more movies like this

directed by Lasse Hallström
featuring Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin

History's most renowned ladies' man finally meets his match in this historical romance laced with comedy and adventure. In Venice in 1753, Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) is a notorious playboy whose way with women goes too far when he's caught leaving the bedroom of a novice nun, and one of the leading prosecutors of the Inquisition, Pucci ...

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Bulworth

Bulworth (1998) more movies like this

directed by Warren Beatty
featuring Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino

Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), and stars in this political satire, a comedy-drama about a U.S. senator who decides to start speaking the truth. Despondent California Sen. Jay Bulworth (Beatty), up for re-election, is disillusioned by the usual campaign banalities; his marriage to ...

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Tall Tale

Tall Tale (1994) more movies like this

directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik, Lee Cleary
featuring Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Scott Glenn

This ambitious Disney movie uses a remarkable screenplay from Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat to tell a rollicking tale of America's transition from a close-to-the-land culture of mythic heroes to a corporate world of real estate tycoons. The strong theme about the decline of folk culture is expressed through a series of high octane adventures ...

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Lake Placid

Lake Placid (1999) more movies like this

directed by Steve Miner
featuring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, Betty White

So what's under the water in that lake deep in the Maine woods? No one is sure what it could be, but a dead and severely mutilated body was found near the shore, and the only clue is a large tooth which appears to be from a prehistoric animal resembling a huge crocodile. Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), the local fish and game warden, is investigating ...

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Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty (1998) more movies like this

directed by Marshall Herskovitz
featuring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell, Jacqueline Bisset, Oliver Platt, Moira Kelly

Marshall Herskovitz directed this look at life in 16th-century Venice, based on Margaret Rosenthal's 1994 book The Honest Courtesan. Positioned outside of the Venetian court, Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack) hopes to rise above her station, but her interest in nobleman's son Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell) is blocked since his parents forbid ...

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Beethoven (1992) more movies like this

directed by Brian Levant
featuring Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Nicholle Tom, Oliver Platt, Christopher Castile, Stanley Tucci

Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of hidden baggage in the form of evil veterinarian Dean ...

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The Three Musketeers (1993) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Herek
featuring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry

This comedy-adventure is one of several adaptations of Alexadre Dumas' (pere) classic novel. Provincial swordsman D'Artagnan (Chris O'Donnell) travels to Paris to follow in his father's footsteps and become a king's guard, a musketeer. Meanwhile, the evil royal advisor Cardinal Richelieu (Tim Curry), with the help of one-eyed Captain Rochefort ...

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Executive Decision (1996) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Baird
featuring Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His suspicions are soon confirmed; Hassan's men have obtained a ...

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Pieces of April (2003) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hedges
featuring Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Derek Luke, Alison Pill

Novelist and screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April. Family outcast April Burns (Katie Holmes) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby (Derek Luke). In order to spend some time with her dying mother, Joy (Patricia Clarkson), April invites her ...

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Dr. Dolittle (1998) more movies like this

directed by Betty Thomas
featuring Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff

Betty Thomas directed this adaptation of the classic children's stories by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), updating the original concepts into the present day. When noted surgeon Dr. John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy) swerves his car to avoid hitting a dog, he hits his head on the windshield, triggering his long-dormant gift for holding conversations with ...

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Gun Shy (2000) more movies like this

directed by Eric Blakeney
featuring Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock, José Zuñiga, Richard Schiff

In this action-laced comedy, a cop on the verge of a nervous breakdown finds love at the least convenient time. Charlie Mayo (Liam Neeson) is an undercover agent with the DEA who was nearly killed when a sting set up to nail a gang of drug dealers went horribly wrong. The accident left Charlie shaken, and he's gone into therapy to hold himself ...

