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1	The Bad News Bears (1976) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley The success this underdog comedy from director Michael Ritchie almost single-handedly spawned the kids' sports film boom of the 1980s and '90s. When beer-breathed ex-minor-league ball player and professional pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) agrees to coach a little league team in the San Fernando Valley, he soon finds he's in over ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99!
2	Fletch (1985) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Chevy Chase, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini Chevy Chase added a classic comic hero to the film landscape with Fletch, one of his few truly popular star vehicles in a famously misguided post-Saturday Night Live career. Chase plays Irwin M. Fletcher, known to everyone as Fletch, a Los Angeles Lakers-loving investigative reporter with a gleeful disdain for deadlines and a knack for pushing the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50!
3	The Golden Child (1986) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong, J.L. Reate Eddie Murphy followed up his Beverly Hills Cop success with this fantasy adventure that plops him right into the land of Ray Harryhausen and Indiana Jones. The plot revolves around a God-like youngster (J.L. Reate) known as a "golden child," who has been sent to Tibet to bring the gift of compassion to humanity. But the devil isn't idle, sending ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50!
4	The Candidate (1972) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Don Porter, Allen Garfield, Karen Carlson "What do we do now?" Director Michael Ritchie and executive producer/star Robert Redford satirically explore the machinations and manipulations of media-age political campaigns in this cynical political drama. Rumpled left-wing California lawyer Bill McKay (Redford), the son of a former governor (Melvyn Douglas), is enlisted by campaign maestro ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $13.99!
5	Divine Madness! (1980) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Bette Midler, Irving Sudrow Bette Midler's wildly funny and theatrical stage show is preserved on the big screen in this concert film shot in California in 1980. Along with her usual raunchy comedy material and over-the-top staging, Midler performs some of her best known songs (including "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Chapel of Love") along with Bruce Springsteen's "E Street ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.93!
6	The Island (1980) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson The Island, a turgid action drama directed by Michael Ritchie, revolves around the adventures of Maynard (Michael Caine), a newspaper reporter who tries to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. Maynard, and his son crash-land on a remote island ruled by a gang of pirates who kill anyone who intrudes there. From beginning to end, The Island is ... see all copies from $25.00!
7	The Fantasticks (2000) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Joel Grey, Barnard Hughes, Jean Louisa Kelly, Joseph McIntyre, Jonathon Morris The longest-running show in the history of the American theater (it opened at an off-Broadway theater in the spring of 1960, where it remained until the production finally closed in early 2002) finally arrives onscreen. Hucklebee (Brad Sullivan) and Bellamy (Joel Grey) are a pair of small town fathers who are scheming to bring their children Matt ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.62!
8	The Survivors (1983) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring John Goodman, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed, James Wainwright, Kristen Vigard Director Michael Ritchie spoofs survivalists in this rambling black comedy. Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) is a successful young executive who is called to his boss' office one morning and is fired by a parrot sitting in the CEO's chair -- a method the company uses to axe high-powered execs. Donald meets Sonny Paluso (Walter Matthau), a former ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $6.70!
9	The Couch Trip (1988) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, David Clennon, Donna Dixon Michael Ritchie's The Couch Trip follows a long line of Hollywood films (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Disorderly Orderly) in which the psychos are seen as saner than the psychiatrists. Charles Grodin plays Dr. George Maitlin, a pompous radio self-help guru, who is having his own personal mental breakdown. Maitlin's lawyer puts in a call to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50!
10	The Scout (1994) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Dianne Wiest, Lane Smith, Anne Twomey After several weeks filming The Scout in the late 1970s, star Peter Falk and director Howard Zieff abandoned the project. Two decades later, writer Andrew Bergman gave his original script to Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson, who polished it as a vehicle for Brooks and director Michael Ritchie. Brooks stars as Al Percolo, a talent scout for the New ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.24!
11 view cover	Cops and Robbersons (1994) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest, Robert Davi, David Barry Gray, Jason James Richter In this comedy, police detectives on the trail of a dangerous criminal are confronted with a new and unexpected danger: a typical suburban family. Osborn (Robert Davi) is a underworld figure with plenty of blood on his hands who, in hopes of keeping his dealings quiet, is operating out of an unassuming home in the suburbs. The police are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.53!
12 view cover	Prime Cut (1972) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Clint Ellison, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek Michael Ritchie, better known for his gentle satires of American social institutions, enters Don Siegel territory in the unusual crime thriller Prime Cut. Lee Marvin is surly collection agent Nick Devlin, who is hired by Chicago racketeer Jake (Eddie Egan) to collect an overdue payment from Kansas cattle baron Mary Ann (yes, Mary Ann!) (Gene ... see all copies from $10.19! new only from $10.19!
13 view cover	A Simple Wish (1997) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Martin Short, Mara Wilson, Robert Pastorelli, Amanda Plummer, Francis Capra This comic children's fantasy from director Michael Ritchie stars Mara Wilson as eight-year-old New Yorker Anabel, who wishes that her father Oliver (Robert Pastorelli), a hansom cab driver in Central Park, would see his dream come true. In a thinly veiled jab at the overblown stage productions of Andrew Lloyd Weber, Oliver aspires to be cast in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00!
14 view cover	Wildcats (1986) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Robyn Lively, Swoosie Kurtz, Brandy Gold, Nipsey Russell, Bruce McGill Blonde-haired, blue-eyed women's libber Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn) quits her teaching job at a comfortable middle-class school to take a new position as varsity football coach at a predominantly black inner-city school. Culture and gender clashes abound; she must win over the hard-boiled youths, convince them to practice hard and show up for ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.84!
15 view cover	Fletch Lives (1989) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, Cleavon Little, R. Lee Ermey Though the original Fletch was drubbed by critics, it proved a major success for star Chevy Chase. It was inevitable, then, that a sequel would make an appearance. Surprisingly, Fletch Lives didn't come out until 1989--a full five years after the original. Once more, Chase stars as Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher, the gonzo investigative reporter ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $9.06!
16 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.70!
17 view cover	Semi-Tough (1977) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson star as two pro-football pals who both fall for the team-owner's very rich daughter. Kind of goofy, kind of funny, and somewhat endearing--those are the qualities that surface in this light-hearted comedy built upon an extremely predictable scenario. All Movie Guide see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00!
18 view cover	Smile (1975) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis, Nicholas Pryor The American beauty-contest ritual is skewered by screenwriter Jerry Belson and director Michael Ritchie in Smile. The film takes place during an annual pageant in Santa Rosa, CA. The event is supervised by local mover and shaker Brenda DiCarlo (Barbara Feldon), to whom the contest is the most important thing on earth. Nothing -- not even the ... see all copies from $2.64! new only from $5.62!
19 view cover	An Almost Perfect Affair (1979) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone, Christian de Sica, Dick Anthony Williams Inside jokes about the film industry dominate this slight tale of ambition and romance at the Cannes Film Festival. Keith Carradine plays a first-time director who has sunk two years and all his money into a movie about the execution of murderer Gary Gilmore. With his last bit of cash, he flies himself and his picture to Cannes, but the film is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.49!
20 view cover	The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993) more movies like this directed by Michael Ritchie featuring Holly Hunter, Beau Bridges, Swoosie Kurtz A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad in this made-for-cable satire based on a true story. Holly Hunter stars as Wanda Holloway, a twice-married Baptist mother of two who becomes obsessed when her daughter, Shanna (Frankie Ingrassia), gets disqualified from the ... see all copies from $2.17! new only from $9.79!

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