Biography: Charles Grodin |

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... more
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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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