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Three to Tango (1999) more movies like this

directed by Damon Santostefano
featuring Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott, Oliver Platt, Cylk Cozart, John C. McGinley, Bob Balaban

In this romantic comedy of mistaken identity, Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) and Peter Steinberg (Oliver Platt) are a pair of struggling but talented Chicago architects given the chance of a lifetime: Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott), an extremely wealthy business tycoon, is considering hiring them to design a multi-million dollar cultural center. ...

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Funny Bones (1995) more movies like this

directed by Peter Chelsom
featuring Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Richard Griffiths, Leslie Caron, Jerry Lewis

Tommy Fawkes (Oliver Platt) is a struggling stand-up comedian who has tried for years to get out from under the shadow of his father, George Fawkes (Jerry Lewis), himself a famous humorist. Tommy finally scores a showcase spot at a major resort in Las Vegas, but when opening night rolls around, Tommy's act is an unqualified disaster, with the ...

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The Ice Harvest (2005) more movies like this

directed by Harold Ramis
featuring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Platt, Randy Quaid

Two men on the run from the mob end up negotiating more than their share of obstacles along the way in this comedy drama from director Harold Ramis. Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) and Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) are a pair of friends who work for Bill Gerard (Randy Quaid), a mobster with his finger in a number of illegal businesses. Vic runs ...

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Ready to Rumble (2000) more movies like this

directed by Brian Robbins
featuring David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan

A pair of sewage-truck drivers attempt to rescue the tarnished reputation of their favorite pro wrestler in this comedy from Varsity Blues director Brian Robbins. Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) live vicariously through superstar grappler Jimmy King (Oliver Platt). But when King's manager (Joe Pantoliano), in a fit of ...

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The Impostors (1998) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Tucci
featuring Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Teagle F. Bougere, Elizabeth Bracco, Steve Buscemi

Actor Stanley Tucci made his directorial debut with a strong cast in this Depression Era farce focusing on two struggling two New York actors. In opening scenes, Maurice (Oliver Platt) and Arthur (Tucci) fabricate a fake fight at an outdoor cafe, do acting exercises, audition for a theater director (Woody Allen in an uncredited cameo), stage a ...

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Loverboy (2006) more movies like this

directed by Kevin Bacon
featuring Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Blair Brown, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt

A mother once neglected as child but possessed of a heart overflowing with love grows increasingly despondent as her beloved child begins to claim his independence in director Kevin Bacon's adaptation of Victoria Redel's best-selling novel. If loving too much were a crime, well-meaning but overbearing mother Emily (Kyra Sedgwick) would be spending ...

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Diggstown (1992) more movies like this

directed by Michael Ritchie
featuring James Woods, Louis Gossett, Jr., Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt, Heather Graham

In this comedy, a charming con man teams up with a boxer fallen on hard times in hopes of making some quick money. After doing time for selling art that turned out to be forged, Gabriel Caine (James Woods) and his partner Fitz (Oliver Platt) set their sights on a village called Diggstown; Fitz arrives first and takes several well-heeled locals in ...

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Hope Springs (2003) more movies like this

directed by Mark Herman
featuring Colin Firth, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver, Mary Steenburgen, Oliver Platt

Not a sequel to 1998's Hope Floats, Hope Springs is a romantic comedy based on the 2001 novel New Cardiff, the first new book in over 20 years by Charles Webb, author of The Graduate. Directed and written for the screen by Mark Herman (Brassed Off), the film stars Colin Firth as lovelorn British artist Colin Ware. After being left by his fiancée ...

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Zigzag (2001) more movies like this

directed by David S. Goyer
featuring Sam Jones III, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Natasha Lyonne, Wesley Snipes

Zigzag is the directorial debut of screenwriter David S. Goyer (Blade, Blade 2). Based on the well-received debut novel by Landon J. Napoleon, the film tells the story of an autistic teenager, Louis "Zigzag" Fletcher (Sam Jones III). Zigzag is a sensitive and thoughtful boy who retreats into his own mind to escape the harshness of his inner-city ...

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