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As Good As It Gets

As Good As It Gets (1997) more movies like this

directed by James L. Brooks
featuring Harold Ramis, Jesse James, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight

James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News) directed this $50 million-plus romantic comedy, set in Manhattan. Dysfunctional, acid-tongued romance novelist Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), who suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, takes pride in his ability to offend. At a nearby cafe, the only waitress willing to stand up to his ...

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) more movies like this

directed by Callie Khouri
featuring Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Fionnula Flanagan, Maggie Smith, Cherry Jones, Shirley Knight, James Garner

Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a can of emotional worms with her estranged, boozy mother, Vivi (Ellen ...

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Stuart Saves His Family

Stuart Saves His Family (1995) more movies like this

directed by Harold Ramis
featuring Al Franken, Laura San Giacomo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Shirley Knight, Harris Yulin

Al Franken brings his Saturday Night Live character Stuart Smalley to the big screen in this unexpectedly downbeat comedy about a man desperately trying to overcome his dysfunctional upbringing. Stuart hosts a TV show on public access TV in which he offers bits of New Age wisdom on self-help, often incorporating his trademark affirmation, "I'm ...

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Grandma's Boy

Grandma's Boy (2006) more movies like this

directed by Nicholaus Goossen
featuring Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight

Can the world's oldest adolescent maintain his cool while living with his grandmother? Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video-game fanatic who gave up a career in accounting to take a job testing games for Brainasium, the company behind the wildly popular game "Eternal Death Slayer." While Alex took a big pay cut to land his dream job, he's ...

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Endless Love

Endless Love (1981) more movies like this

directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley

Based on a novel by Scott Spencer, Endless Love details the doomed romance between 17-year-old David (Martin Hewitt) and 15-year-old Jade (Brooke Shields). Banished from Jade's home by her daddy Hugh (Don Murray), David obsessively cooks up a scheme to get back into the family's good graces. Since this plan involves setting Jade's house on fire, ...

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Playing for Time

Playing for Time (1980) more movies like this

directed by Daniel Mann
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Shirley Knight

The made-for-television Playing for Time debuted on September 30, 1980. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fania Fenelon, a Jewish cabaret singer working in Paris at the time of the Nazi invasion. Shipped to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944, Fenelon is certain that she is as doomed as all the other prisoners. But SS camp matron Shirley Knight has other ...

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Petulia

Petulia (1968) more movies like this

directed by Richard Lester
featuring Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Arthur Hill, Shirley Knight

Petulia is Richard Lester's ode to the Swinging Sixties: a time of psychedelic instability when neither those who were square, nor those who were hip, really had it right. George C. Scott is Archie Bollen, a divorced San Francisco doctor in the midst of "discovering himself." Julie Christie is Petulia Danner, a peculiar young beauty recently ...

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Juggernaut

Juggernaut (1974) more movies like this

directed by Richard Lester
featuring Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight

Following his successful foray into swashbuckler comedy with The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, director Richard Lester made what has proved to be one of the few quality films from the disaster craze that dominated filmmaking in the mid-'70s. Juggernaut is the pseudonym of a madman (Freddie Jones) who plants several steel drums aboard a ...

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Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) more movies like this

directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Sr., Rip Torn

Paul Newman recreates his Broadway role in the 1962 film version of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Newman plays handsome hustler Chance Wayne, who romances fading film star Alexandra Del Lago (Geraldine Page) in hopes of winning a movie contract for himself. The mercenary Wayne and the self-destructive Alexandra find themselves in Chance ...

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P.S. Your Cat is Dead!

P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2003) more movies like this

directed by Steve Guttenberg
featuring Steve Guttenberg, Lombardo Boyar, Cynthia M. Watros, Shirley Knight, A.J. Benza

Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg, also making his directing debut) has been having bad, bad day. Not only has his one-man version of Hamlet (performed with hand puppets) just tanked, his girlfriend has left him, his cat is gravely ill, and his unfinished novel has been stolen. Plus, it's New Year's Eve. So when Jimmy finds Eddie (Lombardo Boyar), a ...

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My Louisiana Sky (2001) more movies like this

directed by Adam Arkin
featuring Kelsey Keel, Shirley Knight, Juliette Lewis

A young girl learns a difficult lesson about the bonds of family in this drama based on the novel for young adults by Kimberly Willis Holt. Tiger Ann Parker (Kelsey Keel) is a girl growing up in the small rural community of Saitter, LA, and she's not especially happy with her life. Her mother (Amelia Campbell) suffered brain damage after a ...

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75 Degrees (2000) more movies like this

directed by Hyatt Bass
featuring Shirley Knight, William R. Moses, Karen Sillas, Heidi Swedberg, Harris Yulin

The reunion of a dysfunctional Texas family provides the setting for this somber drama from first-time writer/director Hyatt Bass. Letty (Karen Sillas), a successful artist, returns home for the first time in several years. The ostensible purpose of her visit is to attend a posh gallery showing of her work, but her return quickly opens the gates ...

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The Rain People (1969) more movies like this

directed by Francis Ford Coppola
featuring James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall, Marya Zimmet, Tom Aldredge

Despite an effort by the Warner Bros. publicity mills to turn The Rain People into an instant cult film upon its first release (the ad campaign stressed the intimacy and humanity of the story), this early Francis Ford Coppola effort would have to wait several years to find its audience. Shirley Knight stars as Natalie, a housewife who, unable to ...

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Dad, the Angel & Me (1995) more movies like this

directed by Rick Wallace
featuring Judge Reinhold, Stephi Lineburg, Carol Kane, Alan King, Shirley Knight

This well-wrought made-for-TV comedy drama about a playboy divorced father who must take responsibility for his troubled daughter following his ex-wife's death is a great choice for those in need of warm-fuzzies and heart-tugging moments. With an inane but best-selling book, beaucoup bucks, a luxurious apartment and all the beautiful women he ...

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The Sender (1982) more movies like this

directed by Roger Christian
featuring Kathryn Harrold, Zeljko Ivanek, Shirley Knight, Paul Freeman, Sean Hewitt

A suicidal patient is placed in a mental hospital for observation. A psychiatrist realizes that the fellow contains telepathic powers with which he's capable of transferring his own fear-filled nightmares into the minds of others. When he directs his ephemeral madness into the minds of the doctors and patients around him, the hospital turns into a ...

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Dutchman (1966) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Harvey
featuring Shirley Knight, Al Freeman, Jr.

Anthony Harvey directed this adaptation of the controversial allegorical drama by African-American playwright Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones). Lula (Shirley Knight), a slatternly woman with a racist streak, encounters Clay (Al Freeman Jr.), a mild-mannered black man, on a New York subway car. Lula at first attempts to seduce Clay, who is initially ...

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The Counterfeit Killer (1968) more movies like this

directed by Josef Leytes
featuring Jack Lord, Shirley Knight, Jack Weston, Charles Drake, Joseph Wiseman

This action drama is adapted from a TV movie, The Faceless Man. The story centers around a secret service agent who goes undercover as hitman into a counterfeit ring. Most of the story takes place at a waterfront bar. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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