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Supporting and occasional leading actor Charles Grodin has created a successful career playing low-key, uptight, and frequently wholesome comic roles; he also makes an excellent arch villain. Whereas many funnymen have been popular for their ability to overreact and mug their way around everyday obstacles, Grodin is of the Bob Newhart school of wry comedy that values understatement and subtly. Grodin learned to act under the guidance of Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen before making his 1962 Broadway debut opposite Anthony Quinn in Tchin Tchin. Two years later, Grodin made his first film appearance in Joseph Adler's Sex and the College Girl. Though offered the leading role in The Graduate (1967), Grodin refused, thereby providing a lucky break for Dustin Hoffman. In 1968, he played a small but memorably chilling role as a devilish obstetrician in Rosemary's Baby, and then played another villainous role when he played heartless navigator Aarfy Aardvark in Mike Nichols' Catch-22. Grodin got his big break when director and Nichol's former comedy partner Elaine May, who had been a longtime friend and mentor of the young actor, cast him in the lead of the Neil Simon-scripted The Heartbreak Kid (1972), in which he played a salesman who falls in love with Cybill Shepherd during his honeymoon. Though Steven Spielberg wanted him to play the role of shark expert Matt Hooper in Jaws (1974), Grodin preferred to direct the Broadway play Thieves on Broadway instead. In 1977, Grodin played the play's leading role in the film version. He also added spice as the villain in Warren Beatty and Buck Henry's remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1978). Since then, Grodin continued as a supporting actor in such films as The Woman in Red (1984) and The Couch Trip (1987). After receiving rave reviews starring opposite Robert De Niro in the 1988 hit comedy Midnight Run, Grodin's career began to slow down. He played the long-suffering patriarch in the first two Beethoven films and turned in a memorable performance in 1993's Dave, but by 1995 Grodin had decided to switch gears, opting to host a talk show. After The Charles Grodin Show ran for several years on CNBC, Grodin later took a gig doing Andy Rooney-esque commentary on CBS's 60 Minutes II. In 1995, he hosted his own cable talk show. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide less

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The Ex (2006)
Tags: Comedy
Length: 84min
Acclaimed music-video director Jesse Peretz made his third feature with this comedy starring Zach Braff and Jason Bateman. Tom (Braff) is an aspiring chef whose wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) has just quit her high-paying job to stay home with their new...
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Clifford (1994)
Cast: Dabney Coleman
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Domestic Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 89min
Versatile Canadian comedian Martin Short plays a 10-year old boy in this comedy aimed at younger audiences. The tale is told in flashback to another little boy. Clifford is a manipulative brat. Clifford really wants to visit Dinosaur World in Los...
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It Runs in the Family (1994)
Cast: Mary Steenburgen
Tags: Comedy Family Domestic Comedy
Length: 85min
My Summer Story is the video title for It Runs in the Family. Based on the writings of humorist/raconteur Jean Shepherd, the film was the long-awaited sequel to the 1984 "sleeper" A Christmas Story. Set in the 1940s, the story is told from the...
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So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia Charles Grodin
Tags: Romance Comedy of Errors Romantic Comedy Comedy
Length: 93min
Comic actor and former Saturday Night Live stock player Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title character in Wayne's World (1992) (and its sequel) into a romantic leading man with this box office disappointment. Myers stars as...
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Beethoven's 2nd (1993)
Cast: Ivan Reitman
Tags: Family Comedy Family-Oriented Adventure Animal Picture
Length: 86min
The gargantuan St. Bernard finds love in this sequel to the box-office hit. Beethoven happens to meet Missy, another St. Bernard, in the park and the two find they share a certain chemistry. Unfortunately, Missy is being held captive by Regina (Debi...
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Heart and Souls (1993)
Cast: Robert Downey, Jr. Alfre Woodard
Tags: Comedy Fantasy Comedy Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies Fantasy
Length: 104min
Director Ron Underwood follows up his crowd-pleasing hit City Slickers (1991) with this likable, feel-good comedy drama about a selfish businessman who discovers that he's permanently being followed by a group of ghosts. In 1959, a bus accident links...
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Taking Care of Business (1990)
Cast: Paul Mazursky
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy
Length: 108min
James Belushi and Charles Grodin team up for this variation on the -Prince and the Pauper. Belushi plays Jimmy Dworski, a convicted car thief, serving time in a minimum security prison. But when Jimmy wins a pair of tickets to the World Series from a...
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Dave (1993)
Cast: Ben Kingsley Oliver Stone Sigourney Weaver Arnold Schwarzenegger Kevin Kline Frank Langella
Tags: Comedy Political Satire Americana
Length: 110min
The ghost of Frank Capra must have smiled when he saw Dave, an amusing and effective update of one of Capra's favorite themes -- the scrupulously honest little guy who becomes a force for good against a corrupt system. Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) runs an...
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Midnight Run (1988)
Cast: Robert De Niro Yaphet Kotto Martin Brest
Tags: Comedy Action Comedy Odd Couple Film
Length: 125min
Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered 100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to...
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Beethoven (1992)
Cast: Dean Jones
Tags: Comedy Family Family-Oriented Comedy Animal Picture
Length: 89min
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...
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